SAP R/3 Process Oriented Implementation: Iterative Process Prototyping

by: Gerhard Keller Thomas Teufel

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Summary

      Designing and implementing successful business processes can provide important strategic advantages for your business into the next century. If you are considering introducing SAP R/3 into your company, or need an overall picture of how client/server technology can be applied to large business applications, this book is essential reading. It will show you the most successful and effective methods of implementing the SAP R/3 system to meet the needs of your business, rather than having to change your business processes to meet the capabilities of the system.

  This book provides detailed coverage of the methodology developed by SAP to enable the system to orientate itself to actual business processes, rather than to single functional areas or departments within a company a process called, Iterative Process Prototyping. The book explains the fundamentals of IPP and how it can help you marry your business management requirements with the capabilities of the R/3 system, and how these concepts have been developed and applied to the R/3 framework to meet the practical needs of R/3 implementation specialists.

  With this book you will learn about:

The structure of business processes and value supply chains

The fundamentals of the building block principle

IPP based on the building block principle

Process analysis in value supply

Process-driven customization

Process-oriented instruction of end-users

The authors have drawn on their own involvement in the development and evaluation of the IPP model for the SAP R/3 system to provide a detailed examination of the relationship between system modeling and the R/3 system, using a wide range of specific examples from industry.

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  Features

                  Author Bio

      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, and is series editor of the SAP Press Business Roadmap Series.

  Thomas Teufel has been with SAP since 1993 and has put the process-oriented approach into practice in a number of consultancy projects. He focusses on process orientation and the development of creative methodology in knowledge management. He also lectures at the Technical College in Mannheim, Germany.

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Table of Contents

SECTION A: TRENDS IN MANAGEMENT.

  1. (R)Evolutionary Enterprise Structures.

          Developments in business.

      The influence of global markets.

      Changing values in corporate culture.

      New horizons: alliances on a virtual basis.

      Technological developments.

      Client/Server.

      Object orientation.

      Multimedia.

      Data highway on the Internet.

      Organizational developments.

      Taylor's influence on organizations in America.

      Nordsieck's influence on organizations in Germany.

      Paradigms for business process design.

      Computer integrated manufacturing.

      Logistics.

      Lean Management.

      Simultaneous engineering.

      Net value added chains.

      Business transformation.

      Cybernetics.

      Workflow management.

      Continuous system engineering.

      Business (re)-engineering.

      Continuous business (quality) engineering with SAP.

      Risks in business process design.

      Process orientation and object orientation.

      Business processes as componentware.

  SECTION B: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF PROCESS DESIGN.

  2. SAP R/3-Release 3.x.

          R/3 basis architecture.

      R/3 applications.

      Accounting.

      Logistics.

      Human Resources Management.

      Other R/3 services.

  3. Enterprise Modeling.

          Models.

      Architectures.

      Computer Integrated Manufacturing--Open System Architecture.

      Architecture of integrated information systems.

      Semantic object model.

      Knowledge Acquisition and Documentation Structuring.

      Object-Oriented Information Engineering.

      Methods.

      IT-oriented methods.

      Methods oriented towards business management science.

  4. The R/3 Reference Process Model.

          Basic Terminology regarding business process.

      Event-controlled process chains (EPC).

      Formal description of the EPC.

      Basics.

      General model.

      Control flow

  SECTION C: IPP FOR DESIGNING NET VALUE ADDED CHAINS.

  5. Procedures.

          Procedures in project management.

      Procedures in software engineering.

      Procedures in software implementation.

      The BPI phase concept.

      AcceleratedSAP.

  6. Cybernetics in Iterative Process Prototyping (IPP).

          IPP structure.

      R/3 Reference Process Model.

      R/3 Organization Model.

      R/3 Object/data Model.

      R/3 Prototyping.

      R/3 Customizing.

      R/3 Data Dictionary.

      Iterative paths in IPP.

      From Process to Prototyping.

      From Process to Organization Model.

      From Process to Customizing.

      From Process to Data Model.

      From Process to Data Dictionary.

      From Prototyping to Organization.

      From Prototyping to Process.

      From Prototyping to Customizing.

      From Prototyping to Data Model.

      From Prototyping to Data Dictionary.

      From Organization Model to Prototyping.

      From Organization Model to Process.

      From Organization Model to Customizing.

      From Organization Model to Data Model.

      From Organization Model to Data Dictionary.

      From Customizing to Process.

      From Customizing to Prototyping.

      From Customizing to Organization.

      From Customizing to Data Model.

      From Customizing to Data Dictionary.

      From Data Model to process.

      From Data Model to Customizing.

      From Data Model to Organization.

      From Data Model to Prototyping.

      From Data Model to Data Dictionary.

      From Data Dictionary to process.

      From Data Dictionary to Organization.

      From Data Dictionary to Data Model.

      From Data Dictionary to Prototyping.

      From Data Dictionary to Customizing.

      Project implementation with IPP.

      Identification of the process areas.

      Selection of the process modules in the process areas.

      Process analysis using the IPP method.

      The customer's net value added chain.

  SECTION D: NET VALUE ADDED CHAINS.

  7. Structure of the Model Companies.

          IPP for model structure.

      Model company: lot-size manufacturer with direct sales.

      Model company: order-based assembly manufacturer.

      Interaction of the two model companies.

  8. Value Chain of a Lot Manufacturer with Direct Selling.

          Process: Sales planning.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Sales and operations plan processing.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Cost and revenue element processing.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Cost centre processing.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Activity type processing.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Cost centre planning with flexible standard costing.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Cost centre plan closing.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Material master processing for costing.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Preliminary costing with quantity structure.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Profitability planning.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Material master processing PP.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Material BOM processing.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Work centre processing.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Routing processing.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the Process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Transfer of results to demand management.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Demand management.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: MPS--Single-item processing.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.

      Process: Material requirements planning--Total.

      Business background.

      SAP-specific description.

      Using the process.

      Navigation information.