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ANALYST REPORTS:
Best Practices in Extending ERP: A Buyer's Guide to ERP Versus Best of Breed Decisions
As the enterprise resource management market matures, more and more companies are exploring the boundaries of ERP and weighing decisions that balance integration and upgrade efforts against extended features. This Aberdeen report reviews the decision-making process for ERP – and includes recommendations for actions. Aberdeen Group (November, 2006)
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WHITE PAPERS:
Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation
What trends in enterprise resource planning (ERP) are driving businesses to adopt an enterprise services-oriented architecture (SOA)? This white paper examines those trends, and discusses how enterprise SOA can help organizations deliver operational excellence and realize new levels of innovation by enabling more responsiveness and agility.
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Learn why you can expect to see meaningful return on your investment (ROI) in SAP software. ROI studies provide the facts from real-world SAP implementations.
Brookshire Grocery
Learn why Brookshire Grocery Company selected SAP Business Suite to integrate financial, human resources, and manufacturing processes at its corporate headquarters, retail locations, and manufacturing facilities. As a benefit, the company saw a 100 percent improvement when accessing its reports.
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Dairy Industries Jamaica
Learn how Dairy Industries Jamaica leveraged SAP Business Suite applications to tightly integrate sales and distribution functions to support manufacturing. The company gained better control of inventory and materials management, while increasing productivity.
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Elmer's Products
Read how this leading manufacturer of adhesive products facilitated its ascent to category-leader status with its customers by enabling analysis of key business data with help from the SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) component. The company can now react more quickly to market changes.
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Spin Master
Learn how this world-class producer of children's products chose the functionality found in SAP ERP to accelerate its product development life cycle, improve customer relationships, and integrate its systems to enable better decision making.
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Tasty Baking Company
Discover how implementing mySAP ERP enabled this leading U.S. baked goods company to transform its business processes – improving its operational efficiencies and reducing its business risk as a result. These and other benefits lead the company to an 11% increase in sales volume without an increase in personnel.
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Tumi
Read how Tumi, a manufacturer of luxury travel, business, and lifestyle accessories, used SAP Business Suite applications to improve forecasting, inventory control, and customer service. Now Tumi has the ability to respond to market conditions more flexibly and quickly and access to real-time analyses and reporting.
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Under Armour
Discover how U.S.-based Under Armour took innovation to the next level with SAP Apparel and Footwear – replacing manual allocation with available-to-promise checks, supporting multiple currencies and companies, and providing better visibility of data to drive better business performance and decisions.
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Wolverine World Wide
Learn how this Michigan-based designer, manufacturer, and marketer of casual shoes and performance outdoor footwear has leveraged SAP software to streamline and automate work processes, centralize core functions, and achieve significant improvements in operating efficiency while building a solid foundation for global growth.
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