Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1210134 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 880 pages

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.

• 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.

About the Author

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.