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What does Müller’s Departure Mean for Datasphere Adoption
SAP’s Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller will leave the Executive Board on September 30, 2024, due to inappropriate behavior, prompting concerns about the future direction of SAP’s innovation agenda, particularly regarding Datasphere. In the near term, SAP customers should weigh the same considerations when evaluating the move to Datasphere, emphasising the need to establish robust…
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Maximise the benefits of a clearly defined taxonomy
Defining a clear MRO taxonomy is essential for efficient spare parts management in various industries. Accurate classification helps streamline procurement, inventory management, and maintenance planning. The case study demonstrates how implementing a well-structured taxonomy can minimise downtime, enhance spend analysis, and improve compliance. Utilising technology and conducting periodic reviews ensures businesses stay agile and cost-effective…
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Optimising Asset Management through SAP Functional Locations
SAP Functional Locations provide an efficient structure for managing assets within ERP systems, enhancing operational performance. Correct implementation helps organisations create a digital twin of their physical processes, reducing errors in maintenance and ensuring faster issue resolution. This framework improves reporting and asset categorisation, leading to increased reliability. By adopting best practices such as standardised…
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Modernise your data warehousing ahead of SAP BW’s end of maintenance
SAP will be ending mainstream maintenance for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP BW) at the end of 2027, and it is urging customers to migrate to either SAP BW/4HANA or SAP Datasphere (formerly SAP Data Warehouse Cloud). SAP BW is a development platform used to create and modify data warehouses, run data management tasks, generate…
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Consolidate your financial review processes within your SAP system
BlackLine in June released its SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine, financial review option offering as an SAP Solution Extension, providing SAP customers a financial reporting analytics solution for their SAP core software. The solution – also known as “financial review option” – enables an organisation’s finance teams to proactively review financial statements at…
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Overcoming the challenges of “huge data” in SAP R/3 to SAP S/4HANA migration
The upcoming end-of-support deadline for SAP ECC in 2027 has been instrumental in getting more SAP customers to move to SAP S/4HANA, with both SAP and its partners offering as many migration pathways as possible. But what if an organisation is still running an older system like SAP R/3 – which pre-dates SAP ECC –…
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Exotic Food Thailand sales grow 73 percent with RISE with SAP
Thai seasoning and ingredients company Exotic Food Thailand has reported a 73 percent increase in global sales year over year after implementing RISE with SAP. Exotic Food replaced its on-premise ERP system with SAP S/4HANA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) after a spike in sales during the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the previous system’s inability to…
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Making inventory management sustainable with algorithms and analytics
Combining advanced algorithms and prescriptive analytics can make inventory management for organisations more sustainable by improving forecasting accuracy and identifying criticality, according to a recent COSOL blog post. An inventory management solution that provides a detailed view of an organisation’s maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) inventory, and recommendations of reorder levels for individual stock items,…
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Reduce payroll errors and system complexity by moving to the cloud
Customers are increasingly moving away from on-prem systems to the cloud mainly to avoid the costs of hardware upgrades and maintenance, as well as to get access to new innovations like generative AI. An unexpected major benefit is reducing payroll errors, particularly with SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite, according to Zalaris GVP Professional Services & EVP…
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Leveraging SAP BTP to build business apps quickly
The introduction of SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) has enabled developers to focus on building solutions for business instead of worrying about the underlying tech, while also democratising cloud app development for SAP systems beyond just ABAP developers. SAP BTP enables developers to build a solution quickly and easily to get it to market,…
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