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SAP R/3 Process Oriented Implementation: Iterative Process Prototyping

SAP R/3 Process Oriented Implementation: Iterative Process Prototyping
By G. Keller, T. Teufel

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An essential guide to implementing business models into SAP's R/3 System. Information systems managers and information technology professionals will benefit from: Specific examples from leading companies; IPP based on the building block principle.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1461711 in Books
  • Published on: 1998-07-21
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 880 pages

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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

From the Back Cover

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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    About the Author
    Gerhard Keller worked for SAP for many years and is co-founder of bflow, 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.

    • Customer Reviews

    Want to understand SAP? Read this book!5
    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!

    The best compass for navigating the SAP terrain !!5
    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.

    Top SAP book to understand processes5
    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!