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Advanced BOM Analytics – Supplier to Customer

Martin Preiß — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:48:14 +0000

Advanced BOM Analytics – Supplier to Customer (ABASC)

Transparency across product structures – from suppliers to customers and back

In SAP systems, information on bills of material, materials, suppliers, customers, stocks and requirements is distributed across numerous standard transactions.
A consistent, context-rich view across product structures is missing – especially for complex, multi-level BOMs and cross-plant scenarios.

PREISS Consulting Advanced BOM Analytics – Supplier to Customer (ABASC) is an SAP add-on for manufacturing companies that consolidates this information into integrated, mass-capable evaluations.

ABASC combines:

Bills of material (top-down and bottom-up)
Material masters and dependent objects
Suppliers and sources of supply
Customers and sales context
Stocks, requirements and consumption

into a single, consistent view within the SAP system.

zu einer gemeinsamen, konsistenten Sicht innerhalb des SAP-Systems. ABASC supports, among others:

Analysis of multi-level product structures
Top-down and bottom-up, cross-plant and with quantity relationships
Material analysis including dependent objects
Transparency across relevant master data and their existence
BOM usage analysis
Compact mass analyses with material, supplier and customer context
Source of supply analysis
Transparency across suppliers, supplying plants, single- and multi-sourcing, and country dependencies
Integrated operational context
Display of stocks, requirements and consumption directly within the analyses

All evaluations are dialog-capable, filterable, variant-driven and designed for large data volumes.

Typical use cases for ABASC include:

Ramp-up of new product structures or changes to existing BOMs
Transparency for purchasing, MRP, logistics and supply chain management
Analysis of supplier and customer dependencies
Evaluation of single-sourcing risks and country dependencies
Support for questions related to tariffs, sanctions and supply chain regulations
Increasing supply chain robustness
Analysis and preparation of transformation and harmonization initiatives
Improved explainability of purchasing and planning decisions (e.g. sources of supply)

View presentation: The presentation provides an overview of objectives, functions and typical use cases.

System Demo or pricing request: Please contact me to arrange a system demo or to discuss pricing.

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Neues Add-On: Advanced BOM Analytics – Supplier to Customer

Martin Preiß — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:53:03 +0000

Heute gebe ich das neue Add-On „PREISS Consulting Advanced BOM Analytics, Supplier to Customer“ frei, an dem ich die letzten zwei Jahre neben meinen Kundenprojekten gearbeitet habe. Deutlich länger als zuerst erwartet.
Ich bin aber sehr zufrieden mit meinen Entscheidungen und dem Ergebnis.

Die erste wichtige Entscheidung war, ein Gesamtpaket zu bilden, das neben der neuen Verwendungsanalyse und neuen Versionen von Stücklistenbrowser und Materialübersicht auch neue Transaktionen für Bezugsquellenfindung und Kundenbezug enthält. Außerdem bin ich froh darüber, dass ich den Lieferanten- und Kundenkontext konsequent realisiert habe und die Bezugsquellenfindung sowohl über Einkaufsstandardfunktionen als auch über Simulationen von MRP (Classic) und MRP Live eingebaut habe.

Die Übersicht über die gesamte Kette von Lieferanten über die eigenen Produktstrukturen – mehrstufig und über Werksgrenzen hinweg – bis zu Kunden sollte für viele Anwendungen branchenübergreifend hilfreich sein. Ich bin zuversichtlich, dass sowohl Anfänger als auch Experten Freude daran haben werden, so viel Kontext wahlweise entlang der Stücklistenstruktur oder als Materialliste zur Verfügung zu haben, mit Absprüngen in die zugehörigen Transaktionen.

Zum Beispiel hätten mir diese Transaktionen bei meiner Einarbeitung in SAP sehr geholfen, um die Zusammenhänge der Daten aus unterschiedlichen Anwendungen zu verstehen. Heute nutze ich die Transaktionen gerne, um Beispieldaten schnell zu sichten oder aufzubauen.

Gespannt bin ich auch auf Anwendungsmöglichkeiten mit AI-Tools. Meiner Meinung nach sind die Zusammenhänge in SAP nirgends so exakt dokumentiert, dass AI Auswertungen in ähnlicher Qualität liefern könnte. Umgekehrt bietet die Bereitstellung dieser Informationen über so viele Objekte und deren Zusammenhänge in so dichter, exakter und strukturierter Form neue Chancen für eine intelligente Weiterverarbeitung – sowohl für operative als auch für strategische Zwecke.

