- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (8 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201721929
- ISBN-13: 978-0201721928
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,634,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An insider's guide to SAP's new industry solutions e-business strategy
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- In this invaluable strategic overview, the co-CEO of SAP AG outlines exactly how SAP is responding to the e-business challenge with solutions targeted to the specific needs of each key industry and marketplace. Henning Kagermann presents detailed case studies illustrating the capabilities of each mySAP.com industry solution, as well as the opportunities they offer to enterprises that adopt them. Kagermann introduces SAP's industry solutions for aerospace and defense, the automotive industry; the chemicals industry; metal, paper, and textiles; oil and gas; engineering and construction; insurance; real estate; media; retail; and service provider industries. In each case, he reviews the key challenges faced by companies in these industries, and demonstrates how mySAP.com solutions can help these companies reshape themselves and achieve lasting competitive advantage. For every e-business decision-maker, manager, consultant, or user of SAP R/3 or mysap.com.
From the Back Cover
Edited by SAP co-CEO Prof. Dr Henning Kagermann, and Dr Gerhard Keller, enterprise analyst, this book offers expert analysis of the current state of twelve key industries and demonstrates how the relationship between mySAP.com and SAP’s industry-specific strategy addresses the unique demands of each sector.
Taking each industry in turn, the authors first examine the market trends to which they must react, with particular attention given to changes wrought by the Internet revolution. Industry requirements are set alongside their SAP solution, illustrated by up-to-date "solution maps" developed in collaboration with SAP and its customers and partners. Actual case studies are used to detail how the careful application of SAP solutions can help companies meet the challenges facing their own particular industry.
mySAP.com Industry Solutions
is essential reading for SAP partners, consultants, customers and anyone working in the SAP environment. Beginning with an overview of the SAP strategy as a whole, the book goes on to examine the following industry-specific solutions:
- mySAP Aerospace & Defense
- mySAP Automotive
- mySAP Chemicals
- mySAP Engineering & Construction
- mySAP High Tech
- mySAP Insurance
- mySAP Media
- mySAP Mill Products (metal, wood/paper and textiles)
- mySAP Oil & Gas
- mySAP Financials Real Estate
- mySAP Retail
- mySAP Service Providers
mySAP.com Industry Solutions is part of the Business Roadmap series from SAP Press. Aimed at users, managers and consultants, this series emphasizes the business background and the processes which underpin the functionality of the SAP product. Building on this deeper understanding, the books offer sound practical guidance on how best to tailor the system to the requirements of your business.
SERIES FEATURES:
- Experienced SAP-approved authors
- Supported by real-life case studies
- Written for all levels of SAP user
Henning Kagermann is co-chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of SAP AG. He is responsible for the worldwide business of the SAP group including sales, consulting and customer relations. He is also responsible for customer-specific development requirements in the context of mySAP.com and he oversees the coordination of regional and industry-sector business plans.
Gerhard Keller worked for SAP for many years and is co-founder of bflow.com, an independent online business-to-business network for developers and decision-makers working in the SAP environment. He is the author of a number of successful books on SAP-related topics, including SAP R/3 Process-Oriented Implementation, and is series editor of the SAP Press Business Roadmap Series.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Catalog of industry intelligence
15 Aug 2001
Format:Hardcover
You need not be a SAP R/3 consultant to benefit from this interesting book. In fact, I am not an R/3 expert and have little direct experience with the product. My motivation for reading this book is to better understand ERP in general as it applies to various industry segments, and SAP R/3 and PeopleSoft in particular because of a consulting assignment.
Before reading this book I was under the mistaken impression that SAP R/3 was inflexible and required any company implementing it to completely redesign their business processes to accommodate the software. In many respects this is true. However, SAP has a tagline that "All Industries Are Not Created Equal", which means that a generic solution enforced by an application is not a real solution at all. Using this book I discovered two things: (1) SAP R/3 is a lot more flexible than I heard and can be highly customized using industry-specific solution maps to a number of industries, and (2) the market challenges of the 20 industries covered in this book.
What I like is the consistent way each industry if presented, using a fixed format that discusses each industry's market trends, requirements and solution maps. As a consultant who works across a wide landscape of industries I was able to quickly absorb some of the characteristics of each industry and their key challenges, as well as see how an ERP solution fit within them. Of course, learning about how SAP as a product supports these industries is also useful, and I suspect essential to consultants and constancies focused on this particular product.
The book is a quick read, informative and definitely a worthwhile investment to anyone who is involved in ERP in general and SAP R/3 in particular.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
An acceptable introduction to mySAP.com, but light on detail
1 Sep 2002
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Sorry, but this is more an SAP advertisement for why you should consider mySAP.com, than a reference on what it is. In fairness, the various industry solutions are reasonably well explained, and so is how mySAP.com addresses those industries. But it's really about the level of depth and detail, which is not much in this case. For example, at the end of each chapter, a case study is provided. These, however, are generally a bit vague and "marketing-sounding", while the name of the company or client is often omitted, affecting credibility.
Granted, the whole subject is extensive, however, I was expecting more. It doesn't help that this is a translation from German, which tends to make the reading a bit "stiff" and academic compared to what we are accustomed to in North America.
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