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Quality assurance for ABAB developments with abat

When developing custom software, it is beneficial to use quality assurance practices and processes. This helps to reduce the number of tickets during the product lifecycle and ensures rapid adaptation to changing requirements. This white paper provides an overview of standard test tools and their configuration options. Possible integration scenarios and approval processes are presented and more advanced QA processes are discussed.

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Success Story: TAKKT AG

Save time and improve data quality with ID-Report
TAKKT AG reorganizes data collection process

Improving the quality and completeness of data is essential for sustainable performance improvement and goal attainment. External product and supplier information as well as internal company data are crucial for assessing sustainability performance. To minimize the complexity of the data collection process and to ensure group-wide implementation, TAKKT chose the ID-Report software solution.

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How intermodal transport with containers is mapped in SAP TM

Get a first look at how the ever-changing transportation of containers between ship, rail and truck is mapped in the SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) solution. From the simple import of goods from overseas to the finely tuned, multi-link transportation chain, how does SAP TM facilitate the planning, tracking, and optimization of such shipments? Whether you are a retailer or a logistics service provider, Saskia Förster will show you how SAP TM can meet your transportation needs.

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4 Highlights from SAP's Cloud Portfolio

The SAP Cloud Portfolio includes outstanding solutions that help companies optimise their business processes and strengthen their competitive position. These include the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Customer Experience (CX) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). In this blog, we will give you an insight into the 4 SAP cloud solutions and show you how you can use them to strengthen the future viability of your company.

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Webinar: RPA at Volkswagen - How automation can transform workflows and drive business growth.

October 25, 2023, 11:00 AM EDT (17:00 CEST)

Are manual processes hindering your day-to-day operations? Discover the potential of RPA and how it can improve process automation in your organization

Watch the one-hour webinar from our colleagues at abat North America on October 25. Learn from Victa Wewerinke, MA, Vice President at abat North America, and David Neck, Sales Manager at abat North America, how RPA can increase productivity in your company and how Volkswagen has already successfully…

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Successful Masterclass at Logistics Summit 2023

The masterclass of our colleague Kathrin Kronberg was awarded with a Speaker Award at the Logistics Summit 2023! Kathrin was a convincing speaker on the Mont Blanc Stage on the first day of the Logistics Summit 2023 and won the Speaker Award. Her presentation entitled "Fighting the skills shortage with IT bots - how to relieve your experts" was very well received by the Logistics Summit audience.
 
But not only that: After the masterclass, many interested visitors came to our booth to learn more…

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Hybrid cloud models: everything you need to know

With the continuous development of cloud solutions, many companies are faced with the question of which strategy to choose when developing the future system landscape. Here, the hybrid cloud offers an optimal solution, as it combines the advantages of two worlds: the security and control of a private cloud and the agility and scalability of a public cloud. In this article, we would like to introduce you to the advantages of a hybrid system landscape to help you make your decision.

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New employees on the stairs in the office at the new@abat induction week in september 2023.

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New month - new faces in team!

We are very excited to welcome our new colleagues* to abat. We hope that through the new@abat event, we were able to take away some of the excitement and nervousness that comes with a new employer and team for our new colleagues*! 😊

Glad you guys found your way to us! @Linda, Darja, Tim, Fadekemi, Jakob,

Leon, Nick, Kevin, Nico, Ayhan, Fesiyh, Björn

Maybe you are wondering what new@abat is? Feel free to watch our short video about this unique welcome event to…

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abat at the DSAG Annual Congress 2023 in Bremen

"Wonderfully changeable - creating new perspectives together" is the motto of the DSAG Annual Congress, the most important meeting place for SAP user companies in the German-speaking region, from September 19 to 21. Meet our experts at our booth J1 in hall 5.

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The cover of the abat white paper on the topic: Inventory from a bird's eye view.

Fly, count, optimize: A bird‘s eye view of inventory

How AI and drones can reduce inventory labor by up to 90%.
In this White Paper, René Kessler describes how AI and drones are revolutionizing inventory. Based on a research collaboration with the University of Oldenburg, it minimizes manual inventory by up to 90% and increases transparency. The author covers everything from machine learning to real-world examples and discusses both benefits and challenges. A must-read for companies that want to optimize their inventory.

