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Hiring Trends in SAP NewsletterThis section of the site is dedicated to serving the needs of SAP hiring managers and SAP project managers. We'll do that be featuring relevant news and original content on SAP hiring trends that you can't find anywhere else. Why pay for expensive SAP research and try to connect the dots on how SAP trends will affect hiring when you can get that information for free here?
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Below, you can check out some of the resources that are available on our site that could be of interest to SAP project managers. The goal is to offer only the best content, specially selected and filtered to suit the busy schedules and staffing concerns of SAP site managers. What is the "Hiring Trends in SAP" Newsletter?
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Making the SAP Plant Visible |
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 Making the Plant Visible:
by Jon Reed
Unabridged Edition, Never Before Released
Introduction: Why Does Plant Management Matter?
Manufacturing plants have been around for much longer than ERP systems. But the gulf between ERP and plant management has always been vast. Even in the latest ERP software, you can't always drill into the systems than run individual plant operations. In today's economy, there is a new urgency to optimizing plants and making plants "visible" to ERP users. The reverse is also true: today's plants want a better view into the ERP system that was not historically extended to plant operations.
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Who Said SAP Was Expensive? |
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Who Said SAP Was Expensive?
How Sedgwick County, Kansas
Spent Less Than 10 Percent
of Their SAP Consulting Budget
(While Maximizing User Buy-In)
Unabridged Edition, Never Before Released
by Jon Reed
I’ve been writing about the SAP market since 1995. That’s a lot of verbiage, and there are times when I think all the groundbreaking stories about SAP have already been told. But at this year’s Sapphire, I stumbled upon a new one. At the conference, I met up with an ERP Director by the name of Renfeng Ma, and he told me about how his project managed to implement a BW dashboard system with more than 800 KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). They did this while achieving a high level of user buy-in, bringing a greater transparency of information to taxpayers, and, drum roll - they spent under 10 percent of their projected consulting budget for the project. He had my attention.
Site Editor's Note: For those readers who want to read more about this implementation, Renfeng Ma has kindly provided a downloadable PowerPoint Presentation (776K) about the Sedgwick County BW Implementation to JonERP.com visitors. This PowerPoint will also give you a closer view of the two screen shots used in this article - Figure One below is slide 3, and Figure Two (on page 2) is slide 5.
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eSOA from the Outside In:
Lessons from "Mashup Corporations"
Unabridged Edition, Never Before Released
by Jon Reed
Jon Reed notes: I recently discovered that this article I did on eSOA for SAPtips in the Spring of 2008 did not find its way to this site. Paul Kurchina, co-author of Mashup Corporations and the recently released In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant, took the time to review and proof this article so I'm glad to have a chance to feature this article now. I hope you find it as interesting as I did while I was writing it.
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Best Practices in SAP Programming |
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Best Practices in SAP Programming:
How to Keep Your Development Shop in Tune with Where SAP is Headed
Unabridged Edition, Never Before Released
by Jon Reed
SAP development has become more confusing and more promising at the same time. Not long ago, the SAP development process came down to deciding which parts of SAP to customize and how to hire the ABAP programmers who would do the work. Now, in the Enterprise SOA (eSOA) era, the amount of SAP development options are dizzying.
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Jon Reed Interviews David Foote: Podcast Transcription |
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SAP Skills
Trends: Podcast Transcription
Jon Reed
with David Foote of Foote Partners
Hosted
by Demir Barlas, Site Editor, SearchSAP.com
Podcast
Interview Date: May 19, 2008
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Jon Reed: Welcome to this podcast interview
with our special guest, David Foote of Foote Partners. Today, we are going to
focus on the SAP skills trends David has identified from the salary data he
compiles at Foote Partners. We'll get the latest on which SAP skills are hot
and which are not.
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