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ERP usability
Jan 18, 2019
Minimizing SAP training in the Oil & Gas industry
Some of the largest Oil & Gas companies in the world are changing their working rotas for offshore operations, bringing a huge organizational change and a lot of hiring. Find out how our customers are using Winshuttle to reduce dramatically the SAP training required for all the new hires.
May 3, 2017
How ERP Data Entry Requirements Lead to Data Quality Issues
In this post, find out how ERP data entry requirements often lead to severe data quality issues in the enterprise.
Apr 26, 2017
Are You Experiencing Complexity and Usability Issues in ERP?
In this post, we’ll explore several complexity and usability issues that ERP users know all too well.
Jan 8, 2014
Eli Lilly, Six Sigma and Winshuttle’s Business Value Assessment
How Eli Lilly used the Winshuttle BVA to form the basis for an accelerated Six Sigma week.
Sep 12, 2013
Applying the best of ourselves to the task at hand…
Vince Lombardi, a prolific American football coach (gridiron for some of you) once said “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand”. Understanding how Winshuttle wins and how we lose, provides invaluable insights into the way we conduct our business. And gives us the opportunity to continue to improve our ability to apply the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Our product marketing team recently conducted 24 interviews with SAP clients –… Read more
Nov 15, 2011
SAP Process Time Savings Part 2
In a prior blog, I discussed the work that we are doing to improve the confidence in our business value assessment process and metrics. I highlighted an example of ME21N (Create Purchase Order) – the challenges associated with the variability of time savings associated with Winshuttle optimization; and how the use of confidence interval statistics help to identify metrics that provide us with a level of accuracy in our assessments. Of course that was one and only one example, and if you have been reading this series on the BVA process you know that we have over 700 various SAP… Read more
Apr 25, 2011
SAP self-service for ERP
When self-service solutions and SAP are mentioned together, many SAP people think of human resources or SAP HCM ESS/MSS solutions. However, many scenarios beyond HR find employees and corporate partners having a reliance on SAP power users in order to complete their work tasks. Rather than having to go through these power users, couldn’t tasks (including and beyond HR) be completed more efficiently by empowering employees, suppliers and partners with access to SAP via self-service applications? In the early 2000’s there was a big information technology initiative entitled “Business to Employee – B2E” that attempted to address this broad-base approach… Read more
Mar 16, 2011
The Winshuttle Top 10 SAP TCode Process Improvements
Ever thought – “What are the most popular transactions for Winshuttle?”; “Which companies are like us and what are they doing with SAP and Winshuttle?” To start to answer some of these questions, let’s take a look at some of the key findings of our recent log file analysis. A couple of interesting findings – PA30 (Maintain HR Master Data) emerge into the top 10 use cases from 33place in 2010. Also, FBL5N went from 95place to one of the top 5 transactions in 2011. This reflects the power of this transaction for not only looking up data but using… Read more
Mar 2, 2011
If it’s not bad development, is it bad requirements gathering?
How often haven’t we looked at a piece of software and considered that piece of software to be a piece of junk? It doesn’t do what it says on the tin or it doesn’t solve my problem. When prodded a little further, one quickly determines that the critique is actually more around the behavior of the software artifact itself and not the fundamental premise upon which the software was developed, in other words, the requirements. Comments like, doesn’t show more than ten characters tells me for example, that the developer didn’t consider a scenario for more than ten characters, probably… Read more
Jan 30, 2011
ERP Usability – A Brief Overview
ERP Usability? What’s the fuss? Where did ideas for ERP usability evolve from? Sometimes we see these terms and really don’t have an idea where they came. Since I have been digging into this a little bit recently as part of my ongoing studies, I thought I’d discuss some of the basic principles of technology acceptance and how these principles come into play as it relates to ERP usability. Although research on ERP usability has been around and evolving for quite a while, the issue is still critical and clearly ERP usability is still a challenge with enterprises worldwide. With… Read more