Am komplexesten war vermutlich die Berechnung von Gesamtmengen im mehrstufigen Verwendungsnachweis, insbesondere wenn es mehrere Fertigungsversionen und Stücklistenalternativen gibt. Und natürlich gab es viele, viele zeitraubende Details, zum Beispiel bei Sonderbeschaffungsabwicklungen und rund um die Bezugsquellenfindung.

Marketing wird sicher wieder nicht einfach sein, aber AI-Tools helfen tatsächlich nicht nur bei der technischen Umsetzung, sondern auch dabei, die Hemmschwelle zu überwinden, Texte zu veröffentlichen und aktiv zu werden. Ich nutze Gamma zur Präsentationserstellung sowie ChatGPT und gelegentlich ergänzend Grok für Texterstellung und Fragen, zum Beispiel rund um die Homepage.

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Add-On BOM Browser improved

Martin Preiß — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 13:00:45 +0000

Target Group SAP PP User and IT Professionals

Summary

The BOM Browser with Master Data Check got even better

Content

My Add-On BOM Browser with Master Data Check meats considerable customer demand and I implemented enhancements:

Multi-plant selection
Optional cross-plant BOM explosion. Stock-transfer via special procurement key is treated similar to an extra BOM level. The BOM explosion proceeds in the supplying plant.
Display plant stock
Visualization of phantom assemblies, subcontracting, stock transfer and regular in-house production with icons
MRP Area specific BOM explosion via production version determination and storage location determination
Separate counters for WM control cycles and Kanban control cycles
Additional report for material evaluation with master data check without BOM explosion. This report contains more material data and is ideal for fast and flexible material evaluation with focus on checking PP/MM master data and viewing material details.
Settings for reaction on missing production version or source list: Error, Warning or No Reaction

BOM Browser with Master Data Check – Tree View

BOM Explosion with Plant-to-Plant-Stock_Transfer

Visualizing different types of assemblies: Subcontracting, Phantom Assemblies, Stock Transfer, Normal Inhouse-Production

You find more info here.

I’m looking forward to comments and questions.

Do the SAP standard transactions for mass evaluation of BOMs satisfy your requirements?

How robust is your workflow for creation and maintenance of materials and related master data for production and procurement? How useful would be a mass evaluation of materials with existence information (in form of counters) for assigned master date (routings, BOMs, source list, infor records, control cycles, production versions) for you?

Would you see the benefit of using the BOM Browser with master data check mainly in

Master Data Mangement for checking existence of critical master data?
In Product Costing for viewing multi-level BOM structures across plants, with plant stock and valuation data?
In Logistics, e.g. for monitoring stock in BOM structures or checking existence of WM or Kanban control cycles?
In Production Planning as an overview of BOM structures with stock and MRP parameteres. Maybe enhanced with coverage data or summarized requirements and receipt

Do you have ideas for other use cases or improvements?

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Download and Upload ALV Layouts

Martin Preiß — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Download and Upload ALV Layouts

Target Group

SAP Professionals, SAP Key User

Summary

Free report for downloading and uploading ALV Layouts. The report is available on github.

Motivation

The SAP standard allows to transport user independent ALV layouts and to copy ALV layouts to another client in the same system.

However it sometimes happens that you can’t transport to the system where the ALV layouts are needed. I haven’t found a solution for this with SAP standard transactions or via business configuration sets. Internet searches returned some coding fragments which only helped to a small degree.

So I developed a report and provide it free of cost with the so-called MIT Licence via Github.

The report is implemented in an old-fashioned way without using any newer ABAP elements in order to support all usual releases of SAP ERP and S/4HANA. I tested it in ERP 6.0 releases with SAP APPL 6.05 and 6.17 and in S/4HANA 2020 with S4CORE 105. Original language is English, with German translation.

Use Cases

Copy user dependent or independent ALV layouts from one SAP system to another. The systems can have different releases.
Backup and restore ALV layouts.
Copy ALV layouts from one report to another, e.g. after copying or renaming a customer development.

Documentation

Report ZST12_ALV_LAYOUT_UP_DOWNLOAD asks for a report name, a local path name and the choice between download or upload.

Download – Export to local files

All layouts for the report are proposed for download. User dependent layouts are included. You see all existing ALV layouts even if the report uses multiple ALVs with different HANDLE keys.

