...Problem (Issue) Statement Introduction Bombardier had an acquisition based growth strategy, first of all it went on to become a key player in the Transportation industry. Then it slowly diversified into the Aerospace industry too. It went on to become the third largest designer and manufacturer of commercial aircraft in the world, followed by Boing and Airbus. Its Aerospace industry was further organized into four product and service lines which included services such as aircraft charter, fractional ownership of business jest, aircraft maintenance and pilot and maintenance training. Bombardier’s rivals were doing very well and it had to face fierce competition from companies like Embracer and Gulfstream. In addition to all these, the aerospace industry was very volatile as airline travel was subjected to economic and the socio-political conditions as well as the willingness of the public to purchase the airline tickets. Moreover regional and low-cost carriers were growing much faster than their legacy carrier counterparts. Business Problems As the company now was offering a range of products and services and had a global presence their growth by acquisition strategy was giving troubles and posing challenges for the firm. Bombardier used to inherit the data, processes and systems of each company it used to acquire which in turn created inefficiencies in data sharing and labor mobility. The cost of information systems ownership also used to get multiplied due to the increased...
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...SAP Smartforms can be used for creating and maintaining forms for mass printing in SAP Systems. The output medium for Smartforms support printer, fax, e-mail, or the Internet (by using the generated XML output). According to SAP, you need neither have any programming knowledge nor use a Script language to adapt standard forms. However, basic ABAP programming skills are required only in special cases (for example, to call a function module you created or for complex and extensive conditions). SAP Smart Form Process Overview The basic structure of SAP Smart Forms consists of the Smart Form Builder, the Smart Form print form template (which you create or is given to you as a preconfigured starting point), the Smart Form function module, and the Smart Form print program (also described as a driver program). The Smart Form print programs are not the same as SAPScript programs, and you cannot use a SAPScript print program with a Smart Form print form. Programming Flow When an SAP Smart Form template is created, a user creates the form layout, defines the required fields, conditions, and special programming instructions in the Smart Form template using the Smart Form Builder. After the form design is complete, the form needs to be activated before it can be tested or accessible by print programs. Activating the form initiates the generation of a function module that handles all of the form’s processing. This function module interacts with the application program and print...
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...filled with incoming supplies, were empty. The 2,500 employees who normally worked in the plant each day were gone. The plant, which normally produced 20,000 PCs a week, was shut down. The date was April 6, 1999. On this date, the plant was to ‘go live’ with an implementation of the SAP R/3 system known as Production Release 2 (PR2). As John Corcoran, Director, SAP Production Project, waited for the first transaction to be processed by PR2 on April 6, he reflected on how PSG had come to this milestone event. Several years before, PSG had recognized the need for an integrated system that would allow better management of the supply chain across all of its plants and quicker response to changes in the business environment. Most recently, the success of Dell made clear to PSG the value of creating a CTO (Configure-to-Order) business model in addition to its standard MTM (Machine Type Model) business model. Having a set of autonomous plants, each with a multitude of independent legacy systems that supported different business processes was a significant obstacle to implementing this or any other new business model. On January 1, 1998, the first version of an integrated production system based on SAP R/3, known as Production Release 1 (PR1), went live in the PSG plant in Guadalajara, Mexico. Given the experience with implementing PR1 in the Guadalajara plant, the dedicated work of his 170-person international team, strong executive support, and an adherence to a disciplined project management...
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...Introduction : Global Available To Promise (GATP) in APO supports online searches to determine if requested products are available at specific times in quantities that satisfy customer demand. GATP processes are run via SAP live Cache, which processes large volumes of data and enables data sharing across several applications. GATP meets the challenge of providing availability information across a global enterprise. The concept of available to promise (ATP) used in Sales and Distribution (SD) module in SAP R/3 provides check capabilities that deliver results for basic business scenarios. More complex scenarios, however, require more robust capabilities to make delivery commitments that are in line with the real-world demands. In short, global scenarios require global solutions. Global ATP — or GATP — takes advantage of SAP APO technology and picks up where the SAP R/3 ATP solution leaves off. Following are the functionalities using GATP allows you to answer questions related to promising products to your customers. GATP quickly makes information available to provide real-time optimized decision support. It offers the functionality to perform availability checks which consist of online searches that determine if requested products are available at requested times in the quantities that satisfy customer demand. GATP can be used for Sales Order, Scheduling Agreement, Delivery, stock transfer orders and production orders (for their input components). GATP Methods can be classified...
