Extended Maintenance

Will SAP Offer an Extended Maintenance Alternative?

Ever since SAP S/4HANA was announced, SAP ERP customers have faced a deadline. While the deadline was not initially specified, it soon became clear that SAP ECC or SAP Business Suite users had until 2025 to transition to SAP S/4HANA. Although SAP later extended this to the end of 2027, those running SAP ECC 6.0…
Plan and Schedule a Sustainment Program for Complex Assets to Increase Uptime

Managing a fleet of complex assets requires a well-organized and detailed approach to document maintenance requirements and to schedule their execution. The aim is to balance uptime for the asset and leverage the use of the repair facility. These capabilities are available using SAP’s Maintenance Program Definition (MPD) Workbench and Maintenance Event Builder (MEB). Using...…
SAP Details End of Maintenance Plans for Business Suite

In February 2020, SAP announced the extension of mainstream maintenance for core Business Suite applications until the end of 2027. Prior to the announcement a significant proportion of SAP’s customer base had been pushing for an extension as there were just five years until the original end of maintenance date was reached. But, despite the…
SAP Extends Maintenance for SAP NetWeaver 7.5 and SAP BW/4HANA

In early February 2020, SAP announced that it would extend the end of mainstream maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0 and the core applications of SAP Business Suite 7 until the end of 2027. In the same announcement, SAP also indicated it would provide optional extended maintenance for these solutions until 2030. This gave many ERP…
Simplify Your Rebate Process with Extended Rebate Agreements

Learn how to set up extended rebate agreements and use them in various business scenarios such as offering rebates to multiple recipients in a single agreement or reaching a settlement of rebate agreements for specific materials or particular periods. Key Concept When a company pays rebates to multiple hierarchy customers, then, in standard rebate processing,...…
Centralize and Simplify SAP Solution Maintenance Across Your System Landscape with the Maintenance Optimizer — An

Manager SAPexperts/IT Keeping your SAP solutions up-to-date across development, test, and production landscapes is a daunting task, and the growing number of applications, functionalities, and integrated technologies only adds to the challenge. SAP Solution Manager 4.0 introduces the Maintenance Optimizer, a tool that centralizes and simplifies solution maintenance across your entire landscape — it detects...…
Improve Safety Stock Accuracy with APO’s Extended Method

Do your safety stock levels always seem too high or too low? It’s possible that you have not chosen the right APO method or have set it up in a less-than-optimal manner. We explain the considerations, drivers, and settings for using APO’s extended safety stock method and show you why it might be more accurate...…
Key Parameters Help Optimize SAP Extended Memory on AIX 64-Bit Kernel

Properly managing your system memory can lead to improved performance and lower operating costs. Find out how SAP Extended Memory helps you achieve these goals and discover the main parameter settings to help solve common memory challenges. Key Concept Disclaiming means releasing the memory that is allocated to the SAP application or user back to...…
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Move for Change – SAP ERP Maintenance Timelines

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SAP has extended mainstream maintenance for the last three enhancement packages of SAP ERP 6 (EHP 6, 7, and 8) until the end of 2027. Earlier enhancement packages will end on December 31, 2025. Customers on these last packages can extend maintenance until December 31, 2030, for an additional 2% fee on the maintenance base…
Introduce Multiple Maintenance KPIs with an Enhanced Counter Plan in SAP EAM

Learn about the detailed process of setting up enhanced multiple counter plans in SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM). With this preventive plan, you can maintain assets using multiple cycle sets. Each cycle set can correspond to a specific counter-based (performance-based) reading or to the lifetime of the equipment. After meeting the defined criteria of preventive...…