mysap ERP SOLUTION OVERVIEW

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1 mysap ERP SOLUTION OVERVIEW

2 YOU NEED A COMPLETE SOLUTION Most importantly, we feel that with mysap ERP, and especially SAP NetWeaver, SAP has created an extremely open platform, which allows us to adapt to future developments. Gilberto Quintero, SAP Application Implementation, Expocafé S.A.

3 ... THAT HELPS DRIVE INNOVATION AND SUPPORTS GROWTH mysap ERP YOUR BUSINESS, YOUR FUTURE, YOUR SUCCESS mysap ERP is the world s most complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, providing organizations with the strategic insight, ability to differentiate, increased productivity, and flexibility they need to succeed. With the mysap ERP solution, SAP has evolved its vision of increasing efficiency within an organization to a next-generation ERP solution, automating end-to-end business processes and extending those processes beyond the enterprise to the entire business ecosystem by incorporating customers, partners, and suppliers. In addition, mysap ERP helps drive innovation and supports future growth of your organization. mysap ERP is powered by the SAP NetWeaver platform, an innovative integration and application platform that enables change. SAP NetWeaver supports new crossfunctional business processes and helps to lower your total cost of ownership by reducing the need for custom integration and by offering complete life-cycle management for your solution. It is also the foundation for Enterprise Services Architecture, the SAP blueprint for service-oriented business solutions, and helps align people, information, and business processes across organizational and technological boundaries.

4 AS YOUR BUSINESS EVOLVES MANAGING TODAY S BUSINESS CHALLENGES In today s demanding business climate, you are under pressure to meet strategic goals, drive profitability, and ensure regulatory compliance. At the same time, you need the flexibility to stimulate growth through differentiation and innovation while containing costs and maintaining operational control. You need an ERP solution that helps you address the following challenges: Simple access to all the applications, information, and services employees need to complete their daily tasks Straightforward collaboration with partners, vendors, and customers Flexible IT structures that facilitate the fast adaptation of business processes to changing needs Incremental addition of new functions and processes without adversely affecting underlying technology or previous IT investments Less complex IT environments and streamlined business processes mysap ERP meets all of these challenges and offers advanced integration capabilities powered by the SAP NetWeaver platform. It provides an extensive range of functions, global reach, personalized information access and reporting, and industry orientation. And it allows you to incrementally add functionality as needed for customer relationship management, supply chain management, supplier relationship management, and product life-cycle management. All of these capabilities make mysap ERP the most complete ERP solution on the market. DRIVING THE EVOLUTION OF ERP More than 30 years ago, SAP marked the beginning of a new era with the introduction of integrated software that handled business processes in real time. Since then, SAP has become the world s leader in business software, serving more than 26,000 customers worldwide, including organizations of every size and type. And along the way, SAP has accumulated a unique knowledge base of best practices in more than 25 industries including yours. And now, SAP s tradition of leadership continues with a new generation of ERP software that gives companies the flexibility to adapt business processes to new market conditions while simultaneously maximizing productivity: mysap ERP. This standard-setting solution builds on SAP s experience and integrates business processes in heterogeneous system landscapes like never before. It delivers the powerful functionality, global orientation, and flexible enhancement options you need to remain efficient, productive, competitive, and positioned for growth. Which is why mysap ERP is the most complete ERP solution on the market and the right solution for your organization s future.

