Be a best run business with SAP

Are You a Best-Run Business?

What is a best-run business?

•Optimises every aspect of operations
•Maximises revenue and minimises costs
•Fully utilises resources and leverages partners
•Beats the competition by consistently delighting customers

Being a best run business is about turning inefficiencies in to opportunities.

Four Steps to becoming a best run business from SAP…

See the Whole Picture to Make Faster, Smarter Decisions
With the right solutions in place to produce meaningful, company-wide data, you can act decisively to align resources and investments with the best opportunities; prioritise both short- and long-term goals; increase productivity throughout the organisation; and generate remediation plans to minimise risks.

Control Your Cost Structure End to End
Setting up an environment that automates and integrates processes can help you unify the day-to-day operations of the business. By solving an immediate need in the business, say integrating sales and marketing activities, and then centralising the company’s fundamentals – financials and supply chain operations – you can establish a collaborative, optimised team across your company.

Minimise Risk and LiabilityThe third step to optimise your business is to embed metrics and reporting into your end-to-end processes – whether you are being measured on financial performance, product quality, delivery standards, service level agreements, regulatory compliance, or technical support and service.

Anticipate Change
The fourth step in becoming a best-run business is to build a flexible business model to manage and embrace changes that will invariably come. When you open a new line of business, expand into a new geography, or decide to offer services in addition to products, your business model must be agile.
You must be able to roll out new processes or adapt existing business processes to suit a global account or new supplier – or extend these processes to new regions. You may also need to change your organisational structure, shifting people’s goals or roles quickly to adjust to new opportunities so the company can quickly support them.

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SAP provides the clarity needed to become a best run business!

Ghanaian businesses have been urged to adopt modern technologies to speed up their operations to enable them stay on top of the competition and to reduce cost.

At yesterday's programme dubbed "SAP Ghana World Tour 2010" in Accra Noble Ekajeh, Regional Manager of Systems Applications Programme (SAP), said the global business landscape had changed and companies, which failed to deploy the right technologies and software's to grow their businesses would lag behind.

He said the changes required businesses, especially Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs), to adjust quickly to changing market conditions and lay a strong foundation for growth.

SAP, Mr Ekajeh said had developed comprehensive software to assist companies to get the maximum returns on their investments.

Among the solutions are 'mySAP Enteprise Business Suite' targeted at large businesses, mySAP All-In-One targeted at sophisticated SME, and SAP BusinessOne as some of its products targeted at advanced SMEs.

"SAP BusinessOne is designed for advanced SMEs, competitively priced, flexible yet full-featured and can be implemented in record time because of available rapid implementation tools," he said.

SAP Business Suite software, he explained was designed for large organisations and international corporations to support their core business operations ranging from supplier relationships to production to warehouse management, sales, and all administrative functions, through to customer relationships.

"There are specific solutions for industries, for instance, high tech, oil and gas, utilities, chemicals, healthcare, retail, consumer products, and the public sector," he said.

He said "as the world's leading provider of business software SAP delivers products and services that help accelerate business innovation for our customers. We believe that doing so will unleash growth and create significant new value for our customers, SAP, and ultimately, entire industries and the economy at large."

Mr Ravenna said no matter the geographical location of a business, it could rely on SAP-based solutions to meet its ever-changing needs.

"Our vision is for companies of all sizes to become best-run businesses. In today's challenging business environment, best-run companies have clarity across all aspects of their business, which allows them to act quickly with increased insight, efficiency, and flexibility," he said.

SAP is the world's largest business application vendor with more than 91,500 installations and annual revenue in excess of €10 billion. It has customers of varying sizes across the world.

Source: Ghana News Agency