The report that came back blank
A custom asset report opened to an empty page in the upgraded system. It relied on an element the new release had retired. We rewrote it for the new release and had the asset team test it in sandbox before go-live, so the first month-end on the new system was not the first time anyone saw it.
The file missing one tax code
A new company code’s tax jurisdiction never appeared in the outbound file to the accounts-payable platform. We traced the program through the three tables it reads to one unmaintained address record. Maintained, transported, and the next morning’s file was accepted.
The hard-coding review
A landscape’s custom programs were full of hard-coded plants and company codes, so every acquisition meant a developer. We reviewed them, moved the values into configuration, and the next new plant needed no code change at all.