Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

. “At the Digital Supply Chain event at SAP. ” When I asked the question, I got an answer from LinkedIn that the research focused on digital maturity with SAP. The research is generated by SAP. The research is generated by SAP. ” My question is, “What is a digitally mature company?

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 24, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of B2B, and ERP Cloud based software provider SAP SE’s formal reporting of Q4 and fiscal full year 2023 financial performance. SAP CEO Christien Klein noted in the company’s reporting that: “ SAP has delivered: We met or exceeded our outlook for 2023 in all key metrics.” billion to €7.9

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Bristlecone

MARCH 13, 2020

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 18, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters blog we provide highlights and insights regarding SAP SE’s 2022 Sapphire ASUG Now customer conference held last week in Orlando, Florida. . Enterprise Cloud software provider SAP SE conducted its 2022 North America Sapphire Now customer conference last week. More on that later in this commentary.

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o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The discontinuation of support for SAP APO (Advanced Planning and Optimization) is right around the corner. Stay with SAP and upgrade to SAP IBP , or look to a new generation of supply chain management platforms that provide a different user experience, granular insight of operational performance, and elevate competitive differentiation.

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Bristlecone

MARCH 13, 2020

AribaRDS Jump-Starts SAP Ariba Deployments to Accelerate Time-to-Value. MARCH 14, 2020 – Bristlecone , the trusted partner in supply chain transformation, is pleased to announce that its AribaRDS solution is now an SAP-Qualified Partner-Packaged Solution for SAP Ariba. SAN JOSE, Calif. Media Contact. Bristlecone. Giselle Lopes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions. If the supplier does not know what their emissions are, artificial intelligence can be employed by the SAP Spend Control Tower solution to estimate the emissions.

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Bristlecone

JUNE 2, 2021

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o9 Solutions

OCTOBER 19, 2021

SAP APO users are facing such an end-of-life event in 2025. SAP would like their customers to believe that migration to SAP IBP is the “natural” evolution for those companies still using APO. Today’s supply chains need to be resilient, flexible, transparent, and scalable, a combination that SAP IBP cannot deliver by itself.

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o9 Solutions

OCTOBER 19, 2021

SAP APO users are facing such an end-of-life event in 2025. SAP would like their customers to believe that migration to SAP IBP is the “natural” evolution for those companies still using APO. Today’s supply chains need to be resilient, flexible, transparent, and scalable, a combination that SAP IBP cannot deliver by itself.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides highlights and perspectives regarding SAP SE’s 2024 annual Sapphire and North America ASUG customer conference held this week both as an in-person and live streamed event. The question going in was whether SAP leadership made some progress in helping businesses with these needs.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 29, 2015

It’s also a big reason why SAP and Descartes formally announced their partnership this morning focused on TMS connectivity (attendees of Descartes’ user conference last month were given a sneak peak of this announcement). Where to Find Supply Chain Innovation (Source: Adelante SCM). Where to Find Supply Chain Innovation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

I ask, “What happened to the better design of supply chains and the bi-directional orchestration of constraints across source, make, and deliver outside of lead time (the tactical horizon)?” Could SAP mobilize to redefine the space? I fear we are losing a basic understanding of supply chain planning with employee turnover.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

” Same for SAP HANA. My Point of View (POV) is that the best use case for SAP HANA is the in-memory capabilities for repetitive work. The translation of ripple effects of short supply, pricing, quality issues, and freight shifts affects how to source, make, and deliver processes should align.

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o9 Solutions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Fixing it requires sourcing compatible new parts and a repairman, replacing it means I’ll have to wait 6-12 weeks for something to be in stock, and doing nothing means I have no ice. Then I thought about a conversation I had with Simon Ellis, Program Vice President at IDC around the topic of SAP APO and old refrigerators.

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RFgen

JUNE 19, 2019

Migrating to SAP S/4HANA? For IT professionals using SAP in the supply chain, S/4HANA could mean big changes – but not necessarily for enterprise mobility. You’ve probably been hearing a lot about SAP’s next-gen ERP suite: SAP S/4HANA. SAP has its own reasons for deprecating these older systems.

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RFgen

JUNE 19, 2019

For IT professionals using SAP in the supply chain, S/4HANA could mean big changes – but not necessarily for enterprise mobility. You’ve probably been hearing a lot about SAP’s next-gen ERP suite: SAP S/4HANA. SAP has its own reasons for deprecating these older systems. SAP S/4HANA is the future.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Definition of Form and Function of Inventory: Source Supply Chain Insights. SAP and IBM failed the market. The recent gains in market share of Kinaxis, o9, and OMP are largely due to the failure of SAP to drive thought leadership in planning. Many companies with strong SAP investments are uncertain about the best next steps.

