SAP All-in-One FastStart for Manufacturing

Industry Specific SAP Solutions from Chelford SAP

FAST-START FOR MANUFACTURING
If you are like many companies in the manufacturing industry, the challenges to you and your company are perfectly clear: speed up development times, reduce costs, and increase service levels to maintain customer loyalty.

Whether you manufacture industrial components or products for a retail shelf, your success depends on how quickly and effectively you adapt to change. Coping with evolving customer demands, government regulations, and your own market requires constant innovation to bring new products and services to market while controlling costs. Even with a local customer base, you are likely operating in an integrated global supply chain. Limited visibility into business drivers can hamper your efficiency.

Rising costs and shrinking cycle times for product development require increased internal efficiencies. To improve productivity across business processes, you need a comprehensive business management software solution now.

However, for smaller midsize manufacturing companies, it can be a daunting task to select and implement an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solution that best fits their needs. There are so many choices, so little time, so few IT resources, and so many variables in hardware, software, configurations, and functionality. It doesn’t have to be that hard.

FastStart for Manufacturing is a SAP All-in-One solution, developed expressly for mid-market manufacturing companies seeking fast and effective SAP solutions.

Addressing all your specific SAP requirements, FAststart for Manufacturing catrers for the following types of manufacture:

• Make to Order
• Make to Stock
• Process Manufacturing
• Discrete Manufacturing
• Manufacturing with variants

Learn how FastStart for Wholesale and Distribution can revolutionise your business:

FastStart and User Friendly

The beauty of FastStart for Manufacturing is its revolutionary approach to delivering a fully integrated, cost-effective, front and back office SAP software system which is ready to go, ensuring you are live on SAP within weeks of your project start-date.

SAP FastStart for Manufacturing is the core product developed by Chelford SAP Solutions, providing the foundation for industry-specific variant solutions, which have been recognised as SAP All-in-One solutions in their own right by SAP.

If you are a Mid-Market Manufacturing company a subsidiary of a large company, or a business unit within a large company and need SAP solutions fast, FastStart for Manufacturing is the right product for you.

Business Challenges

• Rapidly implement an integrated solution to manage every aspect of your business
• Accurately predict and control project costs and scope
• Adapt and grow your business to meet new requirements and opportunities
• Minimize IT overhead requirements

Key Features

• Materials management – Create an integrated network to improve efficiency and optimize inventories
• Production planning and control – Integrate manufacturing processes with other processes in the supply chain
• Sales and distribution – Shorten sales cycles and maximize productivity for better customer service
• Logistics, product lifecycle management, and quality management – Track finished goods and help ensure top quality
• Accounting – Increase the efficiency and accuracy of financial accounting
• Controlling – Obtain access to accurate data for planning, forecasting, and reporting
• Forms and reporting – Obtain standard and custom reports easily

Business Benefits

• Quick return on investment, due to rapid implementation of a predictable and proven solution incorporating best practices in manufacturing
• Faster response to changes in markets, customer demands, and government regulations
• Lower cost of operations, due to better planning and coordination between manufacturing processes

FastStart Manufacturing: an effective, tailor made SAP solution is ready and waiting to meet your business management software requirements. Contact Chelford SAP Solutions for more information.