The SAP® Service Level Optimization application by SmartOps helps you gain insight into your multistage supply chain. You can use the software to better understand demand patterns and supply constraints. With this knowledge, you can determine the appropriate service levels by item, customer, and location and further optimize inventory levels. You can use the software on a stand-alone basis, or you can use it with other SAP applications, including the SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization application by SmartOps.
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and for SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks by Vistex please visit http://www54.sap.com/lob/sales/software/paybacks-chargebacks/index.html
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greater productivity and compliance in an age of highly informed consumers and
traceability. To do so, you need to capture, manage, and integrate huge amounts
of data across business units and systems. The SAP® Meat Management application by msg helps you do this – all from one solution
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For more information around SAP Incentive Administration by Vistex please visit http://www54.sap.com/lob/sales/software/incentive-administration/index.html
and for SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks by Vistex please visit http://www54.sap.com/lob/sales/software/paybacks-chargebacks/index.html
Find out how smart retailers are recouping monies due through chargebacks, rebates, and other incentive programs – with auditors – using solution extensions from SAP. The SAP Incentive Administration and SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks applications help automate and streamline the complex processes involved.
More Than 9,000 Companies Across All Industries Trust
SAP Solution Extensions To Run Simple and Agile
And So Can You. Find out more at https://sap.com/solution-extensions
Use Data-Driven Enterprise Planning in Your Meat, Poultry, or Fish CompanySAP Solution Extensions
Solution brief - SAP Solution Extensions | SAP Meat Management by msg . As a large-scale food producer, your meat, poultry, or fish company strives to ensure
greater productivity and compliance in an age of highly informed consumers and
traceability. To do so, you need to capture, manage, and integrate huge amounts
of data across business units and systems. The SAP® Meat Management application by msg helps you do this – all from one solution
Centurion Medical Products needed to improve its product labeling process to comply with FDA regulations. It deployed the SAP Document Presentment application to automate labeling, connecting product data to production. This reduced costs by $400,000 annually by eliminating manual work. It also cut the time to prepare labels by 75% and change orders by 25%, improving accuracy and audit compliance.
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The document discusses an SAP product called SAP Access Violation Management that helps identify and assess the financial impact of access risks. It automates the monitoring of user access across systems to find actual access violations. This helps reduce manual controls and false positives while enabling a risk management strategy. It can also help quantify the financial exposure of unresolved access risks and understand the impact on business performance and the bottom line.
Salt River Project implemented SAP Invoice Management by OpenText to integrate with their existing SAP and Ariba platforms. This centralized their invoice management processes and provided end-to-end visibility. The solution reduced invoice processing costs by $150,000 per year, increased early payment discounts by 3%, and decreased manually posted invoices by over 90%, improving operational efficiency and vendor relations.
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The SAP Time and Attendance Management application helps companies (1) gain insights into employee labor activities to strategically manage workforce costs, (2) automate complex pay rules and streamline time and attendance management, and (3) simplify employee scheduling and leave case management. The cloud-based solution integrates with SAP SuccessFactors and SAP ERP systems. It provides tools to control costs while improving regulatory compliance through features like automated time tracking, configurable leave policies, and skills-based scheduling.
SAP is a large software company that develops enterprise applications to manage business operations and customer relations. Their software helps companies manage finances, supply chains, product development, and more. SAP holds the copyright to this document from 2012.
The document discusses the SAP Content Management for Microsoft SharePoint application. It allows organizations to integrate their Microsoft SharePoint content with SAP software to improve collaboration and business processes. It provides features like archiving and record management to control content growth and ensure compliance. It also connects Microsoft SharePoint users with SAP systems and transaction data for more efficient collaboration across the organization.
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This document provides an overview of SAP's solutions for digital transformation, including solutions to manage customers, employees, suppliers, assets, and the digital core. It highlights case studies of companies that achieved reductions in order processing time, invoice processing time, defects, and increases in productivity and account closing speed. It promotes SAP Solution Extensions for digitally transforming companies and generating $2 billion in profits annually for customers.
