One of SAP's best features is the ability to handle complex processes that span many functional areas within a company. A good example of this is the SAP Order-to-Cash business process involves the end-to-end logistics from receiving the sales order from a customer, and shipping the product, through to receiving payment. The Order-to-Cash business process uses the two major modules in the SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP Operations ( SD/MM ) and SAP ERP Financials ( FI/CO ).
Managing the consistency, accuracy, and timeliness that complex processes like Order-to-Cash and the related data in the SAP system requires is critical to keeping the enterprise running efficiently and profitably. However, moving critical information in and out of data-intensive transactions typically involves a large staff of data entry clerks, whose occasional errors can propagate and create a multitude of problems that are difficult to resolve. Winshuttle's products can help solve these challenges.
Business users typically use spreadsheets, such as Excel, as the tool of choice for managing the data used in complex transactions. Spreadsheets offer a convenient way for business users to create, update, and transfer large amounts of data. For example, business users stage the data for SAP transactions in Excel because it provides a full view of the data, rather than navigating through multiple screens, with each screen giving only a partial view of the data.
However, transferring manually-entered data from spreadsheets to SAP transactions remains a challenge for most organizations and business users are constantly searching for a convenient way to automate the loading of spreadsheet data into the SAP system.
transactionSHUTTLE's ability to chain transactions together and use logic to decide which data to load means it can be used as a tool to automate some of the most complex business processes that SAP users deal with. Some of the business processes that transactionSHUTTLE has helped automate include:
For more details on the Order-to-Cash process, please review our white paper <> Best Practices for Automating SAP® Order-to-Cash
"With Winshuttle, you can import massive amounts of data directly from a spreadsheet, which is a format that employees know and understand. It's changed how we approach all kinds of SAP data” from mass changes to periodic data cleansing."
- Lynn Farrell, SAP HR and Payroll Manager, Southwark Council
"We're a victim of our own success. I'm adding another member to our team because of the sheer volume of data we're handling with transactionSHUTTLE. This solution has completely changed how we approach and manage many of our projects."
- Peter Hebert, manager of HR data management, RBC
"transactionSHUTTLE gives us the ability to do things we weren't able to do before. We have significantly reduced our manual data entry costs, reduced headcount, and minimized the burden on IT."
- Paul Cahill, Director of Information Technology, Hubbell Wiring Systems
"We have saved over $1 Million in avoided programming, reduced data entry workload costs and Service Level Agreement (SLA) costs."
- Chantal Gauvreau, Business Process Manager, SAP Center of Excellence, Canada Post
"Winshuttle offers the complete automation solution. It's easy-to-install, well-documented desktop software, with excellent technical support"
- Erin Stone, SAP FI/CO Senior Analyst, B. Braun
"Data entry is no longer an IT headache. Our users no longer blame our SAP system and instead fully embrace it."
- Rick Davis, Manager, Enterprise Systems
We now use the term "Winshuttling" to refer to any solution that makes our lives easier.
- Steve Walker, Manager of Supply Chain Systems, Under Armour