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Gartner and IT Analysts

How to Best Understand Gartner's Magic Quadrant
ByPrimary Researcher June 14, 2017January 13, 2024

… category within the software category. For instance, here is a quotation from Gartner’s Magic Quadrant write-up on supply chain planning.
“SAP has a stronger focus that Oracle on business process and a well-established, capable platform in Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO), which covers all the functional areas of supply chain planning, according to Payne. But SAP APO lacks depth in inventory optimization and production scheduling.”
Is This Quote Correct?
I have written four books on modules in SAP’s supply chain planning suite and one on the overall suite. When looking at the above quote, it …

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IT Risk and Software Selection

How to Manage Buying from Software from Large Vendors
ByPrimary Researcher June 7, 2017March 25, 2021

… is actually a copy of what I was doing back in i2 Technologies back in the late 1990s. This should not be surprising as SAP developed a “partnership” with i2 Technologies – broke off the partnership and then walked out with a lot of intellectual property so they could build their SAP APO advanced planning suite. Oracle is similarly not known for innovation. Within a couple of years of acquiring a company – and Oracle has acquired quite a few – that application is no longer seen as a leading application. The fact is that, as with other monopolies, monopolistic software vendors do …

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Managing the SAP Investment

How To Best Understand SAP as Legacy for Software Companies
ByPrimary Researcher February 23, 2017March 26, 2021

… vendors and transferred to SAP. And that companies that were engaging in the xApp partnership were naive to how SAP operated. In my article, I stated it is a program that the US Federal Trade Commission should have reviewed. Larger software companies are not supposed to have a program that promises improved sales that largely never materialize to Hoover up their IP.
I also covered how SAP used a partnership with i2 Technologies to extract intellectual property from them in the 1990s to use as the basis of SAP APO. I covered this story in the early drafts of …

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SAP Indirect Access

How to Understand SAP Indirect Access and US Antitrust Tying Arrangement Law
ByPrimary Researcher February 23, 2017April 20, 2022

… operating and maintenance costs.
SAP CRM: Very close to a dead application.
SAP PLM – Product Life Cycle Management: Never actually existed.
SAP Netweaver: Never actually existed (a container or marketing construct for a hodgepodge of mostly infrastructure tools)
SAP SRM – Supplier Relationship Management: A dead application (supposedly replaced with Ariba)
SAP APO – Advanced Planner and Optimizer: A lagging set of supply chain planning applications.
SAP MDM – Master Data Management: A dead application.
SAP Solution Manager: A dead application.

SAP and the consulting partners (IBM, Deloitte, etc..) mislead many companies about the benefits of how their systems being integrated would lower …

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Managing the SAP Investment

How SAP is Now Strip Mining its Customers
ByPrimary Researcher February 19, 2017January 25, 2024

… operating and maintenance costs.
SAP CRM: Very close to a dead application.
SAP PLM – Product Life Cycle Management: Never actually existed.
SAP Netweaver: Never actually existed (a container or marketing construct for a hodgepodge of mostly infrastructure tools)
SAP SRM – Supplier Relationship Management: A dead application (supposedly replaced with Ariba)
SAP APO – Advanced Planner and Optimizer: A lagging set of supply chain planning applications.
SAP MDM – Master Data Management: A dead application.
SAP Solution Manager: A dead application.

These were all homegrown applications. SAP customers invested enormously in these applications, and what was the payoff? Each application above either does …

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TCO Info Articles

The Many Reasons Why SAP's TCO Claims Are Not True
ByPrimary Researcher February 8, 2017January 17, 2021

… When support is outsourced, the quality of support drops precipitously, and anyone in IT knows this. I provide a full treatment of the pitfalls in outsourcing SAP APO support in this article.
Implications of the Analysis
Indeed, other analyses with different assumptions will have different results. However, the TCO differential is so high between SAP and a best of breed solution that it’s hard for me to envision any analysis where SAP has close to the same TCO as a best of breed solution.
This means tTCO cannot justify SAP’s planning products TCO and that companies must …

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Supply Chain Optimization

How to Perform Cost, Duration and KPI Production Scheduling Optimization
ByPrimary Researcher December 10, 2016March 26, 2021

… proper and structured simulation.
Simulation in Tabs in Galaxy APS
Galaxy APS has very user-friendly and low maintenance simulation capabilities. Galaxy APS is one of the few planning systems I am familiar with that keeps simulation versions — essentially a copy — in tabs. Each tab is a slight deviation from the other tabs,[5] allowing planners to switch very quickly between versions. With systems like SAP APO, creating simulation versions is a major effort, requiring planning and a good deal of time to copy the versions. I have spent quite some time creating functional designs that explain how APO …

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SAP SNP

How to Set up Regional S&OP Process Threads
ByPrimary Researcher December 10, 2016October 29, 2020

… with the ERP system, so whatever is brought over regarding the transaction is all the transaction data the version will ever have. As time passes, the version copy becomes less and less current. New version copies can be performed to bring the offline version up to date.

This is transaction /SAPAPO/VERCOP.
The copy is mostly from the active version or 000 to an inactive version such as 001, 002, etc. But there are two exceptions.

It is possible, of course, to copy from an inactive version to another. This would be done if some changes had been made to …

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Global Planning System

The Lack of Advice Setting Up Global SAP System
ByPrimary Researcher December 10, 2016November 23, 2020

… simply be wrong when that company has gone through the cycles of learning with their first implementation. And that is if – and a big “if” the company has placed all product locations into APO from their first implementation. Often this is not the case. Companies implement some product locations in SAP APO, while other product locations are managed in a separate system and then migrated over to APO.
There is a continual bias, particularly on IT and the technical resources who configured the system to want to declare victory and move onto the next challenge. At the same time, the …

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Brightwork Book

Book on How to Perform Capacity Planning in MRP, APS & S&OP Software
ByPrimary Researcher December 3, 2016May 7, 2022

… Continuous versus Bucket Planning
The Time Orientation Flexibility of Capable to Match (CTM)
The Conversion of SNP Planned Orders to PP/DS Planned Orders
Storage Constraints
Handling Resources and Location-to-Location Flow Constraints
Transportation Constraints
Resource Uptime
Bottleneck Resources in Production Planning
Background on Bottleneck Resources
Bottleneck Resources in SAP APO
When Multiple Resources Along a Production Line Must be Modeled
The Production and Resource Scenarios
Multiple Resource Constraints
Hard versus Soft Constraints
Finiteness Level of Resources
Conclusion

Chapter 5: Forecast Consumption, Allocation, Consumption, Scheduling Direction, and Timings

Backward and Forward Forecast Consumption
The Example
Implications to the Question …

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