SAP Business ByDesign

SAP Business ByDesign is complete business software to help your subsidiaries run better

You're a large corporation with your own processes running the SAP Business Suite. You also have multiple subsidiaries – each with unique needs, structure, and processes. A two-tier business suite lets you leverage strengths across the entire organization: the resources and stability of the corporate office and the speed, flexibility, and local insights of your subsidiaries.

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Dow Chemical subsidiary SAFECHEM quickly implemented SAP Business ByDesign

SAFECHEM: Operating Quickly and Inexpensively

SAFECHEM is a Dow Chemical subsidiary working with closed cleaning equipment to eliminate worker exposure and emissions into the environment. Read why it chose SAP Business ByDesign to start new subsidiary operations with very limited time and funds.

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Tankstellen Support GmbH, subsidiary of BP p.l.c. Europa SE, runs SAP Business ByDesign to boost business efficiency

Tankstellen Support: Fueling Business with SAP

Tankstellen Support GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of BP p.l.c. Europa SE, offering IT services and maintenance to support the retail businesses of Aral and BP gas stations. Learn how it uses the SAP Business ByDesign solution to streamline business processes and improve project management.

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SAP Business ByDesign is designed to help subsidiaries grow

SAP Business ByDesign for Subsidiaries

SAP Business ByDesign helps large organizations increase profitability and lower costs by delivering a cloud-based, two-tier business suite that lets them streamline and optimize high-impact, cross-organizational business processes across their enterprise ecosystems.

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SAP Business ByDesign Supports Your Subsidiaries

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Complete, Integrated Business Management for Your Subsidiaries
Your subsidiaries can improve control and manage business better with capabilities like CRM, finance, HR, supply chain, procurement, and project management.
- Streamline processes to improve productivity and increase transparency
- Eliminate manual data entry
- Improve data, billing, and scheduling accuracy with automated processes
- Guide workers through daily processes with comprehensive task management
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Extend the solution with the SAP Business ByDesign Studio and the SAP Commercial Platform
Build a solution that adheres to corporate standards while meeting the needs your subsidiaries.
- Provide corporate templates to your subsidiaries using business configuration tools
- Leverage SAP partner ecosystem to build and deliver country add-ons
- Allow subsidiaries that deployed solution extensions to easily migrate across ERP version upgrades
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Integration with the SAP Business Suite
Minimize time and effort to integrate SAP Business ByDesign your SAP Business Suite. Take advantage of out-of-the-box integration.
- Integrate financial data to support consolidation and reporting
- Manage intercompany transactions with process integration
- Integrate customer and product master data between companies
- Integrate transactional data to support cross-company performance management
- Distribute subsidiary incidents to corporate IT – for maximum IT efficiency
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Integrated Analytics at Your Subsidiary, Delivered to Corporate
Allow business users to track key performance indicators such as cash flow, operating income, sales trends, and capacity utilization.
- Access role-based dashboards and ad hoc reporting through SAP Crystal Reports and Microsoft Excel
- Get rapid real-time visibility as SAP Business ByDesign incorporates SAP HANA
- Deliver subsidiary analytics to corporate with out-of-the-box integration to SAP Business Suite
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SAP Corporate Processes and Best Practices – Delivered to Your Subsidiaries
Ensure more effective governance and business compliance by standardizing best practice-based processes across your subsidiary ecosystem.
- Standardize intuitively – SAP Business ByDesign uses the same processes as SAP Business Suite
- Deliver SAP scenarios for financial closing, cash liquidity management, consolidation preparation
- Optimize cross-organizational processes with a standard approach to order-to-cash and procure-to-pay
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Make Your Subsidiaries Productive – Quickly
Whether you just need some guidance on your implementation project, help finding the fastest way to go live, or step-by-step assistance, SAP can help.
- Map corporate business processes to SAP Business ByDesign with the subsidiary cloud pilot services
- Focus on global data and business process harmonization with subsidiary template creation services
- Develop your global template with the multi-entity country rollout service
- Support your subsidiary implementation efforts with go-live execution for enterprise subsidiaries
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