SAP R/3 Process Oriented Implementation: Iterative Process Prototyping [Hardcover]

G. Keller (Author), T. Teufel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201924706 | ISBN-13: 978-0201924701 | Publication Date: July 21, 1998

This book puts forward a method (Iterative Process Prototyping) for defining a company's business process and their interconnectinos so the R/3 system can be modeled accordingly. Because R/3 is a single, corporate wide system it must be set up to reflect the way a company does business.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

From the Back Cover

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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Product Details

• Hardcover: 880 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (July 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201924706
• ISBN-13: 978-0201924701
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #847,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Want to understand SAP? Read this book!, April 27, 1999

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M. Luzius (Frankfurt) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SAP R/3 Process Oriented Implementation: Iterative Process Prototyping (Hardcover)

If you want to understand what SAP's R/3-system really does, this book offers you the best way to get a grip on it. By mapping the system's transactions to the underlying business processes you can easily follow and understand the core functions of the model company. The EPC-methodology provides a perfect framework for describing processes in such a way that the user can understand the different threads as well as the guys who implemented the system. Reading this book I realized for the first time how I can benefit from the use of SAP in my company.

BTW: The book has more than 840 pages, not 448 as mentioned in the book information!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best compass for navigating the SAP terrain !!, October 15, 1998

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Viswanathan Suresh "Tiltrotor" (Strasbourg, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SAP R/3 Process Oriented Implementation: Iterative Process Prototyping (Hardcover)

The rich and sometimes jargon ridden world of complex ERP software like SAP R/3 is best understood with the help of a proper guide. There are not many books in the market that unravel this world to a beginner in ERP systems and this book more than adequately fills that void. Despite the somewhat prosaic language in the book, the authors do a wonderful job of starting with a survey of basic technological, organisational and business trends and go on to developing a framework for enterprise and process modelling. In my large library of SAP realted books, this one stands out and I will not hesitate in recommending it to anyone interested in this area.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top SAP book to understand processes, April 11, 2003

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Arron Lee (Shanghai, China) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SAP R/3 Process Oriented Implementation: Iterative Process Prototyping (Hardcover)

I'm a FI/CO consulant with 6+ years experiences, after reading the book I find there are still some areas and key points that I just ignored or left uncertain in the past, the authors Gerhard Keller and Thomas Teufel present their knowledge and ideas in a very structured and comprehensive way.

Although process mostly keeps the same even with R/3 upgrading, there would still have some big changes between version 3.0 which this book refers to and the version 4.X. And I really hope this book could have second edition and explore more on the MTO process instead of only 30 pages in the last chapter.

This is really the best SAP book I've read!