Posts Tagged "S&OP optimization"

Industry 4.0 is the intellectual or process driven method of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses including the self-optimization, self-configuration and self-diagnosis of workers, work, machines and IT. Industry 4.0 will transform Supply Chains including manufacturing into the next wave of Information technology. I’ve written that SAP is embracing this Supply Chain digital transformation...

Using your SAP system to its full potential is a daunting challenge for any company. SAP offers an almost infinite amount of tools to use and it is a challenge to choose the best ones for your company. An even greater challenge is to have users embrace these new tools, understand them and use them effectively. In other words, implementing a new IT tool is one thing; it’s another challenge to create a culture that uses innovation,...

I went to SAP and met with their S/4HANA and Fiori experts this week to learn about how SAP will be radically changing in the future. This included a discussion on their brand new data story product Lumira as well. Here is a brief summary of what to expect for SAP Supply Chain Planning in the future. You had better get prepared. 1. S/4HANA with Fiori is a robust and fast SAP Decision Support System now more than anything else. The...

Causality-there is no escape from it, we are forever slaves to it. Our only hope, our only peace, is to understand it. To understand the “why.” “Why” is what separates us from them…”Why” is the only real source of power, without it you are powerless. MEROVINGIAN, The Matrix Reloaded (2003) How did Isadore Sharp Make the Four Seasons Hotel into Fortune magazine’s list “Top Companies to Work...

“Move a thousand people forward a foot at a time, rather than moving one person forward by a thousand feet” In 2007, when JetBlue left hundreds of passengers stranded on nine planes for over ten hours during an ice storm, they knew they had to make colossal business changes. They made those changes by taking a day to map out their bad weather operations on Post-It notes, identifying one thousand pain points. That’s right… One...