Business Analytics Made Easy for SAP

Business Analytics made easy for SAP

The standard software for monitoring and optimizing your operational processes

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Every Angle Software Solutions has been included in the list of Cool Vendors in the “Cool Vendors in the SAP Ecosystem, 2011” report by Gartner, Inc. Once a year,

the list of Cool Vendors is published by the world’s leading analyst firm and consists of companies with innovative solutions to common issues taxing SAP users.

Every Angle offers a powerful tool to make business analytics easy for SAP run businesses.

Read more about the Gartner report Cool Vendors in the SAP Ecosystem on:

www.everyangle.com or www.gartner.com

Gartner: “Every Angle is a Cool Vendor”

Thank you for your interest in Every Angle. This brochure will give you a clear overview of what the Every Angle solution can offer you.

Managing your operational performance shouldn’t be difficult. Every Angle unlocks the data of your existing SAP system to make business analytics easy. Designed to help you improve your processes for SCM, Financials, Plant Maintenance and HR, it brings the accessibility of information back to the business users. Without involvement of IT,

users can create any report or execute any analytics they want, fast and easy. Every Angle is an SAP certified solution, following the rule of 3s: 3 days to implement the system, 3 minutes to define your question and 3 seconds to get answers.

Fred Hermans, CEO

Foreword

Introducing Every Angle

Proof of Every Angle

Customer case study: Heineken Netherlands Supply

Guaranteed results for your business

Guaranteed results for your IT environment

Every Angle - the company

Every Angle and BI

Every Angle on SAP ERP system

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04 | Every Angle

Introducing Every AngleEvery Angle is the ultimate Operational Business Analytics solution that provides companies with the tools for a quick, flexible and agile response to changes and for optimizing their processes. With Every Angle you can produce useful overviews in no time, based on information from your own SAP ERP. Fred Holvast, Logistics Director at Heineken Netherlands Supply (HNS), about his experiences with this solution “Every Angle and the KPI Dashboard are excellent tools that give the breweries’ management more control over the performance of their supply chain”. The world is changing rapidly and customers are becoming more demanding. Every Angle is the ideal solution that will offer business users the flexibility to respond to changes and to the changing customer demands, by presenting data quickly, clearly and comprehensively.

Managing KPIsWith the current growing need for information it is hardly surprising

that more and more companies choose SAP as their ERP supplier.

SAP is considered the best transaction system in the world. SAP

and Every Angle, used as an Operational Business Analytics system,

offer an ideal solution.

The solution: Every AngleThe Every Angle out-of-the-box solution, as an Operational Business

Analytics system on SAP ERP, offers advantages that may seem

obviously simple. Because of the speed, user friendliness and

intuitive GUI of Every Angle, it is easy for users to quickly identify

the information they need. Goal oriented KPIs can be created quickly

and changed if necessary, users can drill down directly from the KPIs

to the underlying detailed information so it immediately becomes

clear what to aim for.

This combination is the greatest strength of the solution. With this

knowledge, Every Angle is capable of automatically converting SAP

data into useful information that is easy to use and immediately

available to business users, without the need for them to understand

the underlying SAP tables and logic. This makes Every Angle

a unique and powerful system, allowing users to get started

immediately. We are experts in SAP and we give you unparalleled

clarity into SAP data, combined with predictive intelligence that

keeps your business processes flowing. Every Angle enables you

to maximize performance across your organization and achieve

bottom line results.

The results for any SAP run organizationAfter a quick implementation with low consult ancy costs, business

users can start using Every Angle immediately, with tangible

results. Users will have control over their own processes and they

will have end-to-end visibility into their business processes. It will

also make them work more efficiently. Thanks to Every Angle, users

can respond quicker to changes, making it easier to control on the

basis of KPIs. Furthermore, the quality of the SAP system is

enhanced simply by the fact that it is easier to clean data and for

users to work with SAP. Confidence in SAP and SAP user

satisfaction both increase. Once implemented, the normal payback

time for Every Angle is mere days.

