mySAP ERP: Features & Functions

mySAP ERP redefines enterprise resource planning -- delivering features and functions that support the following business activities:

Self-services -- Friendly interfaces and simplified access to information empower employees and managers while boosting motivation, productivity, and efficiency.

Analytics -- With complete, end-to-end support for strategic enterprise management, financial analytics, operations analytics, and workforce analytics, mySAP ERP delivers a powerful business intelligence and performance management platform.

Financials -- Functions to automate financial and management accounting and financial supply chain management give you deeper financial insight across the enterprise. Rigorous support for corporate-governance mandates such as Basel II and Sarbanes-Oxley facilitate corporate compliance initiatives. These activities are enabled by mySAP ERP Financials.

Human capital management -- Functions that support talent management, workforce process management, and workforce deployment help you maximize the potential of your workforce.
These activities are enabled by mySAP ERP Human Capital Management.

Operations -- A comprehensive set of functions for procurement and logistics execution, product development and manufacturing, and sales and service helps streamline business cycles, such as purchase-to-pay and make-to-order. These activities are enabled by mySAP ERP Operations.

Corporate services -- Administration and management functionality helps you optimize both centralized and decentralized services for managing real estate; project portfolio management; corporate travel; environment, health, and safety (EH&S); and quality management. These activities are enabled by mySAP ERP Corporate Services.

mySAP ERP Features & Functions: Self-Services

mySAP ERP includes features and functions that enable end-user services -- innovative support for business roles that help you empower employees and managers while boosting motivation, productivity, and efficiency.

Using self-services, employees and managers can maintain their own personal information and control many of the transactions and processes once handled by your HR staff. mySAP ERP incorporates a broad range of interaction technologies, including Web browser, voice, and mobile devices, for easy access to internal and external business content, applications, and services.

mySAP ERP provides comprehensive support for two key areas of self-services:

Manager self-services -- With the SAP Manager Self-Service application, you can provide managers with the information and applications they need to perform budget and staffing tasks quickly and efficiently. The application includes content, services, and processes to support management decisions that align with business goals.

Employee self-services -- With the SAP Employee Self-Service application, you can provide employees with easy access to the information and applications related to their employment. The application enables employees to create, view, and modify personal data -- and manage routine HR tasks -- anytime, anywhere.

mySAP ERP self-services capabilities are part of a comprehensive end-user service delivery portfolio, which also includes a wide variety of new roles in human capital management, operations, and analytics.

mySAP ERP: SAP Strategic Enterprise Management

SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM) delivers end-to-end capabilities to support the entire performance management life cycle, including:

Consolidated financial reporting -- With SAP SEM, you can generate consolidated financial and managerial reports for a globally distributed business or entity. The application can aggregate financial data from SAP and non-SAP systems into a single analytical reporting environment, enabling you to monitor the financial performance of individual subunits.

Planning, budgeting, and forecasting -- SAP SEM helps enables you to model various planning options and use preconfigured planning software to get a quick start on operational planning tasks such as cost center planning and sales planning. The application supports traditional budgeting and rolling forecasts as well as collaborative planning.

Corporate performance management and scorecards -- With SAP SEM, you can develop KPIs that support a number of popular scorecard methodologies, including balanced scorecard, economic value-added, and activity-based costing methods. You can link operational and strategic plans and develop scorecards and performance measures based on financial and nonfinancial data.

Risk management -- SAP SEM helps you identify, quantify, and analyze business risks within individual business units and manage risk-reducing activities.

Features & Functions of mySAP ERP: Financial Analytics

mySAP ERP provides features and functions for financial analysis to help you define financial targets, develop business plans, and monitor costs and revenue during execution. You can use the sophisticated financial analytics features of mySAP ERP to create and simulate value flows between the functions and organizational units of your business. Plus, the solution allows you to work collaboratively using a single platform -- and align financial strategies globally.

mySAP ERP supports financial analysis and reporting for a wide range of users -- from C-level executives to sales managers. The solution helps you improve profitability, increase working capital and cash flow, ensure more efficient cost controls, and gain greater insight when planning and forecasting.

mySAP ERP includes features and functions that support these business activities:

Financial and management reporting -- Provide a series of standard analyses to meet the reporting needs of a wide range of end-users, including C-level executives, line-of-business managers, and sales assistants.

Planning, budgeting, and forecasting -- Support traditional budgeting, rolling forecasts, and collaborative planning, such as cost center planning. The solution's analytical planning workbench allows you to model planning scenarios, and provides preconfigured planning applications for efficient operational planning.

Cost and profitability management -- Assign overhead costs, manage the costs incurred by products and services, and analyze the profitability of products and services.

Working capital and cash flow management -- Manage working capital management with functions that optimize logistics processes and improve liabilities and receivables management. Manage cash flow, including cash flow calculations and middle- and long-term planning.

Payment behavior analysis -- Manage receivables by analyzing payment histories and determining the days sales outstanding (DSO), which form the basis for payment optimization.