Executive Summary The history of ERP systems is normally misrepresented by those with software to services to sell. Find out the real story around ERP history. Introduction I find it amazing that there is so little information about the history of ERP, other than a few short articles on the Internet and the paper ERP:…
Executive Summary An Explanation and Introduction to TM Basic Functionality and Concepts of SAP TM High-Level Processes Shipment Creation Carrier Tendering and Selection Carrier Selection Carrier Cost Estimation Transportation Load Builder Important SAP TM Structures Transportation Lanes Location Geo-coding Transportation Modes Transportation Zones SAP TM Resources Vehicle Resources Freight Units SAP Event Management SAP TM…
Executive Summary The lack of consideration for relative inventory with the safety stock formula. How inventory parameters should be calculated. I am getting to the real question of safety stock. Infinite planning (The norm) versus constrained planning. Introduction In this article, we will cover a significant limitation of how safety stock is calculated. This limitation…
Executive Summary This is the Consilio S/4HANA, which is part of our research study. We evaluate the accuracy of this case study. Introduction CONSILIO IT is an SAP consulting partner, and consulting partners usually provide highly inaccurate information about SAP. CONSILIO IT makes many peculiar claims in this article, including the idea that MRP processing…
Executive Summary The Demand-Driven Institute has created the DDMRP concept, which began with Orlicky’s 3rd edition MRP Book’s perversion. DDMRP is very simply a repackaged of JIT and Lean. Introduction DDMRP is an adjustment to supply planning proposed to improve the outcomes of supply planning systems. While it has MRP in the name, DDMRP is…
Executive Summary Projects normally do not have a risk percentage applied to them in the project planning stages. Companies tend to prefer to assume that all IT projects will be successful and ignore IT project failure. Introduction It should go without saying that implementation success and implementation timelines are probabilistic. Enterprise software is generally complex…
Executive Summary There are many ways to perform optimization for production scheduling. We will cover three different ways, cost, duration, and KPI. Introduction In this article, we will cover three ways of running optimization for production scheduling. Cost Optimization Cost-based optimization or cost minimization has been the most common way to perform production planning and…
Executive Summary Background on Planning Versions and Simulation Some Common Reasons for Using Different Versions Version Copy In APO Copying Back Changes to the Active Version from the Inactive Version Process Issues of the S&OP Thread Security Issues and Simulation Version Report Generation and Extraction from the S&OP Version Beyond the Standard APO Problem Decomposition…
Executive Summary Hasso Plattner makes an enormous number of inaccurate statements about S/4HANA. How much of what Hasso Plattner said about S/4HANA was true? Video Introduction: How Accurate Was Hasso Plattner on Customers Being Too Risk Adverse for SAP S/4 HANA? Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) On November 30, 2015, Hasso Plattner…
Executive Summary ERP is sold on the ability to be used as a single instance. Learn why the proposal that ERP works as a single instance is incorrect and what this means for projects. Introduction to Global Instances This article is based on real experiences taken from global software implementations. You will learn the positives…