SAP Best Practices
Prepackaged Industry & Cross-Industry Know-How
Jumpstart your Implementations with SAP Best Practices
Agenda
1.SAP
Best Practices Overview
2.Implementation Approach
3.Tools
4.Success
and Summary
Introduction to SAP Best Practices
SAP Best Practices are packages that provide preconfigured
business processes and project accelerators to streamline
customer implementations.
Adjustments
within project
Adjustments
within project
Standard
System
Traditional
project
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SAP Best
Practices
Standard
System
With SAP
Best Practices
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What makes SAP Best Practices “Best”?
SAP and partner experiences contribute to enhancing
SAP Best Practices

Over 35 years of experience, design,
and input from companies of all sizes

Over 36 SAP Partners contribute to
direct development focused on
efficiency and validity
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Over 40,000 implementations
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SAP Best Practices are used for a variety of
projects
Microvertical SAP Business All-in-One
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SAP Best Practices packages provide a solid foundation for rapid development
of microvertical solutions
Prototype / Proof of concept
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Quickly preview and understand SAP applications and processes
Reference System
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Quickly set up and accelerate blueprinting and solution scope definition
Starting Point
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Meet an average of 30% to 80% of midsize company requirements

Add additional requirements as needed throughout the project
Subsidiary Rollout

Accelerate rollout of SAP to subsidiaries in different regions or industries
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SAP Best Practices – enabling small & midsize enterprises as a key
element of SAP Business All-in-One
Industry
Solutions
Partners
Single Business
Application
Complete,
Adaptable
Configurable and
Extensible
covering small
business
fundamentals
on-demand business
solution
on-premise business
solution with deep
industry best practices
Accelerated by
SAP Best Practices
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What’s Included: SAP Best Practices deliver
documentation and preconfiguration
Complete documentation and preconfiguration are
included in every SAP Best Practices package
Contents include:
Documentation
Preconfiguration
Scenario overviews
Business process documentation
Quick Guide for prerequisites and
guided activation of settings
Configuration Guide
Training material
Preconfiguration settings
Sample master data
Configuration documentation
Automation tools
Print forms
User roles to leverage new
SAP NetWeaver Business client
Documentation Download
Business documentation,
technical documentation,
documentation templates,
and conversion forms
Technical Download
Configuration settings
Automation tools
Refined Print Forms and Reports
… provided in an SAP Add-On
Note:
Some SAP Best Practices are delivered as a documentation download only, refer to the
Quick Guide document for more details
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Agenda
1.SAP
Best Practices Overview
2.Implementation Approach
3.Tools
4.Success
and Summary
Using SAP Best Practices involves five basic steps
1. Review &
Download
2. Install
3. Activate
4. Refine
5. Adapt &
Enhance
Review SAP Best Practices documentation and scenario scope
to select the appropriate deployment scenarios on the SAP
Help Portal, then download your selected package
Install SAP applications and required notes
Upload and activate the preconfigured scenarios or
manually configure the system, review or test the scenarios
using the Business Process Documentation
Identify and add other requirements on top of SAP Best
Practices preconfigured scenarios
Adapt and enhance the system to meet customer or
microvertical requirements
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Turn SAP Best Practices into a Live System
SAP Best Practices
Add-On
Activate all
scenarios
Activate
selected scenarios
■ Identify required scope
Prototype
DEV
■ Pick and choose scope
items
■ Train the project team
■ Understand the
business flow
QAS
PROD
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SAP Best Practices is
the foundation for the
entire duration of your
implementation project
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Agenda
1.SAP
Best Practices Overview
2.Implementation Approach
3.Tools
4.Success
and Summary
IMPLEMENT - Solution Builder
Simplified path to activate SAP Best Practices
SCOPE
 Graphical scenario selection
 Standard scope templates
delivered by SAP Best
Practices
ADAPT
 Graphical adaptation of
enterprise structure
 Personalization of master
data
 Easy enhancements with
further templates
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ACTIVATE
 Automated installation of
selected scenarios with
personalized data
 Improved performance and
usability
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Solution Builder
Components + basic functionality
Solution Builder
Solution
Builder
Implementation
Assistant
Building Block
Builder
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 Manages different solution or package scopes
 Graphical scoping engine
 Organizational structure composer and
personalization
 Application area editor + assignment
 Manages and monitors implementation of a
solution/package (scenario based), access to logs
 Building block assignment, maintenance of
information on scenario level/scenario edit view
(e.g. pricing parameters)
 Creation of building blocks
 Insertion of different task types for
implementation activities
 Maintenance of installation data
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Agenda
1.SAP
Best Practices Overview
2.Implementation Approach
3.Tools
4.Success
and Summary
PT Nippon Indosari selects SAP Best Practices Based
Package
QUICK FACTS
PT Nippon Indosari Corpindo
 Location: Bekasi, Indonesia
 Industry: CPG
 Products and Services: Baked Goods
 Employees: 760
 Web Site: www.sariroti.com
 SAP Solutions and Services: SAP
Business All in One®, SAP Best
Practices
 Partner: Metrodata e-Bisnis
Challenges and Opportunities
Why SAP