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...produce a better product, to have strong marketing strategy, and to be greater and known by other as well. Database plays an important role as the medium to store and retrieve the document and information. It is about the organizing the collection of data of the company. For the purpose of this assignment, I have chosen to focus on procurement process and how the SAP system has facilitated the overall process between procurement and all other functional departments. Generally, the group procurement aspiration is to be a strategic business partner to the internal customers focusing to deliver based on cost effective, quality and timely service. To accomplish this aspiration, group procurement will adopt procurement practices that uphold good governance, transparency and fairness in all dealing with suppliers and other stakeholders. In this group procurement, it contains with several system that have used variety type of database system. Group procurement serves as “middle person” between staff, user and supplier. For instance, the user creates purchase order (PO) through Supplier Self Service System that based on SAP. The procurement staff will...
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...STORY Global Bike Inc. Background and overview of GBI strategy and operations. Product MOTIVATION PREREQUISITES SAP ERP G.B.I. Release 6.04 A general understanding of GBI (the enterprise) prior to embarking on hands-on exercises and case studies in the SAP ERP client is critical for success. None Level Undergraduate Beginner Focus Company Background NOTES None This narrative provides a historical background for how GBI began and an overview of its operations and strategy. This information will be used extensively throughout the curriculum material. Authors Simha Magal Stefan Weidner Version 2.11 © SAP AG CASE STUDY Company History Task Get to know the company’s history. Time 15 min Short Description Read the below narrative to learn about the company’s history. Global Bike Inc. has a pragmatic design philosophy that comes from its deep roots in both the off-road trail racing and long-distance road racing sports. Nearly 20 years ago, its founders designed their first bikes out of necessity—they had races to win and the bikes that were available at the time did not perform to their extremely high standards. So, they took matters into their own hands and built legendary bikes that would outlast and outperform the competition. From these humble origins, Global Bike Incorporated was born and continues to deliver innovative highperformance bicycles to the world’s most demanding riders. Notes ...
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...are transferred from SAP R/3 to the location master data of the SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO). An MRP area is understood to be a planning area within a plant that is subject to separate inventory management and material requirements planning. Features The Material Requirements Planning Area in SAP R/3 You can find information on the MRP areas in SAP R/3 under the components Logistics ® Production Planning and Control (PP) ® Requirements Planning ® Special Planning Process ® MRP Area. The Material Requirements Planning Area in SAP APO. The SAP R/3 MRP area of a plant is represented as the location Production Plant in SAP APO. All additional SAP R/3 MRP areas are represented as locations with their own location types. Restrictions: The SAP R/3 MRP area may only be assigned to one storage location. The process Subcontracting MRP Area in SAP R/3 is supported in APO without an MRP area. Integration R/3 – APO You can transfer the MRP area to SAP APO via the integration model APO Core Interface (CIF) and then create this as a location with the corresponding location type in connection with the MRP area of a plant or another MRP area. If MRP area processing is activated in SAP R/3 you can use CIF to control whether you would like to work with MRP areas in SAP APO. SNP Planning In SAP APO you can plan stock transfers between MRP areas. For this, transportation lanes need to be manually created in SAP APO. After an SNP planning...
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...FUNCTIONS OF IT: 1. Technical support in SAP, RAMCO, DOTNET, JAVA, SQL 2. Functional support in SAP, RAMCO Before 2002, we have stand alones for supporting modules and in the year 2002, we came with RAMCO.RAMCO is an integrated software, and we have integration among each and every modules. This is the main reason, we came from stand alones to RAMCO. Upto 2009, we worked with RAMCO and later move on to SAP.The SAP ERP application is an integrated EnterpriseResourcePlanning (ERP) software manufactured by SAP AG that targets business software requirements of midsize and large organizations in all industries and sectors. It allows for open communication within and between all company functions. In today’s competitive market, individuals who possess essential business and technological skill enjoy a significant advantage over their peers. This is particularly true if your expertise includes SAP software. The SAP Certification provides that competitive edge. When you are sap certified, you join a distinguished community of experts recognized globally. Today more than 14,000 consultants and users worldwide are part of this exclusive community.In SAP we have the following modules: * Sales and Distribution (SD) * Production and Planning (PP) * Plant Maintenance (PM) * Material Management (MM) * Finance & Costing (FI CO) * Human Resources (HR) * Sap Basis * SALES AND DISTRIBUTION SAP SD refers to the sales and distribution module which is aimed...
