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Successfully Automating Your SAP Master Data Processes
The document discusses the importance and benefits of automation in SAP master data processes, emphasizing the need for agility, data integrity, and optimizing workforce efficiency for digital transformation. It highlights case studies illustrating successful automation implementations, showing significant cost savings and improved customer satisfaction. Furthermore, it presents key components of an effective automation platform and encourages enterprises to adopt automation for achieving strategic goals.
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- 1. Successfully Automating Your SAPMaster Data Processes Andrew Hayden | Precisely Key Components of a Successful Automation Implementation
- 2. Andrew Hayden Sr. ProductMarketing Manager
- 3. Agenda • Why Automation? •Why an automation platform? • Automation and digital transformation • Examples of the value of automation • Key takeaways • About Precisely • Questions/discussion
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- 5. Be more agile Enterpriseneeds: Go faster Improve the quality and integrity of your most important data
- 6. Optimize staff Enterprise wants: ReachROI faster Realize Digital Transformation dream
- 7. Accelerating digital transformation Datais the fuel for decision-making today $1.04 trillion spent on Hyperautomation by 2026 80% of CEOs accelerating digital transformation 45% of enterprises using SAP are leveraging automation 67% spending more on technology than people Market is growing at 12% per year
- 8. Data Process Interdependence of processand data Interdependence of process and data
- 9. Top process challenges 60% saytheir processes are too slow 43% say they lack visibility 75% under pressure to move faster
- 10. Top data challenges Data quality 43%say theirs is poor Complexity of MD processes, reference and conditional data objects
- 11. Common product challenges 11 •Complex materials environment: Many raw and semi-finished goods • Multiple vendors and suppliers • Complex data objects • Complex processes • Manual data management & spreadsheets • Often multiple plants • Frequent changes • Complex customer environment • Tight margins • Seasonal exceptions • Promotional packaging • Sales alignment • Multiple systems involved • SAP in the middle of it all
- 12. Upstream process components Vendors Procurement Product Development ControllingFinance Materials Production Planning Warehouse Manufacturing Operations
- 13. Make an impactacross your business Financial Accounting Controlling Sales and Distribution Materials Management Plant Maintenance Asset Management Project Systems Production Planning Quality Management Human Resources
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- 15. A complete automationplatform Mass data management Exchange data with SOR quickly and easily using Excel Form & Workflow Automate and accelerate business processes with integrated forms and workflows Excel Workflow Automate and accelerate business processes through Excel file management workflows Process Automation Data Automation
- 16. A complete automationplatform delivers Workflow Connectivity (APIs) Self-service Governance Low-code development Attended & unattended automation Forms Data Management Data quality Cloud deployment
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- 18. Adopting automation fordigital transformation • Getting started • Eliminating risk • Process reengineering
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- 20. Where to start? •Identify opportunities for quick implementation • Focused data process • High-impact, limited scope • Measurable • Don’t bite off too much
- 21. CHALLENGE Dorman speeds through masterdata changes • Change subset of materials from ‘Manufactured’ to ‘Kitted’ • Update BoMs and Routings • Change sales order to reflect non-kitted materials RESULTS • Minimal business impact • Improved data quality Hours Total Cost Difference Manual Processes 60 $4,500 Using Automation 5 $375 $4,125 saved 3,000 materials converted in Q4, 2016 Savings = $123,750 Per 100 ma teria ls
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- 23. Eliminating risks • Improvingdata quality • Optimizing your people’s time • Eliminating tedious, manual processes • Governance and visibility • Stakeholder satisfaction • Speed and efficiency
- 24. Customer case study: Insurancecompany • Struggled with paper-based, manual process • No established workflow process • Poor customer experience • Manual data input into SAP after paper form approved • Double payments
- 25. Customer case study:Insurance company • Fill in the simple online form, simple questions guide the user through • All inputs are validated, errors are flagged at source Pop-up Menus Data values reminders Janet Doe 167XXX3492XX jdoe@email.com ETF217602302
- 26. Results: Productivity increase FTEsCost Reduction Capacity Increased
- 27. Results: Customer satisfaction CustomerFocus Sustainability Risk Reduction
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- 29. Automation and digital transformation •Focus on business outcomes • Reengineering for automation • Drive organizational change • End-to-end processes
- 30. A major transformation CASESTUDY: ENERGY DRINK COMPANY
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- 32. Then a global distributiondeal happened…. …and their product launch processes became a bottleneck
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- 34. Multiple, different launch types Product launch types Newproducts Product changes Geographical expansion New innovation Line extensions ingredient/ label change Seasonal / Promotional products Legal/ regulatory change others Plant extensions Sales org. extensions
- 35. Projects identified Point ofSale Materials Raw Materials Production Process
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- 37. Visibility Governance Repeatable Reducedcycle times by 50-75%
- 38. Key Takeaways Automation is ingreat demand by enterprises today to deliver on the promise of digital transformation. • Companies today need to be more agile, go faster and improve data integrity • At the same time they want to optimize their workforce, see tangible ROI quickly and meet their digital transformation goals • Automation is one of the most effective ways to achieve these goals by looking for a complete automation platform • The key to success is understanding where to start, the impacts it can have on your organization and key metrics • Companies are seeing significant success with automation today.
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