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June 14: Beating Your Competition with SAP Business ByDesign

In today's global economy, agility is the name of the game. You want to identify opportunities before your competition - and have timely business insight to spot potential problems early. You want the flexibility to manuver around obstacles and the ability to execute when the time is right.

SAP Business ByDesign is an on-demand business management solution that helps you adapt quickly to changing customer needs and market fluctuations. Flexible, scalable and affordable, it can get you up and running quickly while others are still at the starting line. Here's a quick overview of how SAP Business ByDesign gives you the agility to keep you ahead:

See your next step - and beyond the horizon

Get real-time views into your finances, thanks to integrated analytics and up-to-the-minute information. When you see the clear picture, you're ready to react.

See emerging problems before they become bigger ones. Use key performance indicators to track performance - and analytics to drill down into the data and understand root causes of unfavorable trends and variances.

See what's happening enterprise-wide so that you have the agility to respond to unexpected situations. Don't let a disruption in your warehouse in China or threats of a strike in France paralyze operations and jeopardize promised delivery dates. When you have complete and timely visibility, you can source goods from your German warehouse or a secondary supplier in India - and meet commitments without a hitch.

Anticipate the future. Robust demand planning analytics enable you to view sales pipelines and create forecasts that ensure your production meets customer demands -- not only reducing incidences of out-of-stock inventory but also helping you to decrease unnecessary overhead and carrying costs.

Adjust without slowing down

The key to agility is adapting your business to new market realities. But reconfiguring your business processes can be a big undertaking - unless you use SAP Business ByDesign. You can extend or change your business processes any time business conditions require you to increase production, switch out products, add channels or eliminate inefficiencies to improve your bottom line.

How does it work? A scoping tool built into SAP Business ByDesign allows you to reconfigure your workflows and processes, automatically handling details that can otherwise be time-consuming and laborious: including invoicing, tracking, product returns, and sales commissions.

Are you ready for success? What happens if a marketing campaign triggers overwhelming response? Or what if your chief competitor has a product recall - leaving the field open for you? Can your current business applications adapt to support the additional demand and process complexity? SAP Business ByDesign gives you the support you need, with built-in best practices and preconfigured processes that allow you to get up and running -- and allows you to modify your operations quickly and with confidence should the need arise later.

Pounce on opportunity

Small and Midsized businesses often find themselves in a Catch-22. Their smaller size allows them to be nimble - yet they often lack the resources to fully exploit this advantage. Access to financial resources is key to flexibly responding to opportunities such as increasing production, expanding operations, or seizing a chance to gain a competitive edge.

Because SAP Business ByDesign is available on-demand , you don't bear the up-front IT infrastructure costs - so you can conserve your capital. Money in the bank gives you ultimate agility - allowing you to take advantage whenever opportunity knocks.

Get ready today

Average implementation time for SAP Business ByDesign is only 8 to 12 weeks - so you can quickly get your company ready to become a best-run business. Streamline business processes and identify trends early to stop little problems from snowballing. Adapt quickly to changing business needs -- and jump on opportunities while your competitor is still trying to figure out the game.

Navigator holds live SAP Business ByDesign web demos every other Thursday, starting at 4 PM EST / 1 PM PST.

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