Overview: SAP's vision is for companies of all sizes to become best-run businesses. Best-run businesses transform rigid value chains into dynamic business networks of customers, partners, and suppliers.

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A Better Bottom Line - Implementing Efficient Business Solutions by SAP AG . February 01, 2008 - Efficient operations help you better control costs and enable you to offer
more competitive pricing and terms to your customers. SAP Business One, a single, affordable application designed for small businesses, lets you streamline operations, access accurate information quickly, and get a 360-degree view of key business areas.

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Accelerate Value Creation: The Virtuous Cycle of Using Technology to Maximize Business Value by SAP AG . October 18, 2008 - Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains.

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Accurate Costing Is Key to Profitability - Dynamic Environments Expose Weaknesses in Traditional Approaches by SAP AG . June 01, 2008 - To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability.

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Achieve Fuel Distribution Excellence - Drive Efficiency And Growth With Integrated Solutions by SAP AG . June 01, 2008 - The SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, and adaptability.

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Achieving Sustained Growth through Operational Excellence by SAP AG . June 02, 2009 - Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organization, enabling management by facts.

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Assess Your Enterprise Agility by SAP AG . November 12, 2007 - Forrester reports that CEOs are beginning to recognize the need for their firms to become more agile in detecting and making the changes to strategy, operations, and products.

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Best Practices in Complex Equipment Manufacturing, Sales, and Service by SAP AG . January 23, 2009 - This paper gives a brief overview of the SAP® solutions used by manufacturers of complex products and equipment to differentiate themselves from the competition through superior-value products and services against low-cost global providers.

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Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function by SAP AG . January 23, 2009 - the following article will share the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. The OSBC research is the first global set of common standards for business processes and data, giving organizations an independent, authoritative resource for evaluating and improving business practices.

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Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations by SAP AG . June 01, 2009 - Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.

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Beyond Supply Chain Visibility: Response Management Is the Key by SAP AG . September 17, 2008 - Supply chain visibility ranks as one of the top two application focus areas for companies as part of their supply chain technology investment plans. Supply chain executives view visibility as the main goal for supply chain executives within supply chain initiatives. Read this paper for more.

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BPM Technology Taxonomy: A Guided Tour to the Application of BPM by SAP AG . March 01, 2009 - This paper provides a survey of the practices and technology related to business process management (BPM). Basic concepts are explained, the transformational effect on the enterprise is examined, and the value that BPM can create is analyzed. The paper then presents a survey of the vast array of technology that is related to BPM.

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Business Intelligence for Consumer Packaged Goods: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP AG . May 01, 2008 - This paper discusses about how technological advances are enabling improved decision making across three broad axes: simplicity and relevance, agility and integration.

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Business Intelligence: A Guide for Midsize Companies—Improving Your Company’s Efficiency and Effectiveness, No Matter Its Size by SAP AG . September 01, 2009 - While your company has continued to improve its operating efficiencies, you feel your company should be spending more time analyzing what's going on and predicting and planning for the future. This white paper from SAP offers guidance on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your company with business intelligence.

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Business Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP AG . January 23, 2009 - To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations urgently require a new generation of business intelligence tools and applications that allows cross-enterprise, interenterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed.

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Business Network Transformation: Rethinking Relationships in a Global Economy by SAP AG . January 01, 2008 - The ability to operate effectively in business networks, be they coordinated or collaborative, is critical to sustaining competitive advantage in a commoditizing global economy. By focusing on their unique core capabilities, business network participants spend less on duplication and more on innovation, resulting in higher degrees of..

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BusinessWeek Research: Talent Management - The New Business Imperative by SAP AG . August 01, 2007 - Read this report to discover the views of senior human resource (HR) and information technology (IT) executives and CEOs at large and midsize companies about the talent shortage and how workforce planning can help executives address this coming crisis.

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Channel Sales Management: New Applications for High-Tech Vendors by SAP AG . January 23, 2009 - Channel management is a pressing issue for high-tech manufacturers that sell through partners. IDC believes that companies that leverage channels partners should begin to integrate channel management into broader corporate infrastructure applications that include the supply chain and potentially PLM applications.

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Clearing the Way for Faster, Smarter Decisions: Instant, Accurate Information Drives Competitive Edge by SAP AG . December 17, 2007 - This paper examines how you can gain reliable, accessible information
from efficient, integrated IT systems – and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions. In turn, the right decisions will lead to better operations and a stronger competitive position.

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CRM without Compromise: A Strategy for Profitable Growth by SAP AG . April 01, 2007 - This white paper describes the concept of “CRM without compromise,” elucidating how organizations can maximize their results by taking a more structured, holistic approach to CRM across the enterprise to gain a competitive advantage and profitable growth.

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Direct Store Delivery 2008: Take the Fast Road by SAP AG . January 23, 2009 - Direct Store Delivery companies can gain a clear edge with a seamless system, because information from the field is immediately reflected throughout your company, with no data inconsistencies, mismatches or latency.

