SAP AG honored with the 2009 F&S Global SCM Product Quality Leadership of the Year Award
SAP AG, the market leader in the SCM market, has been honored with the 2009 Frost & Sullivan Global Supply Chain Management (SCM) Product Quality Leadership of the Year Award for zeal in superior product quality and meeting the supply chain requirements of all types of businesses. Due to its commitment to customer satisfaction, its SCM customer base has increased by 8 percent from 2007 to 2008.
Be it the field of automotive, or aerospace and defense, chemicals, consumer products, hi-tech, telecommunications, logistics, or oil and gas, SAP(R) Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) application, provides the organizations with the unique ability to perform essential business processes with modular software that is designed to work with other SAP and non-SAP software.
Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Archana Rajagopalan.says, “With companies increasingly focusing on making their supply chain lean, SAP AG is found to reduce the inventory levels effectively by 10.0 to 70.0 percent. With a 30 percent increase in the forecasting accuracy observed by customers, SAP SCM is found to offer return on investment (ROI) within six months of its implementation even as SAP SCM implementation has been observed to enable 99 percent inventory accuracy.”
“SAP enables improved cash flow for its clients since lower inventory levels directly translate to reduced overall logistics cost,” adds Rajagopalan. “Its solutions also support higher margins for clients.”
Other outstanding services from SAP include SAP(R) Enterprise Support services, SAP(R) MaxAttention(TM) support, SAP(R) Safeguarding services, the SAP(R) Solution Manager application management solution and SAP(R) Test Data Migration Server software.
“SAP is honored to receive this award, and believes that it is a testament to our long history in the supply chain space and our continued effort to deliver innovation to our customers ever evolving supply networks,” says Lori Mitchell-Keller, Senior Vice President, Suite Solution Management at SAP. “As a core application solution of SAP Business Suite, we believe that SAP SCM enables companies with fluctuating demand or high product complexity to sense and respond faster and smarter to demand and supply dynamics across a diverse global network”.
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards are awarded to companies in a variety of regional and global markets for their performance and achievement in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Performance are measured and compared through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.
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