Kverneland Group has  signed a contract with Every Angle to implement the Every Angle software companywide. With Every Angle’s technology, the Kverneland Group management will be able to make better decisions and improve their operations based on clear and correct information from its SAP system, at all levels and throughout the whole organization. 

The Kverneland Group factories and sales companies have been running SAP for several years. Until recently, the various country operations provided their reporting individually and there was no standard way to retrieve management information from the SAP data. A structural need for reliable, standardized and user-friendly management information became apparent early 2011, after previous attempts to develop standard reporting facilities did not deliver the desired results.

In order to manage and strengthen the company and to stay on the right competitive level, absolutely accurate management information is crucial. Frank Schröder,  Global Manager IS & Processes at Kverneland Group explains: “As a manufacturing company, we need to foresee and predict planning, buying and production processes whether it concerns one of our local sales teams in need of customer data and service levels, or one of our factories improving its daily operations. Throughout the company we noticed a need for better management data, which is easy to access, easy to comprehend and easy to present.” 

Following implementation in France and the Netherlands, Every Angle will be rolled out in Germany, Italy and Norway. Peter Scherpenisse, Group Implementation Leader,  responsible for the implementation of Every Angle at Kverneland Group: “So far it’s been a great pleasure working with the Every Angle team. They have so much experience and SAP knowledge. Working with the Every Angle technology on a daily basis makes me feel very confident.”

We invite you to make a note of the following presentation and workshop in your agenda:

Maxeda DIY: “Ad-hoc queries can still be done fast”
Thursday 12 April at 11.15
Customer Case presentation

During this presentation, Rob Gerretsen, IT Manager Maxeda DIY, will give a short introduction about the organization of Maxeda DIY and explain why they were looking for a solution to make ad-hoc queries. Gerretsen will also discuss why they have chosen for Every Angle and not for another solution, the lessons learned, which results they achieved and how it is used now.

Workshop: Which information do you need to optimize your processes?
Thursday 12 April at 11.15 and at 13.30
Interactive workshop: Planning & Logistics

In this interactive workshop you have to consider the following questions:
• What are the operational risks in the primary process?
• How can you detect and solve a problem reactively?
• How can you proactively identify and prevent problems?
• Which information do you need in managing reducing risks?
• Finally several case studies of Every Angle will be presented and discussed.

Workshop: Order to cash & procure to pay complete transparent
Friday 13 April at 11.30 and at 13.30
Interactive workshop: Financials, Governance, Risk & Compliance

In this worshop you will explore how:
• Financial data can be linked to the logistic processes;
• You get the information out of SAP;
• Which improvement actions you have to make.

At the end Every Angle will show how you create easily reports, like Order to Cash / Procure to Pay, working capital analysis and analysis for Controlling and cost.

More information about the congress: www.vnsgcongres.nl (in Dutch)

More information about the Every Angle Managed Appliance

Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic delivers high-performance X-Ray solutions for hospitals which also includes services and supplies. In this market, responding quickly to customer requests is literally a matter of life and death. Every Angle offers the right management reports, which, coupled with the right products, the service level to customers is increased significantly.

With Every Angle you can analyze the stocks on shortages or surpluses on different ways.  Both the Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Headquarter location and the German branche place orders directly with the supplier.  Every Angle provided insight for each plant in which clear information on the stock of service parts was visible. The outcome of such an analysis could show if there was a shortage at one plant, while a surplus of the same part existed at the other plant.  Thus Every Angle was able to prevent redundancy in orders and stock levels was prevented;  eliminating the scenario that one plant would order service parts which were, in fact, on-hand at another plant and eventually scrapped.

In December 2011, Managing Director Mr. Okamoto signed a company-wide contract with Every Angle. From the very first introduction through to the live demo session as well as the pilot and the international roll — all have been successfully completed within a few months and Every Angle is in use at Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic.

