Coverstory Oktober 2024:
End-to-end ERP
Michael Neuhaus, Managing Director, Networker Solutions and Trilux Digital Solutions, and Ralf Krohn, Managing Director, Networker Solutions, explain and solve the challenges of E2E processes for variant manufacturers.

End-to-end ERP
The term ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is probably used by the layman to describe stringent end-to-end business processes: Why else would someone plan the resources of their organizational and operational structure - Enterprise? It seems logical to think things through from start to finish, and yet classic ERP programs find this difficult. But there are solutions.

End-to-end configuration with a central and standardized database
Variant configuration is demanding. In the SAP environment, the complexity is countered with efficient digital end-to-end configuration according to the "model once - configure and use anywhere" principle based on a first-class, standardized and central data model.

The answer to demographic change: digital contract management
Do you know the feeling of missing out on valuable cost savings due to outdated systems? Innovative paradigm shift: using contract data to automate E2E processes!

3D configuration without duplicate data storage directly in SAP
Appealing 3D visualization and interactive configuration directly on the 3D object are integral components of end-to-end configuration in SAP. This helps to eliminate technical hurdles in complex detailed and system configurations and ensures a positive user experience.

Maintain variant tables easily and efficiently: Intuitive cloud solution based on SAP BTP
The SAP standard has a number of gaps, for example in variant table maintenance (AVC or LO-VC). A modern SaaS cloud solution based on SAPTP provides a remedy and supplements the SAP standard with convenient functions for variant table maintenance that are 100% SAP-compliant.

The end of error-prone feature evaluation: efficient data management in variant configuration
There is a solution to the problem of time-consuming and error-prone characteristic evaluation in SAP AVC or LO-VC: The Variant-ID solution bundles all information on individual configuration characteristics in a unique ID, thus creating the greatest possible efficiency in data management.