Operational Excellence: Achieving S&OP Success

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  1. From Spreadsheet to Streamlined Planning; Discovering the Requirements for a Smarter Supply Chain

    Agilent Technologies produces analytical instruments, software, and consumables for use in life sciences and other laboratories. The company has grown dramatically in recent years, both in new and existing geographies. In addition to organic growth, Agilent has acquired a number of companies to add capabilities to its analytical portfolio.

  2. ifm Supply Chain for Planning and Execution Transformation

    Extending the core ERP capabilities with additional solution functionality can be approached in two ways, namely "add-on" and "add-in" solutions. When it comes to add-on solutions, integration of data, people, and processes is required, which can be a costly and time-consuming process. On the other hand, add-in solutions are natively embedded in the ERP system,…

  3. Enterprise-Class Demand Planning at Agilent Technologies

    For Agilent Technologies, a manufacturer of analytical instruments for the life science and laboratories sector, growth has been dramatic over recent years, including a number of acquisitions. Such growth has caused the company’s pathology division to experience a rapid expansion of sales, but also revealed that the division had outgrown its demand planning practices, which…

  4. Gigaset Paves the Way to SAP Public Cloud

    Find out how the German manufacturer of communication products and solutions used ifm solutions in the SAP Public Cloud.

  5. Die Digitalisierung ist der Schlüssel zur SAP-Modernisierung

    Die Umstellung auf die Cloud ist vielleicht das wichtigste Thema in der aktuellen Unternehmenslandschaft. Die meisten Unternehmensleiter haben zumindest eine digitale Transformation in Erwägung gezogen – wenn sie nicht bereits im Gange ist. Diejenigen, die in der Technologiebranche tätig sind, haben zweifellos schon von den Vorteilen gehört, die ein Wechsel zu SAP S/4HANA mit sich…

  6. 3 Best Practices for Reporting GRC Issues to SAP GRC Support

    Reading time: 14 mins

    See the best ways to communicate your GRC support issues with the SAP GRC Support team, including what information to present and how to present it. Less than a year ago, I managed the Compliance Calibrator implementation at a Fortune 200 company and submitted several messages a month to SAP GRC Support. The more issues...…

  7. Monitor Alerts in Risk Analysis and Remediation

    See the different kinds of alerts in SAP BusinessObjects Access Control Risk Analysis and Remediation and how to configure them. Key Concept Risk Analysis and Remediation (RAR) is part of the GRC Access Control suite. This capability helps all key stakeholders work in a collaborative manner to achieve ongoing segregation of duties and audit compliance...…

  8. Approvals on the Go: How to Leverage Mobile Devices for GRC

    /MobileToday’s business world is moving faster than ever. Approval bottlenecks cost companies money by delaying the ability to address critical business requirements. These bottlenecks include access approvals. The SAP GRC Access Approver application improves the speed at which employees can gain access to systems they need to complete their jobs. Learn how to use this...…

  9. How to “Stay Clean” (for Now) with Risk Terminator

    To realize all the business benefits of SAP BusinessObjects Access Control, it is important that you implement compliant user provisioning and enterprise role management (formerly Access Enforcer and Role Expert). However, if you are not ready to do that, Risk Terminator provides a very good interim solution. You can follow these step-by-step instructions for configuring...…

  10. Designing Effective Mitigating Control

    Because mitigations are normally detective controls, it’s very important that they are designed in a way to maximize their effectiveness. Learn the key concepts for designing, documenting, implementing, testing, and monitoring an effective mitigating control. In addition, examples show how you can use SAP BusinessObjects Access Control risk analysis and remediation to help document and...…