Posts Tagged "advanced planning"

I was asked to provide preliminary consulting to help out with the Navy’s Inventory Management Challenges and SAP. The US Navy has a multi – billion dollar supply chain that needs to be war ready at all times. Military is never an easy client, as some of my suggestions ended being unacceptable to the pentagon. That’s right. The pentagon. So what did the US Naval Command take away and use? We discussed the following topics;...

Companies can potentially bleed staggering amounts of money implementing SAP APO (Advanced Planning Optimizer), with a mediocre results that requires extensive re-engineering.  Here are the top five steps required to create a company – wide – lean – mean – APO machine. 1. Get the best of the best to consult and guide you. You will fail or create a nightmare APO design if you do not do your homework and hire the very best...