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  • How Accurate Was SAP in Projecting Qualtrics as a Strategic Acquisition?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … executives know what they are doing. The evidence? Well, the company did it. This is found in the following quotation from Josh Bersin.
    It’s clear that SAP sees a lot of opportunities here, and to me, this tells me something about scale.
    It’s never easy to tell when an acquisition will pay off. It’s clear that the SuccessFactors acquisition was very successful for SAP, but there are other deals (IBM’s acquisition of Kenexa) that don’t always pan out as well.
    That is a different point, but it not right.
    Few SAP ERP customers use …

  • The Planning Master Data Evaluation Booster

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    … when it comes to carrying out ‘sanity’ checks of master data.
    They often depend on SAP Support Consultants who generally have no clue about the Master data quality (they have no incentive)

    Background on Master Data Management in APO
    Much of the master data used in APO is fetched from ERP through CIF (core-interface).
    ERP is considered as a mother system for master data in APO.
    Additional Master Data is often maintained in APO. Both can be incorrect in a variety of ways. This includes parameters related to the master data of

    Locations
    Products
    Product-Location
    Transportation Lanes
    PDS …

  • How to Mix Reorder Points and MRP in SAP APO

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    … following a multi-method approach, it’s crucial to have a useful tool for assigning which method (and method modifier) is to be applied to which product location combination and keeping track of these assignments. Even though companies have a vast number of product location combinations, the appointment of methods and method modifiers does not have to be a difficult task.
    First, a company already has method modifiers set up in its ERP system or external planning system (if they are migrating from another system such as Manugistics). These modifier values can be extracted from the existing system and used.

  • When to Use Lean or Reorder Point Planning Versus MRP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … supply parameters. 
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    Conclusion
    We tried to answer the question of when to use Lean versus MRP in this article.
    Now that we have identified the PLCs that will go out on either the appropriate procedure or the Lean approach, the next step is implementing this coding system. Of course, there are many systems out there that perform supply planning, so it isn’t easy to precisely guess the system you, the reader, will use. However, by providing an example, it should replicate the configuration in your supply planning system. In ERP systems, there are only two …

  • When to Use Reorder Point Planning

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    … simple moving average forecast can be sent for unforecastable products or no forecast at all.

    A graphical presentation of how reorder points are set. 

    Where reorder points are set in SAP APO, see the bottom of the screen. Further, we will describe the importance of setting reorder points external to ERP or the planning system. 
    Reorder Point Planning for Deployment/Outbound Supply Planning
    Until this point, we have discussed reorder point planning for the initial supply plan, which generates the purchase requisitions and the planned production orders. However, replenishment/reorder parameters are available at all the locations in a supply …

  • What is Lean Supply Chain Definition?

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    … been disappointing in one way or another for the majority of companies that implement them.
    “Americans seem to have a stubborn faith in the eventual emergence of a swift and permanent solution to the manufacturing problem. Each successive approach to manufacturing management – scientific management, operations research, MRP, JIT, TQM, BPR, ERP, SCM, Lean, Six Sigma and so on have been sold as the solution. Each one has disappointed us, but we continue to look for the elusive “technology silver bullet” which will save American manufacturing.” – Factory Physics
    The Big Lean Trend
    Currently, there is a sharp focus on the topic …

  • What is SAP IBP S&OP?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … from Intrigosys, and the information that is contained is not reliable due to Intrigosys’ financial bias.
    Clarkston, another SAP consulting firm, has the following to say on IBP and S&OP.
    The technology available today is trying to keep up with companies’ transitions to Integrated Business Planning. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are working to provide a backbone to facilitate the process. SAP, for example, has been working on four new cloud-based applications for IBP covering sales and operations, inventory, supply, and supply control tower. Although only partially available at this time, this SAP functionality hopes to help automate …

  • How Does Reorder Point Work in SAP?

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    … point is essentially the demand over lead-time + the safety stock, which is the upper level of demand based upon the variability in supply and demand (depending upon how the company calculates safety stock and the safety stock takes into account). Manual or Externally
    Calculated Reorder Point Planning in SAP ERP
    Once the external program produces values, or if the reorder points are to be manually determined, these are the fields that are populated. This is shown in the following screenshot:

    Automatic Reorder Point in SAP ERP
    When calculated automatically using the base functionality in SAP ERP, SAP has the …

  • SAP Support And What is SAP Custom Development

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    … during the sales process, about the percentage of the customer’s requirements that will be met “out of the box” by SAP. Remember, the claims is 90% of the requirements are achieved “out of the box.” Yet 92% of SAP customers either moderately or highly customize at least SAP’s ERP system. 
    What is SAP Custom Development: Custom Development in Early Stages of an Implementation
    Nearly every SAP project has a large amount of unanticipated custom code. Then the implementation team arrives to deliver the bad news that many of the requirements are not actually covered by SAP. In this …

  • When MRP Should be Run?

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    … These are profiles that can be saved and then scheduled. 
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    Conclusion
    In this article, we, in part, answered the question of when MRP should be run.
    The MRP schedule presented above is the most common timing of MRP runs.
    MRP is often run as net change because ERP servers are designed not for running procedures like MRP and DRP but instead are designed for transaction processing. By placing the MRP procedure on an AWS server, we can dramatically increase the performance of MRP, and it can be smoothly run very quickly, as we cover in the article …