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Analyst Insights are written by SAPinsider’s research team. Based on information gleaned from surveys of the SAPinsider Community, conversations with experts, SAP employees, vendors, and SAPinsiders, Analyst Insights provide a thoughtful analysis of critical topics, technologies, and challenges that SAP customers face today.
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Process Automation in Transportation
Transportation features as one of the top focus areas for process automation within the supply chain function according to SAPinsider's September 2022 research Process Automation in Supply Chain. It is the primary sub-function that ensures the movement of goods from source to destination in supply chains. Order-to-deliver was noted as one of the top process…
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Generative AI for Supply Chain Data Management
The frenzy around ChatGPT has stabilized for the millions of experimental end-users. However, the game has just begun for the technology giants who will now be competing in this space. The generative AI space will be highly competitive, but the competition will come from something other than product differentiation. Whether it is ChatGPT, BARD, or…
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SAP Headed for the Datasphere
SAP Announces Strategic Data Management Partnerships and Updates to Cloud Offering SAP announced a series of strategic partnerships and update to its core SAP Data Warehouse solution to support SAP customers growing requirements and investment in the areas of data management. This article provides a detailed overview of the announcement as well what it means…
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SAP IBP 2302 Release Enhancements
SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a leading supply chain planning tool. SAP makes regular enhancements to update the solution. SAP released the latest version of SAP IBP in February 2023. This article reviews some key enhancements in the 2302 SAP IBP release. This content is for Mastering SAP Premium Access and Mastering SAP Preferred…
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Minimizing Route Optimization Run Times in SAP TM
The Vehicle Scheduling and Routing (VSR) optimizer in SAP Transportation Management (TM) is used extensively for vehicle route optimization. Like every other route optimization solution, heuristic leverages various modeling parameters to develop optimal routes. However, route optimization heuristics are computationally intense, and therefore, model run times are typically long. This article discusses three approaches that…
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Desire for Modern F&A Skills to Support Financial Close Transformation
As digital technologies continue to evolve, the transformation of the financial closing process represents a crucial priority for finance and accounting professionals and organizations. Automating routine closing cycle tasks can enable F&A teams to drive enhancements across the financial closing cycle. This is one of the key takeaways from the SAPinsider Financial Close Transformation benchmark…
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SAP Expands Partnership with Red Hat
SAP and Red Hat announced an expanded partnership that will focus on increasing SAP’s use of and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Mentioned in the announcement is that SAP is moving part of their internal IT landscape and their SAP Enterprise Cloud Services portfolio to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Most notably for members of…
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Is SAP S/4HANA Adoption Accelerating?
We are less than five years away from the end of mainstream maintenance for core SAP Business Suite applications. While approximately 20,000 customers have already licensed SAP S/4HANA, approximately half are net-new to enterprise ERP at SAP. That means as many as 35,000 customers currently have no plans for SAP S/4HANA. RISE with SAP is…
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Building Foundation for Inventory Management
As supply chain risks increase and businesses become more complex and globalized, inventory management challenges are growing exponentially. Inventory Optimization emerged as a key focus area over the next two years for SAPinsiders in our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. As organizations still struggle with fluctuating demand patterns developed during the pandemic,…
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Is Your Inventory Strategy a Bottleneck?
As supply chain risks increase and businesses become more complex and globalized, inventory management challenges are growing exponentially. Inventory Optimization emerged as a key focus area over the next two years for SAPinsiders in our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. As organizations still struggle with fluctuating demand patterns developed during the pandemic,…
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