ASUG Chap
W.W.Grainger
100 Grainger Pkwy
Lake Forest, IL, 60045
8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Time/Room
Topic
Speaker
7:30 am
8:00 – 8:30 am
8:30 – 8:40 am
Registration Opens
Networking over Breakfast
Chapter Updates: Chapter Leadership Team
8:40 – 9:00 am
Welcome Address by Grainger
George Rimnac, CIO
9:00 – 9:30 am
Company Updates
APP Pharma
Kraft
Wrigley
9:35 – 10:05 am
Keynote 1: The Easy Guide to Deploy Business Suite 7
Marco Valencia, SAP
10:05 – 10:15 am
Break and proceed to breakout sessions
10:15 – 11:00 am
WebDynpro for ABAP: Overview (TechTour)
Thomas Jung, SAP
Building Custom Applications for NetWeaver CE (TechTour)
Michael Hill, SAP
BI/BW Archiving and Nearline Storage for SAP Business Intelligence
Werner Hopf, Dolphin
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
Global SAP Support and Operations: KRAFT FOODS
IFRS, SAP and You
Jane von Kirchbach, KRAFT
Angelo Correa, SAP
Getting started with SAP Test Accelerator & Optimizer (SAP TAO)
Jeff Benensohn and Steve
Barnash, Grainger
Business Process Modeling with SAP NetWeaver CE: Overview and
Outlook (TechTour)
Michael Hill, SAP
Managing Sales Commissions & Incentives with SAP Incentive
Administration by Vistex: NALCO
Non Davies, Nalco
Tushar Shah, Vistex
What makes a Dashboard: WAD, Excelsius, Visual Composer: NIBCO
Tim Ronan, NIBCO
Pravin Gupta, TekLink
11:05 – 11:50 am
The CHaRM of SolMan: How Wrigley Discovered a Diamond in the
Rough: WRIGLEY
Barbara McNally and
Christian Ebermayer,
Wirgley
Simplifying the complex world of GRC through business and IT
alignment: ALERT ENTERPRISE
Ricky Arora, Alert Enterprise
Deployment strategies for the SAP Business Suite 7 (Details)
Marco Valencia, SAP
11:50 – 1:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 – 1:30 pm
Raffle
1:30 – 2:15 pm
Keynote 2: SAP’s UI Strategy and Roadmap
2:15 - 2:30 pm
Break and Refreshments
2:30 – 3:15 pm
Overview of Business Rules Management with SAP Netweaver CE
(TechTour)
Michael Hill, SAP
Full Blown ABAP WebDynpro application development (Lessons
Jim Corr and Greg Kokotis,
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
Thomas Jung, SAP
Learned): GRAINGER
Grainger
BW Accelerator: Key lessons learned from implementation,
maintenance and support: GRAINGER
Muthu Sethuraman,
Grainger
SOA Development using the ESR Browser: Lessons Learned at
GRAINGER
Jon Monteith, Grainger and
Mark Smithson, STEPUP
Systems Group
SAP’s UI Strategy: In depth
Thomas Jung, SAP
Optimizing payables – Best practice concepts to streamline your end
to end payables process: READSOFT
David Ulin, Readsoft
SAP Netweaver Development Infrastructure in a new shape
(TechTour)
Angel Dichev, SAP
Getting Benefits out of Complying with SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) - Focus
on IT Controls: BEAMGLOBAL
Ivanka Gajecky,
BeamGlobal
Building Composite Applications to increase revenue, user productivity
& adoption: GRAINGER
Ken Jacquier and Jay Desai,
Grainger
Supplier Managed Inventory Solution using SAP Supplier Network
Collaboration: KRAFT FOODS
David Jacobs, Kraft
Real World Example of Business Objects Implementation in a SAP
BW Environment: FLORIDA CRYSTALS CORP.
Mike Olson, Florida Crystals
Corporation
Cobra Electronics Case Study: Speeding Towards Audit Self-Service:
Deploying a Document Navigation Solution
Brian Shannon, Dolphin
3:15 – 4:05 pm
Real Experience. Real Advantage.