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by Lenore Johnson, Rebecca Newell, Cindy Morel, Bil Khan, Wendy Maldonado, SAP SAPinsider To help companies meet the unique needs of their business and industry niches, SAP offers select solution extensions that integrate directly into your existing landscape, providing increased business value to complement the SAP business solutions you already have in place. In this special report, you can explore several of these solution extensions in more detail and take a look at the benefits the various tools can bring to an organization.
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by SAP and Partners SAPinsider The challenges of today’s supply chains are very different from those of the past. In this special report, you’ll hear from SAP’s Hans Thalbauer about the pressing need for organizations to create real-time, demand-driven supply chains which can react to market fluctuations and customer needs. You’ll also hear from SAP partners who can help organizations succeed in this bid.
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by Hans Thalbauer, SAP SAPinsider Learning and communication are becoming more visually oriented and businesses need to be able to keep up with this trend. To help, SAP has invested in 3D visualization technology by acquiring Right Hemisphere. In this issue's Inside Edge, Hans Thalbauer, Senior Vice President of LoB Solutions for Supply Chain and R&D, discusses how SAP Visual Enterprise solutions will provide customers with benefits now and into the future.
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by Michael Lynch, SAP SAPinsider While globalization opens new doors and can help increase profits, it also introduces complications. Growing language requirements and more intricate manufacturing processes are forcing business leaders to rethink their operations. That's why, through the integration of new 3D visualization technology, SAP is creating an environment in which employees can seamlessly interact with product data and 3D product imagery to gain a faster understanding of even the most complicated business problems.
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by Robert J. Merlo, SAP SAPinsider Communications have come a long way from the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt. But, have we lost something by moving away from more visual representations of language? Maybe it's time to revisit the value of visuals. This article looks at how SAP Visual Enterprise solutions take highly valuable visual information out of the engineering department and share it across the value chain by transforming CAD files into compressed, lightweight, and easily distributable formats.
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by Padmini Ranganathan, SAP SAPinsider No matter what role you play or which industry you’re in, the ability to make strategic, well-informed decisions is vital. Analytics capabilities help employees and companies sort through massive amounts of data to find information they need to plan, adapt, and grow the business. In this article, you’ll learn about how SAP solutions provide these crucial analytics capabilities.
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by SAP's Global Ecosystem and Channel Marketing Group SAPinsider SAP offers select solution extensions that integrate directly into your existing landscape, providing increased business value to complement the SAP business solutions you already have in place. In this special report, you can explore several of these solution extensions in more detail and take a look at the benefits the various tools can bring to an organization.
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by Carolyn Beal, SAP SAPinsider Even with the increased emphasis on cost control that has come out of the recession, maverick or unauthorized spending is still a problem for most organizations, sometimes costing millions of dollars. This article shares six steps to help procurement organizations maximize savings and profits; including obtaining executive sponsorship and collaborating with key stakeholders
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by Frank Suetterlin, SAP SAPinsider Supplier management has evolved from basic recordkeeping and scorecarding to a strategic practice focused on the management of supplier information, performance, compliance, and risk. Strategic supplier management programs can improve visibility and collaboration, consolidate spend, and reduce quality issues. In this article, learn the three principles that are essential to strategic supplier management and how to make such a program work within your organization.
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by Henner Schliebs, SAP SAPinsider Procurement analytics — which encompass traditional spend analytics and key procurement measures — provide the key to identifying areas of low performance, optimizing procurement functions, and reducing costs. But what's the best way to configure and deploy a procurement analytics program? This article will walk you through the 4-step process.
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