SAP COE
What is SAP COE?
The SAP Center of Excellence (COE) provides business and application expertise to support the effective daily operations and improvement of SAP systems and solutions. SAP COEs provide functions such as implementing new SAP systems, designing new processes, optimizing existing processes, managing projects, providing user support and training, and keeping the SAP landscape running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What is SAP COE?
The SAP Center of Excellence (COE) provides business and application expertise to support the effective daily operations and improvement of SAP systems and solutions. SAP COEs provide functions such as implementing new SAP systems, designing new processes, optimizing existing processes, managing projects, providing user support and training, and keeping the SAP landscape running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Some of the benefits that a SAP COE offers include a repository of SAP deployment best practices, a central point-of-contact for all SAP-related matters, a place where strong competencies can be developed, a means to enhance the value of SAP solutions, improved SAP personnel retention, and improved service levels. While there is an investment involved in creating a SAP COE, with many organizations running dozens or hundreds of SAP systems, there can be a significant organizational benefit to setting up a COE.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
- Building a successful COE requires planning and investment, both from a financial and a resource perspective.According to David Jantzen and Dan Haynes of Deloitte, some of the key steps to setting up a successful SAP COE include ensuring appropriate leadership, defining how the organization will work, building tight relationships with business and IT teams, and defining appropriate metrics.
- You can boost the success of your SAP COE by developing and defining the right metrics. Many organizations view their SAP COE as little more than a support organization. However, given the value of SAP systems and the resources invested in the COE itself, this could limit the overall value the team can provide. By developing the right metrics, it is possible to transform the COE from a support team to a key part of the business. In this article SAPinsider speaks with Ken Grady of Novartis about how the company appropriately defined metrics to help transform its SAP COE into a valuable part of the business.
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Get Your SAP System Landscape Technically Ready for SAP Assurance and Compliance
Gain insight into important configuration activities that are imperative for harnessing the capabilities and offerings of SAP Fraud Management and SAP Audit Management. Key Concept SAP Assurance and Compliance software is the latest addition to the SAP GRC product suite. It seeks to address fraud and audit challenges in the business environment. The product helps...…
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Prepare Your SAP Financials System for the Single Euro Payments Area
Become familiar with the regulations of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and its consequences for companies doing business in Europe. Get an overview of the SEPA functions delivered within the SAP Financials system and understand for which SAP releases they are available. Learn how you can activate and configure the SEPA functions in the...…
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Leveraging SAP HANA to Enhance SAP Business Planning and Consolidation’s Capabilities
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) 10.1, along with its host environments (SAP Business Warehouse [SAP BW] and SAP HANA) provide abundant design choices to meet today’s business planning needs. See a comparison between the various models available in BPC to facilitate appropriate model selection based on business priorities. The potential to enhance BPC capabilities...…
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ABAP in the 21st Century (Part 1)
This is the first article in a mini-series covering advancements in the ABAP language in its 7.40 release. It gives an introduction to inline declarations, type inference, and constructor expressions; concepts which can significantly improve the conciseness of your ABAP code. Key Concept ABAP, the programming language of the SAP Business Suite, has gone through...…
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Inflation-Based Revaluation of Fixed Assets
Learn the configuration done for monthly inflation-based revaluation. This configuration needs slight changes based on the frequency and inflation calculation methodology required for a specific implementation. Key Concept Inflation-based revaluation is a statutory requirement for several high-inflation countries. These countries publish an inflation index for revaluation of the fixed asset base of the company. In...…
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What Is Change Management and Why Is It Important? An Overview of Change Management and the Seven Precepts That Can Help Every SAP Project
Change management is the process of matching the expectations of those affected by an implementation project to the results they are receiving — it helps people decide whether a given project is good for them. This is the first of two articles that help you successfully manage the change that comes with all projects. This...…
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Performing Change Management Tasks During Each Phase of an SAP Project to Achieve the Greatest ROI and Ensure Successful Implementations
Change management isn’t just about communication and training — at its core, it is the strategy and tactics involved in convincing end users that an SAP implementation is an extension of their ability to do their jobs more easily and effectively. This is the second of two articles on how to perform successful change management....…
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How to Reduce the Bullwhip Effect by Following a Demand-Driven Supply Chain Strategy
Learn how to integrate consumer demand signals to achieve a demand-driven supply chain that is used to optimize short-term forecasts and increase demand network visibility. From a demand planning perspective, planners can now compare the traditional consensus demand forecasts with a point-of-sale (POS) statistical forecast and therefore apply corrections based on true consumer demand. From...…
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How to Achieve Optimal Inventory Levels with SAP Integrated Business Planning for Inventory
Learn how to achieve optimal inventory levels for raw materials, work in process, and finished products across the supply chain with SAP Integrated Business Planning. Key Concept The unified planning area, SAP Integrated Business Planning’s standard planning area, provides end-to-end business processes related to all the technical details of a planning area in SAP Integrated...…
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Discover the Advantages of Using EvDRE with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Learn how to design and develop reports and input schedules using EvDRE. Also find out best practices for reporting and performance improvement tips when using EvDRE with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (both Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver versions). Key Concept EvDRE ([Everest] Data Range Exchange) is the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation reporting function that...…
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