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Strategies • Best Practices • Education • Networking

The most important event of the year for organizations that are using and evaluating SAP® for:

Inventory management

Warehouse management

Demand and supply planning

Sales and distribution

Forecasting and replenishment

Materials management

Supplier collaboration

Product track and trace

Order processing and variant configuration

Production planning and scheduling

Transportation planning and costing

Sales and operations planning

Global trade services

Regulatory compliance and quality management

Change management

Reporting tools and analytics

Co-located with PLM 2011, Manufacturing 2011, and Procurement and Materials Management 2011

Register by18 February and

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For more information and to register, visit www.scm2011.com/paris or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700

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ScheduleJumpstart Day Conference, 13-15 April

Tuesday, 12 April

8.00 Registration opens

9.00 Morning Jumpstart sessions

12.00 Lunch

14.00 Afternoon Jumpstart sessions

17.00 Registration closes

Wednesday, 13 April


8.30 Keynote address

10.15 Breakout sessions

11.30 Lunch




17.30 Ask-the-Experts,Cocktail reception

Thursday, 14 April





13.00 Lunch



17.15 Sessions conclude

Friday, 15 April





12.45 Lunch


15.15 Conference concludes

As challenges continue to affect the global economy, it’s essential that goods are

dependably made, and rapidly moved. With revenues slow to recover, there is a need for

innovative ideas and processes to create a new supply network model, where

collaboration exists between internal and external partners from idea to delivery. The

2011 conferences for logistics and supply chain management, product lifecycle

management, manufacturing, and procurement provide an opportunity to examine how

to run better by balancing innovation, mitigating the risks of today’s global economy,

and remaining poised for future growth. The events also present a new end-to-end

supply chain dynamic by introducing the “Idea to Delivery” processes.

Idea to Delivery spans all business processes—both strategic and tactical—to offer best

practice solutions that integrate with supporting technology, and are bolstered by stakeholder investment. This

collaboration is proving to be a worthy asset en route to gaining a competitive advantage. Today, previously siloed

processes are increasingly operating as a single, integrated organism: From new product development and

introduction; across responsive supply networks that encompass sourcing, sales, planning, and production; to

storage and delivery; and to after-market parts management.

The Idea to Delivery processes will be further described as part of the conference tracks for logistics and supply

chain management, product lifecycle management, manufacturing, and procurement. These conferences will help

you drive insights and actionable next steps on how to leverage the right tools, reports, and performance techniques.

The events will help you get the information you need to break down those silos separating critical, interdependent

operations within your current SAP system, and your future enhancements.

I hope that you will join us.

Richard CampioneSenior Vice President, Suite Solution ManagementSAP


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Special pre-conference sessions hosted on this day fortify your understanding of critical technologies and enhance your learning experience at the main

conference. Attend any Jumpstart Day sessions of interest to you. Jumpstart Day attendees receive an exclusive CD containing the slides from all Jumpstart

presentations.

Attend any Jumpstart Day sessions of interest to you

Jumpstart Day attendees receive an exclusive CD containing the slides from all Jumpstart Day presentations

For full session descriptions, refer to pages 14-37

OverviewJumpstart Day • Tuesday, 12 April

Conference • 13-15 April • More than 150 sessions spanning 10 tracks

Track 1. Vision and leadership: Excellence, innovation Page 14

Track 2. Order-to-cash: Processing, integration Page 17

Track 3. Plan-to-make: Forecasting, planning, scheduling Page 19

Track 4. Source-to-pay: Procurement, sourcing, materials management Page 22

Track 5. Inventory-to-replenish: Collaboration Page 25

Track 6. Storage-to-delivery: Warehouse, transportation Page 26

Track 7. Quality, tracking, compliance Page 29

Track 8. Make-to-ship: Manufacturing solutions Page 31

Track 9. Idea-to-obsolescence: Product lifecycle management Page 33

Track 10. Technology and implementations Page 36

Tools and topics covered in this conference include:SAP ERP integration and optimization

SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization

(SAP APO) – all components

SAP Event Management

SAP BusinessObjects™ Global Trade

Services

SAP object event repository (SAP OER)

Supply network traceability (SNT)

SAP Auto-ID Enterprise

Radio frequency (RF)

SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)

SAP Extended Warehouse Management

(SAP EWM)

SAP sales & operations planning

SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse

(SAP NetWeaver BW)

Mobile technologies

SAP Supplier Relationship Management

(SAP SRM)

SAP Product Lifecycle Management

(SAP PLM)

SAP solutions for Manufacturing

SAP Service Parts Planning

SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration

(SAP NetWeaver PI)

SAP Supply Network Collaboration

scenarios (SAP SNC)


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Educational and networking opportunitiesMore than 150 educational sessions and forumsExpand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consultants, and your

industry counterparts. Logistics and Supply Chain Management 2011 offers more than 150 sessions across ten

tracks that will show you how to get the most out of your system.

Jumpstart DaySpecial three-hour, pre-conference sessions hosted on Tuesday, 12 April, offer you the opportunity to explore

new trends and strategies, fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions, and enhance

your learning experience at the main conference.

Ask-the-Experts Sit down one-on-one with the leading experts to ask questions and get detailed, authoritative answers. Build

on what you learn in the breakout sessions, and get insights you can apply at your own organization.

Insider discussion forumHear about your peers’ projects, challenges, and ongoing initiatives. Benefit from the insights of a moderator

who is a topic expert and who will also facilitate discussion. Hear “war stories” and gain “how-to” information

and techniques that have worked for other companies.

Case studiesTake away best practices and methodologies taught by the companies that practice them. Learn from highly

experienced SAP customers to solidify your own strategies and tactics. Build a network of peers you can call

on for years to come.

SCM Expert LIVEThis popular forum offers attendees the opportunity to meet leading authors from SCM Expert LIVE and

discuss topics from recent articles. Follow the framework of the article as the author guides you through the

most important parts. You’re not just a reader — you’re a participant. Share your own best practices related

to the topic or ask questions pertinent to your individual situation, regardless of company or industry. You will

gain insight from not just the author, but other participants as well.

Post-session Q&A forumDo you ever attend an important session and feel like there’s not enough time to get your most pressing

questions answered? For the first time this year, attendees will have an opportunity to join the speaker for a

lively Q&A forum immediately following the speaker’s session.

Conference orientation session and introduction to networkingThis informative session will familiarize you with the key elements of this conference, including its educational

sessions, networking forums, Solutions Showcase layout, and more — everything you need to know to get

the greatest value from your conference experience.

Evening receptionsInteract with the best and the brightest minds working with SAP software. The people you meet here

share the same challenges — they are peers you will stay in touch with and look to for guidance well after

the conference is over. Network with leading vendors to learn more about solutions and services that

complement your SAP landscape.


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Customer-delivered case studiesTake home best practices and methodologies taught by the actual companies that practice them. Learn from highly experienced SAP customers to eliminate the guesswork from your strategies and tasks. Customer case studies at Logistics and Supply Chain Management 2011 include:

A look at how Arla Foods managed its integrated SCM upgrade as a project enabler, with outsourcing partners

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How Hollister simultaneously minimized inventory costs and stabilized service levels using two little known, but effective, tools

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A look inside Fonterra’s new global sourcing strategy utilizing SAP for product planning and capacity scheduling

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How Colgate-Palmolive sizes consumer goods inventory buffers by leveraging SAP ERP data

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How Repsol modelled an SAP APO SNP optimizer scenario to manage constraints and streamline the flow of goods through its distribution network

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How an automotive manufacturer successfully manages planning and distribution for thousands of active service parts using service parts planning and supply network collaboration functionality

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A step-by-step guide to how Deutsche Post DHL (DP DHL) leverages SAP for its requisition-to-pay process

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How Atos Origin is transforming a formerly country-led, siloed purchasing environment toward a centralized, procure-to-pay process

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How Pioneer streamlined warehouse picking with a voice-activated solution

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How Mars automatically triggers, tracks, and ships small parcels using a third-party tool

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Why and how Honeywell automated warehouse operations with a mobile solution

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Why and how Hilti deployed SAP EWM as an integrated solution to streamline material flow in their complex production environment

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Lessons from British American Tobacco’s track and trace solution implementation

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How an SAP upgrade enabled Clariant to automatically manage and resolve customer complaints with integrated quality notifications

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How Intel deployed Supply Chain Event Management as a way to manage its purchasing process by exception

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How PMG leverages SAP MII to collect production data, and manage production exceptions

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A detailed look at PepsiCo’s repetitive manufacturing strategy for its high-volume production lines

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How Repsol leverages a centralized SAP MII deployment to manage critical shop floor data for integration and regulatory compliance

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How Danone’s SAP PLM implementation improved the health of its integrated product development process

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How Hilti tooled critical product data migration from a homegrown landscape to SAP ERP in nine engineering locations across seven countries

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How a utility company initiated a unique collaboration scenario for contracted services using a supplier portal as an enabler

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Under the hood at the Dansk Supermarked SAP EWM deployment

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A technical view of how DP DHL integrates its SAP purchase-to-pay solution with non-SAP financial and order processing systems

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A technical look at how Clariant automates quality inspection data for stock release

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Thought Leadership Sessions for executives and senior managersLogistics and Supply Chain Management 2011 will offer senior supply chain managers and executives the opportunity to hear from thought leaders and industry experts about the latest trends and best practices deployed by best-in-class supply chain organizations. These sessions go beyond the technical issues and challenges and offer fresh ideas and perspectives to help drivesupply chain strategy, regardless of the composition of your system landscape.

How best-run businesses meet increasingly dynamic and variable demand in a global marketplace: A journey toward supply chain segmentation Noha Tohamy, Vice PresidentSupply Chain Research, Gartner

A best practice look at sourcing and procurement technology, and where SAP fits in Duncan Jones, Principle AnalystForrester Research

A model to align manufacturing and product supply through active performance metricsSimon F. Jacobson, Research DirectorOther corporate management

Getting on the right track fast, and with no further investmentMartin Rowan, Senior PartnerReveal

Tools, tips and templates for conducting successful evaluations of your SAP project implementation, upgrade and on-going initiatives Doug WhittleWhittle Consulting Group

Achieving a culture of continuous improvement through Centers of Excellence, communities of practice, user groups, and social networks Doug WhittleWhittle Consulting Group

Making and keeping SAP relevant in your organization: Tracking the changing role of IT in your businessChris Moose, PartnerIBM Business Consulting Services

What your supply chain is trying to tell you: Unlocking critical decision support dataChris Moose, PartnerIBM Business Consulting Services

The key to sustaining supply chain improvement for leadersMartin Rowan Senior Partner, Reveal

A new six-step methodology to achieve supply chain network optimizationToby BrzoznowskiLLamasoft

Sourcing and procurement benchmarks and best practices: Lessons from 300 companiesLalitha Rajagopalan DirectorProcurement Solutions

Best practices in manufacturing — How do you measure up?David Strothmann, Customer Value Network DirectorManufacturing/Lean EnterpriseSAP

Innovation as a reusable commodityJoe Barkai, Practice Director, Product Lifecycle StrategiesIDC Manufacturing Insights


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Keynote speakers

General Assembly • Wednesday, 13 April

Richard CampioneSenior Vice President

Suite Solution Management

SAP

Competing in the “Networked Normal”: A pathway to growth through innovation and collaborationAs global market conditions show promise of shifting toward economic recovery, market leaders are increasingly set apart from the pack by turning their focus toward business innovation and collaboration, past the hallmarks of the traditional supply chain where products are reliably made, and rapidly moved. These leaders know that to emerge stronger from the recession demands innovative ideas and processes, in turn, enabling dynamic, ever-changing demand and supply network models, where speed and real-time collaboration between internal and external partners, from idea to delivery, separate the winners from the losers.

Responding to the speed of change – whether driven from erratic or unforeseen customer demand, heightened trade requirements, or competitive emerging markets – organizations require agility that demands simplicity, where IT investments, instead of furthering the burden, free up resources and talent to capitalize on new oppor-tunities. Critical to drive future growth, is the way that organizations will leverage the networks outside their immediate supply chain, as a way to harness fresh ideas, identify and respond to emerging opportunities swiftly, capitalize on social media and tools, and deploy cross-industry best practices.

In this keynote address, SAP Executive Richard Campione will share how leading SAP customers of all sizes are navigating this new business climate utilizing a blueprint of SAP solutions specifically designed to enable net-work-wide collaboration across the partner community, to engage deeply with customers, and consumers, and exploit social media channels, to unwire their enterprise, and deliver real-time analytics and insight to lines of business personnel throughout the idea to delivery process.

Stephan KreiplHead of Solution

Managementfor Supply Chain Planning

and CollaborationSAP

Richard HowellsVice President

Solution Management SCMSAP

SCM 2011 Keynote Address • Wednesday, 13 April

The new supply chain: Reinventing the idea-to-delivery process2011 holds significant opportunity for those companies that invest in innovation during these uncertain times. To be successful and to grab competitive advantage and market share, enterprises must continue to create more responsive end-to-end supply chains; supplanting traditionally siloed sales, service, procurement, production, storage and inventory practices, with an integrated idea-to-delivery process.

This keynote explains how SAP is supporting its customers to better manage the dynamic needs of the global supply chain. It goes on to highlight newly available capabilities within SAP Supply Chain Management; explaining how they fit into an overall solution footprint, enabling customers to take advantage of economic opportunities going forward. This keynote will explain how companies can flexibly re-plan to help meet service targets, effectively collaborate with trading partners, confidently provide promise dates during the ordering pro-cess, and better manage compliant logistics processes with supply chain execution solutions.

Finally, the keynote offers customers newly available deployment strategies and tools to accelerate their ROI from these solutions – even in the presently unique market conditions – to support supply chain management as an enabling solution toward process integration.


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Join us for Jumpstart Day — Tuesday, 12 AprilJumpstart Day offers you special three-hour sessions that enable you to:

Fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions

Explore new trends and strategies

Enhance your learning experience at the main conference

By registering for Jumpstart Day, you can:

Attend any Jumpstart Day sessions of interest to you

Benefit from expert-led instruction, demos, guidelines, and dedicated question-and-answer time

Receive exclusive Jumpstart Day take-home materials containing the slides from all the day’s presentations

Participate in a networking lunch with other Jumpstart Day attendees

Jumpstart Day

Jumpstart Day SessionsTuesday, 12 April

A beginner’s guide to SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) page 9

Why and how to implement SAP APO functionality for demand planning page 9

A beginner’s guide to SAP APO functionality for supply network planning page 10

A comprehensive guide to warehouse management functionality and inventory management options from SAP

page 10

How to accomplish inventory replenishment with SAP: A business process approach

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Interactive workshop: Dynamic techniques to help business users embrace new supply chain solutions and process initiatives

page 11

What every SAP customer needs to know about enterprise mobility and enabling on-device strategies

page 12

A comprehensive guide to SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) page 12

How SAP Portfolio and Project Management can help support your company’s IT, product innovation, and capital projects

page 13

Connecting the top floor to the shop floor: A comprehensive look at SAP solutions for manufacturing

page 13

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Jumpstart Day — Tuesday, 12 April


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A beginner’s guide to SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM)

Whether you are considering an SAP Supply Chain Manage-ment (SAP SCM) implementation, are in the middle of one, or are planning to upgrade or expand your SAP SCM foot-print, this three-hour session will help you understand the full functionality and application history of SAP SCM — both on its own and in relation to the SAP ERP features it supple-ments. Get an overview of all five components of SAP SCM: SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO), SAP Sup-ply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC), SAP Forecasting and Replenishment, SAP Event Management, and SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM). Examine the architec-ture, technology landscape, dependencies, and requirements needed to implement one, a few, or all of the SAP SCM applications. Learn how to assess the costs and benefits of implementing SAP SCM. Get steps to build the business and technical criteria to help you prioritize which applications to implement first, next, and last. Examine the requirements and challenges of integrating SAP SCM with SAP ERP. Gain insight into how to determine if, whether, and how to replace or enhance existing SAP ERP functionality with SAP SCM.

