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Unlocking the Power of SAP IBP 5 Ways to Achieve Supply Chain Excellence By Clay Thomas, Principal, Argano In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations face numerous challenges when it comes to optimizing their supply chains. Multiple or non-scalable ERPs and other systems, manual and rote work processes, and limited visibility across an entire networkRead more

Driving Value Through Digital Transformation An Insider’s Debrief of SAPinsider 2023 By Clay Thomas, Principal, Argano Last month Argano attended the SAPinsider event, which featured global experts and leaders in the SAP Community coming together and discussing challenges, opportunities, and the latest trends in digital transformation. One topic that came up repeatedly was that, toRead more

How Fossil Group is Transforming its Business with SAP Get the Inside Scoop at SAPinsider 2023 By Clay Thomas, Principal, Argano Digital transformation, or a move from on-prem, legacy-based applications to hosted and cloud-accessible subscription applications, is crucial for companies looking to gain a competitive edge in today’s marketplace. Leading organizations are responding to disruptionsRead more

Yo! Sound the Bell, School’s in Sucka! Time to Budget and Set Priorities for 2023 By Clay Thomas, Principal ArganoSCMO2 I’m a kid of the 80’s, and so it’s that time of year when I can’t help but think of the infamous MC Hammer lyric: “Yo! Sound the bell, school’s in sucka!” This year’s budgetRead more

Put a ‘W’ in Your Supply Chain Column Improve Your Odds of “Winning” Even Before You Launch Any New Initiatives By Clay Thomas, Principal ArganoSCMO2 Inflation. An over-heated economy. Persistent supply challenges. Winning customer fulfillment—and winning the bottom line—is made much more difficult in today’s business environment, especially when you are still relying on homegrownRead more

Don’t Sweat the Transformation You Can Drive Success Across People, Process, Technology and Data Dimensions By Clay Thomas, Principal ArganoSCMO2 Just because temperatures are rising with the onset of summer doesn’t mean you also need to feel the heat in your transformation to modern supply chain cloud tools. Nearly everyone we talk with indicates thatRead more

SAP Sapphire 2022: In One Word? The Return to an In-Person Event Was Many Things, but One Thing Specifically Stood Out By Clay Thomas, Principal ArganoSCMO2 For those of you who attended SAP Sapphire 2022 in Orlando recently, I wonder … if you had to choose one word to summarize this year’s event, what wouldRead more

Looking Through Sustainability-Colored Glasses Supply Chain Improvement is a Sustainability Investment By Clay Thomas, Principal ArganoSCMO2 Sustainability is now in the everyday business lexicon—everyone wants to say they’re doing it and most companies’ annually stated goals show it as a high priority. But it is important to understand both how differently the term is definedRead more

Working from Home is No Vacation! Not Reporting to the Office Regularly has Actually Meant More Work—but are We Working Better? By Clay Thomas, Principal SCMO2 As I’m sure most of you reading have also experienced, the work habits we have spent a career developing have changed dramatically. Management consulting is traditionally performed face-to-face asRead more

Supplier Semantics—Collaboration and Integration This is Not a Standard Tom-AY-to and Tom-AH-to Comparison By Clay Thomas, Principal ArganoSCMO2 In an environment where supply chain links are ever shortening, and volatility in both geographical disparity and total volumes are increasing, you may wonder about the difference between collaboration and integration. To me, their uses with respectRead more