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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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Descriptive Analytics as a Foundation for Advanced Supply Chain Analytics
Descriptive analytics has been considered foundational analytics type in most analytics’ maturity models. While many attribute it to this method being one of the oldest one used, since the advent of business intelligence (BI) tools, there are additional aspects as well. This article discusses some of the key reasons why you must master descriptive analytics,…
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Will AWS Supply Chain Compete With SAP IBP?
Among many other features that SAP ICP has for integrated demand planning, inventory management is a critical one. Respondents highlighted inventory management as one of the key focus areas in our recent research on supply chain planning in the cloud. With the increased complexities in the supply chain and the severe disruptions that many supply…
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Combining Inventory Optimization With Additional Analytics Approaches
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, inventory policies are also evolving. Hence, it is unsurprising that inventory management and optimization remain a key focus…
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Promotion Planning and Management with SAP IBP
Demand forecasting was highlighted as a key challenge in SAPinsider's recent research Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. The quality of forecasts also plays a key role in inventory management, which has emerged as another key focus area for SAPinsiders. We will also publish a research report focused on this specific topic of inventory management…
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Impact of Google Discontinuing Cloud IoT Core on Industry 4.0 Technology Ecosystem
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users using the Cloud IoT Core product offering reported receiving a communication that IoT Core has been added to the end-of-life list and will be discontinued in a year. This is a significant announcement, specifically for Industry 4.0 enthusiasts. In SAPinsider's research Modernizing Logistics and Inventory Tracking, we discussed the role…
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The Three Ss of Cloud Market Dominance
There is no doubt that cloud infrastructure will redefine how organizations build their technology capabilities and how they innovate. This has emerged as a consistent theme in our research and conversations with the SAPinsider community. Our research reports like Future of Business Intelligence, Analytics in The Cloud, Modernizing Logistics and Inventory Tracking, and Supply Chain…
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How Has RISE with SAP Changed Since It Was Announced?
RISE with SAP was initially described as a Business-Transformation-as-a-Service offering, but it has been refocused on business innovation. This content is for Mastering SAP Premium Access members only.Log In Join Now
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Process Automation as Foundation to Build Resilient Supply Chain
The need for supply chain resiliency and agility have emerged as prominent drivers in many of SAPinsider's recent research reports like Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. SAPinsider also highlights supply chain visibility and data integration as key foundational aspects of supply chain agility and resiliency. Process automation solutions are critical in helping organizations build…
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Sustainable Manufacturing Leveraging Smart Factories
While supply chain leaders across industries and geographies grapple with managing the ever-increasing supply chain complexities and risks, there is an additional demand on the companies to be more resourceful and conscientious of environmental and social needs. There is no doubt that the collective awareness around Sustainability and specifically Sustainability in supply chains has increased,…
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Data Outliers Detection in SAP IBP Demand Forecasting
In our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud, SAPinsiders highlighted that demand forecasting remains a key challenge. Fortunately, best-of-breed supply chain tools today provide many features and functionalities, including a rich portfolio of algorithms, that can help bring more science and certainty into this exercise. However, as the popular saying of "Garbage-In-Garbage-Out (GIGO)"…
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