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Every Angle – A featured Exhibitor at the SAPInsider Supply Chain and Logistics Show – March 19-22, 2012

The SAPInsider Supply Chain and Logistics show is once again combined with Product Lifecycle Management, Procurement and Materials Management, CRM, and Manufacturing shows, all at one enjoyable venue; the Disney Swan and Dolphin Hotel – Orlando.  Second only to the SAP Sapphire show in size and attendance, this event brings together thought leaders from industry, technology, and service – with common interests.  

Come visit us at booth 140

Tommy Hilfiger presents at LogiCon in Amsterdam in February 2012

Vice President of Operations, Rudy Boogaard of  Tommy Hilfiger will present “Supply Chain Transparency and Performance Improvement Enabled by Every Angle” during the LogiCon FMCG Global Logistics & Suppy Chain Conference to be held February 7 – 9, 2012.  LogiCon prides itself as a gathering of the most forward thinking logistics & supply chain management directors with an agenda which is designed by the industry for the industry.  Mr Boogaard will present his case study of Every Angle’s impact on Tommy Hilfiger on February 9 at 10.15 am at the Radisson Blu Hotel near Schiphol Airport. 

Free event passes

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If you are interested in reading further details from the organizer, the full agenda for the LogiCon is located here 

Every Angle appoints Jens Michels as Sales Manager for DACH region and corporate SAP alliance manager

Every Angle Germany GmbH has appointed Jens Michels as Sales and Marketing Manager. Michels will start on the 1^st of December 2011 at the Germany subsidiary of the Dutch software Vendor Every Angle Software Solutions B.V.  Additionally, he will also be the Every Angle corporate Alliance manager towards SAP.

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.

Heineken speeds up invoicing with Every Angle

Heineken has speeded up its invoicing with 14 days by using an Angle from the Operational Performance Management solution Every Angle. The beer brewer is using the solution in addition to SAP ERP for several years, but discovered recently that it could create one exception report with the cost variances on project level between finance and sales with just one unique Angle.

The Heineken Angle became the winning Angle at the Business Process Improvement (BPI) Award ceremony at the Every Angle Customer Day 2011. An Angle is an answer to a business question based on SAP data and Every Angle intelligence. At the Customer Day the BPI Award was handed to Heineken as the company that realized the best result with just one Angle. In addition to the 14 days faster invoicing, the Angle also delivered less DSO and higher interest earnings on cash.
Johan Koole, Business Controller Global Supply Chain within Heineken about the benefits: “The challenge in realizing this Angle was that we needed to combine different objects from different SAP area’s in one unique Angle.”

Combining SD, FICO and PS in one Angle
By combining SAP Sales Data (SD), SAP Financials (FICO) and SAP Project Data (PS) in Every Angle, Heineken was able to create an overview with all exceptions of cost variances on project level between finance and sales. This overview delivered a few benefits for the brewer. The two main benefits achieved were:

• - saving time by replacing a manual check for exception reporting
• - improving first time right by checking and correcting before sending the invoice saves a lot of time

 

Elimination of process risk of missing revenues
Next to the hard financial savings Heineken achieved there were several not quantified financial benefits to mention. These benefits can be placed in the category ‘soft benefits’:

• - invoice completeness, elimination of process risk of missing revenues
• - no reconciliation mismatches, save time in control and checking
• - environmental awareness by digital control instead of printing of invoices

 

 

About the Business Process Improvement Award
The Business Process Improvement Award (BPI) is a yearly price of the company Every Angle that’s handed to its own customers at the Customer Day event. The winner of the 2011 BPI Award is Heineken. Second place was for Philips Healthcare and third place was for the Dutch ministry of Defense. The aim of the BPI Award, is to award the customer company that has developed the best Angle (answer on a business question) in a certain year.

Download Heineken presentation
Download the BPI presentation  of Heineken here in PDF - BPI Award 2011 Heineken

Every Angle appoints dedicated agent for Latin-America

Michiel van Kerkhoff, founder and partner of Adventive Consulting, has been appointed as agent for Every Angle in Latin-America.  Under the Agency Agreement Van Kerkhoff will start the exclusive sales of the Every Angle Operational Performance Management solution at SAP using companies for Chile, Argentina, Peru and Colombia. Van Kerkhoff has extensive and excellent knowledge of the Latin-American business world. 

The advantage of an Agent Agreement in Chile is the direct access to the Latin-American SAP market. Van Kerkhoff about the potential of his region: “Only in Chile there are an estimated 200 potential customers for Every Angle. The potential customer market with the other countries included is obviously much bigger and so it’s a smart choice of Every Angle to focus directly on this market by appointing an agent.”

‘Showing benefits of Every Angle to SAP users’
Fred Hermans, CEO of Every Angle about the appointment of Van Kerkhoff: “As Every Angle is focusing on global expansion, we needed a dedicated agent for the Latin-American continent. I’m sure we found the right agency for us, because Van Kerkhoff is fully aware of the do’s and don’ts of the Latin-American business market and in addition he’s an experienced agent and has been selling software solutions for several years. He will be perfectly able to point out the benefits of our Operational Performance Management solution to new and existing SAP users.”

