Many company have their internal processes very well defined, however, the related process documents are usually spread in very different locations:
Sometimes is very hard to see the overall process and its interactions with other processes, and to use the related documents (process description, user manuals) as a tool to help in the daily activities.
Sharepoint is a very good solution to solve this problem. Using Sharepoint Services you can create your company internal processes website.
Using Sharepoint capabilities you can publish the process drawing in Visio and give your employees a great visual perspective of the process and all others related processes. Then, aggregate around it all the documents related to the process (uploading to a document library or linking to your file system), and thus the user can access directly to the documents while looking to the process diagram.
Managing all the processes and related documents in Sharepoint, you’ll have a centralized source of information, easy to manage and maintain. For example, if you have a manual of “how to do something”, which is common to several different processes in the organization, you’ll have only one single document linked to different processes, avoiding the duplication of information.
Whenever a new process is launched or an existing process is updated or a new manual is created, with Sharepoint you can easily address the company employees. On the other hand, you can collect feedback and suggestions from your employees about the processes and promote a continuous improvement.
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For those who struggle every day to configure SAP in order to meet your clients' needs, this is a very good guide to help you in your configuration tasks.
Contents:
Define Countries, Set Currencies, Set Calendar, Field Display Characteristics.
Define Company, Maintain Controlling Area, Define Location, Maintain Sales Office, Maintain Storage Location, Assign Company code to company/credit control area/controlling area, Assign Plant to Company code, Assign Sales Organization to Company code, Assign Purchasing Organization to Company code etc…
Configuring Material Master,Field Selection, Maintain Company Codes for Materials Management, Material Types, Define Material Groups/Divisions/Material Statuses/Number Ranges for EANs/UPCs (Barcode), Maintain Authorizations and Authorization Profiles etc…
Define Customer Groups, Define Delivery Priorities, Define Terms of Payment, Define Incoterms, Define Sales Document Types, Define Purchase Order Types, Define Billing Types, Define Order Types for Intercompany Billing, Define Sales Activity Types etc…
Consumption-Based Planning, Define Number Ranges for Planning Run, Define MRP Controllers, Define Order Profile, Configure MRP List / Stock/ Requirements List, Define Attributes of System Messages, Define Tax Jurisdiction, Define Shipping Instructions, Define Terms of Payment, Check Incoterms, Create Purchasing Groups etc…
