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Session Descriptions
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Evaluate, choose, and use the right method to build management cockpits your users will adopt
Lessons to identify and deploy key performance indicators (KPIs)
How to set up a goal-oriented Performance Management program in mySAP ERP HCM
Evaluate, choose, and use the right method to build management cockpits your users will adopt
This session advises you how to choose the right option to build management cockpits based on usability considerations. Watch this session to:
- Get expert advice for how to evaluate the many options SAP offers for building Web-delivered management cockpits.
- Determine if, when, and how you should leverage SAP SEM Corporate Performance Monitor (CPM) pre-built Web templates to accelerate cockpit development and delivery.
- Identify the drawbacks of this approach, such as rigid navigation paths, and evaluate whether they could potentially hamper user adoption.
- Get expert advice for how to feed your CPM cockpit with disbursed data from multiple sources for more meaningful analytics.
- Examine the option of using custom iViews to build cockpits directly in SAP NetWeaver® Portal.
- Find out why this may be the right choice for displaying static information, and why running interactive SAP BW reports and analytics directly from the portal may cause performance problems that frustrate users and decrease adoption of the cockpit.
- Discern when it makes sense to build your own management cockpits from scratch with SAP BW Web Application Designer.
- Obtain guidelines to maximize the usability of your cockpit — e.g., why you should not include more than seven items in one pane, and why drill-down data should never be more than two clicks away.
- Get a glimpse into how SAP Visual Composer can be used to create management cockpits.
Lessons to identify and deploy key performance indicators (KPIs)
Discover the varied ways in which your counterparts leverage key performance indicators (KPIs) to understand both internal and external strategic enterprise goals and operational processes. Watch this session to:
- Master the challenge of developing and deploying the correct mix of KPIs to give executives and managers an accurate and valuable view of what’s going on in the business.
- Develop expert strategies for defining the most effective KPIs for your organization.
- Discover new ways to refine your KPIs to closely match your organizational goals, mission, and vision.
- Identify which KPIs you need to build and recognize the difference between strategic and operational KPIs.
- Familiarize yourself with SAP’s KPI deployment options embedded in SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) and SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP SEM), such as BW queries, Management Cockpit, and Balanced Scorecard.
Tips, tricks, and best practices to provide users with easy-to-navigate dashboard reports and metrics using SAP BW
Step through a detailed process for how to create easy-to-navigate dashboards using SAP BW Web Application Designer. Watch this session to:
- Identify the key components that you must include in dashboard reports.
- Get advice for how to leverage the top five SAP BW Web reporting features.
- Explore metrics provided with SAP BW Business Content in the areas of HR, finance, sales, and procurement.
- Understand what you can use out of the box and what you need to customize.
- Gain insight into how to overcome common drill-down challenges that can hamper user adoption of dashboard reports.
- Obtain expert recommendations for how to incorporate more comprehensive SAP BW slice-and-dice capabilities directly into a dashboard.
- Find out how to embed jump reports into the dashboard so that users can drill into the ODS for details about the root causes of corporate performance.
- Determine if you need ABAP™ to modify Web tables and incorporate print and PDF options into your dashboard reports.
- Delve into report design criteria for ensuring good dashboard performance, a key to high user adoption.
Special 2-part session: Exploit SAP BW and SEM to enhance SAP CRM planning, reporting, and forecasting
Learn how you can use SAP Business Warehouse (BW), Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM), and SAP CRM to enhance your sales analytics, reporting, planning, and forecasting capabilities. Sales planning and forecasting are achieved via the implementation of these products, allowing for integrated sales planning at granular and high levels and at every level in between. Watch this session to:
- Prepare for the challenges you’ll face bringing the SAP CRM and BW/SEM together (e.g., fixing duplicate master data entries and utilizing sales hierarchies for planning purposes).
- Learn how this combination of functionalities enables you to drill down to detailed levels of granularity within your organization.
- Get tips for striking a balance between the need for sales granularity and aggregate forecasts that are best suited to spot and analyze big-picture trends.
- See how SAP CRM actually leverages SEM/BW-BPS as its planning tool.
- Understand how SAP BW stores SAP CRM data and how BPS can leverage that data for planning and forecasting.
How to set up a goal-oriented Performance Management program in mySAP ERP HCM
Explore core concepts, best practices, and lessons learned from real-life SAP objective-setting performance management implementations. Watch this session to:
- Step through the out-of-the-box performance management functionality in mySAP ERP HCM and gain an understanding of what you can use immediately and what you may need to enhance to match your business requirements.
- Get advice on how to establish corporate goals and how to cascade them down throughout all levels of your organization.
- Learn how the objective-setting process within SAP’s Performance Management module works and how it can integrate with this strategic goal setting process.
- Get tips for how best to engage middle managers in the goal-setting process by motivating them to create departmental goals that map to the strategic goals cascaded from senior management.
- See firsthand how you can encourage employees to set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time bound) objectives based on strategic, organizational goals.
Tap into Sales Information System (SIS) for more effective sales reports and deeper knowledge of your customers
This session provides expert advice for leveraging SAP Sales Information System (SIS) for robust and cost effective sales reporting. Watch this session to:
- Explore ways in which SIS can help you generate more meaningful reports and analyses if you have not yet made the leap to SAP BW, as well as how to use SIS as a complement to SAP BW.
- Step through an example of an ABAP-free way of using SIS to determine monthly sales bookings.
- See how to populate and activate custom information structures to fill your reports with more detailed information, such as individual customers’ sales orders, shipments, and invoices.
- Get step-by-step instruction on how to configure SIS to run sales reports that include specific order details.
- Find out how user-defined info structures in SIS affect your reporting strategy.