Business Suite Research Articles

An Overview on SAP S/4HANA Deployment Options and Transition Paths

SAP S/4HANA is the next generation SAP business suite software. It is the digital core of your organization and is designed to run an Intelligent Enterprise. Many SAP ECC customers are planning for their transition to SAP S/4HANA. SAP ECC customers are in confusion on the approach to move to SAP S/4HANA and choosing a deployment option. There are Three different approaches for moving to SAP S/4HANA.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ТАРГЕТОВАНОЇ РЕКЛАМИ В ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ВІТЧИЗНЯНОГО БІЗНЕСУ

The article outlines the general features of using targeted advertising for Ukrainian business. The popularity and relevance of advertising in social networks is substantiated through the prism of the large number of Facebook users, and argumentative factors from prominent practitioners-scientists are provided. The definition of targeted advertising from different people, namely: practitioners, scientists, businessmen was analyzed and a summary statement was presented. According to the Ukrainian Advertising Coalition, it has been determined that the digital advertising market in Ukraine is gradually recovering after the first year of the war and is taking on new forms. A comparative analysis of the advantages of using advertising in social networks has been carried out and the disadvantages that may be present in the work process have been contrasted. The key characteristics of running each level of targeted advertising in Facebook Ads Manager are defined. The work describes the main elements when setting up targeted advertising, namely: audience types, advertising goals, stages of the client's journey through the sales funnel. It has been determined that Ukrainians are quite picky when viewing advertisements, it is difficult to impress them, so the success of targeted advertising requires creative photos, videos and texts that will be unique and will be able to engage customers, regardless of the stage of the sales funnel. A fairly popular way of advertising – promoting posts on Instagram and the advantages of more professional implementation through Meta Business Suite is also analyzed. The importance of a personal and business Facebook page for launching targeted advertising is noted, because Meta algorithms often block suspicious users, so this is an important element in preparation. You also need to be aware of the requirements for what you can advertise and follow to avoid being permanently banned. That is, targeted advertising is a good way to promote business both in the B2C and B2B sphere, as it is close to the user who spends a lot of time on social networks every day, and considering that paid promotion in Tik Tok is prohibited in Ukraine, the target is still the only one way of advertising in social networks.

ROSE ACCOUNTING SERVICES platform from ORACLE BUSINESS SUITE as an alternative to 1c for automation of accounting, financial and management accounting in Ukraine

Traditional systems of accounting, financial and management accounting in Ukraine and the world are becoming more and more automated. The COVID-19 pandemic and military aggression accelerated these processes. Therefore, the use of a digital accounting office and cloud platforms in the daily work of an accountant is quite relevant. However, the modern realities of doing business in Ukraine require the search for an alternative product and replacement of the existing and widespread 1C program for the automation of accounting, financial and management accounting. The subject of the study is the functionality of the ROSE ACCOUNTING SERVICES platform from ORACLE BUSINESS SUITE for accounting, financial and management accounting. The purpose is to review and familiarize with the ROSE ACCOUNTING SERVICES program from ORACLE BUSINESS SUITE, as an alternative to using the 1C program. In view of this, the task of the work is to get acquainted with the functional modules of the proposed program. In the course of the study, such empirical methods as description were applied - to familiarize with general information about the functionality of the ROSE AS program, and theoretical - explanation and classification - for a more detailed study of the existing modules. The obtained results indicate the compliance of the proposed program with the requirements for effective accounting, financial and management accounting in Ukraine. Conclusions: the use of the proposed ROSE ACCOUNTING SERVICES platform from ORACLE BUSINESS SUITE for the automation of accounting, financial and management accounting at Ukrainian enterprises can become a worthy alternative to the use of the 1C program and meets the requirements for accounting, financial and management accounting in Ukraine

DE07 Enhancing social media engagement for Clinical and Experimental Dermatology: the educational journal of the British Association of Dermatologists: a quality improvement project

