White papers related to "SAP Business Suite"
It?s not easy for manufacturing companies to improve operating efficiency while responding to market changes. Improving productivity across business processes requires visibility, speed, and automation. The SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program can tailor SAP manufacturing software to your needs and roll it out quickly?and, it can be adapted to changing requirements. Find out how it can grow with your company.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Best Practices, Business Process Management, Change Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Inventory Management, Lean/Flow Manufacturing, Manufacturing Management, SAP
To succeed in ever-changing market conditions, you must manage and navigate an information network of business partners. Though you may have long focused your IT efforts on automating internal processes to save money, now you need to rethink how technology can support and transform the way decisions are made and business is conducted?both within and across your boundaries, focusing on key business processes. Learn more.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Business Process Automation, Business Process Management, Change Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Management Practices, Return on Investment (ROI), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), SAP
The concepts of return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) have been used for decades in enterprise evaluations of IT investments, including enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. However, with the emergence of important new technological advances, executives are now expanding these traditional formulas to account for new opportunities. Learn more about their new methods for measuring ERP value.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Data Management and Analysis, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Practices and Business Issues, ROI and Success Measurement, ROI Tool, Strategy, Total Cost Analysis (TCO), SAP
Increased globalization, volatility in demand and commodity costs, regulatory requirements, and greater dependency on suppliers and other partners have significantly increased the risk of doing business. To manage performance efficiently, midsize companies need a unified planning, budgeting, and consolidation solution. Learn how such a solution can streamline the planning process and help reduce business risk.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Budgeting, Financial Planning, and Analysis, Consolidation Statements and Performance Reporting (CS-PR, Aggregation), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), SAP
Transitioning to international financial reporting standards (IFRS) is more than just a mandate?it?s an opportunity for companies to improve their financial consolidation and reporting systems, and enable rapid legal compliance. But making the switch requires careful planning, thoughtful execution, and support from personnel throughout the enterprise. Find out how your company can manage the change.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Accounting and Financial Management, Consolidation Statements and Performance Reporting (CS-PR, Aggregation), Enterprise Accounting, Regulatory and Compliance, Tax Preparation and Reporting, SAP
Executive teams are under great pressure to maximize profitability, reduce costs, minimize risk, and improve stakeholder confidence. To be effective, they need reliable, up-to-date financial and operational data for planning purposes as well as budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and statutory and management reporting. Learn about software solutions that can help your organization plan, forecast, and budget more effectively.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Budgeting, Financial Planning, and Analysis, End-User Query and Reporting, Forecasting, SAP
In addition to traditional duties like financial planning, reporting, and governance, chief financial officers (CFOs) and financial managers are being tasked with more strategic responsibilities. Learn how the right data, performance management applications, and resources can help finance managers improve operational efficiency, ensure regulatory compliance, and control performance for maximized profitability.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Accounting and Financial Management, Business Performance Management (BPM), Compliance Management/Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Consolidation Statements and Performance Reporting (CS-PR, Aggregation), Regulatory and Compliance, Risk Management, Tax Compliance, SAP
Issues of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) affect nearly everything life sciences companies do. But you shouldn?t approach GRC in an ad hoc manner?implementing point solutions one after another in response to regulatory demands as they arise. This is inefficient and costly?and may result in non-compliance, due to lack of transparency. Learn how an enterprise-wide GRC approach to compliance management can help.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Business Process Management, Compliance Management, Compliance Management/Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Government and Legal, International Trade Logistics (ITL), Management Practices, Regulatory and Compliance, Risk Management, SAP
One of the riskiest moves company stakeholders can make is to acquire and merge with another company or to divest themselves of company assets. Despite the best of intentions, many mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures produce results far below expectations. Learn why failure happens, and how to prevent it by following the overriding best practice in successful acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures: preparedness.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Business Process Management, Business Process Re-engineering, Change Management, Practices and Business Issues, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), SAP
IT investment continues to grow, as do the solutions that are funded by it. So far, this growth has contributed more to complexity than simplification. Standardizing on enterprise solutions can help companies manage this complexity and focus on their number-one priority: enabling business intelligence (BI). The use cases presented in this whitepaper highlight ways that your company can benefit from standardization.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management and Analysis, SAP
Automation of human resources (HR) processes and integration across various functions can provide visibility into and analysis of the workforce. Having a single reliable source of information is key to enabling this visibility, which in turn can enable your company to align skills with business objectives. Learn more about how you can optimize your HR systems to meet your current?and future?human capital management needs.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Career Management, Human Capital Management (HCM), Human Resources, Performance Management, Practices and Business Issues, Recruitment Management, SAP
In a tough economy, retaining customers and reducing costs become paramount, and sales force productivity takes center stage. You should also be thinking about territory alignment: territory management directly affects customer relationships and the ability to tailor your approach to various market segments. Learn how to optimize territory alignment with the right set of tools, and overcome sales process obstacles.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Channel Management, Contact Management (CM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), E-CRM, Field Sales, SAP
Customer relationship management (CRM) issues can often be traced to ineffective processes involving human communication. But you can overcome the limitations of marketing, sales, and service processes. With communication-enabled business processes?powered by communications systems integrated with business applications?you can have more visibility into interactions and improve your end-to-end performance. Learn more.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Service and Support, Data Management and Analysis, Knowledge Management and Collaboration, Marketing Automation, Sales Force Automation (SFA), SAP
Are you moving beyond the need to comply with legislation like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), to focus instead on driving sustainability and control in your processes? Do you have an initiative to support the fast close?or does your ability to complete your accounting cycles and close your books need a boost? Learn about technology and a methodology that can help you deal with the intercompany reconciliation challenge.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Accounting and Financial Management, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Performance Management (BPM), Compliance Management, Compliance Management/Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)/Balanced Scorecard, Payment, Clearing and Settlement Systems, Regulatory and Compliance, SAP
?Financial close? is a company?s ability to complete accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting?and is still a key part of today?s global finance function. Do you know how to overcome the barriers to a fast, high-quality close? Discover solutions that can help you improve your close times and address the challenges of automating and testing internal controls.
Related to SAP Business Suite: Accounting and Financial Management, Budgeting, Financial Planning, and Analysis, Business Process Management, Data Management and Analysis, Gain/Loss Reporting, Tax Preparation and Reporting, SAP