SAP

SAP All-In-One
Summary:
SAP offers complete, proven business solutions with deep industry-specific functionalities that can best
adapt to meet the unique and changing business needs of midsize companies in an affordable,
predictable way. SAP® Business All-in-One solutions are comprehensive business solutions designed
specifically for midsize companies to enhance business agility, improve operational efficiency, and
strengthen customer relationships. Based on the SAP ERP application and the proven methods and
tools provided in SAP Best Practices offerings, SAP Business All-in-One solutions give midsize
companies what they need to run their businesses efficiently and competitively
Version:
2009
Price Range:
$120K-2M
Financing Options:
Lease, Lease to own
Number of Installations:
5000+
User Range:
50-5000
Platforms:
MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle
Server OS:
Windows, Mac OS, Novell Netware, Linux, Unix

MODULES

1) Material Management

Inventory Management
Reliably tracking the quantity, value, and movement of inventory is crucial for optimized operations
and accurate accounting records. SAP Business All-in-One fully supports the inventory management
process for midsize companies with functionality for physical goods movements, planning, and stock
taking. These tools give employees in purchasing, manufacturing, and sales full visibility into inventory
status. In addition, SAP Business All-in-One simultaneously updates the physical stock balance with
stock transactions and updates the appropriate account ledgers to reflect the new stock status. With
SAP Business All-in-One supporting effective inventory management, midsize companies can deliver
high-quality customer service levels while reducing excess inventory at all points in the supply chain.

Purchasing Processes
To stay competitive, midsize companies need to secure the highest-quality materials and services at
the lowest possible costs. With SAP Business All-in-One, companies can maximize the return on
relationships with all categories of suppliers. Purchasing scenarios enable the efficient handling and
execution of purchase orders and integrate with the logistics process. Companies can create
purchasing requirements manually or automate them using a number of planning concepts that are
tied to material requirements planning. They can also source purchases manually from suppliers or
automatically assign suppliers using contracts. The goods receipt function updates the general ledger
and inventory for stock items. In subsequent processing, invoices are matched against the agreed
purchase price and quantities delivered within customer-specified tolerances. By covering the full
supply cycle, from strategic sourcing to supplier enablement, SAP Business All-in-One allows
companies to optimize supplier selection and compress sourcing cycle times.

2) Sales Order Management

Sales Processes

SAP Business All-in-One equips the sales organization with tools that maximize productivity and help
the sales force meet customer demands. Sales order management facilitates sales quotations, as well
as sales order processing, delivery, billing, and payment. As a result, the sales organization can
execute customer sales orders faster and more efficiently. SAP Business All-in-One supports the entire
quote-to-cash process from sales order creation to settling customer accounts, enabling midsize
companies to streamline key sales processes and functions.

3) Financial Management

Analytical Reporting

Making the best business decisions requires visibility into organizational performance. SAP Business
All-in-One provides the insight midsize companies need into all areas of the business and enables real-
time data analysis that can help predict business outcomes. SAP Business All-in-One supports
analytical reporting that includes standard, analytical, and ad hoc reporting as follows:

-Financial analytics
-Sales analytic
-Procurement
-HCM analytics
Financials Business Processes

Midsize companies must ensure that their financial statements and internal management reporting
accurately reflect the profits, losses, assets, and liabilities of the business. In addition to providing
functions such as profit and loss statement, general ledger and accounts payable/receivable that
support financial processes, SAP Business All-in-One provides a management accounting tool to
monitor and control performance by integrating all operative transactions throughout the company.
Accounting maintains a consistent, reconciled, and auditable set of books for use in statutory reporting
and by analytic applications. As a result, companies that use SAP Business All-in-One are better able
to take control of their profitability.

