New SAP Event Management Website launched!

Check it out at http://sites.google.com/a/erpgenie.com/sapempublic/ . It deals with FAQ on what it is, what it does for you, etc... More of an overview site and not a details site. For the details on SAP Event Management go to http://www.erpgenie.com/sap-event-management

I am speaking at the SC Optimiaztion Seminar this year

The Optimization Seminar

Philadelphia • May 18-20, 2009
Chicago • July 15-17, 2009
Las Vegas • Oct. 28-30, 2009
Orlando • Nov. 4-6, 2009

This seminar also visits:
Frankfurt • June 24-26, 2009
Amsterdam • Dec. 2-4, 2009

Sessions

Click the session titles below for detailed descriptions:

• Where are you burning money? Diagnostics for procurement, planning, inventory, warehouse, production, and fulfillment activities


• 10 principles that SAP customers can adopt right now to cut costs and improve process performance


• Is your data really trustworthy? Steps that ensure decisions and optimization activities are based upon timely, accurate, and complete data


• Leveraging standard, readily available SAP reports to reduce costs and promote process efficiencies


• Purchasing, MRP, and inventory practices that accelerate inventory turns and reduce warehouse costs


• Improve your lead-time accuracy 15% – 20% as you optimize processes and realize incalculable benefits across your supply chain


• Using logistics information system (LIS) to reduce stock-out situations, accelerate inventory turns, and improve delivery times


• How to get your materials management and production teams dancing to the same tune


• Best practices and SAP functionality to monitor exceptions and manage events
  


• 7 best practices to ensure broad-based adoption, measurable improvements, and ongoing success of your optimization initiatives

What every Enterprise Architect needs to know about BPM and Workflow

ERPGenie.COM receives a new look and overhaul

We recently launched the new look and feel for ERPGenie.COM. We listened to our users when we heard them say the last site was too busy. "Lot's of information but hard to browse through it all". We took these comments tot heart and redesigned the entire site from the bottom up. We now use a new platform for our content management system together with a brand new template giving us the new look that we wanted.

Initial feedback from the users is positive and we'll continue to add new functionality as we deem it useful.

We are constantly loading new articles on the ERP topic so please come back and visit often.

If you have a job placement and are looking for a suitable candidate then post your job here. If you are looking for jobs check out our selection right on the home page.

PS: It helps to register and login as you gain access to more information and the downloads once logged in.

Exciting News!!! Free Online exams available

You can now test your skills online by taking an exam on ERPGenie.COM. All you have to do is register as a job seeker on ERPGenie.COM and go to the Jobs and Resumes link. From there click the Take Exam link

Exclusive deal for ERPGenie.COM users for SAP Access

Michael Management has granted us an exclusive deal just for our users. $10 off any subscription to their SAP Access packages. Take a look at http://www.michaelmanagement.com/sap_access_erpgenie.asp?aid=1004.

They also offer SAP Online Training.

BW Performance Tuning Book Released

The business environment is changing at a rapid pace and so is the fierceness in competition. Today’s business demands decision at the ‘speed of thought’. It is obvious that such decisions need most efficient information acquisition, integration, transformation and finally presentation in the most efficient way at a matching speed and without increasing the cost of doing so.

A data warehouse is set up in a company with a clear focus to support decision support system involving collecting useful information, harmonizing it and transforming and finally presenting it for answering business questions. For instance ‘What is the sales trend of a specific material?’

It is an established fact that most SAP-BW projects succeed when they deliver the above objectives by providing;
1.     Acquiring data from various data sources like OLTP system and presenting accurate information.
2.     A Capability to provide drill-down or ‘slice-n-dice’ capability for analyzing the different perspective of the information.
3.     Decision support enablers like Self service options, Exception reporting etc.

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In this book we have listed performance tuning parameters right through the data model, to extraction of data, to data loading, to fine tuning of the database while ending with proactive operational maintenance mode (e.g. review aggregates, build new ones, delete unused ones, find problem queries) as an ongoing cycle.

Also covered in the book is how to evaluate the actual performance whether there is a scope of improvement or other avenues of performance tuning have to be explored. However the book is not dealing with ‘extremely technical’ aspects of the performance tuning, as such content would cater to “purely technical� readers.

To see the full detail click here