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Overview: Founded in 1972, SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market.
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A Complete View Of The Enterprise: Linking Operational And Financial Planning In Global Organizations by SAP America Inc
. May 01, 2008 - In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.
A New Mandate for IT by SAP America Inc
. April 2007 - Learn more about the changing role of IT in business. This report includes research targeted towards senior executives responsible for managing and deploying information technology in pursuit of business objectives.
Aberdeen Report: The Advanced Sourcing & Negotiation Benchmark Report by SAP America Inc
. January 2007 - Enterprises that employ advanced sourcing strategies are positively impacting product development cycles and building stronger supplier relationships by making better, more informed decisions. Get the details in the results of this Aberdeen Group survey.
Accelerate Value Creation: The Virtuous Cycle of Using Technology to Maximize Business Value by SAP America Inc
. October 2008 - Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains.
Accurate Costing Is Key to Profitability - Dynamic Environments Expose Weaknesses in Traditional Approaches by SAP America Inc
. June 01, 2008 - To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability.
Achieve Fuel Distribution Excellence - Drive Efficiency And Growth With Integrated Solutions by SAP America Inc
. June 01, 2008 - The SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, and adaptability.
Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management and Continuous Improvement by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
Assess Your Enterprise Agility by SAP America Inc
. November 12, 2007 - Forrester reports that CEOs are beginning to recognize the need for their firms to become more agile in detecting and making the changes to strategy, operations, and products.
Be Prepared! Leverage SAP PLM to Navigate Through Uncertain Times by SAP America Inc
. July 22, 2009 - This webcast explores the business value of product lifecycle management (PLM) in an uncertain economy and explores SAP's approach to becoming more innovative, agile and efficient.
Be Prepared! Leverage SAP PLM to Navigate Through Uncertain Times - Podcast by SAP America Inc
. July 24, 2009 - This podcast explores the business value of product lifecycle management (PLM) in an uncertain economy and explores SAP's approach to becoming more innovative, agile and efficient.
Best Practices in Complex Equipment Manufacturing, Sales, and Service by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - This paper gives a brief overview of the SAP® solutions used by manufacturers of complex products and equipment to differentiate themselves from the competition through superior-value products and services against low-cost global providers.
Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.
Best Practices in Extending Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): A Buyer's Guide to ERP versus Best of Breed Decisions by SAP America Inc
. September 2008 - Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions.
Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations by SAP America Inc
. June 01, 2009 - Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.
Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations: Sales Opportunity Blueprinting by SAP America Inc
. April 27, 2009 - Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.
Beyond Boundaries: A New Role for Finance in Driving Business Collaboration by SAP America Inc
. June 01, 2008 - In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances.
Beyond Survival: Thriving Through the Turbulence: BI in the Retail Industry by SAP America Inc
. March 31, 2009 - Find out how retail organizations are improving the bottom line, by focusing on key tactics designed to facilitate low cost, efficient, customer-centric operations, all of which require integrated enterprise information and analysis capabilities found in business intelligence (BI) environments.
Brand Management - Leveraging the Power of Integrated Marketing by SAP America Inc
. February 2008 - The evolution of consumer marketing causes everyone to think in new ways. Instead of reaching consumers through traditional media, Internet, product placement and word of mouth are good alternatives. Check out this paper for more information about integrated brand management.
Building a Best-Run Finance Organization by SAP America Inc
. June 01, 2008 - This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.
Business Intelligence for Consumer Packaged Goods: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc
. May 2008 - This paper discusses about how technological advances are enabling improved decision making across three broad axes: simplicity and relevance, agility and integration.
Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. By integrating real-time decision making with mission-critical business processes, smart businesses can set a path for industry leadership.
Business Intelligence for the Health Care Industry: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - Hospitals from across the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. What is needed is a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications designed with the health care sector in mind, capable of integrating cross and inter-departmental processes and information.
Business Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed.
Business Intelligence: Putting Information to Work by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years.
Business Network Transformation: Product and Service Leadership by SAP America Inc
. October 21, 2009 - For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.
BusinessWeek Research: Talent Management - The New Business Imperative by SAP America Inc
. August 2007 - Read this report to discover the views of senior human resource (HR) and information technology (IT) executives and CEOs at large and midsize companies about the talent shortage and how workforce planning can help executives address this coming crisis.
Compliant Manufacturing Operations In Life Sciences Companies by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - With compliant manufacturing operations, you can deliver quality products to customers consistently and meet good manufacturing practices regulations at the lowest cost possible - all key to leading the competition. How can you achieve such objectives? With software and services from SAP and our partners.
