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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

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In this IDC White Paper, we discuss some of the key trends taking place in the enterprise mobility landscape today, such as consumerization of IT, the mobile application explosion, and cloud computing.

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This SAP-SAPinsider conference session, recorded at PLM 2013 in Las Vegas, steps through real-world examples from SAP® customers who have instituted standard enterprise project and portfolio management

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Whatever your business’s goal — whether it is delivering exceptional customer experiences, optimizing the supply chain, improving procurement processes, growing talent, maximizing operating capital,

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Now more than ever, the speed with which corporations can make financial decisions has a direct impact on bottom-line profits. However, several factors can hinder the ability to make these kinds of

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In this whitepaper, Forrester shares the insights of over 60 companies, vendors, and mobile experts. Learn how mobility is the manifestation of a shift to new systems of engagement, and why the first

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Today, companies face a unique challenge: how to embrace the mobility paradigm for competitive advantage while still advancing the robust capabilities of their trusted enterprise systems. CIOs are

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For many companies, securing their SAP® system was long regarded merely as a synonym for Segregation of Duties (SoD) controls. While this is an imperative in securing SAP platforms, there are additional

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This SAP-SAPinsider conference session, recorded at Admin & Infrastructure 2013 in Las Vegas, examines critical areas to address for delivering responsive, secure and highly available SAP applications

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A new report presents the results of a market research survey of 500+ SAP® customers commissioned by Worksoft Inc., and performed by an independent third party to study the state of test automation

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Blogs
By Allison on April 1, 2013
On April 24th, Kai Finck who is the SVP for Line of Business Solutions for Corporate Functions at SAP is set to deliver our keynote address at the Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement More...
By 3dSoftology on May 7, 2012
HI Guys, Just wondering, If there are few basics notes or how tos lying around which can be very helpful for SAP bignners. Some basic training course which covers the basics of SAP operations? More...
By Graceanne Bowe on April 26, 2012
by Graceanne Bowe, Senior Product Director, SAP Events, WIS This week in Prague, SAPinsider had the pleasure of hosting supply chain expert Kevin O’Marah of Stanford University, formerly o More...
By Dr. Berg on June 26, 2011
By Dr. Berg Every spring I teach a Management Science class for MBA’s where we cover the latest in advanced forecasting. For example, in ECC we have options that use factors to discover and adj More...
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...
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