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CIBER Forms Solution for SAP® (163 KB)
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SAP Supply Chain Execution Solutions: IM, WM AND EWM - Which Solution is Right for You?
There are currently three options available for
the SAP user who wants to optimize warehouse processes, including inventory
management (IM), warehouse management (WM) and the latest development,
extended warehouse management (EWM). This white paper describes those three options to help you determine which
option best meets your organization needs.
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Process Automation for the Procurement of Direct Materials
This paper will present an analysis of a plan-driven procurement process for direct
materials. This analysis includes not only the activities and steps in such a process,
but also the data sets associated with each activity. Automation of this process will be
explored to highlight where an organization can find process improvements that lead to
positive impact on the bottom line. Several recent studies are referenced to identify the
benefits companies have obtained by automating the plan-driven direct procurement
process. Purchasing executives can use this information to analyze their own direct
material procurement processes to determine what benefits might be obtained.
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RFID: An Introduction and Analysis of Gen 2 and SAP Auto ID Infrastructure
Implementing RFID systems presents many challenges
and requires careful planning and understanding
of several different technologies. This white paper
introduces RFID systems, RFID components, and the
new EPC™ Class 1 Gen 2 specification, and discusses
advantages of Gen 2 over Gen 1 protocols. The final
part of the paper discusses implementing RFID using
SAP Auto ID Infrastructure (AII) and integrating RFID to
the SAP R/3 back end.
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Conquering the Challenge of Global SAP Implementations: SAP Rollout Strategies and Best Practices
Implementing SAP on a global scale presents many challenges and
issues that require careful planning and preparation. This whitepaper
provides strategies and best practices on how to proactively manage
challenges that arise for an international SAP project. It also evaluates
various approaches to template development plans and rollout
strategies. This whitepaper is a hands-on guide, based on real-life
lessons learned, that IT and business leaders can use to achieve
successful international SAP implementations.
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Santa Clara County Improves Client Services Through Business Analytics
Find out how your social services agency can benefit from Santa Clara County’s experience using an integrated BI/DW solution.
Executive Alignment: Is Your Organization Set Up for Transformational Success?
This presentation discusses how the Brown Shoe Company is currently realizing a three-year SAP implementation through executive alignment. It describes how organizations can implement executive alignment, and identify the benefits it can generate.
Business Success with SAP Retail and AFS
Hear how Wolverine World Wide recently completed their SAP Retail Merchandise Management implementation in six months using CIBER Rapid Retail® based on SAP's Retail Best Practice.
Technical Aspects of the SAP ECC 6.0 Upgrade
This webinar address the following: Is it really necessary to upgrade my SAP? How long will it take to do my upgrade? How can I reduce the downtime needed? What are the physical processes and alternatives? What additional hardware will I need?
01 Sep 2011
Norway’s Leading Furniture Chain Selects CIBER to Implement ERP Solution
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10 Aug 2011
CIBER Lands Contract to Implement SAP ERP Financials Solution for California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS)
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29 Jul 2011
CIBER Backs Employee in Coast-to-Coast Velomobile Ride Benefiting Kids with Cancer
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22 Jun 2011
CIBER Maintains Position as Top Erp Service Provider in the Netherlands
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12 May 2011
Santa Clara County Implements Case Management Business Intelligence System
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10 May 2011
CIBER Named a Preferred Business Partner of The German E-Commerce and Distance Selling Trade Association, Based on SAP Expertise
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30 Sep 2010
CIBER Successfully Completes for Omnitrans $7 Million Phase II Implementation of SAP® Solutions
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29 Sep 2010
CIBER Named 2010 Syclo Mobile Partner of the Year
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15 Jun 2010
CIBER Expands Existing European Operations
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26 Feb 2010
CIBER Introduces Solution For Sophisticated Manufacturing Industry
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23 Feb 2010
CIBER Launches Flex: Subscription-Based Offer for SAP® Business All-In-One Solutions
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28 Jan 2010
CIBER Awarded Global SAP Implementation Contract with Navman Wireless
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CIBER has completed the $7 million Phase II implementation of software solutions and services for Omnitrans, a San Bernardino transit agency. The two-and-a-half-year project included the implementation of SAP ERP 6.0 application and SAP BusinessObjects™.
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CIBER has signed a contract with General Moly and has commenced an SAP implementation utilizing a packaged rapid implementation solution for the mining industry, based on SAP’s Mining Solution.
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CIBER has successfully implemented SAP® Enterprise Resource Planning Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM)—including Payroll—on time and under budget for the Fulton County School District.
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Kiss Products, Inc. selected CIBER because of our extensive experience with SAP products as well as our knowledge of supply chain business processes, expertise with RFID technology, and top-tier relationships with major radio frequency (RF) hardware vendors. Also important was CIBER’s ability to offer "one-stop shopping" for the complete implementation of SAP, mobile computing, and wireless solutions.
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CIBER, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC), has successfully completed the second phase of a three-phase SAP® ERP implementation - on time and on budget.
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Annin Co.
