SAP Event Management Capability Statement What is SAP Event Manager? Businesses today operate in a highly distributed, outsourced and networked environment. Globalization is upon us, which means that we have to be more intelligent with the way we operate. We have to collaborate efficiently and effectively and ensure that regulations are enforced during the entire process. We need to track and trace our products across the end-to-end supply chain measuring performance and reacting to deviations to the plan. We need complete visibility of our end-to-end processes across all the geographical and partner boundaries. We need the ability to quickly adapt to changing conditions in our process. We need to head off issues before they become an issue... With the SAP® Event Management application your company can monitor and manage events across your distributed processes involving partners, inventories and assets. It captures events from your system and your partners’ systems, analyzes them against their predefined plan and alerts or workflows a response to the required people to react if deviations are found.
The Value Proposition The Q Data Group has been actively involved in several Event Management projects since 2006. SAP released Event Management in 2004 and Q Data saw the value that it brought to its customers. Since then Q Data has actively participated and spearheaded the SAP Event Management community through the chairmanship of the SAP Influence Council, conference talks, webinars and forum initiation and administration. As it stands today we have the most comprehensive expertise in SAP Event Management and are well positioned to help companies realize their goals through the use of management ent by exception. SAP Event Management and managem
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Expertise Our SAP Event Management expertise includes the following:
Chairperson of the SAP Event Management Influence Council
Training – Attended and presented
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Our senior consultants are thought leaders in the SAP EM area
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They have presented numerous talks on SAP EM and conferences and seminars: SAP Insider – Supply Chain Management Conference (2008, 2009), Supply Chain Optimization Seminar (2009 – 6 locations), Q Data Webinar – Ongoing weekly webinar, ASUG 2007 – Case study for Order to Cash with SAP EM
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They have authored numerous whitepapers and blogs on SAP EM
– Implementation considerations when configuring SAP Event Management – Differences between Workflow and SAP EM – SAP Event Management - What is it and what can it do for you? – 2 parts – Configuring an End-to-End SCEM scenario – 3 parts – And more… (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/u/251685644 )
Experience with SAP EM in SAP releases: •
Visibility Scenarios: •
SCM 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, SAP AII, OER, SAP NetWeaver PI 7.0
Procurement, Production Malfunction, Returnable Transport Item (RTI), Product Tracking and Authentication (PTA), Outbound delivery, Order to Cash – Sales order, Billing
Collaborated with third party solutions: •
External warehouse management systems
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SAP AII (Auto-ID Infrastructure) via SAP NetWeaver PI
Led projects from inception to production and configured the following: •
ECC Application Interface (AI) – Sales & Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Receipt, I Doc handling, IDoc Status management, Outbound delivery, Shipment, Invoice, POD, Production Order, Notification, Accounting document
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SAP EM functionality – Event handlers (EH), EH Sets, extension tables, parameters, partners, locations, status profiles, rule sets, overdue monitor rules, events
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SAP EM reporting – Web GUI and Web Communication Layer (WCL)
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SAP BW extraction
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Clients Some of the clients we have supported in SAP Event Management efforts include:
Hi-Tech Wholesaler – Order to cash, procurement, production order, outbound delivery.
Aerospace company – Notifications and Production Order.
Apparel and Footwear company – Order to cash, procurement, outbound delivery,
Movie studio – Procurement and Order to cash
Fortune 500 computer chip manufacturer – Product Tracking and Authentication (AII / OER), Returnable Transport Items (RTI).
