Search Results for: supply-planning

  • How to Best Understand Gartner's Magic Quadrant

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … produce Magic Quadrants for every software category or every area. My software category has no Magic Quadrant for production, demand, or supply planning. These are all subcategories of the software category “supply chain planning,” Gartner does have a Magic Quadrant for this broader category. However, when a Gartner Magic Quadrant does not exist for the subcategory that a buyer is interested in purchasing, it does not work to use a Gartner Magic Quadrant for the broader category. Beyond this, I did not find articles (not only Magic Quadrants but any articles) on production planning or supply planning, which are …

  • References for Rethinking Enterprise Software Risk Book

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    … com/article/572463/SaaS_ERP_Has_Buzz_But_Who_Are_the_Real_Players_
    https://www.zdnet.com/are-businesses-wasting-millions-on-sap-erp-they-dont-need-7000015133/
    https://www.cimaglobal.com/Thought-leadership/Newsletters/Insight-e-magazine/Insight-March-2006/Single-instance-ERPs-are-scarce-says-study/
    https://www.cio.com.au/article/181834/extreme_erp_makeover/?pp=5
    https://www.cio.com/article/618117/ERP_Sticker_Shock_Maintenance_Upgrades_and_Customizations
    https://www.plex.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Aberdeen-ERPvsNoERP.pdf
    Supply Planning with MRP, DRP and APS Software, Shaun Snapp, Brightwork Research & Analysis Press,

  • How to Understand the IT Project Failure Ratio

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    … few places,”
    Says John Bermudez, senior VP of research at AMR Research.
    “It hasn’t penetrated the company.”
    To see my comparison of how SAP supply planning software compares to best of breed, see this link below. For demand, planning sees this link. For production, planning sees this link. For service parts planning, see this link.
    Interpretation
    I have multiple examples of when analysts like Forrester and AMR have been wrong. In fact, AMR Research, which Gartner now owns, is normally quite inaccurate. Some of this inaccuracy is because analysts are too far away from the subjects they cover …

  • How To Best Understand SAP as Legacy for Software Companies

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    … growth in what the application could do.
    One example of this is in the service parts planning space.
    The MCA Solutions Story
    In 2006, a vendor called MCA Solutions had one of the highest-rated applications I had ever tested called SPO. SPO focused on the most challenging problem in supply planning, called service parts planning. SPO performed service parts planning using two sets of advanced mathematics called inventory optimization and multi-echelon planning.

    *I have an article here that provides an overview of this category of software.
    *See my book on this topic if you have an interest.

    SAP …

  • How To Use ABC Inventory Classification

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    … Inventory Control
    There is no ABC inventory control “setting” in supply planning systems. Rather ABC inventory control is simply controlling inventory by the ABC analysis of inventory. For instance, one could set C items to be consumption planned while A and B items would be driven by the forecast.
    There are many examples, but it would simply mean changing the settings in the supply planning system to correspond to ABC.
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    Conclusion
    Therefore ABC analysis of inventory is much easier to talk about in the abstract than it is to implement. In US companies for every one …

  • How to Best Understand Inventory Planning

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … at all, but in fact, assemble to order.
    The Concept of Types of Inventory, Inventory Types, Categories of Inventory, Inventory Categories, and Inventory Classification
    There are many concepts of inventory types, inventory types, categories of inventory, or inventory categories used in supply chain management. Some of these have to do with how the supply planning system treats inventory or inventory types. For instance, high-value product inventory may be set on different supply planning settings than low-value product inventory.
    Categories of inventory or inventory categories can be based upon what that inventory does. That is, is the inventory …

  • How to Best Understand to Replenish or Replenishment in SAP

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    … let’s talk about supply networks.
    The analysis work that planners engage in stems from this question.
    When will each stocking location run out of any given material good?
    Supply planning systems only need to replenish the stocking location when there is good reason to do so. The objective of supply planning is to minimize inventory and maximize service level.
    Where Are the Replenishment Triggers Located?

    Across a supply network, there are both planning and execution triggers.
    Some of these triggers are system determined – either ERP, external supply planning system or warehouse management.
    Some triggers are external to the system …

  • How to Best Calculate Ordering Cost for EOQ

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    … it must be regularly recomputed for the entire product location database, and this will be addressed a little later in this article.
    It would be relatively easy to make the EOQ formula continuously altered based upon changes in its inputs. But I have yet to see this functionality in any supply planning application.
    Validity and Applicability of EOQ
    EOQ was initially developed for production lot sizing. However, the book Factory Physics states the following for EOQ:
    For example, in 1913, Harris published his original EOQ paper and established a precise mathematical standard for efficiency research with his famous “square root …

  • How to Best Understand the MRP Type and the SNP and ERP Location Interaction

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    Executive Summary

    The MRP Type controls the planning of a product location as well as SNP and ERP location interactions.
    We cover the APO relevant fields for the MRP Type.

    Introduction
    This document is designed to provide background as to the location coding and interactions between APO and ERP.
    The MRP Type
    This is a field that is set in the Material Master in R/3 and controls two things:

    The method of supply planning for a product location combination (that is, MRP, pure replenishment planning).
    Whether any method in ERP will be used at all (for instance, one selection …

  • How to Perform Cost, Duration and KPI Production Scheduling Optimization

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    … incorporated directly into the planning process. Because of this, PlanetTogether recommends to their clients that they use throughput accounting KPIs to drive its production planning and scheduling optimizer.
    How Financial Considerations Impact Supply Chain Planning
    Before we get too far down the path on throughput KPIs and how Galaxy APS manages them, let us review how financial considerations can directly be made to impact supply planning and production planning applications. Financial considerations have controlled supply and production planning, primarily in the following ways:

    Cost Optimization: This is a major method of supply and production planning and has, of course, already