06/18/2008

IDS Scheer, the international solution provider for Business Process Management (BPM), offers enterprises that plan to introduce or upgrade SAP software to a process-oriented consulting approach.

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This approach has been continuously enhanced thanks to the experience of numerous projects. "Process-Driven SAP" comprises a set of methods, BPM tools, and work templates that provide support from the strategy phase through process design and organizational design to implementation of the required SAP modules. It enables SAP software to be rolled out up to 30 percent faster and 15 percent cheaper. The special focus is on aligning the ERP modules with the requirements of internal and inter-company process structures.

Rather than implementing SAP software in isolation, the once again improved Process-Driven SAP consulting solution from IDS Scheer takes account of business needs right from the start and adapts the software to meet specific corporate demands. This includes mapping business workflows at the prototyping stage, plus process-based testing and training. A key benefit of this approach is the ability to improve daily work practices as part of software rollout. To deliver process-driven SAP implementation, the IDS Scheer consultants leverage the ARIS Value Engineering (AVE) methodology, which incorporates use of the ARIS Platform. The continuously improved AVE methodology describes how to get maximum value out of ARIS for SAP and SAP Solution Manager during a project. It also includes guidelines, best practices, and comprehensive templates.

Compared with conventional approaches to SAP implementation, IDS Scheer customers benefit from simultaneous modeling, which gives a reliable picture of the processes to be introduced at a much earlier stage. This allows quality enhancement of the new systems to become part of the project, rather than being delayed until after deployment. Brenntag, for example, the global leader in distribution of industrial and specialty chemicals, created a business process platform that paved the way for pan-European consolidation of various IT systems, including SAP NetWeaver systems. As a result, the company’s SAP projects are running 20–25 percent faster and showing cost savings of 5–10 percent.

SAP users increasingly value this blend of product insight and process knowledge, which saw IDS Scheer being recognized at the recent Sapphire event in Berlin with the Pinnacle Award for global customer satisfaction. Dr. Dirk Oevermann, Member of the Executive Board with responsibility for the worldwide Consulting Business of IDS Scheer: "Our Process-Driven SAP solution is a unique combination of SAP consulting services and BPM products that offers our customers significant time and cost savings in implementation and upgrade projects."