Two books: an SAP S/4HANA business novel + the complete build record (The Dumpling Factory)

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Everything on this blog comes from one project: a small Korean dumpling company, built from a completely empty SAP S/4HANA client and driven through a full business month — plan, standard cost, purchase, produce, sell, close. I have now turned that project into two books. Same company, same real numbers, two very different altitudes.

BOOK 1 · THE STORY · $25

How Sarah Joined a K-Dumpling Company and Became an SAP Genius

A business novel about SAP S/4HANA. Sarah is a junior accountant at a dumpling factory; when 6,700 won of ingredients vanish from the balance sheet overnight, a consultant named J starts teaching her how a company actually works — one posting at a time. By the last chapter she has watched a 36% margin quietly become 6%, with every posting correct and nobody doing anything wrong.

  • Webtoon-style dialogue carries the concepts; every screen, document number and amount is from a real S/4HANA system
  • Sarah's notebook (takeaways) + J's field notes (real document numbers & tables) close every chapter
  • 12 real financial statements — the books changing after every posting
  • 53 pages / PDF / English

Get the story — $25 $20

BOOK 2 · THE ENGINE ROOM · $50

The Dumpling Factory: Building a Complete SAP S/4HANA Company from Scratch

The companion technical volume — the same company, documented the way practitioners need it. If a chapter of the story made you ask “but how exactly?”, this is the answer, with the evidence attached.

  • 238 IMG configuration steps compressed to the decisions that matter, across 6 modules — including the full OBYC account-determination matrix
  • All 20 master records with their table footprints · all 31 executed transactions with real document numbers and VERIFIED / OBSERVATION boxes
  • 12 financial statement snapshots · subcontracting, external processing, custom movement types · 8 process-flow diagrams
  • Appendices: transaction registry, complete document trail, account & table directories
  • 85 pages / PDF / English — every amount re-read from the database before print

Get the build record — $50 $40

THE BUNDLE · BOTH BOOKS · $65 (SAVE $10)

Story + Build — two altitudes, one company

Read the story to understand why; keep the build volume open to see how. 138 pages total, 2 PDFs.

Get the bundle — $65 $52

Who these are for

You are…Start with
new to SAP, or an accountant meeting it for the first timethe story ($25)
a consultant or key user who wants a full E2E reference with real valuesthe build record ($50)
teaching integration, or explaining FI–CO–MM–PP–SD to a teamthe bundle ($65)

Much of the raw material behind these books — the reference tables, the troubleshooting posts, the process walk-throughs — lives on this blog for free. The books are the curated, sequenced, story-shaped version. If they help you, they also help keep this lab running. Thank you!

New: a free 16-page sample of the novel — the prologue, Chapter 1 and the scene where 6,700 won of raw material disappears from the balance sheet. No email required.

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