SAP Best Practices Overview

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SAP Best PracticesOverview

• SAP Best Practices, SAP AG

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Agenda
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Introduction to SAP Best Practices
SAP Best Practices are packages that provide
preconfigured business processes and project
accelerators to streamline customer
implementations.
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What makes SAP Best Practices Best?
SAP and partner experiences contribute to
enhancing SAP Best Practices

• Over 35 years of experience, design, and input
  from companies of all sizes
• Over 36 SAP Partners contribute to direct
  development focused on efficiency and validity
• Over 40,000 implementations

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SAP Best Practices are used for a variety of
projects

• Microvertical SAP Business All-in-One
• SAP Best Practices packages provide a solid
  foundation for rapid development of microvertical
  solutions
• Prototype / Proof of concept
• Quickly preview and understand SAP applications
  and processes
• Reference System
• Quickly set up and accelerate blueprinting and
  solution scope definition
• Starting Point
• Meet an average of 30 to 80 of midsize company
  requirements
• Add additional requirements as needed throughout
  the project
• Subsidiary Rollout
• Accelerate rollout of SAP to subsidiaries in
  different regions or industries

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SAP Best Practices enabling small midsize
enterprises as a key element of SAP Business
All-in-One
Industry Solutions
Partners
Configurable and Extensible on-premise business
solution with deep industry best practices
Complete, Adaptable on-demand business
solution
Single Business Application covering
smallbusiness fundamentals
Accelerated by SAP Best Practices
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Current Global SAP Best Practices Portfolio
Expanded versions to meet your industry and
geographic needs
Industries
Cross Industries
Country Baseline Versions
Components

• SAP ERP
• SAP NetWeaver
• SAP CRM
• SAP GRC Access Control
• SAP GRC GTS
• SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
• SAP Supply Chain Management
• SAP NetWeaver Portal
• And more

• Automotive
• Chemicals
• Consumer Products
• Discrete Manufacturing
• Engineering, Construction Operations
• Fabricated Metals
• Healthcare
• High Tech
• Industrial Machinery Components
• Logistic Service Providers
• Media
• Mining
• Pharmaceuticals
• Primary Steel
• Professional Services
• Public Sector
• Retail
• Wholesale Distribution
• Utilities

• Baseline Package
• CRM
• Business Intelligence
• Supply Chain Management
• Enterprise Portals
• Human Capital Management
• Global Risk and Compliance
• Corporate Performance Management
• International Accounting Standards
• And more

• Argentina
• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Canada
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Croatia
• Czech Rep.
• GCC countries
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hong Kong
• Hungary

• Mexico
• The Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• Serbia Mn.
• Singapore
• Slovak Republic
• Slovenia
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Thailand

For an updated list of packages, go
to http//service.sap.com/bestpractices ?
Release Planning
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Whats Included SAP Best Practices deliver
documentation and preconfiguration
Complete documentation and preconfiguration are
included in every SAP Best Practices package
Contents include

• Documentation
• Scenario overviews
• Business process documentation
• Quick Guide for prerequisites and guided
  activation of settings
• Configuration Guide
• Training material

• Preconfiguration
• Preconfiguration settings
• Sample master data
• Configuration documentation
• Automation tools
• Print forms
• User roles to leverage new SAP NetWeaver
  Business client

Technical DownloadConfiguration
settings Automation tools Refined Print Forms and
Reports provided in an SAP Add-On
Documentation DownloadBusiness documentation,
technical documentation, documentation
templates, and conversion forms
Note Some SAP Best Practices are delivered as a
documentation dowload only, refer to the Quick
Guide document for more details
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Agenda
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Using SAP Best Practices involves five basic steps
1. Review Download
Review SAP Best Practices documentation and
scenario scope to select the appropriate
deployment scenarios on the SAP Help Portal,
then download your selected package
2. Install
Install SAP applications and required notes
3. Activate
Upload and activate the preconfigured scenarios
or manually configure system, then review or test
the scenarios using the Business Process
Documentation
4. Refine
Identify and add other requirements on top of SAP
Best Practices preconfigured scenarios
5. Adapt Enhance
Adapt and enhance the system to meet customer or
microvertical requirements
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Turn SAP Best Practices into a Live System
SAP Best Practices Add-On

• Identify required scope
• Pick and choose scenarios
• Train the project team
• Understand the business flow

Prototype
DEV
Installselected scenarios
Customer-specific delta Customizing
QAS
SAP Best Practices are the foundation for the
entire duration of your implementation project
Customer-specific delta Customizing
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PROD
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Agenda
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IMPLEMENT - Solution Builder Simplified path to
activate SAP Best Practices
SCOPE

• Graphical scenario selection
• Standard scope templates delivered by SAP Best
  Practices
• Easy enhancements with further templates

