mySAP.com Industry Solutions: New Strategies for Success with SAP's Industry Business Units [Hardcover]

Henning Kagermann (Author), Gerhard Keller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 13, 2001 | Series: SAP Press Business Roadmap

An insider's guide to SAP's new industry solutions e-business strategy ! In this invaluable strategic overview, the co-CEO of SAP AG outlines exactly how SAP is responding to the e-business challenge with solutions targeted to the specific needs of each key industry and marketplace. Henning Kagermann presents detailed case studies illustrating the capabilities of each mySAP.com industry solution, as well as the opportunities they offer to enterprises that adopt them. Kagermann introduces SAP's industry solutions for aerospace and defense, the automotive industry; the chemicals industry; metal, paper, and textiles; oil and gas; engineering and construction; insurance; real estate; media; retail; and service provider industries. In each case, he reviews the key challenges faced by companies in these industries, and demonstrates how mySAP.com solutions can help these companies reshape themselves and achieve lasting competitive advantage. For every e-business decision-maker, manager, consultant, or user of SAP R/3 or mysap.com.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

From the Back Cover

Edited by SAP co-chairman Dr. Henning Kagermann, this book offers expert analysis of the current state of twelve key industries and demonstrates how the relationship between mySAP and SAP's industry-specific strategy addresses the unique demands of each sector.

Taking each industry in turn, the authors first examine the market trends to which they must react, with particular attention given to changes wrought by the internet revolution. Industry requirements are then set alongside their SAP solution, illustrated by up-to-date 'solution maps' developed in collaboration with SAP and its customers and partners. Real-life case studies are used to detail how the careful application of SAP solutions can help companies meet the challenges facing their own particular industry.

MySAP Industry Solutions is essential reading for SAP partners, consultants, customers and anyone working in the SAP environment. Beginning with an overview of the SAP strategy as a whole, the book goes on to examine the following industry-specific solutions:

* mySAP Aerospace & Defense
* mySAP Automotive
* mySAP Banking
* mySAP Chemicals
* mySAP Consumer Products
* mySAP Engineering & Construction
* mySAP Healthcare
* mySAP High Tech
* mySAP Higher Education & Research
* mySAP Insurance
* mySAP Media
* mySAP Mill Products
* mySAP Mining
* mySAP Oil & Gas
* mySAP Pharmaceuticals
* mySAP Public Sector
* mySAP Retail
* mySAP Service Providers
* mySAP Telecommunications
* mySAP Utilities

MySAP Industry Solutions is part of the Business Roadmap Series from SAP Press. Aimed at users, managers and consultants, this series emphasizes the business background and the processes which underpin the functionality of the SAP product. Building on this deeper understanding, the books offer sound, practical guidance on how best to tailor the system to the requirements of your business. 0201721929B06202001

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (June 13, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201721929
• ISBN-13: 978-0201721928
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,957,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Catalog of industry intelligence, August 15, 2001

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Linda Zarate "IT Ops Consultant" (Azusa, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: mySAP.com Industry Solutions: New Strategies for Success with SAP's Industry Business Units (Hardcover)

You need not be a SAP R/3 consultant to benefit from this interesting book. In fact, I am not an R/3 expert and have little direct experience with the product. My motivation for reading this book is to better understand ERP in general as it applies to various industry segments, and SAP R/3 and PeopleSoft in particular because of a consulting assignment.

Before reading this book I was under the mistaken impression that SAP R/3 was inflexible and required any company implementing it to completely redesign their business processes to accommodate the software. In many respects this is true. However, SAP has a tagline that "All Industries Are Not Created Equal", which means that a generic solution enforced by an application is not a real solution at all. Using this book I discovered two things: (1) SAP R/3 is a lot more flexible than I heard and can be highly customized using industry-specific solution maps to a number of industries, and (2) the market challenges of the 20 industries covered in this book.

What I like is the consistent way each industry if presented, using a fixed format that discusses each industry's market trends, requirements and solution maps. As a consultant who works across a wide landscape of industries I was able to quickly absorb some of the characteristics of each industry and their key challenges, as well as see how an ERP solution fit within them. Of course, learning about how SAP as a product supports these industries is also useful, and I suspect essential to consultants and constancies focused on this particular product.

The book is a quick read, informative and definitely a worthwhile investment to anyone who is involved in ERP in general and SAP R/3 in particular.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An acceptable introduction to mySAP.com, but light on detail, September 1, 2002

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Maurizio Laudisa (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: mySAP.com Industry Solutions: New Strategies for Success with SAP's Industry Business Units (Hardcover)

Sorry, but this is more an SAP advertisement for why you should consider mySAP.com, than a reference on what it is. In fairness, the various industry solutions are reasonably well explained, and so is how mySAP.com addresses those industries. But it's really about the level of depth and detail, which is not much in this case. For example, at the end of each chapter, a case study is provided. These, however, are generally a bit vague and "marketing-sounding", while the name of the company or client is often omitted, affecting credibility.

Granted, the whole subject is extensive, however, I was expecting more. It doesn't help that this is a translation from German, which tends to make the reading a bit "stiff" and academic compared to what we are accustomed to in North America.