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Key Takeaways from SAP Spend Connect Live

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5000 developers are working on product enhancements and extensions to the SAP spend management suite. At SAP Spend Connect Live, held October 14-16 in Las Vegas, SAP did make several significant product announcements. Spend Management Takeaways SAP continues to invest in using generative AI to improve the user experience.

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Supplier Onboarding is Core to a Digital Supply Chain Transformation

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Molex implemented a multi-enterprise supply chain network platform from SAP called SAP Business Network. MESN is a solution built on a many-to-many architecture that supports a community of trading partners. The most common form of trading partner collaboration is purchase order collaboration. Training is critical.

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How Smart Contracts Are Impacting Supply Chains

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Suppliers using blockchain for supply chains: IBMs TradeLens, VeChain, SAP Blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric What Are Smart Contracts and How Do They Work? Smart contracts are software programs that self-execute and are stored on a blockchain. Suppliers of blockchain logistics solutions: VeChain, IOTA, Helium, IBM TradeLens 3.

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Thoughts. Selecting Supply Chain Software

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In 2012, when I started Supply Chain Insights , I believed that I could revolutionize the purchase of supply chain planning solutions by initiating a rating and review process across trading partners. Business leaders see the open sharing of feedback on software as too risky. How can I improve the process of software selection?

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As The Wind Blows: Improving Supply Chain Planning

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The industry is awash with technologists and consultants focused on selling solutions. As companies consider purchasing new solutions based on better planning engines—machine learning, rules-based ontological frameworks, narrow AI, pattern recognition, large language models, and sentiment analysis— I ask for the use of caution.

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SAP Tells their Customers, ‘Keep the Core Clean!”

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SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, ran from June 3rd through the 5th in Orlando. 12,000 SAP customers and partners attended the event, and another 15,000 watched remotely. SAP (NYSE: SAP) is the world’s largest provider of enterprise applications. However, SAP has 27,000 customers.

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The Supply Chain Merry-Go-Around

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Aptean is orchestrating the Blue Yonder/E2open/Infor playbook of buying undervalued assets and milking the maintenance and Software-as-a-Service contracts with existing customers. OMP, like o9 and Kinaxis, benefited from the SAP’s APO migration failure. I know of no successful software company built by consultants.