Van Kerkhoff has lived in Chile for over 20 years and has worked for several companies, like Unilever, Mekano Consulting and ABC Din Retail. At the moment he’s also an agent for a software vendor that has developed a solution to optimize forecast and inventory.

Agents in Asia and the Nordics
The appointment of agents is an important part of the growth strategy of Every Angle. Previous Agent Agreements were signed in Asia with EP-Asia Corporation and ADSOTECH in Finland for the Nordic market. More about the agents and business partners can be found here 

People, sessions and sharks make the Every Angle Customer Day 2011 a great success

´Every Angle to us is a strategic way of getting information to people so they are able to take decisions´. With these words Brett Frankenberg of Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated succeeded in describing exactly what Every Angle is aiming to do for its customers. Frankenberg was one of the speakers at the 2011 Customer Day in the Rotterdam Zoo. With a 160 people attending the ‘Shark room’ was totally filled with customers and prospects.

Many satisfied people, good road map sessions, three customer presentations and a day amongst the sharks in the Shark room in the Rotterdam Zoo; the 2011 Customer Day proved to be a success. After the ‘Product Roadmap Session’ and the ‘FiCo and APO session’ in the morning the attendees could see how Every Angle is being used at Bridgestone, ASML and Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC).

Business Improvement Award

Just before drinks and dinner the Business Improvement Awards (BPI) were given to the winners. The winner of the 2011 BPI award was Heineken. Second place was for Philips Healthcare and third place was for the Dutch ministry of Defense. The aim of the BPI award, is to award the Every Angle using company that has developed the best Angle (answer on a business question) in a certain year.

 

The Every Angle Customer Day 2011 at a glance

Coca-Cola: ‘Enabling our people to make better decisions’

 

Customer Day 2011 photos

To give you an impression of the Customer Day 2011, we added a few pictures. You might be on one of them!

 

Download here the powerpoint slides of:

- the FiCo workshop;
- the APO workshop;
- the Product Roadmap session;
- Bridgestone presentation;
- ASML presentation;
- Coca-Cola presentation;
- Ministry of Defence presentation;
- Heineken presentation;
- Philips Healthcare presentation;
- Presentation Fred Hermans, CEO, Every Angle.

 

Every Angle at CIO DAY 2011

This year Every Angle attended the CIO Day as a gold Partner. The CIO Day brings the top of the Dutch IT community together, including all nominees for the CIO of the Year Award, top IT analyst and CIO’s. With over more than 500 participants, this offered the visitors the opportunity to network, exchange ideas and learn from each other. The theme for the CIO Day 2011 was: Me, Myself and I5 - Information, Intelligence, Inspiration, Innovation & Interaction. 

Roundtable Sessions Every Angle
Every Angle hosted a roundtable session at the CIO Day with the following topic:

Insight in Operational Processes: the Definitive Difference between Profit and Loss
Within dynamic markets, the main challenge is to rapidly implement changes of the business strategy while maintaining excellence in the operational processes.  Business management requires consistent insight in the business processes in order to react quickly and effectively to changes within the marketplace and, thus, flexibility and support of the IT department are necessary to fulfill this need.  As a CIO, how do you challenge this issue? How do you empower the business users with the appropriate services, consistent IT landscape and lower costs?

We would like to thank Gerwin Halfwerk, Manager Corporate Information Management, Eriks, for giving a short introduction about his experience with ‘Insight in Operational Processes’. After his introduction there was a lively discussion at the table.

Every Angle at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011

Attending the Gartner Symposium 2011 in Barcelona was a great success for Every Angle. The symposium is the largest and most important annual gathering of CIOs and senior IT Leaders. As one of the Cool Vendors in the SAP Ecosystem it was an excellent opportunity to show why companies should use Every Angle as add-on for their SAP ERP. 

Presentation Heineken
On behalf of Every Angle, Heineken International gave a customer case presentation at the Symposium. 
Henri van Lambalgen (Chief IT Architect) from Heineken explained, together with Hans Veltman (Product Manager, Every Angle) how Heineken addresses the new era of Operational Perfomance Management with Every Angle. The session with 60 interested attendees was a great success.

Later the Symposium, Hans Veltman also presented a more in-depth demo of Every Angle in an on-floor theater room to an engaged audience who also had the chance, together with all expo attendees, to visit the Every Angle stand to experience a demo. 

Every Angle attended SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2011

The SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 event is one of the biggest SAP conferences globally. For many companies it was the moment to explore new innovative business solutions within the SAP landscape. Of course Every Angle attended the event and showed which results users can achieve with the Operational Performance Management solution.

Pinball contest
Because the SAPPHIRE and TECHED were combined, it was a massive event. In order to draw customers to our stand, we had a pinball contest on the floor in which the highest score could win an iPad2. The winner of the contest was Ivan Giesbers from Marel.