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Cheney Brothers, a $1.2 billion food distributor, implemented SAP ERP and the SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks application to improve customer engagement and increase operational efficiency. This provided real-time data access to sales teams, resulting in a 15% increase in revenue from more effective customer interactions. Cleaner data also allowed Cheney Brothers to recover 50% higher amounts from vendor rebates. The new systems replaced a costly legacy system and automated manual processes, increasing productivity by reducing the number of new hires needed per $10 million in revenue growth.
Read how Lenovo configures a pricing makeover and aims for greater organizational consistency and market responsiveness with SAP Price and Margin Management by Vendavo
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TSG 1899 Hoffenheim is a German soccer club that needed to improve its social media interactions with fans. Using SAP Social Media Analytics, the club can now identify popular discussion topics and see where it is part of online conversations. This allows the club to professionalize its social media monitoring and communications to keep its messaging trendy, fun, and appropriate. The tool helps the club understand social media discussions and engage fans while maintaining a positive brand image.
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SAP implemented the SAP Signature Management application from DocuSign to digitize their contracting processes globally. They started with a small pilot that proved successful. After gaining executive approval, they established a deployment team to educate stakeholders and integrate the new system. While facing some legal and adoption challenges, SAP was able to fully deploy the system across 30 use cases within two years, improving contract execution times significantly.
Discover how SAP LoadRunner by HPE lets you verify that your application architecture is built for performance and reliability. This helps ensure fewer network-related issues in your production system and boosts performance where processes hit snags.
The document discusses an SAP product called SAP Access Violation Management that helps identify and assess the financial impact of access risks. It automates the monitoring of user access across systems to find actual access violations. This helps reduce manual controls and false positives while enabling a risk management strategy. It can also help quantify the financial exposure of unresolved access risks and understand the impact on business performance and the bottom line.
Salt River Project implemented SAP Invoice Management by OpenText to integrate with their existing SAP and Ariba platforms. This centralized their invoice management processes and provided end-to-end visibility. The solution reduced invoice processing costs by $150,000 per year, increased early payment discounts by 3%, and decreased manually posted invoices by over 90%, improving operational efficiency and vendor relations.
SAP Dynamic Authorization Management by NextLabs is a new product that provides sophisticated access control functionality for securing enterprise data. It uses attribute-based access controls, centralized policy management, automated data tagging, and compliance reporting. The product enables companies to share enterprise data globally with partners and suppliers while controlling access and meeting regulatory requirements. SAP Dynamic Authorization Management applies real-time contextual information and user attributes to enforce granular access policies across SAP applications.
The SAP Time and Attendance Management application helps companies (1) gain insights into employee labor activities to strategically manage workforce costs, (2) automate complex pay rules and streamline time and attendance management, and (3) simplify employee scheduling and leave case management. The cloud-based solution integrates with SAP SuccessFactors and SAP ERP systems. It provides tools to control costs while improving regulatory compliance through features like automated time tracking, configurable leave policies, and skills-based scheduling.
SAP is a large software company that develops enterprise applications to manage business operations and customer relations. Their software helps companies manage finances, supply chains, product development, and more. SAP holds the copyright to this document from 2012.
The document discusses the SAP Content Management for Microsoft SharePoint application. It allows organizations to integrate their Microsoft SharePoint content with SAP software to improve collaboration and business processes. It provides features like archiving and record management to control content growth and ensure compliance. It also connects Microsoft SharePoint users with SAP systems and transaction data for more efficient collaboration across the organization.
SourceGas implemented SAP Workforce Scheduling and Optimization by ClickSoftware to automate its work order and dispatch processes across four states. It previously relied on manual dispatching of 500,000 annual work orders to 500 technicians. SourceGas took ownership of the implementation to reduce costs, ensure the system met its unique needs, and allow for customization. After a year-long implementation process, the new system automates work order scheduling, maintains the existing timesheet process, and improves routing efficiency while adding safety features like audio alerts.
