Executive Summary SAP outsourcing its support to low-cost countries with English as a second language has significantly degraded SAP support. SAP is reaping an enormous support margin but providing inferior quality support. Introduction SAP’s support has dramatically degenerated, with low-skilled support personnel and ever-increasing margins. SAP support resources are trained to gaslight customers, so they…
Executive Summary How is data generally placed into demand planning systems? Why are some of the popular current methods so problematic? Definitions for This Article Attribute-Based Forecasting: The ability to group product by “attributes” such as Size, Flavor, Region flexibly, and relationally that supports forecasting. It creates a virtual rather than a static hierarchy. ROLAP:…
Executive Summary What is MAPILab? How Does It Assist in Searching Through Large Excel documents? Why are Spreadsheets so Important for Sharing Master Data Parameters in Supply Chain Planning Systems? How is MAPILab used to Improve the searchability of spreadsheets? Introduction Spreadsheets are very handy for keeping all of the parameter data of an application….
Executive Summary Master data management can be performed with Excel and PowerPivot. The common problem that some applications have with regards to master data maintenance. Introduction to Master Data Management I work with some best-of-breed solutions all across supply chain planning. Almost all of these applications have master data interfaces that take the effort to…
Executive Summary Forecasting software is very frequently poorly selected. There are important implications for using incorrect fitting software to requirements. Introduction In speaking recently with a consensus sales forecasting software vendor, it was explained to me that in their space many of the companies they deal with often try to use utterly inappropriate forecasting solutions…
Executive Summary What is SOA, and why SAP put out misleading information about SOA? SAP’s inaccurate books on SOA. SAP has some fairy dust they would like to sell you…. it called SOA. What Is SOA? SOA stands for service-oriented architecture. A service-oriented architecture is a software development model that is the complete opposite of…
Executive Summary Forecast prototyping is performing forecast and supply testing. Prototyping is critical to understanding how to make changes to the forecasting and supply system. Companies make a significant mistake when they select one forecasting system and trust that everything in that system will work as advertised. Instead, forecasting should be prototyped in another competitive…
Executive Summary Deloitte has many well-known SAP project failures that are not isolated events. Why is it so difficult to separate Deloitte’s SAP capabilities from the lies. Introduction Deloitte has a high number of problematic SAP projects. The exact ratio of problem projects to overall projects is challenging to estimate, and Deloitte declares even projects…
Executive Summary Constraint planning can be performed in SAP APO. APO can perform both finite and infinite resources. One can use the days of supply in the SNP cost optimizer. Days’ Supply = Total Inventory / Average Daily Consumption On the other hand, the Safety Stock is “hard coded” and does not vary. This keeps…
Executive Summary How the aftermarket car parts market in the US works. The major problems with automotive dealer networks for aftermarket car parts. Introduction In our previous post, we discussed the problems with how dealers dominate automotive service parts websites. We also explained how this is inefficient and why these websites should be centralized and…