SAP Benchmarking

Assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of processes and finding areas for improvement is often a challenging task. If you look only internally, a company can compare business process performance over time, but it is difficult to identify specific pain points as you don't know how much better your performance could be. External data for specific process performance is hard to come by.

Enter benchmarking. Benchmarking allows companies to compare their business performance to a set of comparable firms on an industry and company-size level. By answering a set of standardised questions, a company can gain valuable insights as to whether they are a top performer in certain areas and in which areas they could do better. Most importantly, these performance insights can then be linked to specific best practices, to help companies raise their performance.

Measuring The Business Value Of Your It Investment

Many companies participate in benchmarks for assistance in assessing strengths, identifying potential areas for improvement, and recognising the best practices and IT strategies they can deploy to help their organisation excel. There are many firms that offer benchmarking services and companies often conduct informal peer benchmarks as well.

SAP Benchmarking

SAP currently offers complimentary participation in SAP's benchmarking program. The deliverable of these confidential benchmarks is a detailed comparative benchmark report. Each report contains numerous key performance indicators (KPIs) and best practice adoption ratings. You will quickly ascertain how your performance stacks up against your peers and what needs to be done to improve. The program's databases contain more than 4,000 completed surveys from over 2,000 organisations.

Overview Of Available Benchmarks

SAP offers complimentary participation in SAP's benchmarking program. The deliverable of these confidential benchmarks is a detailed comparative benchmark report.

Register now to participate in benchmarking and to receive more information.

For questions about SAP benchmarking, see SAP Benchmarking FAQ
or contact info@it-performs.com.

Below are benchmarks that are currently available:

Financial Excellence

Finance
Financial compliance
Finance shared services

Responsive Supply Networks

Supply chain planning
Transportation management
Warehouse management

Customer Value Life Cycle

Customer contact centers
Sales effectiveness
Consumer products - trade promotion management

Best People and Talent

Human capital management
Talent management
HR shared services

High-Performing Assets

Enterprise asset Management
Environment, health, and safety compliance

Strategic IT

Business intelligence
Centers of excellence
Enterprise data management
Total cost of ownership
Value management
Organisational change management
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) "terabyte club" critical operations
Running the ERP marathon

Operational Excellence

Supplier relationship management and procurement
Manufacturing

Product and Service Leadership

New product Development

End-To-End Processes

Order to cash
Enterprise health check
Cash to cash

Achieve The Full Value Of Your Sap-Enabled Transformation

Deliver On-Time, On-Budget, On-Value

As you focus on technology innovations to help navigate an increasingly complex business environment, stay focused on delivering value and business outcomes aligned with your organisation's strategy. That's the lesson SAP has learned as we've worked with thousands of companies to ensure that projects are delivered on-time, on-budget - and on-value.

We've learned that successful companies see significantly better performance when they keep their eye on achieving the expected value from project definition to delivery. Successful companies apply the value management discipline consistently across the project portfolio through the value management life cycle.

The Value Management Life Cycle: Accelerate the Pace of Performance

Discovery Phase

Benchmark performance
Clarify initiatives with defined success metrics communicated through a robust business case
Ensure that executives are accountable for outcomes

Realisation Phase

Drive project prioritisation based on value throughout the implementation
Design processes for value
Build management visibility into the project design

Optimisation Phase

Institutionalise VM capabilities across the portfolio
Foster performance-based thinking; make success visible
Enable management visibility & discipline

Delivering the Value Management Promise

SAP offers a robust set of strategies, methodologies & tools for the value life cycle:

Value engineering - Let SAP's value engineering experts guide you through the life cycle
SAP Value Academy - Get an introduction to value management in a facilitated, classroom-based format
Business performance benchmarking powered by the Value Management Center (VMC) - Measure and compare your organisation's performance vs. peers
SAP's value life-cycle manager tool -develop effective business cases
Value realisation services - Execute a value-based approach during implementation

Any questions? See our SAP Benchmarking Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.

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