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by Yogesh Lohiya, Senior Consultant, Infosys Ltd.
SCM Expert - Volume 9 (2011), Update 10 Learn why using a quantity contract is a smarter option than individual purchase orders, and how quantity contracts can help optimize your company’s procurement business process. Understand how quantity contracts can improve efficiency in your planning and purchasing departments.
by Rajesh Ray, Sr. Managing Consultant, IBM, and Abhishek Kaul, Sr. Consultant, IBM
SCM Expert - Volume 9 (2011), Update 8 Analyze different SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization optimizer tools for various types of planning tasks. Understand the pros and cons of the tools and the planning problems they address. Find out the limitations of the tools and areas where external optimizations help.
by Ashim A. Nanda, Senior Consultant, IBM Global Business Services
Financials Expert - Volume 10 (2011), Update 8 The rules for allocating the site support costs to the production and quality cost centers need to be revisited multiple times during the year owing to many changes in production floor operations. Learn how to use tracing factor automation to reduce the amount of time necessary for cost allocation.
by Janev K Veettil, Deloitte Consulting, LLP
SCM Expert - Volume 9 (2011), Update 7 A good conceptual understanding of the Flexible Planning component of SAP Sales and Operations Planning (SAP SOP) helps reduce the number of cyclic iterations in Information Structure configurations and test its impact on the planning type before choosing the final design. Learn the necessary steps to configure Flexible Planning in your SAP system, including configuring a self-defined Information Structure and a planning type and testing planning to verify the accuracy of the design.
by Thomas Ohnemus and Richard Howells, SAP
SAPinsider - 2011 (Volume 12), July (Issue 3) Despite the best intentions, silos remain in many organizations that fail to see a direct path to collaboration. But the right IT systems, when used effectively, can extend collaboration out to suppliers, customers, and partners, integrating all processes from idea to delivery. In this Q&A, SAP executives Thomas Ohnemus and Richard Howells discuss the idea-to-delivery model and why it’s so important for SAP customers.
by Ganesh Hegde, SAP
SAPinsider - 2011 (Volume 12), July (Issue 3) End-to-end traceability is essential to protect a manufacturer's brand, customers, and customer relationships, as well as to increase profit margin. But why do so many manufacturers today struggle to ensure traceability at a high level? This article explores the drivers and challenges around traceability and how SAP solutions can help.
by Nadine Huelsen, SAP AG
SAPinsider - 2011 (Volume 12), July (Issue 3) The world expects product innovation, and that means companies need to take a holistic approach to product lifecycle management. This article explores six best practices to help product development and project management line-of-business owners succeed. Plus, readers can learn how the new SAP Product Lifecycle Management 7.01 release helps businesses achieve brand excellence.
by Suzanne Miglucci and Rebecca Hughes, SAP
SAPinsider - 2011 (Volume 12), July (Issue 3) For procurement departments, where budgets can be constrained even when the economy is not in turmoil, lessons learned from those companies that survived the recalcitrant economy are invaluable. Uncover the top four tactics that best-in-class performers employ to elevate procurement proficiencies, along with the metrics they use to measure their success.
by Timo Wagenblatt, SAP AG
SAPinsider - 2011 (Volume 12), July (Issue 3) The expense of promotions represents the second highest single line item in the corporate budget, after the cost of goods. So ensuring that this money is spent effectively is no small concern for CIOs. To help consumer companies seeking to take the guesswork out of promotion planning and move to a more data-driven decision-making process, this article takes a close look at SAP Trade Promotion Optimization, a new solution developed to help maximize the return on trade promotion.
by David Hannon, Features Editor
insiderPROFILES - 2011 (Volume 2), July (Issue 3) When ACH Food Companies, Inc. transitioned from a commercial food manufacturer to a consumer-branded firm, the company could no longer rely on disparate legacy systems to support its growing product line. Its recently expanded IT environment now supports all stages of the company’s operations, and the story of how the business got from point A to point B — after a dual-wave SAP implementation — provides a unique lesson for manufacturing companies today.
Books
With this comprehensive reference, you’ll learn how to implement, optimize, and use SAP ERP and SAP APO for... This all-new, extended second edition provides readers with a detailed introduction to the tasks associated with... This book covers the major features, functions, and modules of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for... If you're considering an SAP CRM implementation, this insightful book will give you and your project team the... This practical reference introduces you to the BI Integrated Planning tool, an integral part of the SAP NetWeaver 2004s...
White Papers
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Paper creates bottlenecks in so many businesses processes, and Accounts Payable is no exception. Think about the process in your company for a minute. How much time and money is wasted waiting for ...
Medical technology leader Medtronic opted to run its SAP HANATM in-memory computing appliance on Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) because, out of the four certified vendors the company considered...
It's true - now it's possible to do in seconds what used to take weeks1. And not only can you operate faster, but you can also perform dramatically better with powerful insights never readily available...
The growth of digital content has led to fundamental changes in business operations. Application silos and hierarchies once defined information flow and communications. But no longer. As processes ...
In your vision of 100% electronic sales order processing, what will you do about orders that come in via fax or email and end up getting pushed around the office on paper? This new white paper gives...
Let's face it, invoice management can be time consuming, expensive and, well, not a whole lot of fun. Maybe SAP Invoice Management could help. Find out now with our interactive video.
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Learn how to overcome the challenges of integrating SAP in your enterprise mobility strategy. When you consider the processes that drive competitive advantage for your business – they're ...
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This course provides updated SAP® BI/BW reporting material to complement our existing BW Reporting product...
Watch the most popular sessions from the 2009 conferences! You'll get techniques to improve cash flow...
Watch the most popular sessions from the 2009 conference -- more than 42 HOURS! You'll learn optimization...
This course provides updated strategies, best practices, and comprehensive education for APO, demand planning,...
This course provides expert advice, guidelines, best practices and strategy for successfully utilizing SAP...
Blogs
By The Tip Doctor on June 15, 2011
Tip Doctor, Insider Learning Network.
This tip comes from a presentation delivered by Dr. Suraj Mhatre, MySupplyChainGroup, at the Idea-to-Delivery Conference 2011 - Orlando, FL: SCM, PLM, MFG and Pr More...
By Graceanne Bowe on May 3, 2011
by Graceanne Bowe, SAPinsider Events
According to leading companies, the answer to this question is a resounding “yes!” Annual budgets, with their excruciating level of detail, are More...
By Scott Wallask on March 23, 2011
By Scott Wallask, SAP Experts
What's that? You didn't hear the water heater story at the Manufacturing 2011 conference general assembly today?
You didn't see how the tale illustrated the idea of a g More...
By Scott Wallask on March 18, 2011
By Scott Wallask, SAP Experts
At our series of supply-chain-related conferences next week, it will be interesting to hear how expert presenters and attendees view the supply chain in Japan as that co More...
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