Value Chain Analysis and SAP’s Intelligent Enterprises: Your Competitive Advantage
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Key Takeaways
⇨ Organizations can use a framework called value chain analysis to understand their competitive advantage.
⇨ Many functionalities are already available in SAP S/4HANA to improve the view of the value chain in real time and consistently across all levels of an organization.
⇨ Universal Parallel Accounting fills management accounting gaps to create the foundation to record the value in each chain step.
Organizations are constantly on the lookout for the best ways to gain and maintain a competitive advantage over other businesses in their sector. To help organizations understand their competitive advantage, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter developed a powerful framework called value chain analysis to help organizations to identify and focus on activities that result in higher customer value and price or lower costs.
New technologies in S/4HANA are going in the right direction to support integrated end-to-end business processes and visibility to activities within the value chain.
In this article, SAPinsider expert Vanda Reis demonstrates how SAP S/4HANA improves the view the value chain for organizations and how this can provide significant benefits.
