E3 Category: MAG 13-08

The quantity of announcements from Walldorf has declined. SAP is becoming more and more a normal international company, with its advantages and disadvantages. When Jim Hagemann Snabe announced his retirement from the SAP Executive Board a few weeks ago, it gave us more insight into how SAP is managed. But it was also cause for many to look at...

Problematic interaction of unclear quality specifications and responsibilities as well as missing data quality tools prevent systematic data quality management.

When Fuzzy! Informatik was acquired by SAP in 2007, nothing changed for users at first. But by the end of 2011, the Walldorf-based company began unilaterally terminating the maintenance contracts of Fuzzy! users.

Ariba welcomed more than 600 international participants to its annual conference Ariba Live, which took place in Berlin from June 3 to 6, 2013. The central topic was the change that is emerging in business processes due to the greater integration of web-based network solutions and tools.

SAP consultants are still among the top earners. Even entry-level employees without project experience can earn annual salaries of between 40,000 and 50,000 euros. Within a short period of time, these salaries continue to rise. But what does salary development depend on and how is a salary structured in detail?

Sending business documents from SAP ERP by e-mail is only possible to a limited extent with the standard functions. Orders, purchase orders, delivery bills and invoices are still sent by mail. The remedy is an add-on that allows business correspondence to be delivered directly from the ERP system by e-mail.

The SAP ERP modules PS and PP are used to map the data model in the manufacture of locomotives. In addition, methods are used to obtain an overview and for automatic planning. An Advanced Planning and Scheduling System (APS) fulfills this need.

With the DriveBenefits value-added portfolio, SEW-Eurodrive generates benefits for its customers' business processes in the areas of purchasing, materials management and intralogistics.

In the case of a Unix-Linux migration and a one-to-one transfer of the Unix-SAP architecture, the database licensing costs can explode due to the high number of Intel cores. This can be countered by using a layer model.