SAP ERP Primary Use Case
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VijayaraguramanRajaram
Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The primary use case for SAP ERP is interlinking many functions within the organization such as purchasing, sales, finance, inventory, and stores. For instance, if I am procuring some material, the store personnel will automatically be aware of where that material needs to be allocated. As the material enters the factory, the finance department becomes aware of the necessary provisions that need to be made. These integrations are very effective as they ensure that while one process is being performed, other departments are also informed of their roles and actions required for the particular transactions.
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Srinivasan Kuppuswamy
Founder Partner & Chief Consultant at Sagesse Abundance
Our company helps customers integrate the solution for interface resource planning and cutting across different functions. The solution manages end-to-end processes for sales, material or inventory management, material or production planning, quality management, human resources, financial management, and cost accounting.
We have 100 consultants scattered across the globe including 30 in the United States, 45 in Latin America, and the rest in India. We have many large customers in North America and one of the leading telecom providers in Latin America.
We help with rollouts, maintenance, and acquisitions. We are also in the process of becoming a silver partner with the solution.
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Lucjan Stalmach
Director of the IT at Jagiellonian University
Our primary use case for the product is managing financial operations, expense control, asset management, and HR operations. We leverage various modules, including the travel management system, to streamline these processes across our institution.
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Patrick Posch
Head of IT / ERP System at Innerio Heat Exchanger GmbH
Our business is completely integrated into SAP ERP, including all our machines and processes, such as vendor sales, customer support, production, and quality management. We currently use a bunch of modules in SAP.
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TomášZelina
CEO at Lifestyle Services Group (part of Phones4U)
The tool's use case varies daily, involving different implementations, change requests, and records.
Desmond Festus
Senior Officer ERP at Swakop Uranium
We use this solution to review processes the parent company implements in China. Extra configurations on the system are included based on optimization proposals, and we can optimize the functions to the requirements. In addition, I work as a certified MM consultant and have access to minimal usability functions.
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VishalChopra
VP Global Sales and Marketing at VC ERP CONSULTING PRIVATE LIMITED
My company's clients use SAP ERP to improve their business processes, aligning the company's finances and inventory management. The tool also helps my company's clients to meet the regulations and compliances of the government or the countries where they operate.
SAP ERP is useful to make business processes more efficient and to bring in better controls within an organization.
David Kunc
Account Manager at Cadmium
We use SAP ERP mainly for CRM.
Friedhelm Lefting
Managing Director at GESTRA AG
We use the FI, CO, SD, PP, and MM modules. We also use GTS.
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Sameer Ghewade
Manager, Information Technology at Parag Milk Foods Ltd
I use all of the modules offered by SAP ERP, like MM, PP, QA, PM, and FICO.
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Kanchan Khubnani
Management trainee at a analyst firm with 51-200 employees
We use the tool's HCM modules for human resources. If I want to see the employee master data, I can view or edit it. I can also use it to check the time and leave management modules to see how many employees are taking leave and their working hours. These are the main functions I've been using it for in day-to-day business operations.
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Sara Sara
IT Engineer at Maroc Telecom ADSL
We primarily use the solution for logistics, finance, asset management, and accounting.
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reviewer1996392
Information Systems Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Our company uses the solution within our European branch for ERP functionality such as configurations for sales, purchases, and production.
We have 15,000 users across various departments including IT, sales, and business development. We are planning to upgrade to the newest version soon.
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NarendraKumar2
Process Mining Consultant at AG Consultancy & Apps. Lt.
We use the product for accounts payable and accounts receivables processes. It helps us analyze the throughput time between goods receipt and the completion of the entire accounts payable process. It identifies any delays or lags in the payment of invoices and ratios.
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Michael Liu
Sr. Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
I use SAP ERP to make our internal processes run smoothly. It helps with finances, accounting, and reporting. I can manage inventory and purchasing efficiently, and the system ensures our production and manufacturing processes work seamlessly.
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Manager, Robotics & Automation Systems at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
I use SAP ERP in my company for its entire package that provides masking and condition techniques, along with the details of all the employees and everything, starting from manufacturing, procurement, maintenance of facilities, onboarding, and warehousing.
Mariia Gondal
Senior Business Consultant at FG Business Consultant
I mostly work with SAP implementation projects as a project manager.
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Harish Golla
SAP Consultant at Quadricit
We are using SAP ERP for typical ERP use cases.
The solution can be deployed on the cloud and on-premise.