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Oracle SCM

MARCH 5, 2018

A traditional, on-premises application such as SAP ERP is a powerful and capable tool. Unfortunately, neither it nor its successor, SAP S/4HANA was designed or built to accommodate today’s supply chain challenges. Oracle SCM Cloud allows SAP customers to adopt a different attitude toward transforming the operating model.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Linda McKee, the director for global trade services management at SAP, expressed the idea this way, “I don’t think we currently have any real standard global trade scenarios. At SAP their solution is developed by their governance risk and compliance team. Every customer seems to want to manage them differently.”

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 26, 2024

.” This team of highly capable individuals uses a capability which, a couple of months later, we announced was available from the SAP® store — the Enterra Business WarGaming solution.[2] 2] Enterra Solutions, “ Enterra Business WarGaming Now Available on SAP® Store ,” Business Wire, 20 February 2024. {3]

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The team is waking up to realize SAP APO for supply chain planning is being sunsetted. Worried by the risk of technology obsolescence, the team is looking for a replacement for SAP APO. SAP has given mixed messages on the life of SAP APO in the market.) Their goal is to find a replacement. This includes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

SAP recently announced that NTT DATA Services, a global digital business and IT services company, had achieved $125 million in value based on a digital transformation of their procurement function. By March of 2017, the organization began implementing SAP Ariba solutions. Competition is key to sourcing savings.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Shaun has the courage to closely examine SAP’s market claims. Shaun debates the launch of DDMRP in SAP. It is not easy to take a contrarian approach against the big marketing machine of SAP. I am working with a client now that has run out of patience with SAP APO. I admire Shaun. They hate contrarian views.).

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2023

acquired by SAP). The company centralizes data from multiple sources to manage inventory, simplify change management, and improve data quality. Richard previously founded and led Factory Logic, Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Demand sensing involves the use of the external data sources – particularly the latest sales and market data – to improve short-term forecasting and then be able to use that improved understanding of consumer behavior to improve their supply planning. These codes were put into SAP after an order cut had occurred.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

My first calls were with with Descartes and SAP. I had interesting conversations with Jackson Wood- director of industry strategy for global trade intelligence at Descartes, and Linda McKee – director of solution management for global trade services at SAP. Both are leaders in this market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

SAP recently announced that NTT DATA Services, a global digital business and IT services company, had achieved $125 million in value based on a digital transformation of their procurement function. By March of 2017, the organization began implementing SAP Ariba solutions. Competition is key to sourcing savings.

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Supply Chain Network

MAY 23, 2012

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Ariba, Inc. Nasdaq: ARBA) today announced that SAP’s subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., With the addition of Ariba, SAP will acquire the leader in cloud-based collaborative business commerce. Already today 63% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Botha does a lot of supply chain planning work implementing SAP supply chain solutions. The problem was that when the planning solution spit out recommendations, and someone in sourcing or someone on the factory floor looked at those recommendations, they just did not believe them.

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Bristlecone

AUGUST 23, 2018

Bristlecone is proud to be a partner in the biggest gathering of SAP Ariba Ecosystem in DACH. The event will be about Guiding and enabling customers on their transformation journey towards an integrated, fully digital Sourcing & Procurement solution. Register here.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 11, 2019

According to Inbound Logistics , there are three main sources of supply chain complexity: meeting the needs of customers, globalization, and internal pressures. DCH then generates statistics that weight different data sources according to the level of accuracy they contribute. Franke was facing all three. million SKU-Markets).

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Bristlecone

JUNE 11, 2019

In this Bristlecone and SAP Ariba webinar you’ll learn how organizations leverage. and combine sourcing, procurement, business planning, and supply collaboration to deliver on business results. Innovation. State-of-the-art technology. Best-in-class business processes.

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OptiProERP

APRIL 9, 2024

Image source : McKinsey & Company Technology for Tracking Tracking the Q2C process requires robust functionality. The Business Intelligence tools in manufacturing ERP analyze data from various sources to generate actionable insights, enabling businesses to identify trends, forecast demand, and optimize pricing strategies.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Don’t expect to plan for every disruption; instead, develop a strategy to overcome supply chain disruption, regardless of the source. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues. Trade disputes and tariffs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Last week, after booking an additional $1B in unexpected supplier costs in the third quarter, the CFO led the company’s focus on restructuring to “support efficient and reliable sourcing of components and internal development of key technologies and capabilities.” These capabilities do not exist at Ford.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Many of the clients I work with are nervous about SAP APO’s transition and the evolution of SAP’s supply chain planning solutions. The supply chain technology market is in transition. Over the last three decades, the market weathered consolidations, mergers and technology shifts. They are looking for alternatives.

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