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This is perhaps that the nth time that I begin my journey with blogging. All earlier attempts - in forms on monologues/collablogging have been guided by interests other than professional. This time around, I intend to keep the theme of this blog distinctly around my work and the industry I live day in and out. In this introduction, I outline some of the areas which readers can expect to be covered on this journey!
My tryst with Enterprise Integration is now five years old - from summer internship at a big4 Consulting firm to Application consulting, Project Management, Pre-Sales and Business Development role at a premier supply chain consulting services firm! - It has been truly exciting and I look forward to make it even more! In this blog, I try to share my views as a insider/bystander/someone who goes out and hears customer needs and wants. My blog is going to carry certain imprints which I outline below.
Supply Chain process perspectives across Manufacturing Industries ranging from Dairy, Paints, Pharmaceuticals, CPG, Tyres, Industrial Machinery & Components, Auto and Auto Components, Textiles, Fertilizers - is what I have gathered over these years and this blog is certainly going to share the perspective from these industries!
I take the opportunity in blog to focus on the business processes(The so much used and abused word!!) - esp. supply chain process - Sales, Distribution, Production, Storage, Procurement - their Planning, Execution and Monitoring. This is 90% of what I hear, share, read and write at my work!
Coming to the Business Applications, My tryst with Application software has been 100% SAP - and the readers can certainly make out a strong imprint of the SAP thought in this blog. While Organizations get silo-ed with departments/functions, the business application consulting has had its own share of siloes where Planning and Execution Consultants are Silo-ed. These Silos are tall enough - so much so that it may be difficult to find a single materials consultant who could provide expertise on materials Planning, sourcing and logistics. Instead, what we would find in a SAP world, would be a SAP MM, SRM and APO consultant for each of the areas. While this trend has more been shaped & sharpened by SAP's product strategy, nevertheless, the bridge is wide enough to be bridged in the near future. What I try in this blog is to take a sincere effort to share and gather perspective which are enterprise wide and not sil-oed.
Finally, the strongest thought that has driven me to writing is the search for the Next Wave. In the enterprise application consulting, we have been witness to some great trends - From vanilla SAP Execution processes to more tactical, strategic processes being covered under the product - Planning, Budgeting. From a organization-centric view(APS), we have moved to the extended enterprise view with PLM, CRM and SRM! ~Are we running out of lasting waves? Or are there more Waves to come? - Service Oriented Architecture(SoA), Real-Time Collaboration, Business Process Management(BPM), Software as a Service(SaaS),Google Wave(Is that an idea of integrating Text, Email, Business Applications, Chat, Webmeetings in one go!!!)
Ride on with me as we discover all this and MORE!!!!
This is perhaps that the nth time that I begin my journey with blogging. All earlier attempts - in forms on monologues/collablogging have been guided by interests other than professional. This time around, I intend to keep the theme of this blog distinctly around my work and the industry I live day in and out. In this introduction, I outline some of the areas which readers can expect to be covered on this journey!
My tryst with Enterprise Integration is now five years old - from summer internship at a big4 Consulting firm to Application consulting, Project Management, Pre-Sales and Business Development role at a premier supply chain consulting services firm! - It has been truly exciting and I look forward to make it even more! In this blog, I try to share my views as a insider/bystander/someone who goes out and hears customer needs and wants. My blog is going to carry certain imprints which I outline below.
Supply Chain process perspectives across Manufacturing Industries ranging from Dairy, Paints, Pharmaceuticals, CPG, Tyres, Industrial Machinery & Components, Auto and Auto Components, Textiles, Fertilizers - is what I have gathered over these years and this blog is certainly going to share the perspective from these industries!
I take the opportunity in blog to focus on the business processes(The so much used and abused word!!) - esp. supply chain process - Sales, Distribution, Production, Storage, Procurement - their Planning, Execution and Monitoring. This is 90% of what I hear, share, read and write at my work!
Coming to the Business Applications, My tryst with Application software has been 100% SAP - and the readers can certainly make out a strong imprint of the SAP thought in this blog. While Organizations get silo-ed with departments/functions, the business application consulting has had its own share of siloes where Planning and Execution Consultants are Silo-ed. These Silos are tall enough - so much so that it may be difficult to find a single materials consultant who could provide expertise on materials Planning, sourcing and logistics. Instead, what we would find in a SAP world, would be a SAP MM, SRM and APO consultant for each of the areas. While this trend has more been shaped & sharpened by SAP's product strategy, nevertheless, the bridge is wide enough to be bridged in the near future. What I try in this blog is to take a sincere effort to share and gather perspective which are enterprise wide and not sil-oed.
Finally, the strongest thought that has driven me to writing is the search for the Next Wave. In the enterprise application consulting, we have been witness to some great trends - From vanilla SAP Execution processes to more tactical, strategic processes being covered under the product - Planning, Budgeting. From a organization-centric view(APS), we have moved to the extended enterprise view with PLM, CRM and SRM! ~Are we running out of lasting waves? Or are there more Waves to come? - Service Oriented Architecture(SoA), Real-Time Collaboration, Business Process Management(BPM), Software as a Service(SaaS),Google Wave(Is that an idea of integrating Text, Email, Business Applications, Chat, Webmeetings in one go!!!)
Ride on with me as we discover all this and MORE!!!!
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