
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Intelligent Networks

Business intelligence

New market challenges call for more flexible organizations and workflows. Individual improvements have reached their limits, and IT systems are managing everyday operations in a satisfactory manner. Nevertheless, corporate value chains as a whole still leave a lot of room for improvement. Performance indicators for these processes provide information about their effectiveness and form the basis for strategic decisions, while business intelligence solutions from Siemens IT Solutions and Services create the necessary transparency.
Business intelligence - with its frequent synonyms "data warehouse" or "analytical applications" - comprises services and solutions that support these decision-making processes by collecting and processing data from internal and external sources. Strategic decisions can thus be prepared, finalized and supported on the basis of up-to-date, consistent and consolidated information.
Our business intelligence projects start with you as the decision-maker. We include you in the management cycle from the very start, determine what information you need, and design the appropriate models. Together with your IT management we select suitable system components, implement the solution and provide support during its startup and operation. Wherever possible we use ready-made solution components (best-practice solutions).
Our business intelligence solutions are based on data warehousing and data mining architectures and approaches.
Benefits :
-We support your project from start to finish (Consult - Design - Build - Operate).
-You are always part of the project: as a decision-maker at all milestones, as an advisor during the design of the individual user interface, as a fact-checker to make sure that the results are correct, and as the trailblazer during the solution’s implementation in your organization.
-Best-practice solutions, state-of-the-art tools and our iterative project approach help you to recognize and eliminate weakpoints and take advantage of potential improvements.
-We support you with our industry experience and our technical implementation skills. We can handle not only the solution’s technology, but its business aspects as well. As a multi-platform IT solution provider, we have implemented projects with all leading data warehouse and business intelligence providers, in particular with SAP BW and Informatica solutions.
-Our experienced team of consultants is always near at hand.
Advanced Planning Systems

-Demand Planning
-Supply Network Planning
-Vendor Managed Inventory
-Available/Capable to Promise
-Production Planning / Detailed Scheduling
Product Lifecycle Collaboration
Product lifecycle management

Monday, December 10, 2007
ERP Consolidation and Harmonization

Globalization goes hand in hand with change, and this leads in turn to a growing need to constantly rework and realign IT structures, processes and strategies. Multinational companies in particular are always on the lookout for ways of reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for their global IT landscape, and specifically for their ERP systems. The top priority is to eliminate those cost drivers created by heterogeneous IT landscapes, e.g. as a result of process interruptions, manual reworking or a large number of interfaces, as well as of additional support and maintenance outlay.
Typical challenges:
-Consolidation of the technical system landscape and reduction in the number of interfaces
-Global harmonization of the business processes and corporate master data
-Optimal resource utilization through introducing a Shared Services approach
IT Solutions and Services provides a comprehensive end-to-end offering for consolidating ERP applications and harmonizing business processes. The objective is to open up new competitive advantages for globally operating companies by cutting ERP-related costs and simplifying, standardizing and rationalizing the processes involved.
Our service portfolio follows a rigidly structured and globally oriented approach for SAP implementations, and we have proved our service quality, which is based on the use of an integrated tool set, in major international projects.
The first step involves an efficiency analysis to identify the value-added potential in detail. Additional work packages are then elaborated one after the other.
Our offering covers the following areas:
-International project and program management
-Process and IT consulting
-Template management
-Change management
-Training
-Transition and application management.
Your benefits:
-Reduction of ERP-related costs by up to 50 percent (SAP implementation, application management, IT operations)
-Enhanced data quality
-Improved adaptability to keep pace with organizational changes (carve-outs, mergers and acquisitions)
-Faster, consolidated reporting
-Centralized and monitored introduction of improvements and innovations in processes and in the IT landscape
-Competitive advantages through the global optimization and harmonization of business processes
Working together with Siemens IT Solutions and Services allows you to enjoy a number of additional advantages:
-Comprehensive global project experience and success stories
-Use of a tried-and-tested methodology and efficient tools
-Experienced multicultural consulting teams with industry-specific knowledge and regional business experience
Procurement Services
