Safety Stock and Service Levels: A New Approach Screenshots and examples from SAP APO, Demand Works Smoothie, 3S. What the Book is About A thoroughly researched explanation of how to leverage safety stock in systems for supply planning. This book explains many of the great misunderstandings that surround safety stock, including the aspect of safety…
Executive Summary The State of MDM at Companies. The Benefits and Challenges of Relational Databases. Using Relational Databases for MDM as well as for Transactional Data. Challenges of MDM Master data management has some very definitive challenges, and those challenges enlarge when the system must be managed in SAP. All of the SAP’s various applications…
Executive Summary What Drove an Investigation into Master Data Management Solutions. What are the Common Problems with Master Data Management Solutions? Why do Some Vendors go to Such Lengths to Prevent People from Seeing the Solutions on their Websites? What is MDM? Master data management or MDM describes the approach for maintaining the master data…
Executive Summary A question that sometimes arises is whether DP or PP/DS can be used without SNP. There are important implications for doing this, which we will cover. Introduction to DP and PP/DS without SNP There is a standard flow to APO concerning demand, supply, and production planning. The flow is the demand plan is…
Executive Summary Companies regularly ask for supply chain inventory benchmarking. We cover the topics of benchmarking and what it means. Introduction One approach sometimes proposed to determine the potential opportunity for supply chain improvement has been to find benchmark studies of companies’ supply chain performance similar to the enterprise in question. This article will explain…
Executive Summary How financial incentives drive the dissemination of misleading information on SAP DP. Bad DP Consultants are misleading their clients as to DP’s potential. Introduction A few years ago, I found an article by a person who sells training and consulting in SAP DP and found what I thought were some very flawed arguments…
Replenishment Triggers: Setting Systems for Make to Stock, Make to Order & Assemble to Order Screenshots and examples from SAP and Demand Works. What The Book Covers This is the first book to focus entirely on manufacturing environments and replenishment triggers and requirement strategies. It is, of course, not the first coverage of the topics, as…
Repairing Your MRP System Screenshots and examples from SAP What The Book Covers What percentage of companies are getting what they could from MRP? There is no perfect answer to this question, but experience indicates that most companies could very seriously improve their use, and the value they receive from MRP. This book explains how…
Executive Summary A Confusing Problem with the Forecast Profile that Appears in the Univariate View The Issue with Changing Forecast Profile Assignments Introduction to DP Forecasting Profiles As discussed in previous articles, the Univariate View is where most interactive forecasting functionality resides. This is where changes to Forecast Profiles can be simulated. It is found…
Executive Summary We cover how to adjust Key Figures in Planning Books. There are problems with extra Key Figures. Several options are ranging from hiding Key Figures, removing Key Figures from the Planning Book, and removing Key Figures from the Planning Area. Introduction As the use of a system progresses, there are, in almost all…