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  • Are SAP's REST/JSON APIs Real?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … an overall implementation work better.
    This allows SAP to not compete on the actual application but to compete as part of an ecosystem.
    The Outcome for SAP Customers
    The paragraph above has been the long-term SAP strategy, and most SAP customers believe it, using non-SAP systems only when they find a huge hole in SAP’s offering. This has lead to deleterious effects for SAP customers as they have loaded up on weak applications ranging from the SAP BW to SAP APO. These applications continually consume large amounts of IT resources and deliver low levels of business value.

  • How Accurate Was SAP on the PP/DS Optimizer?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    For years SAP has said that the PP/DS optimizer is useful for performing production planning and scheduling.
    In this article, we review the accuracy of this claim. 

    Video Introduction: What SAP Said About its the PP/DS Optimizer
    https://youtu.be/2KK4RWlpVi8
    Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video)
    The PPDS Optimizer is part of the SAP APO suite. It is designed to provide a detailed schedule, down to the minute. It is supposed to allow companies to constrain and to develop an optimal production plan and schedule. However, analysis of PPDS implementation and first-hand …

  • How Accurate Was SAP the SNP Optimizer?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    For years SAP has said that the SNP optimizer is useful for performing supply planning.
    In this article, we review the accuracy of this claim. 

    Video Introduction: What SAP Said About its the SNP Optimizer
    https://youtu.be/ot6YFm5GsPo
    Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video)
    The SNP Optimizer is part of the SAP APO suite, and it is a cost optimizer that produces a supply plan. It is supposed to provide higher quality output for the following the initial supply planning run and the deployment supply planning run. It is supposed to be leading edge and …

  • How to Best Understand the SAP Digital Transformation Navigator

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … selects, then they are taken to the following screen.

    Here the customer is using SAP Demand Planning today, but SAP recommends SAP Integrated Business Planning or IBP.
    Well, that seems so simple, but that is a huge decision with many cost implications. SAP DP happens to be an application that few companies get very much value out of. Here are some essential features that the DT Navigator will not tell you.

    IBP is still not widely implemented.
    IBP has maturity issues.
    IBP does not have the same functionality as SAP APO, so one cannot merely say “migrate to IBP.”

    Naturally,

  • How to Understand The Myth of the Golden Age of SAP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … introduced R/3. Only a few people propose this because most people who work in SAP don’t remember this supposed innovation.
    However, again, this is something that vendors were in general moving to at that time. If everyone is doing something and you do it as well, then it is, by definition, not innovative.
    SAP’s claims of even being close to innovation become even less supportable.

    The early SAP APO was primarily copied from i2 Technologies, and then other later modules like EWM were copied from other warehousing applications at the time.
    SAP BW was copied from …

  • How to Best Understand SAP's Negative Innovation

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … One has to wonder who was doing the data modeling for SAP as its tables often lack a logical reason for their schema. That is, far more straightforward schemas should have been created. 
    To access that data, it is necessary to use the transactions SE16 or SE16N. SE16N is more feature rich, but it does not exist for many SAP products, SAP APO being one example.
    SAP’s products are the most difficult to get data out of and back into because SAP does not allow a direct SQL onto their tables. This is ostensibly done for security, but no

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

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … to address that JIT and Lean capabilities have resided in software since supply and production software was first introduced before that in inventory formulations. I propose using some of these approaches, as well. They are outlined in my books Lean and Reorder Point Planning and Multi-Method Supply Planning in SAP APO (where “Lean” methods and forecast-based planning are mixed by product location in SAP and multiple forecast-based procedures are mixed in).
    I cover how to assign product location combinations to reorder points, min-max, etc.. based on a concept called forecastability. I have a forecastable/non-forecastable …

  • The Strange Changes with the Count of Fiori Apps

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … they have not only given away copies to existing users (who should get it for free) but for net new deals as well.
    By the way, I am not the first to question the 3700 customer number for S/4. Most people who study this topic think this number is highly overstated.
    Previous Proposals on SAP Application Readiness
    Exaggerating the readiness of applications is nothing new for SAP. So please, if some people are going to comment to the contrary, let’s not pretend to be so shocked. SAP APO was released back in the early 2000s was a barely

  • How Accurate is SAP's Page on APO?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … filled with false claims and sleazy consulting companies and 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. 

    SAP APO: Balance Supply and Demand?
    Here is what SAP says about APO’s overall capabilities.
    “Enhance supply chain management (SCM) with SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO). This solution offers integrated, best-in-class functionality for demand, supply, and production planning – as well as global available-to-promise …

  • Disregarding Gartner’s Deeper Technology Insights and Predictions

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … overestimate their ability to understand applications from these superficial materials and presentations that they rely upon. Many analysts seem to think they can understand an application without getting into the details, and of course, they also have deadlines to meet. The scarcity of actual product knowledge was apparent in a recent review of SAP APO. I was reading from an analyst who had been “future sold” by SAP describing the functionality that did not work for me. I know this because I both tested it, and multiple OSS notes are open on the functionality described.
    The Importance of a …