4) Supply Chain Management

Parts demand planning

Improve the accuracy of forecasts through better modeling of demand quantities, events, and their
respective deviations. You can select sophisticated forecast models and optimize model parameters to
improve forecasting for slow-moving parts or for parts with irregular demand patterns. Through
aggregated forecast-parameter profile maintenance, you can make data maintenance more efficient.
Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Planning

• Demand planning and forecasting – Forecast and plan anticipated demand for
products or product characteristics. Use state-of-the-art forecasting algorithms for
product life-cycle planning and trade promotion planning.
• Safety stock planning – Assign optimal safety stock and target stock levels in all
inventories in the supply network. Meet your desired customer service levels while
maintaining a minimum amount of safety stock.
• Supply network planning – Integrate purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, and
transportation plans into an overall supply picture – so you can simulate and implement
comprehensive tactical planning and sourcing decisions based on a single, globally
consistent model. This can involve heuristics and capacity planning, optimization, and
multilevel supply and demand matching.
• Distribution planning – Determine the best short-term strategy to allocate available
supply to meet demand and to replenish stocking locations. To achieve this, planners can
determine which demands can be fulfilled by existing supply elements.
• Supply network collaboration – Work with partners across your supply network. Using
collaboration features that improve visibility into supply and demand, you and your
partners can reduce inventory buffers, increase the velocity of raw materials and finished
goods through the pipeline, improve customer service, and increase revenues
5) Customer Relationship Management

Customer Relationship Management

The customer relationship management (CRM) functionality in SAP® Business All-in-One solutions
enables you to support end-to-end marketing, sales, service, and analytics processes in your
organization. It supports a range of CRM processes, from generating a lead, through closing a deal, all
the way to servicing, supporting, and retaining your customers. The functionality is based on the SAP
Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application and is built on the SAP NetWeaver®
technology platform, the foundation for enterprise service-oriented architecture.

The CRM functionality in SAP Business All-in-One helps midsize companies take their customer
relationships to the next level in several areas.

Marketing – Align marketing processes, drive customer demand, and increase marketing ROI using
functionality that helps you better manage your marketing resources, target groups, campaigns, and
leads.

Sales – Acquire, grow, and retain profitable relationships with functionality that helps you better
manage your sales territories, accounts, contacts, activities, leads, opportunities, and pricing.

Service – Drive service revenue and profitability with functionality that helps you better manage
service orders, contracts, complaints and returns, installed base assets, warranties, and resource
planning.

Interaction center – Maximize customer loyalty, cut costs, and boosts revenue by transforming your
customer interaction center into a strategic delivery channel for marketing, sales, and service efforts
across all touch points. Effectively handle activities such as e-mail, telemarketing, telesales, customer
service, and IT support.
Analytics – Get real-time visibility to key performance indicators for sales and marketing, which can
help you make quick, effective decisions; generate and convert more leads; track opportunities; and
close more deals.
6) Additional Capabilities

Groupware integration

Integration with desktop tools (such as IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office) lets users manage their
activities and communications more effectively, at any time and any place. Users can synchronize
tasks, appointments, and e-mails and export customer and opportunity lists to Microsoft Excel for
analysis.

Human Capital Management

Effectively managing the workforce is crucial for any company. SAP Business All-in-One helps
companies manage organizational and staffing change; conduct and document applicant and
personnel actions; maintain, enter, and evaluate time data; change work schedules; view quotas; and
streamline payroll processes. By supporting effective HCM, SAP Business All-in-One makes it easier for
midsize companies to utilize their workforces for a competitive advantage.

Intuitive Navigation
Quick links to key data, snapshots of recent records, key reminders and alerts, screen personalization,
and advanced search help users perform daily tasks more efficiently

SAP

SAP as your solution choice or Microsoft Dynamics is not the question, it’s what happens after the
implementation. Because of the dominant market share and history of enterprise system giant SAP,
your company may in fact have selected SAP as your ERP solution of choice and have recently
successfully implemented the ERP solution for example, but what happens next? Although the pricey
implementation consultants have gone home and the new system is up and running, is it really fully
functional ERP solution in action?

