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20 Apr What is the bullwhip effect in supply chain and how can SAP S/4HANA reduce it

Posted at 08:33h in Blog by It-telesis

Reading time: 2 min Keywords: Bullwhip effect, SAP, S/4HANA Authors: Panagiota Vasila Now, during the COVID19 pandemic, the consumers' demand for products has altered. This phenomenon caused fluctuations in the time series used for inventory planning, across all the supply chain, because everyone tries to protect themselves from...

08 Mar Let us refresh our Japanese scheduling skills

Posted at 12:35h in Blog by It-telesis

Reading time: 2 min Keywords: Just In Time, lean manufacturing, eliminating waste Authors: Andreas Kasapleris In this post, I will try to remind us all, the manufacturing practices which led Japan to become a World Class Manufacturer (WCM). The springboard for Japan’s success as a WCM was “Just In Time”. The...

05 Mar Combination of ABC / XYZ strategies in SAP

Posted at 12:55h in Blog by It-telesis

Reading time:  2 min Keywords:  ABC/XYZ strategies in SAP, Inventory management optimization Authors: Dimitrios Megkas, Elpida Mezili Inventory management optimization can be achieved by combining the well-known ABC and XYZ strategies. For example, we could have an ABC sales/code analysis and an XYZ demand/code analysis. By combining these two, we can...

25 Jan SAP Data Archiving

Posted at 13:54h in Blog by It-telesis

Reading Time: 4 min Keywords: SAP Data archiving, SARA Author: Pavlos Pollatos Introduction In recent years, the volume of data processed by companies has increased significantly and will continue to grow even more, so there is a need to archive or delete data that is no longer used. The key purpose...

24 Nov Running Warehousing Processes on SAP S/4 HANA

Posted at 08:18h in Blog by It-telesis

Reading time:  3 min Keywords:  SAP Warehouse Management, S/4 HANA Author: Dimitrios Megkas S/4 HANA has become the new reality The new generation of SAP software, S/4 HANA (which is meanwhile not that new anymore, as it was released in 2015) is gradually taking its position in the market. New SAP implementations are...

30 Oct SAP Migration – Which tool to choose?

Posted at 08:45h in Blog by ittelesis

Reading time: 3 min Keywords: Migration, LSMW, LTMC, S/4 HANA Author: Konstantinos Karkavillas Introduction Migration is always a current topic and part of various projects and may be well needed in various cases, such as: • implementation of new or changed business processes and transformations (e.g. new legal entity) • system...

13 Oct Print your documents by using SAP Smart Forms

Posted at 10:59h in Blog by It-telesis

Reading time: 3 min Keywords: Smartforms, SAP Author: Christos Athanasakis Smartforms is a SAP common-used tool to print large numbers of documents with a consistent design such as invoices or delivery notes. It includes utilities for designing forms and defining the interface to the application programs that use forms for...

09 Sep SAP Consulting notes, a real treasure for SAP Consultants

Posted at 14:46h in Blog by It-telesis

Reading time:  2 min Keywords:  SAP Consulting notes Author: Petros Telelis In this article, we will refer to the rich source of knowledge that SAP offers to its entire ecosystem (SAP partners, consultants, ABAP developers, key users, and customers) in the form of documents named SAP consulting notes. For...

24 Aug A few words about SAP Fiori and how it can impact your business

Posted at 17:31h in Blog by It-telesis

Reading time: 3 min Keywords: SAP, Fiori What is SAP Fiori Fiori is a new user experience developed for SAP software and applications. Fiori provides a collection of apps, encapsulated into tiles, that address the most broadly used business functions such as self-service tasks, workflow approvals, and information...

11 Aug Running MRP on SAP Business One

Posted at 09:44h in Blog by It-telesis

Reading time:  3 min Keywords:  SAP Business One, MRP, forecasting, MRP Wizard Author: Dimitrios Megkas Introduction Today’s article is quite different from the previous ones, in the sense that we will describe functionality not offered by the main SAP product, S/4 HANA. Instead, we will present the MRP process in SAP Business One, the solution...