Proof of Every Angle We would like to leave it to our customers to explain that our

solution offers added value. Take a look at the videos of our

customers at www.everyangle.com/video

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Management will want to use straight forward, reliable and flexible

operational KPIs and users want to be able to create their own

operational reports as soon as needed. Instead of Every Angle, other

systems such as Excel and Access are used for similar tasks. These

are systems that do not integrate with SAP or any of the operational

processes, which means it can take hours or even days to create the

regularly required operational reports and overviews. The greatest

risk here is that, when many different versions of the truth are

created, it is extremely unsafe to make business decisions. Also, it is

not always possible to sort the data into certain combinations, which

is essential in order to obtain a correct insight into, for example, the

delivery reliability, stock positions or order status (KPIs).

Why Every Angle can do what other suppliers cannot Every Angle is the only solution that is autonomously capable of fully

understanding SAP data and converting it to business information

that can be used immediately. This is possible because all the ins and

outs of the SAP system are built into Every Angle, including the logic

that is incorporated in the ERP system. In addition to this in-depth

SAP knowledge, Every Angle is also richly embedded with built-in

intelligence of operational processes. This built-in intelligence links

all related SAP information, which makes it easy for users to have all

pertinent information in one overview, drill down to details and draw

logic conclusions.

In a rapidly . changing world .

information needs . to be more agile .

than the business. .

3 days

3 minutes

3 seconds

to implement

to define an Angle

to get answers

Every Angle knows that speed, ease-of-use and a minimal burden

on your employees are high on your list of priorities when

choosing a useful software solution. Consequently, it is important

for you to know that our solution is operational in just three days,

that it takes only three minutes to make an Angle and no more

than three seconds to get the answers you need.

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Dashboard Engine provides Heineken supply chain overviews. “The successful implementation of

Every Angle has had many positive effects. Staff members now have a more accurate and up to date view of the achieved performance of HNS, which has motivated them to realize good scores. I also expect that the increased understanding of the relationship between the different KPIs will lead to a continuous optimization cycle.”

Anton de Romijn, Strategic Supply Chain Analyst at Heineken Netherlands

“Every Angle and the KPI Dashboard help the management of the breweries to get a better grip on the overall performance of the supply chain, which will ultimately help Heineken Netherlands to service its domestic and international customers better against lower cost.”

Fred Holvast, Logistics Director at Heineken Netherlands

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Customer case study: Heineken Netherlands SupplyThe KPI Dashboard of Every Angle at Heineken Netherlands Supply (HNS) is used in addition to the Every Angle standard Operational Business Analytics add-on. Every Angle was initially used to improve data quality and reliability as well as quickly obtain difficult to access SAP data. A very powerful additional gain to implementing Every Angle was that it improved the sentiment and attitude towards SAP in a very short time. Users suddenly saw more clearly the benefit of the SAP system and the way it helps Heineken to execute their daily processes in an efficient way.

Management issuesEvery Angle became a powerful tool to help management and staff

members to answer questions regarding overall stock levels in order

to reduce working capital, measure the conformance to the

schedule of departures of vessels from the Port of Rotterdam, and

even determine the carbon footprint of HNS.

S&OP and the Every Angle KPI Dashboard EngineHeineken is one of the first companies in the world using the Every

Angle Dashboard Engine within the area of Sales & Operations

Planning. The KPIs are presented on an easily accessible (internal)

website of HNS and consist of several stock overviews, service

levels, lead times in the supply chain and measurements for forecast

accuracy and bias. Usually, the interpretation and analysis of this

kind of data is a well known, notoriously difficult exercise, but by

using the new Every Angle ETL tool set, this topic is solved with

a minimum of effort. An overview of the most important KPIs of

Heineken Netherlands is presented as a balanced score card.

In a historic overview, Heineken’s management can quickly evaluate

the progress on the KPIs, compare the performance with pre-set

targets, and slice & dice the data using the powerful and intuitive

drill down functionality of the KPI Dashboard. The data for this S&OP

Dashboard is provided by the Every Angle Dashboard Engine mainly

from SAP, but also from sources in Oracle, SQL and even Excel.

ResultsThe results Heineken gained by implementing Every Angle are very

positive. The Return on Investment (ROI) of the overall investment

was achieved in a relatively short period.

The most important results are:

• improved data reliability in master data and transaction data

• improved user acceptance and better use of the SAP system

• stronger grip on the overall performance of the supply chain

• lower stocks

• better, faster management information

• improved KPI measurement.

