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Demand Modeling for Configurable Products in the Automotive Industry
Petrol or diesel? Automatic or manual? Cloth or leather interior? Armrest? Cruise control? Heated seats? The options seem endless.
For most customers, far from being a burden, an exhaustive array of choices assures best value for money and provides a degree of personalization. But how does a manufacturer maintain, produce, and deliver such an array of configuration variants? To succeed in this environment, manufacturers need to combine smart forecasting of customer demand with careful supply chain planning and execution. Read more to learn how demand modeling for configurable products offers automotive manufacturers key insights into which configurations to offer and at what price. The result? Optimized financial, sales, and operations planning across the supply chain and throughout the product lifecycle.
Dimofte Alexandru
in Analytics, Automotive, Manufacturing, Business Solutions [Sep. 21, 2011 10:46 AM
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Protect your SAP ERP investment & improve your core business processes
After analyzing somewhere between 400 and 500 backend systems we saw that over 90% of all analyzed systems show (very) significant potential for Business Process Stabilization & Improvement! Learn about direct and indirect business impacts and learn how Business Process Monitoring and Business Process Analytics in SAP Solution Manager can help to improve your core business processes.
Volker von Gloeden
in Application Lifecycle Management, SAP Solution Manager, Run SAP, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, ERP, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Automotive, Wholesale Distribution [Jun. 13, 2010 09:30 AM
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SAP/TCS Co-Innovation Partnership
Today dealers have a unique opportunity to radically change this reality to one of generating profit by improved processes and control, customer centricity and enhanced operating transparency and decision making.
Larry Stolle
in Automotive [Jun. 02, 2010 01:59 PM
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Collaborative Campaign Management
Introducing Collaborative Campaign Management - a channel marketing process within SAP CRM Marketing and SAP CRM Partner Channel Management to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of doing campaign management with channel partners - thereby, driving channel revenue and increasing brand value.
Vikas Venugopal
in CRM, Automotive [Jun. 02, 2010 05:35 AM
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Mobility on the go
this is about Mobile technology and its integration with SAP to provide entire gamut of opportunities....
Sohil Mehta
in Aerospace and Defense, ERP, Enterprise Social Systems, Service-Oriented Architecture, Emerging Technologies, Eclipse, CRM, Consumer Products, Code Exchange, Co-Innovation Lab, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Banking, Automotive, Application Server, SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe [May. 04, 2010 08:24 AM
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Time to take SDN Collaboration to NEXT Level?
So how do you rate collaboration on SDN in the present form? On the scale of 1-5, I personally would not rate it more than 3. It is a huge community and still growing and I am proud to be part of it. But....
Agrawal Vikash
in Manufacturing, Ranting, Retail, RFID, Ruby, Run SAP, SAP Business One, SAP Business Suite, SAP Business Workflow, SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand, SAP Developer Network, SAP EcoHub, SAP Education, Python, Public Sector, Professional Services, Master Data Management (MDM), Mill Products and Mining, Mobile, Oil and Gas, Open Source, Organizational Change Management, Partnership, Perl, PHP, Postalsoft, Procurement and SRM, Product Lifecycle Management, SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe, SAP MaxDB and liveCache, Standards, Sustainability, Travel and Logistics Services, Universal Worklist, University Alliances Message Board, Utilities Industry, Virtual Worlds and 3D Web, Visual Composer, Web Dynpro, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Webinars, Wholesale Distribution, Software Support and Maintenance, Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Service-Oriented Architecture, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Network TV, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Research, SAP SAPPHIRE [Apr. 26, 2010 09:55 AM
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More on Brazil's NF-e (e-Bill of Lading) Requirements
This article provides additional details on supporting Brazil's new complex requirements for supporting electronic bill of ladings in accordance with the SEFAZ regulations.
Kevin Benedict
in Aerospace and Defense, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Mill Products and Mining, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Industrial Machinery and Components, ERP, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Business Process Expert, Automotive, Wholesale Distribution [Mar. 22, 2010 08:13 AM
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Existing EDI Users and the SAP Information Interchange
Why would a company consider replacing their legacy EDI system with the new SII (SAP Information Interchange)? This artilce discusses some of the motivations companies may have.
