Enhancing the Efficiency and Sustainability of Global Supply Chains with Descartes
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Enhancing the Efficiency and Sustainability of Global Supply Chains with Descartes
In the current business environment, marked by intense competition, escalating customer expectations, frequent resource shortages, and significant economic challenges, it's imperative for organizations to effectively manage their supply chains. This requires a holistic strategy, incorporating efficient delivery, improved customer experience, fleet optimization, strict cost management, and enhancing the performance of both drivers and vehicles. At…
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Exploit SAP Quality Management to Handle Subcontracting Activities
Learn about the main functionalities relevant for subcontracting activities during the production process in the case of discrete manufacturing, using the materials management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), and Financial Accounting (FI) modules. Follow details about the main customizing settings to be done in the system from a financial point of view. Key...…
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How to Use Resource Network Planning in SNP Optimizer Planning
Resource network planning is used to describe the physical relationships between resources in a plant. It also shows the product flow between resources. The limitation of this functionality is that Supply Network Planning (SNP) tools are unable to read this logical sequencing while planning. SNP planning is purely based on resource and material availability. See...…
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A Handy Guide to Project System Business Content in BW
Learn which tables the Business Content extractors for PS use to get their data. This will help you achieve more accurate extractions. Project System (PS) is one of the more frequently used modules of SAP R/3, and not one of the most difficult modules from which to extract data into BW. Still, it is useful...…
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Run Setup Jobs in Parallel and Minimize Production Downtime When Using the Logistics Extraction Cockpit
Running a setup job through the Logistics Extraction Cockpit requires that you to turn off your logistics application. It is therefore important that the job run as quickly as possible. The fastest way to complete the setup job is to break it up into parts and run those parts in parallel. The authors show how...…
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Improve Customer Service by Enhancing the Integration of CRM and ECC Logistics and Billing
Most companies have established their logistics and billing processes in their SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) systems. Since understanding customers better has become a key strategy, many organizations are now also using SAP CRM to improve and analyze customer experience, interaction, and satisfaction. Integrating the two systems gives companies the option to maintain their solid...…
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Running SAP on the IBM BlueMix Infrastructure Platform: Live Q&A on IaaS Deployment Options
IBM offers SAP certified cloud infrastructure available in multiple locations globally with a choice for clients to choose a self service / IaaS model or fully managed by IBM on the BlueMix platform. IBM’s bare metal servers on BlueMix provide the best performance for SAP and HANA applications while allowing the capability to leverage Watson...…
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Eliminate Bottlenecks When You Access Data in the CRM WebClient UI
These tips and best practices can enhance the performance of your CRM WebClient user interface in a client-server network environment. Learn strategic and valuable pointers that will help you avoid network performance pitfalls. Key Concept A network performance bottleneck refers to a situation that negatively affects end user satisfaction (e.g., slow download time for browser-based...…
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Increase Supplier Compliance with Sustainable Business Networks
Brands and manufacturers maintain complex supply chains of material, service, and component vendors. To demonstrate compliance with a myriad of social, economic, and environmental regulations, maintaining accurate records of supplier compliance in procurement and ongoing supplier management activities is necessary. Likewise, suppliers to multiple brands receive duplicative compliance requests simultaneously, driving up compliance reporting and...…
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Global Assignment of Employees in SuccessFactors Employee Central
Learn how to configure the Global Assignment functionality in SuccessFactors Employee Central, focusing on how to maintain both home and host assignment records for any employee who is on a global assignment. Also learn how to automate the end of Global Assignment (versus having to do it manually) and how to set up manager permissions...…
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