CONTENTS Preface 5 New Business Benefits of my SAP ERP 2005 Adoption of the SAP Net Weaver Platform for Enterprise Services Architecture Analytics for Better Business Insight and Planning People Productivity Through a User-Centric Approach That Drives Proactive Work Lower Total Cost of Ownership Business Functional Value of Upgrade for my SAP ERP 2005 End-User Service delivery Analytics 6778961 Financials Human Capital Management Procurement and Logistics Execution Product Development and Manufacturing Sales and service Corporate Services Technical Value of Upgrade for my SAP ERP 2005Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 New Business Benefits of mySAP ERP 2005. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Adoption of the SAP NetWeaver Platform for Enterprise Services Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Analytics for Better Business Insight and Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 People Productivity Through a User-Centric Approach That Drives Proactive Work . . . . . . . . . . 7 Lower Total Cost of Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Business & Functional Value of Upgrade for mySAP ERP 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 End-User Service Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Financials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Human Capital Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Procurement and Logistics Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Product Development and Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Sales and Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Corporate Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Technical Value of Upgrade for mySAP ERP 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 3 CONTENTS