Why and how to implement SAP APO functionality for demand planning

Delve into key SAP APO functionality for demand planning to improve forecast accuracy and adapt to changing customer demand. Walk away with practical implementation tips that will help you plan and execute a demand planning project. Gain a solid understanding of demand planning functionality for statistical forecasting and forecasting based on demand history. Find out how to incorporate causal factors, such as planned advertising spend and competitor activity. Under-stand how to test forecast models, and consensus-based planning. Learn how to address specific forecasting chal-lenges, such as how to factor in seasonal versus promotional demand cycles. Determine how to properly set up key data structures that enable efficient forecast execution. Examine the SAP landscape architecture and dependencies between demand planning, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW), and SAP ECC. Understand how your data design will directly affect demand planning system perfor-mance. Get tips to avoid common deployment pitfalls, such as poor data integrity, over-configuration, and inadequate planning area design.



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A beginner’s guide to SAP APO functionality for supply network planning

This introductory session offers a comprehensive overview of SAP APO functionality for supply network planning, as well as expert recommendations for if, whether, and how to embark on a supply network planning implementation project. See demonstrations and explore the features, operation, and data requirements of supply network planning. Get an over-view of heuristics and optimization-based planning options, capacity leveling functionality, capable-to-match (CTM) func-tions, multilevel supply and demand matching features with deployment, the transport load builder, the alert monitor for exception management, safety stock planning features, and vendor managed inventory (VMI) functionality. Understand how supply network planning interacts with demand plan-ning, global available-to-promise, and production planning and detailed scheduling functionality. Explore requirements-driven strategies for selecting the appropriate supply network planning engine. Examine the technical infrastructure require-ments — such as system landscape, hardware sizing, and cross-system integration requirements — involved in imple-menting supply network planning. Receive best practices to prepare and train end users for working with supply network planning.

A comprehensive guide to warehouse management functionality and inventory management options from SAP

This special three-hour session provides a unique look into SAP ERP functionality for inventory and warehouse manage-ment (WM). Find out when it makes sense to use inventory management to manage warehouse stock that may not war-rant a full-blown WM implementation, and see when WM functionality might be a better choice over inventory man-agement. Dive into the many options available from SAP — standard WM, SAP ERP warehouse management func-tionality, task and resource management (TRM) and SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), and grasp the key functionalities of each release so that you can choose the right tool to help you drive new efficiencies in your business. Learn the best options to support stock placement strate-gies, real-time monitoring of floor tasks and/or resources, fixed and random bin replenishment, and picking strategies. Fortify your knowledge of SAP options for supporting radio frequency identification (RFID), and determine whether an RF-enabled warehouse can provide real-time visibility that improves productivity in small and large warehouses. Take a walk through capabilities such as cross-docking, value added services, yard management, labor management, dynamic cycle counting, and more.



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How to accomplish inventory replenishment with SAP: A business process approach

This session will walk you through the various replenishment scenarios that your SAP system supports as a way to meet volatile consumer demand and ensure service levels are met. Whether you are running SAP Advanced Planning & Opti-mization (SAP APO), leveraging your core SAP ERP system, SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC), or using these engines in combination, understand how to implement the ideal scenario for your environment, or refine the choices you have made to date. Get recommendations by industry for the best choice scenario, and learn how to configure replen-ishment with non-SAP partners. Examine implementation scenarios, including vendor managed inventory (VMI) and see how a vendor continuously and automatically replen-ishes a trading partner’s inventory, streamlining collaborative inventory and order fulfillment. Learn how SAP APO func-tionality for demand planning and supply network planning integrates with SAP ERP and vendor software via electronic data interchange (EDI) to replenish stocks, generate purchase orders, and enable truck load building. Grasp how customer managed inventory (CMI) can benefit both supplier and cus-tomer by reducing or eliminating returns, and stock outs. Examine best fit scenarios for deploying responsive replen-ishment, such as for achieving short-term planning goals. Take home a matrix that maps business scenarios to SAP functionality.

Interactive workshopDynamic techniques to help business users embrace new supply chain solutions and process initiatives

New solution implementations, upgrades, and process initia-tives have one thing in common — they all require a change in the way business users do their jobs. This special three-hour interactive workshop offers new approaches and tools that can help your users adapt to these changes and fully embrace and adopt your new solution or way of doing busi-ness. Step through a proven assessment worksheet that offers guidelines you can use to address, manage, and foster a cul-ture of change, both individually and organizationally. Learn how to build a formal change management program using a seven-step roadmap that guides both management and end users through the critical change process. Walk through a series of 24 key questions that help you recognize where your team is in the four-part cycle of organizational transition — denial, resistance, exploration, or commitment. Examine the right ways to make decisions about new functionality, roles, responsibilities, and cross-functional team communica-tion in order to gain the support of your business users. Gain insight into how to keep stakeholders informed, engaged, or involved throughout the project or process initiative life cycle. Find out how to use a self-evaluation tool that will help you communicate change more effectively to end users and to the lines of business. Take home a customized personal com-mitment sheet that outlines your next steps and a course of action to transform you and your users from victims of change to leaders of change.


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What every SAP customer needs to know about enterprise mobility and enabling on-device strategies

Whether you have an existing enterprise mobility strategy or you are looking to expand your key SAP processes on-device, this comprehensive session will guide you through the business and technology trends that are shaping mobility initiatives in the SAP enterprise.

Learn how to use mobility to identify opportunities for driving value in your enterprise

Find out how to best use mobility to free up your sales force, employees, and customers to access and take action on enterprise data any time and anywhere

Understand what technology and solutions are available from SAP and partner companies

Compare and contrast the different types of mobility solutions and how these solutions will benefit your SAP CRM and SAP ERP applications

Hear about the role tablet computers and smartphones are playing in enterprises today and how demand for these devices will shape mobility in the coming months for your employees, partners, and customers

Step through demos of how business dashboards, approvals, alerts, and micro applications can enable workers inside and outside the traditional walls of your business

Leave knowing how to start your own enterprise mobility strategy with sample case studies and planning tools that will help you avoid the pitfalls that can derail mobility initiatives



A comprehensive guide to SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM)

This special three-hour session offers the opportunity to eval-uate SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) features, operations, and usage scenarios, and provides a roadmap showing what you can expect in the next release. Examine current features to learn how to use SAP PLM to support the following areas of your new product development life cycle: managing specifications and recipes, bill of materials (BOMs), product structures and product documentation, product development for discrete and process-oriented manufac-turing, engineering change management, computer-aided design (CAD) integration, quality management, compliance, portfolio and project management, and using the enhanced navigation functionality and a user interface optimized for product development. Gain insight into the latest release of the SAP Portfolio and Project Management toolset (version 5.0). Review the roadmap for SAP PLM, including the latest release of SAP PLM 7.01 with its new functions for change management, workflow, and handover to manufacturing of product development data, and the functions in devel-opment for the next release to support your organizational needs (including functionality for process-oriented and dis-crete industries.)


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Connecting the top floor to the shop floor: A comprehensive look at SAP solutions for manufacturing

Examine the SAP solutions for manufacturing available for process and discrete manufacturers. See how to map SAP functionality for manufacturing to your shop floor and pro-duction planning, execution, maintenance, quality, and environmental, health, and safety requirements. Explore in detail the features, functions, and deployment scenarios for plant maintenance, SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intel-ligence (SAP MII), and SAP Manufacturing Execution. Learn how to determine the optimum mix of SAP applications and SAP partner applications to support your manufactur-ing environment. Examine the solutions and action steps required to put you on the path to the “perfect plant.” Bolster your knowledge of ISA-95, the international standard for inte-grating manufacturing and ERP systems, and find out why and how it is critical for companies seeking to improve manu-facturing processes. Understand the complexity and value of connecting the “top floor to the shop floor.” Evaluate SAP MII as a way to pull data from disparate systems for a single view of the truth. Step through demos that highlight key features of SAP Manufacturing Execution and help you determine if it is a good fit for your discrete manufacturing needs. Get a sneak peek into SAP’s planned roadmaps and innovations for its product portfolio of manufacturing solutions.

How SAP Portfolio and Project Management can help support your company’s IT, product innovation, and capital projects

This special session offers an in-depth introduction to SAP Portfolio and Project Management, a part of the SAP Prod-uct Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) suite of products. This session is designed to help you structure your portfolio, and score, compare, and prioritize projects (and track their prog-ress). Find out how to leverage SAP Portfolio and Project Management to support three primary scenarios: IT sup-port and technology projects, product innovation projects, and capital projects. Learn how to use SAP Portfolio and Proj-ect Management to support the key drivers for each of the three different ways to plan and track project costs, resources, and progress. See how to use the information in dashboards and reports to make better decisions; and view the new capabilities available with SAP’s latest release. Understand the landscape dependencies, and implementation options. Whether it is managing data migration for an upgrade, tracking your unique process to launch new products, or managing capital projects, this session will help ensure that you are squeezing out all of the functionality you can to sup-port your projects.


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Vision and leadership: Excellence, innovation

How best-run businesses meet increasingly dynamic and variable demand in a global marketplace: A journey toward supply chain segmentationViewing your supply chain as a monolith is no longer viable, or reasonable, and practices that have proven to engender a competitive advan-tage in the past now require more stealth-like precision and responsiveness. While some products, suppliers, and customers require agility, others need efficiency, and still others require immediacy. This presentation offers a proven platform designed to distinguish among these demands so that you readily understand, optimize, focus, and deliver in response to the primary goal of each product or service supply chain. Understand segmenta-tion as a multi-phase journey that enables the dynamic allocation of cost to critical business decisions. Examine how to model segmenta-tion, including a cross-functional assessment designed to align incentives. and targets. See how to cluster demand streams to value chains based upon sound metrics and governance. Walk through segmentation models that differ-ent industries and organizations have initiated, and gain insights on how to structure this framework within your supply chain network.

Getting on the right track fast, and with no further investmentAchieving the promised competitive edge and return on your SAP investment can be like painting a moving train while it’s gaining speed. It’s a constant battle of trying to contin-uously catch up to ever-advancing technology. This session will help supply chain leaders — who have too many choices and too little time — gain a fresh perspective on how to leverage SAP to support organizational goals. Find out how to leverage your SAP system to support process integration while using your existing technology. Explore proven best practices to get your supply chain on the right track and in perfect alignment for future growth, start-ing with a self-assessment that will help you to define your supply chain’s maturity. This 10,000-foot view also provides the first step in a five-point roadmap that will help to ensure continual innovation and improvement.

A new six-step methodology to achieve supply chain network optimizationWhat if product packaging is done in China instead of the United States? What are the real total-cost ramifications to ship ocean instead of air? What if production is consolidated to one facility instead of three? How does centralized distribution compare to regional? Grasp a new and exciting methodology that is designed to help you achieve a best-in-class supply chain network, based upon your key enterprise finan-cial and operational data. Find out how your peers are determining winning supply chain strategies, starting with defining the type and granularity of data needed to create effec-tive analytical models. See how simulations are structured based upon your supply chain variables, and organized by category for com-parison, including manufacturing footprint, stocking and distribution, transportation, trade regulations, and more. Understand how the tools that accompany this methodology enable end-to-end supply chain analysis, trading off countless variables to identify the optimal structural design for your global supply chain network to achieve the lowest total costs.

Making and keeping SAP relevant in your organization: Tracking the changing role of IT in your businessDoes your IT department consider SAP as a “transaction” engine? Do you lack organiza-tional support for your necessary SAP initiatives? Can you link your SAP investment with your company’s strategic goals? This session will show you how to align your SAP portfolio with your company’s objectives. Understand the evolving role of IT as a strategic business con-tributor to the continued improvement and success of the end-to-end supply chain. See how IT is incorporating the latest consumer technologies and trends, such as the use of integrated mobile applications, collaboration sources, and cloud computing (to name a few) with the business user’s expectations. Measure your organization’s readiness with self-evalua-tion against a “Technology Maturity” scale, and identify actions that can enable an increase on your organization’s IT return on investment (ROI), leveraging SAP technologies as a way to move up the maturity chain.

Tools, tips, and templates for conducting successful evaluations of your SAP project implementation, upgrade, and on-going initiativesA critical-but-often-overlooked component of large SAP project initiatives is the end (post-mortem) evaluation, in which the project team gathers data to determine how to improve and be even more successful in future phases of its current project, new implementations, as well as upgrades. This session will provide you with specific tools, templates, and guidelines to conduct useful, effective project evaluations, incorporating both quantitative and qualita-tive methods. Get applicable tips to determine which stakeholders to include in the feedback process, when to include them, and learn prac-tical ways to increase their participation to ensure you have the information needed for continuous improvement. Find out how to facilitate and organize the data collection and feedback process, including ways to follow up with participants who have provided input, to ensure the most important recommendations are carried through.

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Case studyA look at how Arla Foods managed its integrated SCM upgrade as a project enabler, with outsourcing partnersUnderstand the drivers behind the Arla Foods upgrade strategy, as a project enabler to acti-vate company-wide improvement initiatives. Learn how Arla evaluated which activities are most suitable to outsourcing based upon a risk profile that ranks, and enables a com-parison of criteria, such as: customer service targets, anticipated level of internal disrup-tion, user competence, and more. See how the company structured a three-way partnership to launch one of these major projects, an SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO) implementation, as a way to create the optimal production resource utilization process. Gain insight as to how Arla managed and structured subcontracting partnerships for the functional, technical, and hardware integration, in ways that would reduce downtime, mitigate risk, and yet still be agile when partnership depen-dencies caused plans to change. Understand the challenge Arla faced to ensure cross-func-tional analytics were not compromised during the upgrade. Gain post-mortem tips for the ways Arla devised ongoing end-user support.

Achieving a culture of continuous improvement through Centers of Excellence, communities of practice, user groups, and social networksWhat do you need to put into place to keep your key SAP stakeholders engaged and sup-ported — from executives to your end users? See how other high-performing organizations are reducing total cost of ownership in their SAP investment, and increasing their return on investment by taking the concept of continu-ous improvement and applying it to current social and technological trends. Examine the model of social networks that is already prev-alent today and apply these same principles and practices to your SAP environment. Get guidelines and a process for leading a group through identification and agreement on a continuous improvement vision and strategy that provides ongoing SAP growth, execu-tive leadership, and end user competency. See how to create formal networks, such as senior governance groups, super user groups, and Centers of Excellence and others that will help to keep your critical stakeholder groups con-nected and engaged.

What your supply chain is trying to tell you: Unlocking critical decision support dataUnderstand the role of reliable analytics as a competitive weapon and your greatest asset. For the technical architect and business owner alike, this session will show you how to mine your existing SAP solutions from a data archi-tecture perspective to unlock and drive the insight your business initiatives need to contin-ually improve. Understand key SAP ERP-based data elements (price, characteristics, customer number, etc.) and database tables that provide the foundation for improvement. See how to chart key business measures, such as key per-formance indicators (KPIs) to SAP data elements. See real-life examples from field experience of companies who are using analytics to drive a differentiated business result, including how to financially justify the investment in improved analytics capabilities. Understand the latest SAP solutions that support enhanced analytics, as part of the SAP Business Suite, and enhance-ment options.

