Case Studies

Our library of customer case studies focuses on insights, advice, and best practices. The featured case studies highlight how customers are using SAP solutions to streamline business processes, reduce errors, increase ROI, automate workflows, and more.

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  1. Configuration Validation Reporting Made Easy

    Reading time: 24 mins

    Configuration validation is a reporting utility that helps you know the technical configuration of any SAP system either in flat-list values or in a comparison. The comparison of a group of systems against a target reference system or against predefined configuration values is the crux of the configuration validation utility. Key Concept Configuration validation is…...…

  2. Enable Global ATP to Provide Differential Customer Service

    Reading time: 23 mins

    Learn how to enable Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP) to optimally allocate sales order confirmations considering various customer parameters and business needs. Key Concept Key configuration objects such as check instructions and scope of check play a very important role during an availability check. Check instructions control what availability check methods are called during the available-to-promise…...…

  3. SAP Predictive Analytics: The End Result of a Long History of Data-Mining Tools from SAP (Part 1)

    Reading time: 18 mins

    This is the first installment of a series of three articles that help with understanding the basics of the SAP Predictive Analytics toolset and its history. In this part, learn about the automated analysis component of SAP Predictive Analytics (specifically, a classification analysis) and see how it can be used to generate money-saving analysis of…...…

  4. Outsourcing of Payroll in an SAP Environment: Part 1 — Evaluation

    Reading time: 17 mins

    Prepare for evaluating options surrounding payroll outsourcing in the SAP environment. Payroll outsourcing involves evaluation as well as implementation. Evaluate several payroll factors to determine which approach is most suitable for your organization. Key Concept Payroll outsourcing in an SAP environment can follow a methodology that goes far beyond a typical in-house payroll implementation. The…...…

  5. Best Practices in SAP BusinessObjects Data Services Data Flow and Job Design

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Review these best practices in developing a data flow and understand the importance of reusability in SAP BusinessObjects Data Services job design. When constructing a good data flow, it is important to minimize the effort by thinking in terms of reusability up front in the design process. Considering the code as a reusable object is…...…

  6. Case Study: A Business Case for Indirect Tax Automation with Goodyear

    Reading time: 1 mins

    The indirect tax environment had seen a huge increase in digital obligations and real-time reporting, where data needs to be correct from the beginning with little option to make changes later. This creates additional exposure to tax authority requirements, and therefore mitigation of the tax and compliance risk is critical. Improving the efficiency and accuracy…

  7. Implement the Appropriate Contract Manufacturing Solution

    Reading time: 12 mins

    Decide the appropriate solution for contract manufacturing in an SAP system based on your business needs. Learn about the possible options available across the main logistics modules. Gain details about the main master data and transactional data needed to implement the manual and subcontracting solutions. Key Concept Contract manufacturing (CM) is the process by which…...…

  8. Explore Your SAP S/4HANA Implementation Options

    Reading time: 34 mins

    SAP S/4HANA experts answered user questions during two one-hour live chat sessions. The panelists included members of the SAP Digital Business Services organization and an SAP partner organization leading digital transformation projects with customers. Questions ranged from topics such as building a business case for SAP/4HANA to custom code to BW on HANA. Read the…...…

  9. Make Sense of the CO Cost Settlement Process: Live Q&A on Navigating Cost Settlement in SAP Systems

    Reading time: 37 mins

    Cost settlement plays a critical role in business operations in SAP environments. It determines  whether orders – such as production orders, sales orders, and internal orders – are settled in full as part of period-end processing. This process, which takes place in the controlling (CO) component of the SAP system, can appear to be highly…...…

  10. Give Your Procure-to-Pay the Next Power of Analytics with SAP Spend Performance Management Solutions

    Reading time: 21 mins

    BIFinancialsGet an overview of the SAP Spend Performance Management solution and learn about the business case for implementing it. Learn the details about the features of Spend Performance Management. Using a case study example, gain an understanding of Spend Performance Management implementations and lessons learned. Key Concept SAP Spend Performance Management is an SAP BusinessObjects…...…