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From Fragility to Resilience: Strengthening Supply Chain Strategy Four Crucial Steps to Upgrading Your Supply Chain By Matt Campbell, Founder ArganoSCMO2 Like COVID-19 itself, the world’s supply chain problems aren’t going away. For many businesses, the pandemic continues to expose intricate, brutal and—in some cases, terrifying production and delivery problems. At ArganoSCMO2, we’ve seen firsthandRead more

Back to School is Different for Demand Planners Too The Shift to Virtual Massively Impacts Supply Chains, but You Can Come Out Ahead By Matt Campbell, Founder SCMO2 This week is back to school for kids in Atlanta, and as we prepare to start the year with virtual learning, I can’t help but think aboutRead more

Exciting IBP Game-Changing Functionality on the Way! New Capabilities Will Change the Trajectory for Many Businesses By Matt Campbell, Founder SCMO2 SCMO2 attended the Digital Supply Chain Partner summit at SAP’s Newtown Square headquarters last week and gained some insights on new developments coming to all the DSC portfolio products including, IBP, EWM, TM, PLM,Read more

The Neutral Objectivity of an SAP Gold Partner SAP Partnership Does Not Imply Platform Bias By Matt Campbell, Founder SCMO2 SCMO2 recently became an SAP Gold Partner, and no doubt we are very proud to have achieved this milestone in our growth as a company. But this post is not about what that means forRead more

SAP Purchase Incentives for Migrating from APO to IBP No Better Time than Now to Make the Switch By Matt Campbell, Founder SCMO2 For every company there exists an optimal time to begin the migration from APO to IBP. Are you ready for it? For your organization, that time may be now. Consulting firms thatRead more

Modernizing Your SAP Business Suite Products Developing Your Roadmap for IBP and S/4 HANA By Matt Campbell, Founder SCMO2 During strategic roadmapping sessions with customers, I see the sequence of transitioning business processes from “expiring” products to SAP’s latest products frequently cause great angst. It happens regardless of whether the client is moving from non-SAPRead more

We all prefer a straight sale over a POC that elongates the sales cycle. But the evolving functionality of IBP can cause some customers to proceed a bit more cautiously before fully committing to an implementation. SCMO2 experienced this recently in pursuit of an IBP project with B Braun Medical. Revenues were strong, but internalRead more

Georgia-Pacific, a pulp and paper manufacturer is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products and related chemicals. With plans in place to move from ECC to S/4, and JDA to IBP over a 3-5 year implementation period, senior planners became concerned that the existing JDA planning systemRead more

General Mills, a global manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer foods sold through retail stores, approached SCMO2 nearly a year ago to as they began strategizing for implementation of an upgrade to their APO infrastructure. After performing a system assessment, SCMO2 recommended a suite of specific APO enhancements that would be most effective to theirRead more

The exclusive SCMO2 IBP Executive Forum roadshow has been going now for more than two years. To date, SCMO2 has held IBP Executive Forums in Chicago, Orlando, Minneapolis, Dallas, Newtown Square, Atlanta and Phoenix as well as an online webinar version. Live IBP Demos Feedback received and results gained from these intense half-day lunch-and-learn sessionsRead more