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Welcome to this eBook lesson “A1AS – Introduction to SAP Best Practices”.
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Introduction to SAP Best Practices: Objectives
After completing this session, you will be able to:
Explain SAP Best Practices and how they are useful
Describe the components of SAP Best Practices and the way they are delivered
Search in the portal for helpful information about SAP Best Practices and
download it
© SAP 2010
After completing this session, you will be able to:
Explain SAP Best Practices and how they are useful
Describe the components of SAP Best Practices and the way they are delivered
Search in the portal for helpful information about SAP Best Practices and download it
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What Are SAP Best Practices?
SAP is aware that customer satisfaction
does not only depend on functionality, but
also on reliable and proven businessprocesses and the effort it takes to
implement them.
Therefore, SAP has substantially invested in
designing and building a great set of
preconfigured, documented, and pretested
business processes that are tailored to your
customer’s industry and can be used as a
baseline for your customer’s implementation.
This is SAP’s experience in industry best
practices. This is ready-made business
processes already installed and available in
your system.
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SAP’s years of experience have shown that customer satisfaction does not only depend on
functionality, but also on the effort and costs it takes to implement it. So we’ve created out-of-
the-box business processes that are installed and configured, and not created and customized
during implementation. The secret of this approach is in the 35 years of experience SAP has
working with the best companies in the world. We’ve taken that knowledge and adopted the
revolutionary approach of creating them once and deploying for all. This saves our clients
untold months in deployment and the obvious associated costs. This is achieved through:
SAP’s experience in industry best practices built in. Ready-made business processes are
already installed and available into your system.
SAP’s proven expertise in applying best practices to your organization smoothly, quickly,and easily. This is inherent in SAP Business All-in-One solutions.
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What Do Best Practices Provide?
SAP Best Practices cover well-proven business
scenarios that help to exploit the potentials of
SAP Business Suite.
SAP Best Practices are the sound foundation for
SAP Business All-in-One solutions.
Flexible building-block technology enables you to
flexibly implement and adapt your solution.
Time Risk
PragmaticMethodology
Proven
Preconfiguration
Extensive
Documentation
SAPBest Practices
Cost
SAP Best Practices provide:
Proven methods and tools for organizations to implement best business practices in key
functional areas using SAP software
Predelivered methodology, documentation, and preconfiguration that enable rapid, reliable
deployment with quick return on investment
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SAP Best Practices are the foundation for SAP Business All-in-One solutions.
SAP Best Practices cover proven business scenarios that help maximize the potential of SAP ERP, SAP CRM, and SAP NetWeaver BI.
SAP Best Practices inherent technology and installation tools enable you to flexiblyimplement and adapt your solution.
The extensive SAP Best Practices documentation covers end-user documentation, as well
as configuration and other guides to a successful implementation.
All of these things, together, reduce cost, time, and risk in SAP projects for SAP, partners,
and customers.
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Content
Preconfigured business processes Documentation and training
Methodology and tools
New: Usage of SAP NetWeaver Business
Client
SAP Best Practices: ContentPreconfigured Business Processes and Project Accelerators
Traditional
project
Standard/
add-on system
Standard/
add-on system
SAP Best
Practices
Adjustments
within project
With SAP
Best Practices
Time
savings
Adjustments
within project
Traditional
project
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SAP Best Practices are predesigned and preconfigured business processes that correspond
to cross-industry practices, but also to the specific profiles of companies—in particular,
industries and vertical markets. By starting with SAP Best Practices, the solution provider
can configure a ready-to-run system for an individual customer at a low cost. Implementation
time is reduced to weeks rather than months.
SAP Best Practices are provided to SAP partners, SAP Consulting, and customers at no
additional cost. They can be used as:
A flying start to establish a customer-specific business infrastructure, or to build a new SAPBusiness All-in-One solution
A reference for blueprinting or prototyping phases
A comprehensive representation of the generally accepted ways to manage, control, and execute
business processes in a specific industry or in certain business areas, for example, make-to-order
manufacturing
A foundation for future growth
SAP Best Practices let you reduce implementation time by focusing on tailoring predefined
processes to the customer’s requirements, or extending the scope of the final solution with
typical interfaces to third-party applications, forms, reports, or additional SAP processes or
applications.
Download SAP Best Practices online from service.sap.com/swdc or order the CDs or DVDs
from service.sap.com/knowledgecat.
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SAP ERP
SAP NetWeaver
SAP CRM
SAP GRC AccessControl
SAP GRC GTS
SAP NetWeaver
Business Intelligence
SAP Supply ChainManagement
SAP NetWeaver Portal
… and more
Industries Cross Industries Country Baseline Versions
Automotive
Chemicals
Consumer Products
Discrete Manufacturing
Engineering,
Construction &
Operations
Metal industry
High Tech
Industrial Machinery
& Components
Logistic ServiceProviders
Media
Mining
Pharmaceuticals
Primary Steel Professional Services
Public Sector
Retail
Wholesale Distribution
Utilities
Baseline Package
CRM
Business Intelligence
Supply ChainManagement
Enterprise Portals
Human Capital
Management
Global Risk andCompliance
Corporate PerformanceManagement
International AccountingStandards
For an updated list of packages, go to:
http://service.sap.com/bestpractices availability (xls)
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Rep.
GCC countries
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Italy
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Mexico
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia & Mn.
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Turkey
U.K.
United States
Venezuela
Components
Current Global SAP Best Practices PortfolioExpanded Versions to Meet Your Industry and Geographic Needs
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The reach of SAP Best Practices has expanded and will continue to grow in over 26
countries, with industry packages based primarily on SAP ERP. In key industries or regions
with high demand, we also incorporate additional SAP applications such as GTS for hightech, or Environment, Health and Safety for the chemical industry.
