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      <title>Check your custom code before you plan an S/4HANA conversion</title>
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      <dc:creator>Ammar Mohammad</dc:creator>
      <description>The dangerous code in an S/4HANA conversion is not the code that stops compiling. It is the code that still runs and quietly returns an incomplete result.

Run usage logging for a full business cycle first. Most clients find 40 to 60 percent of custom objects were never executed at all.</description>
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      <title>Fixed price is not a discount. It is a discipline.</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Ammar Mohammad</dc:creator>
      <description>A fixed price agreed before the design stage is not a commitment. It is a guess with a signature on it.

Most of what makes a fixed price hold is on the client&apos;s side, and suppliers rarely say so before signing. Here is what has to be true first.</description>
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      <title>SAP ECC mainstream maintenance ends in 2027. What that actually means.</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Ammar Mohammad</dc:creator>
      <description>Your ECC system will keep running perfectly well after 2027. That is not the problem.

What stops is legal and regulatory updates. For Egyptian VAT and e-invoicing, that is the one that bites. Here are the real dates and the four options.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Ammar Mohammad</dc:creator>
      <description>Most consultancy blogs are written by people who have never configured the system they are writing about.

We are starting ours on one rule: no figure appears unless we can show where it came from. We deleted our own unverifiable claims to keep it.</description>
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