It's no secret that companies are looking for ways gain a competitive edge. Business process management and re-engineering (BPM/BPR) can give you a sustainable advantage by helping you to identify your business process costs, improve your understanding of company-wide expenses and reveal problem areas so you can eliminate bottlenecks and wasteful activities.

By leveraging the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management application – which works hand-in-hand with your enterprise performance management and BPM initiatives – you can ensure that you have a complete understanding of costs across your organisation.

Our new generation of Web-based applications removes the drudgery of collecting non-system driver data, making it easier for you to produce reports much more frequently, so you can gain an enterprise-wide focus for continual improvement. And with the application and other enterprise performance management solutions, you can:

• Focus BPR initiatives on areas and processes with the most significant
• Identify – and remove – non value-added activities such as reworks
• Rationalise work processes by assigning them to the right people
• Assess the effectiveness of BPM/BPR programmes
• Establish definitive key performance indicators (KPIs) by measuring and tracking the unit costs of key business processes