SAP Business Suite software supports end-to end business processes in the following areas. You can configure each of these business processes to the needs of your company to be enabled to gain a competitive advantage in your industry:

• Finance – Achieve financial excellence by performing efficient and compliant financial accounting and reporting; streamlining financial operations; and managing payables and receivables. Integrate and support treasury management and cash management functions.
• Manufacturing – Coordinate global manufacturing fulfillment with local planning and execution. Through integration with diverse plant floor systems, provide visibility required to optimize distributed manufacturing assets, integrate outsourced operations, and drive lean manufacturing.
• Procurement – Generate sustainable savings by streamlining and centralising procure-to-pay processes. Minimise risk by enforcing comprehensive contract compliance, and improve savings through greater visibility into supplier relationships and performance. Streamlined processes and greater visibility help you realise benefits from IT investments more quickly, increase time to value and affect the bottom line.
• Product Development – Deliver high-quality, innovative products rapidly to meet demand. Foster the development of innovative new products, collaborate with partners to shorten the time required to realise profits and deliver safe products.
• Marketing – Obtain superior insight from all customer interactions. Leverage this insight to align marketing and sales activities to efficiently acquire and retain the right customers and develop long-term, profitable customer relationships.
• Sales – Focus on resources to implement sales strategies that promote growth and profitability. Use relevant information to focus sales efforts on the most profitable customer opportunities. Increase the efficiency of sales teams, accelerate sales cycles, and grow the bottom line with better pricing, demand planning, and revenue forecasts.
• Service – Deliver superior customer service while tightly controlling the cost of service delivery. By resolving customer problems quickly, you can increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. Optimise the use of resources available for service, and drive service revenue upward by cross-selling and up-selling to existing customers.
• Human resources – Manage all aspects of your workforce effectively and control costs. Identify future leaders, manage their development and ensure that they are ready to perform when needed. Implement automated HR processes that free HR professionals to focus on strategic tasks, increasing their efficiency and productivity.
• Supply Chain Management – Sense and respond appropriately to changing supply and demand dynamics in global networks. Synchronise supply and demand, collaborate with partners in a global manufacturing network and integrate logistics and fulfilment.
• IT Management – Use IT to innovate and increase the competitiveness of the enterprise. Increase user satisfaction with installed software, and leverage IT to adapt to changing business needs.