SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe

 

Companies across all industries face common challenges, among them increasing profitability and efficiency; ensuring customer satisfaction by providing responsive, efficient service; and ensuring compliance with government regulations. What you may not realize is how continued reliance upon paper-based business processes is holding your organization back from addressing these difficulties.

Paper-based forms are surprisingly expensive, in part because of labor costs resulting from redundant manual interventions and time spent fixing human errors. Paper and storage costs also rapidly accumulate, especially given that forms quickly become obsolete. According to a 2004 study conducted by GISTICS, a UK-based analyst firm with expertise in digital asset management, a paper-based form costs the typical global enterprise US$75,000 per year in labor and materials – and most companies use 400 forms or more.

At the same time, manual, paper-based processes are inefficient, create bottlenecks, and make it difficult to take advantage of automation built into enterprise applications. For example, hiring managers often require a senior executive’s signature before forwarding a job requisition to HR. In a paper-based scenario, the job requisition may be delayed in interoffice mail, sit on an executive’s desk under a pile of paperwork, or be inaccessible to the executive during a business trip. At best, this causes frustrating delays; at worst, it hinders organizational performance when key positions are unfilled. Your company may use the SAP® ERP application to support its HR functions, but it can’t make the most of the software to fully automate approval processes if paper forms continue to be central to your business processes.

SAP NetWeaver® technology platform – specifically integrates Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) forms directly into any business process supported by Web-based SAP applications. With SAP Interactive Forms software by Adobe, users can easily engage in automated business processes by completing forms, such as purchase requisitions; personnel and cost-center change requests; expense reimbursement requests; internal requisitions; and online recruiting documents. The software builds a direct bridge between the highly structured transaction data stored within enterprise applications and the unstructured, document based information and processes that exist outside of those applications. This direct interaction enables your organization to reduce operational costs and increase business process agility via automation and increased data accuracy. You can boost customer and employee satisfaction with faster, more efficient forms-driven business processes, and you can collaborate with suppliers, customers, and partners without requiring that they understand the intricacies of your back-end system.

Adobe Forms in SAP is an initiative between the two companies that significantly increases ease-of-use of .pdf forms, both for the input and output of information to and from SAP.

 

 

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