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insiderPROFILES Alan Joch SentrySafe wanted ready access to timely and accurate product data — and “one version of the truth.” Gregg Griebel, ERP Program Manager, explains how the company can now serve its large retail customers with readily available product information and is better prepared for future changes in how manufacturers and retailers will interact.
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insiderPROFILES Evan J. Albright After acquiring a US-based company, GILSA, a Mexico-based dairy manufacturer and distributor, committed itself to ensure smooth business process integration — internally and for longstanding retailers and customers — by building a flexible data system to serve its growing, global customer base. CIO Mauricio Castillo shares how the company was able to keep these new customers operating in a business-as-usual manner.
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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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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Chris Maxcer Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control (MFC) unit, which develops advanced products for the aerospace and defense industry, is under constant pressure to run its software systems without a hitch. So how did a company that can’t risk any downtime launch a major upgrade to its SAP environment virtually flawlessly? The MFC upgrade team offers valuable advice that any company undertaking an upgrade can benefit from.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine John Parker With the global focus on energy alternatives, Sharp Electronics Corporation saw a big growth opportunity for its Sharp Solar Energy Solutions Group. With its solar portal project, Sharp wanted a new scalable online ordering system that would streamline orders, reduce processing time, and seamlessly integrate data with its back-end SAP ERP system.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Evan J. Albright Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is gearing up to open a new hospital that will likely increase its size to about twice its current operations — and double the inventory that it must track. To replace the outdated system it was using to monitor roughly 10,000 pieces of equipment across more than 50 locations, BCM chose to become a ramp-up customer for SAP NetWeaver Mobile 7.1 and implement a new system for tracking inventory more easily and accurately.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Over time, companies have come to rely on their IT departments to cope with increasingly complex processes and systems. SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (SAP NetWeaver BPM) introduces a new environment in which business and IT can collaborate to change processes without losing business integrity. This offering allows the business user to get back into the driver’s seat when it comes to improving and adapting business processes.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Raghavendra Subbarao Does your IT team fully understand why composite applications can help the business — and how to create these innovative and adaptive applications? This article shares the personal experiences of an early adopter of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment, sheds light on the cost vs. benefit of using the solution’s modeling capabilities, and points out pitfalls to avoid in your own implementations.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine John Parker What happens when a company goes against the best advice of business intelligence experts to take on a sizable project? Purolator had such an experience when it implemented SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse for ad hoc reporting simultaneously with the company’s rollout of SAP ERP. Learn how the organization, in just nine short months, transformed its reporting processes and avoided any user adoption issues through its personalized training.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Chris Maxcer Managing — and securing — information about an organization’s own users can be a struggle for enterprises of all sizes, and a university setting is one environment where user identities are particularly in flux. See how SAP NetWeaver Identity Management helps Switzerland’s University of Basel track over 18,000 student and employee accounts, allows for customization to fit the university’s unique needs, and supports a clear audit trail.
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