Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Read more The post Key Takeaways from SAP Logistics Info Days 2023 appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. In 2022, having a bit more room to breathe, companies started to reflect on the lessons learned from the previous two years (e.g., we need to make our supply chains more resilient). This year, it seems like companies.

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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 The post My Response to SAP.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2025

OMP, like o9 and Kinaxis, benefited from the SAP’s APO migration failure. The game of musical chairs is active as supply chain talent shifts between SAP/Blue Yonder/Kinaxis and o9. The winner in the next three years with the implementation of RISE will be SAP HANA IBP as a system of record. Kinaxis and o9.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Cloud ERP and technology provider SAP SE reported both Q4 and 2024 full year financial performance along with senior executive alignment moves. Q4 and 2024 Financial Performance SAP SE reported both Q4 and 2024 full year performance that was positively received by global financial markets. Gross Profit in Q4 was up 12 percent to 6.9

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

Competition : The aggressive marketing of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) vendors introducing planning suites (led by SAP with a product named SAP APO) took the market off course. It did not matter that most of them had integrated to SAP suites for over a decade. During this time, I worked for Manugistics. Study Results.

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Logility

APRIL 27, 2021

Running a complex, global enterprise from one large suite of seamlessly integrated applications is a powerful vision, and SAP has done well to implement this vision. It’s important to know the dangers behind SCM-to-SAP integration, and how to avoid them. SAP ERP-to-SAP SCM Standard Integration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Oracle and SAP are the two largest suppliers of enterprise applications are also leaders in the supply chain planning (SCP) market, but the leadership is being contested. The post SAP and Oracle vs. The Best of Breeds: Lessons from the Supply Chain Planning Market appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The combination of supply chain planning and real-time visibility can lead to bigger benefits than either can provide alone.

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RFgen

APRIL 3, 2025

SAP has become a key solution for addressing these challenges, offering robust tools that enhance supply chain visibility, planning, and execution capabilities. However, achieving the full benefits of SAP requires more than just implementation; it demands a strategic approach to align SAP functionalities with overarching business objectives.

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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. While the name of SAP’s Supply Chain Planning suite has changed to SCM7 (the old name was SAP APO), the gaps are glaring. For SAP users, it is the best and a much needed system of record. Reflections.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2024

KRONOS Worldwide implemented SAP’s ERP to gain more central control and streamline operations. Memsud Musabasic, a director of global distribution, joined KRONOS in 2019 to support the objectives and leverage SAP to drive value across all supply chain layers including physical distribution network, planning and execution layers.

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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. We hope to see you there!

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

What does an investment in SAP mean for a company? SAP means many different things for different people. An investment in SAP ERP improves transactional effectiveness in order-to-cash and procure-t0-pay. However, the investment in SAP planning, a product termed APO, can often take a company backwards.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

SAP IBP is a powerful tool that brings together all the elements of large organizations, including supply chain management, sales, finance, and operations, into one integrated platform. By consolidating data from multiple sources, SAP IBP allows organizations to gain a clear understanding of their supply chain and demand planning processes.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That was the opening question in a recent LinkedIn Live event produced by SAP titled “The Future of Logistics, NOW.” Andy Hancock from SAP was. What are some big trends in the logistics industry that are not only having an impact today but will continue to shape the future of the logistics industry moving forward?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 12, 2025

Suppliers using blockchain for supply chains: IBMs TradeLens, VeChain, SAP Blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric What Are Smart Contracts and How Do They Work? Lack of transparency Fraud and counterfeiting thrive in complex global supply chains. Slow dispute resolution Legal battles over contracts delay shipments and payments.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 30, 2025

A recently published report by CIO indicates that more than 60 percent of companies have experienced deviations in budget, schedule, and result quality during their planned migrations to SAPs S/4 HANA Cloud ERP suite. In contrast, just under 30% follow the standard set by SAP and have chosen the public cloud as their hosting option.

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Taulia

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

­Driving decarbonization with technology In 2023, the SAP CPO Think Tank community has been closely examining how companies can accelerate supply chain decarbonization. Companies can pull in master and transactional data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud and integrate supplier data and third-party sources.

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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. ” My question is, “What is a digitally mature company?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 21, 2020

In a freewheeling discussion at the ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, I spoke with Richard Howells, Vice President Marketing Digital Supply Chain at SAP about the trends, customer expectations, the challenges, and imperatives of digital transformation in the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2014

Yes, I know that SAP bought Ariba, and that they are hard at work on the integration of SAP APO, SNC and the Ariba business network. However, it is important to note that SAP is trying. I just do not see that it will be a viable alternative in the short-term. e.g., …less than five years.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2023

Bottomline, the satisfaction levels with planning technologies are low, with growing gaps between ERP Expansionists (Infor, Oracle and SAP) and best of breed companies (examples are Kinaxis, o9, and OMP), and the lowest for market consolidators (examples are BlueYonder and E2open). This needs a tremendous amount of work from SAP.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

So, we deploy an agent on an SAP environment. “If you want to digitize decision-making, you need 100% of the information required for a decision to be made available in a normalized data model. We built a technology that allows us to crawl the transactional systems. The agent selectively pushes data to the Aera data model.”

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Talking Logistics

MAY 24, 2023

For the past two weeks, SAP (a Talking Logistics sponsor) has been using AI and a human artist “to turn. ​​Every Friday on Talking Logistics I share news headlines related to supply chain and logistics. What if I fed those news headlines into a generative AI engine to create images? What would they look like?

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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] ” SAP Explainer, 19 August 2024. [3] ” What is Supply Chain Optimization?

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) provided better visibility but lacked inter-organizational trust (meaning companies still had to rely on each others internal data without independent verification) and suffered from vendor lock-in (high switching costs when a company becomes too dependent on a particular software vendor).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Over the last seven years, the failure of the SAP APO migration to SAP IBP and the general deficiencies in ERP planning solutions gave headwinds to the best-of-breed supply chain planning market. Could SAP mobilize to redefine the space? I fear we are losing a basic understanding of supply chain planning with employee turnover.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The Company implemented SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) including the standard functionality of Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS), yet many planners also used Excel.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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. If the supplier does not know what their emissions are, artificial intelligence can be employed by the SAP Spend Control Tower solution to estimate the emissions.

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IT Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

By Charles Smith (pictured) Sales Executive, Absoft The post The Value of a Personable Approach to Managed Service for SAP appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Bristlecone

AUGUST 22, 2024

SAP selected Bristlecone as its trusted partner to provide ongoing support and maintenance for Ariba Cloud Integration (CI-9), Ariba Integration Toolkit (ITK), and SAP Business Suite Add-On for Ariba Network (BSAO). Our team of experts is ready to provide the support and maintenance you need to keep your systems running smoothly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 29, 2024

Does anyone really think that the Oracle SCP solution is stronger than SAP’s? For example, those that actively read my blog, know that I frequently take issue with SAP, but seldom with Oracle. Many technologies (I count six) are missing, and most of the ratings are just wrong. The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

Its main applications include SAP for backend transactions, Blue Yonder for supply chain management , and Salesforce for sales. CONA, an abbreviation for Coke One North America (CONA), solutions have been rolled out to more than 500 locations in the US and Canada, representing 80,000 employees and more than $21 billion in annual revenue.

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