Administrator Industry Observation: Choosing Between Greenfield, Brownfield, Rollout, Conversion, and Migration SAP implementation discussions often start with familiar labels: Greenfield, Brownfield, Rollout, Conversion, Migration, and so on. These words are useful shortcuts, but they are not decisions by them... Industry Observation SAP Core Process Dec 6, 2024
Administrator Industry Observation: Supplier Collaboration Should Move Up to Planning Many SRM systems focus on execution: purchase-order collaboration, delivery collaboration, reconciliation, and invoice collaboration. These are useful, but they often start too late. In many companies... Industry Observation SAP MRP / Planning SRM / SNC Nov 1, 2024
Administrator Product Update: Making SAP Easier to Use Without Throwing Away Its Strength SAP is still one of the strongest enterprise management systems in the world, but many companies have not used it well. One common complaint is user experience: screens are complex, fields are too man... Data / Platform Product Release SAP Core Process Oct 14, 2024
Administrator Product Update: Lightweight WMS Without Enabling Full SAP WM For SAP manufacturing customers, warehouse management requirements are sometimes complex and sometimes very simple. If the requirement is complex, SAP WM, EWM, or a third-party WMS may be appropriate.... MES / WMS Product Release Sep 20, 2024
Administrator Product Update: Lightweight SAP Label Printing with Drag-and-drop Templates Some SAP customers have dozens or even hundreds of label formats. Customer-specific finished-goods labels are especially common: different customers may require different layouts, fields, barcodes, or... MES / WMS Product Release SAP Interface / Integration Sep 14, 2024
Administrator Industry Observation: SAP Authorization Governance Is More Than Role Assignment SAP authorization work is sometimes reduced to role creation and user assignment. That view is too narrow. A role is only the visible result of process responsibility, organizational boundaries, contr... Industry Observation SAP Basis / Operations Sep 10, 2024
Administrator Product Update: From People Searching Information to Information Finding People In many SAP environments, people still search for information manually: opening reports, entering conditions, exporting data, and checking whether something went wrong. A smart information platform ad... Data / Platform Product Release SAP Interface / Integration Aug 8, 2024
Administrator Product Update: TMS for SAP-based Shipper-side Transportation For many SAP customers, transportation management is still a weak point. The process may involve outbound delivery, internal transfers, inbound logistics, carrier dispatch, dock appointment, proof of ... Product Release TMS Jul 30, 2024
Administrator Industry Observation: Why SAP Financial Consolidation Reporting Has Multiple Routes There is rarely only one correct route for SAP financial consolidation reporting. Different approaches exist because companies differ in reporting purpose, legal structure, chart of accounts design, m... Industry Observation SAP Reporting / Analytics May 22, 2024
Administrator Industry Observation: Central Finance, Shared Services, and Finance Data Platforms Central Finance is often discussed as a way to bring financial data from multiple systems into one place. That is true, but it is only the starting point. If the project stops at replication, the busi... Industry Observation SAP Reporting / Analytics Feb 26, 2024
Administrator Industry Observation: What Production Confirmation Reveals About S/4 Finance and Costing Production confirmation is often treated as a manufacturing execution action. From a finance and costing perspective, it is also a point where material consumption, activity quantity, yield, scrap, WI... Industry Observation SAP Finance / Cost Sep 15, 2023
Administrator Product Update: SAP Optimization Solution Package 2.0 After summarizing project experience across many SAP implementations, the SAP Optimization Solution Package 2.0 was organized as a set of reusable scenarios. The purpose is not to sell a list of funct... Product Release SAP Core Process Sep 4, 2023