SAP Newsletter Edition 5

October-14

EditorialEditor Speaks

Editorial TeamAmit MukherjeeMustafa MerchantNandita Deshpande

Its the month of October and SAPennings is here with all that’s happening in IGATE SAP. Read up on all the activities that have occurred in the past month.

We have bagged projects for Altria, Serco and an all new account - Florida Crystals.In this edition we feature Mosaic as the Account in Focus. Get to know more aboutAlbert Mathew in ‘Know your Team’ section. Sharpen your SAP skills with WhatSAP.Also, check out the interesting SAP articles and IGATE tools in this edition.

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Wins for the MonthIGATE has won 4 new projects under the Atria account. The total revenue from these engagements will be close to $1mn• SAP Numark Buy Sell• SAP Backorder and Short Ship Report• SAP Treasury implementation• SAP Numark Ecommerce

IGATE has won a new account “ Florida Crytals”. The project will be an implementation of Batch Recall functionality using SAP EWM solution. The total revenue from this engagement will be greater $1mn

IGATE has won a new project “Serco GTD CA GRN by Email” in the Serco account. IGATE will be implementing the goods receipt by email functionality under this project for Serco.

Client Profile

•Formed in 2004 after merger of two Cargill’s Crop Nutrition business and IMC Global

•2010Revenues @ US$ 6.7 B, 7500+ Employees globally

•World Leader in production of Potash and Phosphate crop nutrients

•Continues to acquire & divest companies in various countries

Our Presence

•The IGATE relationship with Mosaic started in 2008

•IGATE has provided a no. of AMS services and executed roll out projects for Mosaic

• IGATE recently delivered an Implementation project(Creation of New Company for Canada / US Exports)

•The latest project won for Mosaic was a managed services project for Brazil

How Mosaic benefits from IGATE

•Over 30% cost reduction in IT services for Application and Infrastructure support

•Implementation of a common Global ERP platform consisting of a Global SAP Template for US, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, India & China

•Usage of our core flex models provided easy ramp up and ramp down of resources

•Organizational risk reduction and effective usage of change management models

DM: Sachin Chaudhary

Account in focus

1. IGATE provides the following mobile solutions on SAP Mobile PlatformA. Mobile Sales

B. Payment Approvals mobile app

C. Netweaver Gateway services deployment

D. All of the above

2. SAP Fiori App type that provides insight to actions is –A. Transactional

B. Analytical

C. Factsheet & Contextual Navigation

D. None of the above

3. AWS Cloud infrastructure unveiled by IGATE SAP’s HANA practice can be used for –A. POC development

B. Client Demos

C. Training

D. All of the above

4. Which of the following is not an Alliance Partner of IGATE SAP?A. Panaya

B. Open Text

C. Winshuttle

D. Redwood

WhatSAP (SAP Quiz)

Know your TeamAlbert Mathew

Tell us about yourself

I did my Engineering Degree in Electronics and Communication, and PG Diploma in Finance and Strategy. My IT career started in 1997, and it hasbeen a rewarding journey all throughout.

Tell us about your experience in IGATE

I joined IGATE in 1998, and it has been an interesting journey since then, spanning multiple roles across technologies and industry verticals. Theinitial two years were in Client Server technologies which provided a very solid foundation, followed by Oracle Data Warehousing, and finally intoSAP Business Warehousing and SCM in 2004. I had the opportunity to work with customers in the likes of GE, Gillette, HP, Serco, Motorola, Procter& Gamble etc. in various roles and across multiple geographies.

We would like to know about any innovative solutions that you have provided to your client in the projects that you havehandled.

Every opportunity has been unique. From product developments to process improvements or transparent/flexible delivery models, had severalopportunities to either directly provide or steer the teams to provide creditable value to customers.

Tell us about your interests/hobbies:Love to Travel, Read and Spend time with family

If you would not have been in IT, which other profession would you have followed?

Teaching and Counselling have always been close to my heart.

What advice would like to give to newly joined employees in IGATE?

Be passionate about whatever you do, and never miss the fun…!

Ownership and Accountability are key to high performance!

