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  • How to Best Understand to Replenish or Replenishment in SAP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … replenish the stocking location when there is good reason to do so. The objective of supply planning is to minimize inventory and maximize service level.
    Where Are the Replenishment Triggers Located?

    Across a supply network, there are both planning and execution triggers.
    Some of these triggers are system determined – either ERP, external supply planning system or warehouse management.
    Some triggers are external to the system.

    No matter whether the trigger is system generated or generated by a buyer or IT specialist, all replenishments are, at some point, reflected in the supply planning system with both a transaction (acquisition or goods …

  • How to Best Understand The S/4HANA Simplification List

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … this topic, I found the following quotation from SAP. This article quote I found is quite impressive. See it below:
    “If you look at the S/4HANA system that we released in November of last year that we are calling 1511, we can say that this is already a complete ERP system,” said Uwe Grigoleit, SAP global head of business development for Business Suite on HANA and HANA applications.”
    Errrrr….. could you release a complete ERP system without much functionality?
    That seems to be the line Uwe is walking here. You can release anything, and it is still that thing …

  • How Accurate was SAP and Sven Denecken on S/4HANA 1610?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … premises. SAP only has small companies that do not require customization on their S/4HANA public cloud.
    Full Scope S/4HANA?
    “Speaking on the vendor’s third-quarter fiscal 2016 conference call, Rob Enslin, SAP’s customer chief, said that over 50 percent of the S/4HANA live customers are implementing “full ERP scope”—which essentially means S/4HANA 1511 or 1610.” – Sven Denecken
    Rob Enslin is a highly unreliable source of information about SAP. In nearly every case we have analyzed Rob Enslin’s previous comments, they have turned out to be false.
    Also, this could be in …

  • How SAP Controls Perceptions with Customer Numbers

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … about whatever they are offering.
    Provide statements that are unsubstantiated as to what the usage numbers mean.

    The SAP Customer Numbers for S/4HANA
    There are many examples of SAP doing this.
    But I will bring up an excellent recent example of this was when SAP placed S/4HANA (the ERP system, not the database) on promotion and placed it into contracts when it sold other applications one quarter. This lead to a significant uptick in SAP customers that now had S/4. But almost none of those customers had any foreseeable plans to implement S/4HANA. What few people …

  • Comparing SAP TM Versus MercuryGate as a TMS

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … comes with a different design orientation than an application like MercuryGate and has. Therefore, it has different strengths and weaknesses. SAP TM has far more overall functionality than MercuryGate and would be more appealing for 3PLs that have actual transportation assets to manage. Secondly, SAP TM is part of the SAP software ecosystem. It has been designed to work with the other SAP applications, the most important of these being SAP ECC or Business All in One, SAP’s highly successful ERP system.
    Creating a Purpose Built TM/MG Solution
    The natural question is where each application would best address

  • How to Best Calculate Ordering Cost for EOQ

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    We cover the Economic Order Quantity formula and the applicability of the Economic Order Quantity and EOQ and perishability and quantity discounts.
    EOQ can be calculated for both production and procured products.

    Introduction: The Origins of the Economic Order Quantity
    Economic order quantity (EOQ) is one of the oldest formulas in inventory management, and it preceded the development of ERP by many decades. Ford W. Harris first developed EOQ in 1913. Since its introduction, EOQ has been one of the most important and most durable formulas in inventory management. EOQ is a type of order batching. Order batching …

  • The Secret to Not Talking About The Cost of SAP HANA

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … s bubbles, but the truth is quite a bit more complicated than what is commonly presented by SAP and SAP’s surrogates on HANA.
    This article will cover the complications of using HANA from licensing and database administration.
    How SAP HANA is Problematic from the Administration Side
    SAP’s “new” ERP system called S/4HANA, which is not new, only runs on HANA. However, many large corporations have set Oracle or IBM DB as corporate DB standards, and this restriction of S/4 makes it difficult for companies to streamline administrations.
    This is something that is entirely left of SAP …

  • SAP's Cloud Chaos Offering with Hybrid Cloud

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … integrate the parts of the SAP application that are in the cloud versus those that are on-premises.
    Evaluate the integration/connector that is part of the SAP hybrid solution. (because you cannot trust the state of the connector by listening to SAP sales)

    Etc…
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    Conclusion
    SAP’s new direction, in many cases, dilutes one of its primary value propositions. That is its “out of the box integration.” In reality, the only part of SAP that was integrated “out of the box” was the ERP suite. The ERP modules all share the same database, sit on …

  • How to Perform Cost, Duration and KPI Production Scheduling Optimization

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … the 1980s for a modern set of assumptions versus cost accounting. As such, the two accounting methods have vastly different orientations. Throughput accounting tracks far fewer costs. In fact, under throughput accounting, the only cost categories are expenses and investment.
    Throughput Accounting Versus Cost Accounting
    The alternative to throughput accounting is cost accounting, which is the accounting method used by companies and finance and accounting functionality in ERP systems. It is also the method of accounting with which people with exposure to business are most familiar. When one states that they have “studied accounting,” normally, what they mean is that

  • How to Best Use Deployment and DRP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … of the initial supply planning run. Every time someone used the term DRP at this client, they referred to the initial supply planning run.
    So let us first get clear on what deployment is.
    The Relationship Between DRP and Deployment
    DRP is the only method available for deployment in SAP ERP, or most other ERP systems, but it does not exist in SNP, with its closest equivalent being the SNP Deployment Heuristic. However, DRP is only a particular method of performing the deployment. To reemphasize, deployment is the business process, not the method of moving stock through the supply network …