To see if an industry offering is available for your country in the latest SAP ERP release,
check the availability matrix on the SAP Best Practices Web site on the SAP Service
Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/BESTPRACTICES.
SAP also provides cross-industry offerings to allow projects to extend their use of SAP into
BI, CRM, SCM, SRM, HCM, Portal, and GRC. These are designed to be used either in a
first go-live system, or in an already live customer system. These offerings can be used byinstall-base customers in the upper midmarket as well, regardless of whether or not they
used SAP Best Practices in their ERP implementation.
The SAP help portal provides extensive information on all SAP Best Practices packages. To
evaluate their fit for your project, it is important to check on which SAP components and
releases they are based, how compatible they are with each other, and if they meet the local
requirements of your project. You can find more information at help.sap.com Æ Best
Practices.
Note: Even if an SAP Best Practices package is not available in the release or country
version you need, it is still worth evaluating the documentation and SAP Best Practices
tools, as they are accelerators in themselves.
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SAP Best Practices: DeliverablesDocumentation and System Add-On
Delivery
Methodology and Content
Documentation Preconfiguration
Scenario descriptions
Business process documentation
Master lists
Configuration guides
Configuration settings (BC Sets)
Sample master data (eCATTs)
Solution builder
Print forms
Delivery
Documentation Download
Business documentation;
technical documentation
System Add-On Download
Contains all elements that are needed
for the SAP Best Practices
installation process
Supported by a set of smart tools and services
to help you during presales, implementation, and run and adapt.
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There is a standard delivery structure of all SAP Best Practices:
Generally, SAP Best Practices consist of two components that are delivered in two DVDsets: Documentation and preconfiguration objects.
Documentation is what you need to set up a system, namely, a configuration guide. The
configuration guide is the description for the manual handling of settings. The scenario
documentation, or scenario overview, helps you to understand the process. You also receive the
business process documentation, which may help you go through the systems once they are setup. You may also use this as end-user training material.
Preconfiguration settings are encapsulated in BC Sets and eCATTs to import sample master data.
For test support after installation, SAP Best Practices deliver guided test procedures.
To support you in using SAP Best Practices more efficiently, we have designed and
developed a series of tools and highly responsive services that can be used through the
entire project life cycle, namely, positioning, implementing, going live, and supporting
productive operation.
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AVAILABILITY MATRIX
SAP Best Practices: Online Resources
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You can find the availability matrix on the SAP Best Practices pages in the SAP Service
Marketplace. This is a Microsoft Excel sheet that contains information on the availability of
the different SAP Best Practices packages. For example, you can find information aboutwhether a package for a certain release level and country is planned or already released.
On the same Web site, you can also find you also find information about:
Demo and evaluation support, including demo systems, demo laptop, offline demos, and so on
Data migration based on SAP NetWeaver legacy system migration workbench
A number of other important topics that support you when working on SAP Best Practices projects
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Help Portal: http://help.sap.com/bestpractices
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The SAP help portal, at help.sap.com, is another helpful source of information about which
baseline, industry, or cross-industry packages are available for which country and release.
When you select a package, you find information either from a business point of view, or
from an implementation and technical point of view. This can range from high-level
information to scenario documentation, right down to exact configuration guides and
technical information.
The advantage of this Web site is that it is public. This means that it can be accessed
anywhere and anytime you have Internet connection without needing a user or the
documentation DVD!
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SAP Best Practices: Benefits
Save time
Use early prototypes to “show” vs. “tell” during
blueprinting. Identify only delta requirements, not total
requirements.
Avoid reinventing the wheel—simply activate
preconfigured SAP Best Practices scenarios for common configuration options.
Accelerate knowledge transfer
Ramp-up staff with a live prototype.
Use demo systems and scripts to review scenario
processes.
Leverage end-user training materials included in
SAP Best Practices.
Improve project predictability
Start with proven, quality content.
Limit hands-on configuration for a custom solution.
Blueprint with ease.
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The benefits of using SAP Best Practices during a customer implementation are closely
linked, whether you are creating an SAP Business All-in-One solution based on SAP Best
Practices, or if you are deploying SAP Best Practices directly for a customer project. The
time savings resulting from using SAP Best Practices, coupled with the accelerated
knowledge transfer capabilities, directly contribute to improved project predictability.
The What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get approach of SAP Best Practices saves time from
endless workshops with the customer to identify business requirements. All you have to look
is for the deltas between the ready-made business processes and the customer’s specific
business needs.
When you use SAP Best Practices, you avoid not only the configuration, but also the lengthyand painful process of blueprinting and documenting it.
By using the prototype personalized for the customer and the solution maps even before
implementation starts, you have the opportunity to compare current working practices to the
SAP Best Practices. This brings the knowledge and the value proposition to the customer much earlier in the business cycle.
SAP Best Practices provide predefined training material that is ready to be used for your end-user training.
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The unambiguous definition of the solution scope and the built-in implementation expertise
reduces the number of surprises you will encounter during the implementation phase and
during productive operation. This is what makes your solution safe and reliable.
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Introduction to SAP Best Practices: Summary
You should now be able to:
Explain SAP Best Practices and how they are useful
Describe the components of SAP Best Practices and the way they are
delivered
Search in the portal for helpful information about SAP Best Practices and
download it
Thank you for attending this course. You should now be able to:
Explain SAP Best Practices and why they are so beneficial for partners and customers
Describe all the components of SAP Best Practices and how they are delivered.
Search in the portal for information about SAP Best Practices, their availability, and their
release status, and download them to use them in an SAP Business All-in-One solution
implementation, or directly deploy them in an ordinary SAP project