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Success Story: B.A.U.M. e.V.

The B.A.U.M. e.V. network faced significant challenges: It lacked a clear strategy for digitizing processes and a system coordinator to integrate the various trades. In addition, the existing CRM solution was not compatible with the newly created Digital B.A.U.M. platform, and there were no certified standard interfaces. What was needed was a future-proof solution that could be used without intensive IT knowledge. That is why abat offered the SAP Sales Cloud as a SaaS solution.

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Success Story: PFERD

Effective communication is often the key to project success. As a family business with more than 200 years of tradition, the PFERD brand has made communication and trust an important part of its core values. This success story of an S/4HANA migration at the Mexican site describes the challenge and the successful cooperation between abat and PFERD during the project phase and beyond.

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New employees on the stairs in the office during the new@abat induction week in august 2023.

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Our new additions at abat.

From top left to bottom right:
Anne, Manja, Yannick, Detlef, Lukas, Dominik, Gyde
Vanessa, Adrian,
Mareike, Hanna, Markus, Kamilia, Sabrina
Michael, Max, Chantal, Vincent, Wassim, Lea

We warmly welcome a total of 28 new talents to our 𝗻𝗲𝘄@𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘁-𝗪𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗲 this month and last.

Here's another warm welcome to our new team members! We are glad to have you on the team! 😊👋

What is the new@abat week like for our new colleagues? Our colleagues who started in July and August…

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Success Story: Steinbeis

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Steinbeis has been mapping its business processes with a very sophisticated SAP ERP system that is tailored in detail to its own requirements. Due to the announced end of maintenance, the system will have to be replaced in the medium term. A key objective is to map more processes than before using standard processes. Using a fit-gap analysis, the abat experts created an evaluation matrix for three different migration options.

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What is MES software and why is it important for a paperless factory?

Discover the future of the manufacturing industry! Learn how MES software enables the creation of a paperless factory. Discover the benefits of "PLUS based on SAP" - the innovative solution for transparent, efficient and sustainable production.

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Success Story: Salzgitter AG

In 2018, the Salzgitter Group started to migrate its entire ERP infrastructure to SAP S/4HANA. In the course of this group-wide transformation project, a separate project was to standardize, optimize and automate the merchandise management processes for the procurement of input materials from an affiliated company across all participating group companies. In eleven workshops, abat developed the new logistical target process for the processing of input materials step by step.

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Successful premiere: abat as mentor for the 5-Euro-Business at the University of Augsburg

Start your idea! Under this motto, students from various disciplines acted as young entrepreneurs for 2 months and competed for the three best places. With a starting capital of 5 Euros, the teams put their business ideas into practice and now present their results.

Excited and curious, our colleagues Christina Seluga and Harald Lothspeich traveled to Augsburg at the beginning of May. There they met Benjamin and Willi, who with their start-up "Find me better" wanted to advise small businesses…

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The cover of the abat white paper on the topic: SAC vs. Power BI, a comparison between the tools.

SAC vs. Power BI

Optimize your data analysis with the right tool
Read this whitepaper for a comparison of SAP Analytics Cloud and Microsoft Power BI reporting tools. Our analytics experts, Marcel Kuchler and Dirk Tellmann, include criteria such as data source connectivity, visualization capabilities, and advanced analytics features to help you choose an enterprise analytics tool. Discover the ideal solution to support your management decisions.

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abat experts also in demand as authors

Our colleagues René Kessler, Stefan Rosenwald and Markus Fischer have contributed an exciting chapter on the subject of inventory in the newly published "Praxishandbuch digitale Automobillogistik" by Springer Fachmedien. In many companies, inventory counting is a highly visual process that requires a great deal of effort, especially due to the manual counting of physical goods. 

Under the title "DroSmart inventory processes - How processes can be optimized through the use of AI and drones", the…

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New employees on the stairs in the office at the new@abat induction week in may 2023.

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At the beginning of the month, we were once again able to welcome many great people to the abat team.  👋

As part of our 5-day event "new@abat", the new colleagues got to know each other last week in our Bremen office, learned a lot about abat, got to know internal processes and procedures in a practical way, networked and were familiarized with the system and project work during a 2-day SAP hands-on training. 

To our new colleagues: We are happy to have you on board! 💪 

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