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SAP® PLM

Product Lifecycle Management

Product innovation brings new challenges on a daily basis: After using sophisticated systems for design, enterprise resource planning, and customer relationship management, you may still need to get new products to market faster. You need an integrated solution for collaborative engineering, product development, management of projects, product structures, documentation, and quality.

Lifecycle data management enables you to manage specifications, bills of materials, routing and resource data, project structures, and related technical documentation throughout the product life cycle. Program and project management lets you plan, manage, and control the complete product development process. All processes relating to collaborative engineering and project management are supported employing XML-based Web standards to communicate information across virtual development teams.

Your entire quality management is integrated so that environment, health, and safety issues can be dealt with according to government regulations. Enterprise asset management enables project managers, maintenance engineers, and others to manage physical assets and equipment, from first investment idea to retirement of the asset.

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SAP® SCM

Supply Chain Management

You envison completely integrated logistics processes? SAP® Supply Chain Management can help your organization transform a linear supply chain into an adaptive supply chain network.

With SAP® SCM, you can model your existing supply chain; set goals; and forecast, optimize, and schedule time, materials, and other resources. You can sense and respond to demand through an adaptive supply chain network throughout the entire world in which distribution, transportation, and logistics are integrated into real-time planning processes. Availability management, for example, can be integrated across all production centers.

In order to achieve complete visibility SAP® SCM gives you networkwide visibility across your extended supply chain to perform strategic as well as day-to-day planning. This solution also enables collaboration and analytics, so you can monitor and analyze the performance of your extended supply chain – including your suppliers’ network – using predefined key performance indicators (KPIs). This interaction also covers a VMI (Vendor-Managed-Inventory) in order to further harmonize the flow of materials between you and your business partner network.

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SAP® Portals, SAP® Business Intelligence, SAP® SRM, SCM, PLM

Research and development as well as the integration of ERP concepts yield new opportunities and potentials. These can be implemented together with new innovative SAP® technologies and business models.

Our experienced consultants are able to maximize the full potential of all modern SAP® information and communication technology in order to develop and deploy the most innovative solutions.

The SAP® portal is a user interface for SAP® and legacy systems that can be accessed using the internet or company intranet. This provides the benefit of an integrated and streamlined method to support all business processes.

When you are using SAP® Business Intelligence to analyze, plan, and present your business data, you are able to accelerate the cycle of knowledge, decision, and action. You are able to reduce costs and throughput, achieve better quality and thus maximize your return on information.

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Are you looking for an integrated overview of all your business processes ranging from strategic planning to execution and performance management? And afterwards, for having a consolidated view of all business results from your affiliates?

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Supplier Relationship Management

Faced with the business demand for sustained profitability, companies of all sizes are looking to sourcing and procurement — and the bottom-line advantage of managing supplier costs. In most companies, 60% of revenue are spent on products and services. Therefore, if you can reduce these costs by only 10%, you have the same result as a 15% increase in turnover. As a consequence, proper supplier relationship management will increase your profit immediately!

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Product Lifecycle Management
Product innovation brings new challenges on a daily basis: After using sophisticated systems for design, enterprise resource planning, and customer relationship management, you may still need to get new products to market faster. You need an integrated solution for collaborative engineering, product development, management of projects, product structures, documentation, and quality.

iowell read more

Supply Chain Management

You envison completely integrated logistics processes? SAP® Supply Chain Management can help your organization transform a linear supply chain into an adaptive supply chain network.

iowell read more

SAP® Extensions and Additional Development

Minor modifications can lead to large optimizations in SAP® systems. Very often we find that the small clever solutions in particular will maximize your business profit.

We offer services in the following areas:

Our experience ranges from the creation of a simple system interface to an interface program up to the complete integration of a complex IT environment: Using EAI, we can optimize the integration of all your business processes across IT platforms and system environments. This alone will contribute significantly to a reduction in your IT maintenance costs.

We design and develop efficient business processes on an enterprise-wide scale. Using the SAP® WebFlow Engine we increase speed, quality, and transparency in each business area.

We can model all your business processes through system extensions and customization of the SAP® system. In close cooperation with you as our client, we will develop add-ons that can be maintained with minimal effort and that will easily work with future release changes. Our experience ranges from simple reporting to complex industry solutions.

SAP® Release Change, Enhancement Packages and Rollout

All SAP® standard software is constantly being updated and improved. Similarly, the technological progress as well as new functional requirements or a restructuring within your company require changes of the SAP® software.

iowell can offer years of experience for the successful planning and implementation of:

iowell SAP® Release Change

iowell SAP® Rollout

How do you deal with something like that? The choice and implementation of an adequate release strategy has to be done depending on your particular situation, the IT architecture, and your business strategy.

iowell can offer years of experience in the preparation, the planning, and implementation of all SAP® release changes.

Our services include:

  • preparation, planning, implementation, and quality assurance of SAP® release changes.
  • replacement of SAP® programmed extensions and modifications using standard functionality within the new release.
  • functional extension and optimization of business processes using features within the new SAP® software.

