Author Archives: Arne Manthey

When you use XSteps to define PI Sheets or Electronic Work Instructions the automatic valuation (e.g. material number) and the generation of elements (e.g. material component list) are important features. To provide even more flexibility new custom-defined valuation symbols or generation scopes can be included.

A new OSS note (1453716) is available which includes a lot of new standard function modules you can use in your implementation.

Order-specific MDA broadcast events and many other questions.

There might be situations where you want to handle the adding of lines in a repeated data request (table) entirely with commands or with function modules and tabular parameters. In such a case you usually want to avoid that users can manually create new lines by pressing the small button at the bottom of the […]

Once you have decided to enhance your PI Sheet with additional functionality using XSL/CSS you will find out that it is not so easy and quick to test your result using the ERP system itself (Downloading, uploading, maybe changing MIME types,…) It would be so much easier to try your changes on a local filesystem and […]

BAdI für Symbols and Generation Scopes

On this years anual ASUG fall event my colleague Uwe Dittes from SAP development I have presented on new and old (but not well known) functions for XSteps and ERP Manufacturing.

How to display the material description with 40 characters in the PI Sheet.

Tools to use during PI Sheet implementation.

In this article I show how to integrate material-dependent safety symbols into the PI Sheet.

Command & Events

Just chatting and some talk about weighing

Shift Notes and Misc.

It is very easy to create and manage standard XSteps (SXS) in the repository. However if you want to use the same function in different plants you have to maintain the SXS in every plant separately since the repository is plant dependent. You can export and import for an initial creation but then you have […]

Misc, Archiving w/o EBR

XStep presentation on the ASUG fall event

Embedding MII Analytics

Introduction

Weighing Scenario

In this article I give you a guide on the correct sequence you need to follow when using process instructions of type 0 (no XSteps)