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In a world of longer and complex supply chains, automobile industry is faced with a challenge of framing competitive strategies which deal with customers demanding lower costs, greater product availability, increased product selection, value added services, and reduced delivery times.

 

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Posted by Varun Khanna at 06:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

In my last project, the planning and consolidation landscape was characterized by multiple tools for planning, budgeting and consolidation. The client had implemented sales planning in SAP BPS while financial planning & budgeting in SAP BPC. For consolidation the parent company is using SEM BCS whereas its subsidiary is using SAP BPC. Due to this, the reconciliation of consolidated figures was a challenge due to different tools, dimensionality and account structure.

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In my previous post, I introduced you to the new ‘financial controlling’ order and how SAP has evolved to keep abreast with the ever changing business requirements, especially the CFO’s office.

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Posted by Bharat Chadha at 06:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a proactive plan to develop advance arrangements and procedures that enable an organisation to respond to an interruption in such a manner that critical business functions continue with planned levels of interruption. Most organizations’ BCP processes in practice only remain at a “talk” or “good definition” level and worst some organizations view this as an unutilized asset providing almost no returns to everyday business processes. Especially in  tried economies, some organizations even abandoned their BCP teams due to its non-utilization (or less utilized) and re-directing back them for core processes. More so, other organizations view BCP only as a infrastructure (“hot site”) arrangement.

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Are you an SAP Consultant? What is/are the module/s which you have worked on? How many implementation/roll out/support projects you have worked on? How are your configuration and technical skills? Which versions of SAP you have worked on? Do you have experience in handling client remotely and onsite?

 

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Good morning all. It is a holiday season in India and I am also planning a week off from my work schedule starting today. But before I break, I wanted to put forward my thoughts about this topic that I has been there on my mind all for a long time now. I am an ABAP specialist and has been involved with multiple projects in various capacities over the last 9 years. And one consistent expectation I have experienced in every project is that the every client wants the best of the code to be developed for their system enhancements at the least of the costs and efforts.

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Posted by Satinder Pal Singh at 08:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

“Treat your best customers best; focus on your most profitable products” - is no brainer. But knowing the best customers and identifying the most profitable offering definitely is. In fact, it is more difficult than ever before as companies have been expanding their customer base across the globe and offering more complex products bundled with various services.

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Posted by Vivek Madhav at 07:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)

Over the past decade, the financial regulatory and management landscape has changed rapidly in response to the volatile economic and business environment. In an attempt to ward off economic pressures due to various asset bubbles, governments globally have tightened the regulatory noose, thus, escalating the compliance costs. This has, hence, initiated a change in power dynamics, in the top enterprise echelons, towards a more distributed governance structure. 

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Posted by Bharat Chadha at 09:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

The objective of this blog series is to give an overview of how SAP has evolved in the recent years and what were the drivers that compelled them to grow the way they did. The blog series also gives a flavor of various components in SAP landscape today and how they form pieces of a Jigsaw puzzle that needs to be arranged correctly to be of business relevance.

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