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insiderPROFILES Alan Joch When a South African retail chain, Pick n Pay, felt hindered by insufficient legacy systems, it decided to roll out a full ERP system. This profile highlights the company’s impressive IT modernization project — from building a solution around SAP for Retail to improving performance to learning important project management lessons.
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insiderPROFILES Sudip Chanal and Karl Mailman, Intel IT Are you running your ERP applications on a small number of proprietary systems? Many large companies do, but you may want to consider a decentralized approach. Insights from Intel IT explain how you can benefit from this strategy, how to select the appropriately sized ERP platform, and what step you should avoid above all.
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insiderPROFILES Tom Kennedy, BackOffice Associates A long-term data migration rollout can be daunting and expensive — unless you choose a tangible, low-cost strategy. This article unfolds the key benefits of a cloud-based data migration methodology, along with a success story from a Fortune 500 corporation.
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insiderPROFILES John Parker Being a travel industry pioneer is tricky when there are no industry solutions to meet your needs. Sabre Holdings, however, was able to harness SAP software to improve its travel booking, expense reporting, and other business processes. Find out how Sabre’s relationship with SAP Enterprise Support services made this possible.
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insiderPROFILES Allianz New Europe’s shared service center in Slovakia is a milestone in the Allianz Group’s global strategy to transform its finance functions. Discover how this multinational shared service center harmonized accounting and reporting, produced a number of benefits, and spawned an industry-leading business transformation.
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insiderPROFILES An interview with Tom Kennedy, BackOffice Associates Companies with inadequate business processes in place generally have problems maintaining a business-ready level of data quality. BackOffice Associates believes that businesses need to start focusing on data issues early in the SAP project life cycle. Learn how SAP customers can experience uneventful — and successful — data migrations following the “Boring Go Live” strategy.
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insiderPROFILES Dr. Andreas Schneider-Neureither, SNP Surveyed executives indicate that IT transformation projects are here to stay — so how can you make sure these projects run smoothly? SNP AG has developed a standardized, software-based approach, as well as software supporting the four phases of an IT transformation project, to help companies decrease downtime and save money.
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insiderPROFILES Evan J. Albright A major beer producer and distributor’s revenue targets hinge on seasonal sales. At Molson Coors, Todd Campbell, Vice President of Logistics and Procurement, and his supply chain team don’t have the time or the luxury to operate on gut feel. Every decision needs to be grounded in fact. Follow this team as it evaluates business intelligence tools to provide crucial data for advance planning and anticipate inventory gaps with incredible speed.
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insiderPROFILES John Parker A strong upfront effort can lead to a faster, more efficient upgrade. See how Tim Batty, Project Manager at cellular services company, Bouygues Telecom, and his team upgraded to SAP ERP 6.0 in under five months — and became production-ready in just four days. This success is due to the care the company put into its study phase, building the project team, testing, and training.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Evan J. Albright Hear how an early adopter of SAP NetWeaver integrated a solution around SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, SAP NetWeaver Portal, and other SAP software under an incredibly tight timeline. As a ramp-up customer, the organization learned many valuable lessons that still apply to strategies around SAP NetWeaver technology upgrades today.
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