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  1. Cybersafe News

    Enhance End User Productivity with Powerful and Interactive Help Documentation

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Program documentation is an essential but often overlooked facet of any business that functions properly. Noting and storing business process information can help reduce knowledge gaps and enhance programmer productivity. In this article, SAPinsider expert Vanda Reis will go over some tips and tricks on how to add the end user documentation to the Z-Report…

  2. SAP S/4HANA sessions

    Value Chain Analysis and SAP’s Intelligent Enterprises: Your Competitive Advantage

    Reading time: 6 mins

    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…

  3. Clovity

    Thoughts on Event-Driven Business Processes, Risk Mitigation, and Running a Real-Time Business

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Event-driven business processes are becoming more relevant, and there is a great wave of interest in this topic in the SAP ecosystem. The event-enabled nature of the SAP S/4HANA ERP system, coupled with its sibling Business Technology Platform, enables enterprises to use and develop responsive applications rapidly to seamlessly to take advantage of this new…

  4. Data Services Cloud

    Taking Back Control of Your Unstructured Data

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Locating, storing, managing, and analyzing are only few of the challenges that organizations manage with unstructured data. While many enterprises are unaware of the origin of all their unstructured data, they need to adopt new approaches to control and optimize data management as it is crucial for increasing measurable corporate value. This article discusses how…

  5. AP Automation – What, Why and How?

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Accounts Payable is one of the most important aspects of any SAP organization. Ensuring that suppliers are paid on time keeps the business running smoothly. Yet many companies are still running this crucial part of the business with too many manual touchpoints. Each touchpoint opens the company up to human error. It can also be…

  6. Key SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite Features of H2 2022: Part 3

    Reading time: 7 mins

    SAP released its most recent update to SAP SuccessFactors recently, updating many of the features while also adding some new ones. In this article, we will cover some of the key enhancements made to the Performance & Goals, Compensation, Succession & Development, Calibration, and Opportunity Marketplace applications within SuccessFactors. The updates to the performance and…

  7. Accelerating Your Next SAP SuccessFactors Performance Management

    Reading time: 7 mins

    The process of assimilating information and making decisions during a technology implementation takes a significant amount of time. Therefore, customers should make necessary decisions ahead of the implementation to avoid unnecessary risks, project delays, and increased costs. Regardless of whether organizational processes drive the design of a cloud application or if cloud application influences processes,…

  8. Key SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite features of H2 2022: Part 2

    Reading time: 6 mins

    SAP released its most recent update to SAP SuccessFactors recently, updating many of the features while also adding some new ones. In this article, we will cover some of the key enhancements made to the recruiting, onboarding, and learning applications within SuccessFactors. The updates to the recruiting application aim to make it easier for both…

  9. Using SAP to Manage U.S. Sales Tax from Overseas

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Many organizations from outside the U.S. struggle to do business within the country, due in large part to its complex and often confusing sales tax system. Unlike VAT or GST, sales tax is only levied on the final transaction with the customer, and there are no charging or reporting requirements for the companies in the…

  10. Static Safety stock methods in S/4HANA & SAP ERP

    Demand Driven Planning – Dynamic Adjustment – Step 3

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Buffers need to be re-calculated dynamically if material, market or company-related parameters change. This can be done with the consulting solution safety stock and buffer simulation. Buffers must be recalculated if the average daily usage changes and changed daily, weekly, or monthly depending on the analysis period. If the average daily usage is calculated based…