How sustainability practices enable the supply chain stakeholder as a responsive business partnerGain insights on how to support market demands for more responsible business and operational practices, leveraging the SAP tool-set to effectively manage information related to sustainability. Understand how your peers are optimizing sustainability practices as a stra-tegic platform that has benefits beyond typical inventory and service cost controls, extending to the end-to-end supply chain stakeholder. Look at some of the key performance indica-tors (KPIs) that drive continual sustainability improvements, and map how SAP applications serve to support those initiatives. See how to effectively collect relevant data within your global supply base through SAP Supplier Rela-tionship Management (SAP SRM) capabilities. Examine a new SAP concept designed to uti-lize Web 2.0, and social networking concepts to enable sustainable supplier management for supply chain data collection and assess. Look at tools to support ongoing supply chain opti-mization as a way to reduce waste and increase supply chain efficiencies.

Are you ready to mobilize your SAP projects?Whether your interest is to bring more mobil-ity to the warehouse floor to streamline picking and putaway operations, or on the shop floor to monitor events in real time — this ses-sion will help you assess your readiness to go mobile. Get a step-by-step methodology, derived from numerous mobile deployment projects, to help you evaluate your business needs, and compare them to available SAP and related technologies so that you can determine if your next best strategy to gain a competitive advantage includes mobile solutions. Learn how mobility projects differ from other SAP projects you have implemented. Understand SAP NetWeaver mobility functionality, typically used in off-line data collection (field sales and service, plant maintenance equipment repair, or yard management facilities). Get advice on business processes and function key mapping to support an optimal blueprint design for your environment, along with a hardware analysis. Find training tips that help to foster user adop-tion. Take away real-world lessons learned, including roll-out scenarios, and scoping real-istic expectations.

Align production processes with your supply chain to create stability and achieve tangible valueLearn how to take advantage of standard SAP tools and reports that support the alignment of production activities with your end-to-end supply chain, and ensure optimal performance. Leverage SAP ERP out-of-the-box tools and reports for stock analysis and to monitor sup-ply chain exceptions. You have them, you’ve paid for them, now use them! See how, by extracting value from their SAP ERP software, your counterparts ensure that supply chain exceptions are reported at shorter intervals, making problems easier to address. Drill down into standard analytic reports that reflect the historic results of process and exception actions to identify inventory that is fast mov-ing, slow moving, or dead. Learn how SAP supports the setting and monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs) as a way to mea-sure improvements at an organizational and individual level.

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The key to sustaining supply chain improvement for leadersSee the ways in which successful supply chains are achieving measurable results, con-necting operations to business in near real time. See real-life examples of how executive leadership is staying on top of operational milestones visually, and based upon precon-figured benchmarks that enable daily updates for forecasting accuracy, inventory counts, pro-curement spend, capacity notification, and more. Understand why and how process inte-gration helps to build organizational change using a dashboard that is based upon mutu-ally determined integrated key performance indicators, and where tactical key performance indicators are aligned with strategic key per-formance indicators. Look at how performance and exception monitoring displays are scaled for handheld devices and telephones to ensure all supply chain stakeholders are connected, updated, and informed. See a demo that shows how to link KPIs by process, illustrating the actual to projected measures.

A model to align manufacturing and product supply through active performance metricsThis session introduces manufacturing as a critical component of the Demand Driven Value Network (DDVN), a model designed to profitably meet customer demand in a predict-able and repeatable fashion through ongoing performance measurement. Understand the impact caused by the inability to connect and contextualize manufacturing’s performance with that of the supply chain. Grasp how the habit of isolating functional metrics obscures the reward of enabling the right end-to-end value network behavior. Learn research-based conclusions for identifying the right perfor-mance metrics that align manufacturing and product supply, engender organizational ownership (by role), and build measurement aptitude. Examine the technology options that best-run businesses are using to digitally track manufacturing and supply chain performance against overall business and business objec-tives. Gain tips to ensure executive buy-in for initiating DDVN, and sustaining improvement practices.

Innovation as a reusable commodityIn the race to market, too often product organi-zations readily forgo intellectual property that is already in hand and available — such as tech-nology, product data, market intelligence, and inventory — choosing innovation over reuse. Grasp how successful engineering organiza-tions foster sustained and efficient innovation that supports a greater long-term and strategic vision. See how to establish a logical frame-work where product-related decision-making, standing upon a solid governance policy, can harmonize innovation activities, rationalize innovation versus reuse, and weigh cost versus durability and time to market, and understand the repercussions of these decisions up and down the supply chain. Walk through exam-ples of how engineering organizations capture reuse opportunities, improve knowledge shar-ing, and accelerate time to market.

How the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio can help to measure, improve, and mitigate supply chain risk and supplier performanceEvaluate SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management solutions for opera-tions as a portfolio to help reduce cost, mitigate risks, optimize working capital, increase operat-ing margins, and achieve customer satisfaction by taking a measurement-driven approach to supply chain improvement. Understand how SAP BusinessObjects solutions enable action-able insights beyond finance to address critical requirements for business users across key sup-ply chain and procurement processes. Examine SAP Supply Chain Performance Management and SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management as tools to help translate goals into measurable targets leveraging key per-formance indicators (KPIs) throughout your organization to drive optimal performance. Look at the different “impact” and “what-if” analysis that can be applied to your environ-ment to simulate potential improvements designed to help meet top-line objectives. See how integrated data management can improve data reliability and supplier performance by revealing the causes of supplier disruption and bottlenecks, while anticipating the risks, trad-eoffs, and dependencies along operational and financial lines of your business.

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Generate cost savings from supplier invoices: A comprehensive technique to improve your purchase-to-pay platformExamine the SAP Invoice Management appli-cation by Open Text, a solution extension that is integrated with SAP ERP and the SAP NetWeaver platform, designed to streamline accounts payable (AP) operations across and beyond your network, enabling real-time visi-bility into your costs, and supplier performance. Learn how to establish a baseline for measured improvement using value stream mapping for your entire purchase-to-pay process. Examine a return-on-investment (ROI) calculator that will help you further optimize your invoice management. Learn how to properly configure user roles to improve visibility and stream-line invoice exception management. Look at the automatic triggers that SAP invoice man-agement functionality issues to ensure proper workflow for exceptions, approvals, and sup-plier evaluations. See how to generate business intelligence from your supplier invoices to use as decision support for your buyers, financial, and sourcing teams.

Everything you need to know about integrating financial, sales and distribution, and materials management activities in your SAP systemEliminate internal strife when determining who is responsible for reconciliation. Find out how to properly integrate and synchronize SAP ERP functionality for financial (FI), sales and distri-bution (SD), and materials management (MM). Gain insights into how to ensure clean post-ings in the general ledger (FI-GL). Learn how material movements impact these postings and how to take proper ownership to ensure that they work as desired. Examine which fields drive the FI postings made by SD and MM transactions, and the key tables in this config-uration. Understand how the three key sources of material movement postings — sales order deliveries, purchasing goods receipts, and plant material movements — all impact FI-GL and find out how to control these postings by automatic assignments. Take home useful lists of SAP documentation relating to SD, MM, and FI integration, a configuration checklist, and supplementary magazine articles.

The art and science of variant configuration: A comprehensive look at what you need to get startedWhen you need to support highly-customized and/or complex products, SAP functional-ity for variant configuration is an extremely useful tool. Whether you are in a make-to-stock or make-to-order, repetitive or discrete manufacturing environment; whether your product complexity is high or low, high vol-ume or produced in small lots, the power of variant configuration is an optimal way to handle complex and large data models. Step through a practical approach to build a vari-ant configuration model. Examine the different modeling scenarios, compare advantages and limitations, and see how these options can impact sales orders, purchase orders and pro-duction/process orders (through bill of material and routing configuration). Learn the different types of object dependencies needed to build your logic and learn to set up configuration profiles. See how to manage variant configura-tion models via Application Link Enabling (ALE) (to “transport” master data), and understand the workings of variant tables and variant pricing.

A best practice approach to improve the order-to-ship process using GATP functionality in SAP APOFind out how to leverage global available-to-promise (GATP) functionality in SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO) to improve visibility into logistics processes and optimally manage supply constraints during sales order processing. Gain insights from a best prac-tice solution recently implemented for the consumer goods industry that includes a cus-tomized interface between SAP APO GATP functionality and SAP ERP; integrating sales order confirmation and customer-specific vari-ables to determine lot size optimization for multi- and inter-modal transportation. Under-stand how to use GATP to automatically round order quantities from the most granular to the most aggregate unit of measures, such as material stocked by item, case, pallet, and more. See how GATP logic enables easier and more effective material handling, and stream-lines the order-to-ship process.

An in-depth look at three reporting options for detailed invoice management, tracking, and intelligenceGain real-life insights from recent deploy-ments, as to the different levels of reporting granularity you can achieve using SAP Invoice Management by Open Text, a solution exten-sion integrated with SAP ERP, and based upon the SAP NetWeaver platform. Examine the (1): accounts payable cockpit, a set of reports that enable a daily tracking of open invoices, orga-nized by varying and detailed sorting criteria, exception, due date, purchase order and more. Look at option (2): the vendor cockpit, a set of reports designed for a weekly follow-up of ven-dors by buyers (and/or sourcing managers), for invoices due, and see how to customize the settings so the cockpit can optimally serve as a decision support tool when choosing a sup-plier — by past performance, discount history, exceptions, and more. Look at option (3): man-agement dashboard, a set of reports that show a monthly and annual follow-up of the invoice processing evolution, with definable process performance indicators that show a year-to-date comparison of the average invoice processing cost.

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Case studyHow Hollister simultaneously minimized inventory costs and stabilized service levels using two little known, but effective, toolsUnderstand Hollister’s methodology, imple-mented to fulfill a corporate strategic initiative toward inventory reduction, leveraging SAP ECC functionality for materials requirements plan-ning (MRP) monitor as a way to classify materials for optimal segmentation of inventory types. Examine the differentiating data parameters that were established for sorting, such as inven-tory based upon value, demand inconsistency, lot sizes, replenishment scenarios and more. See how Hollister used an SAP ERP add-on tool, the inventory cockpit in SAP ECC 6.0, for analytic modeling (in real time), dashboard presenta-tion, and reporting. See a demo that shows how to read and transfer data between SAP tables to custom tables in MRP monitor, and see how to execute inventory segmentation at the SKU and group levels. Find out how the inventory cock-pit then provides recommendations to optimize inventory in real time — selecting, slicing, and dicing data. Look at the key performance indi-cators (KPIs) that are built into the dashboard , enabling Hollister to compare and breakdown information by material plant, type, size, and other chosen parameters.

Should you, could you, and how would you deploy the SAP APO PP/DS optimizerLook at an underused, but valuable tool — the detailed scheduling (DS) optimizer, a part of SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO) production planning and detailed sched-uling (PP/DS), and available in all versions of SAP APO. Find out why and how the optimizer can help you create a production plan faster, more accurately, and with more constraints and variables than is possible with other plan-ning tools, or in SAP ERP. See how to leverage the optimizer to create the best sequence of orders using setup matrix functionality, to help avoid costly production delays. Learn how to prioritize production orders based upon sales — instead of forecast. See how to conduct what-if scenarios from an online option that enables the optimizer to calculate scenarios from the detailed planning board. Understand when it is best to use the optimizer, with deci-sion support techniques to help you enable master data for optimization, and apply the optimizer to the best fit scenario.

Leverage differentiated production planning scenarios with SAP APOGain a best practice approach to use SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO) supply network planning (SNP) and produc-tion planning/detailed scheduling (PP/DS) functionality to handle differentiated planning scenarios. Learn how to expand basic planning-against forecast models to include the analysis of multiple demand sources and constraints, and see how this can help you achieve more effective inventory and production planning. Determine when it can be effective to execute a production plan according to reorder points as a means to increase delivery performance. Learn how to reduce inventory by forecast-ing future production capacity while existing orders are being manufactured. Understand how to use a supply network planning book to build your cyclical production plan, based on sales history and batch-size data. Step through an example that shows you how to achieve a lean production schedule for fixed-cycle prod-ucts by using SNP, and see how these orders can be sequenced together using the PP/DS functionality for block planning. Take home a matrix that shows you how to reduce pro-duction costs by mapping product types to production principles.

Proven practices (in standard SAP) that are guaranteed to reduce inventory averagesMake the leap from being a good company — that’s able to sustain high customer ser-vice levels by ensuring extra inventory is on hand to fulfill orders — to a great company, which is able to exceed customer service lev-els while reducing inventory. Learn to balance these competing forces by taking charge of your SAP master data settings in order to suc-cessfully manipulate the rules that govern this balance. Leveraging standard SAP integrated service-level monitors, reports, and SAP ERP functionality for materials requirements plan-ning (MRP), gain a practical way to manage and measure lead times against inventory. Obtain ideas for using SAP solutions to extend your supply chain, put product information at your customers’ fingertips, and consequently drive and sustain increased service levels.

A best practice approach to sales and operations planning leveraging SAP APO and SAP NetWeaver BWDo you have a clear process that helps you to validate production capacities, and gain the insight you need to reconcile the actual sales plan against your financial budget? How can you commit to demand and ensure supply constraints are known at the time the plan is generated? Find out how to implement a sales and operations process (S&OP) that enables you to respond proactively to planning excep-tions leveraging SAP APO demand planning (DP) functionality. See how to create an uncon-straint and constraint forecast that accounts for slow moving items, customer priorities, and seasonal influences. Learn how SAP APO sup-ply network planning (SNP) functionality can be used to generate production capacity over-views, and evaluate material availability. See how to use SNP advanced simulation func-tionality for generating scenarios that support critical S&OP decision-making. Understand the dependencies between an SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) setup and your DP implementation. See how SAP APO, combined with SAP NetWeaver BW analytics can shave time off of executive meetings with decision-supporting key perfor-mance indicator (KPI) reporting.

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Insider discussion forum SAP APO functionality for demand planningIf you have already implemented SAP APO functionality for demand planning or are assessing its viability as your primary forecast-ing tool, this forum is your chance to engage with others who have “been there, done that.” Hear how your counterparts are leveraging the different demand planning forecast models to support specific scenarios. Gather implemen-tation tips and learn how others are offsetting system performance risks. Share change man-agement ideas on how a demand planning implementation can affect your entire supply chain. Discuss centralized versus decentralized planning structures and get project manage-ment best practices to ensure your deployment is on target.

Insider discussion forum Supply network planning with SAP APO: Best practices and hard-learned lessonsHear how your peers at other companies deter-mine which SAP APO planning engine to use for supply network planning and to manage lean and tight material constraints. Gain insights and valuable tips that will help you better leverage SAP functionality for supply network planning (SNP) and to reach your production goals. Discover how your peers optimize their SAP set-up for supply network planning. Look at the tradeoffs, and benefits of different plan-ning engines — heuristics, capable-to-match, and optimizer. Exchange ideas and leave this forum with tips for leveraging your SAP system to streamline the flow of goods through your supply network.

Tips and techniques to set up a statistical forecast model cockpitImprove forecasting accuracy by learning how to leverage the SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (APO) demand planning book to develop your own statistical model best fitting process. See how to assign characteristic com-binations and build a statistical model cockpit that includes demand signals, such as season-ality, consensus, history, causal factors, and more. Understand the limitations of the “best fit” model offered by SAP APO demand plan-ning functionality, and see how the use of a few simple macros, combined with one user exit (with less than 10 lines of ABAP™), enables the demand planner to make effective deci-sions on model selections that truly fit your business conditions. Understand the value of using a statistical forecast baseline to create efficiency by minimizing the number of man-ual adjustments.

