TIMWOODS: Reduce Waste with a Leaner Alternative to SAP LSMW

Who is Tim Woods?  So, the first thing you should know is that Timwoods isn’t a person. TIMWOODS is a mnemonic memory device acronym to help you remember the 8 wastes of Lean. It that stands for transport, inventory, movement, waiting, over production, over processing, defects, and skills. T – Transport – the movement of people, products & information […]

How to Improve and Fulfill Your Supply Chain KPIs

The major Supply Chain KPIs for most companies is profitability, which is revenue divided by the investment of the company, revenue is the difference between sales and costs. If you don’t measure before and after implementing a change in a process, you can’t quantify the impact of the change. That’s why Precisely defines Supply Chain […]

SAP Process and Transaction Process Rules

Identifying process innovations in your SAP environment Are you interested in identifying usability gaps in your SAP process?  Precisely has examined repetitive processes, transactions and data that has emerged from gathering hundreds of SAP customers’ ST03N transaction data.  This ST03N data is used in producing an assessment of what processes may be optimal to improve […]

The Risks of Using LSMW for Data Migrations into SAP S/4Hana

If your organization is using or planning to use LSMW as a data load tool in a migration project to SAP S/4Hana, you may face significant challenges. This is not surprising, LSMW is a tool originally created to support data transfers from legacy non-SAP systems to SAP systems, using csv files as the source to […]

Transform Your Mainframe Data for the Cloud with Precisely and Apache Kafka

Cloud migration projects are happening in virtually every large enterprise throughout the world, and in many small and midsize companies as well. For most, cloud data migration is an ongoing journey, likely to take a few years and often broken down into several major phases. Throughout that process, though, technology leaders must be mindful of […]