Continuous Innovation for Product and Service Leadership: An Approach Driven by Business Value by SAP America Inc
. October 21, 2009 - The need to keep product and service offerings fresh is not a new concept in business today, but the new approach is involving a network of business partners and even customers in their quest to innovate. This process is called "continuous product and service innovation."
CRM without Compromise: A Strategy for Profitable Growth by SAP America Inc
. April 2007 - This white paper describes the concept of “CRM without compromise,” elucidating how organizations can maximize their results by taking a more structured, holistic approach to CRM across the enterprise to gain a competitive advantage and profitable growth.
Data Integration: Creating a Trustworthy Data Foundation for Business Intelligence by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - This white paper discusses the importance of data integration and help you identify the key challenges of integrating data. It also provides you with an overview of data warehousing and its variations, as well as summarizes the benefits and approaches to integrating data.
Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation by SAP America Inc
. January 2006 - This paper explains business strategies, trends, and issues related to enterprise resource planning, financial management, operations management, and human capital management that drive the consideration of ESA.
Developing A Universal Approach To Cleansing Customer And Product Data by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this
is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.
Differentiation through Service Excellence Driving Customer Loyalty and Service Profitability by SAP America Inc
. September 2008 - The importance of achieving service excellence is growing. Products are increasingly becoming commodities, and CEOs are recognizing that first-rate service is crucial to enhancing customer satisfaction. This paper explores the crucial links between customer service and customer satisfaction.
Doing Good: Business and the sustainability challenge: An Executive Summary focusing on North America by SAP America Inc
. December 29, 2008 - Read this report on an EIU survey of 320 executives. Focusing on North America case studies and issues, the report reviews the growing importance of sustainability strategies and management and the challenges included.
Early Lean Adopters Embrace Technology by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - Results from Aberdeen Group report, The Lean Supply Chain, indicates that Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers are 40% more likely to be Best in Class performers - companies that are characterized by having an integrated Lean approach and solution with technology enablers - than their peers from other industries.
Enabling Profitable Growth through Procurement: Transforming the Sourcing and Procurement Organization by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - Sourcing and procurement organizations have great potential to reduce costs, contribute to the bottom line, and deliver against enterprise strategic goals.
Enabling Software and SaaS Vendors to Gain Competitive Advantage: Partnering with SAP for Business Intelligence and Analytics to Achieve Rapid ROI by SAP America Inc
. November 16, 2009 - On-premises software and SaaS vendors looking to provide BI and analytics functionality have a choice to develop their own components or to partner with an existing BI and analytics vendor. In this white paper, IDC presents evidence showing that a partnership with SAP can result in rapid ROI, improved productivity, innovation and more!
Enabling The Lean Enterprise: A Three-Tiered Approach to Improving Your Operations by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - Recently, many businesses have used lean principles to move from a decentralized
corporate management mode to a hybrid model - recognizing that different functions require different levels of centralized management to be efficient
and effective. Read this whitepaper to learn a three-tiered approach to improving your operations.
End User Performance - Building and Maintaining ROI by SAP America Inc
. January 2006 - In this white paper, explore how organizations are achieving strong returns on investment on their information technologie endeavors and investments by emphasizing user performance.
Enterprise Contract Management for Life Sciences: Integrating Contract Creation, Administration, and Execution by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - Leading life sciences companies are recognizing the need for synchronized, enterprise-wide pricing and contract management processes. An integrated solution can provide the transparency needed to satisfy auditors, balance pricing with go-to-market strategies, and support sales and finance teams - including accurately predicting margins.
Financial Performance Management: Optimize Financial Performance for a Competitive Edge by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - Applications for financial performance management, part of SAP® solutions for enterprise performance management, cover the full life cycle of financial management and put you in control of performance.
Gaining ERP Value: Structured Implementation at Industrial Good Maker Hunter Manufacturing by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - Hunter Manufacturing is a good example of what a midsize company can accomplish with a disciplined approach to gaining ERP value, in concert with a vendor that has the functionality, technology and services to support the effort.
Global Trade Management Landscape of Vendors by SAP America Inc
. November 05, 2009 - This report takes a close look at the capabilities of the software vendors that are addressing the Global Trade Management (GTM) market and summarizes their functionality and ability to address the different kinds of risk in the global supply chain.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management: Realizing the Value Of Cross-Enterprise Solutions by SAP America Inc
. January 2007 - This paper explains SAP’s vision for a cross-enterprise GRC solution and the benefits it can provide, defines key terms, and discusses what to look for when evaluating GRC software options.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance For Life Sciences Companies by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - SAP® solutions for governance, risk, and compliance help you institutionalize compliance throughout the enterprise. Across operational,
financial, global trade, and environmental compliance activities, you can reduce costs and risks while boosting productivity and increasing your competitive advantage.
