To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability. 

Bill Martorelli, principal analyst for Forrester Research, discusses trends in the SAP managed hosting arena, myths about SAP managed hosting, and gives advice on creating RFPs and negotiating SLAs. 

Read this presentation transcript to learn the business value of PLM in an uncertain economy as well as significant trends in the PLM market. Explore SAP's approach to a new generation of product lifecycle management solutions that will help you remain or become a product and services leader. 

The SAP for Oil & Gas solution portfolio provides functionality that gives fuel marketers and distributors visibility into their distribution network, integrates customer information, and automates processes to improve efficiency, forecast accuracy, and adaptability. 

The SAP BusinessObjects Electronic Invoicing for Brazil (SAP BusinessObjects Nota Fiscal Eletronica) application helps companies that do business in Brazil meet digital invoice regulations. The application enables automated, certified, and secure communication with government systems at the state and federal level. 

The paper will discuss key factors to consider with regard to fax technology, the impact of your faxing system on business processes, product selection and project execution. This paper advises an approach centered around choosing a vendor who is still paying close attention to fax communication as it relates to business processes. 

Most companies today recognize the operational efficiencies and benefits to be gained by removing paper from business processes that rely on documents. Read this whitepaper to learn about a document management solution that can automate many of your business processes, removing the need for paper forms, saving you time, and saving you money. 

Read this case study to learn how Sea Star Line worked with Esker Professional Services to help implement Esker DeliveryWare as their solution and the benefits that resulted from Sea Stars decision to use Esker DeliveryWare, which includes better visibility, productivity, and time and cost savings. 

This webcast explores the business value of product lifecycle management (PLM) in an uncertain economy and explores SAP's approach to becoming more innovative, agile and efficient. 

Prior to The Wolf Organization's move of SAP to production in 2000, the company spent significant time and resources on manually faxing and mailing approximately 5,000 invoices per week. They chose AventX Connector for SAP ERP for automating the fax delivery of purchase orders, invoices, and acknowledgements. Read more about their experiences. 

Bill Jacobs, Director of Technical Marketing, Sybase IQ, discusses the speed and performance capabilities of Sybase IQ 15. These enhancements are designed to help make IQ 15 remain the smartest choice for analytic, reporting, business intelligence, data mining, and related applications. 

In this case study NIBCO, INC. implemented an SAP solution for comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM). Read this case study to learn how NIBCO, INC chose and implemented Esker DeliveryWare as their SAP Solution and the benefits they reaped from Esker DeliveryWare. 

This paper is based on the results of an SAP Enterprise Services Community program project, in which a number of leading network and test solution vendors and SAP teamed up to build a production-like enterprise SOA-based application landscape.