With an unprecedented display of transparency, SAP recently announced (Sapphire Orlando) that it would make SAP HANA instances available to developers in Amazon Cloud (AWS EC2). You can check out the official announcement on SAP’s “Experience SAP HANA” site. Getting your own HANA sandbox up and running is relatively straight forward, particularly if you already have an AWS account. There are also a couple of handy tutorials to get you started. Check out the developer guide HERE.
Archives for June 2012
Time-Phased Planning in CBP and MRP
If a vendor always delivers a material on a particular day of the week, it makes sense to plan this material according to the same cycle in which it is delivered. Time-Phased Planning is an ideal solution for this scenario. Materials that are planned using the time-phased planning technique are provided with an MRP date in […]
Blue Harbor’s New SAP Cloud Shipping Solution Highlights
We are currently building a cloud-based SAP shipping solution. Here’s Matt Langford’s quick overview of the upcoming solution: The SAP Cloud Shipping Solution is similar to our existing SAP Express Ship Solution, except the web service mapping is hosted and maintained by Blue Harbors “in the cloud”. This eliminates the need to do any mapping […]
What Is SAP HANA?
SAP’s High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) exploits the advantages of In-Memory Computing that allows the processing of massive quantities of real time data in the main memory of the server to provide immediate results from analyses and transactions by combining SAP software components optimized on hardware provided and delivered by SAP leading hardware partners. SAP HANA […]
ABAP Code For Sending XML Messages via HTTP / HTTPS
The following ABAP function module source code is for a generic HTTP client. It allows you to send XML messages in any format via HTTP/HTTPS, with just a few mapping table entries. Blue Harbors uses this client with Express Ship Cloud Solution.
How Express Shipping Drives Down Operating Costs
Factors contributing to building a compelling business case for implementing the SAP shipping solution include: (1) fully considering all departments within the business which will benefit from the solution, (2) quantifying the benefits in terms of dollars, and (3) properly communicating this value proposition in your business case.
SAP Shipping Solution – Cost/Benefit Calculator
Blue Harbors was created by a team of technical and business saavy SAP consultants back in 2001. That is evident in the solutions and services they provide. However, there is one area of the business that is “under construction”, and that is the marketing and sales aspect of the business. That’s where I come in. […]