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.
20.06.2007
Open Source developers have created a surprisingly successful economic paradigm for the production of software. It can be of an unforeseen benefit to the overall economy, says Bruce Perens, Vice President of Sourcelabs in Seattle, USA and Visiting Lecturer with Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway, in conversation with SAP INFO online.
09.08.2005
Baldor Electric, a global designer and manufacturer of industrial electric motors and generators, has reduced its operations overhead and IT costs, while improving performance of its core business applications by 40 percent by consolidating its global implementation of SAP solutions on the IBM mainframe.
19.10.2004
Oklahoma Gas and Electric faced the challenge of cost-effectively handling a relatively high volume of customer calls. An interplay of the Genesys Voice Platform and the SAP Voice Solution in combination with the SAP R/3 backend helped to achieve that goal.
13.10.2004
Technobar, who distributes stainless steel and carbon steel raw materials as well as fabricated products to some of Israel’s most prominent enterprises, needed to ensure a reliable supply stream while speeding its internal information flow, decision-making, and response time to customers. The company chose SAP Business One based on the system’s reputation for flexibility, scalability and reliability. Installed seamlessly into the company’s existing infrastructure, SAP Business One speeded Technobar’s business processes and decision-making, thus freeing up employee time and enabling faster responses to customers.