You may get an answer to this question pretty quick if you look at the way you and the way your
peers are conducting their day to day business. You will be surprised to find out that you are not the
only one who is still keeping your old excel files and in fact still using them on a daily basis of other
old tools to pull up your reports and conduct your daily tasks and job functions.

The key factor to a truly successful ERP migration and implementation does not solely rest on the ERP
application, software, vendor or technology of choice, it’s managing the human factor, the people who
will actually be using the new system. An ERP system is focused on improving and streamlining your
business process, not to replicate them in an IT format so this means that the routine processes and
procedures will most likely be changed for the better. The decision to move forward with an ERP
implementation should not made by the IT manager but by the top brass in the company as ERP
solutions play a vital role in today’s company strategic plans and performance goals.

The first process a company needs to perform even before the ERP system selection process is to
determine what the current business processes of the organization is today and where the company
would like them to be tomorrow. Only after this exercise is completed can the right software vendor
and ERP software, whether it be SAP, Oracle or the wide selection of small to mid-size company
solutions on the market today be researched. This initial exercise will also help with your eventual erp
selection due diligence as well as help with your implementation and deployment when the system is
up and running. By involving the critical stakeholders, both managers and users alike in the business
process analysis and getting their input, you will get a buy in a approval for the ERP initiative which
will translate into a quicker and smoother integration process and a higher deployment and user
acceptance when the system is in place.

The human element is critical in any large scale implementation but one that is most commonly
overlooked. Statistics have shown that employees that fully utilize the features and functionality of an
ERP system gain roughly 30 percent more benefit from the solution regardless of what software was
chosen driving much higher ROI for the capital investment in the new technology

Compare SAP with Microsoft Dynamics

Four reasons to switch from SAP to Microsoft Dynamics

Making the decision to switch your company's business management system is a process that requires
research and foresight. Here are four reasons why businesses using SAP business management
software have decided to make the switch to Microsoft Dynamics.

• Microsoft Dynamics can improve employee productivity. In a 2007 analysis that

compared the impact of enterprise software applications on people's productivity, Microsoft
Dynamics users on average scored Microsoft Dynamics 18 percent higher than SAP users
scored SAP applications. This Microsoft-sponsored study was conducted by Keystone Strategy,
an independent research firm, and was supervised by Dr. Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff
Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Download the full study
(XPS 3.96).
• Microsoft Dynamics can scale with your business. Microsoft Dynamics provides affordable
scalability for your growing businesses. With benchmarked performance up to 1,000 users and
beyond and rich functionality across financials, supply chain management, and customer
relationship management, you can be confident in the ability of Microsoft Dynamics to meet
the needs of your growing business. Integrate your Microsoft Dynamics business management
solution with Microsoft SQL Server to enjoy enterprise-level reporting, flexible decision-making
support, and timely, relevant business insight at a low cost with significantly high usability and
flexibility.
• Microsoft Dynamics provides a low cost of ownership. Microsoft Dynamics is engineered
to cost-effectively support the changing requirements that are frequently necessary for
customers to adapt, grow, and maintain a competitive edge in their business. Independent
research has demonstrated that, on the whole, Microsoft Dynamics offers a higher return on
investment (ROI) and lower overall costs than other major competitive offerings. Microsoft
Dynamics licensing is designed to be cost-effective. It is based on concurrent users versus
named users and has no imposed user minimum or maximum, so it evolves with you for the
life of your business.
• Microsoft offers an industry-leading vertical partner ecosystem. Microsoft is in a
position to deliver vertical solutions to hundreds of different industries on a local basis; it can
bring these solutions to market on a local level. Microsoft's Certified for Microsoft Dynamics
program offers solutions designed to meet the needs of specific industries. It can provide
customers with the benefits of a rich portfolio of tested, reference supported solutions
developed by ISVs that have met Microsoft’s highest solution and organizational certification
standards.