The next SAP SAPPHIRE NOW will take place on May 14-16, 2012. The event is being held in Orlando, Florida.

The Why and How of deploying ‘Lean in Finance’

In finance ‘lean’ is something relatively new, while lean in production environments is something which has been deployed for several decades. It’s time to show finance departments the benefits of the lean way of working. That’s why Every Angle and TriFinance have developed a FiCo module (Finance and Controlling) for Every Angle users and all SAP ERP users that don’t use the Operational Performance Management solution Every Angle yet. The solution will benefit financials and controllers because they can quickly combine all sorts of financial data they can’t combine in SAP. According to Johan Reunis, Competence Center Manager Controlling & Reporting at TriFinance, the lean methodology is perfectly applicable in finance, and it should be much broader implemented.

“A change in accounting, control and reporting methodologies is needed, in order to provide operational and management information that supports the lean improvement activities”, said Johan Reunis. “Applying lean principles to the finance processes, such as accounting, controlling and reporting, would be a way to optimize these processes.”

‘The focus is too often on traditional accounting methodologies’
The change is needed because at the moment the focus of accounting departments within companies is on traditional accounting methodologies. These methodologies don’t provide the required overview and flexibility to improve the organization. When working in ‘a lean way’, delivering value to the customer is the central focal point, but in the traditional  accounting models there are a few main issues that block companies from being lean.

Main issues of traditional accounting:

- cost increase of individual products, after production volume is reduced to align with customer demand, due to allocation of overhead costs
- due to decrease of inventory, initial profit goes down as this inventory reduction effect is taken into COGS
- traditional KPIs (machine utilization, overhead absorption rate, purchase price variance…) incentivize behavior that is contradictory to the lean principles

Lean accounting
According to Johan Reunis, lean accounting focuses on the total value chain of the product and delivering value. “Which means for example that companies should not base their buying pattern of raw materials on maximizing discounts from suppliers, but align this pattern with the market demand.

FiCo module for SAP
To visualize what’s really needed, SAP users can now implement Every Angle and use the FiCo module. The solution allows companies to define, measure and analyze operational KPIs. “These KPIs are needed to link financial and operational items within companies. Everybody in an organization should know what’s happening in order to improve a company.” By using the FiCo module in the Every Angle solution users are able to make their own reports and get insight into their processes and are therefore able to improve the performance of the company. But, according to TriFinance and Every Angle, a responsible person should be able to make the right adjustments before he or she can adapt and improve business.

Everybody has to understand the reporting language
Another aspect that’s required to make a success of lean finance is that all users of the Every Angle and SAP solutions should understand the reporting language. Too often management KPIs aren’t understood by employees at a lower level in the company. To make lean finance a success, financial statements should be presented in a language that is understandable for everybody in the entire organization. Once this is achieved it will trigger the appropriate actions too. Every Angle is developed in such a way that every action taken in the solution is explained in ‘general common sense info’ in an additional box.

Removing waste in finance processes
Finance departments that are not lean, are often full of waste. It’s either difficult to admit or either not recognized by finance professionals. To define what could be waste it’s needed that they ask themselves a few questions. 

Questions all finance experts should ask themselves:

- are all management reports that are produced actually used for steering the business
- are all invoices always processed correctly the first time?
- do we never have to enter redundant data (several times)?
- is all reported information automatically generated from a single source for all reports?
- are all allocations of costs adding value to the decision making process?
- are our budgeting processes seamless, smooth and efficient?
- is our forecasting process integrated in our reporting?

Minimizing the typical finance peaks
The CFO or financial manager that’s able to answer these questions will discover that in his or her organization there is still a lot of waste that can be removed. Not only in manufacturing environments, but also in finance environments. Lean finance is important because it helps in avoiding processing of invoices in batches and creating inventory between each step in the process. It also helps in organizing processes and minimizing the typical finance peaks in activity level such as month-end closing, budget cycle and forecasting. A nice example of a SAP and Every Angle user is Sulzer Eldim. Katja Hegger is business analyst at the company. Watch the video where Katja is explaining how Sulzer is using SAP, SAP Mii and Every Angle in order to work as lean as possible. 

A continuous improvement, not a project
Implementing the Every Angle FiCo module isn’t a big project and it’s far from being a big transformation process to implement lean finance. The roll-out of lean finance should be considered a continuous improvement process. How? Like this:

- initially a lean transformation project will probably be necessary, scope depending on the current state of the processes and organization
- however “lean” doesn’t end when that project is finished
- lean is a long-term mindset, continually looking for (small, incremental) improvements
- not only look at doing what we do more efficiently, but look at changing what we do
- lean is a mindset, a cultural shift, not just a set of techniques…

Download the presentation about lean finance:
The presentation of Johan Reunis can be downloaded here 

More information about Every Angle FiCo for SAP ERP
If you want to know more about the Every Angle FiCo module, please contact us or Trifinance:

Every Angle:
Website: http://www.everyangle.com/contact-2/

Trifinance:
Website: http://www.trifinance.be/en/About-TriFinance/Contact-us.aspx

 

New Electrabel testimonials about Every Angle added to SAP ERP

New on our website are two Electrabel Netherlands customer testimonials movies about the use of Every Angle in the STAR Project at the energy provider. In addition to the company testimonial, you’ll find Jos Hemmes and Theo Lode explaining about how Electrabel used Every Angle on top of SAP when implementing the new ERP system.

