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  • A Summary of Some of the Pitfalls of Software Partnerships with SAP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Abuses its Control Over the ERP System
    Customers that first purchased SAP never had any idea they were giving this power over to SAP. Something no one predicted when ERP systems first began to be sold in the 1980s is how some software vendors would use the sale of the ERP system as a form of account control, directly purchasing into often low-value “accessory applications.” And no one drives their customers to buy more of its applications based upon the power of the ERP system than SAP.
    Many SAP partner has contacted me and told me stories of how …

  • How to Understand DDMRP as Yet Another Repackaging of JIT and Lean

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … inventory management outside the factory. In time, the supply chain supports seeing the overall supply chain as if every stocking position and every stocking level is a short lead time product location that is no different from a manufacturing facility that is lucky enough to be continuously able to be replenished under the Toyota inventory model.
    JIT Inventory System
    A JIT inventory system is simply a method that applies JIT. Any supply planning or MRP/ERP system can be made to operate under JIT principles. This typically results in the system being set to work on consumption-based planning …

  • How to Replace the Optimizer in SNP and PP/DS

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … the optimizer in SNP and the optimizer in PP/DS. You will learn about these issues and how to replace the SNP optimizer with a functional optimizer.
    SNP and PP/DS
    The SNP optimizer is designed to create a plan for the initial supply plan (usually the MRP run in ERP) and the deployment plan (generally called the DRP run in ERP).
    The PP/DS optimizer is designed to create a production plan and production schedule.
    Both optimizers use the ILOG optimizer to perform the optimization.
    The Real Story with SNP and PP/DS
    PP/DS: There is an optimizer …

  • How to Understand the Deloitte S/4HANA Case Study

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … consultants who will tell any lie for personal benefit. Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts — who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    “Deloitte was an early adopter of SAP’s R/3 ERP system back in 1995 despite it “not really being designed to be used by a professional services firm,” Bray said. “So guess what? We customized the hell out of it,” he added, with more than 33,000 SAP finance customizations made over 20 years.”
    What Deloitte is both admitting …

  • UNIORG S/4HANA Case Study

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    This is the UNIORG S/4HANA, which is part of our research study.
    We evaluate the accuracy of this case study.

    Introduction
    UNIORG is an IT services company based in Germany. UNIORG primarily implemented the Business One ERP application (not to be confused with “Business All in One,” which is also the name of S/4HANA). UNIORG has roughly 170 employees. As with several other public case studies, UNIORG is too small and lacks the resources to even think about implementing S/4HANA.
    Our References for This Article
    If you want to see our references for this article …

  • European Schools S/4HANA Case Study

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … reduction from 15 instances to one single instance!
    Time for Creation of Reports required by regulations: from up to 10 days down to less than 5 seconds.
    Users in Live System: 160 in 15 entities throughout Europe using various languages (English, German and French).”
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    Conclusion
    Once again, as a school, it is not a typical target for an ERP system. But this case study at least has some details and can describe some of the implementation’s actual benefits.
    This article is part of The S/4HANA Implementation Study. Please see that study for the overall conclusions.

  • LaTrobe University S/4HANA Case Study

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … a small shift in OPEX,” he said. “We’re being watched by many organizations in other industries. Within six to 12 months, I envisage some other organizations investing in this technology – and that’s exciting.”
    LaTrobe states that it went live with SAP Finance in 20 weeks.
    Universities Using SAP ERP
    It should be understood that SAP’s historical penetration into the education market has been small. One apparent reason is that education does not require an ERP system as they do not manage physical products (aside from textbooks, computers, desks, etc.) Most of these things, except textbooks, are a …

  • The WiPro S/4HANA Case Study

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … upon the actual value delivered from S/4HANA but on the combination of marketing benefit and exposure to S/4HANA that WiPro would receive that it can then turn around and resell to its customers. Consulting companies do not have the workflows that would promote a company to implement an ERP system.

    When Consulting Companies Self Implement S/4HANA
    The issues with case studies of S/4HANA when self-implemented by consulting companies is its specific topic and is covered in the following article.
    This S/4HANA implementation went live on January 15th, 2015.
    The desire to sell S/4HANA …

  • The Swiss Property S/4HANA Case Study

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … SAP consultants who will tell any lie for personal benefit. Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts — who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    Brightwork has not yet performed a total cost of ownership on S/4HANA, but ECC has traditionally been the Rolex of ERP systems. R/3 or ECC has been highly complex and the most expensive ERP system that one could buy and implement.
    Although many people, mainly SAP consultants, will say that this is justified because ECC has more

  • Brightwork Explorer for Tuning Forecast and MRP Systems

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … forecasts in locations different from their current locations).
    Determining which data streams to use for generating a forecast (for example, orders versus bookings or goods issues)
    Testing historical removal — that is, removing history that is nonrepresentative to improve pattern recognition.
    Sales forecasts
    Marketing forecasts
    Etc..

    Specialized for Tuning MRP Parameters
    ERP systems and even advanced planning systems normally do not provide high-level descriptive statistics that are important and figuring out supply chain planning quality and areas to improve. Rather, they are focused on meeting the needs of planners often to evaluate specific product location combinations. It is surprising how …