Companies which manufacture and sell medications and/or medical equipment often run their businesses with SAP. It is important to consider validation regulations during merger and acquisition activity, because these businesses are always overseen by government agencies to ensure compliance (e.g. FDA here in the US)…

SAP is used to plan & execute manufacturing of many mechanically-engineered products (think planes, trains and automobiles).  But it is also used to orchestrate manufacturing of chemically-engineered goods (think milk, eye drops and engine lubricants).  At first, SAP supported discrete industries…

Say your factory assembles furniture.  A specific work center always gets a table top, then a worker installs four table legs on it.  SAP tracks a table top and each leg individually until they are all put together.  The moment that table is…

Amazon has a great way of identifying importance of business decisions.  Their employees are trained to ask themselves: can our decision be revisited later if we agree to proceed?  Perfect example of this question, in SAP implementation world, comes during any global blueprint:  should we let the system automatically number all of our materials?  Maybe some (raw and semi-finished goods)?  Or do we manually assign numbers like we do today…

Think of a Honda Civic. Red, automatic transmission, grey interior.  This is a variant.  Now imagine all possible color combinations.  Now visualize all possible model options (GPS?  Leather?  Sport package?).  Quickly you will realize there are a zillion combinations…