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GuiXT.com

SAP SD and PM Made Easy

DeeDee Kato Sr. Director of Marketing Nikhil Keeppanasseril Demo Solutions Engineer

© 2014 Synactive, Inc. GuiXT.com

Copyright © 2014 Synactive Inc.

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Agenda

• Improving the SAP User Experience –

comparing options today

• What is GuiXT?

• What is LiquidUI?

• SD Made Easy

• PM Made Easy

• Rapid Apps

• Tools to customize the UI


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Ala Carte or Made To Order?

• Goal is to meet sensory needs of diner.

– Cold to Hot

– Light to Heavy

– Today sweets served after savory

– Coffee with dessert or it’s own course


Fine Dining – Made to Order

– French Service-service à la

française

• 3 courses cooked mostly

tableside

– Advantages

• Elegant, food made to

your requirements

– Disadvantages

• Need highly trained staff,

high labor costs, capital

investment in cart, fewer

turns of tables, fewer

tables in dining room


Ala Carte, Buffet Style

– Ala carte, Buffet

• All food cooked in kitchen.

• You get what you get

– Advantages

• Guests are served fast

– Disadvantages

• No ingredient substitutions

• Guests can not choose portion size

• Guests can choose unbalanced meals


Liquid UI Advantages

• Ala carte, single, task-based apps deployable in 3 days or less

• Your custom end-to-end business process, for any role, any touchpoint in 21 days or less

• Core GuiXT engine has been built into SAP GUI since 1998

• No need to upgrade SAP or kernel • SAP GUI like performance from mobile or

desktop • No browser or Silverlight required for

desktop or mobile usage • Native connectivity-no ITS, SMP,

Gateway, etc required • Develop once, deploy to mobile,

desktop, web


Developers

NWBC NW Portal

Personas SAP Mobile

Platform Syclo Fiori/SAPUI5

Deploy Deploy Deploy Deploy Deploy Deploy Administrators

UI

UIt

UI

UI

UI

UI

Improving the User Experience without Liquid UI

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Web Developer

NWBC NW Portal Personas SAP Mobile Platform

Syclo Fiori/SAP UI5

Script

Script

Script

Script

Script

Script

Improving the User Experience with Liquid UI

Administrators Deploy Deploy Deploy Deploy Deploy Deploy

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How Does GuiXT Work?

Desktop (PC)

SAP ERP

GuiXT Developer Toolkit used to generate GuiXT screens

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1) User makes a request via SAPGUI (e.g. VA01)

2) SAP responds with VA01 screen

3) GuiXT screen modifications are applied and SAPGUI draws new screen for VA01

SAP GUI

GuiXT®

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What is included with SAP GUI?

• Simplify one

screen at a time

• Changes are

made through

scripting

• No screen

aggregation

© 2013 Synactive, Inc.


Sales and Distribution Made Easy


Symptoms of BROKEN Order To Cash Process

• High order-taking error rates

• High order-fulfillment error rates

• High DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) rates

• High cost of dispute resolutions

• Inefficient/ineffective collection processes

• Long-term losses due to customers going to better managed companies for product/services

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Challenges for CSRs

• 3 or 4 screens of Credit Check – need to reenter information

• Going into inventory system for Available To Promise computation

• Navigation into MM03 for materials check

• 3 or 4 screens of Pricing Conditions

• Redundant information like Plants, Storage Location and Sales Order Number has to be reentered


Create customer

Credit check

Create Sales Order

Create delivery &

create billing document


Challenges for company

• Needing to train CSRs across multiple modules of SAP • Dissatisfied customers waiting for CSRs on SAP

– Pricing information – Order status

• Forgetting critical processes like – Credit checks – Incomplete customer information in

XD01

• Shipping errors • Backlogs without availability checks • Paying overtime for workforce



Your SAP End-To-End Business Process Simple Business View – Order To Cash

Sales (SD)

Warehouse (WMS)

Finance (FI)

Quotation Sales Order with Ref to

Quote

Credit Limit Check

Availability Check and Allocation

Unlock Sales Order

Pick Pack Post

Goods Ship

Invoice


What if you could go from this ……….


25 Screens with less than 4 input fields per screen


To this….. One Screen with all fields plus

• Intuitive Screen Layout

• One button click to access various lookups

• Data to be entered to screens that are not showing

• Pushbuttons and radio buttons for repetitive search criteria.


