ERP delivers a comprehensive set of integrated, cross-functional business processes. You can gain the following benefits:
• Improve alignment of strategies and operations
o Run your enterprise in accordance with strategy and plans, accessing the right information in real time to identify concerns early.
o Pursue opportunities proactively.
o Achieve corporate objectives by aligning workforce and organizational objectives.
o Find the best people and leverage their talent in the right job at the right time.
• Improve productivity and insight
o Leverage self-services and analytics across your organization.
o Improve operational efficiency and productivity within and beyond your enterprise.
• Reduce costs through increased flexibility
o Use enterprise services architecture to improve process standardization, efficiency, and adaptability.
o Extend transactions, information, and collaboration functions to a broad business community.
• Support changing industry requirements
o Web-based technology to integrate your end-to-end processes seamlessly.
• Reduce risk
o Solve complex business challenges today with SAP, your trusted partner for long-term growth, with 30 years of experience working with organizations of all sizes in more countries than any other vendor.
o Join SAP's world-class partner network, uniquely qualified to support the best business practices in more than 25 industries.
• Improve financial management and corporate governance
o Gain deep visibility into your organization with financial and management accounting functionality combined with business analytics.
o Increase profitability, improve financial control, and manage risk.
• Optimize IT spending
o Integrate and optimize business processes.
o Eliminate high integration costs and the need to purchase third-party software.
o Deploy other SAP Business Suite applications incrementally to improve cash flow and reduce costly borrowing.
• Gain higher ROI faster
o Install SAP ERP using rapid-implementation techniques that cost less than half what traditional approaches cost.
o Leverage preset defaults and prepackaged versions available for specific industries.
• Retain top performers
o Retain your top performers through clearly defined career and development plans.
o Link employees' performance to compensation programs such as variable pay plans and long-term incentives.
• Provide immediate access to enterprise information
o Give employees new ways to access the enterprise information required for their daily activities.
