Rigano joins MIPRO Northwest

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Rigano joins MIPRO Northwest

Michael Rigano to Lead MIPRO’s Expansion into Northwest USA June 17, 2013   MIPRO Consulting, a consultancy specializing in implementations, upgrades and optimizations of Oracle’s PeopleSoft applications, announced today the hire of Michael Rigano as Director, Northwest Region.  MIPRO President and CEO Jim Prokes made the announcement.   With more than 20 years of PeopleSoft

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PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: Optimization

Picking up where we left off, everyone. Today’s topic: optimization. You can use the Strategic Sourcing optimization engine to analyze bids online or by using the batch process — Sourcing Optimization process (AUC_OPT_AE) — by using specific business constraints. The optimization engine recommends an award allocation based on best price, total cost, or score. You

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Making Baseball Better

Now that hockey is pretty much done and all my favorite sports are on hiatus until fall, I also use steroids so if you are interested to increase your performance take a look at steroids for sale roids, it’s time to make baseball more interesting. To me, this means adding fake British commentary. Like this:

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Offbeat Advice I Wish I Was Given in School

Michael Lazerow, LinkedIn Influencer and entrepreneur lists some advice he wishes he was given in school. I could easily quote the whole article, but I won’t. Here’s a sampling: Play a sport. What you don’t learn in art class you’ll pick up on the field. Doodle often. It’s your brain on auto drive. You never

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University Business Article

MIPRO Featured in University Business   In a time when many organizations are looking to do more with less, one solution is to look at maintenance processes and costs of institutional assets. MIPRO Consulting, a Michigan based consultancy specializing in Oracle’s PeopleSoft applications, regularly works with organizations of all sizes in a variety of industries

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MIPRO Consulting retained by Covanta

MIPRO Consulting Retained by Covanta Energy for PeopleSoft Implementation June 3, 2013   MIPRO Consulting, a Milford, Mich.-based consultancy specializing in implementations, upgrades and optimizations of Oracle’s PeopleSoft applications, announced today that they have been retained by Covanta Energy, one of the world’s largest owners and operators of infrastructure for the conversion of waste-to-energy and

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PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 Overview

Here is a brief (~10 minute) PowerPoint overview of PeopleSoft 9.2 HCM, something we’re hearing about literally every day. Over the next couple weeks we will build on this topic (discussing things like Guided Life Events and Payroll Modeler), but for now this overview is a summary of the new 9.2 HCM platform. Sorry for

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PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: Analyzing Bids

Okay, picking up where we left off last week. If you use PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing or are considering doing so, this information will be very useful. Once vendors have entered their bids, we can begin to analyze them.  You can analyze bids at any time during an event, or you can wait until it ends.

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The Promise of Big Data (& Dawn of 21st Century Problems)

Cam Davidson-Pilon has an excellent blog post about 21st Century Problems. In it, he posits one of the best explanations of the promise of Big Data I’ve yet to come across: 21st Century problems are statistical problems Statistical problems describe the space we haven’t explored yet. Statistical problems are not new: they are likely as

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PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing Bid Response

Okay, finally this Strategic Sourcing blog series is coming off hiatus. We thank everyone for their patience. We had a few technical environment snags to comb out. Let’s pick up where we left off: if you recall, we had discussed and demonstrated creating a sourcing event, so let’s focus on entering responses to that sourcing event. It’s

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