And deploy to this …


One Development Effort, All Touchpoints SAP@Your Fingertips

Browsers and Portals

Barcode/RFID Scanners PDF/Excel Front-Ends

Tablets and Phones

>


Order To Cash (Sales Order, Deliveries) Case Study: Utilities Water Company

Improved overall customer service and satisfaction by more than 60%.

Headquartered in Barcelona, worldwide leader of drinking water treatment plants, wastewater treatment plants and desalination plants. Create sales order, delivery, and billing document from a single interface provides pricing and status information to the customer on the phone with one click.

Challenges

- Users must navigate through three different transactions

to complete one business process

- Customers unsatisfied because of missing deliveries and

billing documents, which result in shipment delays

- Customers wait to receive information as customer

service representatives struggle to navigate through the

screens


Sales Order Management Case Study: Esri – The GIS Mapping Software Leader

Create sales order reduce to 3 screens from 22 screens, which previously took 8 minutes to process vs. 3 minutes. Training time reduced by 65%.

Change and Display transactions have the same benefits.

ESRI develops geographic information systems (GIS) solutions that function as an integral component in nearly every type of organization.

Challenges

- Significant amount of time and effort required

to create a sales order, set up credit, setup

customer hierarchy, etc. - Pricing conditions was difficult and time

consuming

- The customers on the phone had to wait for

extended period of time causing customer

dissatisfaction.


Plant Maintenance Made Easy


• Compliance to

Regulatory boards

• Increase production

costs

• Unplanned downtime

• Equipment failures

• Laborious scheduling

and monitoring of

maintenance resources

Plant Maintenance Company Challenges

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Your SAP End-To-End Business Process Work Order Process Flow with Internal Work and In-Stock Materials

- Safety - Sanitation - Production

Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Purchaser

Maintenance Associates

Maintenance Team Lead

New Notifications/

Identity Maintenance

(IW21)

Validate Notifications/Generate WO (IW28)

Schedule WO & Print WO (IW32)

Parts Issue/Purchase

(MIGO GL)

Audit TECO, WO & Notifications

(IW38)

Plan WO (IW32)

Approve and Release WO

(IW38)

Execute WO Confirm Time and

Materials used (IW41)

Generate Follow Up Notifications

(IW21)


Largest Distributor of Alcoholic Beverages – Create Notification and Work Order

Before After


Time Confirmation and Goods Issue

Before After


ROI Graph

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

Screens

Input Fields

Mouse clicks

Before Liquid UIAfter Liquid UI


Plant Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Console


Statistics

With approximately 8,000

work orders in various

stages, an average of 5

mins per work order

was reduced to 30 secs,

increasing productivity

by 90%.


Liquid UI- IOS



Power Utility Company

Launch Pad – Access to 10 distinct transactions Create Notification

Time Confirmation Work Orders


PM and SD Demo


Statistics – ESRI

• VA01 – create sales order

• 3 screens from 22 screens.

• VA01 is now 3 min. vs. 8 min. process.

• Development only took 8 days.

• Training time reduced by 65%.

• Change and display have the same enhancements.


Return of Investment

• Create Work Order was reduced from 8 minutes to 4 minutes

• Improved workflow and reduced error rate by 50%

• Reduced training from 2 hours to 30 minutes


Benefits with Liquid UI

• Reduced training time

• Intuitively easy to use

• Increased data integrity, reduce errors

• Improve productivity

• Increased customer satisfaction

• Increased efficiency

• Security & Authorizations Intact, upgrade’s are easy

• Unified UI strategy for Desktop, Mobile devices and Web


Leverage 16 years of expertise in SAP user experience to deliver your PM or SD application

Fleet Maintenance

Materials Management

Order To Cash

Plant Maintenance

Warehousing

Procure to Pay

Procurement

Sales Order

Service Management

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Rapid Apps Deployed in 3 Days or Less!


Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order Approvals

Individual approvals or List based approvals

Integrates with your email system for workflow-easily deployable for your decision makers for quick wins with BYOD


User Management for your IT

Lock/Unlocks users remotely

Reset user password

Send system wide notifications


Asset Lookup

Search by equipment details such as plant equipment or description

Search by equipment location by entering in street, city, zipcode or equipment number

Search by Material details by entering in equipment, material number, description or serial number

Show the location of the asset on a map


Goods Receipt PO

Identifies received item and match against purchase orders

Use the camera to capture barcodes on the receiving doc, in the warehouse, or on the plant floor


Tailor Any SAP Module for Any Role

Functional Use Results Plant Maintenance Create Work order reduced from 8 to 4 minutes or 50%. Training

reduced from 2hrs to 30 minutes. Total Savings $90k per yr.

Materials Management Consolidation helped reduce training time by 75% and making users 66% more efficient

Procure to Pay 10 to 12 actions reduced to 3; 75% time savings and improved accuracy

Sales Order/Quotes Create sales order function reduced from 22 to 3 screens. Reduced time to process from 8 to 3 minutes (65% savings)

Fleet Maintenance Barcode Scanners attached to desktop for vehicle parts. Increased efficiency and improved truck deliveries saved the company over $1M years in warranty.

Order to Cash Improved overall customer service and satisfaction by more than 60%

Warehouse Management Physical inventory count process reduced by 50%, errors reduced by 75% with a productivity increase of 40%


How we do this…. Demo


The Synactive Developer Suite

One Suite – Two Components

Designer Workbench

Designer Development Platform

Generated Scripts

Network, SAPWR, Local

Workbench Development Platform

Generated Scripts

Network, SAPWR, Local

Excel template

Desktop

Desktop template

Excel

PDF template

PDF

Offline template

Windows CE/Offline

Access template

HTML


Designer

Modify

Scripts auto-generated

WYSIWYG

Deploy to any touch point


Workbench

Record your SAP process

Select Layout on Workbench

Deploy to any touch point

Scripts auto generated (Edit if needed)


What Does the 21 days Include?


Who we are….



• Founded by Gerd Rode and Thomas Ewe

• Embedded with SAP since 1998

• A Single Platform approach

• SAP Partner Certified with Net Weaver integration

• Thousands of users and 15 years of SAP UI domain knowledge


2002

GuiXT Server

1998

GuiXT Designer

2004

Mobile Devices

2007

Web Server

2009

64-bit Architecture

Liquid Platform

2011

PDF and Excel

Integration

2013

Liquid UI for iOS

& Android

A History of

Continuous

Innovation

Synactive @ a Glance


Next Steps

• Watch intro to LiquidUI 3-min YouTube video and pass it around to your team and managers

• Download the iOS and/or Android native client app demo version

• Email [email protected] for a 30-day license

• Engage Synactive to reach your goals

• Join our new Liquid UI Community and be a part of our team


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mailto:[email protected]

http://www.guixt.com/forum/


Upcoming ASUG Events

Simplify and Extend SAP Transactions To Your Barcode-Enabled iOS Device

Wed Nov 5, 10AM PT

Featured Speaker: Andy Rindfleisch, Process Improvement Manager, Welch Allyn

Delivering a new SAP UX for PM Workers on Drilling Vessels (tentative) Thurs Dec 11, 10AM PT Featured Speaker: Byron Keiser, Senior Applications Analyst at Pacific Drilling


Questions to Ask?

• How can I get service à la française without the high-end prices?

• Or without requiring to fly around the world, waiting in lines, and airports, taxis, etc. only to find out you have to cook your own food

• How can I get the convenience, lower cost, fast turnover without waiting for the chef to kill the beef?

• How can I get custom made meals without the need for me to supply highly trained staff to help cook or additional resources from me?


Questions to Ask?

• How can I get service à la française without the high-end prices, additional resources, or delays?

• Be cautious of early technology trials and tribulations

• Be cautious of mandatory infrastructure upgrades or additional resource requirements


Efficient - Native connectivity provides near SAP GUI Performance from any touchpoint

Native Connection

Or RFC ODBC Web Services

Native Connection

HTTP Native

Connection Or RFC

Native Connection Intermittent

Connectivity

Delivered in 21-days Delivered in 3 days


Liquid UI Benefits

• Based on powerful scripting engine to customize any module, and transaction

• Does not touch the backend (no kernel upgrade required)

• Ala carte, single, task-based apps deployable in 3 days or less

• Leverage 16 years of experience in all SAP modules to deliver your end-to-end business process, for any role, any touchpoint in 21 days or less

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