Case studyA look inside Fonterra’s new global sourcing strategy utilizing SAP for product planning and capacity schedulingSee how Fonterra — the leading New Zea-land based dairy cooperative — reinvented its planning processes to support a new global sourcing strategy. Although Fonterra had years ago implemented SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization, user adoption was slow and many planners worked from individual spreadsheets, resulting in poor data integrity and undepend-able demand plan and production plan. Then Fonterra modified its previous overnight batch process by leveraging SAP Supply Network Planning (SNP) and SCM 5.0 Capable-to-Match (CTM) functionality to deliver planning results based on specific material groups. Learn how Fonterra leverages SNP planning books to pro-vide a reliable stock projection report, based on a modified CTM planning run to effectively net off customer demand with available supplies. See how Fonterra, in conjunction with SAP Production Planning and Detailed Schedul-ing (PP/DS), leverages CTM to create, prioritize, and manage its fulfillment strategy, bridging the integration between planning and execu-tion. Examine how Fonterra manages first in, first out (FIFO) product planning based on shelf life considerations. View a demo showing how Fonterra uses the Alert Monitor to manage short fall demand, product interchangeability and product-location substitutions.

Capture critical analytics using LIS for inventory optimizationThis session provides best practices to lever-age SAP ERP logistics information system (LIS), a standard SAP analytic tool to optimize inven-tory. See how the LIS drill-down capabilities offer visual presentation of real-time process performance measures to help you make sound inventory-level decisions. Learn how to add new key figures to redirect the analysis that guides changes to your inventory manage-ment strategy. Get expert recommendations for interpreting the analytic graphics avail-able with this tool, including comparisons and dual classification, and see how to confirm the reliability of your results by cross-referencing them against master data rules. Examine ways to obtain an integrated view of procurement and inventory management by navigating from the LIS into other analytic areas, such as the purchasing information system. Walk away with a roadmap to navigate from this single process performance screen into other areas of your SAP solution environment that offer valu-able insights for inventory analysis.

Case studyHow Colgate-Palmolive sizes consumer goods inventory buffers by leveraging SAP ERP dataColgate-Palmolive was looking for opportuni-ties to improve customer service levels while optimizing working capital. Find out how Col-gate was able to exploit the unique demand characteristics of its product classifications, to automatically calculate optimum inventory lev-els and achieve improved service level targets. Understand how Colgate deployed an add-on module, integrated with their SAP ERP environ-ment, to analyze demand variability and help identify optimal inventory trade-offs and safety stock levels for each SKU/L to create a best possible inventory mix. Trace the parameters that were fed back into SAP for enforcement. Identify how the unique demand character-istics of each item can be exploited to create high service levels with less inventory. See how to buffer against supply chain demand variability with optimized inventory “shock absorbers”. Understand how Colgate hit the target through improved data management, accurate demand planning, and a centralized control environment enabled better visibil-ity of flows and inventory management and laid the foundations for a global supply chain transformation.

A new SAP offering to manage (and change) your demand and supply plan, quickly and responsivelyExamine SAP’s recently announced solution extension, the SAP Supply Chain Response Management application by ICON-SCM 10.1, designed to help enable best-run businesses to nimbly adapt demand and supply plans to dynamic market and business conditions. See how the solution enables what-if analysis and last-minute adjustments to the demand and supply plan, especially supporting responsive planning for the discrete industries, where the need to quickly coordinate supplies of component parts with suppliers and contract manufacturers is critical to success. View a demo of a what-if analysis to evaluate potential responses to demand and supply variability. See how this can be applied to a multi-tier situation, considering relevant inventory and capacity information from contract manufac-turers and suppliers. Get a peek into what early adaptors have to say about their deployment experience.



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Tips and techniques to optimize standard SAP functionality for sales and operations planningExamine a little-known solution that — if properly configured using standard SAP ERP functionality — can provide the visibility, flex-ibility, and functional integration to support a comprehensive sales and operations plan-ning solution. Understand how to leverage SAP ERP to create planning hierarchies, and flexible planning structures that align the sales forecast with financial and profitability budget-ing, and rough cut capacity planning before dropping the plan into demand management. See how easy it is to adjust sales forecasts while maintaining events and promotions that have a direct impact on sales and operations. Learn how different manufacturing strategies — from sales and operations planning, to future stabilize production capacity leveling and scheduling requirements — are tuned to the demand plan. See how stable production strategies can reduce the fluctuations in the purchasing plan.

Advanced techniques to master supply network planningGet tips and techniques to ensure you are getting the most from your supply network planning (SNP) optimizer engine as a means to determine capacity constraints for produc-tion scheduling, transportation, storage, and handling resources. Understand how to man-age master data configuration options and get tips on how to mitigate performance and sizing challenges. Walk through different plan-ning scenarios using SAP cost determination and capacity planning functionality. See how input and result logs are used to better analyze the planning outcome. Based upon average daily sales or automatic cost calculation, walk through different cost-based optimization models, and get tips to calculate relative costs. See how to sort products to incorporate busi-ness rules for product groups, average daily sales, and sorting priority. Gain an understand-ing on how optimizer can now respect quota arrangements.

Case studyHow Repsol modelled an SAP APO SNP optimizer scenario to manage constraints and streamline the flow of goods through its distribution networkSee how Repsol, a global oil and gas company, modelled an SAP Advanced Planning & Opti-mization (SCM APO) supply network planning (SNP) scenario, as a proof-of-concept, designed to manage its logistics network at the bucket level, (such as day, week, or month). Exam-ine how Repsol worked with the optimizer formulas to support procurement, material handling, and production, so that stock and warehouse capacities (for example) could be translated to math concepts as variables or measurable constraints. Gain insights as to how Repsol managed data queries to ensure the most important products are filtered as priority, enabling different “what-if” scenario analysis. Learn about the critical master data fields used in SAP APO SNP optimization. Grasp the challenges Repsol faced, and get tips to model costs based upon different criteria, such as: product storage, non-delivery, safety stock planning, and other complex values.

A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the latest production planning and detailed scheduling functionality from SAPUnderstand the latest production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS) functional-ity contained within SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO). Learn how to use new scheduling features to maximize resource utili-zation and minimize production delays while meeting customer demands. See how to cre-ate both medium- and short-term production plans. See how your peers are utilizing the latest features, such as resource networks, mod-eling and planning with task restrictions, and characteristics-based cross-location planning. Get industry specific insights as to how PP/DS can support your unique environment. See how to ease master data creation by properly integrating PP/DS functionality with material requirements planning.

Evaluate the best demand and supply network planning methods to support your business requirementsWhether you’re new to SAP Advanced Plan-ning & Optimization (SAP APO), considering an upgrade or expanded usage, or want to fortify your understanding of SAP APO as a planning and scheduling engine, this session helps you map your business requirements to the right functionality. Understand the strategy for SAP SCM 7.0 and enhancement packages as foundation for SAP APO. Evaluate the statis-tical demand planning methods, and find out how time series, causal, or judgmental meth-ods might support your creation of demand forecast. Assess three supply network plan-ning methods — optimization, heuristic, and capable-to-match (CTM) — and understand the benefits and tradeoffs of each when it comes to modeling a supply network that can fulfill estimated sales volumes. Determine whether the optimizer tool could help you cre-ate cost-effective purchasing, production, and distribution plans. Learn the best ways to set up safety stock levels and lot sizes and to cal-culate setup times.

Better predict inventory improvement levels in your supply chainHow do you improve inventory targets across the supply chain at a time of increased prod-uct and supply chain complexity? Evaluate SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization by Smart-Ops as a tool to help you successfully drive planning and replenishment to ensure the right level of products, parts, components, and intermediates are at the right locations at the right time. See a demo on how SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization simulates different inventory scenario analyses to understand how stock levels are impacted by reduced lead-time variability and increased or decreased service levels. Review customer stories and see how your peers have achieved success in improved service levels while keeping inventory in check. Look at SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization as a tool that can help inform your decision making by providing a more accurate and timely picture of inventory control costs.

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How to drive continuous improvement, and profitably balance supply and demandLearn how to more effectively collaborate with customers to ensure a high level of on-shelf product availability, and with suppliers to more effectively manage inventory. Examine the functionality that SAP offers, with indus-try examples to support collaborative demand and supply planning as a way to drive perfor-mance and continuous improvement, manage resources, reduce costs, and respond to market dynamics. Understand how features delivered with SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) and SAP Customer Relationship Man-agement (SAP CRM) can be jointly leveraged to establish integrated end-to-end planning processes. Evaluate SAP BusinessObjects Sup-ply Chain Performance Management as a way to improve profitability and customer service. Get guidelines for optimizing manufacturing capacity, balancing asset utilization, making the right tradeoffs across the supply network, improving demand visibility, and boosting forecast accuracy. Look at specific examples of collaborative demand and supply planning for the high-tech, consumer, and chemical industries.

Compare production planning in SAP ERP versus SAP APO — How to make the best choice for your business needsWeigh the options SAP offers for production planning in SAP ERP and SAP Advanced Plan-ning & Optimization (SAP APO). Determine which best suits your requirements, depend-ing on the degree to which you need to reduce manufacturing lead time, improve inventory turns, streamline material planning, and auto-mate production scheduling. Examine the latest production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS) features and functions delivered with SAP APO, including heuristics, optimization, and block planning methods. Find out how these dif-fer from material requirements planning (MRP) and capacity requirements planning (CRP) func-tionality in SAP ERP. See how each process addresses production capacity constraints and leveling. Understand which one allows planners more flexibility and precision when sequencing shop floor orders. Identify the prerequisites for migrating from production planning function-ality in SAP ERP to PP/DS. Find out how PP/DS integrates with SAP ERP for order execution.

Transform traditional sales and operations planning (S&OP) activities into an integrated business planning strategyGain insight into how traditional sales and oper-ations planning (S&OP) activities are now being used as a tactical tool for strategic, executive-centered processes, and to support broader integrated business planning (IBP) activities. Find out where and how S&OP fits into the lat-est SAP framework for collaborative and supply planning. See how SAP Supply Chain Manage-ment (SAP SCM) functionality can be used to achieve the right balance between supply and demand, thereby enabling you to generate more accurate S&OP. Determine whether SAP tools for supply chain performance manage-ment can help you better monitor your supply chain activities and pinpoint exceptions and deviations that can then be taken into consid-eration during the next round of S&OP. Gain a sneak peek at new features for S&OP that — within a single application — enable the integration of sales forecasting and demand, supply, and financial planning.

How characteristic-based planning can help ensure that complex configurable products get to your customer on time, every timeDo long lead times for your configure-to-order products make it challenging to meet cus-tomer service levels? Do frequent change-overs cause suboptimal resource utilizations? Or, have you experienced the loss of potential rev-enue from missed sales opportunities because of non-committal issues? This session offers a planning alternative that can reverse these trends. Find out how to leverage SAP SCM pro-duction planning and detailed scheduling and capable-to-match (CTM) characteristics-based planning as a path to avoid production delays because of non-availability of accurate forecast data, by procuring and producing components for make-to-order products prior to receiv-ing the actual customer orders. Step through the block planning process as a way to assign attributes to components (discrete) or as part of the material (process), to ensure minimal production set-up time. Learn how to config-ure capacity reservations using characteristic values from the sales order to check against production resources.

Implement SAP ERP consumption-based planning functionality for your non-critical production materials Determine if and how using consumption-based planning (CBP), a component of the material requirements planning (MRP) function-ality within SAP ERP, could help you reduce inventories for your indirect sourced materials while ensuring that the right amount of supplies are on hand when you need them. Understand how to categorize different materials by MRP type and apply the optimal forecast model to each category. Determine which planning model best fits your needs: reorder point plan-ning, which is based on reaching specific safety stock thresholds, or statistical planning, which is based on past consumption. Find out how to use time-phased planning for scheduling ship-ments at consistent intervals. View an illustration of how to configure CBP forecast views, start-ing with activating the material master in MRP. Understand how to customize plant parameters and check and update MRP types and lot proce-dures. Learn the differences between planning for materials at the plant level and at the MRP area level to ensure sufficient stock in the ware-house and at each plant location.

Case studyHow an automotive manufacturer successfully manages planning and distribution for thousands of active service parts using service parts planning and supply network collaboration functionalityFind out how an automotive manufactur-ing company tackled the daunting challenge of improving aftermarket planning and dis-tribution for 250,000 active parts across 170 million sales orders in 3 million product loca-tions around the world. Learn why they chose to implement SAP Service Parts Planning pack-ages over other solutions to model its forecast by product location rather than product level. Gain insight into the unique ramp-up strategy they employed, including how the company man-aged thousands of performance improvement and application changes. Look at the chal-lenges the company faced to cut over master and transactional data that resulted in millions of location products. See how the company provided suppliers with direct access to inven-tory and release data in order to better manage supply and demand. See how they achieved acceptable performance levels for hundreds of users while ramping up the project. Understand the differences between service parts planning executed with and without SAP advanced plan-ning engines. View a demo that illustrates how the system looks from a user perspective and understand how to customize files based upon roles and responsibilities.

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Source-to-pay: Procurement, sourcing, materials management

Sourcing and procurement benchmarks and best practices: Lessons from 300 companiesThis session presents a summary of key find-ings from more than 300 surveys conducted by SAP and the SAP user group ASUG across mul-tiple industries, to measure performance along process areas in procurement and sourcing. Examine quantitative and qualitative best-in-class practices that impact performance of sourcing practices and supplier collabora-tion tools for direct and indirect procurement. See how your peers have responded to more than 100 questions from both SAP and non-SAP customers. Explore the critical drivers that have been adopted by leading companies to increase market competitiveness. Explore the results and build key performance indi-cators (KPIs) that best set the bar for driving down spend, building supplier collaboration strategies, and streamlining sourcing practices within the enterprise. See how your counter-parts achieved significant cost savings and increased operating margins.

Case studyA step-by-step guide to how Deutsche Post DHL (DP DHL) leverages SAP for its requisition-to-pay processGet an inside look at the methodology Deutsche Post DHL (DP DHL), a global organization with a complex systems environment, used to imple-ment and deploy SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) as part of its pro-curement strategy. Understand the DP DHL purchasing vision, and see how this developed into an eProcurement blueprint that supports an annual spend of one billion dollars, 10,000 users, and one million annual purchase orders. Delve into DP DHL’s approach to modeling major spend clusters within SAP SRM. See how the company leverages online marketplaces, and ensures invoice reconciliation with third-party finance systems. Find out how the solution captured maximum spend within DP DHL by integrating with various finance systems, two external marketplaces, and multiple third-party ordering systems. Gain insight into how DP DHL leverages an SAP business intelligence-based global procurement data warehouse to aggre-gate transactional spend data, and perform spend analyses at the corporate level.

A best practice look at sourcing and procurement technology, and where SAP fits inWhat is the right sourcing and procurement solution for your organization? Do you know your options in SAP compared to best-of-breed solutions? How do you determine the best deployment scenario? Should you create your own supplier portal; or join a market-place community? This session, delivered by a leading ePurchasing technology expert from Forrester Research, will answer these ques-tions, as well as present best practices to evaluate, choose, implement, and optimize a best-fit solution for your organization. Whether you are considering an SAP Supplier Relation-ship Management (SAP SRM), SAP Sourcing, or SAP Contract Lifecycle Management imple-mentation, or looking to squeeze more value from the investment you’ve already made, gain a new perspective as to the benefits and chal-lenges that early adaptors, and best-of-breed customers alike, are experiencing. Gain critical insights that will help to determine the success of your project to ensure user adoption, miti-gate performance issues, and gain a quicker return on investment.