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...SAP is the market leader in enterprise applications and software, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. locations in more than 130 countries, and 282,000 customers around the world. SAP helps organizations fight the damaging effects of complexity, generate new opportunities for innovation and growth, and stay ahead of the competition. The Baseline package is available in 50+ localized country versions and is developed in accordance with the legal requirements and country-specific needs of the target country. The country versions may differ by scenario scope and components, or the release levels on which the versions are based. The solid foundation for SAP Best Practices Baseline is the SAP ERP 6.0 application. Industry-generic SAP Best Practices for procurement, manufacturing, sales, financials and analytics processes include: annual operating plan, sales & operations planning, MRP, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, make-to-stock production, financial management, and accounting. SAP Learning Hub provides immediate, cloud-based access to a vast selection of SAP learning content – and to our innovative, interactive learning rooms. And when you add SAP Live Access, you can carry out class assignments, prepare for customer engagements, or just experiment with live, fully configured SAP training systems. 1. Product Release Strategy. SAP has traditionally released products and made major changes to underlying functionality on a five-year schedule, Shepherd notes. So twice a decade...
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...Scorecard /SEM SAP AG HCM EMEA - public - Agenda Benchmarking Balanced Scorecard © SAP AG 2002, The HR Balanced Scorecard, Dr. Martina Schuh, Page 2 Agenda Benchmarking Balanced Scorecard © SAP AG 2002, The HR Balanced Scorecard, Dr. Martina Schuh, Page 3 Benchmarking – Definition Benchmarking is the comparison of similar processes across organizations, companies and industries to identify best practices and develop improvement plans and actions (Score Research) [ Learn from the best by enterprise comparison!!! ] [ Learn from each other by enterprise comparison!!! ] © SAP AG 2002, The HR Balanced Scorecard, Dr. Martina Schuh, Page 4 Integration with Benchmark Provider: Data Flow Payroll Benchmark Provider SEM Measure Catalog (HR Measures) Administration 0100010101 1011001010 1101001010 1010100011 1010100101 1011010101 1001010101 XML Time Management HR Benchmarks Business Content Benchmarks from Provider 0100010101 1011001010 1101001010 1010100011 1010100101 1011010101 1001010101 XML Developments BW Rel. 3.0 HR InfoCube for external Benchmarking © SAP AG 2002, The HR Balanced Scorecard, Dr. Martina Schuh, Page 5 Measures: Data Flow SAP SEM Objective/Measure Actual Plan B.mark Develop key skills Strategic skills available 17 26 25,5 Employee retention 73 70 68 Improve corporate culture Employee satisfaction 9,1 8,5 9,0 Measure Builder Measure definition Balanced Scorecard MEASURES are defined from a purely business point of view in SAP SEM using the...
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...การใช้งานระบบ SAP เบื้องต้น ในส่วนต่อไปนี้ จะเป็นการแนะนำการใช้งานระบบ SAP เบื้องต้น โดยที่ส่วนของ Desktop ของเครื่องคอมพิวเตอร์ จะมีโปรแกรม SAP Logon ดังรูป เมื่อดับเบิ้ลคลิกที่โปรแกรม SAP Logon เราจะได้หน้าจอดังรูป ให้คลิกที่ User-Defined… เพื่อทำการเพิ่มระบบที่เราจะทำการ Logon เข้าไปใช้งาน เราจะได้หน้าจอดังรูป จากนั้นให้ทำการระบุรายละเอียดของระบบ SAP ที่เราต้องการ Logon เข้าไปทำงาน โดยที่ส่วนของ Description ให้ใส่ค่าอะไรก็ได้ที่จะให้ปรากฏอยู่ที่ส่วนของ SAP Logon ในที่นี้คือค่า SAP R/3 Enterprise : TRN ที่ส่วนของ Application Server ให้ระบุค่า IP Address ของ SAP Application Server ในที่นี้คือค่า 161.200.64.7 และท่ส่วน System ID ให้ระบุค่า SID ของระบบ SAP ในที่นี้คือ TRN และส่วนสุดท้ายคือค่า System Number ของ SAP Application Server ในที่นี้คือค่า 00 จากนั้นคลิกที่ปุ่ม Add เราจะได้หน้าจอดังรูป จากนั้นถ้าเราต้องการ Logon เข้าไปใช้งานระบบ SAP ให้เลือกระบบที่เราต้องการ Logon เข้าไปทำงาน จากนั้นคลิก Log on เราจะได้หน้าจอดังรูป ที่ส่วนของ Client ให้ระบุค่า Client ที่ต้องการเข้าไปทำงาน ในที่นี้คือค่า 800 ที่ส่วน User ให้ระบุค่า User ID ในระบบ SAP และใส่ค่า Password จากนั้นกด Enter เราจะได้หน้าจอดังรูป ถ้าในกรณีที่ User คนนี้ มีการ Logon เข้าไปใช้ระบบ SAP แล้ว ระบบจะแสดง Dialog Box เตือนว่า มีการ Logon เข้าไปแล้วโดย User ที่ชื่อ student นี้ ถ้าเราต้องการ Logon เข้าไปใช้งานด้วย โดยที่ User ที่ทำการ Logon ก่อนหน้านี้ที่ชื่อ student ก็ยังคงอยู่ในระบบ...
