Analyst Insights
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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Pairing Data and Analytics 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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Data Management for Robust Inventory Management
SAPinsider will publish a benchmark report on Inventory Management and Optimization in November 2022. There could not have been a better time to conduct research focused only on inventory management and optimization. Why so? Well, the first aspect, which is not surprising to any of us, is the immense focus on supply chain and inventory management…
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Inventory Accuracy: The Struggle With the Fundamentals
SAPinsider will publish a benchmark report on Inventory Management and Optimization in November 2022. There could not have been a better time to conduct research focused only on inventory management and optimization. Why so? Well, the first aspect, which is not surprising to any of us, is the immense focus on supply chain and inventory management…
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Advanced Analytics Requirement in Inventory Management
SAPinsider will publish a benchmark report on Inventory Management and Optimization in November 2022. There could not have been a better time to conduct research focused only on inventory management and optimization. Why so? Well, the first aspect, which is not surprising to any of us, is the immense focus on supply chain and inventory management…
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Cloud Security Fundamentals
SAP workloads are moving to the cloud at an accelerating rate, with 50% of those currently running on-premise likely to move in the next two years. While some will go into software-as-a-service environments, the bulk of SAP workloads moving to the cloud will go into infrastructure-as-a-service environments. This type of environment requires a different approach…
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Leveraging System Dynamics in Supply Chain Planning
Any analytics technique or any analytics jargon, whether it's data science or advanced analytics, is eventually all about leveraging data or information to extract insights and knowledge based on specific techniques. However, using defined techniques sometimes leads to challenges or failures when companies try to leverage these algorithms in the real world. The reason we…
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Understanding Agent Based Modeling
Agent based modeling is a relatively more recent method that originated in the early 2000s. Some of the key drivers behind agent-based modeling coming into the picture were advances in technology and computing power since agent-based models are much more demanding in terms of system capability requirements, the proliferation of computer science techniques like object-oriented…
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Value Based Supply Chain Analytics Through Solution Integration
In our life, everything is defined by value. And that holds for the world of supply chain management as well. The concept of value stream mapping is to understand which activities within certain processes or a specific process are not adding value to the final deliverable. When we think about analytics or how we need…
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Measuring the Bullwhip Effect
When the pandemic made the demand for certain products skyrocket, we started hearing the term "bullwhip effect" a lot. But the bullwhip effect has existed in supply chains for decades. The fact is, the technology to address this has existed for a few years now. The issue is more rooted in trust among the players…
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Critical Role of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
As supply chain challenges increase due to increasing supply chain complexities, organizations are increasingly looking at leveraging data and analytics tools and technologies to help them address their supply chain challenges. Manufacturing plays a crucial role in supply chain networks, and recent events have emphasized its importance in building supply chain resiliency and agility. This has…
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