Zedach eG, an organization centralizing the purchasing of thousands of roofer companies, decided to implement a mobile solution to become more efficient. msc mobile was chosen to implement the solution. This implementation, as well as many similar ones we have completed in the past, has taught us some important lessons. But before we get to those, let’s look at the facts for this particular project.
On top of centralizing the purchasing of other companies, Zedach sell all kind of material and equipment that is required to perform their work. This includes hundreds of different tiles, thousands of different screws and nails, solar panels, windows in all sizes, and many more. In total Zedach has a product catalog of about 400,000 items.
To be more efficient, Zedach decided to implement a mobile solution that allows their sales reps to sell via tablets, even without a network connection. The goal was to make the most important transactions from SAP always available. Zedach had the following requirements for the solution:
Zedach selected msc mobile’s Sales Plus for SAP ERP, an application that runs on the SAP Mobile Platform (SMP) and that is available in the SAP Store. SAP Afaria was implemented in order to manage and secure the mobile devices and to use it for application deployment as well. As final piece to the puzzle, SAP Business Objects Mobile was integrated with Sales Plus to display some of the required reports and to allow the user to jump from Sales Plus directly into the selected report in the Business Objects Mobile app.
We did a lot of similar implementations in the past and, based on those experiences as well as on what we learned at Zedach, we wrote a list of lessons learned, that should help you tackle your mobile implementations:
Zedach successfully went live with the solution in April 2014 and has been using it since then. In the meantime we have implemented many new features and upgraded the landscape to SMP 2.3.3 and Sales Plus 1.1.
I hope this gave you a good insight why this project was such a success. Which experience did you gather in SMP based rollouts? I would really appreciate any comment below!
About the author: thomas.weber15 Thomas is working at msc mobile as Project Manager and Product Manager for Sales Plus for SAP ERP, a mobile sales solution based on the SAP Mobile Platform and SAP ERP. Before this assignment Thomas was in various positions at SAP, IBM, and other SAP consulting companies.. |
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