Field catalog, layout setting, language dependent short texts, sort and filter criteria (if existing) are exported in separate files. The file names are generated automatically.

(1) Selection screen – Download

(2) Popup to select layouts for download

(3) Download Protocol

Upload – Import from local files

The downloaded layouts in the specified folder are proposed for upload to the target report. Source report, source system, layout ID, layout description and download date are automatically determined from file name and content.

(4) Selection Screen – Upload

(5) Popup to select layouts from the local folder for upload

(6) Option to put uploaded layouts in a transport

(7) Upload protocol

Restrictions

The imported layout overwrites an existing layout without warning
No consistency check when importing layouts to another report
No existence check for the user if you import a user dependent layout
Currently no function to import a user dependent layout to another user

Coding

The current version is available on github. You can download it with abapgit, other git clients or manually:

www.github.com/Martin-Preiss/SAP_ALV_LAYOUT_DOWNLOAD_UPLOAD

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ABAP / ABAP OO

Martin Preiß — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:08:00 +0000

I have a degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe and develop SAP software since 1993. My competencies in theory and practise include

Project Organisation, also with distributed international teams
Agile Software Development (Scrum, XP, Pair Programming, ..,)
Software Architecture
Reviews for specification, design or code
Manual and automatic testing, Test Organization
Refactoring

I’m very familiar with the typical aspects of SAP development, e.g.

ABAP und ABAP OO
SQL
Smartforms
LSMW
RFC- and file based interfaces
IDOCs
Web Services
ALV-Grid and ALV-Tree
Performance Analysis and Tuning

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MRP Areas

Martin Preiß — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:37:00 +0000

I was project leader at SAP AG for development of the MRP Area functionality.

MRP Areas have a wide range of use cases where planning below plant level is needed. MRP Areas are always active in S/4HANA

I can help you to evaluate MRP Areas usage for your processes and support you with implementing their usage in your current ERP system or for your S4/HANA project.

Or do you have own plant-related customer developments for Planning or Logistics and want to find out if (and how) they have to be enhanced to work with MRP Areas? I’m perfectly skilled to help you with evaluation and implementation because of my extensive process knowledge and deep technical expertise for MRP Areas.

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TECO Tool

Martin Preiß — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:19:00 +0000

TECO Tool

It is best practise to technically close (set status TECO) every production order.

The right time for TCEO is when the production ended and the related activities like component consumption, operation confirmation and goods receipt are posted in the SAP system. This is also the case if the planned production quantity was not fully realized.

Automatic technical closing based solely on dates and status can only be recommended for ideal error-free processes. Normally a final check before TECO by the production controller is needed.

The PREISS Consulting SAP Add-On ‘TECO Tool’ offers automatic consistency checks with freely definable tolerances. You can activate different kind of checks, moste of them about consistency between goods receipt quantity, confirmation and component consumption.

Check results for order headers, operations and components and all details from the order information system are available for display in one screen.

Production orders can be automatically technically closed in the dialog transaction or as background job in case of ‘green’ check results.

The TECO Tool is available for SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA on Premise and SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud (on request).

Price on request.

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BOM Browser with Master Data Checks

Martin Preiß — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 07:01:32 +0000

BOM Browser with Master Data Check

The PREISS Consulting BOM browser for SAP ERP and S/HANA On-Premise provides user-friendly mass evaluation of multi-level bill of materials. Master data existence checks for the BOM component materials are integrated. The reports shows existence and number of BOMs, routings, production versions, control cycles, purchasing info records, MM scheduling agreements, source lists and MRP areas for each component in the product structures. Missing essential master data (with respect to procurement type and special procurement key) are visualized with red icons. The check result is propagated bottom-up to the higher BOM level. BOM explosion considers MRP Area data and can be done cross-plant considering stock transfer via special procurement type.

The report can easily be enhanced with additional data and checks.

Price on request.

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BAPI, BAdI and API for MRP and demand planning

Martin Preiß — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:28:04 +0000

I was responsible for MRP development at SAP AG in Walldorf from 1993-2007, first as Developer than as Development Manager. This also included development of the BAPI, BAdI and API for MRP run, MD04 and demand planning. So I have uniquely deep technical and application knowledge about these topics.

I’m looking forward to your questions about enhancement possibilities and interfaces for MRP, demand planning and PP in general.

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CIF Planned Orders

Martin Preiß — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:23:20 +0000

ca. 1999-2001 concept and implementation of CIF interface for exchanging planned orders between R/3 and APO.

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