1. MANAGE YOUR GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN - EASILY
Syncron - SAP Partnership
Maximize supply chain performance, lower total cost of ownership, and
accelerate return on investment for our common growing customer base.
Syncron, the fast growing supply chain management vendor and SAP, the world’s
leading provider of e-business software solutions have entered into a partnership.
Benefits of the Syncron SAP solution
Easy integration
Quicker ROI by extending your SAP implementation with Syncron Solutions
Reduced cost of integration using Syncron SAP adapter
Access leading supply chain functionality and flexibility
No customization of your SAP solution
2. Syncron and SAP solve global supply chain challenges
Tired of snail-like ERP rollouts and costly high risk IT projects? By adding Syncron to
your SAP and other ERP implementations you can extend your collaboration, improve the
performance of your supply chain and get the flexibility you need to stay ahead. Stop adjusting
your business to the IT solution limitations. Join the global leaders on a smarter, faster and more
cost efficient path to support your global processes!
Global supply chain challenges
Companies across the manufacturing sector are striving to deal with Syncron is leading the way
competitive pressures and the speed of change. Globalization and industry in your industry
consolidation have forced companies to re-examine their approaches to
managing supply chains. Linking supply chain requirements with global We offer best-of-breed supply
business strategies, supported by information technology, is an increas- chain solutions that have been
ingly complex issue. As a reaction many companies are considering to, or tailored to the specific need
have made, significant investments in SAP to provide a backbone to help of the industries we serve,
transform their organizations and implement common processes. namely:
Mining & Construction
The power of one – a romantic cliché
Equipment
SAP focuses on ERP, or Enterprise Resource Planning. To provide additional
comprehensive functionality for specific industry sectors SAP has a wide Industrial Equipment
ranging partner eco-system. It is acknowledged by SAP that success in
today’s marketplace only can be achieved through co-innovation. Aerospace & Defence
Emerging business challenges require holistic thinking. SAP has invested Automotive
heavily in ongoing efforts to move to an open architecture to integrate
best-of-breed solutions. Consumer & Industrial
Products
Syncron + SAP = support for global processes
Syncron provides fully integrated best-of-breed supply chain solu-
tions certified by SAP. The full potential of the SAP business suite can
thereby be leveraged. 60% of the Syncron customer base already has
benefited from this partnership and utilizing this unique technology to
extend their supply chain processes throughout their enterprises
MANAGE YOUR GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN - EASILY
3. 60% of the Syncron
customer base is using SAP
The joint SAP and Syncron
customer references include:
Atlas Copco
BAE systems
British Gas
Deutsche Bahn
JCB
Syncron optimizes global inventory, enhances order and supply manage- Komatsu
ment processes and streamlines the flow of goods throughout the entire
supply chain, end-to-end. Manitowoc
Metso
independent of the existing IT infrastructure. To meet the new business
drivers Syncron provides its customer base with solutions with flexibility TetraPak
and strong business process management capabilities in combination with
robust functionality to support sophisticated and complex global supply Volvo
chain processes.
VW
This solution combination will maximize supply chain performance,
lower total cost of ownership, and accelerate return on investment for our
common growing customer base.
A powerful combination
Global supply chain leaders need best-of-breed solutions
Companies have made significant investments in SAP business Is this the solution of tomor-
solutions, but the rapidly changing market, organizations continue to be row? Yes - We are convinced
challenged with adapting to changing business needs. Many global orga- and researchers agree:
nizations also face the challenge of integrating and collaborating in their
supply chain processes that often reaches outside of the their own legal
“ There are virtually no
enterprise. To achieve this SAP needs to be integrated with the extended
single enterprise appli-
value chain but this is can be very time consuming, complex and costly.
cations today that can
fill all of a user’s needs.
Simultaneously managing global sourcing and fulfillment, multiple
Some combination of
channels, customized orders and increased demand for rapid deliveries
best-of-breed and in-
makes the planning and execution process extremely complex. This of-
tegrated suites will be
ten leads to part shortages, excess inventory, increased rush orders, staff
with us for some time.
overtime and unorganized transportations. The results include high costs
and decreased customer service. Aberdeen Group
Syncron is the best-of-breed provider leading the way unifying the
supply chain processes of manufacturing companies across organizational,
geographical and technological boundaries.
MANAGE YOUR GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN - EASILY
4. Combining the best of two worlds
Proven results
The SAP eco-system, of which Syncron is an integral part, helps SAP
customers address challenges specific to their industry needs. As Syncron
is a global leader in the area of supporting large scale manufacturing and 60% of the Syncron customer
distribution companies to maximize the performance of their global supply base already has benefited
chain processes the two companies, SAP and Syncron found it natural to from the Syncron SAP part-
enter into a formal partnership. nership. This powerful com-
bination allows our customers
Being a SAP Partner is a solid stamp of approval that identifies Syncron to extend their supply chain
as a valuable player and value added partner in the Enterprise Software processes throughout their
market. With the resulting partnership status, Syncron activities are enterprises independent of
ensured to be compliant with SAP, providing superior supply chain the existing IT infrastructure.
management applications and the highest level of expertise for any
organization using SAP solutions. Combining Syncron and
SAP solutions:
Syncron is focused on supporting SAP customers in the manufacturing and
distribution industries to realize the tremendous benefits available to them Maximize supply chain
from efficient supply chain management. Syncron has therefore certified performance.
Syncron Solutions v.8 and developed a SAP Adapter.
Lower total cost of owner-
The entire Syncron application portfolio has been tested and approved ship.
by SAP Integration & Certification Center and with our new standard
adapter we can deliver industry leading integration functionality and services Accelerate return on in-
enabling short implementation times and quicker time to value for vestment for our common
companies running SAP. The adapter supports bidirectional calls in growing customer base.
real-time between Syncron Solutions and all the major applications in the
SAP business suite. Integration is dramatically simplified, yet still flexible by
using configuration instead of coding. The Syncron SAP adapter fully
supports BAPI and IDoc which thereby can be incorporated into Syncron
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Solutions without modifications on the SAP solution.
Providing customers the ability to leverage their SAP business suite with a For further information about
quality tested supply chain management solutions from Syncron makes it Syncron’s partnership with SAP,
possible to achieve a quick return of investment and sustainable business please contact Ulrika Olsson.
benefits.
Phone:
+49 173 710 90 04
Key business benefits of the Syncron and SAP partnership
E-mail:
Short implementation time to achieve best-in-class support for your ulrika.olsson@syncron.com
global supply chain processes.
Japan +81 (0)3 5545-5446
Increased flexibility to quicker adjust your system support to changes Germany +49 211 649 999 29
in your processes and market environment. UK +44 (0)121 503 2650
US +1 (678) 638 6275
Leverage your SAP business suite by easily extending it with Syncron Sweden +46 (0)8 410 802 00
global supply chain solutions achieving both a quicker and stronger ROI.
For more information about
Access Syncron’s leading supply chain functionality and flexibility, Syncron an its solutions, visit:
specifically supporting your processes, with no customization of SAP.
www.syncron.com
Utilize Syncron SAP adapter to reduce cost of integration by
accelerating the regularly time consuming integration task often
requiring difficult-to-access expertise.
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