A how-to guide to implement the latest SAP SRM 7.0: Tricks, tips, and lessons learnedWhether you are looking to upgrade SAP Sup-plier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) or are looking to deploy SAP SRM 7.0 out of the box, this session will provide insights and best practices derived from multiple SAP Sup-plier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) 7.0 implementations to help you gain on your return on investment faster and smarter. Examine the optimal portal strategy for your organization. See how to set up navigation to integrate SAP ERP purchasing transactions via the SAP SRM portal, including tips on how to configure the personal object worklist (POWL) for accessing procurement documents. View a demo of the new workflow platform (busi-ness rule framework) and learn how it impacts workflow configuration. Learn how to con-figure common workflow scenarios, such as for goods receipt or newly created contracts. Delve into how to set up workflow triggers to approve shopping cart requests for products or services.

Case studyHow Atos Origin is transforming a formerly country-led, siloed purchasing environment toward a centralized, procure-to-pay processSee how Atos Origin, a global leader in IT services, leveraged an impending SAP ERP upgrade to prepare and standardize its busi-ness process design, workflow, segregation of duties, and vendor master data as part of a systematic and stepped eProcurement rollout. Examine why, when, and how it deployed SAP Sourcing OnDemand, as a hosted model. Gain insight into the critical key performance indi-cators (KPIs) Atos Origin established to ensure continuous improvement, including tracking the time, and ratio of purchasing requisitions to invoices. See how spend analysis is integrated using SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse to gain measurable performance insights. Learn how Atos Origin structured its change man-agement process, governance mechanism, team assignments, and country-specific roll-out strategy to ensure user adoption. Grasp their longer term vision — to leverage these activities in a way that will lead to a success-ful SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) implementation as a next project step, where 95% of global purchasing spend is automated.

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Insider discussion forum How to achieve quick return on investment (ROI) from SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM)Discuss different deployment scenarios, host-ing options, and exchange ideas for how other customers are gaining a faster return on their SAP SRM investment. Learn how your peers have migrated from a best-of-breed pro-curement solution to a centralized platform, including evaluation criteria, and integration benefits. Discuss roll-out strategies, and sourc-ing, and spend options. Swap ideas to gain greater visibility into supplier performance.

Tips and techniques to get your SAP SRM implementation right the first timeGet expert advice compiled from more than 20-plus SAP Supplier Relationship Manage-ment (SAP SRM) deployments. Grasp how to map your business process design so that steps are in alignment with your organization’s sys-tem architecture to ensure a low maintenance workflow structure. Learn how to establish a solid purchasing channel strategy that sup-ports your buying patterns and commodities. Know the key questions to ask to ensure your catalogs are properly set up. Understand the critical content management elements that can make or break your deployment, including search options, options for integrating suppli-ers, and mapping catalog data to SAP SRM. Examine your options for filtering content to users, and determine what you want to show by role and responsibility. Find out when and how to start and maintain supplier onboard-ing. Grasp the level of custom development that you can expect to encounter, and learn how to configure logic in SAP SRM to serve your requirements. See how to deploy SAP SRM in a way that is scaleable so that you are poised for the option of a future upgrade.

How to evaluate and choose the right procurement and deployment solution for your organizationExamine key differences, similarities, and func-tional overlaps between the latest versions of SAP solutions for procurement and the potential impact each poses to your business strategies and IT infrastructure. Compare SAP ERP materials management functionality for purchase order processing with the shopping cart feature in SAP Supplier Relationship Man-agement (SAP SRM). See an example of how a customer can gain visibility across their global spend with SAP BusinessObjects Spend Perfor-mance Management. Look at how to manage the source-to-contract and supplier manage-ment process using the new release of SAP Sourcing. Examine implementation options for on-premise and OnDemand deployments. Understand prerequisites and challenges that arise for each solution, including hardware and landscape requirements and performance management concerns. Compare master data management protocols and integration impli-cations for each option. Come away armed with the facts needed to build a reliable and realistic business case for the right procure-ment solution.

How SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management can help to identify procurement savings across the enterpriseGet an overview of how SAP BusinessOb-jects Spend Performance Management can be used to help you effectively analyze risk, identify savings potential, and define action items for reducing procurement spend. View a demo that shows how to leverage internal data from sources such as general ledgers, accounts payable, purchasing, and travel and expense budgets, to see where your spend risks are. Find out how to slice and dice criti-cal data at a deeper level, and combine it with external information, such as supplier health information, financial information, price indi-ces, or benchmarks, in order to capture spend volumes and patterns. See what your peers are doing to reap the benefits of actionable analyt-ics across their procurement practices.

Where to start? Changing the procurement game with an SAP SRM projectFind out how to structure your SAP Sup-plier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) implementation as a way to streamline the source-to-pay process. Examine real-life deploy-ment scenarios and expected project costs as they impact resources, workflow, and devel-opment time. Examine ways to establish roles and responsibilities and projected timeline factors. Gain insight on how to create a road-map to support your initiative, and determine what to deploy first, next, and last. Under-stand how to structure internal and external catalogs to achieve adoption and compliance without compromising control. See how to achieve paperless procurement among your supplier community. Understand the integra-tion path with your SAP ERP environment for materials management, financials, and human resources modules. Walk through the infra-structure requirements you’ll need to support your project design. Look at lessons learned from other SAP SRM implementations, such as the importance of harmonizing master data for vendors and materials groups.

Enabling an integrated procure-to-pay processLearn about the SAP Business Suite procure-ment capabilities. See how to jointly leverage the materials management functionality found in SAP ERP through SAP ERP 6.0, enhancement package 5, along with SAP Supplier Relation-ship Management (SAP SRM) functionality through SAP SRM 7.0, enhancement package 1, to streamline purchasing and ensure long-run sustainable cost savings. View a demo that shows how centralized contract manage-ment can be used to create and distribute centrally negotiated contracts to achieve full compliance, ease of maintenance, and global visibility. Learn how to harmonize global internal purchasing organizations to ensure enterprise-wide compliance with best prac-tices and how to realize process efficiencies through automated sourcing processes. Find out how to leverage supplier collaboration to engage small and medium-sized suppliers for order processing and invoicing, and how to enable suppliers who do not support elec-tronic data interchange transactions. Finally, see how the collective SAP Business Suite capa-bilities can build an integrated procurement process across multiple applications.


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Service procurement optimization with SAP ERP and SAP SRMGain a clear strategy to manage the requisi-tion definition of services requirements, one of the largest spend categories within an orga-nization and often one of the most difficult to manage. Find out how to optimize your SAP ERP environment, leveraging the SAP Sup-plier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) 7.0 enhancement package 1, which includes a central contract with structured service hier-archies that are typical in complex service categories. View a demo that shows how a ser-vices procurement requisition, originating in SAP ERP through an automated plan-driven system (or via a one-off request), can integrate to a central contract from an invoice; and how to upload SAP SRM contracts with established service hierarchies. See how the hierarchies then populate the SAP SRM catalog. Get a step-by-step method to create services-related requests for proposal, quotation or information (RFx) directly in SAP SRM.

Optimize the value of your procurement contracts by streamlining processes, increasing visibility, and ensuring compliance with a flexible deployment modelDoes your organization provide stakeholders with a single repository to access the most up-to-date supplier contracts? Are you cer-tain that you’re using the most current legal language in new supplier contracts? If your answer to either of these questions is “No,” your organization may be exposed to supplier-related risks. This session provides examples of if, when, and how you could use SAP Contract Lifecycle Management (SAP CLM), SAP Sup-plier Relationship Management (SAP SRM), and materials management functionality within SAP ERP to support the contract life cycle in the procurement process. Find out how your peers leverage these applications to automate creation and approval of legal agreements and establish operating contracts to drive compli-ance. Review different ways to use SAP CLM to meet a wide variety of business requirements.

Effectively manage supplier information and performance OnDemandThis session introduces you to a new subscrip-tion, Web-based SAP Sourcing OnDemand solution that can be used to manage supplier relationships throughout all phases of their life cycle — from discovery through evalua-tion to phaseout. Understand how to use SAP Sourcing OnDemand to evaluate and moni-tor vendor performance and ensure that your suppliers are meeting expectations. Examine a new, user-friendly, central repository that can be used to store and access the latest diversity, performance, and risk information about your suppliers. Understand how this repository functions as a tool that helps you make the best supplier decisions and ulti-mately improves purchasing effectiveness. Explore survey functionality to support consis-tent, automatic supplier engagement. Look at a metrics-based approach for categorizing and analyzing supplier behavior. Come away with an understanding of how to use this applica-tion to support your supplier choices.

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Case studyHow an automotive manufacturer successfully manages planning and distribution for thousands of active service parts using service parts planning and supply network collaboration functionalityFind out how an automotive manufacturing company tackled the daunting challenge of improving aftermarket planning and distribu-tion for 250,000 active parts across 170 million sales orders in three million product locations around the world. Learn why the company chose to implement SAP Service Parts Plan-ning packages over other solutions to model its forecast by product location rather than prod-uct level. Gain insight into the unique ramp-up strategy it employed, including how the com-pany managed thousands of performance improvement and application changes. Look at the challenges the company faced to cut over master and transactional data that resulted in millions of location products. See how the company provided suppliers with direct access to inventory and release data in order to bet-ter manage supply and demand. See how it achieved acceptable performance levels for hundreds of users while ramping up the project. Understand the differences between service parts planning executed with and without SAP advanced planning engines. View a demo that illustrates how the system looks from a user perspective and understand how to customize files based upon roles and responsibilities.

What’s new with SAP SNC?Determine whether and how you could use SAP SNC to improve the visibility, automa-tion, and management of supplier, customer, and contract manufacturer relationships. See how to leverage service-oriented architecture (SOA) to improve integration between SAP SNC, SAP ERP, and non-SAP systems and to reap benefits such as real-time status reports on forecasts, orders, collaboration on quality issues and component consumption. Evaluate advanced yet simple-to-use SAP functionality for replenishment, such as vendor managed inventory (VMI), supplier managed inventory (SMI), and forecast collaboration. Take a look at the improved quick view dashboard that pro-vides actionable, graphically displayed KPIs that allow business users to prioritize work tasks and increase efficiency. See how to share supply chain information using email and file uploads and downloads.

Look at what is new with SAP software for service parts planningHelp reduce your project and operational costs, enhance performance, and system operations, and more by evaluating the latest features of the SAP service parts planning component, including the newest usability features. See the latest context-based information enhance-ments (business context viewer and detailed views) to the personal object worklists (known as POWLs), a configurable, role-based pro-cess enabling you to personalize the layout. See a demo that shows how to signal inven-tory deployment over multiple levels of the bill of distribution (BOD) via push deployment. Understand the new features, which will sim-plify the maintenance of your BODs. See how to monitor system performance more proactively by collecting and displaying performance data from the planning service manager (PSM) com-ponent of service parts planning. Find out how to monitor the trigger volume processing dur-ing a PSM run. Get a sneak peek at what’s to come around service parts planning inventory planning process.

How to choose the best vendor managed inventory (VMI) engine for your business needsUnderstand how to choose the best solution, or combination of collaborative models, based upon vendor segmentation that includes vol-ume, value, and strategic importance of the supplier. Grasp the typical business case driv-ers, and return on investment that customer and vendor integration offers, such as improved service levels, reduced administration costs, and increased inventory turns. Examine three SAP different options available to you to man-age inventory replenishment in collaboration with supply chain partners, including: SAP ERP functionality for vendor managed inventory (VMI); SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) scenarios, and VMI in tandem with SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO). Understand different ways to integrate SAP, and non-SAP customers and vendors, lever-aging the electronic data nterchange (EDI), SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) or through the use of Excel sheets. Take home a best-fit matrix as a decision support tool to help you create a common strategy for inte-grating your supply chain partners.

Insider discussion forum Criteria to evaluate and lessons to get started with SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC)Hear how others are leveraging SAP SNC to improve the visibility, automation, and management of contract manufacturing rela-tionships through inventory updates, and production milestone reporting. Exchange ideas for addressing the integration challenges between SAP SNC and SAP ERP and examine SAP solution benefits. Talk about how SAP SNC is being leveraged to manage vendors and forecast collaboration techniques.

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Case studyHow Pioneer streamlined warehouse picking with a voice-activated solutionPioneer Foods SASKO division needed to trans-form cumbersome, resource-heavy, paper-based processes with an intelligent warehouse solu-tion that would automatically allocate labor and clearly define picking routes, using hand-free devices. This session will walk you through the Pioneer solution, which combines SAP standard SAP ERP deployment for warehouse management, while leveraging task and resource management (TRM) to measure improvement gains with ongoing productivity analysis. Under-stand the challenges Pioneer faced to link the voice application to TRM and examine the cus-tom development of five critical interface points created to enable pickers to function in a hands-free, voice-activated picking environment. See a demo from the picker point of view, illustrat-ing how the five function modules link to TRM starting with SAP log-in, through execution, con-firmation, and sign-off. Examine the project plan, testing schedule, user training techniques, and timeline from blueprint to go-live.

How customers are using SAP’s end-to-end integrated logistics and fulfillment process to improve customer service, maximize assets, and minimize costsGet an insider’s view of how your peers have gleaned benefits from a group of processes that combined, have helped to raise customer service levels while reducing costs across supply chains. Examine the end-to-end solution set with a look at the material handling innovations that SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) offers. Get a view into how others ensure prom-ise dates using SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) to automate delivery processes with increased transparency. Map how different industries ensure optimal inventory levels uti-lizing SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) as the collaboration “engine,” providing the ideal replenishment business scenarios. Exam-ine how SAP is supporting customers who face the increasing complexities of global trade and regulatory compliance. Find out how supply chain event management (SCEM) has helped customers manage by exception. Follow the end-to-end business process with a look at how SAP Supply Chain Performance Management offers the analytical insights essential for contin-ual improvement.

A comprehensive look at SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)This session will bring you up to date on SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), as it evolves to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your warehouse opera-tions. See an example of SAP’s leading-edge technology that now enables the direct inte-gration to your automated material handling system. View SAP EWM functionality that can build flexible work packages based on optimiz-ing criteria (containers, equipment capacity, etc.), and dynamically match these in real-time with the best resource. Examine labor man-agement capabilities that track and support operational efficiencies, and see how this data can be used to effectively plan workload. Understand the newest SAP EWM functions that improve the ability to coordinate transpor-tation with warehouse execution. See a demo on how enhanced visibility can help to identify and correct discrepancies for not only inbound and outbound goods, but at all the supply chain touch points, and provide for faster and improved service levels. Learn how SAP EWM is incorporating more analytical content using SAP BusinessObjects tools for critical decision making. Get an inside view as to user adoption across the globe.

Insider discussion forum Integrated transportation management for the process industriesJoin your peers to discuss how to best meet the growing challenges of managing cross-bor-der shipments that are subject to increasingly dynamic demand patterns and regulatory requirements. Facilitated by industry experts, gain insight on how others are artfully com-plying with the unprecedented levels of complexity placed upon logistics and trans-portation. Gain insight on how to leverage SAP as an end-to end logistics planning and ful-fillment platform for integrated, multimodal transportation. Exchange ways to comply with regulations targeting at dangerous goods and global trade compliance. Discuss com-mon challenges, such as tracking and tracing shipments and costs incurred to monitor and support outsourced services.

