85% of clients who we engaged with in the past 12 months admitted that their scheduling process was more manual than they would like it to be. Do any of these pain points sound familiar?
Posted by Chris Curtis on 20-Apr-2021 10:54:39
85% of clients who we engaged with in the past 12 months admitted that their scheduling process was more manual than they would like it to be. Do any of these pain points sound familiar?
Topics: Collaboration, Scheduling, Integrated Business Planning, Supply Chain Planning, Strategy, Business Intelligence, SAP Analytics, Detailed Scheduling, SAP Digital Supply Chain, Production Planning, Sequencing, Asset Utilisation, Optimisation, Migration, Roadmap, Customer Service Level, ePPDS, MP&S
Posted by Chris Curtis on 25-Nov-2020 13:03:21
In Part 1 of this blog series, we started talking about the benefits provided when your scheduling solution is made up of a perfect blend of automation and exception-based alerts, including improved asset utilisation, greater visibility of inventory, and increased agility.
In this second part we will be exploring a little bit more around the types of exceptions that can be used within SAP Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS), and in what way these are beneficial compared to building the same restrictions into your automated solution.
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Posted by Chris Curtis on 17-Nov-2020 12:48:51
“We switched on alerts when we first went live, but we just ignore them now as there are far too many”
Does that sound familiar?
Incorrectly configured alert profiles achieve little more than noise creation within an organisation and provide a distraction from where a planner should really invest their time and attention. However, focused alerts with clearly defined tolerances allows schedulers to focus on real supply issues and is proven to provide real time and cost savings within your business.
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Topics: ePPDS
Posted by Chris Curtis on 01-Jul-2020 14:20:44
Free ‘Planning & Scheduling Advisory Day’
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A lot of companies have already taken the time to understand the power that S/4HANA can bring to their business, leveraging its in-memory capabilities and enhanced user experience provided by SAP Fiori, to name only a few of its facets. It is widely acknowledged from companies across all industries that this could be the next logical step to take in the ERP world if they have not already done so, but the main challenges that constantly arise in relation to this are “When?” and “How?”
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Posted by Chris Curtis on 27-Jun-2020 13:55:14
As a business, you have probably already started considering a move to S/4HANA, that is if you have not transitioned already. At this point a series of questions arise…
Topics: ePPDS
Posted by Chris Curtis on 27-Nov-2018 17:15:35
For many manufacturing organisations, Detailed Scheduling is mainly driven by the need to perform manufacturing by following a specific preferred sequence whilst generating an achievable finite plan. It is quite normal for companies to use Detailed Scheduling heuristics for this function, but there are scenarios where this does not quite fit the bill.
Read ArticleTopics: SCM Optimisation, Scheduling, SAP IBP, ePPDS
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