In love and startups, breakups can be messy affairs. While the majority end with a handshake and parting ways in peace, others end with all your belongings hastily thrown out the front door. I picked up a new client this week who was experiencing the latter. Their technical co-founder, we’ll call him Ralph, had gone […]
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New Customer Creation 1. Create a new customer record and add all the necessary fields required for a successful customer create inside of SAP. If the customer number exists in SAP, it will update the record. 2. Map the fields in Maestro to their respective fields in the zpack. Notice how every object has a […]
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It’s 4am in Billings Montana and I am stepping out the door of my hotel into the dark -10 degree morning. Today I am going down underground, and if I miss the 8am train down, I am SOL. On a good day, it’s 2 and a half hours to the mine, but today is not […]
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In this post we are going to dig in to the code a little on how we are doing SQL synchronization across client and server. As I mentioned in my last post about our training software for the mine, we’ve got to be able to run and execute these trainings underground, then sync that data […]
Read MoreProfisee ZPack reference I have been put in charge of helping Zimt integrate their SAP data access technology with a third party master data management solution called Profisee. If you’re not familiar with MDM, it is essnetially software the manages data across multiple data sources, for example keeping records in Salesforce up to date with […]
Read MoreThe Background From what I gather in my conversations, when you are two miles underground in a palladium mine safety is a really big deal. Picture miles and miles of dark tunnels filled with bulldozers (called “muckers”), 75 pound rock drills (called “jack legs”), dotted every half mile or so with caches of good old fashioned […]
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So it took some doing, but I finally have created a working solution from start to finish that creates and edits purchase orders inside of SAP. The biggest issues I found going into it was the amount of data I needed to pull in to populate things like “Purchasing Org” or “Company Code”. There was […]
Read MoreAs mentioned in some previous posts, I have been doing a bunch of work for a company called Zimt. They have a software product that runs on an SAP instance, and provides a JSON based api for apps to communicate with SAP. In this post, I am going to build an application that uses this […]
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I will be doing a series of projects for a company called Zimt Apps. They’ve built an API for SAP that allows devs like me to easily do stuff with SAP data. Full disclosure, my father works for Zimt. My old man has been in the ERP game a long time. Most recently he ran an […]
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While I was in school getting my degrees, I did some side work with a local startup incubator in Bellingham. I had always found that the hardest part of developing software was finding something to develop, so by hanging around a bunch of startup folks, I could always find somebody with a passion willing to […]
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