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Solution BuilderComponents basic functionality
Solution Builder

• Manages different solution or package scopes
• Graphical scoping engine
• Organizational structure composer and
  personalization
• Application area editor assignment

Solution Builder

• Manages and monitors implementation of a
  solution/package (scenario based), access to logs
• Building block assignment, maintenance of
  information on scenario level/scenario edit view
  (e.g. pricing parameters)

Implementation Assistant

• Creation of building blocks
• Insertion of different task types for
  implementation activities
• Maintenance of installation data

Building Block Builder
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Agenda
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PT Nippon Indosari selects SAP Best Practices
Based Package
QUICK FACTS

• Challenges and Opportunities
• Business Process integration and efficiency
• Management reporting
• Database centralized
• Objectives
• Streamline business processes and increase
  productivity
• Make the business more transparent
• Develop a system that can scale with the company
• Implementation Highlights
• Implementation was completed in 20 weeks

• Why SAP
• Strong references with similar projects and SAPs
  reputation in the consumer goods industry
• SAP offers the rich functionality that can
  address the full range of business processes
• Benefits
• Pre-configured solution made the implementation
  faster
• Full integration of supply chain and use of a
  full range of logical and analytical capabilities
  
• Information is accurate, reliable and available
  in real-time
• Enabled more analytics for decision making

• PT Nippon Indosari Corpindo
• Location Bekasi, Indonesia
• Industry CPG
• Products and Services Baked Goods
• Employees 760
• Web Site www.sariroti.com
• SAP Solutions and Services SAP Business All in
  One, SAP Best Practices
• Partner Metrodata e-Bisnis

• The benefits in terms of lowering costs,
  increasing revenues and IT strategy we reap from
  SAP will be significant and bring Nippon Indosari
  to a new level of success
• Alex Honki
• Project Manager
• PT Nippon Indosari Corp.

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WEG China selects SAP Best Practices Based Package
QUICK FACTS

• Challenges and Opportunities
• Users were not using any ERP solution prior to
  SAP
• Very short implementation period
• Objectives
• Rapid SAP Implementation
• Provide all business departments with an
  integrated application
• Use best industry practices
• Implementation Highlights
• Implementation completed in 3 months

• Why SAP
• Market expertise
• Availability of a SAP Best Practice package
• Companys headquarter is implementing SAP
• Benefits
• The SAP Best Practices package enabled the
  customer to have a prototype within a very short
  time.
• Only minor modifications were necessary to
  complete the system configuration.

• WEG China
• Location Nantong, China
• Industry IMC
• Products and Services Motors
• Employees 600
• Web Site www.weg.net
• SAP Solutions and Services SAP ERP, SAP Best
  Practices
• Partner hartungconsult

We would never have expected that it is possible
to implement a full scale SAP solution in such a
short time. Fernando LimaProject ManagerWEG
Nantong
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Cereal Comércio selects SAP Best Practices Based
Package
QUICK FACTS

• Challenges and Opportunities
• Transparency of the business cash flow
• Financial controls and reporting
• Inventory control, production control and
  associated costs
• Objectives
• Achieve operational excellence
• Improve operational efficiency
• Reduce cost and improve productivity
• Better reporting and analytics
• Implementation Highlights
• Full implementation in less than 8 weeks
• Total initial cost below US 200K
• More than 90 SAP Best Practice Baseline Brasil
  used out of the box

• Why SAP
• Proven, robust enterprise resource planning (ERP)
  
• Support to quickly deploy business operations and
  processes
• Benefits
• The implementation has provided Cereal Comercio
  with total control of purchasing, inventory,
  production, sales and finance
• SAP solution supports every stage of
  manufacturing and distribution processes from
  goods receipt through production, to the
  completion of the sales process.
• Cash flow in addition to the standard cash flow
  feature in SAP, Cereal has developed the
  inventory/cash flow, a new way to asses the
  impact of goods movement in relation to the
  financial timeline.

• Cereal Comércio
• Location Rio Verde-GO, Brazil
• Industry Consumer products, Mill products
• Products and Services Soy and Derivates,
  Warehouse services
• Revenue US100 million
• Employees 100
• Web Site www.grupocereal.com.br
• SAP Solutions and Services SAP Business
  All-In-One, SAP Best Practices
• Partner Inove Soluções

The SAP Best Practices based solution has proven
to be the fastest way to address our business
issues. The project challenge of going from
Zero to Live in less than 8 weeks was completed
by our Partner, Inove Soluções with excellent
results. Evaristo Jr. CEO Cereal Comerico
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MikroPolo d.o.o. selects SAP Best Practices
Based Package
QUICK FACTS

