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  • A Debate on How to Recover SAP DP for Forecasting

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Approach to DP Recovery: Software Vendor and Consulting Company Monopolies
    I believe this message is molded around bill-ability. But I don’t think there is much support for it if money is taken out of the equation. This brings us to the primary issue that the perverse incentives in the enterprise market, which due to corruption, caused incorrect and ineffective applications to be recommended to clients in the first place. Many applications we are dealing with are there not because of their inherent qualities but because they line the pockets of partners at the big consulting houses. Could …

  • How to Improve Knowledge Transfer on SAP Projects

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … pronouncements (i.e., the generic self-aggrandizement of various con men or directors and partners in the consulting firm who all have narcissistic personality disorders). The stated purposes of these meetings are to improve communication among the team. But the length of the meetings points to another purpose, reinforcing the organizational hierarchy of the group.
    “Sir, You Are Tedious”
    One of the more tedious parts of dealing with consulting companies is when they feel compelled to tell you about their great history. I sometimes feel like stopping them and saying.
    Look, your consulting company was started by several greedy …

  • How to Best Understand Freight Broker Marketplaces

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … operate as a for-hire carrier, requiring filing legal documentation and keeping rates on file with the state. They can use a standard freight carriage contract, or they use an individual service broker. They may have to use the freight contract employed by the broker. In fact, according to Trucking Partners, around 53% of private fleets are registered as for-hire carriers. Some percentage of the other 47% also carry solicited freight through what is essentially a loophole called trip-leasing, where a private fleet truck can run under the authority of a common carrier for a “trip.” It is …

  • Forecasting References

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Wilcox “Just What Are Cubes Anyway? (A Painless Introduction to OLAP Technology),” Microsoft Corporation, April 2002
    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140038(v=office.10).aspx
    Few, Stephen, “Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis,” Analytics Press, 2009
    Ford, Ian, “E-Procurement – Electronic Data Integration Comes of Age,” Finance Director Europe, October 30, 2007
    https://www.the-financedirector.com/features/feature1420/#adEnd
    “Friend or Foe?: The Close Partnership Between SAP and Microsoft Headed for Trouble,” The Economist, October 18 2001
    https://www.economist.com/node/822247
    Gilliland, Michael, “The Business Forecasting Deal: Exposing Myths …

  • Book on The Best Bill of Materials Software

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … encompasses the leading edge in BOM technology enablement. While looking internally to see how multiple KPIs (key performance indicators) can be improved and how every system that relies upon BOM information can be enhanced. The book also looks externally to how companies can effectively strengthen their connections with supply chain partners.  In supply chain management, purchase orders and other transactional objects tend to get the collaborative focus of the company. Usually, the BOM is not enabled by easy-to-use collaboration technology. The book describes how the BOM is an excellent place to improve collaboration with supply chain partners and …

  • Supply Planning with MRP, DRP and APS Software

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Feasible
    The Usefulness of the Optimal versus Feasible Metric
    Effectively Transitioning a Company between Supply Planning Methods
    Getting Costs into the Optimizer Application
    Understanding Relative Costs concerning Cost Optimization
    A Methodology for Helping the Business Make Value Judgments for the Optimizer
    Cost Optimization Configuration
    Single-objective versus Multi-objective Optimization
    Finding Its Way into Supply Chain Planning
    The Potential of MOO for Supply Planning
    Things to Consider with MOO
    MOO in the Future?
    When Does Cost Optimization Make Sense?
    Lessons of the History of Optimization Projects
    Finding the Right Optimization Implementation Partner
    Keeping the Implementation from Being Purely a Technical

  • The Trouble with SAP APO Add-Ins

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … partner in inventory optimization, which is SmartOps. This brings up the question of how reliable the information is about these Add-Ins.
    It also makes the message coming from SAP Product Management even more confusing. Before, they declared no intent to offer inventory optimization and that SmartOps was their single partner. Now they do, but the solution looks weak, and inventory optimization is very complex. It is the most sophisticated technology in supply planning and is not simply an “Add-In” to an APS solution. If these are new products, the issue of reference clients becomes important because while many …

  • The Mismatch of PP/DS with Process Industry and Yield Variability

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … scheduling applications of any industry.
    The Problem Clients Will Face with PP/DS for Scheduling
    Before my arrival on some PP/DS projects, most of the project assumed that the PP/DS solution was generally right but that it merely had a few defects. They never knew because their implementation partners never told them that no one has ever been able to get the PP/DS optimizer to work and that the heuristics are so high in overhead that they are also not used. Therefore PP/DS ends up being merely a visual planning board where blocks are moved around …

  • Trans Codes

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … MENUBCA0 BP: Business Partner – Applic.Cust.
    BCG7 MBARCBSP Bar chart: Call model graphic
    BC15 SAPMSNUM No. Range Maint.: BP_PARTNR Partner
    BDA1 RSARFCEX Call RSARFCEX
    BDA5 RBDSEDOC Distribute documents
    BDBG SAPLBDBG Create ALE Interface for BAPI
    BDBP SAPLBDBH Hierarchy maintenance of BAPI param
    BDBR SAPLDX_REGISTRA Register BAPI for Data Transfer
    BDBS SAPLBDMP Generate coding for mapping
    BDCP SAPMSNUM Number range maintenance: ALE_CP
    BDC5 RBDCUS70 Consistency of Customizing Data
    BDD5 RBDCUS71 Application Consistency Check
    BDFDF RBDFEFUND Request Fund
    BDFDS RBDSEFUND Send fund
    BDFG SAPLBDFG ALE Interfaces from Function Module
    BDLR SAPLDX_REGISTRA Registration of transfer program
    BDLS RBDLSMAP …

  • Understanding How the Auditing Branches of the Major SAP Consulting Firms Work

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … by the auditor’s legal departments that give them minimal incentive to look for irregularities in accounting statements. Secondly, the auditing firm partners are very focused on not losing accounts, and a company can switch accounting firms (although there are only a few major ones to choose from that can be used to “credibly” sign annual reports).
    This is the basis for the monopoly power that large firms enjoy. Owning or being a partner in a major auditing firm is essentially like having a license to print money. Once attained, very little work is required to maintain the monopoly.
    Auditing