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SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe extends the power of SAP solutions with the versatility and accessibility of collaborative electronic forms documentation. It enables you to streamline and automate your paper-based business processes, as well as to extend the reach of enterprise applications to company executives, partners, customers, and suppliers.
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SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe – How it works?
- Complete a form with the Adobe Reader software while online or offline
- Role based pre-population of dataRole based pre-population of data
- Online and offline
- Submit by email, upload or portal based workflows
- The system automatically transfers the data from the form to the SAP application using XML
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Interactive Forms Scenarios
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Interactive Advantage: Finance - Process Improvements
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| Vendor Payments - Slow and error-prone |
Efficient Vendor Payments |
- Invoices received in paper forms
- Data re-entry in ERP system
- Payment runs
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- Adode forms based invoices directly triggering the workflows for approval
- No Data re-entry.Faster payment runs
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| Employee Re-imbursements - slow and non-uniform work load |
Faster Employee Re-imbursements and uniform work load |
- Employee have to spend time while in office to file reimbursement
- Delayed reimbursement fillings leading to reimbursement pile-ups towards the month or quarter end
- Productivity of the employees reduced. Filling cumbersome forms instead of performing business tasks
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- Offline forms for travel re-imbursements
- Improved productivity. Can be filled anywhere even without access to SAP system
- Reduced reimbursement pile-ups. Uniform distribution
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| Govenrment and legal compliance |
Government and legal compliance |
- Re-enter the information in various regulatory forms
- Archiving huge number of paper records
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- Automatic creation of regulatory forms
- Can be archived in soft PDF format
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Interactive Advantage: Sales and Marketing - Process Improvements
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| Sales and Service order entry and reporting - Slow and error-prone |
Fast, simple and accurate Sales and Service order entry and reporting |
- No remote or offline access, re-typing and error prone
- No standard and automated way to capture sales reports from dealers and sales force
- Complex and time consuming order entry forms
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- Simple interactive PDF offline forms for automated order entry and reporting
- Standard reporting formats without need to reenter the data in mulitiple systems
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| Administartive Processes - slow and time consuimg |
Easy and automated administrative Processes |
- Sales executives spending a lot of time in filing expense reports,travel reports and other administrative work
- Producitivity of the employees reduced. Filling cumbersome forms instead of generating business
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- Sales executives using easy and automated processes with Adobe offline forms for filling expense reports , travel reports and other administartive work
- Concentrating on business generation.No or very little time consumes in administrative processes
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| Ineffective Lead management |
Effective Lead Management |
- Loss of leads due to non-accessibility of system remotely
- Slower lead response time
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- Offline and remote forms enable accurate capture of lead in right format and in time
- Faster lead response time
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Interactive Advantage: Procurement and Materials - Process Improvements
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| Cumbersome material master creation |
Fast, simple and accurate material master creation |
- Paper or spreadsheets based creation
- No standard, automated and fast way to capture various views of material master
- Manual workflows
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- Paperless process - can work even offline. Form based validations for ensuring accuracy
- Standard, automated and fast capture of various material master views
- Automated workflows with EP and adobe forms
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| Tedious quotation compilation |
Easy and automated administrative Processes |
- Non-standard format of quotations recieved from different suppliers
- Manual and time consuming compilations
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- Adobe forms based standard quotation templates
- Automatic data capture in SAP system. No Compilations
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| Time consuming material receipts |
Fast abd accurate material receipts |
- Disconnected processes with suppliers
- Time consuming unloading and goods receipts process
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- Offline Adobe forms based templates for ASN,Challan and Goods Receipts
- Faster and accurate
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Interactive Advantage: HR and IT - Process Improvements
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| Show and Manual HR Processes |
Fast and automated HR Processes |
- Slow new employee induction process
- Disconnected Performance Management process
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- Offline Adobe form for "My First Day"
- Adobe forms and EP based offline/online performance management workflows
- Easy and automated administrative processes
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| Slow IT Processes |
Fast IT Problem resolutions |
- Paper based or manual IT hardware and software request
- Slow resolution of IT trouble tickets
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- Adobe forms based offline templates for IT ticket creation and software/hardware requests
- High employee productivity
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Business Problems
Limitations of paper-based forms processes
- Paper forms are error-prone and easily outdated
- Processes require manual data re-entry
- Process status is hard to track
- Paper forms produce high costs (e.g. Production, storage)
Casual users are typically unfamiliar with Enterprise applications
- Need a more intuitive way to deliver apps to the casual user
Compliance
- Can’t get away from paper based processes to comply with government laws and regulations
Limited or no access to SAP
- External Users (Suppliers, dealers and mobile employees) are disconnected from processes
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The Solution: Interactive Advantage
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SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe extends the power of SAP solutions with the versatility and accessibility of collaborative electronic forms documentation. It enables you to streamline and automate your paper-based business processes, as well as to extend the reach of enterprise applications to company executives, partners, customers, and suppliers.
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Personalized: Provide customers and employees with personalized forms generated directly from SAP applications
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Interactive: Capture data that can flow directly back to SAP system - eliminating the need for error prone, manual data input
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Customizable: Customize forms to meet your specific business needs
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Intuitive: Designed to reflect the familiar "look and feel" of the paper forms they replace Allow users to print forms
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Extend the reach: Enterprise applications can reach much broader set of users – dealers, suppliers, customers, employees on move with off-line forms
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Tightly Integrated with SAP applications with automatic workflow trigger capability.
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Make the Complex Simple. Make the Simple Transparent
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