Theo Lode, STAR Project Manager / Manager Generation Competence Center at Electrabel Netherlands: “The scope of the STAR Project was to have a common system over all Electrabel sites in Europe and to get a view on the data in our system that was incorrect. Finding such data is not easy so you need to use a technique which allows you to filter data quickly. Every Angle was capable of doing that.”

‘Rollout of Every Angle went smoothly’
Theo Lode got positive feedback from the people using the add-on solution for our SAP ERP. “They were able to use Every Angle within a short period of training. The setup of the solution was done quickly and the rollout went smoothly.”

‘A good and clean database is helping me to analyze our business better’
Every Angle as add-on to the SAP ERP at Electrabel is helping Jos Hemmes, Process Manager Logistics at Electrabel Netherlands, a lot in his daily activities: “Having no garbage in the system is especially important for the work I do at Electrabel. It’s of big value to me that we now have a good database with clean data, so I can make analyzes very quickly and thoroughly, and find out what’s the root cause of current bottlenecks and processes.” 

- Watch the movie of Theo Lode,  STAR Project Manager / Manager Generation Competence Center at Electrabel Netherlands 

- Watch the movie of Jos Hemmes, Process Manager Logistics at Electrabel Netherlands

Every Angle attends Gartner Symposium and ITxpo in Barcelona

Every Angle will be one of the sponsors of the Gartner Symposium / ITxpo in Barcelona. The event, which will take place from the 7th till the 10th of November, is the largest and most important annual gathering of CIOs and their senior IT leaders. As one of the Cool Vendors in the SAP Ecosystem we find the event an excellent opportunity to show why companies should use Every Angle as add on on their SAP ERP.  

Gartner: Re-imagining IT
Gartner Symposium / ITxpo is an event for those shaping IT strategy; where CIOs and senior IT leaders from the world’s most innovative organizations gather to strategize, validate plans and receive the invaluable direction they need to succeed, from the world’s leading independent authority on IT. The focus of the Gartner event is on ‘Re-imagine IT’: Leading from the front. The analysts of Gartner are convinced companies should ‘embrace the new realities that CIOs face by re-imagining IT as it impacts business expectations and new technology models.

Win a Heineken Beertender
Every Angle offers interested people a free demo and everybody who subscribes for the demo has a chance to win a Heineken Beertender. The demo is an excellence opportunity to get to know the advantages of the Every Angle Operational Performance Management (OPM) solution as ass on on any SAP ERP. By clicking on this link you can reserve a moment to know more about the possibilities of our OPM as Certified solution on your SAP ERP. Or reserve your time here: http://www.everyangle.com/gartnersymposium2011/  

Want to know more about the Gartner event?
For more information about the conference, take a look at http://www.gartner.com/technology/symposium/barcelona/

 

Every Angle will attend SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 in Madrid

Every Angle will be attending the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 event in Madrid. The SAP event (8-10 November) is one of the big SAPPHIRE conferences globally and as we are convinced we deliver added value to SAP customers we are, of course, present at the conference. We deliver many SAP ERP using companies a solution to manage their Operational Performance Management (OPM).

Many companies are using our OPM add on for SAP ERP to measure, analyze and improve their operational processes. We deliver our solution to all kind of companies, from midsize enterprises to big multinationals and governmental organizations in all kind of branches. They are all very satisfied with our OPM solution, because the solution made them able to not only quickly identify bottlenecks in their processes, but also to find the root cause of it and made them able to solve the problem. Every Angle is used as well for improving the master data quality before, during or after a SAP ERP implementation project.

Reserve your demo time at the stand!
Anyone who is interested in getting to know Every Angle and the Every Angle solution better at the SAPPHIRE NOW event in Madrid, can reserve some demo time at the Every Angle stand. By clicking on this link you can reserve a moment to know more about the possibilities of our OPM as Certified solution on your SAP ERP. Or reserve your time here: http://www.everyangle.com/sapphire2011/

Explore new innovative business solutions
The SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 event is one of the biggest SAP conferences globally. For many companies it’s the moment to explore new innovative business solutions within the SAP landscape. Of course Every Angle will show which results users can achieve with the OPM-solution. Recently, the World’s leading analyst firm, Gartner, named Every Angle Software Solutions Cool Vendor. It has made the operational performance management solution one of the five solutions which SAP customers should definitely check out to make their business run better.

