E3 Category: MAG 14-03

Every month, Bystronic ships up to 10,000 spare parts items to customers all over the world. The supplier of sheet metal processing systems has switched to barcode-supported mobile data capture via SAP add-on. Since then, the logistics processes have been running transparently and efficiently.

Manufacturing and production are inconceivable without the topics of scheduling, planning and controlling. With its ERP modules and Business Suite, SAP provides the standard framework for trade and industry. Flexible and individual solutions are in demand for small and medium-sized businesses. Here, SAP partner G.I.B from Siegen has been a leader for many years with its Dispo-Cockpit product. Now there is...

The SAP testing market has grown into a multi-billion dollar market in recent years. According to PAC estimates, companies spent more than EUR 3.3 billion on SAP-related testing services worldwide in 2013, which is equivalent to almost ten percent of the global market for testing services. And the trend is still rising.

At some point, every SAP-using company will have to decide whether to continue using SAP's payroll solution or turn to an external solution instead.

An almost completely renewed SAP presented itself in Potsdam in mid-February on the occasion of the opening of the Innovation Center. Professor Hasso Plattner was in high spirits and jovially dressed to explain his American view of design, GUI, manuals and programming.