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Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

IntroductionEnterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, mySAP ERP,

has been designed to provide a comprehensive solution to

today's changing demands on ERP. While leveraging existing

IT assets, mySAP ERP allows companies to regain active

control of their whole administrative and operations

environment and thereby increase efficiency and

profitability. mySAP ERP enables new levels of business

process and technology integration while laying the

foundation for incremental evolution. In the past, ERP

systems were wholly designed with an internal back-end

business focus; however, an increasing number of companies

are beginning to see the need for efficiency in the

administrative and operative environment that today extends

to almost every employee's desktop. Therefore, there is a

growing requirement for expandable ERP solutions that will

allow companies to collaborate and extend their ERP

processes.

Powered by SAP NetWeaver, the comprehensive integration

and application platform, mySAP ERP combines traditional

ERP functionality with portal-based collaboration across

the extended enterprise. mySAP ERP gives companies better

control of their assets as well as business processes such

as financial supply chain management, e-recruiting, and

profitability assessments of employees, departments, andcustomers.

Business Benefits of ERP

New efficiencies in integrated end-to-end business

processes. mySAP ERP provides completely integrated

business processes to handle the full scope of

financials, human resources, corporate services and

operations. Powered by SAP NetWeaver, mySAP ERP

extends ERP into a truly collaborative environment,

accessible to the organization as well as customers,partners, and suppliers. mySAP ERP effectively

streamlines business process from end to end while

providing tight integration and transparency of

information. The breadth, depth and flexibility of

mySAP ERP is unsurpassed making it the world's

premiere ERP solution.


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Incremental upgrade path. Building on SAP R/3

Enterprise, mySAP ERP allows companies to upgrade in

incremental steps as business requirements change and

permits companies to upgrade by simply adding new

"snap-on" solutions and business functionality as

needed. Companies no longer need to manage costly big-

bang implementation and replacement projects. mySAP

ERP optimally leverages existing IT assets allowing

tremendous savings in the evolution and modernization

of the customer's environment.

Greater control of extended enterprise assets. mySAP

ERP helps companies gain greater control over extended

enterprise assets, offering greater depth and breadth

of functionality, including for example operations

management, consolidation, commission management, real

estate, and travel management-all outside of the scope

of competitor ERP solutions. Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). mySAP ERP offers

improved performance plus greater resilience and

scalability through the incorporation of SAP

NetWeaver. The solution is also fast and easy to

deploy and offers flexible upgrade options, which

simplify implementation and upgrades and reduce total

cost of ownership. In addition, SAP helps

organizations to protect current IT investments by

making solutions interoperable with third-party

technologies, such as J2EE and Microsoft .NET. Since

mySAP ERP is based on SAP NetWeaver, it is designed tobe fully interoperable with various standards, third-

party and legacy applications, and it enables

organizations to conduct all ERP business processes

both within and beyond the organization.

Key Functional Areas of ERP

Analytics

Strategic enterprise management Enables companies to

execute strategies quickly and successfully while

managing business performance throughout the entire

organization; supports integrated strategic planning,

performance monitoring, business consolidation, and

effective stakeholder communication, thus enabling

value-based management.

Business analytics Allows managers and knowledge


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workers within an integrated framework to identify and

exploit value-adding opportunities within the daily

business-enabling optimization of operational

performance, accurate forecasting, and business

planning; identifies opportunities to create

additional value through better exploitation of

tangible and intangible assets, such as customer

value, human capital, or the R&D pipeline value.

Financials

Financial accounting The most comprehensive, robust

and tested financial accounting package available

today helps companies to not only monitor real-time

all values from financially relevant transactions out

of value-creation processes but also maintains a

consistent, reconciled, and auditable set of books for

statutory reporting, management support, and as asource for analytic applications.

Managerial accounting Helps companies optimally

monitor and control all performance relevant

information in an environment that is completely

integrated with all operative transactions throughout

the company. Managerial accounting helps a company

take control of its profitability.

Financial supply chain management Enables financial

collaboration within the enterprise and its business

networks using defined corporate policies and shared

services to handle all customer- and supply chain-

related financial processes; helps automate the

financial supply chain using the Web and other new

electronic service models.

Manager self-service Provides business managers with

access to all relevant business information as well as

related services through financial portal solutions.

Additionally, this capability helps manage financial

shared service centers. Content and application

services that facilitate better, faster decisionmaking and increased productivity through manager-

centric portals. HR content and processes empower

anyone who manages and makes decisions about finance,

management and human capital. Multiple interaction

platform technologies such as browser, voice, and

mobile to enable access anytime and anywhere. The

portals provide convenient Web-based access to


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internal and external applications, business content,

and services that may be key to tasks, processes, or

business decisions.

Human Resources

Employee transaction management Streamlines acomprehensive range of HR services and processes

necessary to efficiently run the Human Resource

environment. This includes a global system meeting the

needs of local regulatory compliance requirements as

well as international best practices.

Employee lifecycle management Provides automation

and optimization of the following phases of the

employee life cycle-attract/hire, deploy, influence,

develop, and retain-resulting in increased human

capital efficiency through better hiring practices,more efficient deployment, focused employee

development, and increased employee retention and

loyalty.

E-recruiting Helps locate the best people and

coordinate team collaboration to identify and evaluate

candidates. Some elements are talent warehouse,

recruiter, service center, and analytics. Advanced

portal and collaboration technology enable the

solution to allow efficient collaboration between

business partners.

Employee relationship management Provides companies

with the ability to enable employees throughout the

company to build collaborative relationships with

fellow employees, managers, third-party suppliers, and

the company itself. Knowledge management and portal

technology are utilized to significantly change the HR

service delivery model and efficiency of the

workforce.