5 ... YOU NEED A SOLUTION THAT EVOLVES WITH IT

6 mysap ERP PROVIDES THE FOUNDATION A FOUNDATION FOR PROFITABLE GROWTH mysap ERP combines a proven, robust ERP solution with extended functionality that is applicable across the enterprise. As a result, it allows you to better manage corporate assets and critical business processes. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver platform, mysap ERP helps you manage IT costs more effectively by protecting and leveraging the investments you ve already made. In addition, it helps you extend the skills and training of your staff, as well as the data locked away in legacy and non-sap systems, to further reduce your operational costs. And, as new business scenarios and technologies emerge, it helps you position your organization for accelerated change. Significant benefits of mysap ERP include: Better financial management and corporate governance accounting functions enhanced with business analytics give managers deep visibility into the organization and their individual areas, enabling them to improve profitability and risk management. Comprehensive analytics and reporting in all areas make information more visible and accessible, which improves corporate governance. Improved productivity and greater efficiency for bottom-line growth mysap ERP helps improve operational efficiency by automating and standardizing business processes with new technologies such as integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) tag support. And through its role-based approach, it empowers everyone in your organization with the information they need to react efficiently and respond proactively to market changes and competitive challenges. Increased rate of revenue growth mysap ERP enables you to deploy new and innovative business processes with support from composite applications. Your organization can react faster to changing business requirements and differentiate itself from the competition, for example, by getting products to the market faster. Improved operational efficiency and responsiveness By significantly extending the reach of business processes, mysap ERP enables organizations to engage and connect more people in real time within and beyond an enterprise including customers, suppliers, and partners. The easy access to a consolidated and consistent view of each business process encourages wide use and collaboration. Strategic business insight for more assured decision making mysap ERP helps you proactively identify concerns and pursue opportunities across your entire business network by delivering the right information to the right people, in real time. Reduced costs and rapid adaptation through increased flexibility The open SAP NetWeaver integration and application platform enables your organization to rapidly adapt to business requirements, while also helping to significantly reduce total cost of ownership. With mysap ERP, organizations of all sizes can protect and leverage the investments they ve already made in SAP solutions and non-sap systems and deploy only the components they need, which helps reduce IT costs. Advanced extensibility to grow with your business needs Organizations can extend their mysap ERP solution to add the right mix of customer relationship management, supply chain management, product life-cycle management, and other functionality as business needs evolve.

7 ... FOR SUCCESS mysap ERP Offers the Functionality You Need to Increase Efficiency Across Your Enterprise Easy-to-use self-services and rolebased access to information and services to empower your employees, boosting productivity and efficiency Analytics that enable you to evaluate business performance and analyze your operations, workforce, and financials on a corporate and individual level for strategic and operational insight Human capital management to maximize the profitability potential of your workforce, with support for talent management, workforce deployment, and workforce process management Operations to support end-to-end logistics for complete business cycles and capabilities that improve product quality, costs, and time to market mysap ERP provides us with a single, consolidated, and timely view of our business. This is a major breakthrough for us. With SAP, we can make faster decisions and get a tighter grip on management control. Shiping Liang, Director of Application Division, China Telecom Corporation Financials to control your corporate finance functions while providing support for compliance to rigorous regulatory mandates Corporate services to optimize both centralized and decentralized services for managing real estate; project portfolios; business travel; environment, health, and safety; and quality

8 WITH mysap ERP mysap ERP SOLUTION MAP: UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS VALUE mysap ERP supports your most important business processes and provides tools to help you understand how these processes work. One of these tools is the solution map shown on this page. Built using input from customers and industry analysts, plus the technical expertise SAP has acquired through extensive business experience and research, SAP solution maps are multilevel blueprints of processes. They help you visualize, plan, and implement a coherent, integrated, and comprehensive information technology solution. They also show how various processes are covered, including the processes that SAP and its partners support. With solution maps, you quickly understand business solutions and the business value they can bring. The solution map for mysap ERP is available at Analytics End-User Service Delivery Strategic Enterprise Financial Analytics Operations Analytics Workforce Analytics Financials Financial Supply Chain Financial Accounting Accounting Corporate Governance Human Capital Procurement and Logistics Execution Product Development and Manufacturing Talent Workforce Process Workforce Deployment Procurement Production Planning Supplier Collaboration Manufacturing Execution Inventory and Warehouse Enterprise Asset Inbound and Outbound Logistics Product Development Transportation Life-Cycle Data SAP NetWeaver Sales and Services Sales Order Aftermarket Sales and Service Professional Service Delivery Global Trade Services Incentive and Commission Corporate Services Real Estate Project Portfolio Travel Environment, Health, and Safety Quality

