To support growth, you need unified business software with the flexibility to adapt as requirements change.
An SAP Business All-in-One solution helps drive growth, build operational excellence, and optimize financial performance so you can outperform the competition. With built-in support for best practices, these industry-specific enterprise resource planning solutions are designed for midsize companies and quickly growing small businesses seeking to integrate processes company-wide.
The wrong business software can hold you back
As midsize companies grow, many find it difficult to retain the very characteristics that first led to success – speed, flexibility, and strong customer relationships. Growing companies are often hampered by business software systems that simply cannot keep up. Unsophisticated systems can lack the capacity to support daily tasks and are often poorly integrated, making them time consuming and expensive to maintain. An ineffective technology infrastructure can be a serious impediment to remaining competitive and agile. Responsiveness and timely decision making can be hurt by systems that cannot scale to handle the increased number of transactions generated by a growing customer base. Communications with geographically dispersed suppliers and partners can become more complex.
Disjointed, non-integrated systems can also make it difficult to get full visibility into business operations. Perhaps most important, it is difficult to achieve a unified company mission when each operation or geographical location is using independent or poorly coordinated legacy systems. Such systems provide little consolidated visibility or sharing of business processes, which by their very nature must transcend individual operations.
Faced with this common set of challenges, quickly growing companies like yours need a single, integrated business management solution as part of their IT strategy. As your business strategy becomes more clearly defined and aligned with a core competence around a specific industry or set of sub-industries, industry specific requirements emerge. You must be able to link business processes and the various departments inside the enterprise that play an interdependent role in those processes. Adopting new, comprehensive technology that underlies the entire organization and integrates the needs of sales,
finance, accounting, human resources, and logistics is critical to providing scalability and delivering value that stands the test of time. And for any IT strategy, flexibility is important. Your organization must be able to adapt to business-driven changes such as geographical growth, reorganizations, and business-model evolution and still serve internal and external customers quickly.
Powerful SAP Business All-in-One business software from Partners
SAP Business All-in-One solutions are the most powerful, industry-specific ERP solutions available to midsize companies or quickly growing small businesses. The solutions support core business processes in a range of industries. These processes include financials, sales and service, procurement and logistics execution, product development and manufacturing, human capital management, corporate services, and business analytics. Built on the proven SAP ERP application and the flexible SAP NetWeaver technology platform trusted by the largest enterprises, SAP Business All-in-One solutions are optimized for midsize or quickly growing small companies. Yet they can grow and scale along with the business. At any time, you can extend your solution with additional functionality for customer relationship management (CRM), supplier relationship management (SRM), or business intelligence (BI). SAP Business All-in-One solutions can handle the most demanding local and global business requirements in over 50 countries. Fully integrated functionality streamlines core business processes.
With embedded analytics and access to standard reports, the solutions give you visibility into the performance of all business operations. Through their built-in support for industry-specific best practices, the solutions equip you with the methods of the best-run companies in your industry, along with the flexibility to support your unique practices. Over 800 industry solutions are delivered by local SAP partners with deep expertise in specific industries. SAP provides proven tools and methodologies for fast, predictable implementation with low risk, low cost, and rapid time to value, as well as ongoing maintenance and support.
SAP Best Practices packages enable our partners to create and extend qualified SAP Business All-in-One partner solutions and to activate new functionality in them. SAP also provides a solution configurator and a solution builder tool that help consultants or your IT staff to configure and extend the solutions.
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