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SAP Transportation Management 9: Early to the Party!

June 10, 2013
Mike
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The BestXperts team appreciated the challenge from Woodgrain Millwork to not only guide them through a full rework of their Distribution processes and systems but to make the very new SAP Transportation Management (TM) 9 the hub of that solution. After months of site visits, planning and design sessions, coaching of the Woodgrain IT…

Agile Terminology for SAP Project Teams

We don\'t need to tell anyone who is used to working with SAP that getting the terminology right is often a daunting task. Agile project management brings with it a number of new terms that are critical to understand in order to be able to comprehend any of the detailed…

Team Structure in Agile SAP Implementation Projects

One of the first things that each software implementation project has to worry about is the general structure of the project team. We at BestXperts have tried a few different variations of project team composition over the years and can definitely attest to the fact that there is no canned project team…

September 23, 2012
Anton Karnaukhov
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As I was reading Mike Cohn\'s \"Agile Estimating and Planning\" for the last couple of days, I\'ve taken some notes that I thought were worth sharing and discussing. The later sections of the book really focus on the technical aspects of agile planning, such as using points for estimation, planning poker,…

Things you SHOULDN’T do in an agile SAP implementation

It\'s one thing to have the desire to implement SAP software in an agile way, envisioning the benefits of significantly lower cost and much happier end-users. It is a whole other thing to actually make it happen, resisting the constant desire to fall back to the old waterfall ways of…

US needs to produce more native SAP professionals

To most people the term \"SAP\" is nothing more than a cryptic abbreviation. It is far from a household name. Few are aware of the fact that SAP is the largest business software company in the world. Even fewer know that roughly 65% of the world\'s business transactions run through an SAP…

June 20, 2012
Eric Vota
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In a meeting last week, we got into a debate about the value of tools in an organization. Specifically, we were discussing the merits of our chosen IT demand management software and Agile Project Management tool and whether or not they can be credited with the increase in productivity that our group has achieved…

Running SAP projects – the path from waterfall to agile

We at BestXperts did not adopt agile project management overnight. In fact, it took us years to come up with an approach that was both repeatable and scalable. At first we dispensed with the idea of massive upfront blueprinting and instead began to have many mini-cycles of blueprinting, realization and…

ERP for the modern age

Don\'t get me wrong, we at BestXperts are diehard SAP fans. After all, we earn our living by implementing SAP software. But there are times when we just can\'t stop ranting about SAP idiosyncrasies that drive us crazy. Most of these rants boil down to one common trend - SAP…

Investing in relationships with your clients pays triple

Here is a real situation. Two SAP consultants are equally knowledgeable, equally diligent and equally passionate about their work. Both do a great job at gathering business requirements, configuring the system and getting things done in a reasonable amount of time. One finishes a successful go-live and gets praise from…

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SAP Transportation Management 9: Early to the Party!

Agile Terminology for SAP Project Teams

Team Structure in Agile SAP Implementation Projects

Constriction to Force Ourselves to Create

Things you SHOULDN’T do in an agile SAP implementation

US needs to produce more native SAP professionals

Do Tools Matter?

Running SAP projects – the path from waterfall to agile

ERP for the modern age

Investing in relationships with your clients pays triple

SAP Transportation Management Optimizer Demystified

SAP Transportation Management Ocean Planning Guide

Enterprise Architecture – The Value of Doing it Up Front

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