Guide to Better Decision-Making for Your SMB Through IT by SAP America Inc
. June 2008 - Small and midsize companies that can successfully align IT with their business objectives will be the ones to stay ahead of the competition by having access to the right information at the right time, allowing for better, faster decisions.
Human Capital Management: How Top Organizations Drive Company Profits Efficiently by SAP America Inc
. January 2007 - The study finds that the best human capital management organizations constantly reassess their processes to strike a balance in the drive to optimize efficiency, cost, and service delivery in a continually changing environment.
Increasing Business Agility by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - According to a September 2006 benchmarking survey conducted by the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG) and SAP on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC ), most organizations today have a reactive approach to GRC management - a fire-drill method of channeling precious resources and management attention to address specific regulatory...
Integrated Contract Life-Cycle Management: Automate Processes, Reduce Over-Payments, Improve Productivity by SAP America Inc
. June 05, 2009 - Combining SAP ERP with SAP Incentive Administration and SAP Paybacks and
Chargebacks provides a complete contract management solution. With this solution, you will increase market share, capture business intelligence, reduce overpayments and duplicate claims, improve compliance, and increase productivity.
Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage by SAP America Inc
. January 2007 - This paper identifies the market trends driving the need for an integrated talent supply chain and describes the internal inefficiencies professional services firms must overcome to optimize their talent supply chains.
Madness? Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures by SAP America Inc
. October 2008 - This paper discusses why failure happens and how to prevent it by following the overriding best practice in successful acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures: preparedness.
Managing IT in a Downturn: Beyond Cost Cutting by SAP America Inc
. November 01, 2008 - Downturns give companies a chance to buck conventional wisdom and increase their IT investments. Targeted investments in many areas can generate efficiencies and revenue growth that surpass the savings from straight cost reductions.
Managing Risk through Financial Processes: Embedding Governance, Risk and Compliance by SAP America Inc
. November 01, 2008 - To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency. Others acknowledged
the importance of cost and efficiency..
Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset by SAP America Inc
. January 2007 - Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.
Maximizing the Value of Economic Stimulus Funds by SAP America Inc
. June 05, 2009 - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was a dramatic action designed to quickly stimulate an economic recovery in the United States. This SAP Executive Insight examines some of the major challenges agencies face with respect to this stimulus plan. It describes how governments can transform their organization to devote more resources..
Measuring The Business Value of IT by SAP America Inc
. September 2006 - Discover how to efficiently measure projected business value, increase the ROI of your SAP investments, and improve the overall worth of your IT initiative with a consistent methodology for both business and IT users.
Measuring the ROI of ERP in SMB: Keeping ERP Projects Alive When You Need Them the Most by SAP America Inc
. March 19, 2009 - This report serves as a roadmap to small to midsize businesses (SMBs) for realizing the maximum Return on Investment (ROI) from ERP implementations.
Operational Excellence: Enabling Sustained Growth Spotlight on the Americas by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - Operational excellence means consistently doing things well across the value chain as a way of gaining competitive advantage. In its broadest terms, it is a discipline that drives corporate strategy.
Operational Excellence: The New Lever of Profitability and Competitive Advantage by SAP America Inc
. January 01, 2009 - The paper provides valuable evidence about the benefits of achieving aligned operational excellence. In it you'll discover why companies that build and align their operational capabilities for strategic advantage earn a distinct execution premium in their business performance.
Presentation Transcript: Be Prepared! Leverage SAP PLM to Navigate Through Uncertain Times by SAP America Inc
. August 04, 2009 - Read this presentation transcript to learn the business value of PLM in an uncertain economy as well as significant trends in the PLM market. Explore SAP's approach to a new generation of product lifecycle management solutions that will help you remain or become a product and services leader.
Process Manufacturing Companies Going Global: GTM Challenges and Solutions by SAP America Inc
. July 01, 2009 - This paper focuses on Global Trade Management (GTM) trends in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, with an emphasis on the challenges and solutions for Global Trade Compliance (GTC).
Product Environmental Footprint And Ecolabeling: An Approach For Both Environmental Responsibility And Profits by SAP America Inc
. September 25, 2009 - Business interest in environmental footprinting stemmed originally from an understanding of supply chain vulnerabilities and complexities, and this remains an important driver. However, with growing public concern over environmental issues, environmental footprinting has grown in importance to many businesses.
