Sap R/3 Process-Oriented Implementation: Iterative Process Prototyping - Hardcover

Keller, Gerhard; Teufel, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201924706 ISBN 13: 9780201924701

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

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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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201924706
• ISBN 13: 9780201924701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 845