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SAP Best Practices

SAP Business Suite enables companies to succeed in today's economy. But how do you get your solution up and running quickly – and contributing to your bottom line?

With SAP Best Practices.

For three decades, SAP has developed best business practices with our most successful partners and customers. We can share this experience with you. SAP Best Practices get you started with a fully documented and reusable prototype that you can turn into a production solution quickly. So you can control costs, reduce risk, and immediately experience the benefits of SAP Business Suite.

SAP Best Practices empower your company with:

• A proven methodology that leverages a prototype approach to implementation
• Thoroughly documented scenarios – from both a business and a technical perspective
• Proven preconfigurations of SAP solutions
• Benefits for companies of any size, for both new and existing customers – so you can easily adapt techniques to meet your specific requirements or use them as a starting point for customized ASP or hosted solutions

Provided to SAP customers without surcharge, SAP Best Practices put the power of SAP in your hands. Industry-specific coverage includes:

• Apparel and footwear
• Automotive
• Chemicals
• Consumer durables
• Consumer products
• Dealer business management
• Discrete manufacturing
• Engineering, construction & operations
• Fabricated metals
• High tech
• Home and personal care
• Industrial machinery & components
• Logistics service providers
• Media
• Medical devices
• Mining
• Pharmaceuticals
• Primary steel
• Professional services
• Public sector
• Retail
• Software providers
• Telecommunications
• Utilities
• Water utilities
• Wholesale distribution

Cross-industry business coverage includes:

• Baseline package
• Business intelligence
• Business planning and consolidation
• Business process management
• Customer relationship management
• E-commerce with SAP ERP
• Governance, risk, and compliance
• Human capital management
• IAS/IFRS
• Lean baseline package
• Mobile asset management
• Portals
• Supply chain management
• Strategy management

In 2004 the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences surveyed 192 companies – representing a wide range of industries, worldwide – that had recently implemented SAP software solutions with built-in industry best practices. Based on the combination of questionnaires and follow-up phone interviews, the study found that SAP Best Practices helped:

• Decrease the effort needed to conduct mission-critical project tasks, such as configuration, documentation, testing, and training. On average, the use of SAP Best Practices helped reduce overall project risk by 71% when compared with other software implementations.
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO). On average, the use of SAP Best Practices helped lower TCO by 11%. One company reported that, compared to conventional implementations, it deployed its ERP system 40% faster and lowered TCO by more than 53%.

The study has been published by SAP Press in a book, "Enhanced Project Success Through SAP Best Practices – International Benchmarking Study," ISBN 1-59229-031-0.