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  • How SAP Sucker Punched Customers with S/4HANA

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … made more interesting because it has what is, in our estimation, one of the highest overheads of any application ever introduced. SAP has made one false claim after another about S/4HANA to get customers to purchase and implement the application while locking customers into more restrictions than any SAP ERP system has ever had before. SAP is proposing once again that a highly complex and high maintenance application reduces TCO. You will learn how far from being good for customers, as SAP has said, S/4HANA is damaging to SAP customers.
    About C4/HANA
    The following comment by Amed …

  • What Detailed Functional Testing of SAP Fiori Shows

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … repeating the information provided by SAP. There is little to no actual analysis of Fiori’s capabilities outside of a promotional context. If you analyze some articles, Fiori’s usability assumptions are made without ever being investigated.
    A Typical Unexamined Assumption Laden Quotation
    The following quotation from TechTarget is a prime example of this.
    “SAP exemplifies why and how ERP vendors are changing their attitude about usability. Over the years, many SAP customers have struggled with the ERP user experience and have either tried to work with or around the complex and monolithic applications as is, or poured resources …

  • How to Understand Brightwork SAP Consulting

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    SAP consulting is in need of independent and unbiased input.
    A steady stream of SAP failures is evidence of this.
    This is what our SAP consulting is all about.

    Introduction
    We have focused our supply planning and SAP consulting around the following high opportunity areas.

    Supply Planning
    Demand Planning

    Consulting Subareas
    Within these areas, we focus on.

    Forecast Testing
    SAP Forecasting Diagnostics
    SAP DP Tuning
    Forecasting in SAP ERP
    Parameter Optimization (Things like Lot Sizing, Safety Stock, Reorder Points and Rounding Values) from the Overall Product Location Database Perspective
    Explanation of MRP (both in terms of its functions …

  • The Accuracy of TechTarget's Article on S/4HANA and Indirect Access

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … extent, SAP Business ByDesign. Cloud ERP is one of the hottest battlegrounds in the business applications space, where SAP is facing tough competition from Oracle, Workday, Microsoft and other smaller, aggressive competitors. SAP’s chances of maintaining its leadership in ERP depends on how successful it will be in cloud ERP.
    SAP needs to focus on making SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) customers’ move to S/4HANA as compelling and easy as possible. Paradoxically, we found that it’s easier for non-SAP ERP organizations to adopt S/4HANA than for ECC users. Most established SAP ERP clients, especially large …

  • How to Understand SAP APO and ROI and The Problems with ROI Calculation

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … applications, but others don’t. Success is never assured.
    Business and market situations never stay the same; they evolve multi-directionally. This brings an additional component into the benefit estimate: the quality of the SAP ERP implementation and how well it addresses the current and future situation.
    The quality of implementations varies significantly. Stories of disastrous experiences of companies going through multimillion-dollar initiatives aren’t uncommon.
    Some implementations begin well, but ill-advised changes are made to the configuration, or the system “drifts” from its original design, causing the value of the system to decline. On the other …

  • How to Get More From SAP APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … infrequently implementation partners are held accountable for below par implementations. If a partner unsuccessfully manages an implementation, your company shouldn’t feel uncomfortable about switching out the partner. Also, the degree to which many firms are specialized isn’t well understood. Some partners can implement SAP NetWeaver BW or SAP ERP very well, but that doesn’t mean the same partner can implement SAP APO. Meeting the team that will be actually on your account is essential to improve project success. The consulting partner may control its pool of consultants, and subcontractors and other firms may be involved, but ultimately …

  • Introduction to SAP APO CIF

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … execution system, most often SAP ERP, and receive status information and master data from SAP ERP. Although other integration methods have become more prominent in the newer releases of SAP SCM applications, the main interface system between SAP ERP and SAP SCM is the Core Interface (CIF). CIF connects SAP ERP to SAP SCM and is delivered as an SAP ERP plug-in. It allows a connection to be made between multiple SAP ERP systems and SAP SCM systems, at least in principle. However, in practice, the most common connection is between one SAP ERP system and one SAP SCM …

  • Introduction to SAP APO EM

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Collaboration (SAP SNC) that manage various collaborative processes. However, it reaches an extremely open state with SAP EM, where the application is receiving messages and monitoring the company’s own SAP SCM, SAP ERP systems, and any number of partner systems. Some of the systems SAP EM interacts with will be SAP, but many others may not be, and they don’t need to be. This point is critical because not every company uses SAP, and restricting the monitoring to only SAP software would make cross-organizational monitoring almost impossible. Even companies that use no other SAP SCM applications …

  • Introduction to SAP APO TM

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … interconnection of all of the supply chain functions. Because transportation planning is not only important in terms of improving transportation management specifically, and in obtaining good transportation rates, but also in terms of supporting goals such as inventory management, retail in-stock position, and even production efficiency. Also, trends such as increasing energy prices and smaller buffer inventories make transportation management more important than ever. A 100% SAP solution implementation would look like Figure 7.1, and the most common form of integration will be SAP TM to SAP ERP. But SAP TM could integrate into non-SAP ERP …

  • Introduction to SAP APO GATP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … to explain and, as a result, the most difficult to understand. This isn’t because the concept behind GATP is so difficult to grasp (in fact, it’s quite straightforward) but because the implementation and design of GATP is quite involved and dependent on other SAP SCM applications and SAP ERP. A few reasons for the general opaqueness of the application include the following:

    ››GATP is actually a much more complex concept of availability checking, which is the background with which many people come to GATP.
    ››There are several different ways of implementing GATP and different types of ATP that …