Review the results of an IDC survey of 100 manufacturers across Europe. This report highlights focuses on reporting trends; the cost and consequences of regulatory non-compliance, including inventory write-offs and product recalls; and trends in operational risk management. (IDC, 2010).
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Examine how manufacturing execution systems can foster success as measured through quality, customer service, throughput, asset utilization, compliance, flexibility, inventory, and Six Sigma KPIs. (Cambashi, 2008).
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Discover how midsize companies can benefit from the SAP Business All-in-One solution, which has deep, industry-specific functionalities that can be adapted to meet your unique and changing business needs in an affordable, predictable way. Respond more quickly to changes in the marketplace and effectively control costs.
Learn how SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand offers complete, integrated business intelligence that extends your reporting and analysis of data in the Salesforce application from salesforce.com. This software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution is free to try and requires no dedicated hardware or software installation.
Learn how SAP software can help integrate plant-floor systems with core enterprise applications, enabling your company to gain greater visibility into and control over manufacturing operations. You can increase uptime, narrow process variability, react faster to process upsets, and satisfy customers more consistently.
Learn how Germany's largest Mercedes-Benz vehicle dealership switched all core processes – sales, repairs, spares, warranty, and financial accounting – to CARBON, its new dealer management software based on SAP Dealer Business Management, at one time. All operational processes were completely functional on day one.
Find out how SAP BusinessObjects Asset Analytics helps you track performance of physical assets on which your organization depends for ongoing business success. Integrated with SAP Enterprise Asset Management, it helps you set up asset management goals and make changes for continuous improvement.
Learn why companies that have already implemented basic manufacturing systems are finding new opportunities inside the plant, across the supply network of both owned and outsourced factories, and in product innovation. As a result, these companies can move more rapidly and effectively to compete. (Cambashi, 2011).
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Learn all about how SAP BusinessObjects Net Margin Analysis helps reduce direct and indirect costs to maximize overall net margin across all combinations of product, customer, sales organization, and channel.
Explore how prebuilt analytic applications and business intelligence make for better decision-making across many functions in your organization. IDC analyst, Henry Morris, theorizes on the future of analytics and their impact on business. (IDC, 2010).
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Find out how the business intelligence functionality in SAP Business All-in-One solutions can help your company gain visibility, insight, operational alignment, and accountability. As a result, your firm can increase revenue, margins, and liquidity; streamline processes; improve agility; and become a best-run business.
Use this detailed "feature by version, by edition" comparison table to understand and compare the functionality delivered in previous versions of SAP Crystal Reports and SAP Crystal Reports Server.
How is your automotive company ensuring compliance with complex environmental regulations? Do you have a full understanding of the requirements you have to meet? SAP offers a compliance assessment for sustainability regulations to help you make informed decisions about compliance processes and IT investments.
Competitive strength depends on the performance of the extended value chain. Boosting profitability means aligning product and service development with core capabilities. Learn how SAP Business Suite can help you manage these challenges and take a proactive approach to sustained and continuous innovation.
Learn how you can connect with customers and suppliers for business-to-business e-commerce more affordably with SAP Information Interchange OnDemand. Using prebuilt profiles, you can make changes within your supply chain quickly using a minimum of your valuable resources.
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Find out about the tools SAP Business One provides to help you turn prospects into customers, grow customer sales and profitability, and increase customer satisfaction. Learn how you can automate processes and efficiently manage activities throughout the entire sales cycle, from initial contact to after-sales support.
Learn how Cat Logistics implements demand planning and how the company leverages its experience to support service-parts logistics needs and develop best-in-class processes that it can apply across industries.
Find out how companies are differentiating their brands through superior issue management with SAP Quality Issue Management. The SAP QIM application helps identify, monitor, and analyze quality problems. Integration with other SAP and non-SAP applications delivers a comprehensive view of quality issues and triggers appropriate follow-up.
Read how Cat Logistics excels in distribution logistics and can meet customer needs while still earning desirable profit margins with service and asset management. This proactive service provider is increasing revenue and profit growth in a dynamic marketplace – the service parts and spare parts market.
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Learn how an SAP Business All-in-One solution can help your firm adjust to changing market conditions and lay a strong foundation for growth. Designed for midsize or quickly growing small companies, this business management solution helps integrate and optimize processes across your company at an affordable price.