Moving along with SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) functionalityEvaluate the new generation SAP Transporta-tion Management (SAP TM) functionality as your full-service logistics and fulfillment plat-form, whether you are a shipper from the manufacturing industry, a retailer, a logistics service provider, or a freight forwarder. Examine how SAP TM manages holistically all inbound and outbound domestic and international freight in the same SAP environment, while providing end-to-end traceability and visibility of orders, shipments, items, and processes. See how SAP TM allows you to plan, consolidate, and optimize shipments while considering real-world constraints, costs, and penalties. Step through a demo that illustrates how the new planning cockpit tool displays shipment consolidation, equipment dispatching, freight rating, and spot tendering within a single view. Understand how to leverage sales order-driven planning to improve carrier relationships. Look at new functionality that enables full-truckload (FTL), less-than-truckload (LTL), intermodal, or international shipping processes. Find out how to link SAP TM to green logistics initiatives to reduce your carbon footprint and support other sustainability efforts.

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Case studyHow Mars automatically triggers, tracks, and ships small parcels using a third-party toolMars needed an integrated solution that would help to streamline the delivery process to sup-port its direct-to-consumer product line, as part of its recent SAP ERP 6.0 implementation strategy. Examine the capabilities of its chosen third-party application that enables the auto-matic shipment of small parcels, in support of the Mars ecommerce business line. Under-stand how this new application integrates SAP ERP with leading global parcel carriers, includ-ing FedEx, UPS, DHL, TNT, and more. See a demo that shows the end-to-end process from the time the Mars receives and scans the pro-duction order, to confirmation, and through the printing of the shipping label. Gain insight as to how this new tool works with SAP Trans-portation Management (SAP TM) to segregate orders according to the mode of transport, based on pre-determined parameters that are designed to automatically pick the optimal carrier, and route determination for every ship-ment. Grasp how Mars manages the criticality of rate shopping for its consumable goods shipments as an added level of management variables.

Insider discussion forum What’s new with SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)Gain insights from early adopters of SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), and explore how others have transitioned or are planning to transition their warehouse management activities from SAP ERP or a third-party solution to SAP EWM. Find out what others are doing to optimally support the movement of inbound and outbound goods, both in the yard and on the loading dock. Get ideas on how to use SAP EWM for labor man-agement, wave picking, cross docking, and task and resource management. Learn the best ways to use mobile and radio frequency (RF) technologies in the warehouse for picking and putaway. Take away valuable insights that can ease your next steps toward SAP EWM.

Case studyWhy and how Honeywell automated warehouse operations with a mobile solutionLearn how Honeywell Automation & Control Solutions used SAP warehouse management functionality and mobile and radio frequency (RF) technologies to implement a central-ized, automated warehouse hub serving 38 sites across England and Ireland. Examine the logical steps and decisions Honeywell went through to transform the existing tedious and manual paper-driven processes to a more effective system-driven operation. See how Honeywell enhanced the RF Queue determi-nation via a BAdI to allow greater flexibility to segregate workloads and manage the ware-house-to-business requirements. Learn how the company identifies issues or exceptions before they can impact service levels by mon-itoring workloads in real time through the combined use of both the RF monitor, and warehouse activity monitor. Look at the func-tional enhancements Honeywell gained, such as the ability to activate the count despite transfer orders remaining open, by employ-ing dynamic cycle counting as part of the RF solution. Take away critical tips for a successful mobile warehouse deployment, such as how to side-step potential user adoption obstacles.

Solve your complex warehouse distribution requirements: Storage units vs. handling unitsWhether you are running SAP warehouse management or inventory management functionality, this session will help you deter-mine the best direction for your warehouse, with a look at the storage unit management (SUM) and handling unit management (HUM) solutions. Understand the core differences between the two, and which solution is best for your environment. For example, if you need to meet RFID mandates, or need visibility to your pallet license plate beyond the four walls of your warehouse, HUM is for you! If you are looking for an immediate, less complex solu-tion, consider SUM. Examine the configuration options for mixing products into different storage types to maximize capacity for bet-ter bin utilization, and see how to leverage both solutions for maximum value (consider HUM only for outbound movements of goods to avoid packing and unpacking). Know your customization options and which solution bet-ter serves your requirements, such as HUM’s capacity to provide deeper product/location visibility for managing product nesting and serialization. Take home a decision matrix to help you map your requirements against both options. This session includes a sneak peek at the latest evolution of HUM in SAP Extended Warehouse Management.

How to evaluate and choose the right transportation management solution for your organizationWhether you are managing your own fleet, working with a transportation service provider (TSP), or you are a shipper or carrier, this ses-sion will show you the potential impact, key differences, similarities and functional overlaps between SAP solutions for transportation man-agement. Learn the requirements, advantages, and limitations of SAP ERP LE-TRA (including the FCX add-on functionality for freight cost-ing), SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO) transportation planning and vehi-cle scheduling (TP/VS), and SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM). Examine how differ-ent options support your business processes requirements for freight, load, and route plan-ning and tendering, dispatch, execution and monitoring. Learn how transportation costs are handled, whether they be supplier freight costs or customer freight costs, with non-SAP part-ners. See how SAP solutions for transportation can manage international trade and compliance regulations. Compare master data manage-ment implications for each option. Take home a comparison matrix, along with the underlying analysis, that will enable you to build a business case for the right transportation solution.

So many options, so little time! Maximize your core SAP warehouse management functionalityThis session will focus on useful and common SAP ERP functionality for warehouse manage-ment that is often overlooked, misunderstood, and under-utilized. Examine the standard capabilities that support physical inventory processes, including replenishment scenarios and how to manage quantity confirmations, Kanban, and dynamic cycle counting options. Look at the core cross-docking functional-ity, and examine your deployment options to increase capabilities to enable opportunis-tic functionality. Look at SAP functionality for the warehouse activity monitor, as an end-user tool to effectively drive your everyday business processes, such as stock removals (picking) and stock placements. Learn how to use it out of the box, and to integrate it with other standard configurable options, as well as with minor enhancements. Find out how to enable mass transfer order processing, and handle differences when managing multiple storage locations.

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How and why one high-volume warehouse moved from a heterogeneous environment to SAP EWMGain an insider’s look at an in-flight SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) implementation at a high-volume, small parts, picking operation. Gain insight into why this company is breaking tradition from its legacy environment to implement an SAP EWM solu-tion. Understand its business plans to leverage SAP EWM to drive efficient packaging and cubing routines for order volumes exceeding 50,000 lines per day. Look at the critical chal-lenges the company is facing to integrate its new warehouse platform into a network of leg-acy solutions, and grasp the risk factors it faced during deployment and cutover. See how receiving and slotting functions work together to drive a more efficient warehouse process. Get examples of the user interface and screen presentation as a way to grasp the power and simplicity of the way different processes are displayed for key putaway and outbound car-ton cubing activities.

Case studyWhy and how Hilti deployed SAP EWM as an integrated solution to streamline material flow in their complex production environment Examine the Hilti landscape and see how leveraging their existing SAP footprint as an enterprise system for production planning and order scheduling, influenced their decision to choose SAP Extended Warehouse Manage-ment (EWM) 7.0, as the optimal tool to manage their unique shop floor configuration, and dis-tribution environment. Walk through their plan-to-ship process integrated with SAP ERP functionality for materials management; which issues the production orders for both make-to-order, and make-to-assemble goods. See how the production order is then released to SAP EWM, and integrated with the bill of materi-als (BOM), which prompts Hilti’s users to mix and assemble raw materials and components to prescribed quantities and finally managing entire warehouse functions in SAP EWM. Look at the challenge Hilti faced to integrate the shipping process in order to schedule finished goods transport and couple existing storage automation directly into EWM. Take away valu-able deployment tips as to how Hilti achieved their first pilot go live in just 6 months time.

A guide to select and implement the right warehouse management solution for your business Whether you are currently using SAP software to manage your warehouse activities or are look-ing to upgrade — or are considering migrating from another solution to an SAP solution — this session will help you determine the optimal path to meet your requirements. Examine the warehouse management offerings from SAP — including an update on the ever-changing acronyms, and functionality embedded within SAP ERP, to the more expansive SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) applica-tion, including release changes, product updates, and new features. Learn about the consider-ations of your selection when it comes to your project phases and activities. Get real-world tips to use in every stage of your implementation project — from implementation timelines and blueprinting, to testing and teambuilding strate-gies. This session offers a clear, concise guide to help you understand SAP functionality for ware-house management, release changes, product updates, and new features.

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Case studyLessons from British American Tobacco’s track and trace solution implementationBritish American Tobacco (BAT) needed a track and trace solution to comply with a required pro-tocol common in industries with global, high excise value. Hear BAT discuss how it addressed unique challenges, such as anticipating regulatory compliance requirements that are still in develop-ment. Learn how BAT is able to capture, record, and report on event data within the supply chain — from the point of manufacturing to dispatch and the record of its first external customer. Find out how BAT’s status as an SAP Ramp-Up cus-tomer for SAP object event repository (SAP OER) allowed a unique solution development partner-ship with SAP during the build and test stages of the project. Examine the SAP OER compo-nents that capture and record data from scanners, readers, and manufacturing-based systems. See how SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) is used to control and manage messaging between systems, and how BAT cus-tomized the configuration of SAP OER to manage exceptions. Examine how the company leveraged SAP ERP master data to minimize the need for new data fields. Come away with valuable tips to ensure a successful rollout of SAP OER.

A holistic approach to ensure product traceability with SNT functionalitySupply chain traceability is critical as a way to support product recall situations and to help eliminate counterfeit products. But it can be challenging to connect item traceability to batch genealogy, especially in outsourced manufacturing models. This session will help you learn how SAP delivers supply network traceability (SNT) functionality in the form of preassembled, pre-tested value scenarios that customers can leverage as a holistic solution. Find out how SNT functionality closes the loop between production, order processing, and distribution to ensure that authentic prod-ucts reach your customers, and traceability is assured if there’s a recall. Examine the SNT architecture to see how data can be accessed from SAP and non-SAP systems into a unified data model to generate product genealogies and analytics capabilities. See a demo on how SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelli-gence (SAP MII) and SAP Auto-ID Enterprise can be leveraged to bridge the gap between manufacturing and supply chain traceability.

Case studyHow an SAP upgrade enabled Clariant to automatically manage and resolve customer complaints with integrated quality notificationsClariant, global leader in the field of specialty chemicals, needed to upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0 in order to ensure regular system main-tenance as part of their license agreement with SAP. This session examines the way Clari-ant leveraged the upgrade, as a way to garner additional functionality to automatically man-age customer complaints by integrating quality notifications with batch handling processes. Understand how Clariant prepared for the sys-tem dependencies and requirements in order to deploy enhancement package 4.0. Step through the process chain from the time the customer complaint is logged in through to its resolve, starting with the data record creation entered into the quality notification system. Understand how quality management func-tionality transfers batch inspection lot records to batch determination to research customer sales orders, and track the complaint to pro-duction lots. See how the system automatically assigns the complaint to internal and external partners, triggering workflow and directing the messaging according to the approved next step.

Insider discussion forumBest practices for managing present and upcoming regulationsJoin your peers to look beyond regulations and trade agreements, and exchange best prac-tices, challenges, and ideas to better manage product safety and stewardship, whether it be for articles or process manufacturing. Discuss how SAP solutions can help your organization enable embedded product compliance and product safety — from research and devel-opment, or engineering; through purchasing and manufacturing to sales and distribution. Discuss ways to prepare for the impending REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical substances) reg-ulatory milestones. See how others are going beyond the measurement of critical thresh-olds to create a framework that supports each next regulatory requirement, from REACH to Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS).

A sneak peek at the new SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade ServicesEvaluate SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services as a solution to manage trade com-pliance, optimize your trade agreements, and streamline border transactions for your inbound and outbound goods. See new release features (SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services 10.0) including a new sanc-tioned party list (SPL) user-interface (UI) option designed to streamline workflows with a reduced number of “clicks,” providing more robust screening functionality. Understand how import enhancements extend certified fil-ing capabilities to provide maximum flexibility for pre-declarations, such as Importer Securi-ties Filings (ISF) and the EU 24-hour rule. Assess new Excise Monitoring Control System (EMCS) capabilities to support the tax-suspended movement of excise-taxable products within the European Union. Look at the enhanced functionality for trade preference processing, including the ability to new free trade agree-ments. See how SAP BusinessObjects Global Trade Services is aligned to integrate with sup-ply chain functions, such as event tracking and transportation management.

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The latest guide to SAP Event ManagementThis session provides the latest information on how SAP Event Management enables you to manage critical business processes by excep-tion (rather than monitoring the ones that are running smoothly). See how to track and monitor the status of supply chain processes and tasks in action, including purchase orders, shipment status, and production. Grasp the way SAP Event Management enables you to recognize and react to unplanned events in your extended supply chain. Gain insights as to how an event is recognized within your SAP ERP system and enriched by sensors and auto-ID data, and as a result triggers alerts and notifications that prompt stakeholders to take action. Understand how data is collected and transferred to the stakeholders via email, handheld mobile devices, and other external systems. Examine the technical architectural, system dependency, and integration require-ments for successfully deploying SAP Event Management with the least possible total cost of ownership. See how the application inte-grates with SAP NetWeaver BW and third-party systems to perform a final data analysis. Take home a list of preconfigured business process scenarios. Get insights into how customers already benefit from using SAP Event Manage-ment productively.

Product traceability beyond regulatory compliance: Leveraging item serialization and auto-ID for public safety, brand protection and business process automationLearn how SAP solutions for auto-ID and item serialization support regulatory and mandated requirements, and gain insight into the life cycle traceability of products, parts, and assets across distributed systems within and beyond enter-prise boundaries. See how to use data capture technologies (RFID, 2-D barcode) for product or part instance identification to support busi-ness process automation while building a life cycle data history. Grasp how product tracking features are used to create the history of busi-ness transaction, and sensor events, enabling you to manage product instance life cycle attri-butes of every serialized item from the time of production to the point of consumption. Learn how to exploit the GS1 EPCglobal (EPCIS) standard for business network collaboration. Gain insights on industry-specific, case study examples — including life sciences, healthcare, energy, oil & gas, automotive, and aerospace & defense — and see how others are using these technologies to promote public safety and ensure brand protection.

An update on embedded product compliance functionalityEnsure that compliance is factored into every stage of a product’s life cycle. Examine a set of extended business processes companies can use to develop safe and eco-friendly products and ensure regulatory compliance. Understand how this business scenario supports environ-mental regulations, such as implementations of the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive; the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical sub-stances (REACH) regulation; and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive. See how this approach protects rev-enue and brand. Leave this session with an understanding of how embedded product compliance functionality draws on SAP Prod-uct Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM); SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management); and SAP Recycling Administration for environmental data man-agement and analysis, compliance checks, and reporting.

Case studyHow Intel deployed Supply Chain Event Management as a way to manage its purchasing process by exceptionLook at how Intel leverages Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) as a way to gain a single point of reference, for end to end purchas-ing visibility. Understand the Intel purchasing environment, and grasp their “prompt pay-ment discount” practice that extends a 1-2% off of the purchase price for timely payments. See how they leverage SCEM functionality, as a collaborative platform that allows Intel to peer into the process to verify the actual ship date by the supplier, enabling them to cash in on these discounts. See how SCEM tracks and monitors the critical events for relevant purchase order line items, and then automatically triggers the accounts payable process to proceed when all the scheduled events are confirmed. Learn what happens when exceptions are detected, such as an overdue shipment. Look at the way SCEM notifies the appropriate stakeholder, or initiates a resolution workflow. Grasp how to capture critical analysis through SCEM inte-gration with business intelligence reports to identify bottlenecks, key durations, and trends, to further optimize the process.


