SAP Planning & Consolidations


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  1. New Features in SAP ERP HCM Talent Management

    Reading time: 9 mins

    ManagementSAP recently announced the general availability of SAP ERP HCM Succession Management enhancement package 5. The SAP Talent Visualization application by Nakisa (3.0) was released last year, for compatibility with enhancement package 5. Learn about the changes that have been made, as well as the new functionalities and enhancements that are available in HCM Talent...…

  2. SAP ECC 6.0 Extended Warehouse Management Enhances Cross-Docking

    Reading time: 10 mins

    Understand the concept of cross-docking in logistics and warehousing scenarios and find out its main benefits. Learn how SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 Extended Warehouse Management can help you simplify and improve cross-docking in warehouse operations with these tips. Key Concept Cross-docking is a goods flow-through process in which inbound goods are directly used for...…

  3. Effectively Manage the Talent Life Cycle with SAP HCM

    Reading time: 19 mins

    See how to support these key talent management processes using SAP HCM: recruitment, development, training, rewarding, and retaining. Key Concept The talent is every employee in an organization: the people who invent, create, design, manufacture, service, support, and otherwise perform tasks required to meet company goals and drive success in the market in which they...…

  4. Improve Your Variance Analysis by Planning Assembly Scrap

    Reading time: 15 mins

    Find out how planned assembly scrap in material master views affects cost estimates in Product Cost Planning. Planning and posting assembly scrap removes the value of scrap from the total variance. Only the difference between planned and actual scrap posts as a scrap variance. This improves variance analysis by reducing the variance by the value...…

  5. Case Study: How a Government Organization Improved Its ChaRM Release Strategy and Release Management Process

    Reading time: 16 mins

    Streamline the release management process by using a little-known, out-of-the-box Change Request Management (ChaRM) functionality that requires very little customizing. The main benefits are a clear auditing trace and ease of release planning. Key Concept Retrofit is the process of synchronizing changes across development systems. The goal is to maintain an up-to date implementation landscape...…

  6. What’s New in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.6? Q&A on New Features, Deployment Options, Use Cases, and More

    Reading time: 25 mins

    A new release of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio was announced at the end of last year, and with its many new features and enhancements, it’s being hailed as the most mature tool yet. But what exactly are these new features, and what can they do for your business?  In this recent live Q&A with SAP...…

  7. Optimizing Supply Chain Visibility with SAP Transportation Management

    Reading time: 20 mins

    Obtaining transparency across today’s rapidly evolving and highly complex supply chain is essential in establishing a streamlined, cooperative, well-oiled supply chain machine. However, there are many organizational challenges to overcome, such as a persistent reliance on manual tendering processes, inability to ensure timely interactions with carriers due to a lack of an effective collaboration platform,...…

  8. The Next Level of Planning Processes

    Reading time: 3 mins

    While organizations often know what they would like to change in their current processes — and which software will best help them — they can be hesitant about going forward with a new implementation. Upsetting old processes, dealing with data migration challenges, and user resistance to change can seem daunting. In this article, learn how…

  9. Conversational AI

    Conversational AI for Inventory Planning

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Conversational AI is a powerful tool already being leveraged in many functions and augmented analytics tools. There is an opportunity to further explore this technology in the area of supply chain planning. This article explores how conversational AI can be leveraged for inventory planning and management. With application examples, it touches upon the two key…

  10. Cloud planning

    Cloud-Based Planning Enablers in Supply Chain

    Reading time: 2 mins

    83% of SAPinsiders, in their responses to the SAPinsider research survey for Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud, indicated that they plan to or are currently using some cloud-based planning solution in their planning portfolio; in this article, we explore why and how the cloud plays a critical role in helping execute the strategies identified…