Data Entry

Wales & West Utilities uses Winshuttle to streamline SAP data loading and extraction in multiple business areas, from finance to asset management. In 2008, Wales & West Utilities underwent a major cost centre restructure, shifting ownership of assets and improving process efficiencies across the entire company. Among other things that meant collating a huge amount of new or updated information within spreadsheets, then transferring that data to SAP within a...

Winshuttle streamlined Under Armour's seasonal product creation process, reducing manual data entry by 80% while empowering end-users to run data transfers without excessive IT intervention. Twice a year, the company undergoes a seasonal product creation process that requires a massive data transfer from the company's product development system into SAP. While a single team member oversaw this material creation process, an additional 10 production planners...

This white paper describes how SAP® Business Suite customers can use Winshuttle software to automate the Order-to-Cash business process through the user-enabled loading of Excel data. This white paper describes how SAP® Business Suite customers can use Winshuttle software to automate the Order-to-Cash business process through the user-enabled loading of Excel data. It describes how Winshuttle software can speed data integration and improve...

This white paper highlights 10 key places SAP customers can reduce IT operational costs, with a focus on trimming support and data entry costs by automating data entry. Given the extreme volatility of the US and global financial markets, and growing concerns about the overall business outlook for 2009, every prudent corporation has moved into cost-cutting and cash-conservation mode. Information technology (IT) expenses are some of the first to come under scrutiny -...

Operational data governance is the process of evaluating data to see if data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. This is measured with a "data quality scorecard", a management tool for monitoring organizational performance. Operational data governance is the manifestation of the processes and protocols necessary to ensure that an acceptable level of confidence in the data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. A data...

The success of a business is increasingly tied to the quality of their information. Through the Data Governance Maturity Model, organizations can identify precisely how they can create an environment that can deliver and sustain high-quality information. With the amount and complexity of corporate data growing, the success of any organization hinges on the ability to maintain visibility of data. The cost of ineffective data management is much higher than the cost of...

Discover how empowering key customer-facing employees is the new path to achieving extraordinary, sustainable results. Read this white paper to learn four best practices on how establish an employee empowerment strategy. CRM must empower users to work above and beyond the traditional application boundaries and do the right thing for customers. Implementing a strict set of policies and procedures across all customer-facing functions often stifles the one element that...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) can bring enormous benefits to companies, but only if users adopt it. Explore user adoption problems and an overview of the newest CRM features designed to drive ease of use and high rates of user adoption. CRM can provide companies of all types and sizes with significant benefits, but only if users adopt it. Front-line salespeople are often the major source of resistance. No matter how many features a CRM application may have to help...