SAP

There is an estimated 2 trillion-dollar market for unstructured data. Unstructured data is in the form of emails, social media, blogs, documents, images, and videos. With Ariba for Procurement, I have explained that buyers and suppliers have real time cloud-based E- Procurement solutions with advanced analytics and automatic Cloud updates.  The Ariba network is nearing 3 million companies now.    As a next step, how do we explore...

To compete in the rapidly accelerating Digital Transformation and Networked driven economy, clients require a SAP driven Supply Chain that runs all applications in real time, proposes intelligent and proactive solutions, provides easy collaboration tools, facilitates priorities, better decision making, simulations and better service to their clients. The improved SAP system must also support which includes the IOT (Internet of...

In one of my latest articles – “SAP Supply Chain Monitoring Best Practises” I spoke about a Supply Chain Executive’s winning formula. Included in that winning formula is #2 Maintain strategic focus Define Key Initiatives & Metrics. I would highly recommend re-reading that article as this one builds on it. What astonishes me is how many companies do not use standard SAP reporting to measure key metrics. SAP provides up to 300...

Write Excellent SAP Technical specifications I’ve written subpar specifications in the past and received hell from programmers. The ability to write a clear and precise technical specification is the primary skill for any IT company. A SAP technical specification is used to understand and agree upon all business requirements. It is the holy grail of SAP documents. If business requirements are not clear we insist on sitting down with...