Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2021

This week, SAP announced the intention to build business communities to drive improved outcomes. ” The focus is on combining the Ariba Networks, the SAP Logistics Business Network, and the SAP Asset Intelligence Network. SAP’s argument is that the solution benefits 5.5 I say, “About time.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

. “At the Digital Supply Chain event at SAP. ” When I asked the question, I got an answer from LinkedIn that the research focused on digital maturity with SAP. The research is generated by SAP. The research is generated by SAP. MRP is translated based on the manufacturing schedule into ERP.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

However, what is clear from our recent study of 73 manufacturers using supply chain planning is that companies using best-of-breed solutions implement faster, achieve a quicker Return-on-Investment (ROI), and are more satisfied. It did not matter that most of them had integrated to SAP suites for over a decade. Was it intentional?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2024

Over the years, individual locations—the company has several manufacturing locations in Europe and North America—have behaved increasingly autonomously. KRONOS Worldwide implemented SAP’s ERP to gain more central control and streamline operations. Users continued to work as they always had and then input data into SAP.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The SAP staff observes, “The top supply chain optimization priorities havent really changed for decades, even centuries: Make sure customers are happy, increase efficiency and profitability, and balance supply and demand.”[2] ” Manufacturing optimization. ” SAP Explainer, 19 August 2024. [3]

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change. High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. For SAP users, it is the best and a much needed system of record. Reflections. Here is my advice.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The discipline has done a good job of driving collaboration between sales and marketing and manufacturing, procurement, and logistics. I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

The goal of this blog is to help business users maximize their current SAP Investments in a time of change. High-tech manufacturers in the Silicon Valley of the United States are some of the best at supply chain planning. For SAP users, it is the best and a much needed system of record. Reflections. Here is my advice.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Supply chains, which facilitate the movement of products from manufacturers to consumers, have historically encountered issues such as inefficiency, fraud, and a lack of transparency. As Mediledger states The life sciences industry is uniquely complex in how pharmaceutical drugs move from manufacturers to serving patients.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

There are three reasons why: Vertical excellence—having the best manufacturing, procurement or transportation function—has not worked. What percentage of retail out-of-stocks could be prevented by the manufacturer in these industries? This is an unknown, but in my opinion, 65% of the solution is in the hands of the manufacturer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

One of my insights from doing the industry analysis for the Supply Chains to Admire each year is that smaller and less well-known companies outperform larger and better-known manufacturers. The analysis is biased toward large process-based manufacturers in the Gartner network. Is this success? I don’t think so. Learning Stalled.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 1, 2014

CRM and SRM functionality did not fit the needs for manufacturing-based companies (CRM was too lightweight. And SRM functionality, while automating indirect procurement, did not address the larger needs to automate direct material purchasing for a manufacturer.) 3) SAP Stumbles and Then Succeeds. Just as you buy, remember why.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2014

As we have outsourced logistics and manufacturing, I firmly believe that we need to get more serious about the building of Business-to-Business (B2B) networks. These are one-to-many and many-to-many architectures that connect logistics providers, contract manufacturers and suppliers into true supply networks. Digital Manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 2, 2014

SAP Stumbles and then Recovers. SAP, the provider that has built the strongest and most capable system of record, but has failed at delivering excellence in systems of differentiation, is called onto the carpet. The announcement of SAP APO re-write onto the HANA platform raises customer ire. Infor Finds a Niche.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

SmartOps was purchased by SAP. If you do a google search, you will find lots of accolades and positive press on the acquisition of SmartOps by SAP, but the Shaman is a skeptic. SmartOps entered the supply chain optimization market in 2000 and became an SAP partner in 2006. SAP released an S&OP solution using HANA in 2011.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2024

My takeaway is a serious concern by attendees on the impact of SAP RISE on global supply chains. Definition: “The RISE with SAP offering includes an AI-powered cloud ERP that’s managed and optimized by SAP. SAP is the maestro of charging customers for software upgrades. It was painful. I listened.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 16, 2021

In our pandemic research, we interviewed thirty manufacturers. To gain insights, we interviewed Alexandros Skandalakis, Director of Manufacturing Capacity, reporting to operations/manufacturing globally within Philip Morris. We wanted to find a better way to design our network and optimize future manufacturing outcomes.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 24, 2014

So, you write that SAP will struggle and then recover, but Oracle will not do well in what you call the “third act” of supply chain planning software. I think that SAP has great talent to write software, but their current focus is on the analytics technology market. They are in worse shape than SAP. Yes, I say.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 17, 2024

Over the past decade, the main battleground for China’s WMS market has been in the consumption industry; but more recently the battleground has returned to the manufacturing industry. In terms of revenue, the manufacturing industry creates about 1/5 of the overall market for WMS.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 27, 2022

