Food safety, compliance, product recalls, and brand reputation have forced many organizations in the food and beverage industry to question their ability to provide enterprise-wide traceability. Read Aberdeen research on how the best-in-class organizations are reducing the impact of food safety incidents; ultimately decreasing the number of product recalls and improving the customer experience. (Aberdeen Group, 2009).
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Learn how SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand offers complete, integrated business intelligence that extends your reporting and analysis of data in the Salesforce application from salesforce.com. This software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution is free to try and requires no dedicated hardware or software installation.
Explore how prebuilt analytic applications and business intelligence make for better decision-making across many functions in your organization. IDC analyst, Henry Morris, theorizes on the future of analytics and their impact on business. (IDC, 2010).
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Learn why the accelerating pace of the consumer products market is putting pressure on manufacturers to be more agile and run the clock speed of their business more quickly. Examine ways to better align the clock speed of supply with the clock speed of demand in order to create a more responsive supply chain. (IDC, 2012).
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Are you 100 percent confident that you’re aware of all compliance obligations in the markets you serve – and the risks for noncompliance? SAP offers a compliance assessment for sustainability regulations to help you make informed decisions about compliance processes and IT investments.
Explore the importance of consumer influence in the consumer-customer-manufacturer dynamic as well as how the role of fulfillment becomes more and more important as consumers become more influencial. (IDC, 2012).
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Find out about the tools SAP Business One provides to help you turn prospects into customers, grow customer sales and profitability, and increase customer satisfaction. Learn how you can automate processes and efficiently manage activities throughout the entire sales cycle, from initial contact to after-sales support.
Read about a new SAP trade promotion optimization solution that supports sales and marketing teams in consumer industries. (SAP Insider, 2011).
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Economic uncertainty creates new challenges for financial forecasting and planning activities. See research results to find out what CFOs have to say about planning and forecasting, and learn how companies can reduce the forecasting gap with the right processes and technology. (CFO Research Services, 2009).
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Learn how SAP Retail Execution mobile app gives you anywhere, anytime access to relevant information and functionality from mobile devices. This makes your sales representatives more productive, boosts your return on brand and promotion events, and maximizes your investment in SAP Customer Relationship Management.
Learn how SAP Business Suite software helps you embed compliance across your product development stages. Discover how your manufacturing company can gain a clean cross-functional process to help ensure product compliance and to cut a workable path through global regulations for environmental and consumer safety.
Read about the key global trends and regulations related to packaging, electrical and electronic equipment, and batteries, the challenges of compliance and consequences of noncompliance, and the benefits of best-in-class approaches to environmental management programs. (Perchards, 2011).
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Examine relevant criteria for evaluation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions targeting small-to-midsize businesses and key questions that should be asked. (Saugatech, 2011).
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Explore the current business challenges faced by companies, the priority allocated to sales and operations planning (S&OP), the maturity levels associated with S&OP, and the role of technology enablers. (Aberdeen, 2011).
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Discover how the reliable, integrated SAP Business One application can streamline your financial operations. It automates your everyday financial tasks and integrates them with other business processes, such as purchasing and sales, in real time, resulting in faster transactions and improved cash flow.
Learn how you can use SAP BusinessObjects Trade Promotion Effectiveness Analysis to gain insight into performance tracking of trade spend by retail account, event, and category. Discover how you can develop data-driven strategies and promotions for different retailers that will maximize return on promotion spend.
Read how you can effectively monitor, analyze, and report on data quality using SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward to help improve efficiencies and lower costs. Learn how to get rid of incomplete, inaccurate, and inconsistent data and improve effectiveness of operational, analytical, and governance initiatives.
Get details on how SAP BusinessObjects Supply Chain Performance Management can help your organization identify supply chain disruptions, respond effectively to new trends, and stand out from your peers.
Read how you can integrate your business network with SAP software designed to best fit the needs of your headquarters, subsidiaries, and partners. SAP software provides insight into operations across the network and supports harmonized, integrated processes. Our partner ecosystem can assist with global deployments.
Learn how SAP Business Suite software can help you manage integrated product development processes that align product definition and production ramp-up. Use SAP software to synchronize design, development, sourcing, and manufacturing to create collaborative efficiencies that shrink time to profit.
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