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SAP solutions for the bakery trade

R S A G , P OT S D A M , G E R M A N Y, H A S W O R K E D O U T A B A K E R Y S P E C I F I C S O LU T I O N F O R B U S I N E S S
ALL-I N-ON E, AN E R P SYST E M BY SAP TARG E T I NG M E DI U M-S IZ E D E NTE R PR I S E S

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SAP, former software supplier for the large industrial

companies of this world, discovered SMEs some time
ago and developed three ERP solutions for such companies:

Business One is a corporate software supporting management, production, purchasing, stock-keeping, service, financing and distribution. It is an industry-specific implementation for the baking industry, originating also from RS
AG. Business One is aimed at companies employing between
10 and 100 people and having two users.
Business All-in-One is a complete ERP system for SMEs
geared at companies with a staff of 100 to 500 and 10-50
ERP users. In the past, this system was only available for
producers of components or small series, automotive suppliers as well as processors of metals and plastics. In the
meantime, a version for the food industry has been developed; the bakery-specific version is produced by RS AG.
Business by Design is the latest ERP product from Walldorf,
Germany, the headquarters of SAP. Contrary to the other
two solutions, this one is not for sale but can be used within
the scope of a leasing agreement. The system whereby the
customer virtually pre-configures himself online, is still in
the test phase. The system is interesting because it offers access to many specific SAP solutions which can only be
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bought as expensive individual tools. Nevertheless, firsthand reports sound rather skeptical, and presumably it will
take some more time until a bakery-specific solution has
been developed.
In its attempt to open the SMEs market, SAP is focusing on
individual industries. For the Focus Bakery Products, SAP
found RS AG as its partner. RS AG is not new to the baking
industry; with its own ERP solution RS 5, it serves several
European industrial and chain store bakeries.
Within the scope of the partnership with SAP, RS AG developed the ERP system Business All-in-One by SAP into a
product currently being implemented at two large German
chain store bakeries.
SAPs Business All-in-One for the food industry can be used
in several areas in the bakery field ranging from purchasing
to production planning and chain store management.
The software package
With the bakery solution of SAP Business All-in-One Food,
the following processes are included in the standard implementation package:
+ Purchasing and incoming goods handling
+ Material management, recipes

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Production planning including recipe details

Sales including telephone sales
Order proposals/permanent orders
Inventory control, returned products
Order picking, transportation and route planning
Chain store management, snacks, management of bank
holidays
+ Finance and accounting, cost calculation/controlling,
assets accounting
+ Bank and treasury functions, monetary transactions, Datev
+ Information system, business warehouse

Three months for standard implementation

The processes are pre-set for bakeries and documented. Optionally, the following processes can be imaged fitting the
company-specific requirements:

Upon request, SAP will host the system and the live operation of the SAP system at a flat rate.
For the user support, RS AG provides experienced personnel
as well as the SAP and bakery industry expertise.
The standard implementation of the SAP software in a bakery with 30 sales outlets, 8 professional users, 30 chain store
licenses and MS SQL server 2007 will cost, as a package,
58,500.00 Euros excl. VAT to include implementation and 25
days of training. +++

+ Product development processes including recipe

management
+ Interface to existing processes (e.g. toolbox, dosing scales)
+ Linking to chain store cashier systems (e.g. Casio, Vectron,

Sharp, Bizerba)
Quality control, batches and best-before dates
Capacity planning and forecast
Distribution of surplus and under-production
Business with trade chains, display handling and
management
+ Chain store control, chain store evaluation, control of
inventory at chain stores
+ Bakery-specific statistics
+ Payroll accounting, personnel planning, staff time
recording
+ Maintenance
+ Property management (e.g. rental agreements)
+ Integration into existing IT environment (MDE, scanner,
link to scales, EDI, logistics service company)
+ Returnable packaging and returns handling
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The SAP partner RS AG has many years of experience in the

bakery industry. They offer to implement the SAP bakery
solution at a flat rate within three months (standard implementation) increasing to six months (for optional additional processes). This includes the project management, implementation of the scope agreed on, technical installation of
the system, on-the-job training for the main user, templates
for data migration, forms and print-outs, SAP standard reports, go live and maintenance.

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