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SCM Connections experts explore the latest trends and topics in supply chain, featuring conversations with supply chain industry leaders and the challenges they face today.
3 Ways to Bring Your Supply Chain Home During Quarantine
Avoid Household Shortages with these Simple Tips Here at SCM Connections, we’ve devoted some pretty significant airtime on the challenges facing our business during quarantine, to manufacturing supply chains, and to supporting our industry colleagues. Demand planners? We’ve done webinars on how to deal
Top 5 New Features of SAP IBP 2005
With the latest release of SAP IBP 2005 (Integrated Business Planning) deploying for customers soon, it’s time once again for a quarterly peek behind the curtain of IBP. The 2005 Release includes some great stability enhancements dealing with integrity checks for configuration, performance improvements and
My Journey into the Smart Data Integration World with IBP Order Based Planning
A Handy Guide on Getting Started Using SDI to load Master and Transactional data from SAP S/4 Hana or SAP ERP to IBP Order-Based Planning is still a relatively new concept that not many companies have implemented yet. So, for those attempting to walk
Satisfy Customer Demand with Component Substitution in SAP IBP
Improve Your Supply Chain Stability Having the necessary components in stock for producing finished goods is a critical factor for a stable supply chain. Component availability can be challenging for companies that produce a large variety of products with many different components. This is
Helping You Navigate SAP’s COVID-19 Support Offerings
Take a Breath and Take Control Now is not the time to panic. Don’t do it. Whether you are listening to your local leaders or your financial planner, heed the advice to stay calm and make thoughtful decisions during these unprecedented times. The decisions
Running Your S&OP Process in the Time of Coronavirus
Collaboration in a Work From Home World Even though the workplace was already becoming increasingly technology-dependent, with many employees working remotely, the coronavirus pandemic is certainly fast-tracking all of that. Employees are now becoming experts in the extra features* of tools like Zoom and