Overview: Founded in 1972, SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market.

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Achieve Fuel Distribution Excellence - Drive Efficiency And Growth With Integrated Solutions by SAP America Inc . June 01, 2008 - The SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, and adaptability.

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Best Practices in Complex Equipment Manufacturing, Sales, and Service by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - This paper gives a brief overview of the SAP® solutions used by manufacturers of complex products and equipment to differentiate themselves from the competition through superior-value products and services against low-cost global providers.

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Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations by SAP America Inc . June 01, 2009 - Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.

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Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations: Sales Opportunity Blueprinting by SAP America Inc . April 27, 2009 - Leadership teams in today's strongest sales groups have discovered best practices to achieve exponential results. This SAP Executive Insight looks at leading-edge companies and examines how they excel in areas where most sales organizations struggle.

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Beyond Boundaries: A New Role for Finance in Driving Business Collaboration by SAP America Inc . June 01, 2008 - In June 2008, CFO Research Services conducted a research program among senior finance executives in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The research looked at what kinds of alliances companies are forming and how finance sees itself working with internal and external partners to establish and assess successful alliances.

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Building a Best-Run Finance Organization by SAP America Inc . June 01, 2008 - This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.

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Business Intelligence for Consumer Packaged Goods: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers by SAP America Inc . May 2008 - This paper discusses about how technological advances are enabling improved decision making across three broad axes: simplicity and relevance, agility and integration.

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Business Intelligence for the Small to Medium Sized Business (SMB) by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performace through the deployment of BI.

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Business Network Transformation: Product and Service Leadership by SAP America Inc . October 21, 2009 - For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.

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Compliant Manufacturing Operations In Life Sciences Companies by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - With compliant manufacturing operations, you can deliver quality products to customers consistently and meet good manufacturing practices regulations at the lowest cost possible - all key to leading the competition. How can you achieve such objectives? With software and services from SAP and our partners.

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CRM without Compromise: A Strategy for Profitable Growth by SAP America Inc . April 2007 - This white paper describes the concept of “CRM without compromise,” elucidating how organizations can maximize their results by taking a more structured, holistic approach to CRM across the enterprise to gain a competitive advantage and profitable growth.

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Enabling Profitable Growth through Procurement: Transforming the Sourcing and Procurement Organization by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - Sourcing and procurement organizations have great potential to reduce costs, contribute to the bottom line, and deliver against enterprise strategic goals.

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Enabling Software and SaaS Vendors to Gain Competitive Advantage: Partnering with SAP for Business Intelligence and Analytics to Achieve Rapid ROI by SAP America Inc . November 16, 2009 - On-premises software and SaaS vendors looking to provide BI and analytics functionality have a choice to develop their own components or to partner with an existing BI and analytics vendor. In this white paper, IDC presents evidence showing that a partnership with SAP can result in rapid ROI, improved productivity, innovation and more!

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Enabling The Lean Enterprise: A Three-Tiered Approach to Improving Your Operations by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Recently, many businesses have used lean principles to move from a decentralized
corporate management mode to a hybrid model - recognizing that different functions require different levels of centralized management to be efficient
and effective. Read this whitepaper to learn a three-tiered approach to improving your operations.

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Enterprise Contract Management for Life Sciences: Integrating Contract Creation, Administration, and Execution by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Leading life sciences companies are recognizing the need for synchronized, enterprise-wide pricing and contract management processes. An integrated solution can provide the transparency needed to satisfy auditors, balance pricing with go-to-market strategies, and support sales and finance teams - including accurately predicting margins.

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Gaining ERP Value: Structured Implementation at Industrial Good Maker Hunter Manufacturing by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - Hunter Manufacturing is a good example of what a midsize company can accomplish with a disciplined approach to gaining ERP value, in concert with a vendor that has the functionality, technology and services to support the effort.

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Governance, Risk, and Compliance For Life Sciences Companies by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - SAP® solutions for governance, risk, and compliance help you institutionalize compliance throughout the enterprise. Across operational,
financial, global trade, and environmental compliance activities, you can reduce costs and risks while boosting productivity and increasing your competitive advantage.

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Guide to Better Decision-Making for Your SMB Through IT by SAP America Inc . June 2008 - Small and midsize companies that can successfully align IT with their business objectives will be the ones to stay ahead of the competition by having access to the right information at the right time, allowing for better, faster decisions.

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Human Capital Management: How Top Organizations Drive Company Profits Efficiently by SAP America Inc . January 2007 - The study finds that the best human capital management organizations constantly reassess their processes to strike a balance in the drive to optimize efficiency, cost, and service delivery in a continually changing environment.

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Integrated Contract Life-Cycle Management: Automate Processes, Reduce Over-Payments, Improve Productivity by SAP America Inc . June 05, 2009 - Combining SAP ERP with SAP Incentive Administration and SAP Paybacks and
Chargebacks provides a complete contract management solution. With this solution, you will increase market share, capture business intelligence, reduce overpayments and duplicate claims, improve compliance, and increase productivity.

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Leveraging the Talent Supply Chain for a Competitive Advantage by SAP America Inc . January 2007 - This paper identifies the market trends driving the need for an integrated talent supply chain and describes the internal inefficiencies professional services firms must overcome to optimize their talent supply chains.

