About

I’m a senior logistics consultant working in SAP since 1998 and as a freelancer since 2000. Just recently I opened my own SAP consultancy company and recruitment agency called are3 consulting.

This website is intended to be a Logistic reference to all SAP consultants in this area.

Blog focus areas

This blog is focused on all R/3 logistics modules. This includes known modules such as SD, MM, WM, QM, PM, SM, TM, TP/VS. We’ll attempt to strike a balance between providing specific data on SAP Logistics design and configuration and providing a free database of real experience knowledge. We post and comment on real problems faced with customizing and using the system.

The web is a perfect environment for technical information. This is because topics can be interrelated. A high degree of linking between posts allows for the development of what I call diagonal knowledge. In SAP, there are a number of concepts that cut across modules, so being able to link basic concepts to multiple modules through linking is a significant advantage to understanding the system.

Collaboration

Nowadays SAP became a complex business driven software, and as much as the markets and customers improve their techniques, SAP responds with a valuable solution in their software. This made the consultants to focus on a niche area, meaning each one of us knows more about one area than another.

The only way to create a knowledge database is collaborating, so I’ll invite you to write us based in your specific area (module / sub-module) so that we can have at the end something like a complete configuration guide (something like a bullet post with all the configuration (per area) and with the links to the detailed post in it) so that consultants, like myself can just go to these master posts and simply click on the link with the subject we’re searching for.

Information sources

Our goal is to have a reliable knowledge database, and to do so our posts must be from real life experiences either in implementation, either in training or testing. The only way to became a good consultant is to test, experiment, solve problems.

I’ll try as much as possible to maintain confidentially on customers and/or registered brands, and if used I’ll rely on the closure disclaimer at the end of the post. All the external sources are identified in the end of the post and the right credit given to it’s authors.

There are a lot of websites with proven solutions but driven by commercial reasons not shared or made public, write about these solutions in a way that contests the purely corporate sites, or business outlets for explaining the real developments in this area.

Site navigation tips & tricks

The homepage is where you can find the newest information of the overall website within one page and see the most recent posts. Check however, the module related posts (categories in the right menu), where sap functional and technical information will be published.

One of the most interesting source for us consultants is in fact SDN. It provides, from the best consultants, answers on all SAP issues, so I would also invite you to visit and register on SDN.

Please share your opinions, solutions to problems or relevant questions about all SAP  Logistics modules. Your comments are valuable to all website readers (mostly consultants). This is the only way we can built a ‘real experience knowledge database’

Video tutorials

One of the best ways to learn and understand something in such a huge software like SAP is to see in a video how the configuration is done, or the problem is solved, or even how did a consultant analyzed a certain problem.

To help, we have created a website zone (please look to the side bar) called SAP tutorial series, in which either by myself or other consultants, we try to explain in visual way how to do it. So please check it out in the future because there are some thing that cannot be written….you have to see them.