SAP ERP combines comprehensive and scalable enterprise resource planning software with an enterprise-class technology platform. For details about the benefits and capabilities of SAP ERP, read the following information:

Overviews

• "mySAP ERP" (PDF, 1.0 MB) – Explore how SAP ERP provides strategic insight, increased productivity, and flexibility by automating business processes and extending them to customers, partners, and suppliers – through analytics to analyze operations, workforce, and financials for strategic and operational insight.
• "Enterprise Management and Support for Industries with SAP ERP" (PDF, 1,080 KB) – See how SAP ERP can be extended with industry-specific features and best practices, empowering a range of organizations to improve operations and enhance collaboration.
• "SAP Value of Upgrade: SAP ERP 2005" (PDF, 1.8 MB) – See how enhanced integration of the SAP NetWeaver platform with SAP ERP enables enterprise services support of adaptable business processes, more flexibility with guided procedures and composite applications, preconfigured business content, simplified search, and more.
• "mySAP ERP Corporate Services" (PDF, 864 KB) – Read how SAP ERP Corporate Services helps streamline administrative processes in real estate management; enterprise asset management; project and portfolio management, travel management; environment, health, and safety; quality management; and global trade services.
• "mySAP ERP Financials" (PDF, 734 MB) – Learn how SAP ERP Financials – an essential building block of your enterprise software business strategy – provides a foundation to expand your business, gain insight into every aspect of the enterprise, and ensure compliant and transparent accounting and financial reporting.
• "mySAP ERP Human Capital Management" (PDF, 1.1 MB) – Examine how the SAP ERP HCM solution offers leading-edge HCM functions that help you maximize workforce potential – so you can attract and retain the right people, develop and leverage their talents, and align their efforts with your corporate objectives.
• "mySAP ERP Operations" (PDF, 792 KB) – Examine how SAP ERP Operations provides a proven foundation for business innovation for all industries. The solution enables your organization to achieve operational excellence in procurement and logistics execution, product development and manufacturing, sales and service.
• "mySAP ERP Solution Questions And Answers" (PDF, 160 KB) – Explore general and technical aspects of SAP ERP, including business benefits; availability; and its relationship to other SAP solutions, the SAP NetWeaver platform, and Enterprise Services Architecture, the SAP blueprint for services-oriented business solutions.

Solution Briefs

• "Enterprise Management and Support: Driving Growth in the Dynamic High Tech Manufacturing Industry" (PDF 156 KB) – Read how the SAP ERP packaged solution for the high tech industry helps companies streamline critical business processes, provide visibility and control, and adapt to changes – with minimal disruption.
• "Global Solutions Without Boundaries" (PDF, 265 KB) – Improve global status with SAP NetWeaver and SAP solutions by increasing rapid access to critical data across your extended value chain in local markets – meeting diverse business and legal requirements through translation tools and country-specific features.
• "Bringing SAP Business Applications to the Microsoft Office Desktop" (PDF, 322 KB) – Read how Duet software helps you increase productivity and improve decision making with intuitive access to SAP ERP in a familiar Microsoft environment.
• "SAP Employee Interaction Center" (PDF, 153 KB) – Examine interaction center functionalities available in SAP ERP that help you synchronize communications across all channels and touch points, decrease service costs, improve business processes, increase customer satisfaction, shorten time to market, and drive revenue.
• "SAP ERP Chemicals Packaged Solution" (PDF, 88 KB) – Explore how the SAP ERP Chemicals packaged solution can help streamline business processes; improve sales, operations, and supply chain planning; and enhance customer relationship management.
• "SAP ERP Packaged Solution for IM&C" (PDF, 164 KB) – Read the summary about this packaged solution that combines capabilities of SAP ERP and SAP Best Practices into an affordable answer for midsize industrial machinery and components producers.
• "SAP ERP Packaged Solution for the Dairy Industry" (PDF, 218 KB) – Learn how the SAP ERP packaged solution for the dairy industry can help companies improve operations and address regulatory compliance issues in a competitive business environment.
• "SAP Manager Self-Service: Tools for Smart Decisions and Lower Costs" (PDF, 169 KB) – Explore how managers can make effective human capital management decisions with easy access to interdepartmental information for financials and human resources.
• "Managing Performance" (PDF, 401 KB) – Improve management of corporate performance to compete in a fast-paced market. SAP software provides top-level financial and analytic solutions with comprehensive, up-to-date data you need to drive profitability.
• "SAP Value-Based Services for SAP ERP" (PDF, 158 KB) – Examine the assessment methodology in the SAP ERP solution for determining the potential value of an investment, so that potential customers can understand the benefits of the solution.
• "Save Resources and Empower Employees With SAP Employee Self-Service" (PDF, 153 KB) – Learn how the employee self-service application of SAP ERP cost effectively provides employees with access to up-to-date, accurate HR information, worldwide.

Portfolio in Detail

• "SAP for Logistics Service Providers" (PDF, 235 KB) – Learn how SAP supports requirements of logistics service providers with SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM – as well as with specific solutions for the retail, automotive, and oil and gas industries – by managing processes efficiently and profitably.

White Papers

• "Building Analytical Capability" (PDF, 350 KB) – Examine the process that organizations use to develop analytical capabilities by reading this research paper on four case studies, which illustrate four different aspects, particular issues, and lessons to be learned regarding that development process. Co-authored by SAP and Accenture (2005) Log-in required.
• "Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation" (PDF, 532 KB) – Discover new operational strategies and trends in ERP that are driving organizations to consider enterprise services architecture (ESA) – and assess how ESA can help you achieve operational excellence and foster innovation. Log-in required.
• "Service Enablement and Competitive Advantage: Can Enterprise Systems Accelerate Performance?" (PDF, 230 KB) – Explore how service oriented architecture can help you achieve operational excellence and competitive differentiation and advantage – adding flexibility to enterprise applications to promote innovation and best practices. Log-in required.
• "Shared Services" (PDF, 320 KB) – Examine the benefits of shared services centers (SSCs) and their future – with a focus on core, administrative, and controlling processes, IT strategy, and the SAP position in the market. Also, explore how SAP ERP fits the needs of SSCs with its accounts payable capabilities. Log-in required.
• "Simplifying Access of Enterprise Systems from the Desktop" (PDF, 569 KB) – Examine how Duet software can improve the productivity of information workers by seamlessly connecting the enterprise information and business productivity application worlds. Log-in required.

Analyst Reports and Related Information

• "Air France Soars to New Heights with Upgraded SAP ERP System: Meeting Its Commitment to Excellence" (PDF, 142 KB) – Consider why Air France upgraded to SAP ERP – gaining access to new and enhanced capabilities, lower operational costs, and improved productivity and usability for more than 2,200 corporate users. IDC (2006) Log-in required.