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  • What Detailed Functional Testing of SAP Fiori Shows

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

    How the Normal Population Comes to Learn About the Fiori Client
    SAP has spent so much time talking about how web-enabled Fiori client is for S/4HANA. It is worth mentioning how little in the way of research usability exist on Fiori. If you look closely at what is primarily published about Fiori, it nearly always can be traced back to very positive statements by SAP. The statement is either from SAP itself or from an SAP partner that is just

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

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … the entire network into account when making procurement, movement, and sometimes production decisions. Its safety stock functionality can help protect the in-stock position with minimal inventory adjusting to the supply chain. Also, SAP Supplier Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) reduces inventory by improving the system’s visibility between supply chain partners. This transparency results in fewer inventory mistakes.
    And Service Parts Planning (SPP) can redistribute parts in the field. At the same time, this increases the costs of planned transportation, decreases the costs of expedited transportation, and increases inventory use. Generally, SAP APO helps establish realistic schedules for production procurement …

  • How to Get More From SAP APO

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … The solution is not designed correctly during prototyping. The most common problems are –– Development of an overly complex solution. –– Believing the representatives from within the company who declared, “If the system can’t do XYZ, the entire implementation is useless.” –– Not incorporating maintenance into the design decision.
    ››Picking an implementation partner more focused on monetizing the account than in getting the software implemented correctly ››Not correctly understanding the importance of user acceptance
    ››Not understanding how the new system is supposed to be used and interface with existing systems (both technically and functionally)

    Steps in APO Recovery
    The first step in …

  • Introduction to SAP APO EM

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    … areas of the supply chain that aren’t under your company’s control is also important. For years now, companies have been sending EDI communications that allow business partners to know the status of different supply chain activities; however, to meet today’s needs, this status information from external business partners needs to be incorporated into a comprehensive status or event application that includes both internal and external status information. SAP Event Management (SAP EM) provides such multi-partner visibility into the supply chain. It does provide supply chain tracking, but more broadly, the integration and visibility it provides support …

  • Introduction to SAP APO TM

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … applications, particularly SAP Event Management (SAP EM). Integration to
    SAP Event Management
    In the next chapter on SAP Event Management (SAP EM), SAP EM can accept data from many sources, which is how it provides an integrated view of the supply chain to the company implementing the software and selecting partners alike. SAP EM is a combination of a monitoring frontend and an integration component. It can receive data from the following different categories of sources, which, when combined, provide a comprehensive view of the supply chain:

    ››Transportation providers
    ››GPS
    ››Scanners (both facility and vehicle based)
    ››Vehicle computers
    ››Suppliers
    ››RF …

  • Introduction to SAP APO PP/DS

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    … the vast majority of PPDS implementations do not use the cost optimizer and are not constrained. In fact, we doubt the ability of PPDS to be taken live at all with the optimizer.
    I run into clients who think they are performing constraint-based planning when running the PPDS heuristics, which is not correct. SAP consulting, sales, and support hides this fact from companies. You can’t get this information from Accenture, IBM, Deloitte, or any of the usual suspects. SAP consulting partners normally mislead their clients as to the status of PPDS implementations – repeating false claims made by SAP.

  • Introduction to SAP APO SNP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … extra functionality if you use SNP production process models (PPMs), which are the source for obtaining products that are produced internally. PPMs allow for production planning to be modeled at a high level within SNP. These PPMs represent the production capacity that resides at the subcontractor’s plant. Another method of incorporating external partners is through SAP SNC.
    SNP and Supplier Network Collaboration
    Planning subcontracting material is becoming increasingly common. To meet this growing need, SAP has invested significant development effort in enhancing the functionality in Supplier Network Collaboration (SAP SNC). SNP even has its own subcontracting planning book view

  • How to Interpret The IaaS Model vs Traditional Enterprise Software

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … SAP environments, and for SAP environments, the situation is extreme. But I have the feeling that if I had access to non-SAP environments that I would find a similar situation, although to a lesser degree. I believe the case is the worst with SAP because it has so many partners in crime, which are the consulting companies, force-feeding inappropriate applications into customers for profitability reasons.
    If these systems were objectively analyzed for what they are contributing to the customers, many of the applications would be decommissioned. But no one wants to admit they made a mistake.
    The On …

  • SAP's Recycled Indirect Access Damage Control for 2018

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … repeater of whatever SAP said. They have repeatedly shown no concern for their clients and may as well be the consulting arm of SAP. Most of them compete with how much they can show their subservience to SAP. Secondly, their subordination to SAP on messaging is spelled out in the partnership agreement.
    Therefore the idea that consultants and advisors are in a “quandary” is just false. They take the side of SAP in nearly all cases. In fact, we have several documented examples of SAP partner consulting companies hiding indirect access liabilities from customers. (it would have reduced their potential …

  • Is a Lack of Business Process Reengineering the Reason ERP Projects Fail?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … ERP system for a process industry manufacturing environment. Talk about a “recipe” for failure. Of course, another option would actually be to select an ERP system that has process industry functionality. However, that would take a bit of work, and Deloitte and Accenture will recommend against doing this because….well, they have SAP and Oracle ERP resources that they need to bill for to maintain the lifestyles of their partners.
    Now, after this project bombs, what will Deloitte and Accenture say? Oh right, the project’s real failure was due to the inflexibility of the customer to do BPR. The