Fore more information about Konica Minolta: www.konicaminolta.com

In the year 2011, Every Angle has posted more than 40%  growth in number of customers, in revenue as well as in the number of users. Our ambition was to grow internationally.  By the end of 2011, 20% of the Every Angle customers were closed by a territory outside the Netherlands. The nomination by Gartner of Every Angle as a ‘’cool vendor in the SAP-ecosystem’’ certainly contributed to the international credibility of our organization. We added, amongst others, the following customers: Coca Cola Bottling Company and IEWB in the US, Solvay in Belgium and  Kverneland and Continental in Germany.

Every Angle has started a sales office in Germany and has appointed sales agents for Scandinavia, Asia-Pacific and Chili.

Objectives 2012
In 2012, Every Angle wants to continue this strong international growth and has set a target of at least 50% growth compared to 2011. High expectations exist for the sales offices in Germany and Belgium. Also the existing agents in the US, Scandinavia, Asia-Pacific and Chili are expecting new customer adds. We are furthermore in contact with Agent-candidates for Italy, Spain, UK and France. 

In Service Pack 5 of release 2011, the EveryAngle system is improved on 32 points. The most important changes are listed below.

• Now end-users can use so called “User calculated fields”. They can create an additional field with just a few mouse clicks in a list overview. Business users can easily enter formulas to quickly calculate differences, sums, lead times, percentages or combined text-fields without the need to export the data to Excel.

• A new tool is introduced in the Every Angle suite: The “Mini Automated Client”. This tool can execute tasks unattended like automatically saving an angle result to disk or send a mail to a group of users if some exceptional situation occurs.

• The help texts and manual are made available in German, French and Spanish. In previous releases, these languages were only supported for the texts copied from SAP like database fieldnames and help texts in the SAP system. Now, also the Every Angle special fields are translated as well as the user manual.

• The Product hierarchy of materials is now automatically analyzed including the hierarchy descriptions on the different levels without the need for special configurations.

• The performance of the refresh process is improved because the component that pre-processes the SAP tables on the server is improved.

• For system managers and configuration consultants two new functions are introduced: JOIN support in the Every Angle table splitter and sub-lists that can be based on other sub-lists or relations.
 

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The continued growth of the German region is of strategic importance to Every Angle. Reiner Pistorius, Managing Director for Every Angle DACH (which stands for Germany, Austria and Switzerland) comments  “The big demand for our Operational Performance Management solution in the first year of the DACH subsidiary has exceeded our expectations and highlights the need amongst SAP users for a standard solution to measure, analyze and improve reporting and analyzing SAP-data. With Jens Michels we found a very experienced Manager with extensive knowledge about SAP and the SAP-ecosystem.   Michels worked within SAP for 14 years and fulfilled several management positions, including being Director Apparel and Footwear Solution (SAP AFS), the SAP solution dedicated for the fashion industry. His network of contacts, consisting of companies and people in different industries, is a very important asset for Every Angle DACH and even beyond.”

In addition to his new job function within Every Angle DACH, Jens Michels will also become SAP Alliance Manager at Every Angle corporate.  Every Angle CEO Fred Hermans is managing the worldwide expansion of the software vendor and points out:  “Our partnership with SAP started as early as 2001, with the certification of our solution.  As our growth accelerates, it is of strategic importance to us to bring the partnership with SAP to the next level. Especially with the ongoing developments around SAP HANA, it is important to ensure that mutual opportunities are understood on all sides and that the respective engagements will be established. The network of Jens and his contacts in the SAP AG ecosystem will be of great help.”

Before his appointment at Every Angle, Jens Michels worked at T-Systems and was responsible for the Delivery Management of SAP solutions in the business and consumer industries. 

About Every Angle Software Solutions 
It is  our philosophy to make Operational Performance Management (OPM) easy for organizations running SAP ERP. Every Angle is a SAP Certified standard and affordable solution, developed by SAP experts since 1996. Business users can easily measure and analyze the performance of their business processes in a very advanced and flexible way and find root causes of problems. Improvement information can quickly be provided to the right people via the SAP GUI, so they can execute the right responsive actions. Every Angle is proven to be of high value to its customers and delivers great cost savings.  An implementation of Every Angle is always on time, on budget and, as our customers say, it delivers more than expected. In only 3 days, our solution can be fully functional on any SAP system, then your users can start performing advanced analytics.