SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII)

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I have to gain some basic knowledge on SAP MII. To do it I was reviewing some basic information and looking for some business scenarios that help me to understand the whole thing. To understand the solution, just attend to the name: MII. Manufacturing, nothing to say here, Integration, it basically tries to integrate the … Read more

Where is the money?

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During last years there is a clear change of trend about the IT expenditure. The reality is that big portion of IT expenditure is done outside of the IT departments. It is done in other departments (Sales & marketing, engineering, HHRR, finance, laboratory). IT departments are mainly focused on the investments on major common platforms, … Read more

Web time response

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I have found a list of pages that enable the users to measure time response in different manners. http://gtmetrix.com/ (PDF reports, history data & comparative) http://loadimpact.com/ (redundant users analysis) http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/ (Page Speed Insights by Google) http://tools.pingdom.com/ http://webwait.com/ (time response measure) http://www.webpagetest.org/ (Web Page Performance Test) Load Impact site offers a very nice service that is … Read more

Mobility ideas, field services

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I have been talking to a customer of crop protection industry and how they are trying to improve their customer support. One of the ideas he was commenting me was the plans they have to improve the service support of the agriculture with smart phones. The agriculture has an smart phone, this added to the … Read more

Combining Six sigma tools

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Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Cause &Effect diagram (fish bone) are very similar in some of the cases. They have some pros that combined could result into a better tool. FTA provides so much value information: Logical dependency between causes (AND, OR) Probability of occurrence of a cause expressed on % Fish bone diagram categorizes … Read more

Survive

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Survive, this is the more powerful fuel you can have, the need to survive is a basic instinct that is there and when it’s pushed, it works and put people on motion. People often move or react by different reasons, some have positive connotation (motivation, love, ambition…) or negative (fear, risk of accident, ambition…), anyway. … Read more

Career plan

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Read this article, it talks about the different phases of a professional career. I see so many interesting comments and details on the article: 3 phases of a career, how to balance it with your live, comments about how to move from one place to other. It’s really a nice and clear analysis. The only … Read more

APQC

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American Productivity & Quality Center provides business benchmarking, best practices, and knowledge management research. Their mission is to help organizati ons to improve productivity and quality by discovering effective methods of improvement, broadly disseminating findings, and connecting individuals with one another and with the knowledge they need to improve. Very useful information to learn about … Read more