With Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest provider of business applications, with over 53,000 employees in over 50 countries worldwide.

SAP was founded in 1972, by five former IBM engineers, who have seen a high demand by the management, employees and partners for a business software solution, which would bring together and improve their business. From that visionary idea, today a leading ERP software company was created, with more than 100,000 installations of SAP solutions in over 30,000 companies, in over 120 countries around the world, which develop (11,000 + developers), implements and maintains a team of 35,022 SAP professionals, guarantee a reliable and first class support, anytime, anywhere. SAP provides a business platform that enables optimal use of information resources of the company, improving efficiency in business and building strong relationships with clients. During its forty-years-long work, SAP changed from mainframe, client-server to e-business generation of computers, and always played a pioneering role in implementing the latest solutions in the field of information technology.

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SAP solutions are open and flexible, supporting databases, applications, operating systems and hardware of almost all manufacturers. They have been translated into over 30 languages, including Serbian. Developed on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, they can be integrated with each system. In order to meet the specific characteristics and requirements of various industries and markets in which the existing companies operate, SAP has developed 24 specific industry solutions. They are tailored to the standards, best practices, processes and challenges of 24 different industries. 74% of the world's 500 largest companies are SAP customers!

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Why implement SAP?

Why the best companies in Serbia are using SAP?

Top managers of companies that have implemented SAP solutions, as the main reasons for investing state the following: support for the transformation of the company, streamlining business processes and the organizational structure, optimization of the structure of assets and sources of financing, increasing the quality and availability of information, support of decision-making. The equally important reasons are also the following: cost reduction and increase of productivity through increased sales, reducing and better management of inventory, reducing waste and reducing transport costs, more accurate financial forecasts, rapid response to customer demands, a better understanding of what is happening with the customer, and the like.

The gain from the introduction of SAP is largely reflected in the effects that are difficult to quantify. It is primarily about increasing the knowledge of employees about their activities, and its connection with other processes in the enterprise, making it easier to work and monitor their results and directly contributes to better business motivation. Much more efficient control of the entire work process by the management is enabled, as well as optimization of production and personnel resources. Also, the more optimal planning of production and sales affect the huge savings in time and increase of competitiveness. In addition to involvement in the world and in the new market economy, what is especially important to note is the fact that the value of companies in the stock market is growing at the time of the decision of entry into SAP.