Kevin Benedict
in Automotive, Business Process Expert, ERP, Master Data Management (MDM), Professional Services, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Standards [Mar. 18, 2010 07:54 AM
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Cloud Computing, EDI and SAP Information Interchange
This article discusses SAP's new EDI managed services solution called SAP Information Interchange and its cloud computing model.
Kevin Benedict
in Aerospace and Defense, Procurement and SRM, Retail, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Standards, Travel and Logistics Services, Utilities Industry, Oil and Gas, Mill Products and Mining, Automotive, Business Process Expert, Chemicals, Consumer Products, ERP, Industrial Machinery and Components, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Wholesale Distribution [Mar. 18, 2010 05:54 AM
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SAP Support for Brazilian e-Invoicing - Nota Fiscal Electronica (NF-e)
This article describes the new Brazilian e-Invoicing requirements and announces an SAP/Crossgate solution for supporting the Nota Fiscal Electronica.
Kevin Benedict
in Aerospace and Defense, Oil and Gas, Procurement and SRM, Professional Services, Retail, SAP Business Workflow, SAP Developer Network, SAP EcoHub, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture, Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Standards, Travel and Logistics Services, Mill Products and Mining, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Automotive, Banking, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, SAP Business Suite, Chemicals, Consumer Products, CRM, Defense, ERP, Healthcare, Industrial Machinery and Components, Insurance, Wholesale Distribution [Mar. 12, 2010 07:54 AM
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SAP EDI, Cloud Computing and Business Networks
This article explores the new SII (SAP Information Interchange by Crossgate) and the strategy of business networks.
Kevin Benedict
in Automotive, Retail, SAP Developer Network, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture, Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Standards, Travel and Logistics Services, Utilities Industry, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Mill Products and Mining, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, SAP Business Suite, Chemicals, Consumer Products, ERP, Industrial Machinery and Components, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Wholesale Distribution [Mar. 09, 2010 07:31 AM
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Gartner on SAP EDI - SAP Information Interchange
Gartner has just issued their opinion on the new SAP Information Interchange managed EDI service that operates in a cloud computing environment.
Kevin Benedict
in Aerospace and Defense, Oil and Gas, Procurement and SRM, Retail, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Standards, Utilities Industry, Mill Products and Mining, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Automotive, Business Process Expert, SAP Business Suite, Chemicals, Consumer Products, ERP, Industrial Machinery and Components, Insurance, Wholesale Distribution [Mar. 04, 2010 11:12 AM
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SAP® Information Interchange - SAP's New EDI Solution
This article explores the new SAP Information Interchange hub, announced last week, for supporting EDI and B2B requirements.
Kevin Benedict
in Aerospace and Defense, Oil and Gas, Procurement and SRM, Professional Services, Retail, SAP Developer Network, SAP EcoHub, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture, Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Standards, Travel and Logistics Services, Mill Products and Mining, Master Data Management (MDM), Manufacturing, Automotive, Banking, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, SAP Business Suite, Chemicals, Consumer Products, ERP, Healthcare, Industrial Machinery and Components, Insurance, Life Sciences, Wholesale Distribution [Mar. 01, 2010 07:54 AM
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Open your BI windows to the outside world for a 360 degree view of your market
Social Network Data collection for BI
Hari Guleria
in Aerospace and Defense, SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand, Retail, Improving My Experience, Enterprise Portal (EP), Emerging Technologies, Defense, SAP Crystal Reports, CRM, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, BI Accelerator, Beyond SAP, Banking, Automotive, Analytics, Alloy, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence [Feb. 28, 2010 05:02 AM
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SAP Makes Decisive Move in EDI
SAP makes big move in the EDI/B2B space by announcing the SAP Information Interchange solution and enhanced relationship with Crossgate.
