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SAP Business ByDesign is a comprehensive, fully integrated on-demand solution that helps customers gain a higher degree of visibility across their enterprise in order to make more informed
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Executive Summary Meet The Challenges Of Success
Success has its own challenges. If your company is experiencing significant
growth or is a leading provider of products and services, chances are your
success is making it more difficult to manage your business.
You're not alone. Many executives and business
owners worry that their companies will lose their competitive edge as they grow.
In most cases, growth is stalled by existing operations and an IT landscape that
either can't sustain or that actively hinders growth. To overcome these
obstacles, companies need an integrated, affordable business application that
can provide the transparency and control needed to support their future growth.
SAP developed the SAP Business ByDesign™ solution, the most complete and
adaptable on-demand business solution available to midsize companies, to allow
companies like yours to adapt and to grow. SAP Business ByDesign tightly knits
together your operations so that you have visibility and comprehensive control
over the core areas of your business. Because it is an on-demand solution –
managed, monitored, and maintained by SAP experts in leading edge service centers
– your IT requirements are simplified, and your costs to acquire and support the
solution are low.
This paper highlights the capabilities that make SAP Business ByDesign
unique, enabling your company to keep IT simple while increasing transparency
and visibility, giving your employees and managers more control, and improving
your company’s flexibility and agility.
The Unmet Needs Of Midsize Companies When Successful Companies Outgrow Their
It Landscapes
As you look ahead to your company’s future, do you find yourself wondering
how you and your employees can maintain the visibility and control your company
needs to keep ahead of the competition, focus on customers, and adapt to market
changes? Do you wonder how your company will manage its future growth if it
cannot afford the integrated technology platform it needs to compete
effectively?
In our experience working with thousands of midsize companies, we’ve found
that many executives and business owners worry that their company will lose its
competitive edge as it grows. In most cases, the culprit is outdated operations
and an underpowered IT landscape – typically a combination of disconnected
business software and manual, paper-driven processes that worked when these
companies were smaller. It was not lack of knowledge nor an unwillingness to
grow up that held these companies back. There was no integrated business
application on the market that could provide them the functionality they need at
a price they could afford.
To fill that need, SAP developed revolutionary software – the SAP Business
ByDesign™ solution – that gives you the control, visibility, and increased
effectiveness that your company needs to achieve sustained, controlled growth.
And you can do all this without sacrificing your budget.
Sap Business Bydesign: Designed To Meet The Needs Of Midsize Businesses An
Integrated Business Solution At An Affordable Price
SAP Business ByDesign helps you gain the unified business control your
company needs to achieve its objectives. The solution tightly knits your
operations together, providing full and comprehensive control so that you can
meet your company goals, optimize your financials, focus on your customers,
manage your workforce, integrate your supply chain, drive successful projects,
empower smarter purchasing, and facilitate full compliance (see the figure
below).
Because SAP Business ByDesign is an on-demand solution, it greatly simplifies
IT requirements compared to traditional enterprise software, dramatically
lowering your cost to acquire and support the solution.
This paper highlights the features that make SAP Business ByDesign different
and enable your company to:
- Keep your IT requirements simple
- Increase transparency and visibility
- Give your employees and managers more control
- Improve flexibility and agility
Keeping Your It Requirements Simple Sap Business Bydesign Is Affordable,
Adaptable, And Easy To Adopt
Keeping IT requirements simple for our customers is a key design principle
that makes SAP Business ByDesign an affordable solution – and one that’s
delivered on demand. Because SAP Business ByDesign is managed, monitored, and
maintained by SAP experts in leading-edge service centers, you can take
installations, upgrades, and day-to-day maintenance tasks off your IT agenda.
SAP experts take care of these tasks behind the scenes, so you don’t need to
hire special in-house experts or external consultants. You can just start using
SAP Business ByDesign and focus on your business – and allow the software and
SAP to take care of the rest.
SAP Business ByDesign helps you keep IT simple in several important ways.
Explore and Evaluate the Solution with a Personalized Trial System
You can explore and evaluate SAP Business ByDesign with a personalized trial
system that you can use before you decide to make the purchase. This eliminates
surprises and provides a high degree of predictability. You create your
personalized trial system by answering a series of questions about your
industry, company size, and type of business, as well as questions about how you
want the solution to support your business operations. You use this same process
to explore changes you may wish to make after you go live.
Minimize Impact on Your IT Department
With SAP Business ByDesign, you have the reliability, performance, and
support you need without bogging down your IT department. The software provides
simple tools to administer accounts, solve common user problems, and route more
complex support requests to SAP. Many software maintenance tasks are automated,
which translates into lower operational and administrative costs. Automatic
system health checks are performed continuously, which means that potential
issues are addressed proactively. And SAP keeps the software up-to-date with the
latest business content and upgrades so that, for example, you remain in
compliance with government regulations.
