Those following Supply Chain Industry Analyst Lora Cecere’s new Supply Chain Shaman blog (http://www.supplychainshaman.com) have read with keen interest her observations about SAP’s progress in the area of Supply Chain Planning. Lora points out that while SAP has made tremendous progress in many areas it is also struggling with integrating its many components – specifically Lora says that the “integration of business intelligence and performance management is moving [too] slowly.” Her notes on the growing disappointment with SAP APO – from within and outside the SAP organization – are also worth noting (http://www.supplychainshaman.com/2010/04/inside-insider:
“I leave the event with two major disappointments. The first is that the integration of business intelligence and performance management is moving slowly. …too slowly for this curmudgeon analyst. I was hoping to see the results of the Teradata/SAP Business Objects integration and the launch of a new generation of predictive analytics. While there is some progress in Performance Management, it is largely traditional reporting/dashboards.
The second is that SAP APO—SAP’s supply chain planning suite—was largely business as usual. At the event, I saw small, incremental changes, but no major innovation like I saw in MII, PLM and transportation management. I keep crossing my fingers. I would love to see SAP have the courage to blow up APO and start again. Who knows if it works for PLM, maybe there is a chance to bring innovation to a solution — and the larger Supply Chain Planning (SCP) market– that sorely needs to be redefined.”
As SAP friends and partners know, SAP has some truly outstanding employees and the SCM Product Group continues under the brilliant leadership of Lori Mitchell-Keller. Yet, overcoming legacy products and dated, mis-guided inertia is difficult for even the most effective of executives. The great news is that a whole new generation of cloud-based supply chain planning and S&OP applications that integrate tightly into the SAP suite are now available. These applications are changing the game and will ensure that SAP users are well supported well into the next generation or whenever it is that SAP is finally able to overcome its legacy and move forward.
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