May 19, 2025
•4 minute read
change management
Chemicals Industry Transformation: SAP’s Foundation for Strategic Growth – Part 2Brandon Evans, VP, Customer Transformation at NTT DATA Business Solutions discusses how SAP solutions, enhanced by AI, empower chemical companies to optimize operations, manage regulatory challenges, and foster collaboration through unified data environment.
RISE with SAP: Your Blueprint for Business Resilience in Uncertain Times Part 2The article emphasizes the importance of strategic change management, seamless integration, and robust security for organizations transitioning to RISE with SAP, highlighting that successful ERP transformation involves not only cost savings but also enhanced business agility, innovation, and the ability to leverage AI-driven insights for competitive advantage.
Mar 27, 2025
•3 minute read
Safety Stock Planning – Part 1: Static Safety stock methods in S/4HANA & SAP ERPThe article introduces a series on buffer and safety stock planning within SAP S/4 HANA, detailing static safety stock concepts, its manual and automatic calculations, and the factors influencing safety stock and reorder points, while emphasizing its importance in minimizing shortfalls and optimizing inventory management.
Feb 10, 2025
•14 minute read
Moving from Manual Spreadsheet Supplier Reconciliations to Automated Reconciliations in SAPDiscover how Foodstuffs South Island Limited, a prominent grocery retailer, successfully transitioned from manual spreadsheet supplier reconciliations to automated reconciliations in SAP. By leveraging the SAP certified add-on module BEST and adopting a methodical approach, Foodstuffs South Island Limited significantly reduced costs and enhanced creditor controls through the automation of hundreds of thousands of creditor lines. Join this session to explore the challenges faced, the benefits of automation, and the transformative power of AI and machine learning.
Jun 14, 2023
•1 minute read
The CIO’s 2022 Transformation Report CardThe CIO’s 2022 Transformation Report Card Digital transformation and innovation remain a top priority for tech executives, but how are these projects going? And, are they delivering tangible benefits to the business? Read this report to: Discover how leaders are measuring ROI from their transformation initiatives related to efficiency, productivity, and the ability to support […]
Dec 30, 2022
•1 minute read
Benchmark Report: Cloud and SAP S/4HANA DevOpsSAP customers today face increasing business demand for high-quality and rapid software deployments and updates. SAP’s accelerating product roadmap demands a faster and more collaborative approach to development, change management, and testing. In addition, most SAP customers continue to add non-SAP applications that integrate with SAP. SAP teams, used to multi-year development projects followed by […]
Oct 31, 2022
•1 minute read
Materials case study on SAPinsiderApplied Materials, which is currently completing a company-wide initiative to consolidate on one instance of SAP ERP, is seeing more requests for customizations coming into IT as more business users are rolling onto the new platform – and consequently, testing and change management issues are also increasing – so company’s Test Support Office (TSO) has a strong focus on improving its SAP testing and change release management processes. This article showcases how driving quality through testing is a big deal to the business. Learn how the company implemented a whole testing program, built a lot of automation assets, and gained a ton of efficiencies with testing.
Nov 5, 2020
•8 minute read
Breakthru Beverage Group Increases SAP Systems Usage Through Change ManagementChange management emerged as the top challenge for SAP deployments in previous SAPinsider research. For Breakthru Beverage Group — a North American alcoholic beverage wholesaler headquartered in Cicero, Illinois — the successful implementation of SAP HANA 2.0-based business intelligence products required an evolution in its change management strategy. SAPinsider recently interviewed Desmond Foley, Solutions Architect for Business Intelligence at Breakthru Beverage, to understand how the company effectively communicated with different sets of stakeholders to improve the usage and user acceptance of SAP HANA-based analytics tools.
May 4, 2020
•6 minute read
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