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SAP SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE
Application management services significantly reduce system downtime and the associated sudden costs. Regular monitoring and the associated proactive error detection can prevent system failures. SAP AMS is also effective in the event of staff shortages. In case of illness-related outages, employees of the SAP service provider step in and compensate for your losses. At times of high utilisation, such as end-of-year inventory, AMS team members also support.
Because the IT department quickly lost a noticeable amount of pressure thanks to Salt Solutions' extensive SAP expertise, support was quickly expanded. In June 2018, Salt also took over support for SAP BW in Wuppertal. Other sites added: in June 2018 the plant in Bergisch Gladbach, and at the end of 2018 the site in China.
Hosting Support Services
All backbone connections to SAP will be switched from January 1, 2020, as SAP has announced on its support page. Afterwards, communication between ABAP System and SAP will only take place via secure HTTPS connections, for which a dedicated user must also be requested in the Support Portal. In all ABAP systems, SAP hints can no longer be obtained via SNOTE via the old OSS RFC connection. The shipment of Early Watch Alerts to SAP is also affected by this change. Here the shipping route must also be changed to the new HTTPS standard. There is also a great need for action for all SAP customers without a current SAP Solution Manager. In the future, SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS08 (SPS07 only with additional information) will be required here. For all older releases, communication with SAP will also be impossible from January 2020. This primarily affects the data in the Maintenance Planner, which are then no longer synchronised. This then indirectly affects all future maintenance projects where the use of the Maintenance Planner is indispensable. Especially with regard to upcoming S/4 HANA migrations, this represents a risk to be avoided.
A shortage of personnel, a short-term, high volume of work, or a lack of specialist knowledge within the IT department can lead companies to acquire external knowledge. Regardless of whether the staffing needs to be strengthened due to illness or vacation, our expertise in SAP-based, with Netweaver and many other topics is at your disposal.
A useful product - "Shortcut for SAP Systems" - is available for SAP Support employees.
The second level of our customer service process supports the first level in more complicated cases.
Schmersal uses numerous SAP products, including SAP ERP for business process control, SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) or SAP Netweaver Business Intelligence (BI, formerly BW) warehouse management software.