The document summarizes the SAP Workforce Scheduling and Optimization solution. It allows field service organizations to: (1) track technician locations in real-time and automatically update schedules; (2) give technicians mobile access to critical job information; and (3) empower customers with online appointment booking and status updates. This improves scheduling efficiency, technician productivity, and customer satisfaction.
This document provides an overview of SAP's solutions for digital transformation, including solutions to manage customers, employees, suppliers, assets, and the digital core. It highlights case studies of companies that achieved reductions in order processing time, invoice processing time, defects, and increases in productivity and account closing speed. It promotes SAP Solution Extensions for digitally transforming companies and generating $2 billion in profits annually for customers.
Read this SAP Thought Leadership Paper to understand what new changes in regulations mean for your business and how you can become smarter about revenue recognition and lease accounting with SAP Lease Administration by Nakisa, a solution extension from SAP.
Cheney Brothers, a $1.2 billion food distributor, implemented SAP ERP and the SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks application to improve customer engagement and increase operational efficiency. This provided real-time data access to sales teams, resulting in a 15% increase in revenue from more effective customer interactions. Cleaner data also allowed Cheney Brothers to recover 50% higher amounts from vendor rebates. The new systems replaced a costly legacy system and automated manual processes, increasing productivity by reducing the number of new hires needed per $10 million in revenue growth.
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Lenovo relies on the SAP Price and Margin Management application to gain real-time visibility into pricing performance across markets in order to better manage deals. This helps Lenovo provide the right products at the right prices to consumers. The application also allows Lenovo to analyze profitability at the system and component level and provide a 360-degree view of pricing segmentation. Lenovo has expanded into new markets and reduced IT costs with the SAP solution.
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim is a German soccer club that needed to improve its social media interactions with fans. Using SAP Social Media Analytics, the club can now identify popular discussion topics and see where it is part of online conversations. This allows the club to professionalize its social media monitoring and communications to keep its messaging trendy, fun, and appropriate. The tool helps the club understand social media discussions and engage fans while maintaining a positive brand image.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
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Balance Service Levels with Business Objectives Using Analytics-Driven Insight
1. SAP Solution Brief
Solution Extensions Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts
SAP Service Level Optimization by SmartOps
Balance Service Levels with
Business Objectives Using
Analytics-Driven Insight
2. Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts
Meet service promises while
boosting profitability
Meet service promises while How can you most effectively meet customer service needs while holding
boosting profitability the line on inventory costs? You need analytics tools that give you insight
into enterprise data, helping you balance inventory levels with customer
satisfaction and increase supply chain profitability.
The SAP® Service Level Optimization applica- You can use the software on a stand-alone
tion by SmartOps helps you gain insight into basis, or you can use it with other SAP applica-
your multistage supply chain. You can use tions, including the SAP Enterprise Inventory
the software to better understand demand Optimization application by SmartOps.
patterns and supply constraints. With this
knowledge, you can determine the appropri- Achieve your global service level targets with
ate service levels by item, customer, and minimum total inventory using SAP Service
location and further optimize inventory levels. Level Optimization.
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3. Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts
Connect service levels with
inventory costs
Connect service levels with In multistage supply chains, maintaining SAP Service Level Optimization helps you
inventory costs proper product inventories is a balancing act. make this connection. The SAP software offers
To meet your service-level requirements, you powerful, intuitive analytics features that help
Model inventory drivers need to stock goods at different levels of pro- you pinpoint the multiple drivers that affect
for optimal service levels duction in various locations to meet a wide both inventory costs and service levels.
range of manufacturing and assembly needs.
