This meeting was held on Thursday March 31st, 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.  It will be co-located with the Pittsburgh ASUG Chapter meeting and coordinated with the SAP University Alliance Program.

Very special thanks to all of our sponsors:  University of Pittsburgh Center for Supply Chain Management, APOS, DecisionFirst Technologies (a Protiviti Enterprise), GB&Smith and Infosol.

                  

Katz School of Business        DecisionFirst Technologies         GB&Smith            InfoSol   

Location: University of Pittsburgh William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

 

PGHBOUG Agenda: 

08:00 – 08:30  Registration and Breakfast

08:30 – 08:45  Welcome & Announcements – Mark Hopkins, Tammy Datri

08:45 – 09:00  Pitt Center for Supply Chain Management Overview Eric Paljug,  University of Pittsburgh SCM

09:00 – 09:45  Partnering for Process Improvement: A Pitt Six Sigma Case Study - Jim Kimpel, University of Pittsburgh

09:45 – 10:00  Break

10:00 – 11:00  Blue Buffalo: Using Real-Time Operational Analytics to Transform Decision Making - Brian Jordan, Director, Data & Analytics, DecisionFirst Technologies - A Provtiviti Enterprise

11:00 – 12:00  Get, Set, Go Mobile BI Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol

12:00 – 01:00  Birds of a Feather Lunch

01:00 – 02:00  Boost Life Cycle Management and Backup & Recovery Best Practices - Sebastien Goiffon, GB&Smith

02:00 – 02:50   UNX AdoptionFred Walther & Peter Warren, APOS Systems

02:50 – 03:00   Break

03:00 – 04:00   Xcelsius vs Lumira & Design Studio Rajesh Ponnurangam, Infosol

04:00 – 04:15   General announcements (IBIS, SABOC, GBN, openSAP, SAP Influence Opportunities)

04:15 – 04:30   Wrap-up and Giveaways – PGHBOUG Steering Committee & ASUG Chapter

 

ASUG Chapter Meeting Agenda: 

08:00 – 08:30  Registration and Breakfast

08:30 – 08:45  Welcome & Announcements – Mark Hopkins, Tammy Datri

08:45 – 09:00  Pitt Center for Supply Chain Management Overview Eric Paljug,  University of Pittsburgh SCM

09:00 – 09:45  Boosting Warehouse Efficiency with SAPUI5-Based Barcode Scanning Mobile App – Ritesh Menon, Icture, LLC

09:45 – 10:00  Break

10:00 – 11:00  Ariba Integrated Implementation to SAP - The Rules before Tools Paradox - Meredith Baldock, Westinghouse Electric Company

11:00 – 12:00  SAP Workflow - Why Companies are not using Workflow as much as they Should - Peter Demtschenko, LeverX

12:00 – 01:00  Birds of a Feather Lunch

01:00 – 02:00  Good Things Come in an XS Package – A leading Fortune 500 company Implementation of HANA XS Web and Mobile Applications - Brian Halas, Hitachi Data Systems

02:00 – 03:00   Business Process Efficiency using Winshuttle - Dale Whitaker, Braskem America

03:00 – 04:00   Xcelsius vs Lumira & Design Studio – Rajesh Ponnurangam, Infosol

04:00 – 04:15   General announcements

04:15 – 04:30   Wrap-up and Giveaways – PGHBOUG Steering Committee & ASUG Chapter

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us at info@pghboug.org.