The New Normal for Leaders

VSP Global, a leader in the eye care, eyewear, and lens technology industries, clearly saw that its manual testing practices were too slow, costly, and unable to keep up with the pace of change. The company set its gaze on more efficient, automated business process testing to save time and minimize the risk of errors.…

Reply has been named a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems.

Changes in technology and in the ways businesses operate have made the finance function increasingly fragmented, with data residing in disparate systems and locations. The Central Finance deployment option for SAP S/4HANA Finance helps finance departments overcome this challenge by enabling a single source of truth for finance data. This article looks at how Central…

Save time and avoid confusion about who reports to whom within a company by using your company’s existing organizational structure to set up a reportable hierarchical matrix. Key Concept SAP comes with standard object types for each module. Some examples within HR include position (S), organizational unit (O), and person (P). Custom objects are those…...…

The global 2008 financial crisis presented a multitude of challenges for companies in the insurance industry, including higher pressure on margins and strict regulatory reporting requirements. Swiss Re, a global provider of leading wholesale resinsurance and insurance, was not immune to these challenges. To help overcome these hurdles, Swiss Re undertook a multi-year finance transformation…

For companies hoping to advance further along their digital transformation, smart applications can be a powerful advantage. Such applications are fast, easy to use, and powerful — and many of them have machine-learning capabilities that help them perform better as time goes on. Moreover, they are cloud-based and can be rolled out almost immediately on…

Learn the process flow, master data setup, and the subcontracting process with third-party provision of components in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) with integration to SAP ERP Central Component (ECC). Key Concept In a normal subcontracting process, a manufacturing plant has a contractual agreement with a subcontractor…...…

Learn how National Vision, one of the largest optical retailers in the United States operating 1,000 retail locations, established enterprise-wide best practices for developing common core measures, and successfully implemented a core metrics infrastructure and governance that feeds all business reporting and analytics. Learn firsthand from the planning, rollout, and ongoing strategy and maintenance which…

Managing a fleet of complex assets requires a well-organized and detailed approach to document maintenance requirements and to schedule their execution. The aim is to balance uptime for the asset and leverage the use of the repair facility. These capabilities are available using SAP’s Maintenance Program Definition (MPD) Workbench and Maintenance Event Builder (MEB). Using…...…

In 2017, Hillary Bliss, Director of CRM & Marketing Analytics at National Vision, told SAPinsider audiences about her company’s experiences implementing SAP Hybris Commerce and SAP Hybris Marketing during the Customer Engagement & Commerce conference. Bliss described challenges the company faced pre-implementation with its home-grown web platform shared between brands, such as difficulty integrating with…