The logistic objectives of HNSThe logistic objectives that follow from this integrated strategy can

loosely be defined as:

1. Doing the right things (being effective):

• pre-set service and quality

• being the best in class for new product introductions (i.e. cost level

and time to market).

2. Doing the right things right - the first time (being efficient) by:

• being the best in class for productivity

• ensuring sustained low (transfer) prices

• reducing working capital.

“Every Angle is a nice tool to make sure that people don’t only hear weekly what their performance was, but also have the tool to monitor their performance on a daily basis.”

Erik Brouwer,

Director of Supply Chain Management

in Northwest Europe at Perfetti Van

Melle

“Every Angle is an important ‘enabler’ of logistics improvements. Every Angle has provided us with a far better overview of the inter- relationship between production and components, which has enabled us to plan more efficiently. This has resulted in a huge efficiency improvement for Stork Food Systems.”

Frans Faber,

Supply Chain Manager at Stork Food

Systems

“For us, Every Angle is a powerful tool that provides us with a better insight into our processes and how those processes interrelate. Our users couldn’t imagine working without Every Angle anymore and from an IT perspective I can only say that Every Angle requires hardly any maintenance.”

Jan-Willem van der Meere,

Regional IT Manager for the region

Northwest Europe and North America

at Perfetti Van Melle

Guaranteed results for your business

• improved service levels• time savings• more efficient supply chain• faster results• decreasing costs of logistics and stocks• lead time and risk reduction.

With Every Angle, your staff can focus fully on solving operational problems. This way you can use their knowledge, intelligence and time to keep ahead of the competition.

“One concrete result of Every Angle was that we were able to reduce our obsolete stock over the past 18 months from 3.5 to almost 1.5 million Euros.”

Han van Manen,

Stock Manager at Struyk Verwo Infra

Results Stork Food Systems

• In a six-month period, Stork Food Systems has

managed to significantly improve the delivery

reliability of suppliers. This had a tremendous

impact on the plant’s production efficiency,

which has increased by 20 percent.

• The reliability of data in the SAP system has

increased and bottlenecks have been eradicated

from the production system.

Results Perfetti Van Melle

• Cleaner master data.

• Quicker action on the basis of faster and more

transparent reports.

• Quicker flagging-up of potential unsaleables,

such as products with a best-before-date and

packaging materials without dependent need.

• Improved reporting on the status of sales orders.

• Improved insight into purchasing packages and

distribution across suppliers.

• SAP users have gained more understanding of

their role in the business process.

• Thanks to Every Angle, users have a better

understanding of the entire business process.

“Many IT projects are ‘plug and pray’, but Every Angle actually did deliver ‘plug and play’ within 3 days which is absolutely perfect.”

Peter Scherpenisse,

Group Project Manager at Kverneland

Group

“Simple ad-hoc reports are created directly by the end users with help of Every Angle. This saves the SAP Competence Center a lot of work creating customized reports and downloads from SAP.”

Roy Coenders,

Competence Center SAP at Stork Food

Systems

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“Unlike normal IT projects, in which change management is one of the most important components, in the case of Every Angle the driving force behind it all came from the users. They were enthusiastic and wanted to start using it. So the change management effort in an Every Angle project is absolutely zero.”

Johan Neuteboom,

Project Manager at DSM

“Validation is very important in the Pharmaceutical Industry, as human lives are at stake. Every Angle simplifies this validation.”

Patrick Spit,

Senior Business Information Manager

at Astellas

“The way we are using Every Angle at Sulzer is of added value. IT persons like me are notbothered with boring queries and writing ABAPs, we can spend our time on improving the processes.”

Truus Zorg,

IS Manager at Sulzer

“We firmly believe Every Angle ‘opens up the black box of SAP’ and provides business critical data that can be executed by the business users.”

Graeme Clelland,

Business Intelligence Analyst (EMEA)

at Cargill

Guaranteed results for your IT environment

• improved provision of information with SAP BI

• improvement of SAP user satisfaction• reduction of IT costs• up and running in one week• better data quality• standardized and manageable control

information.

Linking Every Angle to SAP is very easy because Every Angle is a standard, SAP certified add-on. Our add-on works for all SAP releases from SAP R/3 4.0B up to and including the latest version. Managing the solution is as simple as the implementation.

Results Astellas

• Reduce validation. Astellas only had to validate

Every Angle once at implementation.

