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There was an interesting technical issue at a client using SAP SCM with substantial investment in demand planning using SCM tools. After some googling, I landed on this blog … Read More
Demand Forecasting, Sales Planning, Big Data Analytics & IBP
There was an interesting technical issue at a client using SAP SCM with substantial investment in demand planning using SCM tools. After some googling, I landed on this blog … Read More
I have been preaching Usability for the past few years.
Put together fine tools – But help the users in making the transition to the tool – give them better understanding – Make the new tool more usable!
Give them the reports they need. Provide them an exception based workflow!
APO has good statistical models. They will help you move the peanut forward but only if they are understood and leveraged.
We just re-launched the marketing campaign for our Usability Consulting. Model tuning and model matching to product profiles are important elements of the Usability training.
Once implemented the Usability project will harmonize the use of models across planners from various geographies for the same business/product family. There will be streamlined work flow.
This is a chance to answer your modeling and metrics questions in SAP APO DP. The object of many questions and heart-breaks, APO DP will be get a more exposure in this workshop. WE will show many tips and techniques that greatly enhance the usability of the tool.
Alerts are important. But more important is an understanding of the business to set reasonable thresholds and the mathematical common sense to use relative measures for alerting.