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...Conditions (SD-BF-PR) SAP AG Copyright © Copyright 2000 SAP AG. All rights reserved. No part of this brochure may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the express permission of SAP AG. The information contained herein may be changed without prior notice. Some software products marketed by SAP AG and its distributors contain proprietary software components of other software vendors. Microsoft , WINDOWS , NT , EXCEL , Word and SQL Server are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM , DB2 , OS/2 , DB2/6000 , Parallel Sysplex , MVS/ESA , RS/6000 , AIX , S/390 , ® ® ® AS/400 , OS/390 , and OS/400 are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation. ORACLE is a registered trademark of ORACLE Corporation, California, USA. INFORMIX -OnLine for SAP and Informix Dynamic Server Informix Software Incorporated. ® ® ® ® ® ® TM ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® are registered trademarks of UNIX , X/Open , OSF/1 , and Motif are registered trademarks of The Open Group. HTML, DHTML, XML, XHTML are trademarks or registered trademarks of W3C , World Wide Web Consortium, Laboratory for Computer Science NE43-358, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139. JAVA is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. , 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA. JAVASCRIPT is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc., used under license for technology invented and implemented by Netscape. SAP, SAP Logo, mySAP.com...
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...KAPIL SHARMA AND ASHUTOSH MUTSADDI Configuring SAP ERP Sales and Distribution ® SERIOUS SKILLS. Configuring SAP ERP Sales and Distribution ® Kapil Sharma Ashutosh Mutsaddi Acquisitions Editor: Agatha Kim Development Editor: Laurene Sorensen Technical Editor: Dheeraj Oswal Production Editor: Liz Britten Copy Editor: Kim Wimpsett Editorial Manager: Pete Gaughan Production Manager: Tim Tate Vice President and Executive Group Publisher: Richard Swadley Vice President and Publisher: Neil Edde Book Designer: Franz Baumhackl Compositor: Craig Johnson, Happenstance Type-O-Rama Proofreader: Word One, New York Indexer: Ted Laux Project Coordinator, Cover: Lynsey Stanford Cover Designer: Ryan Sneed Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-40473-7 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken,...
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...Introduction Canada Post Corp. (CPC), a Canadian Crown enterprise, is Canada’s national postal service provider. It has be a world leader in providing innovative physical and electronic delivery solutions, creating value for their customers, employees and all Canadians. It not only 66000 employees, it is also the country’s fourth largest employer. It serves 30 million residential customers and more than 1 million commercial customers, delivers more than 10 billion pieces of mail annually, and maintains good relations with more than 24000 retail sales points for CPC products and services. Building and maintaining trusted relationships with employees, customers, suppliers and our shareholder is the fundamental for their business, reputation and their success. Canada Post Corp. managing in an ethical way, guided by a sense of social responsibility. Core customer issues: * With customer expectations rising and the ongoing emergence of the Internet. * Customers’ experience with CPC were often complicated and frustrating. A customer could call three or four times about the same issue and receive different responses from call center agents. * The former systems were standalone and didn’t integrate customer and call information. 1. Why is the process redesign so important for CPC’s success? CPC recognized that its future depends on having customer processes and support systems. It’s customer expectations rising and the ongoing emergence of Internet. To demonstrate...
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...Fitter Snacker Clients for the SAP University Alliance Prepared by: Bret J. Wagner, Ph.D. Director, Integrated Supply Management Program Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Phone: 269 387-5222 Fax: 269 387-5710 Cell: 269 271-9903 e-mail: bret.wagner@wmich.edu 1. Fitter Snacker Clients There are four versions of the Fitter Snacker Database client available for Student Exercises. In this document, the term Fitter Snacker Client will be used for the completely configured Fitter Snacker company. In addition to the Fitter Snacker Client, there are three other clients that are partially configured versions Fitter Snacker Client that can be used to teach SAP configuration. These clients are copies of the Fitter Snacker Client that were made during the development of the Fitter Snacker Client. The Fitter Snacker Client was created using the Dolphin Group configuration training document as a template. While there are significant differences between the Dolphin Group (and BPI) configuration classes, these are primarily in terms of the business context, although changes were made to make sure that each company in the Fitter Snacker Client was as independent as possible. The Fitter Snacker Client represents the fictitious Fitter Snacker Company...
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