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Case studyHow PMG leverages SAP MII to collect production data, and manage production exceptionsPMG was on a mission to continually improve on its Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), at a small manufacturing plant, specializing in the production of complex design components, serving the automotive industry. Examine its pilot SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intel-ligence (SAP MII) project implementation, intended to integrate disparate shop floor data with core SAP ERP transactional data, to gain visibility into production exceptions in real-time. Understand the challenges PMG faced in aligning its expectations with the actual SAP MII set of capabilities. Learn how the company applied the SAP MII framework to its two main business processes: semi-finished goods-to-stock, and stock-to-finished goods. View how SAP MII is configured to replace manual inputs for piece counting, stock transactions, goods issue, quality measures, and more. Grasp how PMG applies OEE calculations against produc-tion interruptions for analysis. See how SAP MII filters PMG’s core enterprise data for display.

Transforming your internal and external manufacturing operations into an integrated responsive networkLook at the end-to-end, networked manufac-turing planning and execution functionality that enables process transparency, data inte-gration, and the transformation of your internal and external resources from siloed entities into an effectively operating, coordinated unit. See how leading SAP customers have reduced lead times, driven inventories down, and improved customer service through integrated processes incorporating SAP Advanced Planning & Opti-mization (SAP APO), SAP ERP, and SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC). View a demo that shows how to create push-based and pull-based (demand-driven) build orders, as well as how to share critical information on inventory positions and active work orders with out-sourcing partners. Find out how internal plant operations work as part of the process through production scheduling, and plant floor exe-cution with SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII). Understand how to support direct procurement with supplier col-laboration using a combination of push and pull techniques.

Case studyA detailed look at PepsiCo’s repetitive manufacturing strategy for its high-volume production linesLearn how PepsiCo established a lean pro-duction environment for the company’s high-volume production lines by switching from a discrete manufacturing to a repetitive manufacturing approach. Examine PepsiCo’s criteria for choosing the Repetitive Manufac-turing model instead of production planning for process industries (PP-PI). Find out how the company achieves a simplified method to record production flow and routing data for components. See how PepsiCo gets opti-mal results by configuring material master views, rate routings, and production versions. This case study will also show you how Pep-siCo uses phantom bills of materials (BOMs) to map intermediate materials to minimize effort in the production confirmation process, and increase visibility. Find out how PepsiCo accurately records the amount of scrap it produces by implementing the zero-base for-mula. Understand how the company is using batch traceability to determine exactly how many batches of components are used to meet its production requirements, and to con-trol the amount of stock that is ordered for production.

Examine plant connectivity: Integrating shop floor data and communications activities —automatically with SAPAs a licensed component of SAP Manufac-turing Execution, and SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII), SAP plant connectivity (PCo) functions as the automation layer enabling integration and communication with the shop floor manufac-turing systems. This session takes you under the hood to learn how PCo can extend your plant connectivity infrastructure, to provide unsolicited real-time (rules-based) event noti-fication capabilities from disparate shop floor systems to SAP applications. See a demo that shows how notifications can trigger workflow, data collection, and response, eliminating the need to examine and interpret data manually. Understand how to replace the former SAP MII UDS-style queries with PCo functionality. See how PCo enables SAP partners to extend PCo, using their own connectors, to specific cus-tomer-owned systems within the plant.

A complete guide to managing plant operations and execution with SAPExamine the SAP solution set for managing plant operations and execution, as well as the newest release of sustainability applica-tions that are enabled by SAP manufacturing solutions, such as energy management, and functionality for environmental compliance. Understand how SAP Manufacturing Inte-gration and Intelligence (SAP MII) continues to expand its capabilities while also allowing deeper integration into the enterprise archi-tecture. Look at SAP Manufacturing Execution, designed to offer detailed execution capa-bilities, such as full product track and trace, genealogy, work-in-process management, and work order execution for the discrete indus-tries. See how to collect key plant metrics for sustainability. Look at the new solutions for energy management and environmental com-pliance, and how these solutions use SAP MII to plug into the plant data stores for integra-tion, reporting, and graphic presentation. Get a sneak peek into new SAP ERP capabilities avail-able as enhancements for production planning for both process and discrete industries.



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Case studyThe SELEX Galileo journey to achieve the perfect plant for 1500 users in the UKSELEX Galileo (a Finmeccanica company), a leader in defense electronics markets, needed to gain more actionable, timely and integrated intelligence from the plant floor. Look at their SAP Intelligence and Integration MII deploy-ment, designed to collect and connect their information-rich, shop floor data, and inte-grated with a home grown Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to enable communica-tion across 5 manufacturing sites. See a demo that shows how the SELEX Galileo solution delivers work lists via projects via screens that leverage Web pages from the SAP MII toolset, which then, using LCD screens are presented on the shop floor to direct job activities. Look at the tactical challenges SELEX Galileo faced, to map their critical business processes, and supporting transactions to SAP MII, such as issuing materials from the warehouse to their highly customized assembly process. Find out how they optimized SAP MII as a way to over-come functional gaps in SAP ME. View a demo on how the SAP MII operational dashboard supports quality inspection and testing data so that events can be measured and fixed in real time.

Case studyHow Repsol leverages a centralized SAP MII deployment to manage critical shop floor data for integration and regulatory complianceExamine how Repsol structured its SAP Manu-facturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) deployment as a way to automate shop floor data collection and analysis, using a central-ized SAP MII server. Grasp how the architecture design and governance oversight enabled and aligned user adoption as a way to standard-ize SAP MII queries and reporting using a common infrastructure. Look at how Repsol collects variable shop floor data using SAP MII — by pressure or readings, volume levels, and more. See how this data transfers to SAP ERP for operational checks, and troubleshooting, integrating with inventory, procurement, and production process data. Examine how Repsol leverages SAP MII to collect data from refiner-ies that is then integrated with its emissions solution to comply with environmental regula-tions for process tracking.

Best practices in manufacturing — How do you measure up?This session will present the latest key find-ings from the SAP/ASUG Manufacturing Benchmarking Survey. Examine quantitative and qualitative best-in-class practices that impact manufacturing, lean enterprise, and plant maintenance performance. Gain insight from peer responses to survey questions, and see how your organization measures in com-parison. Understand the correlation between implementing best practices, leveraging key performance indicators (KPIs) and improve-ment in manufacturing process performance, including operational equipment effectiveness (OEE), on-time delivery and efficiency of main-tenance technicians. Explore the critical drivers that have been adopted by leading compa-nies to increase market competitiveness and examine the key performance indicators (KPIs) that best set the bar for driving excellence in your organization. See how your counterparts achieved significant cost savings and increased operating margins.

The latest updates to SAP functionality to support continuous quality improvementSee how SAP functionality for quality man-agement can be used to support your quality improvement initiatives to enable a closed-loop, inspection planning process with a look at a fail-ure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), control plan, and quality notifications. Examine the new integration touch points of quality notifications with FMEA, SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) or SAP Manufacturing Execution, and SAP NetWeaver for audit management. See how you can now ensure collaboration between product engineers and quality planners by transferring critical-to-quality characteristics from SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Man-agement (SAP EHS Management) specifications into QM inspection plans. Get first insights about a new approach to monitor all quality-related activities and efficiently resolve customer- or vendor-related complaints, non-conformities from production, or other internal issues.

Insider discussion forum Getting started with SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII)Talk to others who have implemented or are considering SAP MII to allow shop floor work-ers and the business to visualize production data from various sources with business pro-cess owners. Hear how others have leveraged SAP MII with financial information, Manufactur-ing Execution Systems (MES), production data, and plant maintenance. Get ideas from peers on how to create role-specific dashboards and the best ways to automate production.

A unique, independent solution for SAP ERP or non-SAP plants to support batch manufacturing processesEvaluate new and exciting functionality that supports batch-oriented manufacturing exe-cution, offering a decoupled, plant-specific (yet integrated) solution. Look at the packaged solution that leverages SAP Manufacturing Intelligence and Integration (SAP MII), within your SAP ERP framework or independently, using standard SAP ERP data. Examine the “out-of-the-box” interface, and see how to download rules and process definitions using the production planning for process industries (PP-PI) defined formulas. Understand how the shop floor can then execute against these for-mulas, with or without an SAP ERP connection. See how to integrate plant maintenance and quality management data. View a demo of the user interface via SAP MII, and find out how this can be customized by role and responsibility.

How to enable a lean production environmentFind out how to leverage SAP Manufacturing Execution as a strategic platform to enable and drive dramatic improvements in operations. Map lean principles that support continuous product and process improvement to SAP Man-ufacturing Execution capabilities, designed to capture, store, and share product manufactur-ing information throughout the enterprise. See how SAP Manufacturing Execution can inte-grate data from disparate systems — both on and off the shop floor — to capture and store a single, comprehensive production record that provides an aggregated view of a product’s history. Review examples of how your peers leverage lean planning to reduce waste, and increase cycle times and inventory turns, and control short-term actions for replenishment (the SAP Manufacturing Execution pull tech-nique) on the shop floor. See how to integrate external suppliers into the overall value stream through to the final customer. Examine the first steps required in order to deploy SAP Manu-facturing Execution with enterprise integration — supported and delivered out of the box.

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Case studyHow Danone’s SAP PLM implementation improved the health of its integrated product development processDanone, a leading global company and advo-cate for healthy foods, needed an integrated, scaleable solution to better share raw and packaging material, product, and process spec-ification between its research and development (R&D), quality management, and purchas-ing teams. Understand the scope of Danone’s SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) implementation, including requirements gath-ering for automating the engineering change management process (including approvals), audit reports, product formulation, and label-ing. See where Danone customized standard SAP PLM functionality by creating an interface that enabled the synchronization of the R&D bill of materials (BOM) with the production BOM. Find out how it linked the requirement for raw materials specifications as part of its contracted supplier relationships to ensure raw material pro-curement within factories. Look at the change management methodology Danone initiated in order to gain executive buy-in, and ensure user adoption. Understand its roll-out strategy: deployment in 18 countries — one at a time — with more than 800 users worldwide.

A new way to get production and engineering in sync for the discrete manufacturerThis session provides insight into a new, dif-ferentiating application designed to close the gap between product development and man-ufacturing. Examine how guided structure synchronization (GSS) links the engineering bill of materials (BOM) to the manufacturing BOM, providing a critical interface between plant independent and production specific struc-tures, eliminating time-consuming function vs. assembly sequence conflicts, and production validity concerns. Find out how GSS enables both parties to maintain independence, allow-ing engineers and production planners a way to generate changes, in real time, integrat-ing the release and change process without impacting each other. View a demo that shows the way GSS compares both BOMs and allows the user to discern what changes to synchro-nize, using SAP PLM Web-based user interface as the front-end, role-based display.

A worldwide market leader in the ceramics industry fires up new product development with an SAP PLM upgradeGet an inside view of why and how an early adopter leveraged an SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) 7.0 upgrade as a way to improve product innovation and speed time-to-market with concurrent engineering process support. Walk through the project scope and see how the organization “sold” the upgrade project (from SAP PLM 6.0) to business pro-cess owners and executive leadership. Examine its improved PLM engineering desktop, Web-based 3D-ready visualization capabilities, and user interface (UI) designed to provide robust search functionality and enhanced display set-tings. See how the organization tackled one of its toughest challenges to ensure data integrity across its relatively large product development teams, from product specification to design through production. Understand the integra-tion requirements and dependencies between SAP ERP functionality, project systems and materials requirement planning (MRP) with SAP PLM 7.0. Examine its collaboration plat-form, using cFolders and SAP Resource and Portfolio Management (SAP RPM) as a way to link customers and suppliers as part of the product demand initiatives.

Insider discussion forum Lessons from the field to help you accelerate your SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) deploymentThis forum offers you the opportunity to hear how other companies scope and implement their SAP PLM deployments. Exchange ideas for migrating engineering data and documents from existing legacy systems to SAP PLM. Get advice from other SAP customers for acceler-ating time-to-value. Find out how your peers allocate resources for their implementations and secure executive support for their SAP PLM implementation.

Case studyHow Hilti tooled critical product data migration from a homegrown landscape to SAP ERP in nine engineering locations across seven countriesHilti, a leading global provider of products, systems and services for construction profes-sionals, needed a more robust tool to control product data that is leveraged by 1500+ stake-holders around the world, both internally and with engineering partners. Examine Hilti’s migration from an existing, home-grown prod-uct data management landscape to SAP PLM 6.0, in a stepped rollout that enabled func-tionality for materials management, product structure management, document manage-ment, engineering change management, and direct CAD integration with SAP ERP. Under-stand Hilti’s deployment methodology, system landscape, and project scope. Gain insight as to how the company controlled complex prod-uct assembly data integrity and dependencies, structured synchronization between systems, and overcame its biggest challenges. Learn from the challenges Hilti faced to ensure a secure collaborative engineering platform with more remote partner locations.

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A look at an SAP PLM deployment at a multi-national high-tech companyCompetence (formerly Jabil Circuit), a world-wide leader in print circuit board production, needed to migrate from its Agile PLM plat-form to SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) as a way to enable integration with its core ERP system. Understand the business model at Competence and the common prac-tice in the high-tech industry, where customers design the product and use a collaboration platform (cFolders) as a platform for infor-mation and data exchange with suppliers. See how SAP PLM enabled the engineering change management (ECM) process to inte-grate with critical production and purchasing data as a way to ensure service level targets were met despite short production lead times and large production volume. Grasp the sys-tem dependencies, architecture, and design at Competence, configured to ensure the supplier approval process is automated, and integrated with purchasing, for SAP and non-SAP part-ners. See a demo of the Competence business process modeling framework, based upon a roll-out strategy that includes a “gap analysis” approach — one country at a time.

Tips and tricks to leverage audit management functionality for comprehensive CAPA (Correction Action Preventive Action) managementUnderstand how to combine SAP ERP func-tionality for quality management, and SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) audit management functionality, and quality notifications as a way to mitigate risk for inter-nal and external audits. Learn how to ensure processes and procedures are in compliance with defined regulations. Find out how to man-age CAPA (Corrective Action Preventive Action) to improve the product quality process and facility utilization management. View a demo that shows how to leverage SAP audit man-agement functionality to issue reports, using a template to document audit findings and responses. See how to ensure strict authoriza-tion separation and access control. Hear about the ability to compare and analyze audits and results. Learn how to position the combined toolset within your organization structure, and examine the architecture that enables accessi-bility by date, role, department, or by groups. Review considerations when scheduling audits that will ensure data segregation, and devia-tion with minimal maintenance efforts.

How to map the SAP PLM toolset to your business processesSee how to create one unified environment using SAP functionality and business work-flow that will — from design to obsolescence — allow the engineering, quality, procure-ment, and production teams to work from a single version of the truth. Together with the SAP computer-aided design (CAD) desk-top, learn how to utilize SAP Portfolio and Project Management as the task and timeline governor of the working environment. Under-stand how leveraging engineering change management (ECM) as the gatekeeper of mas-ter data changes can improve research and development processes and streamline collab-oration between engineering and production, and through to after-market sales. See how to enable the exchange of standardized product related data by steering organizational behav-ior, and fostering cooperation between the different stakeholders. Learn how to leverage SAP PLM functionality to ensure appropriate jurisdiction and process authorizations.

