What does this mean in detail?
Maintenance
Salt also supports Schmersal in Wuppertal with new processes and projects and, together with Schmersal, focuses on implementation close to the SAP standard. In addition to the high efficiency of standard processes and better maintainability, this is highly recommended and useful for upcoming SAP upgrades. The Salt consultants examine the relevant processes, explore the available options and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of a conversion. For the challenges ahead, Schmersal continues to firmly plan with Salt Solutions’ IT and logistics expertise, particularly in the EWM area.
In the working group "CCC/Service & Support", SAP customers, among others, have joined forces to establish a Customer Competence Centre (CCC) or a Customer COE (Centre of Expertise) in the more recent term, on the basis of contractual obligations. The CCC or CCOE is an organisational unit within the company that is responsible for supporting efficient implementations, expansion, and maintenance and quality of business processes and systems related to SAP software. A focus area "Service & Support" is included as part of the classic CCC topics with the working group. In order to provide a discussion platform for SAP Service and Support to customers who do not want/need to implement a CCC, the former AK "CCC" was explicitly expanded to include the term "Service and Support" in the naming.
SAP Application Management Services (SAP AMS)
Users who want to use SAP solutions in the cloud and SAP's HANA Cloud in addition to on-premise solutions will now receive a new offer from Walldorf. This should also reduce the complexity of support for users at the same cost.
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We already offer AI- and Machine Learning-based support tools such as Automatic Translation to automatically translate SAP Notes and SAP Knowledge Base Articles. Built-in support and the digital support assistant will also become an integral part for our users. Customers want seamless support no matter where and on which device, and no matter what "channel". The intelligent merging of all channels, including mobile devices and social media, will give customers multiple ways to access support. Our vision is to have omnichannel access to our support, and to continue to develop new tools and pioneering solutions in co-innovation with our customers. Support will become more proactive and identify critical situations at an early stage - support will be delivered to the customer, not vice versa. Artificial intelligence and machine learning will further improve and simplify the support experience for customers, making the answers both faster and better. Intelligent ALM tools will provide fully automatic performance. We are constantly on the ball - our customers can expect a lot of innovation in SAP support in the future.
Some missing SAP support functions in the standard are supplied by the PC application "Shortcut for SAP Systems".
It is expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2018 with the next release of SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Some useful tips about SAP basis can be found on www.sap-corner.de.
Specialised areas of expertise can work efficiently and with a focus.