CIBER Implements New ERP System for Annin, Largest Manufacturer of United States Flags
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B&Q International
CIBER Novasoft Commissioned to Implement SAP's Retail Management Solution, MySAP.com, for B&Q International
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KNG International
KNG Selects CIBER for Flexible, Scalable and Integrated ERP System
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McKesson Corporation
CIBER Implements SAP's SEM and BPS Applications for McKesson
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Sacramento Municipal Utility District
CIBER Streamlines Inventory Management
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Wolverine World Wide
CIBER’s Implementation of SAP Rapid Retail Allows Quicker Realization of Benefits for Wolverine World Wide.
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“We were looking for a system that could create one integrated version of the truth for all of us. We required a new system that could be quickly implemented, very flexible, and able to scale to meet the demands of our growing business. We also needed to work with an implementation partner and a system that were no strangers to this highly specialized industry of ours. We felt that, of all the choices, the QuickWear system made, by far, the most sense for our business.”
Julie Wood — President, KNG
“CIBER was a great partner to implement our changeover to an SAP solution-based system. Omnitrans considers this to be one of the most successful enterprise applications ever rolled out for our organization. Due to the current economic climate, Omnitrans has experienced an increase in ridership. This implementation has allowed us to better serve our passengers.”
Durand Rall — CEO, Omnitrans
“We are excited to be working with CIBER as they are a leader in implementations of SAP Apparel and Footwear with a significant reference base. CIBER’s impressive capabilities will enable us to better serve our customers and allow our processes to run more smoothly and effectively.”
David Blakelock — Vice President of Information Technology, Boston Apparel Group
“The expansion of our efforts with CIBER is a logical progression of the long-term relationship between our companies. Leveraging CIBER’s attention to detail and understanding of our environment, we continue to improve customer service, deliver significant projects and strengthen our JSOX control environment.”
George Dramalis — Associate Vice President, Information Systems/CIO, Sharp Electronics Corporation
“Because of the joint efforts of the General Moly implementation team and CIBER, General Moly now has a functional ERP system that is providing us the opportunity to implement and refine our business processes. Our choice to use CIBER for implementation of the SAP solution, as well as the complete hosting and IT outsourcing services, allows us to have a single, integrated platform. We will continue to partner with CIBER and share our mining expertise to help them further refine their mining solution.”
Donna Peske — IT Manager, General Moly
“Partnering with CIBER will allow us to focus on developing the Mt. Hope project, and leave the management of our SAP implementation with a fully qualified implementation partner. Their extensive experience with the SAP Mining solution made them a natural choice to partner with for our operations.”
Lee Shumway — Director of Business Processes and Information Technology, General Moly
“We knew we had the manpower to complete this project, but we needed a partner to guide us through from start to finish. We were seeking a partner with a great deal of experience with SAP solutions who could steer us toward best practices and help us avoid pitfalls. CIBER’s experienced resources and strong implementation records were what convinced us that CIBER could help us accomplish more in a limited timeframe than our resources alone.”
Durand Rall — CEO/General Manager, Omnitrans
“We are pleased to have achieved the integration of our systems we envisioned more than two years ago. We are beginning to see the business process improvements that the SAP applications and inherent business best practices have allowed us to take advantage of, and we recognize that our business efficiencies will be realized over many years to come. We appreciate all of the hard work that has gone into making this project a success, especially the leadership CIBER has committed throughout the project.”
George Hatalowich — Chief Operating Officer, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
“Teamwork has been the key to the success of the PRIDE Project. CIBER and PTC project team members consistently overcame the challenges that were before them to enable a successful go live for finance and logistics. With finance and logistics now in production along with our previously implemented human capital management and payroll functionality, PTC now has the fully integrated system that we have been anticipating.”
Jeff Mesaric — Chief Information Officer, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
“We needed to replace our aging legacy systems, which worked well for us for many years, but which could not accommodate our changing needs. We needed a system to integrate data and simplify our business processes, and to provide us with support in terms of software upgrades.”
Lu McDonald — Vice President, Finance, Gramercy Alumina LLC
“We were aware of the hurdles school districts face with the implementation of ERP software. The implementation of mission-critical and highly visible applications, such as HCM and specifically payroll, have been well documented. We chose SAP and CIBER because they offered us the best options from a combined software and integration perspective, given CIBER’s methodology for implementing SAP ERP HCM within a K-12 district. Under CIBER’s leadership we avoided the challenges other districts have encountered during implementation. We’re very pleased.”
Charles Sipos — Executive Director of Information Technology, Fulton County Schools
“With the successful implementation of applications for finance, logistics, payroll and HCM, we now have a solid foundation for our business processes, from which we can continue to recognize additional value from the SAP Business Suite. ”
Mike Russell — Assistant Superintendent, Fulton County Schools
“The leadership team is excited about the benefits mySAP SRM will bring to our company. Enabling a closed loop process between us and our suppliers is important to our future and our suppliers’ productivity. CIBER’s successful mySAP SRM track record, combined with a company culture of following through on commitments, were key differentiators.”