Protecting and Nurturing Your Brand: Maintain and Grow Brand Value in a Time of Crisis by SAP America Inc
. June 05, 2009 - There are many elements that impact a company's brand. Concentrating on a select few lets you control financial investment while maximizing the returned benefit. This SAP Executive Insight focuses on efforts that target a key set of brand-related opportunities and describes how companies can strengthen brand value even in a recession.
Reaping The Benefits of Next Generation Dashboards by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - The need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow as executives demand critical information to seize opportunities faster than competitors and to address potential problems in the making. But increasingly, it is not just C-level executives and upper management who need access to business intelligence.
Reduce Compliance Costs with an Integrated Program of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) by SAP America Inc
. November 2006 - Learn how an integrated program of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) can reduce compliance costs, build valuable stakeholder trust and increase transparency for improved decision making and opportunity awareness.
Reduce the Pain of ERP Upgrades with Better Planning by SAP America Inc
. June 2007 - This Report offers guidance on developing an overall corporate strategy for maintaining an ERP system by providing practical advice for planning and managing an ERP upgrade project.
Reducing Costs with Efficient Operations: A Fast Track to More Working Capital by SAP America Inc
. July 01, 2007 - Untamed costs can deplete the precious working capital that's critical to your ongoing operations and new expansions. By instituting efficient automated
processes throughout your organization, you can reduce waste, unnecessary
overtime, and a host of other cost factors.
Responding Quickly to Changing Markets: Anticipate, Adapt, Excel by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - This paper examines how to tap into the potential of your nimbler organization by instituting efficient operations. Learn how to predict and respond quickly to changing market trends and customer demands.
Sales and Operations Planning: The Key to Continuous Demand Satisfaction by SAP America Inc
. March 2007 - Find out how leading companies are designing their sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes to continuously monitor and meet customer demand.
SAP Provides a Central Hub for Managing Interfaces & Web Services for Largest NA Oil Refining Co. by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - Valero Energy Corporation selected SAP because of its ability to provide a central hub for managing all interfaces and Web services, power to serve as a single integration & development platform for nearly all of Valero's business, capability to integrate SAP and non-SAP software systems, and support for synchronous & asynchronous messaging.
SAP Solutions for SMBs: Making Better Decisions by Gaining Reliable Information from Integrated IT Systems by SAP America Inc
. January 2007 - Gain access to accurate information and visibility across your small to mid-sized company from efficient integrated IT systems - and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions.
SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services: One Product For Data Quality and Data Integration by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - Introducing SAP® BusinessObjects™ Data Services breakthrough technology software for the enterprise information management market. The software unifies our leading data-quality and integration solutions - helping your organization to move, transform, and improve virtually any type of data anywhere, at any frequency.
SAP® Support of the Healthecare Supply Chain's Ongoing Effort to Ensure Patient Safety and Drive Business Value by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - The Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research (formerly the HDMA Research & Education Foundation) recently published an important study concerning data management and data sharing in the healthcare supply chain. This whitepaper discusses the key conclusions of their study.
Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability by SAP America Inc
. January 2007 - This paper reviews the forces that affect the professional services market today, defines and explains the main pillars of service delivery innovation, and reviews the benefits firms derive from service delivery innovation.
Six Mistakes Companies are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them by SAP America Inc
. September 28, 2009 - This paper highlights common mistakes companies make in a down economy and discusses how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. Use the self-assessment questionnaire at the end of this paper to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across your organization.
Spend Analysis: Pulling Back the Cover on Savings by SAP America Inc
. October 01, 2008 - As the key findings in this report will show, developing or enhancing a spend analysis program and closing process gaps to ensure tight linkage to the sourcing process are straightforward and practical ways to attain greater savings and deliver greater value in this period of uncertainty and strict budgets.
Spend Analytics: A Foundation for Procurement Performance Management by SAP America Inc
. October 08, 2008 - Read this white paper from SAP for an interview with Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program.
Spend Performance Management - Maximize Savings, Reduce Supplier Risks by SAP America Inc
. November 05, 2009 - The SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management application provides full visibility into direct and indirect spend, and helps companies proactively identify cost savings opportunities and supply risks, reduce costs, maintain supply continuity, and increase spend under management.
Still Struggling to Reduce Call Center Costs without Losing Customers? by SAP America Inc
. February 01, 2008 - Efficient call centers that also meet customer expectations is a challenge that many organizations face. Discover the key steps to turning your call center into a strategic asset.