Employee self-service Content and application

services offer a multitude of ready-to-use individualESS services available in thirty-two languages for

thirty-two countries, giving employees control over

multiple administrative tasks.With life-and-work

events capabilities, individual transactions are

seamlessly combined with expert content and knowledge

so that the employee experience is efficient and

enjoyable.


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HCM analytics Provides data analysis and reporting

tools as well as strategic enterprise management

capabilities to support informed HR policy and

decision-making. The solutions enable the company to

analyze and optimize the current workforce, to

implement and monitor the corporate strategy, and to

continuously evaluate how different scenarios will

affect business goals.

Operations Enables a company to efficiently

streamline the logistic operations for the optimal

execution of all orders resulting from purchasing,

sales, production and change management environments.

This part of the mySAP ERP solution optimally prepares

a company to evolve and integrate into extended

collaborative areas such as supply chain, customer

relationship, product life cycle and supplierrelationship management

Purchase order management enables the efficient

handling and execution of Purchase Orders integrated

within the entire logistics process.

Inventory management allows a company an integrated

management of stock and inventories in an integrated

operative environment.

Production management enables the efficient

management and execution of the enterprise production

process.

Maintenance & quality allows a company to

efficiently handle the plant maintenance and quality

control process within the company.

Delivery management executes the delivery and

transportation processes to efficiently support a

sales environment.

Sales order management enables the sales orderfullfilment process allowing for fast and efficient

execution of customer sales orders.

Corporate services Enables the efficient provision

of central and decentral corporate services to the

organisation.

Real estate management Provides a complete solution


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with capabilities to support every stage of the real

estate portfolio life cycle and streamlines business

processes allowing companies to optimally utilize and

manage their real-estate assets.

Incentive and commission management Processes all

types of variable remuneration for employees, sales

forces and partners, such as incentives, commissions,

and brokerage fees, etc.

Travel management Provides applications for business

travel management that support and optimize travel

processes; includes travel manager's marketplace,

which supports procurement of travel services. With

seamless integration to expense reporting travel

management allows for the optimal management of the

entire business travel cycle.

SAP R/3 EnterpriseAfter a very successful Ramp-up, SAP R/3 Enterprise has

been available to all customers since January 2003. It has

already been ordered by over 4,000 customers worldwide and

live customer experiences attest to the high quality and

stability of this software component.

SAP R/3 Enterprise, the newest version of SAP R/3,

extends the functionality of SAP R/3 4.6C using a newly

designed open technical platform that ensures an easy

transition to collaborative business. At the same time, SAPR/3 Enterprise delivers the reliability, scalability, and

operability that SAP customers expect.

Business Benefits of SAP R/3 EnterpriseSAP has gathered input from a large number of customers and

user groups about their requirements for the next version

of SAP R/3. The feedback primarily concentrates on

continuously improved functions; a simpler, more flexible

upgrade path; and an easy transition to collaborative

business processes. This was built into the plan and design

for the next versions of SAP R/3 and has resulted in threenew areas of focus: continuity and new functionality,

flexibility and optimization, and innovative technology.

SAP R/3 Enterprise ArchitectureSAP R/3 Enterprise consists of the SAP R/3 Enterprise Core,

the SAP R/3 Enterprise Extensions, and the SAP Web

Application Server.


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SAP R/3 Enterprise Core. The functionality of SAP R/3

Enterprise Core is based on the previous SAP R/3

release SAP R/3 4.6C. Enhancements include

optimization and stabilization of existing processes

as well as legal changes and limited functional

developments. SAP R/3 Enterprise Core has been

assigned the release number 4.70. This signifies its

similarity to SAP R/3 4.6C.

SAP R/3 Enterprise Extensions. Functional enhancements

are included in the SAP R/3 Enterprise Extensions,

which are grouped by application area-Financials, SCM,

PLM, HR, and Travel Management-and are selectively

deployable. SAP R/3 Enterprise Extensions are

delivered in an SAP R/3 Enterprise Extension Set,

release number1.10. The next release 2.00 of the SAP

R/3 Enterprise Extensions is planned for September

2003. SAP Web Application Server (SAP Web AS). SAP R/3

Enterprise is built on the SAP Web Application Server

and integrates seamlessly with the enterprise portal

and exchange infrastructure. SAP Web AS is a scalable

and reliable component platform that supports the

development, implementation, and provisioning of easy-

to-use Web applications and Web services. SAP Web AS

is the common infrastructure for all mySAP Business

Suite components, including SAP R/3 Enterprise. The

first release of SAP R/3 Enterprise is delivered on

SAP Web AS 6.20. SAP Web AS provides a homogeneousinfrastructure for both Java 2 Enterprise Edition

(J2EE) and ABAP-based applications. This brings the

benefits of SAP 's proven infrastructure-reliability,

scalability, software logistics, change management,

platform independence and business knowledge-to the

J2EE world. It provides integration services and

connectivity to both the portal infrastructure and the

exchange infrastructure.

SAP R/3 Enterprise is fully compatible and incorporated

within mySAP ERP. SAP R/3 Enterprise provides the core of

mySAP ERP making it a logical first step in an upgrade

project.

Customers can convert their existing SAP R/3 contract into

a mySAP ERP contract and leverage their existing investment

in SAP R/3. No technology upgrade is necessary to move from

SAP R/3 Enterprise to mySAP ERP-companies can simply


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incrementally add the benefits of mySAP ERP to their

installation as they go.

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