Blogs posted January 2, 2008

In continuation to Supply Chains in different Industries – Part 1 on Supply Chain models in different industries, this second blog gives an example of a Lubricant Supply Chain typical of Downstream Oil Industry. Before getting into the... Read More »

Here we are going to see one of the new and important concepts which we had already seen in the first part. I am talking about the new Component concept of the Interaction Center (IC) UI framework. CRM Developers and technical consultants would... Read More »

A typical Supply Chain consists of a minimum set of Business Partners. Depending on which side you start – the demand or supply side the entities can be represented broadly in a linear format. Starting from Demand side backwards to Supply... Read More »

I was tricked when first trying to manage long texts in my adobe interactive forms and saw that a scroll-down bar appeared on my document to display all the text!!! that wasn’t my intention!!! I would like to read all the text on several... Read More »

Having spent my professional career implementing SAP Logistics applications (MM, WM, PP), I was always bothered by the perception of my clients that I am a “technical” person as opposed to a “business” one. I decided that I... Read More »

In the January 1st, 2008 Rose Parade, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory had a float, prominently displaying a model Mars Rover.  Commentators stated that scientists from JPL helped to decorate the float, which celebrates (if that’s the right... Read More »

In PI 7.0 and XI 3.0, one of the most often requested features (or complaints) is the capability (or lack of) to share user-defined functions (UDFs) across multiple message mappings. As a result, we often had to duplicate the code of frequently used... Read More »

In PI 7.0 and XI 3.0, we have been able to import the metadata from RFCs and IDOCs from SAP. Many times, we wish we can also import metadata from SQL tables we wish to access also. This will eliminate a lot of typing and typo-mistakes. This feature... Read More »

True, it’s the 3rd day of 2008 a fresh new year and an anniversary of sorts for SDN (unofficial launch was in 2003) so we are looking at 5 years here. 2007 was a year of change for us and one of reflection. Personally I flew 80,000 kilometers... Read More »

Introduction In my last Blog I showed you how to get an authenticated user session using a trusted connection. In this part I want to show you how to gather MDM system information from a SAP Portal system object. After that I will introduce the... Read More »