[ Articles with keyword 'billing' ]
Taking Care of Healthcare
01.12.2009
Quality healthcare is complex, requiring skilled professionals, highly sophisticated equipment, and a daunting array of drugs and supplies. To compound the situation, it must all be supported by meticulous record keeping, intricate workflows, and deft administrative processes.
Saving Energy with an iPhone
15.09.2009
From 2010, smart meters will be compulsory in Germany and will give the opportunity to use the iPhone or Blackberry to monitor energy.
Summit Electric Improves Chargebacks
18.06.2009
Chargeback management – or special pricing allowances (SPAs) as it is better known in the electrical distribution industry – is a big part of any wholesale distributor’s profit model. Summit Electric Supply, a U.S. $385 million electrical distributor based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, leveraged SAP and its best practices to increase its claims by 118 percent. It also got a return on investment in less than six months.
IT Outsourcing Models at a Glance
05.12.2008
Less investment, lower operating costs, and the ability to focus on core competencies: these are the reasons companies cite most often for outsourcing their IT.
Linking Online with Offline
17.07.2008
To maintain its position in the logistics industry, Spain’s postal service Correos is expanding its digital distribution channels. Correos has also modernized its traditional delivery services with the SAP ERP application.
Billing on the Right Track
07.05.2008
When customers of Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (Swiss railway company, SBB) require extra time to unload chartered freight cars, they have to pay demurrage charges. Since 2007, the cargo division SBB Cargo has been using SAP R/3 to bill these charges, thus benefiting from transparent and consistent processes.
All Invoices at a Glance
28.11.2007
Customers of Deutsche Börse AG can use a portal to view all invoices and import the data directly to their ERP software. Both sides benefit from this service, which is implemented on the basis of SAP Biller Direct and SAP NetWeaver Portal.
Dieting for Databases
05.09.2007
ENTEGA Service is channeling its growing data volumes in SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence with a nearline storage solution from SAND Technology. The german company uses the solution to store all data that is not immediately required, but which still needs to be accessible for audit purposes. As a result, the database stays lean while storage costs and run times for queries and backups are reduced.
SAP Placed in Leaders Quadrant for Utilities
15.08.2007
SAP AG announced that analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has positioned SAP in the leaders quadrant of this year’s “Magic Quadrant for Utilities Customer Information Systems, 1H07” based on completeness of vision and ability to execute on that vision.
New Wave of Innovations for SAP ERP
01.08.2007
As part of its ongoing commitment to deliver continuous innovation to customers, SAP AG announced the availability of the second enhancement package for the SAP ERP application. SAP enhancement packages for SAP ERP simplify the way customers manage and deploy new software functionality, enabling them to take advantage of the latest software innovations while at the same time minimizing disruption to ongoing operations.
