With SAP ERP Corporate Services, you can optimize both centralized and decentralized services for managing your administrative business processes, including:

• Real estate management – Manage every stage of the real estate portfolio life cycle, including property acquisition and disposal, portfolio management, technical management of building operations and maintenance, and investment controlling and reporting. Real estate management is enabled by the SAP Real Estate Management application, part of SAP ERP Corporate Services.
• Enterprise asset management – Manage the complete life cycle of an asset, including the specification and design phase, the build phase supported by procurement activities, the operational phase supported by maintenance activities, and the disposal phase.
• Project and portfolio management – Identify, select, prioritize, and manage a portfolio of projects of any kind, including R&D projects, enterprise IT projects, or professional-service delivery projects. You can also track key performance indicators for budgets, schedules, and staffing.
• Travel management – Support and optimize all travel processes, from travel requests and approvals through planning and reservations, travel expense management, and analytics. Travel management is enabled by the SAP Travel Management application, part of SAP ERP Corporate Services.
• Environment, health, and safety management – Helps you implement EHS strategies on a local and global level. The SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management) application not only empowers you to address regulatory compliance, but also to take an integrated approach to managing operational risks related to environment, health, and safety, and to address the needs of corporate sustainability initiatives.
• Quality management – Control and maintain quality and react quickly when unexpected issues arise throughout the product life cycle.

In addition, SAP helps you manage the complexities of international trade activities – including regulatory compliance, interactions with customs, and management of risk – with SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services.