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Managing IT in a Downturn: Beyond Cost Cutting by SAP America Inc . November 01, 2008 - Downturns give companies a chance to buck conventional wisdom and increase their IT investments. Targeted investments in many areas can generate efficiencies and revenue growth that surpass the savings from straight cost reductions.

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Managing Risk through Financial Processes: Embedding Governance, Risk and Compliance by SAP America Inc . November 01, 2008 - To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency. Others acknowledged
the importance of cost and efficiency..

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Master Data Management: Extracting Value from Your Most Important Intangible Asset by SAP America Inc . January 2007 - Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.

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Operational Excellence: Enabling Sustained Growth Spotlight on the Americas by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - Operational excellence means consistently doing things well across the value chain as a way of gaining competitive advantage. In its broadest terms, it is a discipline that drives corporate strategy.

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Product Environmental Footprint And Ecolabeling: An Approach For Both Environmental Responsibility And Profits by SAP America Inc . September 25, 2009 - Business interest in environmental footprinting stemmed originally from an understanding of supply chain vulnerabilities and complexities, and this remains an important driver. However, with growing public concern over environmental issues, environmental footprinting has grown in importance to many businesses.

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Reaping The Benefits of Next Generation Dashboards by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - The need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow as executives demand critical information to seize opportunities faster than competitors and to address potential problems in the making. But increasingly, it is not just C-level executives and upper management who need access to business intelligence.

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Reducing Costs with Efficient Operations: A Fast Track to More Working Capital by SAP America Inc . July 01, 2007 - Untamed costs can deplete the precious working capital that's critical to your ongoing operations and new expansions. By instituting efficient automated
processes throughout your organization, you can reduce waste, unnecessary
overtime, and a host of other cost factors.

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Responding Quickly to Changing Markets: Anticipate, Adapt, Excel by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - This paper examines how to tap into the potential of your nimbler organization by instituting efficient operations. Learn how to predict and respond quickly to changing market trends and customer demands.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Key to Continuous Demand Satisfaction by SAP America Inc . March 2007 - Find out how leading companies are designing their sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes to continuously monitor and meet customer demand.

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SAP Provides a Central Hub for Managing Interfaces & Web Services for Largest NA Oil Refining Co. by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - Valero Energy Corporation selected SAP because of its ability to provide a central hub for managing all interfaces and Web services, power to serve as a single integration & development platform for nearly all of Valero's business, capability to integrate SAP and non-SAP software systems, and support for synchronous & asynchronous messaging.

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Supply Chain Collaboration: The Key to Success in a Global Economy by SAP America Inc . January 2007 - Learn how you can transform traditional supply chains from linear, sequential processes into adaptive supply chain networks.

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Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies: How Top Process Industry Performers Take Radically Different Actions by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - To avoid a 7.96% increase in logistics costs, companies should follow the roadmap of Best in Class companies, which have been able to reduce costs or keep them flat via supply chain transformation.

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Sustained Growth Through Operational Excellence by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Operational excellence is a simple concept with complex implications. Consistently doing things well across every element of the value chain is clear enough in principle. The ultimate goal is a "single source of truth" where senior executives have shared visibility into all parts of the organisation, enabling management by facts.

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The Impact of Lean on Consumer Product Manufacturers by SAP America Inc . February 2007 - Discover the impact of Lean on consumer product manufacturers and gain key tips in implementing successful Lean initiatives across the enterprise.

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The Renewed Finance Function - Extending Performance Management Beyond Finance by SAP America Inc . June 02, 2009 - Companies and their stakeholders have always had high expectations for their finance teams. But this research program reveals that, most recently, these pressures- from regulators, from investors, and from competitors&#$5; are pushing companies to look for more from their finance teams in two main, but often conflicting, areas.

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The Superstar CFO - Optimizing an Increasingly Complex Role by SAP America Inc . May 2007 - Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself.

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Top 10 Reasons Customers Choose SAP for Business Transformation by SAP America Inc . January 01, 2006 - SAP is a customer’s company, whose organization is designed for, and encouraging of, innovation in all its aspects - from product development to product delivery to product implementation. Read this white paper to discover the top 10 reasons why customers choose SAP for their business transformation.

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Under the Spotlight: The transition of environmental risk management by SAP America Inc . June 05, 2009 - This EIU global research report, based on survey of 320 executives, discusses current challenges and the importance of managing environmental risks.

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Understanding and Managing Supply Chain Risk by SAP America Inc . January 2006 - Download this white paper and explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Learn how identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk and using IT solutions can create higher resilience for supply chain management.

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Using Supply Chain Performance Management Strategically by SAP America Inc . November 05, 2009 - Paralleling the explosion in materiel sourcing over the past decade, corporate supply chains have grown strikingly more complex because of a greater amount of outsourcing, increased globalization and a more complex regulatory environment.

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Warehouse Management Today: Balancing Financial Pressures and Growing Demands by SAP America Inc . January 23, 2009 - This paper explains why a warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the key technologies required to create a successful adaptive supply chain network. This system enables the extended warehouse to sense and respond to a variety of business requirements and meet complex and changing customer needs.

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