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  • Book on The Best Bill of Materials Software

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Bill of Materials in Excel, Planning, ERP and PLM/BMMS Software
    Screenshots and examples from Arena Solutions, PlanetTogether, SAP, and Demand Works.
    What the Book is About
    The ability to manage BOM information has never been more exceptional. However, the vast majority of companies are missing out on this opportunity!
    Focusing on a significant area of weakness at most companies — how the bill of materials (BOM) information is managed. Software Approaches for Improving Your Bill of Materials explains how the BOM is the most integrated object in the company and how it ties together internal and external parties. There are …

  • An Approach for Improving Master Data Maintenance: Better than MDM Software

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … However, they often find that the values are far less complete than anticipated. Many implementation consultants want to take the previous system’s parameters and place them into the new system. Therefore the parameters can end up being a no man’s land — where both the business and the IT implementation team think that the other is responsible for getting the parameters right.
    Many companies implement an ERP system or an external planning system and find the key performance indicators going down. When one analyzes, these systems’ parameter settings are quite barren, which may be years after the software has

  • Supply Planning with MRP, DRP and APS Software

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … for Those Hungry for Precise Information on Supply Planning Software
    The Brightwork Research & Analysis Site
    The History of Supply Planning Software
    Who Is This Book For?
    Abbreviations

    Chapter 2: Where Supply Planning Fits within the Supply Chain Planning Footprint

    Introduction
    The Basic Nature of the Supply Chain Planning Functionality in ERP Systems
    How ERP and APS Share the Planning Work
    Critical versus Non-critical Materials
    Dependent Demand Products
    Alternative Design
    Where a Product Location Combination is “Planned”
    Conclusion

    Chapter 3: MRP Explained

    Introduction
    A Brief History of MRP
    What MRP Includes
    What MRP Does Not Include
    Major Functionality of MRP …

  • Brightwork Enterprise Software Books

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … ERP Books
    IT Decision Making Books

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    Manufacturing and Production Planning Books
    ERP System Management Books
    SAP APO – Advanced Planning Books

  • Have We Reached the End of the Line for SAP Solution Manager?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … is proposed, SAP keeps moving the area that Solution Manager is supposed to do. At this point, it is set to recede into oblivion and possibly to be replaced with a new product. However, I can say that there is no reason for the CMS to be provided by your ERP vendor; the two software skill sets have zero crosses over.
    Now CMS is only one thing that Solution Manager does; Solution Manager is grabbed back of functionality. In an earlier version of this article, one of the commenters criticized the fact that I did not bring up other features …

  • How to Understand The Poor Quality of SAP Support vs 3rd Party Support

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Again, all information released must positively impact the stock price because, to no small extent, the executives are compensated in stock. Responsiveness to the financial markets is a big reason initiatives are taken and have little to do with improving the company’s condition. In part, companies implement systems like ERP and initiatives like outsourcing not because there is any evidence that they benefit the company but because the company needs to demonstrate to outsiders that they are doing “all the right things.” The financial analysts who evaluate stocks have no experience with ERP and have never participated in IT …

  • How to Set SNP Inventory Overage Alerts

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … time-dependent maintenance is what shows within the planning book, in which there is an example below.

    Currently, this is not populated in SAP SNP, yet the essentially similar field is called the Safety Time / Act / Cov, which exists on the MRP 2 tab in the material master in SAP ERP.

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    Conclusion
    The most desired alert by planning, both overage and under the shipped versus forecast, is not available within APO and needs to be met with a report. This report does not exist what causes planners to create ad hock reports, which can not be exported …

  • How Gartner Distributes Press Releases On SAP HANA

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … application strategy.
    Whenever one reads SaaS in the same sentence as SAP, one should be quite skeptical. I have been telling people, without much success, that SAP’s entire marketing approach is anti-SaaS. The reason for this is relatively apparent. SAP competes based upon the monopoly position of its ERP system. Its ERP system is complicated to integrate into. SAP has the most difficulty to integrate applications or sets of applications in the enterprise market. In effect, the existence of SAP in a company dramatically increases that company’s costs of integration. Therefore, supporting SAP’s argument that integration …

  • A Sensitivity Analysis Approach for Supply Chain Optimization

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … their operations. 
    The Definition of Supply Chain Simulation?
    Simulation is a planning run, which may be performed on the production system (in a simulation version, or in a separate simulation environment–in the same software or in different software), which is not intended to have its recommendations sent to the ERP system for execution. The results are analyzed within the planning system, and the planning run is frequently performed with repetitive checks to the results and often changes to master data parameters. Simulation is sometimes performed on different hardware, or on different instances of the application but on the same …

  • Setting the Right Inventory Carry Cost Percentage

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … acceptable” within companies.
    This is why companies often ignore the quantification of order quantities and determine the order quantity using judgment methods.
    Inventory valuation works behind the scenes in inventory but drives many decisions. At this point, most ERP systems have strong capabilities for the valuation of inventory. Once the ERP system is configured correctly, the valuation of inventory is automatic. Most ERP systems can show inventory valuation at any point in time.
    Another important factor related to inventory valuation is sales and operations planning. This is where the company projects supply and demand and the impact on the …