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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Examine how Accenture and SAP specialists are working to enhance existing applications and develop the next generation of industry-specific analytics and mobility solutions for the SAP integrated technology platform, business intelligence, enterprise performance management, in-memory solutions, and more.
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 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 the SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand solution can help your global organization accurately measure, mitigate, and monitor greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts. Discover how this secure, scalable, Web-based platform can help you manage your sustainability initiatives and streamline reporting.
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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Find out how SAP Interactive Forms software by Adobe extends the power of SAP solutions by helping you develop interactive, digital forms that can be directly integrated into business processes. The software enables you to automate paper-based business processes and extend the reach of enterprise applications.
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.
Learn how you can run an effective customer loyalty program with SAP Customer Relationship Management. It lets you target and segment customers and plan, develop, and manage customized loyalty programs. Robust functions give you centralized control over program rules, conditions, and rewards.
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.
Ready to move beyond spreadsheets? Find out how to recognize the signs your company needs a business intelligence (BI) solution and what you should look for in a solution and a vendor. Learn more about BI components and approaches to implementating a BI solution to improve your company’s efficiency and effectiveness.
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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 high-tech 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.
To prepare for the technology innovations of tomorrow, you must put in place the right business processes today. Learn how, with SAP software, you can achieve best-of-breed functionality for your entire consume-to-cash business process – from online rating and charging to convergent billing, invoicing, and collections.
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 SAP Convergent Charging supports the shift in business models from products to value-added services – even with millions of transactions and end customers. With pricing, rating, and packaging flexibility, companies can rapidly launch new services and cross-promotional bundles while reducing credit risk.
Find out how the SAP Convergent Invoicing package helps companies achieve a single view of customers by consolidating multiple, high-volume billing streams. You get easy-to-understand invoices that include an overview of all charges across all provided services, including third-party charges.
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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