• Reduce support levels (need hardly any help from IT).

• Have business users make and run their

own reports.

• Roll-out Every Angle to other departments,

such as Finance, O2C and APO.

• Create forecasting accuracy reports to assess

the forecasting KPIs.

• Use Every Angle as a prototyping tool to define

reports in SAP BW. This saves Astellas valuable

time and resources.

Results Sulzer

• Sulzer was able to reduce the stocks by 66%.

• The company increased the delivery reliability

from 45% to 95%.

• Sulzer reduced the number of open orders in

SAP from 2200 to 600.

“I was in denial for half a year. After a PoC I had no story left: Every Angle is just much cheaper, quicker, our users really wanted the product and it offered a whole new type of functionality.”

Aloys Kregting,

CIO at DSM

“Every Angle is a system that I introduced to our organization. All our users are immensely happy with it.”

Joe Thaninayagam,

CIO at Coats

10 | Every Angle

Every Angle - the companyEvery Angle is an internationally operating and fast growing software company with its headquarters in the Netherlands and offices in Germany, UK and the USA. Every Angle is also represented by a network of agents throughout Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. Every Angle was launched in 1996 with the development of an Operational Business Analytics solution that is deployed as a standard add-on to any SAP ERP system.

Our Goal Every Angle strives to empower people in SAP run businesses. We

do this by providing business users with an out-of-the-box, self-

service tool which enables people to easily access and analyze data

content from SAP from any angle. Every Angle also delivers intuitive,

analytical intelligence for a variety of organizational roles within

the Supply Chain, Human Resource and Finance departments. The

actions and decisions people make are therefore a result of

clear visibility of your SAP system, leading to improved process

performance and an immediate realization of business value.

Our customers worldwideEvery Angle customers can be found in a wide variety of sectors,

such as; Automotive, Discrete Manufacturing, Fashion, Food &

Beverage, Non-Food Consumer Products, Pharma, Processes &

Chemicals, Retail, Utilities and Wholesale. Our customer base

includes both successful medium-sized organizations and leading

multinationals. Every Angle is used in 40 countries worldwide.

Fig 1. Geographic spread of Every Angle users

Visit our website to find out which customers are using our software

in which countries. www.everyangle.com

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Fig 1. Geographic spread of Every Angle users

Visit our website to find out which customers are using our software

in which countries. www.everyangle.com

Every Angle and BIThere is a world of difference between Every Angle’s

Operational Business Analytics solution and traditional BI.

However, organizations that do not know Every Angle regularly ask:

“We are already working with SAP BI (BW), why do we need Every

Angle?” In the words of a customer, “BI is a tool for the generals,

Every Angle is a tool for the front lines.”

Every Angle and SAP BI (BW) complement each other. SAP BI is very

effective at creating management reports which trend historical

data. Every Angle’s great strength lies in creating highly-detailed

operational overviews from current data which are predictive as

well as actionable. Every Angle shows what the status looks like

tomorrow, next week or next month if no corrective action is taken

today. Using Every Angle, business users can pinpoint what needs to

be adjusted, take action and achieve a KPI instead of retroactively

being measured by it, as is the case with traditional BI.

Existing IT solutions for operational controlIf organizations run SAP without Every Angle and want operational

overviews and to perform advanced analyses with high levels of

details based on current data, they depend on the IT possibilities.

For advanced analyses with high levels of details based on

current data and for operational overviews, you depend on the IT

possibilities. You need to retrieve the data from the SAP ERP

system, make it understand able and put it in the right context.

Subsequently, the data needs to be available in a flexible way,

so it can be used intuitively. The solutions that are currently used

to this end are listed in the table below, and they are tested on the

basis of a number of requirements.

Comments

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Requirements

Matches user specific needs

Implementation and maintenance (time and costs)

Flexibility for business users

Analysis at the transaction level (individual order, position and material)

Integrated process and supply chain analysis

Can be used as standardized management reports

• Limited options & functionality• Not flexible

• Maintenance intensive• Influences SAP system performance

• Maintenance intensive• Requires advanced knowledge

• Suitable for financial reports • Less suitable for operational reports

• Out-of-the-box standard software• Contains built-in intelligence geared towards operational

performance management

Standard SAP ERP lists

ABAP and customqueries

Custom made applications

(SAP) BI

Every Angle

Fig 2. Assessment of present IT solutions for operational control

Every Angle can be used as “content provider” of Business Objects or as a

Rapid Prototyping Tool. The combination of speed and flexibility that Every

Angle offers for generating content, in combination with the display options

of Business Objects, has proven to be very powerful in many projects.

