How do your SCM, MES and PLM initiatives compare to that of your peers?
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Our sister site, SearchManufacturingERP.com, is currently running a
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Panorama Consulting just came out with its annual ERP report. Not surprisingly, when it comes to timing and costs, traditional on-premise ERP implementations are taking a back seat to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and hosted/on-demand offerings. SaaS is implemented in less time (11.6 months) and...
SearchSAP.com site expert Axel Angeli recently leveled some criticism against SAP’s leadership and technical direction. This week he offers some support of SAP’s policies. There are areas in which SAP is making positive progress, mainly in the embedding of communities and in...
SAP will establish an R&D center in Seoul, South Korea, according to Korea.net. The deal, brokered by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), will see SAP hire 53 employees and invest $21 million over the coming three years. SAP Korea will be...
The inherent tension in the Microsoft-SAP alliance was spelled out by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during his keynote at yesterday's Convergence 2008 event: "SAP is sometimes a collaborator, sometimes competition." Competition is the aspect of the relationship that is coming to the forefront right...
A new report from Aberdeen Research discovered that best-in-class process manufacturers tend to take specific approaches to their ERP strategy by deploying:
SAP PLM (product lifecycle management) is emerging as a growth area in the enterprise in general. This is hardly a surprise, seeing how innovation is becoming the key competitive factor in the global marketplace. That means ERP vendors like SAP, Oracle, IFS and others have to stay on the ball to...
