SAP Industry Solutions

What are SAP Industry Solutions

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SAP Industry Solutions

Simply put, SAP Industry Solutions are the secret sauce behind SAP’s phenomenal successAlthough the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning system covers, to some extent, most business scenarios out of the box, most industries have very specific requirements that are not always covered but are covered by one or more SAP vertical industry solutions.  

 

My SAP Industry Solution Expertise

 

I am Lonnie D. Ayers, and I worked as a Senior SAP Industry Principal and have over 26 years of SAP experience.  My specific industries included: Defense Forces, Airlines, Travel & Transportation, Utility, Professional Services, EC&O (Engineering, Construction & Operations), Postal and MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul).  I hold a PMP (Project Management Professional) , SCM (Scrum Master), BSC (Balanced Scorecard Certification), as well as numerous other SAP functional module certifications, including MM (Materials Management), BW (Business Warehouse) and SEM (Strategic Enterprise Management).  In addition, I am a SAP certified Value Engineer and as well, a certified  Continuous Business Improvement (CBI) consultant.  I had to take extensive internal SAP training and certification for each of the industries listed.  I have led over 200 SAP engagements, ranging from SAP Greenfield implementations, upgrades, carve-outs and many, many highly complex pre-sales demonstrations.  In addition, I have presented at numerous SAP Industry Events and Forums, and have written 4 books.   

 

In order to fully support their customers, SAP has, for many years, been developing specialized industry solutions, such as the IS-Retail Solution or SAP DFPS Solution.

27 SAP Industry Specific Solutions

There are more than 27 SAP Industry Specific Solutions and a significant number of solutions developed by SAP partners, such as the poultry solution, well drilling solution, and dairy solution.  

SAP Industry Solution for Cement

 

These solutions contain additional industry specific functionality.  Many solutions, once developed, also find uses in other industry solutions.  For example, the Linear Asset Management solution, designed for the needs of the Utility Industry, serves the needs of numerous other industries with Linear Assets, such as, Railroads, Oil Pipelines, Roads, Bridges, Tunnels, to name but a few.  

 

 

SAP BW Industry Specific Analytical Capabilities 

 

In addition to Industry Process Specific Functionality, there are also Industry Specific analytic capabilities in the form of SAP BW Business Content.  Some of this content is freely available to the public and viewable on the web, some of it is maintained and only available from SAP partners and some of it is available on request from SAP.  

 

Airline Route Profitability

 

One such piece of SAP BW Business Content with an Industry Specific flavor is Airline Route Profitability, which, although developed by SAP internally, is not yet publicly released.  As it turns out, conceptually, route profitability is also very similar to measuring the revenue per passenger on a bus, or on a train, or on a ship. 

 

Eventually, this content may be released for general use once it is proven in each of these industries.

 

SAP Industry Solution Composer

 

As the functionality of SAP Industry Solutions is deep and rich, you need a tool to explore it, which SAP has conveniently provided for many years.  That tool, the SAP Industry Solution Map Composer, can be downloaded for free here.

 

http://www.sap.com/solutions/businessmaps/composer/index.epx

 

This tool is really the primary tool I used as an Industry Principal to explain our solutions to prospects.  But it is also very useful for finding the relevant KPIs of any SAP Business Process using a reverse lookup procedure.  In addition, you can compose your own SAP solution map using this tool and determine feasible software combinations by navigating from it to the Product Availability Matrix.

 

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Lonnie D. Ayers, PMP

About the Author: Lonnie Ayers is a Hubspot Certified Inbound Marketing consultant, with additional certifications in Hubspot Content Optimization, Hubspot Contextual Marketing, and is a Hubspot Certified Partner. Specialized in demand generation and sales execution, especially in the SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Partner space, he has unique insight into the tough challenges Service Providers face with generating leads and closing sales using the latest digital tools. With 15 years of SAP Program Management experience, and dozens of complex sales engagements under his belt, he helps partners develop and communicate their unique sales proposition. Frequently sought as a public speaker in various events, he is available for both inhouse engagements and remote coaching.
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He also recently released a book "How to Dominate Any Market - Turbocharging Your Digital Marketing and Sales Results", which is available on Amazon.

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