A recent article from CIOInsight made light of the fact that many customers report that their ERP system are underutilized (note not specifically SAP). I will not get into a discussion on whether this is important or not but I do bring it up because as I work on SAP systems and I do have the opportunity to see that in many cases functionality which can have a large impact on productivity is either incorrectly used or not used at all. We recently worked on a study to identify the …

In today’s blog I want to talk about Supply Chain metrics. I bring this up today on the occasion that WERC has released one of my favorite studies, this is the annual study of Warehouse metrics. If you are not a WERC member I encourage you to join or at least buy a copy of the DC Measures study results. You can find it here. One of the things I like about the DC measures is that it is one of the few studies readily available to anyone. Normally this type of information is only available from one of the large analyst firms and can be pretty expensive.

In our second installment we’ll discuss how WM difers from IM then discuss the various flavors of WM. Adding WM to your environment provides the detailed location stock management that is needed in a typical warehouse/distribution center. The organizational structure changes in that we have some new organizational objects available to us. See the example below

During my normal day job when meeting with customers I regularly present proposals that revolve around SAP WM. More often these days we find ourselves suggesting to customers solutions that utilize SAP EWM which is delivered as a component of SAP SCM. I have gotten more questions these days around the differences and why I would recommend one solution vs. another so I thought I would write a series of posts around the offerings to better explain them. It used to be that the big question was a simple IM …

Hello all, this is our first blog related to SAP supply chain management. Since this is our area of expertise I hope to share tidbits with you from a business perspective, since our practice is based on solutions as opposed to technology I hope you find this refreshing.
Well focus specifically on the use of SAP supply chain tools to solve rela world problems. This includes SAP WM, EWM, APO, SRM,AII etc.
Phil