Our Approach Before embarking on a SAP EM project we will first conduct an assessment to see the level of “Process Maturity” the current organization displays. A potential client can take this assessment ahead of time on their own if they wish. It’s available on the Q Data website (http://www.qdatausa.com -> Click “Find out more” under Event Management Self Assessment ) Our approach is as tactical as it is strategic. We show you where in the detail the value lies. We work with you, not just for you. We give practical, hands-on knowledge of what SAP Event Management is and how to use it to provide value to your organization. We implement functionality that captures your events and measures them against the plan. We highlight key performance indicators for each of your processes to enable you to monitor their performance against targets. We put you on the path towards increased profitability through visibility and efficiency. We will take your organization that is PLANNING and EXECUTING to SENSING and RESPONDING and finally allowing you to get to MEASURING and ADAPTING
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Service Offering Implementation Services Q Data challenges the traditional methods of SAP implementation. We have recognized that our client’s needs differ, depending on the industry, business practices, and culture, so our methodology, while maintaining a firm structure, has the flexibility to meet these specialized needs. Q Data’s Implementation Methodology is based on our Business Value Realization (BVR) methodology for SAP EM. It has been established over many years of delivering tangible results to companies all over the world.
Our 6 phase BVR Implementation Plan ensures that SAP EM is both implemented and that the benefits are realized at the end of the project.
Phase 1: Preparation
Phase 2: Analysis & Design - Custom design template used exclusively by us for SAP EM implementations
Phase 3: Configuration and Development - The design is handed off to developers to realize the design
Phase 4: QA and Training
Phase 5: Go Live and Operations
Phase 6: Business Value Realization- The step that everyone misses: Ensure that you get the value that you were promised .
Our consultants all have many years of experience and typically average more than 10 years in SAP specific knowledge. We bring “thought leaders” to the client, to perform the analysis and design of the SAP EM solution. Getting the design right, up front, is a key factor for success. (See the Expertise section for a detailed list l ist of the relevant in-house SAP EM experience.)
Project Management Services Q Data, and their thought leaders, are well equipped to deal with the most challenging SAP EM projects. Their many years of experience in this area leads to insight that only experience can give. Should you wish to staff your own SAP EM implementation team but do not wish to have the implementation partner run with the project or you do not have the expertise to do so, Q Data can offer a skilled project manager to execute the project plan for you using either our BVR implementation methodology or your own implementation methodology. Q DATA GROUP Business Maturity For an informal discussion on how your business will benefit from partnering with Q Data Group please contact us at www.qdatausa.com
Quality Review Services If you already have a project under way, or already have a SAP EM solution in place and wish to have a neutral, independent, expert review of the solution then we can offer one of our thought leaders to perform the “audit” of the solution for you. An unbiased, independent view of the solution will be delivered together with any recommendations for improvements.
Assessments We offer several assessments in the SAP Event Management area, namely:
A free self assessment: shows where your organization lies in relation to other organizations' effectiveness in managing key areas described in the Maturity Quadrants (shown under Our Approach ) as related to SAP EM.
A 1 day Readiness Assessment: (Are you ready?) If your organization is contemplating the benefits of utilizing EM across your supply chain, but do not know if you have the process, people, and technological understanding, then you might benefit from an Event Management Readiness Assessment . This early-on effort puts a preliminary roadmap of actions necessary to prepare your organization for a more in-depth week long assessment of education and high level design.
A 5 day Wellness Assessment: (How ready are you?) Help companies understand the functionality better, identify areas of use and make a good decision on whether it’s a fit for the company or not. The Assessment Report has been used to justify funding for Event Management projects, determine skills needed to perform the project, and to schedule and manage a complete project. •
We believe that the main value of this assessment for a company is the Roadmap generated at the end of this project. This Roadmap will allow the accurate scheduling and assignment of resources, definition of project scope, deliverables, and a project schedule.
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The assessment will provide more specifics for qualitative and measurable benefits in the areas where Event Management plays a strong role. i.e. Providing total visibility to your extended business processes, and having them flow against a pre-defined plan with milestones, allowing you to manage only those that are exceptions to the plan.
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Scope of the Assessment
The following activities would be performed during an SAP EM Assessment:
– An Overview presentation on what SAP EM and what it can do for you – Detailed generic training covering the configuration of SAP EM
½ day 1 ½ days
– Standard EM Scenario Implementation
1 day
– Conducting an analysis of your business processes
1 day
– Executive presentatio presentation n covering opportunities and realization plan
1 day
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