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Energizing Utilities For The Economic Stimulus Plan: Strategies For Greater Energy Efficiency and Sustainability by SAP AG . June 02, 2009 - This SAP Executive Insight examines specific concerns that confront utility executives in today's economy. Further, it describes how gaining greater business visibility and transparency can enable organizations to execute decisively and effectively in this challenging climate.

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Enterprise Contract Management for Life Sciences: Integrating Contract Creation, Administration, and Execution by SAP AG . June 02, 2009 - Leading life sciences companies are recognizing the need for synchronized, enterprise-wide pricing and contract management processes. An integrated solution can provide the transparency needed to satisfy auditors, balance pricing with go-to-market strategies, and support sales and finance teams - including accurately predicting margins.

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Enterprise Risk Management: Keeping People, Assets, and the Environment Safe by SAP AG . November 12, 2008 - Find out why operational risk management is a rising priority for monitoring disparate and disconnected efforts in safety, environmental compliance, and asset use to provide better enterprisewide control and management accountability. Making substantial efforts today will improve risk mitigation and create an enduring competitive advantage.

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Gaining ERP Value: Structured Implementation at Industrial Good Maker Hunter Manufacturing by SAP AG . January 23, 2009 - Hunter Manufacturing is a good example of what a midsize company can accomplish with a disciplined approach to gaining ERP value, in concert with a vendor that has the functionality, technology and services to support the effort.

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Governance, Risk, and Compliance For Life Sciences Companies by SAP AG . June 02, 2009 - SAP® solutions for governance, risk, and compliance help you institutionalize compliance throughout the enterprise. Across operational,
financial, global trade, and environmental compliance activities, you can reduce costs and risks while boosting productivity and increasing your competitive advantage.

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High-Tech Industries: The Supply Chain Executive's Strategic Agenda by SAP AG . September 18, 2008 - This paper explores the concerns and process roadmap of supply chain executives in high-tech industries.

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Human Capital Management for the Public Sector: Make Every Employee a Strategic Asset With Sap® Solutions by SAP AG . January 01, 2007 - Discover how public sector agencies are shifting the focus in HR departments from transactional activities to performance with strategic human capital management (HCM).

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Improving Intercompany Reconciliation For A Faster Close: Driving Financial Excellence by SAP AG . June 02, 2009 - What's arguably the single greatest barrier to the fast close has remained constant - the completion of the intercompany reconciliation process. This paper examines the issues behind intercompany reconciliation and outlines how companies can make impressive progress when they employ software solutions such as those from SAP Business Objects

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Intelligent Merchandising: Creating a Unique Shopping Experience, Part 1 by SAP AG . May 01, 2007 - Learn how you can how you can hook customers with fresh, unusual and relevant shopping experiences. Drive customer loyalty by training, empowering and providing employees with the technical tools to capture the nuances of customer behavior.

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IT Excellence: Achieving Optimised Business Outcomes by SAP AG . February 01, 2007 - Information technology is ubiquitous in organizations, but what distinguishes top-notch IT from merely adequate IT? Read this article written by the Economist, to learn how leading companies enable IT to perform optimally.

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IT's Role in the M&A Process by SAP AG . October 18, 2008 - Read this paper to review the results of a survey that addressed IT's role in the M&A process and the blending and coherence of enterprise system data during M&A activity.

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Learning from BPM Leaders: Benefits, Prerequisites and the Impact of Successful BPM Initiatives by SAP AG . June 05, 2009 - The experiences of BPM leaders have created, for CIOs just beginning the implementation process, a road map to success: improved business and IT communication, an overall refresh of roles and responsibilities and greater process flexibility - those that do BPM right reap the ultimate reward of business innovation: competitive advantage.

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Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage by SAP AG . January 01, 2007 - This paper identifies the market trends driving the need for an integrated talent supply chain and describes the internal inefficiencies professional services firms must overcome to optimize their talent supply chains.

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Making Strategy Real by SAP AG . September 25, 2009 - How can management communicate business strategy effectively and assure that the entire organization has bought in to the strategy and is aligned behind it? Business performance optimization systems are an important tool for success.

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Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset by SAP AG . January 01, 2007 - Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.

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Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance by SAP AG . December 28, 2007 - This report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance.

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Operational Excellence: Enabling Sustained Growth Spotlight on the Americas by SAP AG . January 23, 2009 - Operational excellence means consistently doing things well across the value chain as a way of gaining competitive advantage. In its broadest terms, it is a discipline that drives corporate strategy.

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Operational Excellence: The New Lever of Profitability and Competitive Advantage by SAP AG . January 01, 2009 - The paper provides valuable evidence about the benefits of achieving aligned operational excellence. In it you'll discover why companies that build and align their operational capabilities for strategic advantage earn a distinct execution premium in their business performance.

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Ready Access to Real-Time Data Helps Small Businesses Thrive by SAP AG . February 01, 2008 - Today there is new and affordable technology that enables small businesses to access current data from any location, respond quickly to change, and thrive in a volatile business environment. A good example of this technology is the
SAP® Business One application. Read this white paper to learn more!

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Riding the Growth Wave: Leveraging Economies of Scale by SAP AG . April 01, 2008 - This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help
you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization,
enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities.