SAPPHIRE NOW 2011
SAPPHIRE 2011 is the leading SAP conference where senior executives and business managers come together to explore new innovative business solutions within the SAP landscape.

SAPPHIRE NOW Madrid website
For more information about the conference, take a look at http://www.sapphirenow.com/madrid 

Every Angle and EP-Asia Corporation sign Agent Agreement for expanding business reach in Asia

Every Angle Software Solutions has signed an Agent Agreement with EP-Asia Corporation, a pioneer in the SAP Ecosystem when it comes to add-ons on SAP ERP. EP-Asia Corporation will sell the Every Angle Operational Performance Management (OPM) add-on to SAP customers that are in need of a solution to measure, manage and improve their operational performance. Every Angle will provide software and support where needed.

The decision to cooperate with EP-Asia Corporation is the clear choice for success: there is no independent solution provider comparable with EP-Asia Corporation when it comes to knowledge and experience with SAP add-ons. The signed Agent Agreement offers both Every Angle and the agent company the possibility for revenue growth in Asia. According to Fred Hermans, CEO of Every Angle, “We are convinced that in Asia there is a big need for the Every Angle solution amongst SAP users. As Asia is a specific region with its specific needs, just like the United States, we have chosen to work with an Asian agent company that is dedicated to the local markets. We believe that this approach will deliver both us and EP-Asia Corporation the biggest benefits and will result in a further expansion of the Every Angle customer portfolio.”

EP-Asia Corporation is Asia’s pioneer provider of SAP add-on solutions to the regional SAP market. Over the years, the corporation has expanded coverage to a wide range of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, such as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, Hong Kong and China. Hee Kim Fah, Chairman and Group CEO of EP-Asia about the agreement: “We are very excited about the partnership with Every Angle. As pioneers and specialists in the SAP add-ons market since 2000, we strongly believe that Every Angle will complement not only our existing customers in Asia but also new customers who need to improve their operational management.”

Growing number of partner companies
By signing EP-Asia as an agent, Every Angle now has partner coverage on most major continents. Prior to entering the Asian market, Every Angle has opened offices in Belgium, Germany and The United States of America. In several other countries, such as Germany, Switzerland, Austria, The United Kingdom and Finland (for the Nordic countries), Every Angle has also established signed agreements with partners.

About EP-Asia Corporation
EP-Asia Corporation was founded in 2000 and has operations and partners in most major cities in Asia. The group encompasses various entities specializing in hardware, software and media targeting the Asian education and enterprise markets. EP-Asia’s cooperation with Every Angle involves one of the group’s entities, which has specialized in the SAP add-on business since 2000 and has accumulated a wide network of customers in the Asia-Pacific region over the years. The entity in question is also headed by a few SAP veterans in the Asian market.  

Link to EP-Asia website: http://www.ep-asia.com/ 

Every Angle at DSAG Leipzig 2011

Every Angle will be attending the DSAG 2011 event in Leipzig, Germany. Every Angle, provider of Operational Performance Management (OPM) made easy for SAP ERP solution, is one of the sponsors of this event. The DSAG conference is being held from 11 till 13 October.

 

With 3.900 visitors and more than 170 exhibitors, the DSAG event is one of the biggest SAP summits in Germany. It’s the moment to explore new innovative business solutions within the SAP landscape. And of course Every Angle will show which results users can achieve with the OPM-solution. Recently, the World’s leading analyst firm, Gartner, named Every Angle Software Solutions Cool Vendor.  It has made the operational performance management solution one of the five solutions which SAP customers should definitely check out to make their business run better.

 

Customer case presentation Kverneland
Kverneland, one of Every Angle’s customers, will be presenting at the DSAG conference. On behalf of Kverneland, Frank Schröder will explain how they optimize their business processes with the help of Every Angle.

 

DSAG 2011
DSAG is one of the leading SAP conferences in Germany. The DSAG is the German speaking SAP User Group and is responsible for the organization of this event. At this event all users come together to explore new innovative business solutions within the SAP landscape.

 

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated signed Every Angle contract

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC) has signed the Every Angle contract for the rollout of the Operational Performance Management made easy for SAP ERP solution. After a successful pilot implementation, which showed many benefits for the CCBCC organization, the implementation of Every Angle at the Charlotte North Carolina (NC) plant will start within a few weeks.

It didn’t take Brett Frankenberg (Director of Supply Chain Planning), Jim Small (Systems and Business Process Manager Supply Chain) and Onyeka Nchege (CIO) of CCBCC much time to see the benefits of the Every Angle Operational Performance Management (OPM) solution as add-on on their SAP ERP. In a presentation at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando, earlier this year, Small talked about the Every Angle pilot at CCBCC: “It provided us with a refreshing new approach to delivering Operational Information directly to the business users. We wanted to deliver them variety and volume of all data required.” Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated is using several software tools to provide its users this information. “About 80 percent of our total business requirements that were currently in queue for BW reporting solutions were covered by Every Angle in about a week.”

