by Phillip Avelar | May 23, 2018 | Headline
You’re probably aware that the U.S. is the most litigious country in the world. Over breakfast today, I was reading an article touting the benefits of cloud-based computing. The comments from one executive were interesting and really gave me pause. The executive...
by Phillip Avelar | May 22, 2018 | Headline
When I’m out and about, I pay close attention to the processes that are used in every aspect of our daily lives. My friends sometimes think it’s annoying, but I have also imagined some of our best process innovations for customers through these...
by Phillip Avelar | May 22, 2018 | Headline, SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management), SAP-Warehouse Management
This is the first in a new series of blog posts on leading practices we’ve observed in best-in-class facilities. I thought we would start with the basics. Many of you might remember years ago when the Dymo label maker was popular. I had an assistant at the time...
by Phillip Avelar | Oct 27, 2009 | Headline, SAP
As you may have heard SAP has been making a lot of noise lately with their improved database technology, this was described in Hasso Plattner’s keynote address for Sapphire and in subsequent new articles there is a lot of buzz about how this finally will...
by Phillip Avelar | Oct 19, 2009 | Headline
If you were to believe all the hype out there about cloud computing, everything can be done in the cloud, so my heading is kind of ridiculous but so are some of the claims we have seen lately. We have spent a considerable amount of time researching how our customers...
by Phillip Avelar | Sep 25, 2009 | Headline
There has been a lot of buzz lately about Siemens decision to stop SAP maintenance and I think also a lot of confusion and misinformation. I have had some conversations with two of our clients over the past week on what some of this means so I thought I would throw...
by advadmin | Sep 6, 2009 | Enterprise Project Management, Headline
Sometimes I feel like our disciple works in circles, what’s old is new etc. What I mean is after years of progress suddenly the discussion has turned to start to question whether the BA is needed and even whether requirements should be documented. Is it possible...
by Phillip Avelar | Apr 15, 2009 | Headline, Logistics Execution, Supply Chain
In today’s blog I want to talk about Supply Chain metrics. I bring this up today on the occasion that WERC has released one of my favorite studies, this is the annual study of Warehouse metrics. If you are not a WERC member I encourage you to join or...