John Bartho — CIO, NACCO Materials Handling Group
“The manual process was time consuming because it required the information to be handwritten and then keyed into the system, leaving room for error. The new solution provides a faster and simpler way for our material handlers to capture the data, allowing them to focus more on serving their customers.”
Linda Johnson — CIO, Sacramento Municipal Utility District
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Supplier Relationship Management
In today’s highly competitive world, managing your sourcing, procurement and supplier relationships isn’t just important. It’s essential. Strong procurement management directly affects your bottom line: reducing the cost of purchased goods and services increases profitability even without increasing sales. The Aberdeen Group recently reported that it takes an increase in $5 in sales to equal the same impact as a $1 reduction in procurement costs.
SAP™ Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) offers a broad range of tools to manage all aspects of your purchasing and your relationships with suppliers, vendors and other trading partners.
Managing Spending, Managing Success
As the world’s leading Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) system, SAP SRM gives you the tools to automate and manage every facet of supplier relationships within your entire enterprise. You’ll be able to achieve sustainable, repeatable savings; generate value through enterprise-wide supply management; simplify and automate procurement; collaborate more effectively with vendors and suppliers; and integrate strategic practices for supplier qualification, negotiation, and contract management through a single analytical framework.
A well implemented installation of SAP SRM will allow you to:
- Monitor and manage spending throughout your organization
- Compare vendor prices
- Evaluate supplier performance
- Identify duplicate contracts
- Collaborate with suppliers
- Measure compliance with your organization’s procurement policies
- Manage and reduce costs
SAP SRM also offers the convenience and simplicity of being web-based, making it universally available for use within your organization and by your suppliers. SAP SRM can be used as a standalone application or combined with any back end Enterprise Resource Planning system to create a powerful environment to control every aspect of procurement – purchase orders, receipts, invoices, compliance monitoring, spending analysis, vendor-relationship management and more.
Closing the Loop for Better Management
Included in SAP SRM’s broad span of purchasing activities, is the support and management all tactical and operational purchasing activities. SAP SRM closes the loop between sourcing and procurement so you can realize negotiated benefits. An outline of the key capabilities of SAP SRM includes:
Supply Strategy Development
- Demand aggregation & planning
- Portfolio analysis
- Purchasing strategy planning
- Category and program management
- Online auctions
- Catalog creation and management
- Supplier access for integrated purchasing processes
Purchasing Control
- Who are my top vendors?
- How much maverick buying do I have for specific products?
- From which suppliers did I buy specific products?
- For which product categories did I spend most?
Spend Analysis
- Global spend
- Compare vendor prices
- Identify duplicate contracts
- Evaluate supplier performance
- Compliance monitoring
Gaining Financial Visibility
SAP SRM is designed for companies to gain more control of their purchasing and procurement organization because it provides company-wide visibility across all financial activities. With SAP SRM, our clients have been able to achieve substantial results not only from financial benefits such as lower cost of capital management and standardized purchasing processes, but also from operational improvements such as procurement automation, and supplier collaboration.
Additional benefits of SAP SRM include:
- One-stop shopping throughout your enterprise
- Measurable ROI improvement
- Improved sourcing strategy
- Compressed cycle times
- Reduced processing costs
- Lower unit prices
- Improved communication with suppliers
- Maverick buying is eliminated
- Easy access at all levels within your enterprise and among suppliers
Why CIBER for SAP SRM?
CIBER offers true business consulting services to analyze and optimize your procurement processes and data. The Purchasing Evaluation Program (PEP) was designed to be an application and system independent analysis of the processes and data sets used by the purchasing organization. By concentrating on the process and data, and not the application, a truly objective evaluation of the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities is developed. Using experienced purchasing analysts that have a deep understanding of procurement issues and methods, the outcome of the PEP is a detailed analysis highlighting the areas of excellence and identifying solutions to help improve areas of deficiency. The PEP analysis has not only enabled organizations to better understand their purchasing processes, but also to reduce the amount of time and effort required during the blueprint phase of a future SRM implementation.
Once you’ve decided to use SAP SRM to manage your procurement activities, CIBER is the ideal implementation and integration partner. We provide end-to-end project implementation, including end user training, solution-set documentation (process maps, specifications and test documentation), and post go live system support. We’ll convert your data to work within SAP SRM and, if you choose, install the tools and processes to automate the communication of your purchasing data sets with your supply base.
Our highly professional staff has experience with all SRM scenarios (standalone, classic, extended classic) and SRM components [catalogs, contracts, supplier self-service (SUS) and auctions], and ECC systems. We also can provide SAP SRM Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to meet your SRM reporting needs.
System Integration Beyond SAP
Our integration and implementation expertise is not limited to SAP systems. CIBER is experienced with interfacing and connecting non-SAP systems and technologies. Our past projects include integration with multiple non-SAP backend systems and B2B processing with third party B2B providers. Whether your backend system is SAP ECC or a non-SAP system, CIBER is your partner with the knowledge and experience with complete end-to-end system integration and implementation solutions.
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