Advanced Planning & Optimization (APO)

Hi,

We have an immediate requirement for SAP functional consultants with a
ready visa.
Pls send your updated

CV and contact details for a discussion if this
interests you.
Pls send your CV to

roopasharma@impetussolutions.net
Regards,
Roopa
0124 4049939
roopasharma@impetussolutions.net

A global

service provider of information and communication solutions
focussing majorly on the manufacturing, Healthcare,

Chemicals and

BHP Billiton is the world's largest diversified resources company. BHP developed a Strategic Value Chain management

simulation to allow the organization to input market information and demand, and cascade this demand down the value chain to

identify how and where resources needed to be drawn from, and to what extent the organization was required to restructure its

distribution. At the same time, the simulation allows management to explore with various strategic policies, like adding a

new mine, adding a new alloy plant, adding and/or changing the distribution lines, etc. The results of the simulation have

been very good, and it is today used across the organization within all the main segments of the value chain, as well as for

a top-level management view on the entire value chain.

More details here:

href="http://justinlyonandsimulation.blogspot.com/">http://justinlyonandsimulation.blogspot.com

Finding this

information out has proven to be rather tricky. Simulation companies are pretty tight-lipped organizations. Maybe because of

all their ties to military work??

Anyway, it seems that inidividuals can purchase games (£20-£125),

software (£30 - £800) and books (£20-£60). The price range for individuals to purchase simulation

software spans a wide and not so clearly understandable range. For example, you can buy mystrategy for £65

and do 80% of your analytical work or you can drop something like $2000 (USD) on buying the same type of software from

Powersim? Go figure. Why buy Powersim Studio? Well, two reasons I suppose: (1) you need to create links between SAP-SEM (or

BW) and your simulation; or (2) you need to create an enterprise level simulation.

But WAIT...you can use any

system dynamics software (vensim, iSee, Powersim, myStrategy) and strip out the equations (think of the equations as a

programming language) and compile them into executable code, slap on a slick web interface and BOOM you've got yourself a

networked simulation ready to go! HVR has a simulation compiler -- talk to Dr. Dave

Exelby -- email me and I'll send you

his details.

Off-the-shelf simulations for training are becoming very popular. Most organizations spend

between £3,000 - £15,000 licensing simulation games for their internal training programs in strategy, business

administration, marketing, finance and others.

Simulation projects completed by HVR Consulting Services and others in the space range from £25,000 two-day working workshops to

£2.5 million IT system roll-outs for banks, oil & gas, FMCG and pharmaceutical companies. The average project fee

to develop a custom simulation to help management improve their decision making is ~£223,000 (based on analysis of

eight companies in the simulation space).To use three of GSD's simulation

games (unlimited, permanent use) would require a £28,350 investment on the part of the organization.

To use all of their simulations (unlimited, permanent use) would require a £73,800 investment.

Pricing and

licensing for using simulations in your training are flexible. GSD offers two ways of buying:

class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,

It is a difficult challenge to sell and market simulation and system dynamics. As a

sales agent for several simulation firms, I thought I’d share some of my thinking.

I'd love to get feedback from

the community. justin1028@yahoo.com

When we’re meeting with executives,

we try to focus on the challenges they are facing. It might be a desire to improve the output of an oil field or to cut

operational costs in a bank by closing branches or to optimise marketing spending across a portfolio of brands.

This is a book for the

Simulation Science - which is a body of knowledge that is contributing to the cutting edge of Forecasting and Simulation.

This has important implications for Business Analysis and Forecasting as it is done in SEM and APO. Read on.. as other users

join in the discussion!

More details here:

href="http://justinlyonandsimulation.blogspot.com/">http://justinlyonandsimulation.blogspot.com

Simulation Science,

in my mental model, is the application of 'linear science' **AND** 'nonlinear science' to solving problems in the real

world. Companies with investments in SAP-SEM BPS are extremely well-positioned to take advantage of the power of simulation

for radically improving the management of complex supply chains and global enterprises.

More details here:

href="http://justinlyonandsimulation.blogspot.com/">http://justinlyonandsimulation.blogspot.com

For the past fifty

years or so, Simulation Science has been extremely niche. That is going to change. We are at the tipping point

for Simulation Science.

The seeds of simulation

science were sown in the 1940's and 50's. Pioneers such as Noel Wiener, A. Rosenblueth, J. Bigelow, J. Von Neuman, M.

Mead, W. McCulloch, W. Pitts, J. Lettvin, L. Von Bertalanfy, J. Rachewsky and A. Rappaport spawned scientific theories

and numerous innovations including cybernetics, data processing, controls, servomechanisms, bionics, industrial robots,

and artificial intelligence. By the early 1960's, the advent of computers provided visionaries such as Jay Forrester with

the tools to unlock the mysteries of complex systems. Over the next three decades, Donella Meadows and Peter Senge

popularized insights from system studies. In the late 1990's, John Sterman and Kim Warren codified simulation insights into

practical management science.