Analyst Insights

Analyst Insights are written by SAPinsider’s research team. Based on information gleaned from surveys of the SAPinsider Community, conversations with experts, SAP employees, vendors, and SAPinsiders, Analyst Insights provide a thoughtful analysis of critical topics, technologies, and challenges that SAP customers face today.

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  1. Data Management Partnerships

    SAP Headed for the Datasphere

    Reading time: 7 mins

    SAP Announces Strategic Data Management Partnerships and Updates to Cloud Offering SAP announced a series of strategic partnerships and update to its core SAP Data Warehouse solution to support SAP customers growing requirements and investment in the areas of data management. This article provides a detailed overview of the announcement as well what it means…

  2. SAP IBP

    SAP IBP 2302 Release Enhancements

    Reading time: 2 mins

    SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a leading supply chain planning tool. SAP makes regular enhancements to update the solution. SAP released the latest version of SAP IBP in February 2023. This article reviews some key enhancements in the 2302 SAP IBP release. This content is for Basic Access, SAPinsider Monthly Subscription, SAPinsider Annual Subscription,…

  3. SAP TM

    Minimizing Route Optimization Run Times in SAP TM

    Reading time: 3 mins

    The Vehicle Scheduling and Routing (VSR) optimizer in SAP Transportation Management (TM) is used extensively for vehicle route optimization. Like every other route optimization solution, heuristic leverages various modeling parameters to develop optimal routes. However, route optimization heuristics are computationally intense, and therefore, model run times are typically long. This article discusses three approaches that…

  4. Desire for Modern F&A Skills to Support Financial Close Transformation

    Reading time: 4 mins

    As digital technologies continue to evolve, the transformation of the financial closing process represents a crucial priority for finance and accounting professionals and organizations. Automating routine closing cycle tasks can enable F&A teams to drive enhancements across the financial closing cycle. This is one of the key takeaways from the SAPinsider Financial Close Transformation benchmark…

  5. Red Hat

    SAP Expands Partnership with Red Hat

    Reading time: 4 mins

    SAP and Red Hat announced an expanded partnership that will focus on increasing SAP’s use of and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Mentioned in the announcement is that SAP is moving part of their internal IT landscape and their SAP Enterprise Cloud Services portfolio to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Most notably for members of…

  6. SAP S/4HANA Adoption

    Is SAP S/4HANA Adoption Accelerating?

    Reading time: 5 mins

    We are less than five years away from the end of mainstream maintenance for core SAP Business Suite applications. While approximately 20,000 customers have already licensed SAP S/4HANA, approximately half are net-new to enterprise ERP at SAP. That means as many as 35,000 customers currently have no plans for SAP S/4HANA. RISE with SAP is…

  7. Inventory Accuracy

    Building Foundation for Inventory Management

    Reading time: 3 mins

    As supply chain risks increase and businesses become more complex and globalized, inventory management challenges are growing exponentially. Inventory Optimization emerged as a key focus area over the next two years for SAPinsiders in our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. As organizations still struggle with fluctuating demand patterns developed during the pandemic,…

  8. Inventory Accuracy

    Is Your Inventory Strategy a Bottleneck?

    Reading time: 2 mins

    As supply chain risks increase and businesses become more complex and globalized, inventory management challenges are growing exponentially. Inventory Optimization emerged as a key focus area over the next two years for SAPinsiders in our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. As organizations still struggle with fluctuating demand patterns developed during the pandemic,…

  9. Advanced Analytics Inventory

    Pairing Data and Analytics for Inventory Management

    Reading time: 2 mins

    As supply chain risks increase and businesses become more complex and globalized, inventory management challenges are growing exponentially. Inventory Optimization emerged as a key focus area over the next two years for SAPinsiders in our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. As organizations still struggle with fluctuating demand patterns developed during the pandemic,…

  10. Data Management Inventory Management

    Data Management for Robust Inventory Management

    Reading time: 3 mins

    SAPinsider will publish a benchmark report on Inventory Management and Optimization in November 2022. There could not have been a better time to conduct research focused only on inventory management and optimization. Why so? Well, the first aspect, which is not surprising to any of us, is the immense focus on supply chain and inventory management…