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By targeting critical business processes with high ROI and rapidly implementing solutions with retail best practices, retailers can not only reduce costs but also drive revenue, profits, and customer satisfaction. Request Free!

This report serves as a roadmap for companies that are attempting to match environmental and social stewardship to clear, actionable, and measureable improvements to their bottom lines. Request Free!

Learn how technology, if chosen and implemented carefully, will have a major impact on driving down these costs, in both the short and long term. Request Free!

SAP BusinessObjects solutions for GRC can help, with integrated software that enables you to take a unified business-focused approach and automatically monitor risks and controls in heterogeneous IT environments. Request Free!

At the same time, those assets still must be managed to keep U.S. electrical and natural gas systems operational while everything from terrorists to massive hurricanes to economic and political forces seem bent on making that difficult. Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) has become a central concern for utilities. This Energy Central white paper explores EAM and SAP’s solution to address these challenges. Request Free!

This SAP white paper describes how an adaptive supply chain network allows all the stakeholders in the supply chain – both internal and external to the enterprise – to share knowledge, make collaborative decisions and immediately respond to changing conditions. Trading partners can avoid costly supply chain problems. Moreover, firms can enhance their financial position and improve their supply chain economics. Request Free!

The real challenge to Lean, however, requires this first change, a shift in the culture. Consumer products manufacturers are early on in their Lean journey compared to companies across industry, with 56% less than a year to 3 years into it. By leveraging external expertise and taking small steps in their Lean programs, these manufacturers are setting their sights on reducing cost, driving down inventory, and sustaining a culture of Lean throughout the enterprise. But success is being found by those Best in Class consumer products manufacturers that go the next step by tying their Lean objectives into business opportunities, and by measuring the impact of the Lean program. These companies are placing more emphasis on monitoring the metrics that are tied with success, including inventory and on-time delivery, to truly maximize the competitive advantage to be responsive to the customer. Prepared by Aberdeen Group Request Free!

The white paper proposes ten practical lessons that could help address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment, and management. Request Free!

Their goal is to enforce stricter control processes to ensure legal and regulatory compliance, offer strategic insights into the internal and external business environment, and connect the business strategy with daily operations through performance tracking. To assess the trends in the finance function and identify best practices, APQC, an internationally recognized nonprofit organization that provides best practice research, metrics, measures, has evaluated the performance of more than 130 finance organizations. This SAP Insight shares the results of SAP research as well as APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research. Request Free!

While such cost reduction is important, companies often overlook equally critical strategic decisions—opportunities to use valuable business information to strengthen product and service offerings and emerge ahead of the competition. The paper highlights six common mistakes companies make in a down economy, and how organizations can use business intelligence to avoid them. The paper also includes a self-assessment questionnaire to determine the level of business intelligence opportunity across an organization. Request Free!