SAP adds 60 more best practice options to All in One

This is SAP terminology for ‘out of the box’ integrated business processes, methodologies and documentation designed to help users get successful implementations off the ground more quickly. They’re based on the combined experience of SAP and its customer and partner community. SAP says the 60 include 23 industry and cross-industry versions across 37 countries. Sectors covered include process manufacturing, consumer products and professional services. The company also says that additional flexibility is built into the new offerings by harnessing the latest release of SAP ERP and NetWeaver, with its basis in a services-orientated architecture (SOA). It claims that some 9,600 SAP All-in-One customers around the world already use SAP Best Practices, and cites ready-meals manufacturer Productos Chata in Mexico as one example – which, it says, successfully accelerated its implementation and adoption of new business processes, without disrupting its complex supply and distribution channels. Raúl Achoy, IT manager at Productos Chata, comments: “As a growing company, we required a solution that could be deployed quickly, but was also highly specialised. The SAP Best Practices offering enabled our solution to directly support both consumer products scenarios and Mexican business requirements, saving us time through preconfigured business processes that we didn’t have to customise.”