Simplify the User Experience
Critical business decisions must be based upon timely, accurate information. Manual entry of Microsoft Office Excel^® data into the SAP^® Business Suite is not a reasonable option because it is time intensive and prone to errors. To automate uploading volume data into SAP^® solutions, end users must petition the IT department to write programs. However, writing new programs to integrate Excel data with SAP^® solutions requires the allocation of already overburdened IT resources. This white paper describes how Winshuttle data management applications enable finance, accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, human resources and production planning teams to easily automate the incorporation of Excel data into an SAP^® solution, transforming business processes and maximizing productivity across the enterprise.

Easy Integration of Microsoft Office Excel with the SAP^® Business Suite for Financial Data
This white paper describes how SAP^® customers use Winshuttle^® solutions to automate the shuttling of financial data between Microsoft Excel and SAP transactions. This paper is written for business decision makers (BDMs) in medium or large enterprises who want to know more about how Winshuttle software can improve business productivity and optimize business operations.

Order to Cash
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 productivity. The paper is written for business decision makers (BDMs) in medium or large enterprises who have responsibility for the Order-to-Cash business process.
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People Ready Data Management
This white paper describes how SAP^® customers can use the Winshuttle People-Ready solutions to automate the transport of enterprise data into SAP transactions. Winshuttle solutions empower information workers to speed data integration, manage their own data, becoming stewards of their own data. This paper is written for business decision makers (BDMs) in medium or large enterprises who want to know more about how Winshuttle software can improve business productivity.
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An Easy Alternative to LSMW to Update Customer Master Records in SAP
The Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) is a technical tool provided by SAP to help with the data migrations during initial implementations. It is also used by some SAP customers to make mass changes to master data in SAP. This article describes an easy non-technical alternative to LSMW to update customer master records in SAP in fewer steps than LSMW, without technical involvement, and without requiring authorizations in SAP. Using the tools and techniques described in this article, hundreds of SAP customers are realizing vast productivity improvements in their SAP data loading and data update projects. Moreover, these projects are being carried out by business users themselves.
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Making Mass Changes to SAP Data in Record Time with Minimal Resources
Making mass changes to SAP master data or transactional data is a constant requirement in today’s fast-changing business environments. Mass data change projects, however, are resource-intensive, time consuming, and stressful both for the SAP business users and for IT analysts. This article describes some of the best practices that many companies have adopted and are able to make mass changes to SAP data in record time with minimal resources.
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Empowering Business Users to Automate Transfer of Spreadsheets to SAP
SAP brings centralized data repositories and many standardized processes to corporations worldwide; however, much corporate data still resides in spreadsheets. Business users are spending large amount of time and resources in re-entering such spreadsheet data into SAP, while the IT support staff is finding itself inundated with requests to transfer data between these spreadsheets and SAP. This white paper describes how many companies are realizing significant productivity gains by empowering the business users with tools to transfer their own data between spreadsheets and SAP.
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Easing Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance by Giving Business Users Control of Their Data
Two important principles guiding Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in IT are the separation of duties and least privilege. In the SAP environment, both these principles are easier to put in place by giving business users control of their own data – allowing them to carry out mass data creation, mass data updates, and repetitive reporting tasks themselves. This white paper describes some easy-to-use data management tools that many companies are using to let business users do complex data updates and reporting tasks effortlessly. This technology is not only easing their Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but is also saving these companies large amounts of time and money.
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Upload Excel Data to SAP: 7 Best Practices
Routine uploading of data from Excel files to SAP remains a thorny challenge facing many companies today. Business users are feeling the pain of manually re-keying Excel data into SAP; while programmers in IT departments are having to constantly write new programs to automate the upload of excel files to SAP. This article describes 7 best-practices that many companies have adopted in automating the upload of Excel data into SAP. Adopting these best practices will alleviate many of the pains that business users and IT analysts face in uploading Excel data to SAP.
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Best Practices in Using and Deploying TxShuttle
The TxShuttle software from Winshuttle is a very powerful and easy-to-use software intended for SAP business users and SAP functional analysts. The software enables these users to create or update data in SAP en-masse from Excel spreadsheets or Access databases. This document describes some best practices for using TxShuttle software and also the best practices for deploying the TxShuttle software throughout the enterprise. We first distinguish between three types of applications possible with TxShuttle and then as we introduce the various best-practices, we will also describe their relevance to each of the applications.
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