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Every Angle on SAP ERP systemBy connecting Every Angle to the organization’s SAP ERP database, business users will see the system’s advantages in their day-to-day work. The technical installation will take two days at most. Subsequently, Every Angle will run in a pilot environment on the organization’s own system (Phase B), after which the implementation and roll-out take place (Phase C).

Phase A: PreparationEach Every Angle implementation begins with thorough preparation.

Preparation 2-4 weeks During the preparation an Every Angle consultant works together with the customerto ensure that the project will be successful. The preparation phase consists of:• drafting a project plan (objective, parties involved and responsibilities)• availability of required resources (management, IT and key users)• availability of hardware (suitable Windows server).

Phase Lead time Activities

Phase A Phase B Phase C

2-4 weeks 2 d 3 months 3 months Continuous

Preparation Proof of Concept

Inst

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Quick Scan Key user implementation

Pilot implementation Embedding and organizational roll-out

Fig 3. Phasing of Every Angle implementation

Fig 4. Phase A

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Installation

Proof of Concept

Quick Scan

Pilot implementation

Phase

2 days

2-3 weeks

4-6 weeks

3 months

Lead time Activities

The Every Angle software is installed on the Windows server and linked to your SAP ERP system (DEV => QAS => PRD). The installation is completed with a technical and functional acceptance test.

During the Proof of Concept phase, Every Angle is demonstrated live using your own SAP ERP data, so that you can assess the deployability and applicability yourself.This will demonstrate that:• Every Angle is live within two days with all standard functionality• Every Angle is fully and automatically configured on the basis of

the SAP customization• adding customized fields and tables is easy to achieve.

During the Quick Scan Every Angle looks at:• data quality (master data and orders)• service levels of suppliers, production locations and customers• stocks (surpluses/shortages)• bottlenecks (backlogs and planning problems). The results are discussed with experts in your organization and presented to management.

During a pilot implementation, the organization is given the opportunity to work with the Every Angle software. A group of users will be trained and supervised. During the final assessment, the users will present the results and their experiences to management.

Phase B: Every Angle live on your own SAP ERP systemAfter the preparation, you want to see Every Angle in action on your own SAP ERP system.

There are several possible scenarios, depending on the objective of this phase:

• Proof of Concept: you can see the software work with your own data

• Quick Scan: you will see an analysis of your own processes

• Pilot implementation: you can experience what it is like to be a key user working with Every Angle.

Fig 5. Phase B

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A quicker response to changes and a better control of processes. Business Analytics for SAP Every Angle is the solution.

Phase C: Every Angle implementation within your organizationAfter having seen and used Every Angle on your SAP system, you can start using Every Angle operationally, integrating it into your organization.

Key user implemen tation

Embedding and organizational roll-out

2-4 months

Continuous

During the key user implementation, 5 to 15 employees will be trained to become key users. Every Angle will be deployable immediately for a great variety of applications, so there will be immediate results.At the end of this phase, you and the consultant create a plan for Every Angle’s roll-out in order to ensure a smooth integration into your organization.

During this phase, Every Angle is integrated into the daily operations. This involves validating Angles and including these in work instructions. Every Angleis deployed as a standard IT solution in the organization and is available for all Every Angle users to execute Angles for their day-to-day work.

Phase Lead time Activities

Fig 6. Phase C

Every Angle Deutschland GmbH

Science Park 2

66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

Tel: +49 681 3096 4135

[email protected]

www.everyangle.de

Every Angle USA

1727-8A Sardis Road

Suite 251

Charlotte NC 28270, USA

Tel: +1 704 905-0536

[email protected]

www.everyangle.com

www.everyangle.com

Every Angle the Netherlands (HQ)

Kampenringweg 45C

2803 PE Gouda, the Netherlands

Tel: +31 182 577 744

Fax: +31 182 577 740

[email protected]

www.everyangle.com

Every Angle office at

SAP Netherlands

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Amerikastraat 10

5232 BE ‘s-Hertogenbosch

the Netherlands