Build a company. Then run it.
An original ERP you set up from an empty system, in your browser. Every screen explains itself. Every document reaches the books.
Three chapters
Build it. Run it. Investigate it.
Build
Chart of accounts, company code, plant, selling and buying. Eleven stages, one task at a time, and a map that fills in as you go.
Run
Plan, buy, make, sell, ship, bill, collect, pay, close. Every document links to the next and lands in the journal.
Investigate
Seal kits hit the reorder point. A payment is overdue. Find the cause across modules, fix it, and decide where AI should help.
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Orchestrate Lab
Build a manufacturer from an empty system: what this lab is, and what it isn't
Practice ERP configuration without a system to log in to. Set up a fictional pump maker from its company code onward, then run a month end to end: plan, buy, make, sell, ship, bill, collect, pay and close. Every screen explains what you are creating, how it connects across the business, and where AI fits.
The lab is an original teaching model written for this site. It is not SAP software, doesn't connect to any SAP system, and doesn't reproduce SAP screens, menus, transaction codes, code or delivered configuration. It uses the general business concepts that SAP S/4HANA and other ERP systems share (company code, plant, sales area, account determination, three-way match) so that practice here carries over.
It is simplified on purpose: one company code, calendar months, one sales tax rate, no intercompany, no warehouse tasks. All codes, keys, numbers, rates and the company Calder Pumpworks, its customers and suppliers are fictional course labels, not SAP standard values. Settings in a real system vary by release and by customer.
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- Stuck? Read the error: most name the setting that is missing and offer a button to open it.
- Want to skip ahead? Each stage has a Do this stage for me button that completes it, and every stage before it, with the course values.
- Made a mess? Use Undo for the last action, or Reset to start again.
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Learn the concepts behind each stage
- How an SAP enterprise is wired: organizational structure
- Master data that every module depends on
- Document flow and how logistics becomes finance
- Plan to produce end to end
- Procure to pay end to end
- Order to cash end to end
- Record to report, end to end
Sources for the SAP comparisons
The short notes that compare a lab setting with SAP S/4HANA come from these pages, opened when the lab was written (2026-10-28).
- Identifying Organizational Units in SAP S/4HANA Sales (SAP Learning)
- Identifying the Organizational Units in Procurement (SAP Learning)
- Describing Automatic Account Determination (SAP Learning)
- Entering Invoices with Variances (SAP Learning)
- Executing the Main SAP Credit Management Operations (SAP Learning)
- Running Materials Requirements Planning (SAP Learning)
- Understanding MRP in SAP S/4HANA (SAP Learning, opened 2026-10-29)
- Using consumption-based planning in SAP S/4HANA: key questions (SAP Learning, opened 2026-10-29)
- Joule Agents use cases (sap.com, opened 2026-10-29 and 2026-10-30)
- SAP Joule for Consultants (sap.com, opened 2026-10-30)
- Financial closing with AI (sap.com, opened 2026-10-30)
- Applying AI in demand and inventory planning (SAP Learning, opened 2026-10-30)
- SAP Integrated Business Planning, demand sensing (sap.com, opened 2026-10-30)
- Detailing Business AI in sourcing and procurement (SAP Learning, opened 2026-10-30)
- SAP Business Network, intelligent invoice error classification (sap.com, opened 2026-10-30)
- Reviewing the use cases of SAP Business AI in finance (SAP Learning, opened 2026-10-30)
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, expiring price handling (sap.com, opened 2026-10-30)
- Quote creation agent (sap.com, opened 2026-10-30)
- Exploring cloud-ready mode in central governance (SAP Learning, opened 2026-10-30)
- SAP Master Data Governance product tour (sap.com, opened 2026-10-30)
- Analyzing the settlement of a finally delivered production order (SAP Learning, opened 2026-10-30)
- Manufacturing AI use cases (sap.com, opened 2026-10-30)
- Outlining planning strategies in SAP S/4HANA (SAP Learning, opened 2026-10-31)
- Executing the planning run in SAP S/4HANA (SAP Learning, opened 2026-10-31)
- Outlining make-to-order production (SAP Learning, opened 2026-10-31)
- Rescheduling check (SAP Help, SAP ERP documentation, opened 2026-10-31)
- Creation of exception messages (SAP Help, SAP ERP documentation, opened 2026-10-31)
- Identifying analysis, reporting and automation options in credit management (SAP Learning, opened 2026-10-30)