Solution Details

The SAP Business All-in-One Fast Start programme provides innovations that let you configure your solution online and receive an immediate cost estimate for a cost-effective deployment. The programme delivers rapid time to value and the flexibility to adapt as your needs change. Best of all, SAP Business All-in-One is an affordable and safe long-term investment.

The outstanding benefits of the SAP Fast Start programme are:

Fixed cost once you select the business processes to be implemented

Affordable price includes software, hardware, database and implementation services

Scalable, best practice configuration that can expand in any direction as your business grows

Time to value - SAP will be delivering benefits within the 12-20 weeks typical implementation time

Unlike all the other solutions on the market, SAP Business All-in-One helps you manage your all important processes in one integrated solution. A SAP Business All-in-One solution includes:

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - Effectively manage financials, accounting, human resources, operations and corporate services.



• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - Effectively manage all aspects of your customer relationships, from marketing, to sales, to service.



• Business Analytics (BA) Business Intelligence (BI) - Gain insight and improve decision making with tools for financial and operating reporting and analysis.



• SAP Best Practices - Benefit from industry-specific pre-configuration and business processes based on SAP's experience - spanning the last 35 years - with companies in 25 industries worldwide. Benefit from built-in support for Best Practices to transform your business into one which is best-in-class.



• SAP Netweaver technology platform - Quickly and cost-effectively add on to your existing solution as your business grows and your needs change. SAP Netweaver is a full SOA environment which underpins the whole SAP solution, and which provides the ability to quickly embrace any niche or point solutions operating within your business, or in the wider Commerce ecosystems upstream and downstream in your Supply Chain.

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Solution Benefits

With SAP Business All-in-One solution, you will:

• Improve Financial Management - Accelerate financial closes, increase the accuracy of financial reporting, and maintain superior cash management.
• Achieve and maintain Operational Excellence - Improve efficiency and effectiveness by streamlining business processes, enhancing service levels, and cutting costs and errors.
• Enhance Agility - Respond more quickly to change, enhance customer experiences, and differentiate your company from your competitors.
• Unify and Simplify – With the integrated ERP and CRM functionality in SAP Business All-in-One, you can streamline and complete a process from end to end. For example, you can use CRM functionality to create an opportunity and convert it directly into a quote, and then later use the ERP functionality to convert it into a sales order
• Drive adoption and improve productivity– Enable quick adoption and increase productivity with an intuitive, single desktop environment. Integrated functionality eliminates the need for manual data reentry between systems, saving time and reducing the risk of mistakes.
• Do MORE with LESS

Here are just a few examples of the very REAL benefits seen by our Customers:

Quantitative Benefits

Midmarket companies who have implemented SAP Business All-in-One solution have reported the following quantitative benefits:

• 21% decrease in operating cash
• Sales up over 20% with same team admin resources
• Productivity improvements of 6% annually
• Reduction in Production and Despatch / Shipping product losses £268,000 per annum, and per plant
• Increased the number of units produced per employee by 9% year over year
• 15% reduction in inventory
• 17% increase in OTIF
• Cash collection cycles reduced by five days

Qualitative Benefits

Beyond the measurable operational benefits, SAP customers also noted the following qualitative benefits:

• Elimination of cumbersome and inefficient spreadsheet-based management of processes (i.e. for the exchange of information between departments, such as the alignment between purchasing and production)
• Single point of information for all business-related needs (e.g., how a deal was closed, how to settle a business, where to deliver products, who receives the invoices, who is going to pay)
• Enablement of the mobile sales force to remotely access the sales functionality of SAP All-in-One, providing them with easy and seamless access to centralized data, thus leading to sales process efficiencies and accuracy improvement
• Seamless access to all information necessary to manage business processes – internally across all functional areas and externally with customers and suppliers

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See the CSI@SAP datasheet for a summary of what CSI and SAP can do for your business

Get an overview - read the SAP Business All-in-One Solution Brief

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Industries

Every industry has its own unique business processes, requirements, and challenges. That's why SAP and over 1,100 qualified partners in 50 countries offer more than 700 industry-specific SAP Business All-in-One solutions. A solution for your industry can be easily configured to meet specific business requirements. And, SAP deployment tools and methodologies help ensure a fast and predictable implementation, with low risk, low cost, and rapid time to value.

Smaller midsize companies can speed time to value by taking advantage of our Fast Start programme – using a simplified process to rapidly evaluate, acquire, and implement an SAP Business All-in-One solution that can adapt and scale as a business grows.

Explore our industry solutions, and you'll find one designed to meet your industry or sub-industry needs, here are just a few of them where CSI typically operates with Customers:

• Chemicals
• Consumer Products CPG
• High Tech
• Industrial Machinery & Components
• Life Sciences
• Mill Products (Furniture, Paper etc)
• Warehousing, Transportation & Logistics
• Wholesales & Distribution
• Field Sales Management & Services Delivery

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Full Scope - SAP Business All-in-One Solution Map

Manufacturing - SAP Business All-in-One Solution Map

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Wholesale Trade - SAP Business All-in-One Solution Map

Fast Start Programme

Get from Evaluation to Implementation in Record Time

Think SAP is too big, too complex, and too costly for your business? Think again. We've built the Fast Start programme to get your smaller midsize company where you want it to go – fast.

No need to start from scratch to figure out how to evaluate, acquire, and implement your solution. We've done the hard work for you. We've even developed innovations with select hardware partners, such as IBM, and HP, so you can get a joint hardware and software solution implemented in as few as 12-20 weeks. To make it even more affordable, select partners offer a subscription-based hosting option.

• Speed time to value – Get consumption-ready ERP that can be extended with integrated CRM and business intelligence functionality.
• Know your costs before you start – Automatically estimate the total cost of your solution, including software, hardware, and services.
• Remove complexity of purchase – Choose options for preinstalled software and optimized hardware
• Lower your total cost of ownership – Benefit from easy-to-implement, preconfigured software.
• Adapt and scale as you grow – Get state-of-the-art applications and technology from SAP that can grow with you.

Get Started

To get started, scope and price your solution with the online solution configurator.

Get details - read the Fast Start programme solution brief

Find out how to minimise up-front costs - read about the subscription-based hosting option for SAP Business-All-In-One

The SAP Fast Start approach seeks to get the CORE systems (ERP and Business Intelligence) in and working as quickly as possible. In addition to the above "core" capability provided within the SAP Business-All-In-One solution, further standard SAP functionality can be deployed to address:

• Customer Relationship Management
• Human Resources, Attendance and Payroll
• Warehousing and Logistics Management
• Mobility - any handheld device, anywhere, in the plant or in the field
• Manufacturing Execution (MES) to achieve the "Perfect Plant" operations

Customer Stories

SAP Business All-in-One Solution Brief Manufacturing Industry Value Proposition Service Management Value Proposition Wholesale Industry Value Proposition

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Want to see the power of SAP Business All-in-One at first hand? Then now is your chance. Have a quick look at how SAP Business All-in-One delivers power to your desktop via embedded analytics, dashboards and user specific powerlists.

Read how to Drive Performance and Growth with SAP Business All-in-One here

Get an overview - read the SAP Business All-in-One solution brief

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