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SAP Business Transformation Study: ConAgra Foods by SAP AG . September 01, 2007 - ConAgra Foods, Inc. is one of North America's largest packaged food companies. With the help of SAP and SmartOps, the company was able to tackle its key challenges in making its supply chain more efficient. Read this case study to learn about the challenges ConAgra faced along with the benefits achieved from implementing SAP and SmartOps solutions.

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SAP Provides a Central Hub for Managing Interfaces & Web Services for Largest NA Oil Refining Co. by SAP AG . January 23, 2009 - Valero Energy Corporation selected SAP because of its ability to provide a central hub for managing all interfaces and Web services, power to serve as a single integration & development platform for nearly all of Valero's business, capability to integrate SAP and non-SAP software systems, and support for synchronous & asynchronous messaging.

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SAP Solutions for Small Businesses and Midsize Companies: Leveraging Economies of Scale by SAP AG . October 30, 2009 - As your company grows, you have the opportunity to benefit from economies of scale; but growth can be fraught with challenge. Production disruptions and operational inefficiencies can quickly negate the advantages you hope to achieve. Watch this informative video to learn about SAP solutions for small businesses and midsize companies.

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Still Struggling to Reduce Call Center Costs without Losing Customers? by SAP AG . February 01, 2008 - Efficient call centers that also meet customer expectations is a challenge that many organizations face. Discover the key steps to turning your call center into a strategic asset.

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Streamline Your Business, Accelerate Your Growth: Using an Affordable Application Built for Small Businesses by SAP AG . October 26, 2009 - The SAP® Business One application offers a single, affordable way to manage
your entire business – from sales and customer relationships to financials and operations. Designed specifically for small businesses, it helps you streamline processes, act on timely information, and accelerate profitable growth.

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Study Pinpoints Areas of Growth for After-Market Maintenance/Repair/Overhaul Intiaitives by SAP AG . January 23, 2009 - This study talks about top three trends such as outsourcing MRO, aging aircraft and lean impacting the MRO segment.

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Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies: How Top Process Industry Performers Take Radically Different Actions by SAP AG . January 23, 2009 - To avoid a 7.96% increase in logistics costs, companies should follow the roadmap of Best in Class companies, which have been able to reduce costs or keep them flat via supply chain transformation.

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Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies by SAP AG . August 07, 2009 - Maintain operational efficiency while cutting supply chain costs with new approaches, technologies, and methodologies. Third party logistics providers, radio frequency identification rentals, and attribute-based demand planning can help you reduce supply chain costs and boost customer satisfaction.

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The Challenge to Achieve Perfect Order Management by SAP AG . January 23, 2009 - Superior order management can be a competitive edge across the board, improving customer satisfaction and retention as well as your bottom line and top line.

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The Collaboration Advantage: Customer-Focused Partnerships In A Global Market by SAP AG . June 02, 2009 - In order to better understand the opportunities, challenges, risks and rewards companies have seen from these types of agreements, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a survey in March 2008, sponsored by SAP, which asked 516 senior executives how their business relationships are evolving.

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The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence by SAP AG . June 02, 2009 - The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its
accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls

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The Impact of Lean on Consumer Product Manufacturers by SAP AG . February 01, 2007 - Discover the impact of Lean on consumer product manufacturers and gain key tips in implementing successful Lean initiatives across the enterprise.

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The Profitability Perspective: How Automated Reporting Drives Better Decisions by SAP AG . June 02, 2009 - Driving sustainable growth requires profitability-focused planning and performance management. This special study highlights some key survey findings, which collectively show that profitability reporting is increasing in importance and the use of technology and more sophisticated costing and reporting solutions is high on the agendas of many...

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The Responsive Supply Chain: Managing Market Events in the Consumer Goods Industry by SAP AG . September 18, 2008 - This report focuses on the market events that impact demand. It explains the six market event categories that cannot be controlled but can be effectively managed if the right processes and technologies are in place.

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There Is No Execution without Integration: MES Adoption Drives Performance by SAP AG . September 18, 2008 - Many manufacturers today are getting caught on the wrong side of a technology adoption wave that is quickly gaining momentum. This benchmark study is a roadmap for reducing overall manufacturing costs through the utilization of manufacturing technologies.

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Top 10 Reasons Customers Choose SAP for Business Transformation by SAP AG . January 01, 2006 - SAP is a customer’s company, whose organization is designed for, and encouraging of, innovation in all its aspects - from product development to product delivery to product implementation. Read this white paper to discover the top 10 reasons why customers choose SAP for their business transformation.

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Understanding and Managing Supply Chain Risk by SAP AG . January 01, 2006 - Download this white paper and explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Learn how identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk and using IT solutions can create higher resilience for supply chain management.

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Using Market Influence to Grow Your Business: Collaborate with Partners and Win More Customers by SAP AG . April 01, 2008 - This paper looks at ways in which an integrated information technology solution can help you keep on top of your chosen markets and sustain growth.

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Using Talent Supply Chain Management to Overcome Challenges in the Professional Services Market by SAP AG . January 01, 2007 - Discover how implementing an integrated talent supply chain management environment can help professional services providers enhance revenues by improving delivery performance and speeding client response.

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