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NEC Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. Based in Singapore is responsible of providing IT solutions and services for all 9 NEC subsidiaries located across South East Asia and Oceania.
NEC wasted time chasing down managers who are on the road to approve purchase orders. The purchase order approval process became a bottleneck to getting best prices for your purchases and ensuring on-time delivery.
Timely approvals of Purchase Orders and Purchase Requisitions is key. This is difficult however when managers are mostly in the field and not in front of an SAP terminal.
Use Salesforce to Enable Approvals Directly from Mobile Devices The solution is simple: leverage Salesforce to make it possible for managers to approve purchase orders from their mobile devices simply by replying to an email or chat message. However, it can be complex and time-consuming to mobilize the approval process.
With Overcast as an add-on to Salesforce.com, you can quickly and securely enable support for SAP Purchase Order Approvals on Salesforce – without installing any software or modifying or upgrading your SAP system.
Extract from SAP POs waiting to be approved into Salesforce.com, start a workflow and post results back into SAP to execute the purchase.
Approval hierarchies and other master data are replicated from SAP to Salesforce to ensure a friction-less end-to-end process. SAP as the long-term
data storage and system of record will keep an audit trail of who approved the PO.
NEC Asia Pacific, Singapore
SAP Purchase Order Approvals using Salesforce Workflow and Mobile Capabilities Live since 4/2011
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The Benefit: Operational Efficiency
• Keep your business moving forward without delays by enabling a faster and smoother approval process • Avoid software installations, upgrades or modifications to your SAP system • Get up and running in a matter of two weeks, instead of several months
Three-Year ROI Benefits
ROI Payback period
(months) Total benefits (PV) Total costs (PV) NPV
71% 19 € 141,255 € 82,752 € 58,503
TCO Benefits
• No additional hardware required for middleware (access from your salesforce.com account) • No additional software required for middleware to work (access via your salesforce.com account) • Initial training is low (4 hours) and is included in the license fee • No maintenance fees (subscription based model) • No need to learn on-premise system programming language (e.g. ABAP) or middleware specific
programming language - use your existing Salesforce.com engineers (APEX Visual Studio) • Implementation time is low, happens native in Salesforce.com. Merely the address of your on-premise
system and the user credentials are needed to access your on-premise data.
“Approving our SAP Purchase Orders via our smartphones has increased our staff’s productivity and satisfaction levels significantly. The implementation costs of Overcast for Salesforce where a fraction compared to the offer based on SAP tools and workflows.”
Overcast – the easiest way to integrate Salesforce to SAP
Widely extend the reach of your SAP Applications using Force.com as your modern development platform and Overcast as your native integration solution. Now you can develop your SAP add-‐ons simpler and faster while keeping your System of Record (SAP) intact.