• Challenges and Opportunities
• Lack of executive visibility
• Financial controls and reporting
• Accessibility of the right data at a given moment
• Objectives
• Improve operational efficiency
• Improve customer relationships
• Respond rapidly to changing business requirements
  
• Implementation Highlights
• Full scope implementation completed in 23 weeks
• Use of implementation tools
• Accelerated system and user documentation
• Expedited customer learning
• Reduced the number of consulting days required

• Why SAP
• Industry specific best practices built-in
• Proven, robust enterprise resource planning (ERP)
  
• Ability to tailor the final solution to growing
  or changing business needs
• Support for localized/country specific business
  practices
• Benefits
• Centralized data management and reporting
• Fully-integrated business system

• MikroPolo d.o.o.
• Location Maribor, Slovenia
• Industry Wholesale
• Products and Services engineering, medicine and
  calibration laboratory products
• Revenue 10.3 million
• Employees 70
• Web Site www.mikro-polo.si
• SAP Solutions and Services SAP Business
  All-In-One solution, SAP Best Practices package
• Partner itelligence d.o.o.

We chose itelligences itWholesale solution
because we were determined to get an information
system that will support and automate our
business processes to the highest level possible.
SAP was chosen based on that, due to the
outstanding references and for being the system
of choice of our most important customers and
suppliers. Marko Podgornik Managing
director MikroPolo d.o.o.
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Customer Success - Med-Health CompaniesRapid
deployment within 10 weeks using SAP Best
Practices-based SAP Business All-in-One solution
Selected industry best practices, that could
scale to meet future needs
Med-Health Companies, a leading medical products
distributor, adopted SAP All-in-One
solution implemented by Ki Solutions
Rapid deployment within 10 weeks with very
limited staff to sustain operations
Med-Health, needed to ramp their systems with
extensive functionality tailored for
Pharmaceutical and Wholesale Distribution
Management, to go-live with their web based
distribution business for medical supplies
SAP All-in-One solution based on SAP Best
Practices with industry standard infrastructure
helped establish credibility with customers and
partners
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Customer Success - PolyglassCost-effective
deployment for midsize company using SAP Best
Practices-based SAP Business All-in-One solution
Laying a foundation for future innovations that
will follow Andy Hastings, COO, USA
POLYGLASS, a leading manufacturer of modified
bitumen roofing, implemented SAP All-in-One
partner solution EDGETM from Technology Solutions
Company (TSC)
Cost-effective deployment time-line met
expectations
Polyglass was looking to apply for ISO
certification and was interested in a solution
that would address the detailed documentation and
business process procedure requirements. SAP
All-in-One was the only solution that could
deliver these requirements on time and within
budget.
Extensive documentation of business process and
procedures to support ISO certification
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Worldwide studies have proven the value of SAP
Best Practices

• Implementation Acceleration
• Average implementation time was 4.2 months for
  over 20 sample projects in US and Latin America
  in 2006.
• Reduce consulting and customer project resources
  by an average of 50.
• Reduce total implementation time by an average of
  32.
• Meeting customer needs
• On average, deliver a 72 match to customer
  requirements1

Time Reduction (person hours)
Cost Reduction ( in 1000 Euros)
Without SAP Best Practices, the project would
have been more complex. The overall project was
speedier.2
n 51
Median
Arithmetic Mean
1Results of a 2006 - 2007 SAP survey among
customers who incorporated SAP Best Practices in
their implementation projects. 2A 2004 study of
SAP Best Practices by Ludwigshafen University of
Applied Sciences
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SAP Best PracticesFoundation for your success in
the midmarket
Packages Tailored to Meet Midmarket NeedsSound
foundation for preconfigured, ready-to-use
business scenarios based on SAPs deep industry
experience Rapid Implementation and Reduced
CostsTools, content, and methodology to reduce
costs compared to traditional approaches Prepackag
ed Business ExpertiseReusable documentation and
configuration which can be adapted to specific
needs Create or Extend Your Business
SolutionsUse the fully documented implementation
procedure including the automation and
personalization tools as the basis to create your
own SAP Business All-in-One solution Build a
Working PrototypeHave a working,
fully-documented prototype in only a few days
right out of the box Improve Project Performance
and Customer UnderstandingUse SAP Best Practices
as an integrated tool for evaluation, training,
and implementation
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Where to Find More Details

• SAP Public Website SAP Best Practices
  http//www.sap.com/bestpractices
• SAP Service Marketplace
• SAP Best Practices
  http//service.sap.com/bestpractices
• SAP Best Practices Solution Portfolio
  http//service.sap.com/sapidb/0110003587000030199
  92005E.xls
• SAP Best Practices Online Reference Systems
  http//service.sap.com/BAiO-demo
• SAP Help Portal (public)
• SAP Best Practices
  http//help.sap.com/bestpractices

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