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Key findings from Dragonfly’s new whitepaper, “Logistics That Works for the People Running It”, a practitioner’s view of SAP Logistics Management. Most logistics improvement programmes focus on the wrong problem. Investment concentrates on the flagship distribution centre, the primary SAP environment and the most visible team. Meanwhile, the facilities doing the daily work of receiving, […]

Standard SAP Fiori chart templates are quick to deploy. But real business requirements rarely stop at the standard. A recent SAP Community article by Vandana Vaswani tackles a good example. An Overview Page (OVP) application needed a dual-combination chart, two lines and two bars in one view. Users also wanted to pick their own chart […]

22/07/2026

LauraColes

Technical

How regional depots and warehouses can finally close the gap with SAP Logistics Management  Every Regional Warehouse Has a System  Not the one on the org chart, but the one that actually keeps things moving: the shared folder, the tracker someone built in Excel three years ago, the informal process for letting the team know […]

How SAP Logistics Management Closes the Gap. Why regional warehouses and depots have been underserved by enterprise software, and what’s changed. The Pattern We See in Almost Every SAP Environment We see the same pattern in almost every SAP environment we work with. The main distribution centre is fully connected, the WMS is configured and […]

If you work with SAP’s ABAP programming language, keeping your code clean, consistent, and up to modern standards can be a time-consuming challenge, especially across a team. ABAP Cleaner is a free, open-source plugin for Eclipse (via ABAP Development Tools) that automatically applies over 100 configurable cleanup rules to your code. From fixing indentation and […]

01/06/2026

LauraColes

Technical

Big Logistics Platforms Aren’t Built for Small Operations. Until Now. The gap in the market that no one was talking about For years, the logistics technology conversation has centred on scale. Global supply chain orchestration. Enterprise-grade systems. End-to-end visibility across continents and time zones. And rightly so since these are critical capabilities for organisations managing […]

Read the full blog on SAP Community Joule is SAP’s AI copilot that brings conversational intelligence into ABAP development on SAP BTP and Eclipse. It helps teams move faster while keeping people at the centre – scaffolding code, explaining artefacts and guiding next steps in plain language. Highlights Conversational prompts inside Eclipse to generate and […]

13/01/2026

LauraColes

Joule, Technical

How much value could you surface in a contained SAP S/4HANA pilot? Case Study: SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud pilot for process transformation Industry: Manufacturing, Energy Timeline: 12 months Goal: Pilot an integrated supply chain and manufacturing system that supports additive manufacturing, labour-aware planning and high-efficiency operations with full traceability and automation. Overview In a complex, […]

Navigating the complexities of supply chains involves managing the steps from obtaining raw materials to delivering the final product to the consumer. This involves a series of detailed processes where each player in the chain – from the supplier to the manufacturer, through to logistics and the end retailer – must work together. In the […]

Dragonfly Unveils SwiftConfirmation for SAP – Now Available on SAP Store For Immediate Release 14/07/2025 Reading, UK. Dragonfly Business Solutions, an expert in digital supply chain solutions, has today announced the launch of SwiftConfirmation for SAP, a groundbreaking tool that transforms production order confirmations and empowers smarter, data-driven manufacturing decisions. The solution is approved by […]