Use analytics to balance But holding too much safety stock will drive This software helps you move beyond tradi-
service levels with cost up your carrying costs. tional oversimplified models, which typically
sacrifice inventory efficiencies to support
What if you could better understand the rela- broad customer service targets. Analytics
tionships between service levels and inven- features help you gain insight into the impact
tory costs – down to the item and location of inventory decisions on customer service
level? levels. That’s the fastest way to make smarter
inventory decisions that satisfy customers
while reducing costs.
Please your customers and your CFO. SAP Service
Level Optimization gives you insight necessary to
increase service without driving up costs.
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4. Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts
Model inventory drivers
for optimal service levels
Connect service levels with To establish the inventory levels that can sup- demand, lead times, order frequency and
inventory costs port optimum service, you need insight into batch sizes, transportation variability, pro-
the factors that drive demand. You can use duction variances, supplier and material
Model inventory drivers the SAP software to determine realistic uncertainty, capacity constraints, and plan-
for optimal service levels service-level commitments based on your ning time fences.
actual inventory drivers.
Use analytics to balance Modeling these factors helps you gain a more
service levels with cost With SAP Service Level Optimization, you can complete view of the inventory issues that
model relevant inventory drivers such as affect your ability to meet service-level com-
sales volume or gross margin, demand vola- mitments. This knowledge helps you deter-
tility, and seasonality or sales frequency. The mine the optimal service level for each item
software can also calculate the impact of lost in the supply chain.
Continued on next page
Excessive safety stock won’t bring you peace of
mind. Profitability will. Optimize service levels and
minimize inventory costs with SAP software.
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5. Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts
Connect service levels with You can use the software to conduct what-if
inventory costs analyses and determine the best service levels
for specific customers. For example, you can
Model inventory drivers begin your analysis using a single service-level
for optimal service levels commitment for a particular item. Then use
the software to model different commitments
Use analytics to balance by customer, and explore how changes would
service levels with cost impact inventory and profitability.
With this powerful modeling functionality, you
can make incremental adjustments to inven-
tory and service levels, considering different
supply or demand factors. You can even model
choices down to the item and location level.
Powerful analytics help you visualize the service
impact of varying inventory levels. It’s the next best
thing to a crystal ball.
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6. Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts
Use analytics to balance
service levels with cost
Connect service levels with High service levels may improve customer The software can help you identify customer
inventory costs satisfaction, but how do they affect your demand that would be a good candidate for
bottom line? increased service levels, due to low forecast
Model inventory drivers error or high margin. You can also identify
for optimal service levels With the SAP software, you can determine how products that cannot profitably meet current
an increase or decrease in a specific service- service targets. You can then rebalance your
Use analytics to balance level commitment affects your company’s corporate service strategy to achieve an
service levels with cost profitability. Instead of setting one global ser- overall targeted service rate while reducing
vice target for all customers and items, you inventory for specific products.
can use the software to pinpoint customers,
items, or locations where service levels can By providing this analytics-driven insight, the
be shifted to improve profitability. software helps you to understand the true
drivers of profitability. You can use that knowl-
edge to make decisions that reduce inventory
costs and increase supply chain profitability.
Ready for excellent service with low costs? SAP
Service Level Optimization helps you strike the
right balance.
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7. Objectives Solution Benefits Quick Facts
Gaining value from a better balance
Gaining value from a better balance SAP Service Level Optimization helps you •• Increased sales – by fine-tuning inventory
gain a clearer picture of how you can balance and service levels so that goods are always
service with inventory levels and costs. By available where and when customers
providing detailed insight and the power to demand them
perform what-if analyses, the software helps •• Reduced inventory levels – allowing you to
you meet your corporate goals for customer incrementally cut costs and free up working
service and profitability by adjusting inven- capital
tory levels. With this insight, your organization •• Enhanced customer satisfaction – by con-
can realize considerable business benefits, sistently meeting your promised service-
including these: level agreements
•• Improved supply chain profitability – by
increasing revenue and reducing inventory
costs
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