Create an Enhanced Shopping Experience with Help from Rapid-Deployment Solutions for RetailRetailers want to be the first to market with products and services that customers crave. Speed to market can help maximize return on brand, promotion, and social investments. Retailers must also optimize customer service and profitability. By analyzing consumer data and shopping history, they can affect demand planning in real time. What steps are you taking to become a real-time retailer – and come out on top?

When it comes to software implementations, you know that there are some unsettling realities.

Part of the issue is that IT and the business are not always aligned.

56%of projects run over budget2

IT wants integration.

54%of projects run over time1

It’s important to protect the platform so that IT can help ensure availability, scalability, and ongoing innovation.

Lines of business need to predict and react to ever-changing consumer behavior – as fast as possible. It’s equally important to maintain the flexibility you need to respond to business conditions quickly.

But what if you could have the best of both worlds? Now you can with SAP® Rapid Deployment solutions for retail.

50+SAP Rapid Deployment solutions relevant for the retail industry available from SAP Consulting, as well as

SAP partners engaged in rapid-deployment solutions

250+

40%

SAP Rapid Deployment solutions, like the SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) rapid-deployment solution, save you time.

Less time and effort compared with traditional implementations

Speed

Shopper insight 7 weeks

Planning for retail 6 weeks

EWM for retail 5 weeks

Finance 7 weeks

Discover fast implementation times with these SAP Rapid Deployment solutions that support:*

52 vsAverage IT project Average rapid-deployment project

weeks 12 weeks

SAP HANA 5 weeks

Mobile 6 weeks

CRM 10 weeks

Human resources 6 weeks

SAP Rapid Deployment solutions for retail help you leverage SAP’s game-changing technology and innovation to win in an era of sophisticated customers and Big Data – making real-time retailing a reality.

Innovation

33%Database and technology

Of all SAP HANA customers used SAP Rapid Deployment solutions to deploy.

1/3Cloud deployment

Of the implementation time for your rapid-deployment solution can be reduced with the cloud-based quick-start solution – you choose what, when, and how to deploy.

To improve productivity across several lines of business with more than 40 mobile apps to choose from in SAP mobile apps and infrastructure.

6Mobile

weeks

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Rapid-deployment solutions ensure SAP will be seen as the trusted advisor customers need to scale and grow businesses – simplifying concepts and reducing relative costs.

Elizabeth Hedstrom Henlin, Senior Analyst, TBR

And a lot less risk

Fixed scope

Fixed cost

Fixed timeline

4 components

Preconfigured software

Implementation services

Best-practice content and templates

End-user training materials

3 steps

Start – Aligned with best practices with proven business value

Deploy – Delivery and implementation

Run – Final testing, going live, and support

SAP Rapid Deployment solutions for retail make life easier.

Simplicity

Faster, easier, and less costly implementations are within your reach. Learn how you can speed innovation and reduce your risk at www.sap.com/rapid-deployment. Follow on Twitter: @SAPRDS

* The example deployment times shown above are for informational purposes only and do not represent any commitments by SAP and/or its partner to deliver these assets. Actual pricing, costs, and implementation results may vary, based on customer-specific requirements and needs.

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Rapid-deployment solutions can help drastically reduce implementation efforts compared to a classic approach, since the base processes within the solution scope are very well-defined best practices and more efficient than defining custom-specific processes.

Tobias Ortwein, Senior Vice President, Project Services & SAP Services Markets, PAC

Source1.–2. “2012 ERP Report,” Panorama Consulting Solutions, http://Panorama-Consulting.com/resource-center/2012-erp-report.

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It was out of the box . . . a four-week process –great! And we really had very little issues.Mike Nelson, Principal BI Architect, ConAgra

and a clear ROIFast implementations and business innovation with minimal risk

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Dominik Beck, Team Leader SAP Logistics, Papyrus

Time savings:Rapid-deployment solutions saved about four to five months in the overall project implementation time.Cost savings:Around €200,000–€300,000 in consulting costs were saved by shortening the implementation time.

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