Reduce Training Costs and Effort
Your employees can be productive from day one because the software provides a
built-in learning environment that helps them learn as they go. It’s easy to
use, and it teaches your employees what they need to know, when they need to
know it, eliminating the need for costly staff downtime for classroom training.
Increasing Transparency And Visibility Achieve Total Control While
Eliminating Departmental Silos
With SAP Business ByDesign, you manage the major areas of your business
with a single solution that eliminates departmental silos and provides an
unmatched level of automation and transparency across all business areas.
You can make sure that your staff follows procedures and completes them
correctly, consistently, and efficiently. You can clearly structure employee
and manager responsibilities so tasks are properly delegated and the right
people handle the most important issues. Several innovations make this
possible.
Unify Operations and Centralize Company Data
SAP Business
ByDesign eliminates departmental silos and streamlines your business
operations. The software links operations so your employees work together
efficiently. For example, SAP Business ByDesign links the operations that
occur from receiving a sales order or contract to realizing revenue from
the fulfilled order. This integration allows your sales, fulfillment,
service, billing, and receivables groups to work as an efficient, focused
team.
Automate Processes for Exceptional Support
You can set up SAP
Business ByDesign in a way that works best for your business. Where you
have no existing automated business process (especially in areas that
don’t represent your competitive advantage), use built in, predefined
process templates to optimize your business. For example, the process
template for paying invoices reduces the overhead of paying suppliers,
improves liquidity, and helps prevent fraud. You can easily adapt the
software to support processes that you have developed to meet specific
business needs. This is extremely important in areas that differentiate
you from your competitors.
Unify Corporate Organizational .-Management
You manage organizational data about your company – including relationships
between legal entities, locations, accounting and financial reporting, and
departmental functions – from a single place. Using this information, the
software determines the default responsibilities and access rights of
employees and sets up routing paths for alerts, approval requests, and
tasks. When you make organizational changes, the software automatically
adjusts the functions of your departments, the responsibilities of your
employees, your accounting setup, and workflow.
Leverage Built-In Task
Management
The solution improves delegation and simplifies follow-up by
allowing employees and managers to initiate, delegate, escalate, and track
tasks for themselves, their colleagues, and the employees they supervise.
SAP Business ByDesign pushes key information to employees, alerting them
of issues that require attention. The software tracks the status of events
and tasks, and if a task is at risk or is already falling behind its
deadline, an automated escalation mechanism alerts the responsible
employees and managers. The software gives you the visibility you need to
proactively address execution problems – and reward those who are staying
on top of things.
Route Exceptions Automatically
SAP Business ByDesign
shifts your employees and managers from being reactive to proactive, and
it ensures that the right people handle issues. The solution automates
business processes to free your employees from routine tasks so they can
spend more time on your strategic initiatives. It automatically determines
when tasks, requests, and conditions fall outside normal ranges and
automatically pushes alerts, approval requests, and tasks to the right
employees for handling to help you boost productivity. For instance, you
can configure the solution to automatically alert the sales manager when
revenues fall 5% below plan.
Giving Your Employees And Managers More
Control Execute With Excellence
Well-run companies encourage their
employees to take ownership of their areas of responsibility. The combination
of transparency (for example, whether tasks are completed on time) and
incentives encourages employees to execute with excellence. Timely
business insight plays a key role in helping your managers and executives
make sound business decisions quickly. Knowledge about what’s happening in
your company and with your customers, suppliers, and partners is pivotal
in reducing the risk and cost of making a poor investment or the wrong
call.
SAP Business ByDesign sets a new standard in helping you address all
of these areas. Once you automate the processes that support your company’s
operations, you can move to the next level using innovations that allow
you to better manage your employees.
Keep Employees Focused and Productive
SAP Business ByDesign puts everything your employees need at their fingertips
by organizing the related information and software functions they need
into work centers. The software collects tasks that are automatically
triggered or manually forwarded and prioritizes them in a central task list
that is personalized to the specific responsibilities of your employees.
The result? Efficient, productive employees.
Support the Way Employees
Naturally Work Together
With SAP Business ByDesign, your employees can
embrace a collaborative style of working that frees them to do what they
already do naturally: exchange ideas, work through problems, compare
notes, and get things done. The software integrates with Microsoft Office
so employees can easily share documents and collaborate using information
directly from the software, such as appointments, contacts, and analytical
data. A unique collaboration window links SAP Business ByDesign with
instant messaging and your telephone system so that, for example, when
customers call, their contact and account information, such as related
service orders, is instantly in view.