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Business Process integration and
efficiency
Management reporting
Database centralized
Objectives



Streamline business processes and
increase productivity
Make the business more transparent
Develop a system that can scale with
the company
Implementation Highlights
“The benefits in terms of lowering
costs, increasing revenues and IT
strategy we reap from SAP will be
significant and bring Nippon Indosari
to a new level of success”


Implementation was completed in 20
weeks
Strong references with similar projects
and SAP’s reputation in the consumer
goods industry
SAP offers the rich functionality that
can address the full range of business
processes
Benefits




Pre-configured solution made the
implementation faster
Full integration of supply chain and use
of a full range of logical and analytical
capabilities
Information is accurate, reliable and
available in real-time
Enabled more analytics for decision
making
Alex Honki
Project Manager
PT Nippon Indosari Corp.
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WEG China selects SAP Best Practices Based Package
QUICK FACTS
WEG China
 Location: Nantong, China
 Industry: IM&C
 Products and Services: Motors
 Employees: 600
 Web Site: www.weg.net
 SAP Solutions and Services: SAP
ERP®, SAP Best Practices
 Partner: hartung:consult
“We would never have expected that it
is possible to implement a full scale
SAP solution in such a short time.”
Challenges and Opportunities
Why SAP


Users were not using any ERP solution
prior to SAP
 Very short implementation period


Market expertise
Availability of a SAP Best Practice
package
Company’s headquarter is
implementing SAP
Objectives


Rapid SAP Implementation
Provide all business departments with
an integrated application
Benefits

Use best industry practices

The SAP Best Practices package
enabled the customer to have a
prototype within a very short time.

Only minor modifications were
necessary to complete the system
configuration.
Implementation Highlights

Implementation completed in 3 months
Fernando Lima
Project Manager
WEG Nantong
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Cereal Comércio selects SAP® Best Practices Based
Package
Challenges and Opportunities
QUICK FACTS
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Cereal Comércio
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Location: Rio Verde-GO, Brazil

Industry: Consumer products, Mill
products


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Products and Services: Soy and
Derivates, Warehouse services

Revenue: US$100 million

Employees: 100

Web Site: www.grupocereal.com.br
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
SAP®
Solutions and Services:
Business All-In-One, SAP Best Practices

Partner: Inove Soluções
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Transparency of the business’ cash
flow
Financial controls and reporting
Inventor control, production control and
associated costs
Why SAP


Benefits

Objectives
SAP®

Achieve operational excellence
Improve operational efficiency
Reduce cost and improve productivity
Better reporting and analytics
Implementation Highlights
“The SAP Best Practices based solution

has proven to be the fastest way to
address our business issues. The

project challenge of going from ‘Zero‘ to

Live in less than 8 weeks was completed
Full implementation in less than 8
weeks
Total initial cost below US$ 200K
More than 90% SAP Best Practice
Baseline Brasil used out of the box
Proven, robust enterprise resource
planning (ERP)
Support to quickly deploy business
operations and processes


The implementation has provided
Cereal Comercio with total control of
purchasing, inventory, production,
sales and finance
SAP solution supports every stage of
manufacturing and distribution
processes from goods receipt through
production, to the completion of the
sales process.
Cash flow – in addition to the standard
cash flow feature in SAP, Cereal has
developed “the inventory/cash flow”, a
new way to asses the impact of goods
movement in relation to the financial
timeline.
by our Partner, Inove Soluções with
excellent results.”
Evaristo Jr.
CEO
Cereal Comerico
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Mikro+Polo d.o.o. selects SAP® Best Practices Based
Package
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Mikro+Polo d.o.o.
Challenges and Opportunities
Why SAP

Lack of executive visibility
 Financial controls and reporting
 Accessibility of the right data at a given
moment

Objectives

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Location: Maribor, Slovenia

Industry: Wholesale

Products and Services: engineering,
medicine and calibration laboratory
products

Revenue: €10.3 million

Employees: 70

Web Site: www.mikro-polo.si
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
SAP® Solutions and Services:
SAP® Business All-In-One solution,
SAP Best Practices package


Partner: itelligence d.o.o.

