Why upgrade to SAP ERP?

July 1, 2009 by admin
Filed under: SAP ERP 6.0 Upgrade 


Why upgrade to SAP ERP? and What are the business drivers to upgrade to SAP ERP?

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Each organization has different and highly specific reasons for considering an upgrade. For a well-oriented justification process, your organization should create a detailed summary of what benefits you expect or would like to derive from an upgrade. Some of the most common reasons and associated drivers for an upgrade are the following:

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Operational Excellence – Business challenges and business user demand for new functionality to improve operational excellence, enable innovation, and support new business models

  • SAP ERP 6.0 provides more than 300 functional enhancements that can improve process efficiency
  • SAP ERP 6.0 integrates the functions of most SAP industry solutions so that these solutions no longer need to be installed and set up separately

Business Strategy – Flexibility for future innovations (without disruption)

  • SAP ERP 6.0 uses enhancement packages as a new methodology to quickly and easily deliver functional enhancements, business and industry-specific functionality, and end-to-end process improvements. Find out more in the Enhancement Package Info Center.
  • With the service-enabled SAP ERP 6.0 application, your organization has the required foundation for enabling enterprise SOA and future business innovation. Companies that upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0 can put enterprise services to work immediately to solve business problems. Using enterprise SOA, your company can implement business innovation more quickly and with minimal effort. Because enterprise SOA brings simplicity and transparency to your ERP software, you can readily adapt SAP ERP 6.0 to meet the business needs of your organization.

Sustainability – Stay in compliance with regulations and ensure business and system stability

  • SAP provides updates for legal changes as part of the mainstream or extended maintenance agreement for SAP ERP. However, with previous releases of SAP R/3, the outdated underlying software technology may impede the implementation of effective solutions for meeting current compliance standards. With its integrated solutions for governance, risk, and compliance, SAP ERP 6.0 facilitates a unified, cross-company framework that correlates and aligns all activities.
  • By upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0, you can stay up-to-date with the underlying technology and ensure business continuity and system stability.
  • SAP ERP 6.0 is the “go-to” release until at least 2012 providing mainstream maintenance until March 2013 and extended maintenance until 2016.

Total Cost of Ownership – Cost optimization

  • Combine your upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0 with other IT initiatives, such as returning SAP software modifications and custom developments to SAP standard functions. This can reduce TCO, mainly in terms of operations costs.

Refer to Getting Started with an Upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0 (PDF 375 KB) to learn how to begin the process of upgrading.


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