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  • How to Understand Redeployment for Slow Moving Inventory

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … not translate appropriately for redeployment. The logic for cost optimizers which essentially compares the transportation costs to the costs of unfulfilled demand at the sending and receiving.

    The Necessity of Fact Checking
    We ask a question that anyone working in enterprise software should ask.
    Should decisions be made based on sales information from 100% financially biased parties like consulting firms, IT analysts, and vendors to companies that do not specialize in fact-checking?
    If the answer is “No,” then perhaps there should be a change to the present approach to IT decision making.
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  • Did SAP NetWeaver Ever Actually Exist?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … to the infrastructure layer, was generalized to improve the actual application – such as its business logic. NetWeaver had nothing to do with business logic, but SAP is implied that it did, and Accenture backed up SAP in this false assertion.

    A Zero Independence Policy
    Why do Accenture and the other consulting firms simply parrot SAP’s marketing hyperbole to its clients? It’s straightforward, Accenture has zero independence from SAP. A big part of Accenture’s revenue stream is built around SAP implementations, and they are not about to contradict the goose that lays the golden eggs. They are willing …

  • How to Understand Why SAP Will Never Support SOA

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … ever, in fact, supported SOA because if SOA ever became the norm for software, SAP would cease to be the dominant vendor that it is. The primary thing that keeps SAP’s lagging edge software on top is a giant wall of a lack of interoperability around SAP and its tie-in with the major consulting firms that seek to push their customers to choose the highest TCO applications.
    Once components could be mixed and matched, and the best functionality could be selected, SAP would fall right over.
    Why Is SAP Putting Out Misleading Information About SOA?
    Several years ago,

  • Understanding APO and Sales and Operations Planning

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … report building team, with input from the business users and APO applications experts. The S&OP team essentially piggybacks off of these reports after they have been designed.
    Extracts
    Thus using SAP APO for S&OP essentially means extracting the data from another solution.
    Standard Story from SAP and Big Consulting Firms on How the BW Supports S&OP
    SAP and many large consulting companies have tried to position SAP BW as a solution for S&OP. This is a reach solution because the SAP BW has no specific S&OP functionality, so exporting data from APO to BW is …

  • Finite and Infinite Scheduling in PP/DS

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … S&OP, proposed that one way or another, the plan would be constrained because the PPMs would have to have values in them for resources to “activate.” When I pointed out that these values were not necessarily accurate, he agreed for a moment, but then reverted to his initial track of talking about the constrained plan that would be sent to S&OP.
    Configuring for Yourself, Not for the Client: How IBM Does Things
    I have this experience relatively frequently with consultants from the big consulting firms as they typically like to configure software regardless of its benefit to …

  • How to Understand SmartOps MIPO

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    … However, it would be very appropriate for companies looking for a fast return on investment and which want the tone of the most straightforward integrations to SAP.

    The Necessity of Fact Checking
    We ask a question that anyone working in enterprise software should ask.
    Should decisions be made based on sales information from 100% financially biased parties like consulting firms, IT analysts, and vendors to companies that do not specialize in fact-checking?
    If the answer is “No,” then perhaps there should be a change to the present approach to IT decision making.
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