ERP SOFTWARE FROM SAP A FOUNDATION TO EXECUTE YOUR BUSINESS STRATEGY

ERP SOFTWARE FROM SAP

A FOUNDATION TO EXECUTE YOUR BUSINESS STRATEGY

From: http://www.sap.com/solutions/business-suite/erp/index.epx

RUN BETTER Using SAP ERP

Centerpoint Energy, electricity and natural gas distributor in the southern United States, transformed operations, improved financial controls, and met customer needs using SAP ERP.

Watch how Centerpoint Energy uses SAP ERP.

 

A sound foundation is necessary to compete and win in the global marketplace. The SAP ERP application supports the essential functions of your business processes and operations efficiently and are tailored to specific needs of your industry.

SAP ERP, an application included in SAP Business Suite software, delivers these solutions:

• SAP ERP Financials
• SAP ERP Human Capital Management
• SAP ERP Operations

For current customers, SAP enhancement packages now offer you the benefit of improving and extending your SAP ERP software without the cost of major upgrades. For example, you can leverage SAP Master Data Governance – delivered via an SAP enhancement package – to help govern financial master data used in consolidation and operational chart of accounts. Tap into the interactive SAP ERP Community to keep up with the latest SAP ERP enhancements and key topics.

FinancialsHuman Capital ManagementOperations 

Meet today's challenges in finance with industry-leading financial management software in SAP ERP Financials. Complete, industry-specific, scalable and global – SAP ERP Financials enables your teams to address changing financial reporting standards, improve cash flow, and manage financial risks.

Support your strategic business activities with these features and functions:

• Accounting and financial close – Comply with evolving international accounting standards – while producing accurate quarterly and annual financial reports.
• Treasury and financial risk management – Take advantage of corporate treasury tools that work for financial risk management, regulatory compliance, and cash flow and liquidity monitoring.
• Invoice to pay – Streamline your accounts payable process, monitor payment status, and ensure payment compliance with our end-to-end invoice management system.
• Receivables management – Improve your accounts receivable management with sophisticated customer credit analysis, streamlined debt collection, and seamless integration.
• Shared services for finance – Get more value from your administrative resources with a financial shared services framework – and improve your control, visibility, and regulatory compliance.
• Travel management – Standardize corporate travel processes with a single travel management solution to drive efficiency and see significant savings.FinancialsHuman Capital ManagementOperations 

  Optimize your HR processes with a complete, integrated, and global human capital management solution: SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM). With SAP ERP HCM, you get the help you need to attract the right people, develop and leverage their talents, align their efforts with corporate objectives, and retain top performers.

  To increase HCM efficiencies, SAP ERP HCM automates these key processes:

  • Service delivery – Deliver business content to your entire organization and beyond via self services, shared services, and mobile devices.
  • Talent management – Support people through every phase of their employment, from recruitment through training, development, and retention.
  • Workforce analytics – Enable executives, HR professionals, and line managers reporting and analysis options that provide real-time insight into your workforce.
  • Core HR and payroll – Streamline and integrate essential workforce processes on a global platform.
  • Strategic workforce management – Ensure that you have the right resources, at the right time and price, to achieve your business goals.
  FinancialsHuman Capital ManagementOperations 

  For many organizations, the SAP ERP Operations solution is the software backbone that contributes to achieve operational excellence in key business areas, including procurement and logistics execution, product development and manufacturing, and sales and service. With SAP ERP Operations, you can streamline your day-to-day operations to reduce costs, increase revenues, maximize profitability, and improve customer service – all key benefits to sustain your competitive advantage.

  SAP ERP Operations can help you simplify, automate, and innovate the processes of your key operations:

  • Operations analytics – Optimize the entire supply chain throughout extensive operations activities, improve revenues, and increase customer satisfaction.
  • Procurement and logistics execution – Manage end-to-end procurement and logistics business processes for complete business cycles, from self-service requisitioning to flexible invoicing and payment. SAP ERP Operations can also help optimize the physical flow of materials.
  • Product development and manufacturing – Support the entire life cycle of product development and manufacturing. You can perform production planning, manufacturing execution integrated with shop-floor systems, product development, and life-cycle data management in a wide variety of industries.
  • Sales and service – Manage customer-focused activities, from selling products and services, to managing professional-services delivery and internal processes such as calculating incentives and commissions.