‘Coca-Cola business users needed the ability to quickly and easily analyze SAP data’
The start of using the Every Angle OPM solution is something which fits perfectly in the IT strategy of the bottling company, CCBCC is the privately owned Coca-Cola bottler in the US. Mark Knowles, VP Sales and Marketing at Every Angle US “They are an IT leader in the bottling industry. Business users of Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated needed the ability to quickly and easily analyze SAP data without having to go to IT for every change. Every Angle offered the ability to analyze freely.”

Brett Frankenberg speaking on Customer Day 2011
Brett Frankenberg will be speaking at the Every Angle Customer Day on November 16^th. To get more details about the program of the Customer Day please click here. To subscribe to the Customer Day, click here.  

More movie material

- Click here to see the 13 minutes video of Jim Small (opens in new window)

- Click here to see more customer testimonials on our website (opens in new window)

Cool Vendor Every Angle at Gartner Symposium IT/Expo

The world´s leading analyst firm Gartner has taken note of  Every Angle by naming it as a Cool Vendor and the business relationship has continued to flourish.  Recently Every Angle attended the Gartner Supply Chain Conference 2011. Every Angle will also attend the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo which is being held from November 7 – 10 in Barcelona, Spain.

The Gartner Symposium IT/Expo is the largest and most important  IT event of the year and while be attended by a considerable amount of CIO’s as well as other senior IT-managers who will have the opportunity to explore the newest IT solutions.

Customer case presentation Heineken
Heineken, one of Every Angle’s largest customers, will be presenting at the Gartner Symposium 2011 on Monday, November 7,  2011 from 17.00 – 18.00 as part of the Business Intelligence Information Management track. Heineken will explain how the brewer optimizes their business processes with the help of Every Angle.

Click here for more information about the symposium.

 

Every Angle at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2011

Every Angle will be attending the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 event in Madrid. Every Angle, provider of Operational Performance Management (OPM) made easy for SAP ERP solution, is one of the sponsors of this event. The SAPPHIRE NOW conference is being held from 8 till 11 November in Madrid.

 

The SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 event is one of the biggest SAP conferences globally. It’s the moment to explore new innovative business solutions within the SAP landscape. And of course Every Angle will show which results users can achieve with the OPM-solution. Recently, the World’s leading analyst firm, Gartner, named Every Angle Software Solutions Cool Vendor.  It has made the operational performance management solution one of the five solutions which SAP customers should definitely check out to make their business run better.

 

SAPPHIRE NOW 2011
SAPPHIRE 2011 is the leading SAP conference where senior executives and business managers come together to explore new innovative business solutions within the SAP landscape.

 

For more information about the conference, take a look at www.sapphirenow.com/madrid

 

Customer Survey 2011: top-notch support and lower ABAP-costs

The results of the survey amongst our customers are incredibly rewarding. Assumptions we had about customer satisfaction, reducing data pollution in SAP, lowering the ABAP-development costs all seemed to be true in reality. The support of Every Angle deservers a special award according to our customers.

Every Angle customers are on average very satisfied customers. That is doesn’t need to be a bad sign if customers need to contact support, is something we can conclude when we see the statistics of the survey. Of all respondents (41), 81,3 percent said they were in need of support. And an incredible 96 percent showed they were very satisfied with the support they got. What surprised our customers, was that our support was giving additional tips, something which was appreciated by our customers.

Most important results combined in the charts
You will find the most important results of the survey in a synoptic way. The results are based on answers of 41 customers.

We asked three type of respondents to answer our questions
• Business Sponsors (often responsible for signing the Every Angle contract)
• Business Power Users (Experienced Every Angle users)
• IT Power Users (Maintaining Every Angle from the IT side)

You can download the most important results of the survey here.

CityTec launches Every Angle pilot project

CityTec, part of energy infrastructure provider Joulz, was only made aware of Every Angle after Joulz recently started using Every Angle.  For several months now, this operational solution has been used at Joulz to their full satisfaction,  and as a result Joulz has decided to implement Every Angle at CityTec and to demonstrate the full range of options it offers at an operational level.  The overall enthusiasm for Every Angle proved contagious and CityTec contacted Every Angle to investigate what solutions it could offer their company. 

The usual procedure is for Every Angle to give a live demo before launching a pilot project.  However, in this case, the Every Angle users at Joulz had already given their CityTec colleagues a convincing demonstration.  CityTec decided to contact Every Angle to find out about the best way to configure their hardware to run Every Angle.  After some very constructive talks and interviews between CityTec and Every Angle, CityTec decided to start up an Every Angle pilot program.

First results with Every Angle
The technical installation of Every Angle was followed by a two-day power user training.  After the training, the power users enthusiastically set to work with Every Angle. In the meantime they have managed to create their first operational reports for procurement, logistics and FiCo.  Now that CityTec has implemented Every Angle, the value and capabilities of this operational solution are becoming increasingly clear.  Over the next period the roll-out of Every Angle within the CityTec organization will continue and a viewing user structure will be set up.

