Title :
Sales configuration in business processes
Author_Institution :
SAP Labs. Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract :
Work is underway to enhance SAP´s R/3 business software suite with a sales configuration engine. With the SCE, which is out in a beta version to select customers, users will be able to deal with configurable products on either a laptop or attached to R/3. The author gives an outlook on the general problem of adding a sales configurator to SAP´s R/3 business software suite and outline specific work to provide enhanced high-level configuration capabilities in the SCE. The SCE represents the third generation of sales configuration at SAP. It is implemented in Java, and, in its present form, runs on a standalone machine, such as a laptop. It will be an integral part of SAP´s Sales-Force-Automation tool and plans are to reembed it into R/3
Keywords :
integrated software; sales management; software packages; Java; R/3 business software suite; business processes; configurable products; high-level configuration capabilities; sales configuration engine; standalone machine; Companies; Ergonomics; Internet; Java; Manufacturing processes; Marketing and sales; Packaging; Portable computers; Search engines; World Wide Web;
Journal_Title :
Intelligent Systems and their Applications, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/5254.708436
