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SAP Best Practices
Overview
SAP Best Practices, SAP AG
Agenda
SAP Best Practices Overview
Activation Approach
Tools
Success and Summary
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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.
Adjustments
within project
Adjustments
within project
Standard
System
Traditional
project
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SAP Best
Practices
Standard
System
With SAP
Best Practices
What makes SAP Best Practices “Best”?
SAP and partner experiences contribute to enhancing
SAP Best Practices
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Over 35 years of experience, design,
and input from companies of all sizes
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Over 36 SAP Partners contribute to
direct development focused on
efficiency and validity
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Over 40,000 implementations
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SAP Best Practices are used for a variety of
projects
Microvertical SAP Business All-in-One
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SAP Best Practices packages provide a solid foundation for rapid
development of microvertical solutions
Prototype / Proof of concept
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Quickly preview and understand SAP applications and processes
Reference System
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Quickly set up and accelerate blueprinting and solution scope definition
Starting Point
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Meet an average of 30% to 80% of midsize company requirements
 Add additional requirements as needed throughout the project
Subsidiary Rollout
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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
Single Business
Application
Complete,
Adaptable
Configurable and
Extensible
covering small
business
fundamentals
on-demand business
solution
on-premise business
solution with deep
industry best practices
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
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Cross Industries
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
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Baseline Package
CRM
Business Intelligence
Supply Chain Management
Enterprise Portals
Human Capital
Management
Global Risk and
Compliance
Corporate Performance
Management
International Accounting
Standards
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Components Country Baseline Versions
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SAP ERP
SAP NetWeaver
SAP CRM
SAP GRC Access
Control
SAP GRC GTS
SAP NetWeaver
Business
Intelligence
SAP Supply Chain
Management
SAP NetWeaver
Portal
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For an updated list of packages, go to:
http://service.sap.com/bestpractices  Release Planning
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Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Rep.
GCC countries
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Italy
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
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Mexico
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia & Mn.
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Turkey
U.K.
United States
Venezuela
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What’s Included: SAP Best Practices deliver
documentation and preconfiguration
Complete documentation and preconfiguration are
included in every SAP Best Practices package
Contents include:
Documentation
Preconfiguration
Scenario overviews
Business process documentation
Quick Guide for prerequisites and
guided activation of settings
Configuration Guide
Training material
Preconfiguration settings
Sample master data
Configuration documentation
Automation tools
Print forms
User roles to leverage new
SAP NetWeaver Business client
Documentation Download
Business documentation,
technical documentation,
documentation templates,
and conversion forms
Technical Download
Configuration settings
Automation tools
Refined Print Forms and Reports
… provided in an SAP Add-On
Note:
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Some SAP Best Practices are delivered as
a documentation dowload only, refer to
the Quick Guide document for more
details
Agenda
SAP Best Practices Overview
Activation Approach
Tools
Success and Summary
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Using SAP Best Practices involves five basic
steps
1. Review &
Download
2. Install
Review SAP Best Practices documentation and scenario scope
to select the appropriate deployment scenarios on the SAP
Help Portal, then download your selected package
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
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Adapt and enhance the system to meet customer or
microvertical requirements
Turn SAP Best Practices into a Live System
SAP Best Practices
Add-On
■ Identify required scope
■ Pick and choose scenarios
Install all
scenarios
Install
selected scenarios
■ Train the project team
Prototype
■ Understand the business flow
DEV
QAS
PROD
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SAP Best Practices are
the foundation for the
entire duration of your
implementation project
Agenda
SAP Best Practices Overview
Activation Approach
Tools
Success and Summary
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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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ADAPT
 Graphical adaptation of
enterprise structure
 Personalization of master
data
ACTIVATE
 Automated installation of
selected scenarios with
personalized data
 Improved performance and
usability
Solution Builder
Components + basic functionality
Solution Builder
Solution
Builder
 Manages different solution or package scopes
 Graphical scoping engine
 Organizational structure composer and
personalization
 Application area editor + assignment
Implementation
Assistant
 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)
Building Block
Builder
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 Creation of building blocks
 Insertion of different task types for
implementation activities
 Maintenance of installation data
Agenda
SAP Best Practices Overview
Activation Approach
Tools
Success and Summary
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PT Nippon Indosari selects SAP Best Practices
Based Package
QUICK FACTS
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
Challenges and Opportunities
Why SAP
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Business Process integration and
efficiency
Management reporting
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Database centralized
Objectives
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“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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Streamline business processes and
increase productivity
Make the business more transparent
Develop a system that can scale with
the company
Implementation Highlights
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Implementation was completed in 20
weeks
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Strong references with similar projects
and SAP’s reputation in the consumer
goods industry
SAP offers the rich functionality that
can address the full range of business
processes
Benefits
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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
WEG China selects SAP Best Practices Based
Package
QUICK FACTS
WEG China
 Location: Nantong, China
 Industry: IM&C
 Products and Services: Motors
 Employees: 600
 Web Site: www.weg.net
 SAP Solutions and Services: SAP
ERP®, SAP Best Practices
 Partner: hartung:consult
Challenges and Opportunities
Why SAP
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Users were not using any ERP solution
prior to SAP
Very short implementation period
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Objectives
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Rapid SAP Implementation
Provide all business departments with
an integrated application
Use best industry practices
Benefits
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“We would never have expected that it
is possible to implement a full scale
SAP solution in such a short time.”