9 ... YOU CAN EXTEND AND AUTOMATE BUSINESS PROCESSES THE SOLUTION THAT EVOLVES WITH YOUR BUSINESS Drawing on over 30 years of experience in the ERP arena, SAP has created a unique ERP solution that grows with your business. Even if you currently use earlier versions of SAP software or other ERP solutions, you can transition easily to mysap ERP. By doing so, you bring a new dimension of business efficiency and flexibility to your ERP infrastructure. Moreover, you can implement additional solutions and enhancements incrementally. This evolutionary approach protects your existing IT investments and can result in considerable savings. If you are a new SAP customer, you also benefit from these advantages, whether you are looking for organization-wide solutions that will grow along with your business or simply want to standardize your current IT environment. mysap ERP is also available as modular building blocks that combine software, best practices, and services to enable organizations to benefit from SAP s 30-plus years of business expertise, ensuring a fast implementation and fast ROI at minimal risk. Whether you transition to mysap ERP from previous SAP releases or implement mysap ERP as your first SAP solution, integrating other systems with SAP solutions is made far easier with the SAP NetWeaver platform. SAP NetWeaver not only connects IT systems, it also leverages existing IT infrastructures by linking users, information, and business processes across technology boundaries and across the organization.

10 CHOOSE THE NEXT-GENERATION ERP SOLUTION mysap ERP IS THE MOST COMPLETE ERP SOLUTION ON THE MARKET ACTIVITY END-USER SERVICE DELIVERY ANALYTICS FINANCIALS BENEFIT Reduced time and effort by providing managers and employees with immediate and personalized access to relevant functionality Increased employee productivity with innovative role-based portal Improved usability and easy access to relevant information Improved responsiveness to business change and support for decision making with insight into all business processes Enhanced ability to plan, measure, and control organizational processes through sophisticated analyses, evaluations, and key performance indicators tied to business objects Deeper financial insight across the enterprise and more effective control of finances through an extensive range of integrated financial accounting, management accounting, and financial supply chain management capabilities Reduced risk of noncompliance with extensive corporate governance support and transparent financial reporting HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT More efficient human resources management, including workforce process management, talent management, and workforce deployment Improved employee productivity and staff retention rates Higher staff morale and job satisfaction through e-recruiting options, e-learning opportunities, and self-service offerings PROCUREMENT AND Streamlined business cycles supported by end-to-end logistics, from self-service LOGISTICS EXECUTION requisitioning to flexible payment capabilities Improved productivity with accelerated procurement and logistics processes PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING SALES AND SERVICE Improved operational efficiency and productivity with integrated processes from product engineering and design to the planning and execution of manufacturing operations Enhanced collaboration with vendors, customers, and other partners, improving product life-cycle processes Higher customer satisfaction through better management of customer-focused activities, from selling products and services to managing delivery of professional services Improved uptime, yield, and productivity through the delivery of services for internal assets CORPORATE SERVICES Lowered administrative costs of corporate services in areas such as real estate management; project portfolio management; travel management; and environment, health, and safety Increased transparency and dramatic reduction of errors caused by manual data entry Improved adherence to corporate guidelines and legal requirements IT INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT Faster and higher ROI by leveraging existing IT infrastructure and enabling service-oriented, enterprise-scale business solutions Reduced total cost of ownership through simplified integration of SAP and non-sap systems and flexible options to incrementally deploy additional SAP solutions For additional information on how mysap ERP can help your company operate more efficiently and profitably, please visit:

11 ... FOR ENTERPRISE-WIDE EFFICIENCY The strongest indicator of the success of our ERP project will be the realization of shared services, leading to a measurable competitive advantage. We chose SAP because we knew they could get us there. Rohan Muttiah, CIO, John Keells Holdings Ltd.

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