Supply Chain Collaboration: The Key to Success in a Global Economy by SAP America Inc
. January 2007 - Learn how you can transform traditional supply chains from linear, sequential processes into adaptive supply chain networks.
Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies: How Top Process Industry Performers Take Radically Different Actions by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - To avoid a 7.96% increase in logistics costs, companies should follow the roadmap of Best in Class companies, which have been able to reduce costs or keep them flat via supply chain transformation.
Sustained Growth Through Operational Excellence by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organisation, enabling management by facts.
The Collaboration Advantage: Customer-Focused Partnerships In A Global Market by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - In order to better understand the opportunities, challenges, risks and rewards companies have seen from these types of agreements, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey in March 2008, sponsored by SAP, which asked 516 senior executives how their business relationships are evolving.
The Fast-Payback SAP Projects for Saving Money in 2009: Detailed Data for Business Expense Projects by SAP America Inc
. June 24, 2009 - This Report, which summarizes detailed data from a field study conducted exclusively for AMR Research SAP Peer Forum clients, was written to help business audiences looking for every opportunity to reduce the total business expenses of their huge, existing investments in SAP.
The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its
accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls
The Impact of Lean on Consumer Product Manufacturers by SAP America Inc
. February 2007 - Discover the impact of Lean on consumer product manufacturers and gain key tips in implementing successful Lean initiatives across the enterprise.
The Profitability Perspective: How Automated Reporting Drives Better Decisions by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - Driving sustainable growth requires profitability-focused planning and performance management. This special study highlights some key survey findings, which collectively show that profitability reporting is increasing in importance and the use of technology and more sophisticated costing and reporting solutions is high on the agendas of many...
The Renewed Finance Function - Extending Performance Management Beyond Finance by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - Companies and their stakeholders have always had high expectations for their finance teams. But this research program reveals that, most recently, these pressures- from regulators, from investors, and from competitors&#$5; are pushing companies to look for more from their finance teams in two main, but often conflicting, areas.
The Role of ERP in Globalization by SAP America Inc
. September 18, 2008 - This whitepaper examines the role of ERP in Globalization in detail, outlining steps to improve current strategies to meet the changing face of the global business of today ...and tomorrow.
The Superstar CFO - Optimizing an Increasingly Complex Role by SAP America Inc
. May 2007 - Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.
Top 10 Reasons Customers Choose SAP for Business Transformation by SAP America Inc
. January 01, 2006 - SAP is a customer’s company, whose organization is designed for, and encouraging of, innovation in all its aspects - from product development to product delivery to product implementation. Read this white paper to discover the top 10 reasons why customers choose SAP for their business transformation.
Under the Spotlight: The transition of environmental risk management by SAP America Inc
. June 05, 2009 - This EIU global research report, based on survey of 320 executives, discusses current challenges and the importance of managing environmental risks.
Understanding and Managing Supply Chain Risk by SAP America Inc
. January 2006 - Download this white paper and explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Learn how identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk and using IT solutions can create higher resilience for supply chain management.
Using Master Data in Business Intelligence by SAP America Inc
. March 2007 - This paper reviews the current status of master data management (MDM) and offers suggestions for planning, building, and deploying an MDM environment. It examines how the MDM environment can be used in conjunction with BI applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve the decision-making process.
Using Supply Chain Performance Management Strategically by SAP America Inc
. November 05, 2009 - Paralleling the explosion in materiel sourcing over the past decade, corporate supply chains have grown strikingly more complex because of a greater amount of outsourcing, increased globalization and a more complex regulatory environment.
Value-Driven Healthcare: Transforming the Environment with Business Intelligence by SAP America Inc
. September 30, 2008 - Find out why the benefits from applying business intelligence (BI) in the healthcare environment are tremendous. Learn how leveraging the wealth of information to understand patients and physicians, to monitor operational performance, and to anticipate the need for action or change are strong incentives for adopting BI.
Warehouse Management Today: Balancing Financial Pressures and Growing Demands by SAP America Inc
. January 23, 2009 - This paper explains why a warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the key technologies required to create a successful adaptive supply chain network. This system enables the extended warehouse to sense and respond to a variety of business requirements and meet complex and changing customer needs.
Why Midsize Companies Need Business Intelligence Solutions In This Uncertain Global Economy by SAP America Inc
. June 02, 2009 - Without a business intelligence information infrastructure in place, midsize companies are more likely to exceed budgets, miss deadlines, improve performance of one department at the expense of the overall business, and reward employees for actions that do not improve performance.
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