Interactive Advantage
Interactive Advantage
SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe extends the power of SAP solutions with the versatility and accessibility of collaborative electronic forms documentation. It enables you to streamline and automate your paper-based business processes, as well as to extend the reach of enterprise applications to company executives, partners, customers, and suppliers.
SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe – How it works?
- • Complete a form with the Adobe Reader software while online or offline
- • Role based pre-population of dataRole based pre-population of data
- • Online and offline
- • Submit by email, upload or portal based workflows
- • The system automatically transfers the data from the form to the SAP application using XML
Interactive Forms Scenarios
Interactive Advantage: Sales and Marketing – Process Improvements
BEFORE
Vendor Payments – Slow and error-prone
- • Invoices received in paper forms
- • Data re-entry in ERP system
- • Payment runs
Employee Re-imbursements – slow and non-uniform work load
- • Employee have to spend time while in office to file reimbursement
- • Delayed reimbursement fillings leading to reimbursement pile-ups towards the month or quarter end
- • Productivity of the employees reduced. Filling cumbersome forms instead of performing business tasks
Govenrment and legal compliance
- • Re-enter the information in various regulatory forms
- • Archiving huge number of paper records
AFTER
Efficient Vendor Payments
- • Adode forms based invoices directly triggering the workflows for approval
- • No Data re-entry.Faster payment runs
Faster Employee Re-imbursements and uniform work load
- • Offline forms for travel re-imbursements
- • Improved productivity. Can be filled anywhere even without access to SAP system
- • Reduced reimbursement pile-ups. Uniform distribution
Government and legal compliance
- • Automatic creation of regulatory forms
- • Can be archived in soft PDF format
BEFORE
Sales and Service order entry and reporting – Slow and error-prone
- • No remote or offline access, re-typing and error prone
- • No standard and automated way to capture sales reports from dealers and sales force
- • Complex and time consuming order entry forms
Administartive Processes – slow and time consuimg
- • Sales executives spending a lot of time in filing expense reports,travel reports and other administrative work
- • Producitivity of the employees reduced. Filling cumbersome forms instead of generating business
Ineffective Lead management
- • Loss of leads due to non-accessibility of system remotely
- • Slower lead response time
AFTER
Fast, simple and accurate Sales and Service order entry and reporting
- • Simple interactive PDF offline forms for automated order entry and reporting
- • Standard reporting formats without need to reenter the data in mulitiple systems
Easy and automated administrative Processes
- • Sales executives using easy and automated processes with Adobe offline forms for filling expense reports , travel reports and other administartive work
- • Concentrating on business generation.No or very little time consumes in administrative processes
Effective Lead Management
- • Offline and remote forms enable accurate capture of lead in right format and in time
- • Faster lead response time