Kevin Benedict
in Aerospace and Defense, Procurement and SRM, Public Sector, Retail, SAP Business One, SAP Developer Network, SAP EcoHub, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Solution Manager, Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Standards, Travel and Logistics Services, Utilities Industry, Oil and Gas, Mill Products and Mining, Manufacturing, Automotive, Banking, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, SAP Business Suite, Chemicals, Consumer Products, ERP, Healthcare, Industrial Machinery and Components, Insurance, Integration and Certification, Life Sciences, Wholesale Distribution [Feb. 23, 2010 07:01 PM
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New key figure catalog for Business Process Monitoring available
This blogs gives a high-level overview about all the new features for Business Process Monitoring that will be available end of April 2010. The blog also points out where to find the latest catalog for all available out-of-the-box key figures and their respective selection criteria.
Volker von Gloeden
in Application Lifecycle Management, Run SAP, SAP Business Workflow, Software Support and Maintenance, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP Solution Manager, Utilities Industry, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Financial Excellence, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Insurance, Product Lifecycle Management, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Automotive, Banking, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, SAP Business Suite, Chemicals, Consumer Products, CRM, ERP, Manufacturing, Mill Products and Mining, Oil and Gas, Wholesale Distribution [Feb. 15, 2010 05:15 AM
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SAP Global Trade Management - Position Management Without TEW
Position Management (PM), one of GTM functionalities used to be required to use Trading Execution Workbench (TEW), but now it's not. This blog tells you how to use PM without TEW.
Nobuhiro Kusumoto
in ABAP, Retail, Oil and Gas, Mill Products and Mining, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Industrial Machinery and Components, Healthcare, ERP, Enhancement Packages, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Business Process Expert, Automotive, Aerospace and Defense, Wholesale Distribution [Feb. 11, 2010 01:12 PM
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Whats new with SAP DBM 7.0
Enabling profitable & customer-focused automotive dealer organizations by lifting SAPs Dealer Business Management (DBM) solution to the next level.
SAP DBM 7.0 is our latest release available in Ramp-up since November 6th 2009. This blog is an introduction to its strategy and new features backed up with a whole series of detailed blogs such as Customer Cockpit, New Web-Based UI for the Service Advisor,Vehicle Sales & Administration, Vehicle Service,...
Martin Ebert
in Automotive [Feb. 11, 2010 08:11 AM
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Integration Testing Strategy in SAP Projects:
I have tried to outline the Integration Testing Strategy in SAP Projects also some best practises and guideline to choose Testing Tools.
Keshava Murthy Dasappa
in Aerospace and Defense, ERP, Industrial Machinery and Components, Manufacturing, Master Data Management (MDM), Mill Products and Mining, Oil and Gas, Procurement and SRM, Product Lifecycle Management, Public Sector, Retail, SAP Developer Network, Defense, CRM, Alloy, Application Lifecycle Management, Automotive, Banking, Beginner, Business Process Expert, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Business Solutions, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Software Support and Maintenance [Dec. 27, 2009 11:51 PM
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Usage of Shared buffer concept in JIT (Industry specific Automotive)
In JIT , the basic data is fetched and stored in the shared buffers to avoid
frequent access to the database tables. This concept of shared buffers is
mainly to reduce database access. The master data is accessed once and stored in this temporary storage and any further access is to the buffer and not the database. The key reason is performance improvement and reduce load on database.
VIJAYESH V.V
in Automotive [Dec. 16, 2009 06:32 AM
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SAP Discusses 5 Year Plan - Social Networking, EDI, Cloud Computing and More
This article analyzes a series of announcements by SAP and other vendors about social networking, cloud computing and EDI and what this means for SAP users.
Kevin Benedict
in Automotive, Mill Products and Mining, Oil and Gas, Procurement and SRM, Retail, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Shared Services Center (AIC, EIC), Standards, Utilities Industry, Master Data Management (MDM), Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Banking, Business Process Expert, Business Solutions, SAP Business Suite, Chemicals, Consumer Products, ERP, Healthcare, Interoperability, Wholesale Distribution [Dec. 15, 2009 09:11 AM
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FAQs about Business Process Monitoring
During customer visits as well as during big customer events such as SAP TechEd there are questions around Business Process Monitoring (BPMon) that come up again and again. So this SDN Blog should provide a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) around Business Process Monitoring within SAP Solution Manager.