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SEAN Justine
Works with 1,001-5,000 employees
Within the organization, I use SAP ERP on a daily basis.
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Neno Lazarov
Head Of Financial Control at TED BED JSC
I use SAP in the finance department for two manufacturing subsidiaries of my company.
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AjayKumar7
Manager, Business Analytics, BI Lead at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
I use this solution for finance and procurement.
The solution is deployed on-premises and on a private cloud, and it's running on the Azure platform.
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Wael Elsagh
Solutions Architect at EJADA
We are using SAP ERP in the public sector for manufacturing and R & D.
The solution can be deployed on-premise and in the cloud.
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Mohamed Nabih
Head Of Information Technology at OSHCO group
We are using SAP ERP at a manufacturing company for a production system, material management requirements, and materials planning.
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Olaf Dölz
Senior Solution Engineer at Winshuttle
In the past, it was a pure on-premise solution. As the market has gone on, SAP is all also delivering hybrid or public and private clouds. Because you can configure SAP for huge automotive factories — like Rolls-Royce and Mercedes-Benz, for example — they do have some development inside of these kinds of software. Therefore, it's really difficult to bring everything into the cloud.
So, although SAP is making a lot of business with the hybrid or private and public cloud solutions, I think there are still others who would like to use solutions other than pure cloud solutions. This is my impression.
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Director at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
SAP ERP is essentially used for back-office functions, such as payroll and HR, as well as covering financials. It has many functional modules that can be used depending on the needs of your business.
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PrateekBansal
Manager at Mitsubishi Electric in India
We use the solution to manage our organization's financial supply chain and customer interactions.
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Digital Business Solutions - Key Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Primarily, I'm the account manager for an account that has the largest SAP implementation in the world in the utility segment. It is being used by a national utility service provider, and they use everything SAP, except for SAP SuccessFactors.
We primarily have on-premises solutions being sold in this region for the utility companies. In UAE, there are a lot of data residency regulations because of which cloud solutions are not preferred. Companies prefer on-premises solutions.
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DGM HR at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
When the company merged, we decided that we wanted to continue using SAP ERP because all the processes were much more mature, especially when it came to finance. The main value was the convenience for finance to run and manage the business.
The finance team was more comfortable using SAP, so that's why it was decided not to change the solution.
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Anshuman Bansal
Head - SAP & Digital Transformation at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The primary use case of SAP ERP is for taking care of financials, procurement, production planning, and project systems for CapEx budgeting, sales and distribution, and from there to management accounting and human capital management. I'm the head of digital transformation.
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RajPatnaik
SAP Platform Advisory at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We use SAP ERP for running the entire business enterprise. Most large companies run an ERP for their supply chains. Starting from taking orders all the processes through to delivery, such as finance.
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Shady Mogawer
IT Manager at Arabian Cement Company
It is for all business processes. It is for material management, financial accounting and controlling, sales and distribution, and HR.
Our SAP version is a little bit old. It is the ACC version.
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Shahzad-Islam
ERP Project Manager & Managing Consultant at Liwa Education, Iranfava
The majority of the projects I was involved with were for production companies with huge manufacturing capabilities.
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Christophe VANDEWEGHE
Director of Transformation SAP at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
We are a consulting company and SAP ERP is one of the products that we implement for our customers. Our primary role is to advise them on tools and strategy, including business use cases that they want to transform.
With ERP, we are working with customers who are looking for S/4HANA transformation, mainly from a greenfield approach. For RPA, we want to add some value in the business case because the business case of the S/4HANA transformation is not so easy to find. So we use some techniques like RPA to find more money around this transformation.
Right now we try to automate some functionality, which is not yet really good, within ERP. We really want to connect via API to the RFP tool to S/4HANA in fact.
We do business consulting or IT consulting, and do not provide support. We do advise them on tools and strategy, including business cases that they have to transform. We work with them up to this point and do not do the implementation.
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Head of Sales and Marketing at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I am currently working in a group of companies, and we have the SAP HCM module. It is not fully implemented due to cloud issues, but we plan to transition to it. We are also using SAP S4HANA and have incorporated some aspects of the HR module, primarily focusing on payroll.
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PedroJimenez
Solution Advisor at NBTeam
My experience is in finance and logistics. We use it for Treasury accountants, GL (General Ledger), Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, etcetera. It's actually with the SAP solution, maybe for treasury banks, managing bank accounts, and other solutions within SAP ERP.
