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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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Lloyd Adams Keynote: The Human Side of Digital Transformation
SAP North America President Lloyd Adams kicked off SAPinsider 2023 with a keynote message on the human side of digital transformation. Stating that change is inevitable and requires a strong data foundation, Adams began the keynote discussing GROW with SAP, which was announced earlier in the day. GROW with SAP, which pairs S/4HANA cloud, public…
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Sustainable Warehouses Through AI and Analytics
The logistics and transportation sector contribute approximately 5.5% of the total greenhouse gas emissions.1 Within the logistics and transportation sector, it is estimated that logistics buildings contribute 13% of all supply chain emissions (shown in Figure 1). The relative percentage of contribution from logistics buildings highlights that warehouses significantly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Figure…
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Mobile Barcoding in Warehousing
The COVID-19 pandemic created a “new normal” for businesses and magnified the challenges of warehouse operations. Warehouse executives now need to innovate and design scalable systems to accommodate unanticipated demand and manage associated challenges. Computing and technology advancement, specifically edge computing, has enabled organizations to tactically leverage smart devices and mobile solutions. Miniaturization, increased performance…
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Process Automation in Transportation
Transportation features as one of the top focus areas for process automation within the supply chain function according to SAPinsider's September 2022 research Process Automation in Supply Chain. It is the primary sub-function that ensures the movement of goods from source to destination in supply chains. Order-to-deliver was noted as one of the top process…
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Generative AI for Supply Chain Data Management
The frenzy around ChatGPT has stabilized for the millions of experimental end-users. However, the game has just begun for the technology giants who will now be competing in this space. The generative AI space will be highly competitive, but the competition will come from something other than product differentiation. Whether it is ChatGPT, BARD, or…
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Vertex CFO on Strong Earnings: Indirect Tax Automation is a Must-Have
This week, Vertex released 2022 fourth-quarter earnings and full-year 2023 guidance above Wall Street’s expectations. On the earnings call with investors following the announcement, Vertex CEO David DeStefano spoke about the favorable tax compliance environment for his company’s product offerings. He stated, “Businesses today face immense regulatory change and indirect tax complexity. These challenges intensify...…
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SAP Headed for the Datasphere
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…
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SAP IBP 2302 Release Enhancements
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. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership…
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Minimizing Route Optimization Run Times in SAP TM
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…
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Desire for Modern F&A Skills to Support Financial Close Transformation
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…
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