SAP Consulting

Sales & Distribution and Plant Maintenance, engineered for S/4HANA — not just configured for it.

KERP Technologies's SAP practice runs deep in two modules that carry outsized operational risk when they break: order-to-cash in Sales & Distribution, and asset uptime in Plant Maintenance. We configure, extend, and migrate both with the same rigor we apply to greenfield software engineering.

15

Years SAP SD consulting experience

15

Years SAP Plant Maintenance & EAM experience

6

Years hands-on ABAP development

SD · PM · ABAP

Core module depth

Sales & Distribution

Order-to-cash, configured for how your business actually sells

Sales & Distribution is the module where configuration errors turn directly into revenue leakage, so we treat the order-to-cash cycle as a single connected process rather than a set of independent transactions. That starts with order management — sales document types, item categories, and schedule-line configuration mapped to your actual order patterns, whether that's make-to-stock, make-to-order, or a mixed model with different credit and delivery rules per channel.

Pricing is where SD complexity concentrates, and it's where we invest the most configuration discipline: condition technique setup covering price lists, customer- and material-specific discounts, rebate agreements, and tax determination — built to be maintainable by your own SD team after we leave, not a black box of nested condition records only the original consultant understands.

This depth comes from direct, hands-on delivery experience, not classroom familiarity with the module — our SAP practice is led by a consultant with 15 years as a working SD implementation and support consultant, including production go-lives and the post-go-live stabilization work that follows them.

Plant Maintenance

Asset uptime as a configured discipline, not a reactive scramble

Plant Maintenance engagements start with equipment master data, because every downstream maintenance process is only as reliable as the functional location and equipment hierarchy underneath it. We build and cleanse the technical object hierarchy — functional locations, equipment records, bills of material — aligned to how your maintenance planners actually think about the plant, not just how the data happened to get migrated from a legacy system.

On top of clean master data, we configure preventive maintenance planning: maintenance strategies and task lists tied to time-based, counter-based, or condition-based triggers, with maintenance plan scheduling that generates work orders automatically ahead of failure rather than after it. For clients with regulatory inspection requirements, strategy configuration includes compliance-driven maintenance cycles with full completion audit trails.

Work order lifecycle configuration — from notification creation through planning, scheduling, execution, and technical completion — is integrated tightly with Materials Management for spare parts availability and Production Planning for maintenance windows that don't collide with production schedules. Where clients need it, we extend PM with mobile work order execution, giving field technicians confirmation and time-recording capability without a laptop.

Our Plant Maintenance practice extends into full Enterprise Asset Management (EAM): asset lifecycle strategy, criticality-based maintenance planning, and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) practices that go beyond transactional PM configuration into how the business manages total cost of ownership across an asset's operating life. This is grounded in hands-on EAM delivery experience, not a generic module overlay.

S/4HANA Migration

A migration methodology built around your risk tolerance, not a template

  1. 01

    Landscape & custom-code assessment

    A full inventory of the existing ECC landscape, including SAP's Custom Code Migration app output — flagging obsolete syntax, simplification-item conflicts, and custom Z-programs that need remediation before go-live.

  2. 02

    Migration path decision

    Brownfield (in-place conversion, preserving history), greenfield (clean-slate reimplementation), or bluefield (selective data migration) — chosen against your actual constraints: data volume, process debt, and appetite for re-engineering versus timeline.

  3. 03

    Fiori & UX redesign

    Classic SAP GUI transactions are re-mapped to role-based Fiori apps where they exist, and custom Fiori apps are built where they don't — the migration is treated as a UX modernization opportunity, not a like-for-like screen swap.

  4. 04

    Integration & interface remediation

    Every inbound and outbound interface — EDI, IDocs, custom RFCs, third-party middleware — is tested against the S/4HANA data model, since simplification items (e.g., the Business Partner model replacing separate Customer/Vendor masters) frequently break assumptions baked into legacy interfaces.

  5. 05

    Cutover & hypercare

    A rehearsed cutover runbook with defined rollback criteria, followed by a structured hypercare period with SAP-certified consultants on standby for the first full business cycle post go-live — order-to-cash and maintenance-cycle validation included.

Custom Development

ABAP enhancements that survive the next upgrade

Custom ABAP work is scoped through the SAP-recommended enhancement framework first — BAdIs, enhancement spots, and user exits — before any modification of standard SAP objects is considered, because enhancement-framework code survives support pack upgrades and S/4HANA conversion far better than direct core modifications. Where a genuine gap exists that the standard enhancement framework can't cover, custom development follows SAP's clean core principles: side-by-side extensibility on BTP where feasible, and tightly scoped on-stack extensions where it isn't.

Every custom development follows documented coding standards — ABAP Test Cockpit checks, code inspector rules, and mandatory peer review — with performance validated against production-scale data volumes before transport to production, not after a client reports a timeout. For S/4HANA-bound clients specifically, all custom code is evaluated against the ABAP Custom Code Migration app's simplification-item findings early in the engagement, so remediation is planned work rather than a late-stage surprise that threatens the cutover date.