Upgrade dilemma - SAP R/3 Enterprise or mySAP ERP? (Featured)

SAP's recent announcements to discontinue direct maintenance support to earlier versions of its SAP R/3 software (3.1i, 4.0b, 4.5b, 4.6b, 4.6c), coupled with the unveiling of its next-generation mySAP ERP and SAP R/3 Enterprise product roadmaps,... creates a business need to analyze which SAP version and strategy is most appropriate for your organization.

Warranty - From Liability to Competitive Advantage

Since the turn of the century, the total annual warranty expenditure of the U.S. Automotive industry has risen from $10 billion to $14 billion, whereas annual sales have remained stagnant. The situation is escalating further as warranty periods become longer,... regulations mandating disclosure of warranty data (FASB-45, TREAD Act) become more stringent, and electronics in vehicles increase to meet customer demands for safety, performance and economy. A holistic approach can be achieved by balancing automation, manual claims processing and analytics. We believe that the best way of achieving this balance is through the blended use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and an Early Warning System (EWS) based on advanced analytics.

Streamlining Self- and Retro-Billing for Automotive Suppliers

Driven by competitive pressures, cost considerations and increasing globalization, automotive enterprises are striving to automate business processes to improve operational efficiencies. Among the several business processes in an organization,... billing and reconciliation are usually rife with complexities. The self-billing building block provided by SAP R/3 is a step forward toward automating these complex business processes and enhancing efficiency. This Infosys paper details challenges posed by these business processes and discusses the gaps in the solution provided by SAP R/3. It provides a couple of scalable, modular, integrated, and flexible approaches to manage them.

Aerospace MRO Supply Chain: Track & Trace with SAP RFID Platform

The Aerospace MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) supply chain is grappling with challenges thrown up by regulations, inefficiencies, lack of visibility, and the rise of third-party players in an attempt to control costs... The inability to quickly track and trace components and equipment for repair imposes expensive timelines on the entire supply chain. The solution lies in automated identification, capture and processing of information, besides better collaboration between all stakeholders. This paper reveals how SAP RFID technology can be leveraged to build a robust solution that eliminates inefficiencies and provides improved visibility and control of the MRO supply chain.

Accelerate Your ROI through SAP MDM

In the flattening world, the need of the hour is agile and flexible IT systems. Although many enterprises have stabilized their processes, they find large under-utilized investments scattered across geographies... This Infosys paper outlines an approach with which companies can maximize returns from existing systems. It offers a multi-layered architecture that can provide consolidated analytics for a global view of the organization.

BI for Agility and Profit with SAP BI Accelerator

With Business Intelligence (BI) emerging as an all-pervading success factor for strategic, tactical and operational information users, access to information is no longer enough to separate winners from the losers... The focus of strategic technology leaders is now on creating seamlessly integrated solutions across the IT landscape, global visibility and analytics on lagging, as well as leading indicators of business for near real-time decision making. The BI Accelerator is an appliance developed by SAP in collaboration with Intel to address these challenges for high performance and scalability of SAP BW implementations. Fitting easily and seamlessly into the NetWeaver environment, the appliance responds to business queries from NetWeaver data. Consequently, the BI Accelerator lowers the costs associated with performance-tuning, designing, building, and maintaining of queries that read huge volumes of data.

Building a Robust Suite for Automated Regression Testing of SAP Releases

SAP R/3 offers enormous flexibility in configuring applications. This advantage, however, poses risks in terms of the impact it can have on the business owing to the size, complexity, and demand for shorter implementation cycles... Further, there are the obvious financial implications. This raises the bar for effective and extensive quality assurance (QA) of key business processes and configuration, in ever-shortening cycles, before a release can go live.

Timely QA testing of your SAP applications and legacy systems will ensure that all your systems work together, reliably. The key to a robust solution for automated regression testing is to select the right test tool and automation framework, besides the right business scenarios and test cases.

Realizing the business value of EAI

Well-planned, well-executed EAI initiatives have the potential to deliver considerable business benefits to an organization. Why, then, do most EAI implementations meet with limited success?...

Infosys believes that to derive maximum return from EAI, organizations need to develop a macro-strategy that will map integration efforts to business demands. The focus should be on exploiting the potential of EAI rather than using EAI to tie in existing systems and processes.

Global Shared Support Service: a Viable Model?

As most large organizations have moved over to customized packaged products such as SAP, Oracle, Siebel, i2, etc., the experience gained in supporting them can be leveraged by the shared service concept. ... Shared service, when applied to the production support and maintenance of packaged products like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suites, can help achieve much-needed cost reduction and efficiency gains. Shared support service can bring in additional cost savings to organizations beyond the benefits of outsourcing and offshoring.

Program Management Office: The Core Engine to Drive a Successful Global Program

Mergers and acquisitions, adoption of a global value chain, and expansion to new markets are competitive business growth strategies deployed by most businesses for going global.... Program Management Office (PMO) is critical to the success of any global program, catering both to the current needs of the organization as well as providing scalability for its future growth and its requirements to go global. This paper highlights the emerging role of PMO for enterprises establishing themselves as global organizations. Global Implementations: The chosen alternative for complete business advantage

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