SME – Control Costs: Overview Video

In today's global business environment, you need to meet growing customer demands and fight new competitive threats – all while keeping a lid on costs. See how SAP can help.

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    • SAP solutions for small businesses and midsize companies: control costs. You face constant cost pressures from larger enterprises that enjoy economies of scale, from offshore manufacturing and service centers, even from smaller, more nimble competitors. Meanwhile, your customers demand higher quality, better service and lower prices. That's why you need SAP solutions for small businesses and midsize companies. SAP delivers integrated business solutions that drive operational efficiencies across your entire organization. So you can control costs, drive higher margins, and achieve the results you want. You have to continuously be looking at opportunities for cost reduction, cost containment, cost productivity improvements and those types of things. When we looked at the cost of maintaining our existing systems and the ability for us to become and maintain viability in our IT operations, the SAP platform provided us a very competitive dynamic, if you will, for cost management of our IT assets. With SAP solutions, you can put cash to work on high-value initiatives. SAP enables you to analyze your business strategies and invest in the ones that produce results. Whether you're developing new products or expanding into new markets, you can be confident you'll realize optimum return on investment. With SAP solutions, you can eliminate waste and contain labor costs. Timely, accurate business data lets you uncover inefficiencies from overtime to maintenance costs, from manufacturing defects to high inventory levels. And with the ability to automate processes, forecast performance, and track your progress, you can improve your financial position and attract a loyal workforce. SAP has enabled us to streamline our process and yet provide many, many different ways of handling customer's orders. We're able to process multi-store orders for some of our major retail customers. In the past, that was done manually, where one order was manually converted from one to 25. Now it is done in one fluid process. With SAP solutions, you can optimize human resources for high-value returns. SAP covers your HR processes end-to-end, with analytic tools to ensure your employees are as effective as they can be. Automation of processes frees up resources to focus on the most strategic activities. With SAP solutions, you benefit from embedded process controls. SAP helps you optimize profits by containing both fixed and variable costs. Process controls allow you to minimize delays in service delivery, limit unauthorized discounting, perform instant credit checks, and more. From a return on investment standpoint, recovering margin has been key to us. So the controls that we've implemented in the system are actually allowing us to recover almost three times the pace that we expected. We're also noticing that we've had substantially less maintenance costs. In fact, we've only had one service call since we implemented the system. With SAP solutions, you can achieve operational efficiencies. SAP empowers you to reduce waste, improve inventory turns, lower labor costs, and deliver cost-effective customer service. Operational efficiencies help you control costs – and drive profitable growth. SAP solutions for small businesses and midsize companies leverage SAP's 35 years of experience working with successful companies across more than 25 industry sectors. It's no wonder that more than 25,000 small and midsize customers are already relying on SAP to control costs – and achieve g
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