Implementation Highlights
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Fernando Lima
Project Manager
WEG Nantong
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Market expertise
Availability of a SAP Best Practice
package
Company’s headquarter is
implementing SAP
Implementation completed in 3 months
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.
Cereal Comércio selects SAP® Best Practices
Based Package
Challenges and Opportunities
QUICK FACTS
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Cereal Comércio
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Location: Rio Verde-GO, Brazil
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Industry: Consumer products, Mill
products
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Transparency of the business’ cash
flow
Financial controls and reporting
Inventory control, production control
and associated costs
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Products and Services: Soy and
Derivates, Warehouse services
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Revenue: US$100 million
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Employees: 100
Objectives
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Web Site: www.grupocereal.com.br
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SAP® Solutions and Services: SAP®
Business All-In-One, SAP Best Practices
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Partner: Inove Soluções
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Achieve operational excellence
Improve operational efficiency
Reduce cost and improve productivity
Better reporting and analytics
Implementation Highlights
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has proven to be the fastest way to
address our business issues. The
project challenge of going from ‘Zero‘ to
Live in less than 8 weeks was completed
by our Partner, Inove Soluções with
excellent results.”
Evaristo Jr.
CEO
Cereal Comerico
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Full implementation in less than 8
weeks
Total initial cost below US$ 200K
More than 90% SAP Best Practice
Baseline Brasil used out of the box
Proven, robust enterprise resource
planning (ERP)
Support to quickly deploy business
operations and processes
Benefits
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“The SAP Best Practices based solution
Why SAP
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.
Mikro+Polo d.o.o. selects SAP® Best Practices
Based Package
QUICK FACTS
Mikro+Polo d.o.o.
Challenges and Opportunities
Why SAP
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Lack of executive visibility
Financial controls and reporting
Accessibility of the right data at a given
moment
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Location: Maribor, Slovenia
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Industry: Wholesale
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Products and Services: engineering,
medicine and calibration laboratory
products
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Revenue: €10.3 million
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Employees: 70
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Web Site: www.mikro-polo.si
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SAP® Solutions and Services:
SAP® Business All-In-One solution,
SAP Best Practices package
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Partner: itelligence d.o.o.
Implementation Highlights
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“We chose itelligence‘s 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
Mikro+Polo d.o.o.
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Improve operational efficiency
Improve customer relationships
Respond rapidly to changing business
requirements
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Full scope implementation completed in
23 weeks
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Use of implementation tools
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Accelerated system and user
documentation
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Expedited customer learning
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Reduced the number of consulting
days required
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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
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Centralized data management and
reporting
Fully-integrated business system
Customer Success - Med-Health Companies
Rapid 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
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
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Rapid deployment within 10 weeks with very
limited staff to sustain operations
SAP All-in-One solution based on SAP Best
Practices with industry standard
infrastructure helped establish credibility with
customers and partners
Customer Success - Polyglass
Cost-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)
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.
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Cost-effective deployment time-line met
expectations
Extensive documentation of business
process and procedures to support ISO
certification
Worldwide studies have proven the value of
SAP Best Practices
Time Reduction (person hours)
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%.
1045
ERP
SCM, SRM
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CRM/BI
PLM IT
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 Reduce total implementation time
by an average of 32%.
Meeting customer needs:
 On average, deliver a 72% match to
customer requirements1
“Without SAP Best Practices,
the project would have been
more complex. The overall
project was speedier.”2
Cost Reduction ( in 1000 Euros)
3345
SCM, SRM
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ERP
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CRM/BI
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1Results
of a 2006 - 2007 SAP survey among customers who
incorporated SAP Best Practices in their implementation projects.
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2004 study of SAP Best Practices by Ludwigshafen University of
Applied
Sciences
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SAP Best Practices
Foundation for your success in the midmarket
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Packages Tailored to Meet Midmarket Needs
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Rapid Implementation and Reduced Costs
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Create or Extend Your Business Solutions
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Build a Working Prototype
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Improve Project Performance and Customer Understanding
Sound foundation for preconfigured, ready-to-use business scenarios based on SAP’s deep
industry experience
Tools, content, and methodology to reduce costs compared to traditional approaches
Prepackaged Business Expertise
Reusable documentation and configuration which can be adapted to specific needs
Use the fully documented implementation procedure including the automation and
personalization tools as the basis to create your own SAP Business All-in-One solution
Have a working, fully-documented prototype in only a few days right out of the box
Use 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/011000358700003019992005E.xls
SAP Best Practices Online Reference Systems
http://service.sap.com/BAiO-demo
SAP Help Portal (public)
SAP Best Practices
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http://help.sap.com/bestpractices
Thank you!
SAP Best Practices
SAP AG
[email protected]
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