Abstract Social media is an efficient method for direct communication between a journal, clinicians and patients. Increased social media engagement also increases the impact factor of medical journals (O’Kelly F, Nason GJ, Manecksha RP et al. The effect of social media (#SoMe) on journal impact factor and parental awareness in paediatric urology. J Pediatr Urol 2017; 13:513). The aim of this quality improvement project was to assess the impact of three interventions on social media success (defined as reach, engagement or follower count) of the Clinical and Experimental Dermatology Instagram page (@ced_journal), founded in July 2020. Impact on reach, engagement and follower count was investigated after each intervention cycle. Cycle 1 (April–June 2022) investigated the impact of a checkerboard grid design to increase visual appeal, standardized journal branding and a consistent posting schedule. User analytics revealed a large proportion of Middle Eastern followers, and, therefore, cycle 2 (July–October 2022) used non-English hashtags to target these audiences. Cycle 3 (November–December 2022) investigated the boost in engagement through encouraging authors who had recently published in the journal to post their publication on their personal accounts and tag the journal. Qualitative data were gathered from the Meta Business Suite and directly from the Instagram page. Data were analysed using GraphPad. Cycle 1 resulted in mean increases in content reach by 568% (P < 0.001), unique profile visits by 281% (P = 0.014) and number of new followers by 642% (P = 0.188). Cycle 2 demonstrated a mean increase in the number of new followers by 194% (P = 0.025) but did not significantly increase the reach (P = 0.414) or number of new profile visits (P = 0.410). There was no significant increase in reach (P = 0.229), unique profile visits (P = 0.055) or number of new followers (P = 0.397) in cycle 3. This study demonstrates improvements in social media success following cycles 1 and 2. Cycle 3 results emphasize the importance of novel interventions in further varying content to maintain and further increase engagement, as well as studying additional factors that influence engagement, such as standardized journal branding across all social media platforms. Overall, this study emphasizes the effectiveness of innovative and interactive education resources for disseminating dermatology research among scientific and nonscientific users, which can be adopted by other dermatology journals.

Teste Talk: A trial social media campaign to improve awareness of testicular torsion.

Adolescent males are particularly prone to testicular torsion, often resulting in subsequent orchiectomy. A lack of knowledge about testicular pathologies, as well as hesitancy to discuss genital concerns, are fundamental, preventable barriers to early presentation. We hypothesized that a social media campaign to improve awareness of testicular torsion and other urological conditions affecting adolescents may overcome such barriers in this population. A social media campaign, "Teste Talk," was created and promoted on Instagram and Facebook. Data was collected from June 1 to December 1, 2021. Instagram followers, Facebook page likes, Instagram and Facebook reach, post likes, Instagram follower demographics, and advertisement data were reviewed. Data was collected using Meta Business Suite. Paid promotions to improve awareness of the campaign were targeted towards 13-18-year-old males in Alberta and were funded by the Undergraduate Research Initiative Support Fund. The campaign reached 26 072 Instagram accounts and 14 741 Facebook accounts. The Instagram page amassed 382 followers, while the Facebook page accumulated 99 likes. Paid advertisements were seen 81 136 times on Instagram and Facebook. Instagram surveys demonstrated that over the study period, followers had an increased awareness of testicular torsion and how to recognize it. No patients presenting with torsion during the study period admitted to seeing the campaign. Testicular torsion remains a significant issue among adolescent males, and creative ways to disseminate information and increase knowledge and conversations about testicular pathologies are needed. Social media campaigns present a potential pathway for increasing awareness and reducing delays to presentation and orchiectomies.

The SAP S/4HANA system and digital transformation in organizations

In the midst of technological advances and recurrent cyber attacks that affect the data systems of different organizations, the search for automation and acceleration in a structured way are the triggers for the beginning of the modernization of processes in Information Technology (IT). The SAP system, of German origin, is considered a strong system and has been used by medium and large companies, national and multinational. It has specific characteristics, such as automation and agility for internal processes, use of robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI), all of which is stored in the cloud. A SAP system promotes improvements in customer service, inventory control and purchasing needs, avoids or minimizes product losses, streamlining sales processes, asset management and allowing greater ease in consolidating information, including for administrative, accounting and financial sectors. In this context, SAP S/4HANA, or “SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA”, is the newest generation of the set of business solutions; is the most advanced version, created to simplify all transactions between organizations, as well as in their internal processes. As a research methodology, bibliographical research was adopted to answer the following question: how to secure data, optimize internal processes and ensure greater agility and savings for organizations? The objective of the article is to present the concepts inherent to each of the mentioned aspects, and to demonstrate the effectiveness of using the SAP S/4HANA system.

Business Process Improvement (BPI) with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Financial & Control (FICO) and Procurement Modules Using SAP S/4 HANA to Handle Non-Banking Processes in Case Study: PT Bank Mantap

PT Bank Mantap is a private bank that manages pension funds in Indonesia. Currently, banking and non-banking process are handled by the Core Banking application. However, in the non-banking process, it is just limited in making a journal, the other non-banking processes are still done manually, so it takes a long time. This is causes various problem, such as the results of calculation of transaction data are less accurate, the process of making journals takes a long time, information between Finance and Procurement department is not integrated and the purchase request form is not standardized. From those problems, PT Bank Mantap has difficulty analyzing its financial data. Therefore, PT Bank Mantap conducts Business Process Improvement (BPI) by improving existing business processes by implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Finance & Controlling (FICO) and Procurement modules using SAP S/4 HANA. It is the latest generation of the business suite from SAP that can help customers to simplify the company business process in an integrated environment. The results of this implementation can solve the problems encountered in which business processes become more effective, integrated, and the calculation results of transaction data become more accurate.