CityTec specializes in dynamic street furniture in public spaces, which includes public lighting and traffic lights.  For more information on CityTec, visit the Dutch website: www.citytec.nl.

‘Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference was a great success for Every Angle’

Attending the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2011 in London was a great success for Every Angle. In this event, by Gartner promoted as ‘The World’s Most Important Gathering of Supply Chain Leaders’ the theme was ‘Back to Basics: The New Fundamentals for Efficiency, Agility and Innovation. The theme fitted perfectly to what Every Angle is able to deliver its customers when it comes to Operational Performance Management for SAP ERP.

The Lancaster London Hotel was hosting the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, about 230 supply chain leaders attended the event on the 14^th and 15^th of September. Two days full of keynotes, case study sessions and panel discussions, tracks about supply chain strategy and planning, sourcing and logistics and manufacturing excellence and supply chain IT, were the perfect place to show the attendees what Every Angle is capable of. And, as it’s the philosophy of Every Angle to make Operational Performance Management (OPM) easy for organizations running SAP ERP, and most multinational companies and companies visiting the conference are using SAP as their ERP, there was enough room for discussion about how to improve operational performance.

Several potential pilots for Every Angle
The Every Angle management team could only conclude that the event was a great success. Hans Veltman: “We were able to get in contact with at least ten prospect companies. I’m convinced that we are able to start a pilot fase within at least half of those companies within now and a year. We will certainly join the conference next year.” On behalf of Every Angle Fred Hermans (CEO), Hans Veltman (Product Manager and co-owner) and Bert Bulder (Director Sales Every Angle Netherlands) joined the event. Every Angle was invited for the conference as it was named Cool Vendor in the SAP Ecosystem this year.

A few impressions of the Gartner event

 

Did you know about the traceability made easy module for SAP?

Did you know that…: the Every Angle Operational Performance Management solution made easy for SAP ERP is enriched with a traceability and recall module called ‘batch where used’? This module will save food manufacturers and processing companies a lot of time when tracing food, ingredients and raw materials. While initiatives to track goods, such as the General Food Law (GFL, 2002) were introduced many years ago, even today many companies are struggling to track and trace their ingredients and materials within a very short time.

Traceability and food safety are incredibly important these days. In order to solve problems as soon as possible and so prevent further possible damage as result of wrong delivered products or a production error, companies are obliged to have a well documented administration. Finding the root cause in days, weeks or months is no longer tolerated. Since the introduction of GFL by the Directorate General for Health & Consumers of the European Commission, tracing items quickly can only be done when a company’s ICT is up to date. Companies running SAP have a modern ERP system, but even in SAP it might take too much time to collect the right data on time according to the General Food Law demands.

The traceability functionality within Every Angle helps organizations in answering questions such as:
- In which finished product batches did faulty raw material batches end up? To which end customers were these products shipped?
- Are remainders of problematic batches still in the company’s warehouse or are they already shipped to customers?
- Which supplier batches were used in faulty end products?
- Which locations did a certain contaminated raw material batch pass?
- From which countries did all the different raw materials of a certain batch of end product originate?

 Tracing is no longer time consuming and complex
In a more and more complex business environment raw material batches are used in many different (varieties of) end products, that are produced via many different production steps and that are shipped to many different locations around the world. Answering questions as written above, without the right IT support, can be very time consuming. The tracing functionality in Every Angle allows you to track batches of products forward and backwards through the supply and distribution chain easily and quickly. The traceability and recall solution within Every Angle is running at a few Every Angle customers. One of them, a food manufacturing company, is fully satisfied and is using it for improving operations.

A little explanation of how it works
The basis for the trace functionality within Every Angle is the use of batch management in SAP R/3 / SAP ECC. The different production and distribution steps are linked via the different order documents and material movement bookings. When a certain material is received within a company, this results in an increase of stock. This might as well be stock, which can be in a physical stock point within a warehouse. It’s also possible this stock is not physically put in storage in a warehouse, but used in some order. This can be seen as a virtual stock point. After that, the goods are issued again to the next stock point or process step.

Single or multilevel tracing of batches and orders
In case the company uses batch management, the batch number is also registered in every step. Therefore, a link from the material document to the correct batch(es) can be made. What Every Angle does, is using the material documents to link the different orders to the batches. This concerns both the resulting (supplied) batches as the used (consumed) batches. Using these links, Every Angle allows you to single or multilevel trace the batches and orders used throughout the supply and distribution chain.

Sign up for the free WTG webinar of Jacques Adriaansen on OPM and agile IT

How can we make IT more agile than your business? Jacques Adriaansen, co-owner of Every Angle  Software Solutions, will answer this question during a webinar of the World Trade Group (WTG). Jacques will show that an agile IT is a prerequisite for Operational Performance Management (OPM). The webinar is free, will be held on 13 October and takes an hour.