Gain 360-Degree Business
Visibility
With SAP Business ByDesign, you always know what’s going on
across your business. The embedded, pervasive analytical tools built into
the software track data and events across every area of your business.
They provide both task-specific and enterprise wide views of information
and transactions that are always up-to-date. The solution provides
employees at all levels with just the right level of information – for
example, as personalized reports – to optimize their daily activities and
make them responsible for their performance.
Give Managers Unified Control
of the Business
SAP Business ByDesign provides specialized work centers
to support corporate executives, line-of-business managers, managerial
assistants, and those managing people and budgets. These work centers free
you and your managers from burdensome, distracting manual tasks and keep
everyone focused on urgent and priority issues. Managers can view
up-to-date progress reports regarding long-term goals, and they can manage
their time more effectively using the management-by-exception paradigm
built into the software. SAP Business ByDesign highlights exceptional
situations, triggers alerts based on predefined thresholds, and makes
escalations immediately visible. Managers can proactively view resource
loads and assign tasks to individuals or groups.
Improving Flexibility
And Agility Foster And Enable Adaptability For Future Growth
SAP
developed the SAP Business ByDesign solution to be adaptive so that
business people – not just IT staff – can quickly change the software
to support changes in their business operations.
You can create an
organizational culture that embraces change, but such a culture won’t
translate into faster, better execution and innovation if the IT landscape
that supports your employees can’t change with them. SAP developed SAP
Business ByDesign to be adaptive so that business people – not just IT
staff – can quickly change the software to support changes in their
business operations. The solution allows your people and your business to
take advantage of market opportunities. Here are a few of the things you
can do.
Accelerate Business Change Management
8/When you change business
operations – for example, by starting a new line of business – SAP
Business ByDesign is ready to help. You simply answer a series of
business-related questions, and the software automatically implements the
required changes for you, ensuring that the new functionality is stable
and trouble free. In addition, the built-in learning environment helps your
employees quickly and cost-effectively get up to speed.
Expand into
New Geographies with Ease
If you run an international business or if
you are thinking about starting international operations, SAP Business
ByDesign can support these changes. The software facilitates operations in
multiple countries, with support for local languages and processes that
reflect local business practices and fulfill legal requirements. The
software’s business task management enables your employees to work
together seamlessly no matter where they are located.
Leverage Built-In
Compliance
SAP Business ByDesign facilitates full compliance with
country-specific regulations without burdensome manual processes.
Frequent, automatic updates of content and software ensure that your
solution is up-to-date with legal changes in all of the countries where
you use SAP Business ByDesign, including changes to reports and tax
documents that must be filed with a country’s authorities. The solution
helps you focus on growing the business and lowering the cost of doing
business in new countries by reducing your company’s effort to sustain
compliance.
Are You Ready For Accelerated Growth? Drive Growth With An
Affordable And Predictable Business Solution
No company can compete
successfully and win today without the right technology supporting and
enabling its management team, its people, and its daily operations. The
innovations and features built into SAP Business ByDesign work together to
fast-track your business on its way to becoming a high growth business. You
gain unprecedented business control and agility that amplifies competitive
advantage and moves you to the head of the pack. And because SAP Business
ByDesign is the most complete and adaptable on demand business solution in
the world, it supports the diversity and complexity of your business with
ease even as you create new strategies and initiatives in response to
market changes
Equally important, you can realize the business
benefits of state-of-the-art IT without the budget of a FORTUNE 500 company or
the delays of a traditional implementation. You can get started
today in just a few hours, risk free, with a personalized trial system.
For More Information
Are you ready for accelerated growth? To find out
more about how SAP Business ByDesign can help you achieve your business
goals, please contact your SAP sales representative, or visit
www.sap.com/solutions/sme /businessbydesign.
Content
- Executive Summary
- The Unmet Needs of Midsize Companies
- SAP Business ByDesign: Designed to Meet the Needs of Midsize
Businesses
- Keeping Your IT Requirements Simple
- Explore and Evaluate the Solution with a Personalized Trial System
- Minimize Impact on Your IT Department
- Reduce Training Costs and
Effort
- Increasing Transparency andVisibility
- Unify Operations
and Centralize Company Data
- Automate Processes for Exceptional
Support
- Unify Corporate Organizational Management
- Leverage
Built-In Task Management
- Route Exceptions Automatically
- Giving
Your Employees and Managers More Control
- Keep Employees Focused and
Productive
- Support the Way Employees Naturally Work Together
- Gain 360-Degree Business Visibility
- Give Managers Unified Control
of the Business
- Improving Flexibility and Agility
- Accelerate
Business Change Management
- Expand into New Geographies with Ease
- Leverage Built-In Compliance
- Are You Ready for Accelerated
Growth?