SAP Projects
Implementing SAP projects is an undertaking, which is more than than a change to your IT infrastructure. SAP, as any other ERP system, will act as the platform for operating your business processes and by this, be the deciding factor to determine how, how fast and how efficient your corporation can adjust business operations to upcoming changes, implement new lines of businesses, open new sales offices or production plants and develop and launch new products.
SAP offers the right, flexible platform for you and, with an well-managed implementation, ensures that your system is able to deliver the business benefits you require.
Many recently launched SAP products will give you many further benefits ahead of the daily transaction operation with SAP ECC and SAP R/3 - so with SAP RPM (Resource and Portfolio Management) with strategic project planning, evaluation, what-if scenarios and cross-project financials and capacity management, SAP GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) to fully automate user-access to systems, monitor and control your business process operation to protect you from fraud, theft and mistakes, manage Risks to your business operations and SAP CPM (Corporate Performance Management), which enables you to operate and control all aspects of your business operations from a single point of control.
Architecture
Your SAP architecture will determine significantly the abilities of your SAP system and also, to which extend it will be possible to adjust and enhance the functionality based on future requirements and business necessities. The right use of the right modules, solutions and applications will have a big impact on initial and also on operational costs, efforts and available functionality..
Have a look at out dedicated sections for:
SAP Enterprise Project Management
SAP GRC - Governance, Risk & Compliance
SCM - Supply Chain Management
SAP SCM can help transform your supply chain into a responsive supply network – in which communities of customer-centric, demand-driven companies share knowledge, intelligently adapt to changing market conditions, and proactively respond to shorter, less predictable life cycles. SAP SCM provides broad functionality for enabling responsive supply networks and integrates seamlessly with both SAP and non-SAP software. The application:
- Delivers planning and execution functions that are integrated by design
- Supports best practices and provides preconfigured software for enabling collaborative business, accelerating implementation, and reducing costs
- Is recognized by key industry analysts as the market-leading SCM application.
CRM - Customer relationship management
The SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application provides best-in-class functionality for marketing, sales, and service. By supporting customer-facing business processes across multiple interaction channels, SAP CRM enables organizations to focus on strategies for customer-driven growth and to differentiate themselves in the market by providing a superior customer experience.
With SAP CRM, you get the help you need to delight your customers, empower your teams, and grow your business. SAP CRM has helped the best-run companies in more than 25 industries make the most of their relationships with customers. With SAP CRM, your organization can capitalize on customer insight, improve front-line efficiency and effectiveness, streamline critical business processes across customer touch points, and quickly adapt to changing business and customer needs.
SRM - Supplier relationship management
Many businesses are seeking to increase bottom-line cost savings delivered by sourcing and procurement functions. By focusing on procurement operations as profit centers, forward-looking companies are strengthening supplier relationships and making procurement a more strategic partner in the organization.
The SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) application automates, simplifies, and accelerates procure-to-pay processes for goods and services. With SAP SRM, you can reduce procurement costs, build collaborative supplier relationships, better manage supply bases, and improve your bottom line with innovative offerings and a faster time to market. Part of the SAP Business Suite family of business applications, SAP SRM delivers an integrated solution for automating goods and services procurement processes and extending the value delivered by SAP Business Suite.
Business Intelligence BI / Business Objects BO
The SAP BusinessObjects intelligence platform breaks the barriers of traditional business intelligence to ensure that all of your business users – enterprise-wide – have immediate access to reliable business information – so they can do their jobs efficiently and effectively. SAP BusinessObjects XI solutions include SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise software, as well as software for information discovery and delivery; information management; and query, reporting, and analysis. With these solutions, you can establish a business intelligence (BI) platform that provides immediate access to trusted business information. With SAP BusinessObjects XI, you can benefit from:
- All information – Bring together all the information required for confident decision making.
- All people – Achieve alignment across people, teams, and your business ecosystem.
- One platform – Leverage a single, integrated platform for meeting BI and information management needs.
By providing one of the best platforms for heterogeneous environments, a refined user experience for analysts and business users, and real-world BI deployment flexibility, SAP BusinessObjects XI delivers insight through a single, trusted BI platform and it redefines the way information empowers users. SAP BusinessObjects XI delivers on the promise of a true intelligence platform – one that gives customers the best of execution and the best of strategy. Most importantly, it provides the means to align and connect strategies in a closed-loop system.
XI / PI Process integration
SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) enables you to manage end-to-end process integration using a standards-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure.
SAP NetWeaver PI provides the technical foundation for SOA and delivers:
- Enterprise Services Repository (ES Repository) – ES Repository is the central location in which enterprise services are modeled and where enterprise services metadata is stored.
- Enterprise services bus – The enterprise services bus enables direct communication between a provider application that implements an enterprise service and a consumer application that uses the enterprise service.
- Pre-delivered integration scenario With support for open standards, SAP NetWeaver Process Integration supports process-centric collaboration among SAP and non-SAP applications, both within and beyond enterprise boundaries.
With SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, you can:
- Accelerate process innovation using enterprise services and process components – SAP NetWeaver PI delivers enterprise services and prepackaged integration content, such as interface schemas, mappings, business process components, and business scenario components for the rapid assembly of new business processes using model-based tools.
- Connect applications and data sources to integrate processes – SAP NetWeaver PI supports integration through standards-based XML and WS-based messaging.
- Reduce integration costs using industry-standard protocols and partner adapters – SAP NetWeaver PI supports industry-standard protocols to improve communication with business partners.
It also provides an open adapter framework that allows you to use partner adapters to extend connectivity across the entire business network.
- Manage business processes through their life cycle – SAP NetWeaver PI delivers model-based tools, which you can use to design, orchestrate, execute, monitor, and analyze business processes.
- Support business-to-business integration – SAP NetWeaver PI enables you to maintain partner information and communicate with B2B partners through an agreed protocol using industry-standard protocols, such as RosettaNet.
- Automate and monitor business processes – SAP NetWeaver PI enables you to automate repetitive tasks using the business execution programming language (BPEL) whenever predefined data flows are required.
With business activity monitoring (BAM), you can monitor processes, manage exceptions, and improve process efficiency.