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With the criticality of SAP to the enterprise and the increasing complexity of SAP landscape, SAP Systems Administration is an increasingly vital function. Not only does this function have to manage today’s complex migrations including to SAP S/4HANA, they also have to ensure frequent updates and upgrades smoothly.
On a day-to-day basis, SAP Systems Administrators are are responsible for ensuring performance, reliability, and support of SAP application environments. Understanding the technical infrastructure standards and integration requirements is critical part of their job. They should also be managing capacity and ensuring performance along with the changing needs of the business such as seasonality. With the advent of cloud deployments, they often manage cloud capacity planning as well.
SAP System Administration
With the criticality of SAP to the enterprise and the increasing complexity of SAP landscape, SAP Systems Administration is an increasingly vital function. Not only does this function have to manage today’s complex migrations including to SAP S/4HANA, they also have to ensure frequent updates and upgrades smoothly.
On a day-to-day basis, SAP Systems Administrators are are responsible for ensuring performance, reliability, and support of SAP application environments. Understanding the technical infrastructure standards and integration requirements is critical part of their job. They should also be managing capacity and ensuring performance along with the changing needs of the business such as seasonality. With the advent of cloud deployments, they often manage cloud capacity planning as well.
SAP Systems Administrators monitor the performance of system applications. Automation and monitoring of performance, including new solutions such as AIOps, have entered the field.
With the pace of upgrades and updates ramping up, their role in change and release management has also become complex. They perform migration tasks such as change request review, software builds, release documentation, production issue resolution and tracking report distribution. This article Speed Up Process Change for SAP ERP talks about how to make ERP updates more agile.
In addition, they have a major role in developing and executing contingency plans in the event of system outages. They may have disaster recovery and business continuity plans and tools to ensure minimum loss to the business. They also provide support to the Service Desk.
SAP Systems Administrators are a key resource during deployment of new solutions and infrastructure. They often liaise with software vendors about security patches and updates. They develop plans to install these patches and test them. Keeping up with security patches and updates is very critical, as without them, the company is vulnerable to attacks. Read this article to understand the challenges of patching.
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Avantra’s Next Chapter: Rebuilding for the Long Run with Purpose, Precision, and PeopleApr 14, 2025 — Following Avantra's acquisition by Resurgence Technology Partners, CEO John Appleby aims to fundamentally remodel the company with a strategic focus on product renovation, market execution, and operational efficiency to establish Avantra as a leader in SAP operations automation over the long term.
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How to Create Outgoing Quality CertificatesMay 28, 2015 — The option to print the results of a quality inspection of a material optimizes the business processes of a company by integrating supply chain activities. Learn how to set up the quality management (QM) master data needed to create an outgoing quality certificate. Key Concept An outgoing quality certificate is a company’s official document to […]
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Efficiently Manage Incoming Quality Certificates in the Procurement ProcessDec 24, 2013 — Discover how you can easily configure an incoming quality certificate in the quality management (QM) module and implement it with the requisite and varied levels of controls. Learn how to set up automatic reminders for goods delivered by vendors without the accompanying quality certificates and escalate them for timely action. Key Concept The procurement process […]
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From SAPinsider Las Vegas 2025: Panasonic North America Keeps CALMMar 24, 2025 — Panasonic North America successfully integrated their existing systems with SAP S/4HANA by adopting a clean core mindset and leveraging SAP Cloud ALM for improved order management, ensuring system stability and streamlining their upgrade processes while continually evolving their technology deployment.
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2026 SAP Trends – Modernization of Architectures to Intelligent AutomationFeb 3 — As the SAP ecosystem shifts to cloud computing and automation, businesses must replace outdated systems to stay competitive. Preparing for S/4 by 2026 is crucial; companies should optimize data, modernize platforms, and adopt automation in finance and analytics. Acting now will help reduce risks and control costs while preparing for future growth.
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Monitor the Quality of Goods Your Vendor Obtains from Its Suppliers with This QM EnhancementApr 27, 2012 — Discover how to enhance the Quality Management module so that it can handle the quality management of vendors based on the quality of the vendor’s manufacturers and suppliers. This check occurs when you create and update the purchase order. Learn about creating the ABAP Workbench objects in the system to activate this solution. Key Concept […]
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What is AIOps for SAP?Oct 22, 2020 — SAP Basis teams are being asked to do more than ever before, maintaining increasingly complex systems using increasingly outdated tools. Add to that the cavalcade of data these systems generate and you find that the job of IT operations is exceeding the capacity of even the most capable teams.
But you probably didn’t need us to tell you that.
That’s where AIOps comes in: In this session, you’ll learn everything you need to know to begin your AIOps journey, including:
- What is AIOps and how can it help in SAP operations
- How AIOps enables a shift to proactive IT, predicting and preventing incidents before they occur
- What to look for when choosing an AIOps solution
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From SAPinsider Las Vegas 2025: How Keurig Dr. Pepper Streamlined SAP Monitoring with Splunk and PowerConnectMar 20, 2025 — Keurig Dr Pepper transformed its SAP monitoring from a manual, siloed process to a real-time, AI-driven system using Splunk and PowerConnect, achieving significant operational efficiencies, reducing downtime, and improving root cause analysis after unifying two distinct SAP environments post-merger.
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Improve Forecast Quality with Sales Forecast Collaboration Using SNC and APOMay 10, 2012 — Find out how you can establish a direct integration between Advanced Planning and Optimization Demand Planning and the Supply Network Collaboration sales forecast collaboration process. The integration leads to a combined forecast, an integration of data, and an improved total cost of ownership. Key Concept Supply Network Collaboration (SNC) allows business partners to align, share, […]
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Ensuring SoD Library QualitySep 9, 2011 — Learn how to get the SAP user and approver community truly involved in reviewing segregation of duties (SoD) risk rules. Key Concept Companies using SAP BusinessObjects Access Control are ultimately responsible for the thoroughness of their segregation of duties (SoD) library, even though SAP delivers a baseline ruleset (see SAP Note 986996 [GRC Access Control […]
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