Improve operational efficiency
Improve customer relationships
Respond rapidly to changing business
requirements


Industry specific best practices built-in
Proven, robust enterprise resource
planning (ERP)
Ability to tailor the final solution to
growing or changing business needs
Support for localized/country specific
business practices
Benefits

Centralized data management and
reporting

Fully-integrated business system
Implementation Highlights

processes to the highest level possible.
Full scope implementation completed in
23 weeks
 Use of implementation tools
 Accelerated system and user
documentation
 Expedited customer learning
SAP was chosen based on that, due to

“We chose itelligence‘s itWholesale
solution because we were determined to
get an information system that will
support and automate our business
the outstanding references and for being
Reduced the number of consulting days
required
the system of choice of our most
important customers and suppliers.”
Marko Podgornik
Managing director
Mikro+Polo d.o.o.
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Customer Success - Med-Health Companies
Rapid deployment within 10 weeks using SAP Best Practices-based SAP
Business All-in-One solution
Selected industry best practices, that could
scale to meet future needs
Med-Health Companies, a
leading medical products
distributor, adopted SAP
All-in-One solution implemented
by Ki Solutions
Med-Health, needed to ramp their
systems with extensive functionality
tailored for Pharmaceutical and
Wholesale Distribution Management, to
go-live with their web based distribution
business for medical supplies
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Rapid deployment within 10 weeks with very
limited staff to sustain operations
SAP All-in-One solution based on SAP Best
Practices with industry standard
infrastructure helped establish credibility with
customers and partners
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Customer Success - Polyglass
Cost-effective deployment for midsize company using SAP Best
Practices-based SAP Business All-in-One solution
“Laying a foundation for future innovations
that will follow” Andy Hastings, COO, USA
POLYGLASS, a leading
manufacturer of modified
bitumen roofing, implemented
SAP All-in-One partner solution
EDGETM from Technology
Solutions Company (TSC)
Polyglass was looking to apply for ISO
certification and was interested in a
solution that would address the
detailed documentation and business
process procedure requirements.
SAP All-in-One was the only solution
that could deliver these requirements
on time and within budget.
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Cost-effective deployment time-line met
expectations
Extensive documentation of business
process and procedures to support ISO
certification
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Worldwide studies have proven the value of SAP Best
Practices
Time Reduction (person hours)
Implementation Acceleration:
 Average implementation time was
4.2 months for over 20 sample
projects in US and Latin America in
2006.
 Reduce consulting and customer
project resources by an average of
50%.
1045
ERP
SCM, SRM
375
150
CRM/BI
PLM IT
15
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
 Reduce total implementation time
by an average of 32%.
Meeting customer needs:
 On average, deliver a 72% match to
customer requirements1
Cost Reduction ( in 1000 Euros)
3345
SCM, SRM
195
2250
ERP
“Without SAP Best Practices,
the project would have been
more complex. The overall
project was speedier.”2
436
n = 51
Median
400
PLM IT
65
CRM/BI
30
15
0
Arithmetic Mean
1000
2000
3000
4000
1Results
of a 2006 - 2007 SAP survey among customers who
incorporated SAP Best Practices in their implementation projects.
2A
2004 study of SAP Best Practices by Ludwigshafen University of
Applied Sciences
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SAP Best Practices
Foundation for your success in the midmarket

Packages Tailored to Meet Midmarket Needs


Rapid Implementation and Reduced Costs

Create or Extend Your Business Solutions

Build a Working Prototype

Improve Project Performance and Customer Understanding
Sound foundation for preconfigured, ready-to-use business scenarios based on SAP’s deep
industry experience
Tools, content, and methodology to reduce costs compared to traditional approaches
Prepackaged Business Expertise
Reusable documentation and configuration which can be adapted to specific needs
Use the fully documented implementation procedure including the automation and
personalization tools as the basis to create your own SAP Business All-in-One solution
Have a working, fully-documented prototype in only a few days right out of the box
Use SAP Best Practices as an integrated tool for evaluation, training, and implementation
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Where to Find More Details
SAP Public Website
SAP Business All-in-One – http://www.sap.com/businessallinone
SAP Best Practices – http://www.sap.com/bestpractices
SAP Service Marketplace – Partnes and Customers only
SAP Business All-in-One – http://service.sap.com/baio
SAP Best Practices – http://service.sap.com/bestpractices
SAP Best Practices Portfolio – Availability
SAP Help Portal - Public
SAP Best Practices – http://help.sap.com/bestpractices
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