How it works.

You've got a large corporate organization, with its own processes and enterprise-level systems. You also have an entire ecosystem of subsidiaries – each with unique needs, style, structure, and processes. And, you know that integrating Corporate with your subsidiaries is key to getting the data and insight you need to make the right decisions.

What's the solution? A two-tiered ERP systems that lets you take advantage of the strengths across the entire organization: the resources and stability of the corporate office and the speed, flexibility, and local insight of your subsidiaries.

Complete, integrated business management for your subsidiaries.

Streamline processes to improve productivity and increase transparency. With capabilities from CRM to finance, supply chain management to procurement, and HR to project management, your subsidiaries can improve control and manage their entire business more effectively.

Automated processes eliminate manual data entry; improve data, billing, and scheduling accuracy; and lower administrative costs. Comprehensive task management helps guide workers through daily tasks with detailed instructions – eliminating mundane process inefficiencies to let you spend more time on innovation.

Integration with the SAP Business Suite.

Minimize the time and effort required to integrate subsidiary systems with your corporate software. Out-of-the-box integration with SAP Business Suite supports the broadest headquarters-to-subsidiary integration scenarios, including:

Data exchange to support financial consolidation
Process integration to support scenarios such as a subsidiary buying from, or selling to, headquarters
Master data integration to maintain and synchronize key master data, such as customer and product information
Analytics integration to enable headquarters to compare performance across subsidiaries
IT management integration to reduce the pressure on subsidiary IT resources by distributing subsidiary incidents to corporate IT

Built-in training and implementation tools.

Speed user adoption – and time to value – across subsidiaries. SAP Business ByDesign is engineered for rapid implementation and fast user adoption. The same solution that can help subsidiaries manage their business better also includes built-in services and extensive user help to guide users step-by-step through their tasks, speed education, and simplify use.

Not only do you become productive quickly, so do users across your enterprise.

Integrated Analytics

Make your entire organization more efficient and effective — giving employees the information they need most with fully integrated, real-time analytics. SAP Business ByDesign incorporates in-memory technologies to provide rapid, real-time visibility across the organization.

Actionable reports and powerful embedded analytics deliver crucial insight into all areas of the business to enhance productivity and bolster collaboration. Business users can access role-based dashboards, graphical information embedded in transaction screens, and ad hoc reporting options through SAP Crystal Reports and Microsoft Excel to help track key performance indicators such as cash flow, operating income, sales trends, and capacity utilization.

Extensible Capabilities

Support your subsidiaries' unique requirements – now and in the future. With its robust software development kit, SAP Business ByDesign enables you to extend solution capabilities as needed. Plus, SAP partners are creating libraries of extensions that can be deployed in a rapid and cost-effective manner.

Subsidiaries that have deployed solution extensions can easily migrate them across ERP version upgrades.

SAP Best Practices

Ensure more effective governance and business compliance by standardizing on best practice-based processes across your enterprise. We deliver SAP Best Practices as a library of preconfigured business scenarios designed to reduce the time and effort required to standardize processes.

Each best-practice scenario incorporates learnings from over 35 years of experience. You can take advantage of scenarios for financial closing, cash liquidity management, consolidation preparation, make to stock, order to cash, physical inventory management, procure to pay, strategic sourcing, tax management, and more.

Customer Relationship Management

Support all of your customer relationship management processes – across marketing, sales, and service. SAP Business ByDesign helps you target the best leads and opportunities, accelerate sales cycles, and maximize revenue. It also helps you better understand customer needs, so that you can deliver superior service and achieve high customer satisfaction.

Finance

Get an up-to-date view of your financial condition, and optimize your core accounting processes.

SAP Business ByDesign can help you meet global financial reporting standards, deal in multiple currencies, and streamline tax reporting. Plus, you can accelerate your period-end closing process, make more informed decisions with real-time integrated analytics, and seamlessly manage payables, receivables, liquidity, inventory, and more.

Supply Chain Management

Build an efficient supply chain, so you can respond quickly to changing markets. SAP Business ByDesign includes functionality that helps you optimize material flow, manage demand and supply, and collaborate more effectively with your customers and suppliers. Our integrated solution helps you design, set up, and execute flexible warehouse and manufacturing processes, and gain maximum insight into your business.

Supplier Relationship Management

Help subsidiaries strengthen supplier relationships and take time and cost out of procurement processes. Your subsidiaries can identify and collaborate with the best suppliers, invite suppliers to participate in their business processes, and monitor the effectiveness of procurement activities and supplier relationships.

Plus, you can take advantage of integrated analytics to gain insight into price and spend performance – for better cost control and financial excellence.

Project Management

Manage projects of any size and complexity with SAP Business ByDesign's integrated project management solution. Make it easier for your project teams to collaborate and improve project reporting with real-time analytics that help you monitor related data such as purchases, costs, and workforce hours.

Plan and track projects using Gantt charts, work breakdown structures, and network diagrams – and easily share information such as project documents and workflow-driven tasks.

Human Resources

Drive workforce effectiveness by streamlining human resource processes and providing an integrated view into your organization so that everyone can understand roles and responsibilities.

Simplify workforce administration and integrate HR with projects, finance, procurement and service orders – for complete time recording and expense management. Plus, increase your efficiency and control through outsourcing payroll services.