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Manish Chhatbar
SAP finance practice at Inteliwaves
We implement this solution on-prem and on cloud for our clients. Our customers use it for their entire business process and end-to-end operations. It involves everything from production, to financial planning, sales and procurement.
Alaba Ayotunde O. OLUWAYIMIKA
It Asset Management Lead at Dangote Industries Limited
We are a manufacturing company and customers of SAP.
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Digital Transformation Manager at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using SAP ERP mostly for production and financials.
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Senior SAP Solutions Analyst at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
We use SAP ERP to support and manage our business process in areas, such as sales, manufacturing, distribution, shipping, financials, purchasing, marketing, opportunities, and quotations.
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Head of Operations & Technology at LATAM Pass at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We are using this solution for enterprise resource planning.
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Mauro Del Quondam
IT Development Director at Lottomatica SpA
We use the solution primarily to manage financial business processes.
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Senior Application Delivery Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
We are using SAP ERP for business support, business administration, and financial aid. We are also using it for quality manufacturing and logistics.
We have many applications from the SAP side. We are also using SAP BW, SAP SRM, and SAP APO.
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Jesús Antonio Santos Giraldo
Development Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I work at a hospital and SAP provides core components. We're in the health industry and we use industry solutions that are designed specifically for health care. We are customers of SAP ERP and I'm a development specialist at a health institution in Colombia.
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Usman Saleem
Senior Manager IT Business Systems Architect / SAP Project Manager at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
We are using the solutions from anchoring to sketching all the business processes and documentation. It can be used in everything from manufacturing to finance or even marketing. Every process you can fit inside ERP.
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EAM Executive at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is a centralized system to manage your business. With the inclusion of BA, you can do analytics as well as predictive analytics, which helps a business to grow because you know where you are lacking and where you are growing more. You can balance and take statistical decisions to optimize business processes and have more benefits.
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Azzedine Allouache
GLOBAL ERP (SHIFT) Logical design and Technical Integration Lead at Sanofi
We used SAP ERP for a variety of business processes including finance, sales, credit, distribution, and more.
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Manager - Business Intelligence, Business Relationship Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I'm the company manager and we are customers of SAP.
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Samuel Hon
IT Manager at Chun Wo Construction
We are using SAP ERP and the financial part and procurement part and also HR, as well.
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Najva Mahdzadeh
Senior Business Process Analyst (BPM-BPMS) at Jiring
In this company, we are using only two modules, which are for purchase and sale. There is some part of the financial process involved as well. What our company has is not an enterprise version of SAP. So in my experience with the company, when I am modeling the purchase process, is not the same as using the full SAP ERP process at all. We use a process model in which we are utilizing SAP for some stages and after that, the process goes to another BPMS (Business Process Management Solution). We use Camunda BPM for additional processing.
The major problem that we have using SAP ERP in Iran is that we can not customize our complete process in compliance with regulations when using the full version and all its features. This has to do somewhat with the process we want to use. Customizing ERP SAP for what we need to do is very expensive and it is not within the budget of many companies in our country. So the company I work for is seeing SAP as one, two, or three parts of a larger process and using it where we can.
It is really the most important problem for the people in my country when they are using SAP ERP. They can not model their process exactly in the standard processes of SAP. The customization is too expensive (it is not low-code). That is the reason that SAP is not more widely used in my country. It needs to be customized (coding) or it is not going to work the way it needs to for compliance. if your company is in low level of maturity, it will be hard or even impossible that processes follow the SAP default processes.
Companies pay a lot of money for SAP ERP and large companies in Iran are paying for that and it is said that the project was a mistake due to not knowing what was needed and what SAP was providing for them. But all the people I know can not afford the cost to make it work the way it needs to.
reviewer2506776
Lead system and process development at a retailer with 201-500 employees
I use the solution in my company since I am responsible for business digitalization. The tool is used and it is a part of the top-down strategy. My company wants to use the tool since we want a digitalized ERP or to meet the requirements of the authority. The tool is used to meet the needs of the medical product authority and other national regulation authorities.
I think it's a very decentralized solution built for all different business units, so it acts as a separate solution on SAP.
Numair Mazhar
Practice Head - Qlik / Solutions Architect at TMC (TallyMarks Consulting)
We use the dashboard for reporting for multiple clients. We mostly use it for dashboarding. It's real-time reporting.
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ICT Consultant, CEO, Entrepreneur at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I'm a solution manager helping customers to develop financial processes.
