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SAP solutions for the bakery tradeR S A G , P O T S D A M , G E R M A N Y , H A S W O R K E D O U T A B A K E R Y S P E C I F I C S O L U T I O N F O R B U S I N E S S

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I N F O R M A T I O N T E C H N O L O G Y

+ SAP, former software supplier for the large industrial

companies of this world, discovered SMEs some time

ago and developed three ERP solutions for such companies:

Business One is a corporate software supporting manage-

ment, production, purchasing, stock-keeping, service, fi-

nancing and distribution. It is an industry-specific imple-

mentation for the baking industry, originating also from RS

AG. Business One is aimed at companies employing between

10 and 100 people and having two users.

Business All-in-One is a complete ERP system for SMEs

geared at companies with a staff of 100 to 500 and 10-50

ERP users. In the past, this system was only available for

producers of components or small series, automotive sup-

pliers as well as processors of metals and plastics. In the

meantime, a version for the food industry has been devel-

oped; the bakery-specific version is produced by RS AG.

Business by Design is the latest ERP product from Walldorf,

Germany, the headquarters of SAP. Contrary to the other

two solutions, this one is not for sale but can be used within

the scope of a leasing agreement. The system whereby the

customer virtually pre-configures himself online, is still in

the test phase. The system is interesting because it offers ac-

cess to many specific SAP solutions which can only be

bought as expensive individual tools. Nevertheless, first-

hand reports sound rather skeptical, and presumably it will

take some more time until a bakery-specific solution has

been developed.

In its attempt to open the SMEs market, SAP is focusing on

individual industries. For the “Focus Bakery Products”, SAP

found RS AG as its partner. RS AG is not new to the baking

industry; with its own ERP solution RS 5, it serves several

European industrial and chain store bakeries.

Within the scope of the partnership with SAP, RS AG devel-

oped the ERP system Business All-in-One by SAP into a

product currently being implemented at two large German

chain store bakeries.

SAP’s Business All-in-One for the food industry can be used

in several areas in the bakery field ranging from purchasing

to production planning and chain store management.

The software package

With the bakery solution of SAP Business All-in-One Food,

the following processes are included in the standard imple-

mentation package:

+ Purchasing and incoming goods handling

+ Material management, recipes

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+ Production planning including recipe details

+ Sales including telephone sales

+ Order proposals/permanent orders

+ Inventory control, returned products

+ Order picking, transportation and route planning

+ Chain store management, snacks, management of bank

holidays

+ Finance and accounting, cost calculation/controlling,

assets accounting

+ Bank and treasury functions, monetary transactions, Datev

+ Information system, business warehouse

The processes are pre-set for bakeries and documented. Op-

tionally, the following processes can be imaged fitting the

company-specific requirements:

+ Product development processes including recipe

management

+ Interface to existing processes (e.g. toolbox, dosing scales)

+ Linking to chain store cashier systems (e.g. Casio, Vectron,

Sharp, Bizerba)

+ Quality control, batches and best-before dates

+ Capacity planning and forecast

+ Distribution of surplus and under-production

+ Business with trade chains, display handling and

management

+ Chain store control, chain store evaluation, control of

inventory at chain stores

+ Bakery-specific statistics

+ Payroll accounting, personnel planning, staff time

recording

+ Maintenance

+ Property management (e.g. rental agreements)

+ Integration into existing IT environment (MDE, scanner,

link to scales, EDI, logistics service company)

+ Returnable packaging and returns handling

Three months for standard implementation

The SAP partner RS AG has many years of experience in the

bakery industry. They offer to implement the SAP bakery

solution at a flat rate within three months (standard imple-

mentation) increasing to six months (for optional addition-

al processes). This includes the project management, imple-

mentation of the scope agreed on, technical installation of

the system, on-the-job training for the main user, templates

for data migration, forms and print-outs, SAP standard re-

ports, go live and maintenance.

Upon request, SAP will host the system and the live opera-

tion of the SAP system at a flat rate.

For the user support, RS AG provides experienced personnel

as well as the SAP and bakery industry expertise.

The standard implementation of the SAP software in a bak-

ery with 30 sales outlets, 8 professional users, 30 chain store

licenses and MS SQL server 2007 will cost, as a package,

58,500.00 Euros excl. VAT to include implementation and 25

days of training. +++

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