Volker von Gloeden
in Automotive, SAP Solution Manager, Run SAP, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, ERP, CRM, Consumer Products, Chemicals, SAP Business Suite, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, SAP TechEd [Dec. 11, 2009 12:56 AM
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Typical Use Cases for Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager
This blog will tell you what the typical use cases are where other customers introduced Business Process Monitoring successfully. The following four use cases
1) Automating labor intensive monitoring tasks
2) Internal benchmarking and gaining business process transparency
3) Support and safeguard GoLives
4) Monitor SOX compliance
will be shortly explained in loose order together with its possible benefits.
Volker von Gloeden
in Application Lifecycle Management, Run SAP, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Governance, Risk and Compliance, ERP, CRM, Chemicals, SAP Business Suite, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Banking, Automotive, SAP Solution Manager [Dec. 04, 2009 07:30 AM
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EnergyEfficiency Part XII: Making Energy Efficiency Pay
Energy efficiency is important. In this series of blogs we have been concentrating on what can be done to reduce energy costs and consumption. But there is another side of the equation. Some companies are seeing other oppertunities. In this blog we discuss some of the other ways energy efficiency can pay off.
John Harrison
in Business Process Expert, Aerospace and Defense, Retail, Oil and Gas, Mill Products and Mining, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Defense, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Automotive [Nov. 23, 2009 08:59 AM
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Missed SAP TechEd 2009? Get 130+ sessions with Virtual SAP TechEd
If you missed out on the education and networking opportunities from SAP TechEd 2009 event, consider getting the next best alternative: Virtual SAP TechEd now available at 20% discount till December 31, 2009.
Siva Darivemula
in ABAP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Product Lifecycle Management, Master Data Management (MDM), Interoperability, Integration and Certification, ERP, Enterprise Portal (EP), Enterprise Performance Management, SAP EcoHub, CRM, SAP Business Suite, Business Process Management, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Banking, Automotive, Application Server, SAP TechEd [Nov. 05, 2009 01:27 PM
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EDI, SAP NetWeaver, eSOA and Cloud Computing
This article explores the problems custom EDI integration scripts cause companies and how SAP's new eSOA and cloud computing approach to EDI means to resolve it.
Kevin Benedict
in Aerospace and Defense, Mill Products and Mining, Oil and Gas, Procurement and SRM, Retail, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Process Integration (PI), Service-Oriented Architecture, Travel and Logistics Services, Utilities Industry, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Integration and Certification, Automotive, Banking, SAP Business Suite, Chemicals, Consumer Products, ERP, Healthcare, Industrial Machinery and Components, Insurance, Wholesale Distribution [Nov. 05, 2009 08:08 AM
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Supply Chain Event Management, EDI and Cloud Computing
This article explores how SAP Event Management (SAP EM), RFID, EDI and cloud computing all work together to make extended multi-enterprise supply chains successful.
Kevin Benedict
in Aerospace and Defense, Travel and Logistics Services, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP Business Workflow, RFID, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Industrial Machinery and Components, ERP, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Business Process Management, Business Process Expert, Automotive, Wholesale Distribution [Oct. 26, 2009 12:48 PM
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Switching from Traditional EDI and Going Green with SAP EDI
This article describes the challenges an SAP user had with traditional EDI and how new business motivated them to go green with SAP EDI.
Kevin Benedict
in Aerospace and Defense, Utilities Industry, Travel and Logistics Services, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP NetWeaver Platform, Retail, Procurement and SRM, Oil and Gas, Mill Products and Mining, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Industrial Machinery and Components, ERP, Consumer Products, Chemicals, Automotive, Wholesale Distribution [Oct. 20, 2009 07:02 AM
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