Overview: Founded in 1972, SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market.

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Accelerate Value Creation: The Virtuous Cycle of Using Technology to Maximize Business Value by SAP America Inc . October 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 America Inc . 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 America Inc . 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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Assess Your Enterprise Agility by SAP America Inc . 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 America Inc . 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 America Inc . 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 America Inc . 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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Business Intelligence for Consumer Packaged Goods: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc . May 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 for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - Firms in Process Industries have made significant investments in information technology to increase the efficiency of their operations and supply chains. By integrating real-time decision making with mission-critical business processes, smart businesses can set a path for industry leadership.

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Business Intelligence: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc . 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 America Inc . 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 America Inc . August 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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Compliance and Traceability in Regulated Manufacturing Industries Benchmark Report by SAP America Inc . December 2006 - Read this Aberdeen report to learn how to overcome the challenges of compliance and traceability in manufacturing.

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CRM without Compromise: A Strategy for Profitable Growth by SAP America Inc . April 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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Data to Intelligence: The BI Advantage for Financial Services by SAP America Inc . June 30, 2008 - Find out how leading financial enterprises are turning to sophisticated data warehousing techniques, real-time analytics, improved data quality, and intelligent metrics to find competitive advantage.

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Distributors Gain Control of Destiny with Integrated Solutions Based on Best Practices by SAP America Inc . August 07, 2009 - This IDC report examines the key challenges facing distribution companies as the rules of the game change under the twin forces of globalization and industry consolidation.

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Enabling Growth through Business Model Innovation Change Is the Only Constant by SAP America Inc . September 2008 - Find out why industry leaders rely on innovative business models as the competitive assets that help them expand their industry influence and improve their market position - and learn how you can help transform your firm's business model.

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Energizing Utilities For The Economic Stimulus Plan: Strategies For Greater Energy Efficiency and Sustainability by SAP America Inc . 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 America Inc . 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 America Inc . 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 America Inc . 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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Giving Manufacturing Companies a Fast Start: SAP All-in-One Fast Start Program by SAP America Inc . March 10, 2009 - Find out if the SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program is the right fit for your midsize manufacturing company, with preconfigured software based on best practices in your industry that can help you achieve fast time to value, control cost, and improve operational efficiencies.

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Governance, Risk, and Compliance For Life Sciences Companies by SAP America Inc . 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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Human Capital Management: How Top Organizations Drive Company Profits Efficiently by SAP America Inc . January 2007 - The study finds that the best human capital management organizations constantly reassess their processes to strike a balance in the drive to optimize efficiency, cost, and service delivery in a continually changing environment.

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Improving Intercompany Reconciliation For A Faster Close: Driving Financial Excellence by SAP America Inc . 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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Is There a Smarter Way to Handle Excess Active and Obsolete Inventory? by SAP America Inc . August 07, 2009 - Learn efficient ways to handle excess and obsolete inventory. Excess at-risk inventory ultimately impacts a company's bottom line. Tactics used to resolve inventory issues can be costly. Using private, on-line, competitive auction portals provides one way to manage excess inventory with low-overhead execution.

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Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage by SAP America Inc . January 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 America Inc . 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 America Inc . January 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 Excellence: Enabling Sustained Growth Spotlight on the Americas by SAP America Inc . 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 America Inc . 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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SAP Provides a Central Hub for Managing Interfaces & Web Services for Largest NA Oil Refining Co. by SAP America Inc . 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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Still Struggling to Reduce Call Center Costs without Losing Customers? by SAP America Inc . 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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Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies: How Top Process Industry Performers Take Radically Different Actions by SAP America Inc . 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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Sustained Growth Through Operational Excellence by SAP America Inc . 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 organisation, enabling management by facts.

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The Collaboration Advantage: Customer-Focused Partnerships In A Global Market by SAP America Inc . 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 America Inc . 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 America Inc . February 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 America Inc . 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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Top 10 Reasons Customers Choose SAP for Business Transformation by SAP America Inc . 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 America Inc . January 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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