SAP is helping midsize companies collaborate, innovate, and keep up with the rapidly changing needs of customers. To learn how, read these informative documents:
"Best Practices in Extending ERP"
Examine three factors to consider in ERP versus Best of Breed decisions: functionality, integration, and the ability to upgrade to new releases. While functionality is a key driver of the majority of software decisions, on average companies use only about 43% of available ERP functionality. (Aberdeen, 2006)
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Aberdeen Reports
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"Compliance and Traceability in Regulated Manufacturing Industries Benchmark Report"
Learn why compliance and traceability in manufacturing has traditionally been viewed as "cost of business." Successfully responding to the challenges of lacking metrics and focusing on document rather than process management is central to transitioning compliance and traceability initiatives to a competitive advantage. (Aberdeen, 2006)
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Aberdeen Reports
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"Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation"
Examine the trends in enterprise resource planning (ERP) that are driving businesses to adopt an enterprise services-oriented architecture (SOA). And learn how enterprise SOA can help your organization deliver operational excellence and realize new levels of innovation by enabling more responsiveness and agility.
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"Four Steps to a Best-Run Business"
Operate your business more effectively by driving faster, smarter decisions, applying better control over costs, minimize risk and liability, and anticipate change. The SAP Business ByDesign solution helps you automate business processes, streamline administrative tasks, and proactively deliver role-based information to employees.
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Thought Leadership
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"Giving Manufacturing Companies a Fast Start"
Find out if the SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program is the right fit for your midsize manufacturing company, with preconfigured software based on best practices in your industry that can help you achieve fast time to value, control cost, and improve operational efficiencies.
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Solution Briefs
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"Is There a Smarter Way to Handle Excess Active and Obsolete Inventory?"
Learn efficient ways to handle excess and obsolete inventory. Excess at-risk inventory ultimately impacts a company's bottom line. Tactics used to resolve inventory issues can be costly. Using private, on-line, competitive auction portals provides one way to manage excess inventory with low-overhead execution. (TEC, 2008)
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White Papers
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"Pacific Coast Feather Spreads Its Wings in China"
See how this leading U.S. bedding manufacturer benefited from the Business Process Expert community – a community of innovation drawing on the SAP ecosystem. By leveraging the experience of another global SAP customer, the company was able to get the information it needed to solve an accounting problem related to its expansion into China.
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General Brochures
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"Reverse Auction Best Practices"
Wondering if electronic reverse auctions (e-auctions) can help your procurement organization bring transparency to the sourcing process and deliver bottom-line results? Discover ways to sell the idea and strategies of e-auctions to both buyers and sellers – and ways to achieve double-digit price compression.
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White Papers
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"Strategic Value with Trade Promotion Management"
Read this story about how a consumer products firm, shifting strategy from a salon-only brand to a high-end consumer brand, suddenly had to execute trade promotions. After a false start, sales and marketing executives recognized that a fragmented approach would not do the trick and opted for a comprehensive solution.
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General Brochures
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"Tightening the Chain – Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies"
Maintain operational efficiency while cutting supply chain costs with new approaches, technologies, and methodologies. Third party logistics providers, radio frequency identification rentals, and attribute-based demand planning can help you reduce supply chain costs and boost customer satisfaction. (TEC, 2008)
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White Papers
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