Leverage cloud computing and mobile access to accelerate new product design and development, and streamline service ordersLearn how to leverage cloud computing and mobile access technologies together to achieve improved supplier and customer communica-tion throughout the new product design and development process. Find out how to inte-grate Google Enterprise, as well as iPad and iPhone applications with your SAP system. See different process-based scenarios that include how to publish the bills of materials (BOMs) to suppliers via Google Enterprise. See how to acknowledge supplier requests for creat-ing new material masters in SAP, or negotiate the delivery of components. See how to access a product’s bill of materials via iPad. Learn how to capture service issues via a mobile photo using the iPhone, and check into the SAP Easy Document Management application on-the-go to quickly initiate service orders. Understand how to manage security, approv-als, change requests, and authorizations via Adobe Forms.

Compare solutions to enable direct and secure collaboration with partners and customersHow do you provide access to critical new prod-uct data and developments across your partner and supply chains while still protecting your intel-lectual property? Provide an alternative to SAP cFolders to enable product data collaboration by evaluating the new and expanded access control capability available as part of SAP PLM 7.0. Exam-ine the new functionality as a way to achieve a deeper level of granularity control — down to items within the product structure, yielding both access and visual identify. Compare SAP access control management functionality to SAP cFolders to enable partner and supply chain col-laboration for sharing engineering product data and documentation, and determine if one or the other, or a combination is optimal for your envi-ronment. View a demo of how the solutions look side by side, to display CAD drawings, with direct access to SAP. Understand the core difference between cFolders and SAP PLM access control management functionality regarding authoriza-tions by item as opposed to material master.

Should you, could you, and how would you deploy SAP Easy Document ManagementThis session will review your user interface options for managing critical product devel-opment documents in SAP, and show you how to migrate from a SAP GUI-based docu-ment management system to the SAP Easy Document Management application, a more user-friendly and intuitive interface. Examine key functions of out-of-the-box SAP Easy Doc-ument Management — a part of SAP ERP – such as enhanced public and private folder structures, drag-n-drop, and “send document” capabilities. Find out how to customize layouts and display screens, and add additional func-tions to SAP Easy Document Management that support your business requirements. Get tips on how to install SAP Easy Document Manage-ment and review relevant registry entries that control key functions of the tool. Learn what to watch out for when dealing with document classification, specifically object dependencies and check tables. See a demo that shows how to use the advanced search capabilities and the “view” options. Understand your deployment options for both replacing SAP GUI and install-ing a new front-end component.



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A comprehensive look at how SAP supports continuous product and service innovationThis session provides insight into a new set of extended business processes SAP now sup-ports in the area of continuous product and service innovation (CPSI). Find out how to leverage SAP functionality to improve respon-siveness to market trends and customer needs. Leverage the right resources and expertise across the enterprise and business network, execute efficiently, and consistently manage performance. Examine how SAP BusinessOb-jects solutions can be used to aggregate and analyze product performance measurements, project pipeline information, operational metrics, market trends, and competitive and customer intelligence. Learn new ways to improve the ongoing selection, scoring, mon-itoring, and review of interdependent project ideas, schedules, resources, and workflow. Find out how to support integrated concept devel-opment to transform an idea into a product. View a demo of a product and service perfor-mance dashboard, and determine whether you could use it to assess the strategic impact of your new product initiatives and investments.

An up-to-date look at the CAD engineering desktop user interface from SAPSee how you can use the latest Web-based engi-neering desktop user interface (UI) to directly embed internal and external CAD designers into your SAP system. Assess the UI’s ability to extend product data and intelligence beyond the confines of engineering and across mul-tiple SAP applications that are used to create and support material masters, BOMs, classifica-tions, and engineering change documents. See how the new UI supports collaborative design by multiple users through incorporating col-laboration, embedded search functionality, and integrated product engineering while still allowing you to retain security and access control. View a demo that highlights a direct CAD integration scenario. Gain insight into the usability improvements that have been made to the UI. See how to share product design information while working directly from your CAD system and capture your product struc-ture for direct submission.

A comprehensive guide to SAP offerings for integrated product development (IPD)This session examines SAP functionality that helps you achieve product and service leader-ship through integrated product development (IPD). Look at the comprehensive solution set, which includes the design of specifications, recipes and product structures, product cost-ing, synchronization of manufacturing data, product and process testing, and functionality to evaluate product portfolios and projects in collaboration with external and internal part-ners. Look at capabilities for product design using computer-aided design (CAD), change management processes, and material and task sourcing. Examine how this functional-ity can be used to extend business processes and bridge functional silos, enabling a collab-orative development environment designed to speed time-to-market, lower development costs, and increase quality. Understand how to pursue an IPD strategy and achieve better vis-ibility into and control over product data and documents, engineering changes, and costs. Get a preview of the planned IPD scenario extensions, designed to assist the new product development process.

Learn how to use SAP Recipe Management to develop and control product formulation information throughout the product life cycleExamine the latest SAP Recipe Management functionality designed to integrate product and process formulations for the process and consumer industries. See how the latest release of SAP Recipe Management offers a more user-friendly experience through the use of Web Dynpro technology. Learn the best ways to use this solution to support your product for-mulation, product specification, and product labeling needs. Examine new usability and functional features, such as searching, navi-gation between object relationships, recipe ingredient optimization and ad hoc workflow capabilities. Come away with an understand-ing of how SAP Recipe Management is evolving from a system of records to a process and data enablement solution.

See what’s coming with SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0: A detailed look at features and functionsThis session offers insight into how to improve phase-gate product development processes using SAP Portfolio and Project Manage-ment. See how the latest solution architecture has been updated to improve product data flows. Find out how to close the loop between portfolio management, operational project management, and resource management. Explore new features and functions, such as improved closed-loop resource management, better integration, and the business con-text viewer tool for reporting. See how the user interface offers more flexibility by pro-viding end-user configuration options and faster navigation. Learn how to better man-age and govern the front-end of continuous product and service innovation using deci-sion flow management and idea management. Step through a demo that illustrates closed-loop resource management functionality and how it supports efficient staffing processes and the optimal management of phase-gate processes.

Case studyHow a utility company initiated a unique collaboration scenario for contracted services using a supplier portal as an enabler See the methodology behind Southern Cal-ifornia Edison’s (SCE) objective to create an external-facing portal so that suppliers can col-laboratively complete the source-to-invoice process for contracted services. Examine the unique integration of SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) plant maintenance functionality, SAP Service Management and SAP Supplier Relationship Management supplier self-service (SUS) and enable out-side contractors to respond jointly to service requests issued from the utility. Understand why SUS required customization in order to publish PLM notifications and subsequent work orders for service providers to finalize the scope of their work and manage the delivery of services. Grasp SCE’s end-to-end process as the authorization path closes the loop between the work order packet issue, and how the result-ing contractors planning’s incorporate into the purchase order integration, field change order, and finally, invoicing via service confirmation. View how suppliers and SCE manage and see work through a common view across the lifecy-cle of their projects. View final portal views for both contractors and buyers of services.

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Technology and implementations

Case studyUnder the hood at the Dansk Supermarked SAP EWM deploymentGet a technical perspective of the Dansk Super-marked SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) implementation, data model, and integration with SAP ERP, and see how it was customized to its retail/wholesale environment. Examine the Dansk master data structures between SAP ERP and SAP EWM using the core interface (CIF), and its master data maintenance processes. Look at how Dansk uses unit-of-measures to support stock keeping unit (SKU) requirements for stock balancing and order pro-cessing. Understand and compare its chosen model with the option of using logistic variants as an alternative to tracking inventory by SKUs. See a demo of how Dansk configured SAP EWM functionality with customized rule sets that enabled warehouse order and wave creation to support pre-picking scenarios. Learn how it designed the SAP EWM framework to support package material handling in support of picking and putaway scenarios. Look at how Dansk set parallelization settings using header and item status, to distribute the workload for multiple instances to speed process performance. Take home undocumented integration codes to use for your SAP ERP to SAP EWM data modeling.

Case studyA technical view of how DP DHL integrates its SAP purchase-to-pay solution with non-SAP financial and order processing systemsThis session will give you a unique view of how the number one company in the global logis-tics marketplace, Deutsche Post DHL (DP DHL) achieved integration between its SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) solution and non-SAP financial and order processing systems as a way to enable an automated pur-chasing platform for 10,000 users across the corporation. Get a step-by-step look at how DP DHL designed and developed transactional interfaces to ensure a seamless purchase-to-pay process with 10 finance systems and a dozen third-party ordering systems. Look at the different approaches taken to design and implement these interfaces ranging from “home-grown” to the use of standard integra-tion. Take home an overview that shows how to map business processes to integration solu-tions. Learn about the operational aspects of P2P interface management to ensure that doc-uments transfer and post correctly.

Tips and techniques to smoothly and seamlessly transfer data between SAP APO and SAP ERP, leveraging the core interface (CIF)Get expert lessons to smoothly transfer master and transactional data between SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO) and SAP ERP by leveraging the core interface (CIF). Find out how the number of records from which you’re transferring data affects the creation of integration models. Gather tips to properly set up the CIF, including how to effectively lever-age user exits. Overcome transactional data discrepancies via the Delta Report. Learn how to properly apply sequencing rules to avoid error messages that can grind your data trans-fer to a halt. See how to use the CIF cockpit tool to monitor the data transfer process in real time. Understand how to activate the data vol-ume report. Get a concise explanation on the new Master data incremental load function-ality. Take home a previously undocumented collection of error messages common to data transfers with the CIF, along with proven techniques to fix them that will save you con-siderable time and effort.

Test drive SAP Sourcing OnDemand with a hands-on labGain exposure and firsthand experience with the SAP Sourcing OnDemand solution by par-ticipating in this hands-on workshop. Get a brief overview of the SAP Sourcing OnDemand solution set and walk through common use cases for strategic sourcing, contract life cycle, and supplier management.

Case studyA technical look at how Clariant automates quality inspection data for stock releaseSee how Clariant optimizes a useful and unde-rutilized tool to automatically release stock, leveraging SAP ERP functionality for quality management. Examine how it utilizes a stan-dard quality data interface to transfer inspection data between its four different, regional pro-duction systems, as a way to reduce errors and streamline its ship-to-stock process. Under-stand its challenge: to automate inspection data as part of the batch shipment process, so that when a goods receipt posts, inspec-tion results are automatically updated. See a demo that shows you how Clariant processes and sends an IDOC in parallel with the goods receipt, containing the relevant quality data, which is then automatically processed as part of its standard, ship-to-stock process. Grasp the benefits of integrating critical quality inspec-tion data as a safety measure and time-saving opportunity.



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Increase the speed of implementation with a new rapid deployment solution for portfolio monitoringExamine the new integrated delivery approach designed to help you manage the scope, con-tain costs, and streamline the project timeline for your SAP Portfolio and Project Management implementation. Understand how the software, coupled with services, brings together essential functionality for portfolio monitoring, faster and more affordably than a traditional deployment, while still reducing risk. Understand how this rapid-deployment solution enables you to align projects goals with rock-solid, portfolio-based decision-making support for the monitoring of new projects on portfolio (and program) levels.

A look at SAP enhancements that extend your production execution, integration, and collaboration practicesGet all the functionality you can squeeze out of your SAP investment for production plan-ning and execution with a review of the latest functionality available with enhancement pack-ages 4 and 5. Whether you are using SAP ERP as your production platform, the latest SAP Business Suite applications, or stand-alone applications, this session will introduce you to additional capabilities that extend lean Kan-ban planning, execution and usability, improve work in process (WIP) visibility, and enhance shift data reporting. Find out how to leverage enhancements to improve supplier collabora-tion, including the exchange of work orders and quality issues between SAP ERP customers and non-SAP outsourcing partners to achieve a sin-gle data source for storage and retrieval. Look at the latest update of the interface that enables the integration of production orders between SAP ERP and SAP Manufacturing Execution. Get a sneak peek on what’s to come for both dis-crete and batch-oriented production processes.

Assess a new deployment package to get SAP procurement solutions up and running fastEvaluate the different rapid deployment strate-gies designed to jumpstart your SAP investment for self-service procurement, spend perfor-mance management, and sourcing. Examine the various deployment models for SAP Sup-plier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) that enable self-service, including “one-cli-ent deployment,” classic, and extended classic scenarios. See the implementation accelera-tors, gleaned from best practices that provide enhancements (BAdIs) that offer precoded custom logic to enable workflow, catalog map-ping, organizational structure maintenance, test scripts, and more. Understand how to get started, and get tips to help you assess whether your business can benefit from a rapid deployment solution (RDS).

Extend the four walls of your source-to-contract process — on demandSee how SAP Sourcing can be delivered as an OnDemand, subscription-based service in order to streamline your source-to-contract process in a secure, Web-based environment. View a demo that walks you through the sourcing process — from the initial internal sourcing request for a category of spend — to the qualification of sup-pliers and sourcing process, to the final contract award. See how to easily customize fields within the user interface to map them to your busi-ness requirements. Examine decision support functionality that can be used to analyze and compare supplier responses. Examine reverse auction functionality as a way to achieve deeper cost savings. Understand how SAP Sourcing OnDemand integrates with SAP ERP to ensure contract compliance. Get additional tips on how to manage change and drive adoption.

A sneak peek at SAP analytics to enhance decision support for product-related dataEvaluate the integrated business context viewer (BCV) as a way to flexibly embed quantifi-able results from disparate information sources within the SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) suite and from other sources that impact decision making, such as SAP ERP or legacy systems. See how to leverage BCV as a way to dramatically reduce search time for critical product-related data. View a demo that shows how to capture influencing factors from SAP and non-SAP systems, such as supplier history, production costs, quality measures, and more. See how the BCV presents informa-tion to the users via a new user interface (UI), with the option of using predefined templates. Learn how to customize fields to your unique business requirements.

A new way to improve communications with vendors, customers, and partners to streamline B2B transactionsEvaluate a new offering from SAP and busi-ness partner Crossgate, an SAP Information Interchange with a new way to connect your trading partners. Compare this solution to more traditional point-to-point enterprise data interchange (EDI) tools to understand how the pre-integrated B2B profiles of SAP Informa-tion Interchange utilize iDocs and enterprise services to lower the cost and time of B2B enablement. Understand how SAP Informa-tion Interchange leverages SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) to pro-vide maximum flexibility for managing your B2B infrastructure. See how line of business applications, such as SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC), is enabled for B2B with SAP Information Interchange. Look at applications for procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and other business process scenarios, where data connections to SAP are exchanged with non-SAP partners. Grasp the advantage of one implementation (and updates) han-dled through standard SAP maintenance as opposed to issues that are often encountered with EDI when new points of entry into your system are introduced.

A new deployment package to get SAP capabilities for transportation management up and running fast and at a reduced costAre you evaluating SAP solutions for transpor-tation management? Examine one of the new SAP Rapid Deployment solutions, which brings together the SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) functional scope, coupled with imple-mentation services, and supporting collateral materials for training. It is designed to get your SAP transportation management solution up and running faster, and at a lower cost. Evalu-ate the rapid deployment solutions approach as a way to help drive down total time of implementation by leveraging preconfigured sample content to deploy international con-tainer shipping capabilities. Look at the rapid deployment solutions best practice approach for the booking of vessel capacity, assign-ing and container loads to bookings. See how rapid deployment solutions deployment links into the carrier landscape from container track-ing through status messaging. Get tips to help you assess whether your business can benefit from a deployment of this solution.

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