Category: Allgemein

Process Design – Eight Iron Rules for Efficient Processes

A company may believe that the sheer fact of having processes defined makes them more efficient and effective. This misbelief can lead to the standardization of all kinds of steps and actions within the organization. However, such kind of exaggeration will have counterproductive effects. The focus must be on quality and not on quantity of processes and process definitions. Having a process defined does not automatically mean that the process is good. A critical question therefore is: What makes a “good” process? How can process quality be evaluated and improved?

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New online demo – IFRS16 with SAP Lease Administration

Your company will have to comply with the new IFRS16 standard? You are in the process of evaluating different tool options? Then our upcoming live demo will be very interesting for you.

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IFRS16 – Tackling the Challenge

Your company will have to comply with the new IFRS16 standard? Your respective processes are not yet clearly defined? This paper explains the key challenges you will be facing and how an optimized tool support should look like. It discusses why most of the existing solutions are not ideally suited to support IFRS16. And it concludes by presenting an interesting, SAP-based lease management solution.

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Lightweight KPI-planning in a complex organization? It’s possible!

Imagine a major business unit in a global technology company that wants to implement a slim and efficient solution for the bottom-up planning of central key performance indicators without the complexity and overhead of a massive planning application. Centrally defined KPIs and a global data consistency should be achieved while local units are given a high degree of freedom in how to derive these KPIs. Stampa & Partners developed a taylor-made solution that bridged the gap between diversity and consistency in planning.

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Thoughts on Planning: Scenarios are good – but just don’t overdose

Planning means to anticipate the most probable future development of a company. But how can a company handle the uncertainty that is immanent in planning?

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Do you really want to know how good you are?

You want to know how your own corporate planning processes are positioned compared to benchmark companies? Then take part in Benchmark 2017

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Translating Business Complexity into a Manageable Solution

Implementing an efficient management and reporting architecture in a global company with more than 500 legal entities is a big challenge. Doing that within 8 months sounds literally impossible. Two well-known global consulting companies had already failed trying when our consultants got involved. We transformed the extremely complex structures and processes of the client into an optimized SAP BPC solution which produced significant cost and time savings right from the start.

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Thoughts on Planning: Why tools don’t matter THAT much

Around 80% of the issues that are discussed in a corporate planning project are totally tool-independent. More than that, the value added of introducing a new tool typically comes from a process redesign rather than from the tool itself.

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Realtime-Consolidation with SAP BPC Embedded

„…Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming…“(David Bowie). Realtime-consolidation is becoming true now with SAP BPC Embedded. In this paper we shed some light on the future of SAP-based consolidation. In the sense of David Bowie we argue that Tomorrow in consolidation tools belongs to those who can hear it coming.

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Benchmark 2017 has been launched

In a dynamic competitive environment efficient corporate planning becomes a critical success factor. But more than in operational processes, corporate planning is very hard to evaluate. How efficient is your planning? How do your planning processes compare to best-practices and to other companies? A new study in cooperation with a German university provides answers.

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