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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Cloud Security Fundamentals
SAP workloads are moving to the cloud at an accelerating rate, with 50% of those currently running on-premise likely to move in the next two years. While some will go into software-as-a-service environments, the bulk of SAP workloads moving to the cloud will go into infrastructure-as-a-service environments. This type of environment requires a different approach…
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Leveraging System Dynamics in Supply Chain Planning
Any analytics technique or any analytics jargon, whether it's data science or advanced analytics, is eventually all about leveraging data or information to extract insights and knowledge based on specific techniques. However, using defined techniques sometimes leads to challenges or failures when companies try to leverage these algorithms in the real world. The reason we…
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Understanding Agent Based Modeling
Agent based modeling is a relatively more recent method that originated in the early 2000s. Some of the key drivers behind agent-based modeling coming into the picture were advances in technology and computing power since agent-based models are much more demanding in terms of system capability requirements, the proliferation of computer science techniques like object-oriented…
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Value Based Supply Chain Analytics Through Solution Integration
In our life, everything is defined by value. And that holds for the world of supply chain management as well. The concept of value stream mapping is to understand which activities within certain processes or a specific process are not adding value to the final deliverable. When we think about analytics or how we need…
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Measuring the Bullwhip Effect
When the pandemic made the demand for certain products skyrocket, we started hearing the term "bullwhip effect" a lot. But the bullwhip effect has existed in supply chains for decades. The fact is, the technology to address this has existed for a few years now. The issue is more rooted in trust among the players…
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Critical Role of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
As supply chain challenges increase due to increasing supply chain complexities, organizations are increasingly looking at leveraging data and analytics tools and technologies to help them address their supply chain challenges. Manufacturing plays a crucial role in supply chain networks, and recent events have emphasized its importance in building supply chain resiliency and agility. This has…
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Building the Digital Twin Stack
As supply chain challenges increase due to increasing supply chain complexities, organizations are increasingly looking at leveraging data and analytics tools and technologies to help them address their supply chain challenges. Manufacturing plays a crucial role in supply chain networks, and recent events have emphasized its importance in building supply chain resiliency and agility. This has…
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Maslow’s Hierarchy for Digital Transformation
We live in an era of Empathy driven innovation and disruption. If you peel the layers of the onion, you will find that technologies being used by many disruptors were not radically new technology. The key driver behind these successful disruptors, in my mind, was the ability to identify a customer need and provide a…
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Mobility Solutions in Warehouse Management
Warehouse operations have always been intricate enough to manage seamlessly and efficiently but COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the challenges. The pandemic has created many “new normal” paradigms and to address these, warehousing executives will need to create scalable systems to accommodate not only unanticipated demand but associated evolutions in the wake of COVID. For example,…
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Combining AIoT and Simulation Modeling
AIoT on smart cameras has the potential to create innovative solutions in many domains. These cameras' capabilities can be paired with other emerging or existing tools and technologies to help create innovative solutions. Therefore, IoT-based analytics will be one of the focus topics in our February 2023 research report, Supply Chain Data And Analytics State…
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