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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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- SAP IBP
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Will AWS Supply Chain Compete With SAP IBP?
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Among many other features that SAP ICP has for integrated demand planning, inventory management is a critical one. Respondents highlighted inventory management as one of the key focus areas in our recent research on supply chain planning in the cloud. With the increased complexities in the supply chain and the severe disruptions that many supply…
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- SAP Inventory Management
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Combining Inventory Optimization With Additional Analytics Approaches
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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, inventory policies are also evolving. Hence, it is unsurprising that inventory management and optimization remain a key focus…
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- SAP IBP
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Promotion Planning and Management with SAP IBP
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Demand forecasting was highlighted as a key challenge in SAPinsider's recent research Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. The quality of forecasts also plays a key role in inventory management, which has emerged as another key focus area for SAPinsiders. We will also publish a research report focused on this specific topic of inventory management…
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- SAP Internet of Things
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Impact of Google Discontinuing Cloud IoT Core on Industry 4.0 Technology Ecosystem
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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users using the Cloud IoT Core product offering reported receiving a communication that IoT Core has been added to the end-of-life list and will be discontinued in a year. This is a significant announcement, specifically for Industry 4.0 enthusiasts. In SAPinsider's research Modernizing Logistics and Inventory Tracking, we discussed the role…
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- SAP Analytics
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The Three Ss of Cloud Market Dominance
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There is no doubt that cloud infrastructure will redefine how organizations build their technology capabilities and how they innovate. This has emerged as a consistent theme in our research and conversations with the SAPinsider community. Our research reports like Future of Business Intelligence, Analytics in The Cloud, Modernizing Logistics and Inventory Tracking, and Supply Chain…
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- RISE with SAP
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How Has RISE with SAP Changed Since It Was Announced?
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RISE with SAP was initially described as a Business-Transformation-as-a-Service offering, but it has been refocused on business innovation. This content is for SAPinsider Monthly Subscription, SAPinsider Annual Subscription, and SAPinsider Premium Annual Subscription members only.Log In Join Now
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- SAP Process Automation
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Process Automation as Foundation to Build Resilient Supply Chain
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The need for supply chain resiliency and agility have emerged as prominent drivers in many of SAPinsider's recent research reports like Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. SAPinsider also highlights supply chain visibility and data integration as key foundational aspects of supply chain agility and resiliency. Process automation solutions are critical in helping organizations build…
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- SAP Enterprise Asset Management
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Sustainable Manufacturing Leveraging Smart Factories
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While supply chain leaders across industries and geographies grapple with managing the ever-increasing supply chain complexities and risks, there is an additional demand on the companies to be more resourceful and conscientious of environmental and social needs. There is no doubt that the collective awareness around Sustainability and specifically Sustainability in supply chains has increased,…
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- SAP Supply Chain Planning
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Data Outliers Detection in SAP IBP Demand Forecasting
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In our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud, SAPinsiders highlighted that demand forecasting remains a key challenge. Fortunately, best-of-breed supply chain tools today provide many features and functionalities, including a rich portfolio of algorithms, that can help bring more science and certainty into this exercise. However, as the popular saying of "Garbage-In-Garbage-Out (GIGO)"…
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- SAP Analytics
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Amazon’s Acquisition of iRobot : The War For Consumer Data
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Amazon's decision to buy iRobot is a strategic step geared towards collecting more consumer behavior data points. This article discusses this strategy in detail and explores how Amazon may end up leveraging this data. Specifically, in this article, we explore (1) Why customer data is important (2) How Amazon has worked over the years to…
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