SAP Introduces new Business Process Certification

SAP announced a new certification process for business process management experts. Sessions for certification will include: will include sessions on strategic context, governance, methodology, technology, and service-oriented architecture. The certification will also be offered online though the SAP Business Process Expert social network. Find out more about this program here at IT World Canada.

Savvion Planning Customized BPM Solutions for India

As announced in this article from CXOtoday, Ma Ketabchi, CEO of Savvion mentioned that Savvion is “planning a hot of customized BPM solutions”. The specific sectors they are targeting include healthcare, retail, and BFSI. In addition, the company will launch the Savvion Business Solutions Alliance Program. As Ketabchi stated:

‘The core objective of the program is to aid in developing more and more business applications for enterprises. Companies such as Oracle and SAP develop business applications that only have broad applicability, but companies need much more than that.”

Pitny’s Delicious Foods looks to BPM for efficiency

Business process management can increase the speed and efficiency of data running through a company. IT Business of Canada has the report here. Pitney’s Delicious Foods, of Burlington, Ontario, is looking to increase exactly those things while reducing the number of errors in their data keeping by adapting BPM. This fresh and frozen chicken product company is looking for their “Golden Egg” by investing in new BPM software but installing using products within SAP and Business Objects. Their aim is to help the migration of reporting processes from excel sheets to a fully automated process. With their current software, it takes five days to produce sales and financial reports. Within these reports, there tends to be errors due to the manual work required with an Excel sheet.

With this new software, they hope to automate this process which will lead to better control of their inventory, and in turn leave them with better warehouse stock numbers and provide them with more accurate restocking schedules.

The next step in their process to implementing BPM is to install the software, a seven week process. This new software will show the benefits of an automated process from the front lines of the factory to upper level management, as they will now have better control over their inventory numbers.

PML Methodology in SAP

Vanessa Huschke recently talked to Marcus Dorfmeyer, the Project manager of Knowledge Management Competency Center (KMCC) organization about Process Management Lifecycle and detailed the interview here at the SAP Community Network. Here’s a quick recap of definitions for PML that the SAP Community Network provides if you need a quick refresher.

In this interview, Marcus discusses the benefits of PML methodology, how it helps accomplish his project, and some of its uses in SAP. Be sure to read the interview over, as I’m sure it’ll provide some valuable insight for your organization’s business process management system.