US Seafood Giant Bumble Bee Foods to Use SAP Blockchain Tech in Supply Chain

North America’s largest branded shelf-stable seafood firm Bumble Bee Foods has launched a blockchain platform for seafood traceability. The project was created in collaboration with German tech company SAP specializing in enterprise software, according to a press release on March 8.

Based on SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service, the new platform can purportedly monitor the supply chain of yellowfin tuna from Indonesia to end customers.

Read full article here - https://www.google.com/amp/s/cointelegraph.com/news/north-american-seafood-firm-to-use-blockchain-tech-in-supply-chain/amp

Change is good ! ERPGenie is changing ...

In the past ERPGenie has served up many tips, tricks and articles, in the generic ERP and SAP. We like to think that we pioneered the age of sharing information when it wasn't cool to do so!

As a company, ERPGenie LLC, focuses on SAP Supply Chain Management and specifically, we are experts in the traceability and automation space. If SAP EM, OER, GTT, GTS, GBT, TM, EDI, AIF and PI are no foreign to you then you will begin to see a bigger focus on these topics in our blogs going forward. IOT and Blockchain are also near and dear to our hearts as we see the great potential that these technologies are already bringing to the Supply Chain process. Exciting times call for exciting changes... Join us for this new Journey. Discover the new Supply Chain - The 4th Generation Supply Chain with us...

Blockchain to Drive Next Generation Supply Chain

SAP Supply Chain Management Overview Video

10 Best practices to gain immediate, actionable insight into your supply chain events across your extended supply chain

Article by Kevin Wilson of ERPGenie LLC - Optimizing your Supply Chain.
Extended Supply Chains have the following characteristics:

• Multiple geographies – Where do your customers and partners reside?
• Multiple languages and currencies
• Multiple systems – SAP, EDI, Web site, ...
• 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?

SAP S/4HANA release improves supply chain performance and productivity - Inside SAP

Read all the details at Inside SAP: "The new SAP S/4HANA 1610 release harnesses a simplified data model and the SAP Fiori 2.0 user experience to reduce complexity, improve supply chain performance and increase business productivity, improving customer service and increasing profits for organisations across industries.

  The 1610 release uses prediction and pattern recognition capabilities and machine learning to reduce exception management for routine transactions, enabling employees to focus on higher-value tasks aided by embedded analytics and real-time insights. The release also improves supply chain performance with real-time insights, increased agility and reduced lead times."

Digitalizing the Extended Supply Chain

Products, manufacturing, assets and the entire supply chain are being transformed by digital technology. The early adapters are winning, and organizations that respond will make dramatic gains in productivity, innovation and value. Those that fall behind lose competitive advantage and the ability to seek out new opportunities.

Join us at the International SAP Conferences on Extended Supply Chain, the first event of its kind, bringing together SAP’s entire Extended Supply Chain solution portfolio across six events in one location.

1. Supply Chain
2. Product Lifecycle Management 
3. Portfolio and Project Management
4. Manufacturing
5. Asset Management
6. Environment, Health and Safety Management 

Nowhere else in 2016 will you have the opportunity to understand how SAP innovation is driving end-to-end visibility across the extended supply chain. Regardless of your industry or line of business, you will find a breadth of content, customer case studies, deep dives, solution road maps, and much more.
This event offers a unique opportunity to move freely across six co-located conferences – register for one event and move across all six co-located conferences depending on your topics of interest. 

To download the brochures and to register - Click Here

Use discount code ERPGXSCM16_10 (case sensitive) to obtain a 10% discount when registering for any of these 6 events. 

Please note that this discount is not valid for any workshop registrations and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers including the early bird offer.

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The benefits of SAP Event Management to the Supply Chain

The benefits of SAP EM are dependent on the specific challenges an organization faces. This blog describes common challenges that we face today and the 2nd part of the blog will show how SAP EM can be leveraged to address this issues.

Creating a Premier Order-to-Cash Process (Mark Wells)

Mark Wells wrote a nice little article on the Order to Cash process. See the full article here from his blog "Supply Chain Action Blog". An excerpt from the blog follows:

A premier O2C process possesses the following hallmarks:

1) Standardization.  That is not to say that all orders are treated in the same way, but that you have determined beforehand what types of orders you will receive and how each type will be handled.  Standardization applies to how orders are anticipated, qualified, promised, priced, allocated, fulfilled, invoiced, collected and serviced.

Keeping Track of your Supply Chain - 8 1/2 key points to ponder

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 actionable insight we will simply running less effectively and ultimately end up paying more for the execution of our Supply Chain. Increased buffer stock to account for Supply Chain irregularities, poorly optimized reorder points and optimal order quantities, and so on... We have lived with chaos and exceptions for so long but there is hope; there is light at the end of the tunnel. We need to take charge of the Supply Chain and it all begins with gaining control through visibility in to what is actually happening.