Successful and efficient SAP® rollout projects have the following key success factors:

1. Rollout experience for a particular industry

2. Experience with rollout templates

We are able to reduce the time required for the implementation significantly by using our know-how of SAP® templates together with our industry knowledge.

With you and your IT specialists we create the ideal scenario for the rollout project based on your requirements:

  • Rollout of jointly developed templates
  • Rollout of existing templates
  • ERP implementation at each customer site

SAP® Reengineering and Optimization

Many companies had big plans with the advent and implementation of SAP®. During SAP® implemantation, solutions are often subject to deadlines and constraints.  it is obvious that the true potential of SAP® systems has not been used by a long shot.

Die problems:

  • Opportunities for business process reengineering have not fully been used to their maximum potential.
  • New business requirements were not implemented.
  • Business user acceptance was missing.

Die results:

  • The original business objectives were not reached.
  • Planned benefits have not been achieved, and the return of investment is much longer than anticipated.
  • The total cost of ownership is clearly higher than planned.
  • The organization’s business processes are not harmonized with the existing IT solutions.

iowell has recognized this problem and has developed its own methodology,so that you can successfully reap the full potential of your SAP® investment.

Together with you, it is our goal to

  • realize the full potential for optimization within your company,
  • optimize costs,
  • maximize the benefits.

SAP® New Implementations and Extensions

SAP® new implementations and extensions require comprehensive SAP® knowledge and business experience in all specific requirements pertaining to your industry.

iowell can offer years of experience in SAP® implementations in various industries

We have acquired specific expertise in the SAP® ERP modules FI, CO, SD, MM, PM, PP, HR iwithin the different industries, as well as excellent and comprehensive knowledge of the SAP® Business Suite (SRM, SCM, PLM, CRM), SAP® HANA und SAP® NetWeaver (SAP® Portal, SAP® BW, SAP® xApps).

Um einen neuen oder optimierten Unternehmensprozess erfolgreich in ein bestehendes SAP®-System zu implementieren, ist es notwendig, die Branche zu kennen und Prozessabläufe zu verstehen. Darüber hinaus verfügen wir über hervorragende und übergreifende Systemkenntnisse. Der Ablauf einer Implementierung erfolgt in klar definierten Schritten:

  • Aufnahme des Ist-Prozesses
  • Optimierungspotenzial des Prozesses erkennen und ausarbeiten
  • Realisierungswege in SAP® aufzeigen
  • Prozess implementieren

Simplify Reporting in SAP® financial accounting

iowell management consultancy provides an SAP® add-on for the automated generation of hierarchies such as customer order groups, order groups and such like, designed to simplify report management in SAP® standard reporting for financial accounting.

The most important performance features are

  • master data properties taken from customer orders, CO orders, PP orders, PM orders, cost centres and profit centres are used to automatically create flexible hierarchies in SAP® SET
  • the hierarchies, expandable ‘on demand’, can be used in SAP® standard reporting for extremely flexible analyses in SAP® financial accounting.
  • customising feature for individual activation of the SAP® add-on

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SAP® WM Connector for warehouse management

The SAP® add-on WM CONNECTOR enables the SAP® system to handle direct transport management of the warehouse equipment. The SAP® WM CONNECTOR, which iowell developed in cooperation with its partner Gebhardt Fördertechnik, is an add-on for SAP® WM-LSR and LE-IDW, which is supported by the Java-based SAP® WM COCKPIT in materials handling. Main performance characteristics and purpose

  • standardised interfaces to enable real-time connection between the SAP® system and the downstream conveyor line control in SPS Siemens S5/S7

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  • dual-stage system architecture with direct coupling between TRM and the programmable logic controllers (PLC) renders a separate material flow computer obsolete
  • SAP® WM Cockpit to model material movements in the SAP® system

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  • customising feature for individual activation of the SAP® add-on

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Optimised VAT calculation for SAP® systems

iowell management consultancy offers an SAP® add-on to improve VAT calculations in SAP® systems. The SAP® add-on provides a frequently used, integrated solution that preserves process reliability in automated VAT calculations within the SAP® ERP system, for instance when handling serial or triangular deals. It also logs all results relevant to VAT. Here are its most important performance characteristics:

  • central management within financial accounting of all processes relevant to VAT
  • central text component management to print out all invoice and order texts relevant to VAT, cutting the necessity for laborious and individual programming of forms
  • automated modelling, also of serial and triangular deals
  • financial management can track log management of all results relevant to VAT at any time
    thus enabling timely detection of any mistakes relevant to VAT (as early as while registering the customer orders) and not after they are passed on to financial accounting, when it is actually too late!
  • cuts the need for sophisticated knowledge of VAT laws when registering orders VAT registration on our side and on the side of our business partners is already considered when determining the correct tax key
  • cross-checking during incoming invoice processing to ensure that the correct tax key was booked in serial and triangular deals (dependency on outgoing invoice)
  • customising feature for individual activation of the SAP® add-on to suit customer needs

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