Kevin Wilson

10 Best Practices to Gain Immediate, Actionable Insight into Your Extended Supply Chain

By Kevin Wilson August 7, 2017 - Change Management, oVo® Methodology, Reveal by David Carroll

Extended Supply Chains have the following characteristics: Multiple geographies – Where do your customers and partners reside? Multiple languages and currencies Multiple systems – SAP, EDI, Website, portals, … Multiple partners – Carriers, freight forwarders, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors Varying regulations and compliance requirements – What’s needed to ensure we conduct business legally across the globe?…

The Six Ps of the Extended Supply Chain — Part 3 of 3

By Kevin Wilson February 8, 2017 - oVo® Methodology, Supply Chain Management by Kelly Kuhlman

by Kevin Wilson In this series, we’ve begun to describe the six P’s that make up the modern extended supply chain and highlight how we leverage the Reveal oVo® Methodology to help companies using SAP to run their supply chains to transform them in the most optimal manner. In the first part of this three-part article series, we discussed the Produce…

The Six P’s of the Extended Supply Chain – Part 2 of 3

By Kevin Wilson January 5, 2017 - oVo® Methodology, Supply Chain Management by Kelly Kuhlman

Keeping demand aligned with supply in the modern extended supply chain is growing more and more challenging. Globalization, increasing freight rates, capacity constraints, regulatory pressure and partner collaboration are just a few challenges that need to be constantly addressed to maximize the effectiveness of the supply chain. In this series, we’ve begun to describe the…

20 Key Questions to Consider in Designing an SAP Event Management Solution

By Kevin Wilson November 21, 2016 - SAP Event Management, Supply Chain Management by Kelly Kuhlman

by Kevin Wilson If you are contemplating implementing SAP Event Management, you will need to be prepared to answer a series of questions in order to be able to establish a design that caters to your needs. The following list of questions is a good start (although there are more based on the answers to some…

SAP Track and Trace Solution — Part 2: Inbound Logistics

By Kevin Wilson September 1, 2016 - SAP Event Management, Supply Chain Management, Value Solutions by Kelly Kuhlman

by Kevin Wilson In the first part of this article series, I described what Track and Trace is and how it relates to outbound logistics; if you missed it, check it out here. In this article, I will discus how we can provide full visibility into the inbound logistics process by leveraging SAP’s Event Management module and…

Leveraging Standard SAP and EDI to Achieve the Perfect PO

By Kevin Wilson June 2, 2016 - Blog by Kelly Kuhlman

In late June, I will be talking on this topic at the SAP Insider Supply Chain Management conference to be held in Vienna, Austria. I thought I would just share a few highlights before we get into the details at the conference. The topics I will cover in the talk include the following: Techniques to…

Do you know whether you are keeping your OTIF customer promise?

By Kevin Wilson May 23, 2016 - Supply Chain Management by Kelly Kuhlman

A customer, placing an order for a product to a manufacturer or distributor, expects a certain service level for that order. In short, the customer typically expects the order to be fulfilled with the correct product, to the correct location, on the promised date and for the correct quantity. These four attributes of an order serve…

Gain Control of Your Supply Chain: Eight Points to Ponder

By Kevin Wilson April 18, 2016 - Analytics, SAP Event Management, SAP Transportation Management, Supply Chain Management by Kelly Kuhlman

When it comes to the extended supply chain, it is critical to ensure that any issue that occurs during the process is uncovered in a timely manner. Once an issue has been uncovered, it then becomes critical to take action on it in order to get the process back on track. Without this kind of…

What Does SAP Global Batch Traceability Brings to the Table

By Kevin Wilson December 28, 2015 - SAP Global Batch Traceability by Kelly Kuhlman

Industries that have a requirement to track their product movements via batches, whether it is legislated or based on a need for mature supply chain economics, find it difficult to perform these tasks in an efficient manner. Why the inefficiency? They battle to track batches, serial numbers or handling units/packages across the various disparate systems…

SAP Track and Trace Solution – Part 1: Outbound Logistics

By Kevin Wilson November 30, 2015 - Blog by Kelly Kuhlman

Most organizations deal with the shipment of goods into and out of their premises — in other words, inbound and outbound logistics. With the increasing demand for a better customer experience, it is a challenge to provide a high level of customer service when parts of your supply chain fall somewhat outside of your “sphere of influence.” Sure, through…

SAP Process Observer and Event Management

By Kevin Wilson November 15, 2015 - SAP Event Management, Value Solutions by Kelly Kuhlman

by Kevin Wilson SAP Process Observer for Built-In Processes (POB) allows organizations to monitor and optimize core processes based on SAP Business Suite’s built-in business object events. It’s been around quite a while — since 2011, I believe. The functionality it provides is somewhat close to SAP Event Management (EM), but there are major differences…

SAP Event Management Use Cases — Part 2

By Kevin Wilson November 5, 2015 - SAP Event Management, Value Solutions by Kelly Kuhlman

by Kevin Wilson In the first article on use cases for SAP Event Management (EM), I took you through some of the use cases for SAP Transportation Management (TM), Global Trade Services (GTS) and Supplier Network Collaboration (SNC), as well as the highly popular Track and Trace where folks simply want to know from their carriers or freight forwarders…

SAP Event Management Use Cases – Part 1

By Kevin Wilson October 29, 2015 - Blog, SAP Event Management by Kelly Kuhlman

How can we leverage SAP Event Management (EM) functionality? This is a great question because, after all, SAP EM is a tool that is designed to provide end-to-end business process visibility and exception management. Much like you would leverage a workflow solution to enforce certain activities to take place at the right time by the right…