SAP Best Practices to reduce implementation time and costs

BANGALORE: SAP Asia Pacific has announced that a
rapidly growing number of mid-market customers are embracing the benefits of SAP
Best Practices to increase project success, while lowering the costs and

complexity of their implementation projects.

The SAP Best Practices offerings are targeted at
mid-market companies lacking the time, personnel and budget to take on extensive
software implementation projects. They deliver pre-configured business scenarios
that help companies accelerate implementations, reduce risk and rapidly realize
business benefits in their areas of immediate need.



With the launch this week of the Thai-version of SAP Best Practices for mySAP
ERP, SAP Best Practices offerings are currently available in seven markets
across Asia Pacific, including Australia, China, India, Korea, New Zealand,
Singapore, and now Thailand.



Based on the best business practices of more than 6,000 customers worldwide in
over 20 industries, SAP Best Practices deliver proven methodology,
documentation, and pre-configuration that enable rapid, reliable deployment with
quick return on investment. SAP Best Practices can reduce implementation time
for complete mySAP ERP solutions to a matter of months and, for individual mySAP
components like Financials, time-to-benefit can be as short as five weeks.
Currently, there are six SAP Best Practices offerings for more than 12 different
industry segments, including  financials, procurement, sales and
manufacturing



A number of companies around Asia Pacific are already realizing the benefits
from SAP Best Practices, including Farmers Trading Company (New Zealand); Rakon
(New Zealand); Guangzhou NCM Co. Ltd., Sparkice (China); Chien Luen Industries
(China); Coship Electronics (China); Orchid Pharmaceuticals

(India); PT AJBS (Indonesia); and PT Belfoods (Indonesia).

“SAP Best Practices has helped us substantially
improve performance. The company's top line has doubled and its bottom line has
improved five times,” said Raghuram Nittoor, Vice President & CIO, Orchid
Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd.  “We have been able to achieve this
because SAP enables real-time information to get to the right people throughout
the organization anytime.”



“The best practices used by our Fortune 500 customers are now available for
midsized businesses in seven countries in Asia Pacific thanks to the new
Thai-version of SAP Best Practices for mySAP ERP,” said Robert Vetter, SAP Asia
Pacific Vice President, Business Development.



“SAP understands the business fundamentals needed to address the unique needs of
the mid-market sector in Asia Pacific and realizes their processes can be just
as complex as those of their larger enterprise counterparts. We're pleased to
see so many businesses in Asia Pacific taking advantage of this way to turn
SAP's years of solution and industry experience into valuable competitive
advantage to stay ahead in their dynamic markets.

”Bearing further testament to the success of SAP
Best Practices, a global study conducted by the Ludwigshafen University of
Applied Sciences last year found that, on average, SAP Best Practices reduce
overall project risk by 71 percent, project costs by 20 percent, and total cost
of ownership by 11 percent. Nearly 200 SAP Best Practices customers across the
world in a wide range of industries participated in the survey.

A recently completed internal survey of SAP Best Practices customers across Asia
Pacific further validated the results from the Ludwigshafen study. The survey
showed the following:

 

• 100 percent of the survey participants would
  again use SAP Best Practices
  
  offerings to save time, lower costs and reduce project risk.
• In 75 percent of the projects, the use of SAP
  Best Practices contributed
  
  to a reduction in project costs, estimated between 100,000 Euro and 1
  
  million Euro.
• The average duration of the surveyed
  implementation projects was reduced
  
  by about 27 percent.

In all surveyed projects, SAP Best Practices was
the competitive differentiator or at least influenced the sales process
positively.



Growing Chinese chemical industry trading company Guangzhou NCM experienced
similar benefits to those mentioned in the studies.  “SAP provided us with
an integrated application platform and chemical industry best practices, which
helped us optimize our management process, improve our decision support as well
as the respond more quickly to market changes,” Li Ming, President, Guangzhou
NCM Co. Ltd. “SAP Best Practices has supported the aggressive growth objectives
of our business.”