The effectiveness of any technology-driven business transformation begins with a thorough assessment and clear scoping. Avoid using buzzwords or three-letter acronyms. Simply stating "We want to transform our supply chain" or "We want to simplify our SAP ERP" lacks substance. The issues must be articulated clearly and comprehensively. Success criteria should be documented, the users' perspectives must be considered, and key design factors need to be thoroughly discussed.
Otherwise, your applications will merely serve as costly typewriters.
Implement S4HANA on public cloud is as little as 7 weeks. Our templates will quickly help arrive at the foundation (Org elements), master data and transaction and reporting scenarios you need to implement. In flat 7 weeks.
Process reengineering and optimization allows us to align S/4HANA capabilities with your business goals, ensuring that you not only migrate efficiently but also enhance operational performance.
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Industry Focus
Industry specific nuances matter in how your business processes should be designed. Sales scenarios, purchasing processes, payment processes. Selling Industrial equipment is not the same thing as selling a case of bath soaps.
There is unit economics. There is maturity of partnerships on buy side and sell side. Some industries offer ‘flexibility’ in choice of suppliers. Some do not. Some industries have business processes needing strict compliances. Some do not. Some industries need to procure way ahead of time. Some do not. Some Industries have 10’s of 1000’s of SKUs to manage (e.g. ink manufacturing) while some industries only need to manage handful of commodities (e.g. Wheat, Flour, Sugar, Packaging Materials.).
Lydian understands some of these industries well to make a discernible difference to the quality and usefulness of ERP and Supply Chain Management solutions in these industries.
Companies like Cargill, Syngenta, Olam, ADM constantly are constantly solving the conundrum of price vs availability and contracted procurement vs demand in the market. Because price is fluid. Often a direct function of availability.
CPG Supply Chain is more like a textbook perfect supply chain. You deal with variability in demand, variability in lead times, Supplier diversity, large # customers, large distribution networks.
Q: How big should be my lot size if I am producing drugs with max shelf life of 24 months? (means by 15th month onwards, people will stop buying because it is ‘about to expire’) A: Target a production lot size no more than 3 months of demand! SAP best practices for pharma. Q: What...
Q: How much will I save if I migrate my on premise SAP ERP to S/4HANA on my own cloud? A: Perhaps about 20% of what you will otherwise pay SAP! But the whole point of getting on to SAP’s cloud, is the timely upgrades which is SAPs headache. Not yours. With your own Cloud,...
Q: How do I identify ‘resources’ that are constrained? A: Any machine / work center / human with utilization consistently more than 80% in the preceding 3 months is constrained. Here is when you start talking ‘Optimization’. If your resource utilization is consistently less than 66.7%, you can live with basic planning like in MRP....
Q: We are hiring an external SAP IBP Demand Planning Consultant. How do I know if he knows the subject. A: Ask which forecast models to use when and check for his clarity of responses. If he is not, then he is probably an SAP configurator. Not a consultant. Constant Models – MVA, SES, –...