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MARTIN BAÑALES
Independent Consultant at Bosch&Cia
Our primary use case for the solution is maintaining and deploying queries and internal controls. The solution is deployed on-premises, and we are looking to onboard on cloud next year.
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Shivdatt Patel
Officer Programmer at Colourtex Ind Ltd
SAP ERP can be used in manufacturing.
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Associate Director at a tech company with 201-500 employees
SAP is an enterprise-wide application and we use it across all departments including finance, project management, HR and procurement.
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Senior Solutions Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I use ERP for internal solutions like selling and our customer database.
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Head of ICT Infrastructure at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Almost all of our data processes are running on this platform. We use it for finance, production, logistics, and human resources.
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Veerender Kumar
Product Owner at Software Technology
We are using SAP ERP in the agricultural industry and we use it mostly for finance control models.
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National Development Division at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Mostly, I use ERP for engineering applications — small fry infrastructure.
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Enterprise Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We implement it for customers, and we use the software internally for process management and inventory management.
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Project and Service delivery Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's the biggest and the most prominent ERP system in business, globally, and it can be used for almost anything. This is one of the biggest advantages of SAP - having so many modules and supporting so many different industrial sectors. Therefore, it would be hard to find what the SAP can't do.
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Manager Finance at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using it for all of our core business processes, including finance, sales and distribution, warehousing, and HR. We have its latest version.
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Sr. SAP Portfolio Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
All of our business transactions happen in ERP.
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Head of Product Operations Planning at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use SAP ERP for finance, manufacturing, and purchasing.
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Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Predominantly, we are using SAP as an ERP solution.
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Sr. Manager IT at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'm the head of IT and we are customers of SAP ERP.
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Associate Manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are a Thai company providing system integration. We are partners of SAP and I'm an associate manager at the company.
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SAP Architect/ Business Analyst BPC, BW , SAC , FI at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
We mainly use SAP ERP for business and business process improvements.
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Nam Doan
Java Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
My company wants to change from the legacy system to the new system and new technology.
They also want it to be on-prem.
Our kind of enterprise is expanding and wants to change the system to adopt a workflow. They want to improve productivity.
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Vice President at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It meets our requirements for a product to help us integrate and track business requirements and processes. Within the nature of our business, it meets our requirements for what we need it to do.
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SAP Basis Consultant at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using this solution to help us with business processes and to run our business efficiently.
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Solution Application Development Manager at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
My primary use case is Enterprise Resource Planning.
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Works
We use this solution for our entire business management. Order to Cash for Manufacturing.
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Projektmanager Logistik/SCM at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
It's for production planning, logistics, supply chain, and tasks. It is operations oriented with logistics planning and material creation.
Our company has been using the product for over ten years now.
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CSD174561
Chief of Systems Development at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees
We're using it for accounting, materials management, and sales and distribution. We are happy with SAP solutions. We are in the dairy products industry here in Chile, and there are good solutions for SAP in this industry.
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AppArch25
Applications Architecture at a engineering company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We run our entire business from order receipt to invoicing. We also do manufacturing, purchasing, invoice control, billing, and reporting on SAP.
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Jean-Luc Farion
Head Of Information Systems at MBDA
European migration in the 2000's was the main reason to change. The legacy mainframe bespoke application was difficult to maintain.
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Transportation Planning Responsible with 10,001+ employees
I use SAP for logistics transactions. I test SAP transactions to make sure they work correctly and train colleagues who are SAP users.
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Eliram Yakar
Team leader SAP Development at Ness Technologies | נס טכנולוגיות
As a manager/team leader and developer with a strong technical background, I work with all aspects of the system in various industries and use cases.
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SAP logistic experts-Mgr MDM Buisness analysis IT Enterprise Program at Teva Pharmaceuticals at Teva Pharmaceuticals
We use two modules. Materials Management (MM) handles the procurement-to-payment process, from inventory through final invoice receipt and verification. Master Data Governance (MDG) centrally creates, changes, and distributes or consolidates master data across the complete enterprise system landscape.
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Corporate Information Management at Gebr. Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH
It runs our company. We try to put as much into the system to have data consistency. Heavy integration is available with all types of systems, and we use it.
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Jayabarath S
RPA Developer at Atominos consulting
The SAP ERP is on a single-layer reporting process, and we use SAP ERP for output storing, algorithm and reporting purposes.
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SAP MDG Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I am with a consulting company and we assist our clients with different solutions. SAP ERP is one of the products that I have experience with. It is primarily used for Material Management (MM) processes.
We use an SAP S/4HANA system.
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