Every God given opportunities and moments in life are important and precious, handle it with care and thankfulness

Solution in Focus – OSA Optimizer

•Worldwide average level of out-of-stock (OOS) on shelves in retail stores is 8%

•True physical inventory data from the shelves is the most important data source for analytics systems that attempt to fix the OOS issue and to guarantee on-shelf availability (OSA)

•Conventional merchandizing processes and labor constraints limit the OSA inventory measurements to a small and often irrelevant statistical sample

•Incorrect and/or insufficient OSA feedback to analytics and replenishment systems perpetuates the OOS situations without correction.

Business Context

•OSA Optimizer offers an effective way to achieve comprehensive and more frequent physical inventory checks feeding inventory correction data real-time into the retail analytics systems to predict and prevent OOS achieving higher on-shelf availability

Solution Description

•Cloud-based OSA HANA Database

•Mobile Application for In-store Scanning

•Analytics Engine integrated with OSA HANA database

Solution Components

•FMCG Manufacturers

•Retail Stores and Merchandizers Target

Customers

SAP Mantra of the Month -SAP Fiori

SAP Fiori is the new user experience (UX) forSAP software. It applies modern designprinciples for a completely reimagined userexperience. SAP Fiori UX represents apersonalized, responsive and simple userexperience across devices and deploymentoptions.

There are 360+ role-based apps, that applythe SAP Fiori UX providing enhanced userproductivity and personalization forcustomers using SAP Business Suite on anydatabase and SAP Business Suite powered bySAP HANA.

SAP Fiori UX supports a variety of roles in linesof business include HR, Finance,Manufacturing, Procurement, and Sales.

There are three app types using SAP Fiori:- Transactional apps that allow users to perform

transaction tasks Analytical apps that provide users role-based insight into

key performance indicators Fact sheets that display contextual information and key

facts about central objects used in business operations.

SAP Training Calendar for Oct

SAP CoE Program Title Date Time Trainer/Faculty Target Audience

Status

SAP FICO FSCM- Finance Supply Chain Management 09.10.2014 15:00 - 16:00 Sumit M Chaudhary SAP All Planned

SAP EAM Understanding the Core Processes in SAP Plant Maintenance

14.10.2014 15:00 - 16:00 Rakesh A Mane SAP All Planned

SAP SCM SAP APO PPDS Overview 16.10.2014 15:00 - 16:00 Yogesh R Gamare SAP All Planned

SAP HCM Overview of Personnel Administration & Org. Mgmt.

21.10.2014 15:00 - 16:00 Aarti Kshirsagar SAP All Planned

SAP Energy & Utilities

ISU Print workbench 29.10.2014 15:00 - 16:00 Mithilesh N Gor SAP All Planned

SAP BASIS/SECURITY

Understanding SAP Security Basics 30.10.2014 15:00 - 16:00 Prabal V Chaturvedi SAP All Planned

SAP SD SAP SD - Advanced Returns Management 31.10.2014 14:00 - 1600 Sachin B Bhonsle SAP All Planned

Limelight

ArvindSwarna

AjayGaykwad

AppasahebJarhad

AdinarayanaPuram

SubhashreeSrinivasan

SwapnilShinkar

RaghavendraPrasad

TrishaBhattacharya

AshwiniGosavi

IshaBharti

1. IGATE provides the following mobile solutions on SAP Mobile PlatformD. All of the above. Mobile sales is a part of Process related Mobile Apps, payment approval mobile app is a part of people

productivity related apps and Netweaver gateway services deployment is a part of SAP UI5 based apps.

2. SAP Fiori App type that provides insight to actions is B. Analytical. These apps provide users role-based insight into key performance indicators. These are visual overview over a

complex topic which helps in monitoring or tracking purposes

3. AWS Cloud infrastructure unveiled by IGATE SAP’s HANA practice can be used for –D. All of the above

The AWS Cloud infrastructure will be used for all internal SAP activities such as POC development, practice, training and client Demos

4. Which of the following is not an Alliance Partner of IGATE SAP?C. Winshuttle

WhatSAP (Answers)

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