Big changes cast their shadow: What next year will bring
SAP Roll Out in France
Running SAP as your main business tool can be a huge challenge for your internal IT department, especially if you are an SME. In order to meet the ever-changing requirements of your company, you need employees with a wide range of expertise in various modules of SAP software. Recruiting and sustaining such talent can be difficult and costly, especially given the industry's lack of SAP skills. There is a solution: SAP Application Outsourcing from Axxis Consulting. We can help you as an extended branch of your internal IT department. Our service package covers all aspects of SAP support and can be tailored to your specific needs. By working with Axxis, you can increase productivity and quality, focus on your core business, and deliver reliable support services to your end users at potentially significantly reduced cost.
The tool records specific process steps, while the user operates the SAP R/3 4.6C application we use. Here's how. Together with the user of a department, a transaction is triggered in the ERP system. The recording of the process takes place simultaneously in the background. It can then be displayed as often as you like in the "see it mode" of the ondemand software. An extension is the playback in the "Try It" or "Do It" mode. In this case, the tool moves the end user to the appropriate input fields of the mask during the SAP session with the cursor. It does not matter whether the user works in a test environment or in the production system for self-training. The Do It variant shows the ERP user in a small window, where the next step in the SAP application has to be taken. In this form of knowledge transfer, the specialist user works independently according to the workflow scheme configured in the SAP system. The advantage: After a basic instruction, the other intensive support is almost completely eliminated. If there are changes in the process flow, the recorded film can be adjusted in the right place. After republishing the sequence, it will be available to ERP users. In our company, we have stored and published the complete instructions on the intranet. All SAP users can view the films recorded in XML format. If the employee has appropriate permissions, he or she will be guided through the transactions. If he has any questions, he has an online help. If it is not enough, the records can also be published as a Word file. For 18 different reports in the SAP module for project control, Word documents in a volume of about 100 pages are generated automatically by the ondemand tool. These files are available with full table of contents, page formatting, screen screens and, if necessary, reports (in Excel format). In about four weeks we recorded all SAP modules using the Personal Navigator and documented them as described. The offer can be revised and extended at any time. After a rollout, users often want more advanced functions that go beyond the standard runs. The tool is also suitable for documenting these. For a later integration test, the records shall be used to compile the documentation.
New SAP Support Connection Overview
Knowledge transfer is an important part of our support to keep costs as low as possible. We rely on a combination of pragmatic training and "learning on the job" to build and document our knowledge of the required information transfer.
To sum up, we can say that both support services naturally overlap from time to time. Often, SAP Support team members are looking for an application management services solution to resolve an acute problem so that a similar problem can no longer occur in the future.
The "Shortcut for SAP Systems" tool is an excellent tool for handling many tasks in SAP Support more easily and quickly.
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In April and May 2014, the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) e. V. interviewed 389 members on the topic Maintenance/Service & Support.