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Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA Benchmark ResearchApr 29, 2022 — Process automation technologies have increasingly evolved into strategic solutions during the last few years. While the focus in the initial years of process automation adoption was primarily on achieving cost reduction, process visibility and employee productivity have increasingly become important objectives now for deploying process automation solutions. This highlights that process automation has evolved into a strategic solution, increasingly being augmented by more and more advanced technologies like process intelligence and cognitive automation. This report analyzes the state of the market for process automation in SAP S/4HANA landscape.
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Process Automation as a Strategic ToolApr 22, 2022 — As organizations grapple with increasing business complexities and disruptions, the importance of business processes that form the core of how enterprises run, has increased as well. Executives have realized that to build an agile enterprise, they need to run best-in-class processes and have robust visibility and control over these processes. In our recently published SAPinsider CIO agenda report, process efficiency and visibility emerged as the number one imperative on the agenda of CIOs, as shown in figure 1 . And that translates into a need to invest in tools and solutions that can help build best-in-class processes and process visibility. This article discusses the trends from previous years' SAPinsider process automation benchmark research that highlights how process automation is evolving into a strategic tool.
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Ascend Performance Materials Achieves 99.9% Data Accuracy and Massive Time Savings with Supply Chain AutomationNov 5, 2020 — Manufacturing organizations today are under increasing pressure to move faster, reduce errors and risk, and be more efficient. For a company such as Ascend Performance Materials — which produces chemicals, fibers, and plastics for the automotive, electronics, textile, and consumer industries — reducing risk is paramount. The business impact of having bad data could be devastating, and a solid master data governance strategy to ensure clean and accurate data could very well mean the difference between success and failure. This article shares how the master data governance team at Ascend has identified three different areas in the supply chain where processes were lagging or where workflows were ripe for efficiency improvements with automation: the process workflows for fulfilling requests for sample materials, approving and onboarding new suppliers that provide raw materials, and performing mass updates of requests submitted for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) materials.
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Build Business Resilience in Uncertain Times with Robotic Process AutomationAug 15, 2020 — The sudden business interruption caused by COVID-19 has highlighted the need for organizations to ensure that their business processes are resilient and agile enough to adapt to rapid changes. Robotic process automation (RPA) can play a key role in helping organizations achieve these goals. With RPA, robots (or “bots”) can quickly and efficiently execute manual, repetitive jobs and, through application programming interfaces (APIs), can work between different systems, such as email systems and ERP systems, which allows them to work across entire processes.
This article provides a comprehensive look at how RPA can help build the business process resilience that is required in an unpredictable business landscape. You will learn:
• The main process challenges faced by businesses during a significant disruption, such as COVID-19, and how RPA can help
• Through a look at two examples, how SAP customers are using RPA to turn challenges presented by different types of business disruptions into opportunities
• How SAP can help organizations get started with RPA with solutions such as SAP Intelligent RPA
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Riddell Adopts SaaS-Based Automation to Run Its Programs with EaseJun 30, 2020 — Keeping up with demand is essential to any business. For Riddell — which designs, develops, and markets innovative sports equipment, smart helmet technology, team apparel, and accessories — it is a massive undertaking to manufacture and distribute equipment to its customers, which include the National Football League (NFL)in the U.S. In this article, you will learn how this global organization used Redwood’s software as a service (SaaS)-based workload automation RunMyJobs software with its back-end SAP ERP and SAP HANA systems to optimize process scheduling and enable the efficiency it needs to meet customer demands. You will learn how Riddell:
- Followed a phased approach to smoothly move its workload automation and job scheduling solution to the cloud in under a month
- Used capabilities such as automation, mobility, monitoring, alerting, calendaring, and self-service functionality to save time, reduce manual effort, and improve performance
- Coordinated processes across multiple SAP systems from a central location and drastically reduced the time it took to perform previously long-running jobs
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Don’t Let Uncertainty Derail Your Finance and Accounting OperationsJun 23, 2020 — Interruptions in business are inevitable and are especially challenging for finance and accounting professionals, who do not like the risk associated with uncertainty. Keeping business running as usual while trying to change and adapt can be difficult even when everyone is in the office, but when teams are forced to work remotely, finance processes that require input from multiple parties become particularly challenging. This article explains how having a no-code/low-code, flexible, and scalable finance platform can help enterprise teams better navigate uncertainty, centrally manage processes remotely, and help them develop solutions that can adapt to a changing business environment.
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Solenis to Shorten Customer Order Fulfillment from Weeks to Days with CAPEX AppJun 10, 2020 — Solenis ran CAPEX requests and approvals primarily through a legacy HCL Notes (formerly Lotus Notes) system, but the process crosses into several different systems, including Microsoft Excel, SAP ERP, and Salesforce. Unfortunately, this highly customized system ran a very loosely defined and documented process with no automated financial authority validations and limited visibility into the approvals process. It also had weak integration with Solenis’s SAP ERP system and lacked mechanisms for automated process reminders for the approvers, and mobile capabilities. Eventually, the team at Solenis decided to develop an application using SAP Fiori technology and run a PoC. A key benefit of the SAP Fiori app is that its user interface is optimized for both desktops and mobile devices, the need for which was a big driver behind Solenis’s project. Now, the senior managers can use the mobile version of the app together with IQX OneList, which empowers them to perform one-click approvals with all the necessary information. Read this SAPinsider Profile to learn how Solenis:
• Mapped and documented the CAPEX request process
• Worked with a variety of stakeholders to meet their needs
• Built strong integrations between the SAP Fiori app and the core SAP ERP
• Leveraged the third-party expertise of IQX to develop an innovative application
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How AI and SAP Technology Optimize OperationsMay 29, 2020 — By Georgina Watkins Artificial intelligence (AI) and SAP ERP technologies have been highly instrumental in optimizing and streamlining the operations of many modern companies. Despite the value of these technologies to both scaling startups and large corporations, not all are fully aware of just how AI and SAP are beneficial to their organizations. If you’re […]
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