29.01.2010
Business application software is being implemented in many areas of industry and the public sector, not least by SAP partners Movento , TDS or Esker. SAP.info reports on this week’s latest developments.
11.11.2009
There is no doubt the market conditions remain intense and extremely challenging for wholesale distributors. However, smart distributors are looking at this new reality as an opportunity to outmaneuver their rivals.
27.10.2009
SAP AG announced its preliminary financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2009.
21.09.2009
SAP and SUGEN are developing a close relationship to drive value from SAP Enterprise Support. SUGEN chairman Mike Stoko explains how the user groups work together to reach collective goals.
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.
19.03.2009
Karwendel, the internationally renowned producer of soft cheese, quark and cheese specialties, is on track to harmonize its IT applications with SAP Business All-in-One for Food and Beverage Wholesalers. The SAP solution for midsize companies is based on the latest SAP ERP release 6.0.
26.01.2009
Andritz began investing in SAP ERP at the end of 2003 to standardize business processes, centralize organizational structures and, at the same time, decentralize production units. Today, its greatest challenge is to transform many years of continuous IT expansion of the technology group into a homogeneous IT landscape.
29.10.2008
Henry Ford once said: “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” These days, there is another element to consider: If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
13.08.2008
Payment reminders and lost cash discounts were the negative consequences of decentralized invoice processing at Linde Gas Germany, one of Europe’s leading gas suppliers. The companies that belong to the Linde Group receive more than 140,000 invoices every year, most of which used to be processed locally. The problem: They would sometimes remain unprocessed for weeks, and Linde headquarters in Pullach, southern Germany, had no overview of which liabilities had been paid and which were still outstanding. However, since implementing a standardized SAP workflow, Linde can now process incoming invoices centrally, quickly, transparently, and cost-effectively.
28.11.2007
After two years of stormy weather in its ERP journey, Drywall Supply has achieved stability in operations with an SAP Business All-in-One partner solution – and that is especially helpful for the distributor of building materials in the face of the current real estate downturn.