(For example, I am working with a client that has deployed Ariba from SAP, GT Nexus from Infor, Everstream, and Project 44. In contrast, SAP touts an integrated cloud-ready portfolio that includes predictive analytics, automation, and IoT capabilities. When asked how to drive interoperability, I replied, “There is no good template.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

My first calls were with with Descartes and SAP. I had interesting conversations with Jackson Wood- director of industry strategy for global trade intelligence at Descartes, and Linda McKee – director of solution management for global trade services at SAP. Both are leaders in this market.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 19, 2024

In this research, 81% of brand owners and contract manufacturers primarily depend on communication through email and spreadsheets. Approximately 32% of manufacturing, across industries, is outsourced. In contrast, Infor bought GT Nexus, Kinaxis purchased MPO, SAP purchased Ariba, and Trimble purchased Transporeon.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Over his 30+ year career in the supply chain, Richard has worked with manufacturers around the world in operations, supply chain, and lean strategy roles to develop systems that can manage complex supply chains on a global scale. acquired by SAP). Richard previously founded and led Factory Logic, Inc.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 9, 2018

We are a manufacturer of premium entry systems, such as revolving doors and security access gates. We were trying to optimize the workload between these factories to have our manufacturing be as efficient as possible. Manufacturing to Order is our primary process. Besides AIMMS, we had started implemented SAP.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

There is a known problem for manufacturers in synchronizing their supply chain. The shop floor to top floor disconnect reflects the difficulty of synching the plans finalized in an integrated business planning executive meeting with what the shop floor is capable of manufacturing in the short-term time planning horizon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Robust supply plans can optimize across distribution, manufacturing, and logistics constraints and deliver an optimal plan that hits service objectives at the minimum cost. In general, to optimize across distribution, manufacturing, and logistics in an execution time frame, companies need to stitch together several solutions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

” Same for SAP HANA. My Point of View (POV) is that the best use case for SAP HANA is the in-memory capabilities for repetitive work. My question, which was unanswered, was, “How does using a different relational database platform improve the outcomes even if it is fast and in the cloud?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. Definition of groupthink A pattern of thought characterized by self-deception, forced manufacture of consent, and conformity to group values and ethics Wikipedia. SAP and IBM failed the market. My take away?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Those without any chutzpah define the “supply chain” as an organizational function that focuses only on distribution, manufacturing and procurement. Last week, I was with a client that is working with SAP to run their supply chain planning system, SAP APO, on SAP’s HANA platform. I asked them “Why?”

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The first story is about a large regional food manufacturer. The first in the 1990s was Manugistics, the second in the early 2000s was SAP APO, and now their solution is SAS. The second story is about a regional beverage manufacturer. I have changed the names to provide anonymity. Let’s Be Customer Centric. The answer?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The most common questions include: What should I do about the discontinuation of SAP APO in 2025? Should I migrate to SAP IBP? Over 50% of these business users have SAP as the backbone ERP system. For example, there are very few planning pilots where Oracle or SAP beat the competition on capabilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2013

It was funded by 50 large consumer products manufacturing companies (CPG). In the dawn of e-commerce, conservative manufacturers, anteed up $240 million in four months. While there is work within SAP to rethink SNC and use the assets purchased with Ariba to build multi-tier capabilities, the progress is not encouraging.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Many of the clients I work with are nervous about SAP APO’s transition and the evolution of SAP’s supply chain planning solutions. The supply chain technology market is in transition. Over the last three decades, the market weathered consolidations, mergers and technology shifts. They are looking for alternatives.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Last September, I talked to a supply chain director at a manufacturing company that had implemented Rebus. They use SAP as their ERP. Generating the analytics in SAP also would not work. Despite covering the WMS market for over 20 years, this was not a problem I was aware of until about a year ago.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Shaun has the courage to closely examine SAP’s market claims. Shaun debates the launch of DDMRP in SAP. It is not easy to take a contrarian approach against the big marketing machine of SAP. I am working with a client now that has run out of patience with SAP APO. I admire Shaun. They hate contrarian views.).

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Bill was a strong advocate of SAP ERP. I worked three layers down in the organization for a well-established leader in manufacturing named Dan. Dan had a very manufacturing view and Fred focused on logistics. His goal was to separate manufacturing and distribution inventories to improve his bonus incentives.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2019

In parallel, SAP launched technology platforms: NetWeaver in 2004 followed by HANA 2.0 SAP won the fight, but ERP failed to make the desired mark on driving value in supply chain management. Digital Manufacturing Success. In the next two years, companies will make the most progress in the area of digital manufacturing.

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