ERP системи та їх місце в управлінському обліку.

The article investigates foreign and locally produced ERP systems, namely: SAP R/3, SAP Business One, Oracle Business Suite, Microsoft Dynamics, BAS ERP. It disables the assignment of many hardware and software components - modules which include: production resource planning, customer relationship management, supply process management, human resources management, financial resources management, etc. The practical experience of implementing SAP ERP on the instance of the Fast-Ukraine (Shvydko Ukraine) and BAS ERP on the instance of the company UKRAVIT is analyzed. The list of companies that use ERP systems is marked. Based on the generalization of scientific sources, the advantages and disadvantages of implementing ERP have been determined. The main tendencies of change of ERP systems in resent years are underlined.

S/4HANA: EARLY ADOPTERS, SUCCESSES AND FAILURES

In this research project, we will be discussing SAP’s next big ERP Suite which could very well define the future of the company. SAP is betting big on S/4HANA to help establish themselves in an increasingly competitive global market. It is the next-generation business suite designed to facilitate the smooth operations of an organization in a digital, dynamic, interconnected and ever-changing economy. SAP S/4HANA had been designed to leverage in-memory computing to expedite data-intensive processes while ensuring a quality product is delivered to the customer. SAP has developed an ERP solution which integrates and assimilates real-time analytics, real-time applications on a real-time platform. Real-time Analytics enables massive parallel processing with in-memory column storage architecture. The S/4HANA platform offers libraries for text processing, spatial & business analytics, predictive planning which makes it ideal for implementing next generation, real-time applications & analytics. Some of the benefits that could be had from the S/4HANA suite include useable/actionable information from a myriad of data, business with rapid reporting and analysis, reduced Total Cost of Ownership due to diminished requirements for hardware and maintenance.

Handling of the demilitarized zone using service providers in SAP

External collaboration needs to allow data access from the Internet. In a trusted Internet collaboration scenario where the external user works on the same data like the internal user direct access to the data in the Intranet is required. The paper presents a solution to get access to certain data in the Enterprise Resource Planning system, having the User Interface on a system in the Demilitarized Zone and the database on a system which is located in the trusted area. Using the Service Provider Interface framework, connections between separate systems can be created in different areas of the network. The paper demonstrates how to connect the two systems, one in the Demilitarized Zone and one in the trusted area, using SAP ERP 6.0 with Enhancement Package 7. In order to use the Service Provider Interface SAP Business Suite Foundation component must be installed in both systems. The advantage of using the Service Provider Interface framework is that the external user works on the same data like the internal user (and not on copies). This assures data consistency and less overhead for backup and security systems.

Forecast to Plan Cycle in Oracle E Business Suite (Case Study Automotive Company)

Forecast to Plan Cycle in Oracle E Business Suite (Case Study Automotive Company)

Fast updates on read-optimized databases using multi-core CPUs

Read-optimized columnar databases use differential updates to handle writes by maintaining a separate write-optimized delta partition which is periodically merged with the read-optimized and compressed main partition. This merge process introduces significant overheads and unacceptable downtimes in update intensive systems, aspiring to combine transactional and analytical workloads into one system. In the first part of the paper, we report data analyses of 12 SAP Business Suite customer systems. In the second half, we present an optimized merge process reducing the merge overhead of current systems by a factor of 30. Our linear-time merge algorithm exploits the underlying high compute and bandwidth resources of modern multi-core CPUs with architecture-aware optimizations and efficient parallelization. This enables compressed in-memory column stores to handle the transactional update rate required by enterprise applications, while keeping properties of read-optimized databases for analytic-style queries.

End Users at the Bazaar: Designing Next-Generation Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Studying changing software architectures from an end-user development perspective inspires an enterprise resource planning architecture that lets end users create their own solutions.The "bazaar," a notion Eric Raymond coined, is a well-known metaphor for a software engineering model that developers often use in open source projects. In this model, software development is in view of the public, which means that anyone has access to the source code and can change, improve, test, and use it. Open source projects such as Firefox or the ADempiere ERP Business Suite have produced high-quality results, indicating that bazaar-like software engineering models are effective.

Teaching with Enterprise Systems

Teaching with Enterprise Systems