SAP for Retail and CPG
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Technology today has reached a point of inflection in Retail and CPG. Squeezing profits and decreasing margins are hampering CIO's to paw their way into new things. The ideal state every CIO wants to have, is an application that does not need more maintenance than the value it provides, a solution to avoid going out of mainstream support for their SAP R/3, a strategy that can foresee the near to long-term future and a deployment that is scalable to demands of the business.
Forrester recommends HCL Technologies ("HCL") SAP offering as "Strong" and an especially "good fit" for buyers looking for "A partner with global capabilities" and Net Weaver capabilities.
HCL's Blue Ocean road map to Enterprise success can ensure Retailers to focus and grow with immediate effects and lead in a long run.
After years of experience, HCL has built CoE among various functions in SAP including SAP Upgrade to provide value to its clients. HCL has 10 years of Experience in SAP and is an "Award Winning Offshore Global Service Partner" of SAP. With a team of 3200 + Consultants spread across the globe and deep expertise in frameworks and methodologies, HCL has been delivering end to end solutions and high return to investments.
HCL has sound track record of 35 Upgrades in SAP and has also delivered services, such as Instance consolidation through dedicated SAP Upgrade competency center. HCL provides flexibility in engagement model, understanding the utilization of client's internal IT resources on SAP Upgrade, to create overall resource plan. HCL is a SAP recommended Upgrade Partner for Upgrades in India, Singapore, Australia and Japan and has also won the "Best Upgrade Project" award from SAP for a project delivered in Singapore, for a leading engineering company.
HCL's proven SAP upgrade capabilities span across technical as well as functional domains. Using a process based value centric approach, we promise a smooth journey to retailers upgrading from SAPR/3 system to mySAP ERP 2004 / 2005.
HCL's SAP Toolset provides you with following benefits:
- Up to 20% reduction in upgrade efforts
- Up to 20% control in high and medium severity defects in Operations
- Up to 20% reduction in development efforts
- Zero defects in code quality
- Up to 20% reduction in consumption of system resources
- Up to 10% reduction in implementation efforts
- Significant reduction in TCO for customer in both projects and operations
- Tools appreciated by SAP as world class
Assess the challenges associated with upgrade with Upgrade Assessment
SAP has developed a solid, long-term approach to maintenance. However, a given release has to be upgraded at some point of time to avoid technical obsolescence. Upgrade helps business to maintain its competitive edge in the market-space with well-tuned up-to-date business applications and supporting infrastructure. Upgrades pose their own set of challenges. Without proper planning and assessment, they can lead to budget slippages, missed timelines, unprepared end users and other setbacks. Our proprietary SAP Upgrade assessment tool is a smart way to eliminate risk while upgrading.
This white paper examines the challenges and risks associated with SAP Upgrade and analyze how a SAP Upgrade Assessment could be used as a risk mitigation tool.
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iSAP Approach to SAP Upgrade
HCL's integrated ERP proposition offers a single window outsourced support across infrastructure, SAP applications and at end user levels. Transformational business benefits from iSAP include 40 percent reduction in annual IT operating expenses, higher productivity by root cause elimination, integration of support processes, and superior visibility in applications and operations support.
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HCL-SAP Partnership
HCL's ten year relationship with SAP is multi-faceted as a customer, a development partner and a go-to-market partner. While the partnership was tactical with focus on APAC and India markets, in the last one year the relationship has turned strategic with depth of investments, enhanced relationships and growth beyond application support services. Expanding the relationship to a new height, HCL has joined the 'SAP Global Partner - Services' program. As a new Global Services Partner, HCL Technologies will invest in significantly enhancing its SAP consulting practice and will create dedicated SAP sales resources and supporting marketing activities across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