Every Angle and Camelot develop predefined master data quality quick check

In order to be successful, a company is dependent of an excellent data quality for the core business processes. However, in reality however, many companies are suffering from bad maintained master data and polluted transactional data. As it’s often difficult and very time consuming to make sure all of the master data is correct and actual, companies need to find a way to easily analyze their business critical data. To serve the need of companies, Every Angle Software Solutions and Business Value Partner Camelot have developed the DQ (Data Quality) Quick Scan. This allows companies to get insight in their data quality in just two weeks. 

The DQ Quick Scan is developed to help companies that are using SAP ERP. Every Angle leverages your full potential and is making Operational Performance management (OPM) easy for businesses using SAP. Reiner Pistorius, Geschäftsführer Every Angle Deutschland GmbH: “The Quick Scan is providing companies a quick and qualified overview about the improving potential from data quality perspective, covering various business processes. Also the service indicates how to gain higher efficiency within those business processes by simply cleaning up the pollution and/or embedding a clear Master Data Governance.”

Improve operational business efficiency
The importance of a good master data quality is evident. It’s an adequate instrument to improve operational business efficiency, which is one of the main success factors of a well run company. In challenging times companies need to improve their business process efficiency. For example non harmonized, historically grown structures, multiple systems and process changes are obstacles in achieving this operational business efficiency. “We see a big potential to serve the markets in Germany, Switzerland and Austria with this DQ Quick Scan. Already the first quick scans with customers showed an enormous saving potential, which can be achieved with minor efforts. Mainly business process costs can be reduced significantly”, stated Henrik Baumeier, Head of CC Master Data Management.

Measuring, analyzing and improving
To improve the quality of master data, it’s necessary to analyze its impact.  The DQ Quick Scan will help you to:

- Understand the company individual impact of master data to transactional data in the business process
- Find shortfalls & inconsistencies in the master data and the corresponding transactional data
- Define measures to improve the data quality on both initial and continuous level

 

 

 

 

 

 

Due to a lack of good data quality, companies can experience several problems, such as not meeting customer expectations (SLA’s), being non compliant to legal regulations, dealing with a too low or too high stock level and experience shortfalls in payment. By allowing Every Angle and Camelot to roll out the DQ Quick Scan, companies will get insight in how their situation is from a data quality perspective. And all that in just two weeks.

About Camelot ITLab GmbH
Camelot ITLab is a process-oriented IT consulting firm and part of the Camelot International Group. Its core specializations are MDM, SRM, SCM, Transportation Management and Business Intelligence. Thanks to partnerships with leading IT providers such as SAP as well as a range of customer-specific solutions and innovative IT concepts, Camelot ITLab can support the precise requirements of its customers’ business-critical processes. The company has developed a number of add-ons to enhance the standard SAP system, for instance the Camelot CSx Supplier Management Solution, which have become established standalone solutions. Headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, Camelot ITLab can offer customers consulting services that cover strategy, organization, and IT from a single source.       

 

www.camelot-itlab.com  

 

 

Every Angle and Adsotech team up for Nordic market

Adsotech Scandinavia Oy and Every Angle Software Solutions have signed an agreement in which Adsotech will sell the Every Angle Operational Performance Management (OPM) solution in the Nordic market. Christer Mäkelä, Managing Director of Adsotech: “We see an excellent possibility to deliver a good and useful solution as Every Angle is, to the Scandinavian marketplace.”

Both Every Angle and Adsotech see big potential in working together. Fred Hermans, CEO of Every Angle: “Our aim is to grow. We expect to achieve most of our growth from our international business. Therefore we need strong partners with a good customer base. Adsotech is such a partner. I’m very pleased to announce this agreement.”

So, growth is the keyword for Every Angle and Adsotech. Every Angle is expecting an increase of the revenue and customer base of about 35 percent in 2011, Adsotech is expecting to grow by 50 percent this year. The agreement should benefit both software vendors in achieving future growth. Mäkelä: “We are able to expand our product portfolio by cooperating with Every Angle. It’s a very nice addition to our existing portfolio because Every Angle is named a Cool Vendor by Gartner. Next to Every Angle we also deliver Winshuttle to our customers. Winshuttle is, according to Gartner, another Cool Vendor in the SAP Ecosystem.” Mäkelä believes that Every Angle will be beneficial to Nordic enterprises using SAP. “As the usage of Every Angle will enable organizations to improve their operational efficiency and to reduce the operational cost, we are convinced that there will be a big demand for Every Angle amongst companies, especially in these economically challenging times.”

‘SAP users will see benefit of agreement’
There are several similarities between the two companies. Both Every Angle and Adsotech are strong in the fields of improving business processes and master data management. Both are mainly focusing on customers in the SAP Ecosystem. Hermans: “Adsotech has a very interesting customer base, including big well known international companies such as Statoil, Sanoma Magazines, AGA and Wärtsila. We see a big potential in working together and expect that many of the SAP customers of our new partner will see the advantages of using Every Angle for improving its operational processes as well.” The agreement will be effective from September 1^st,.

About Adsotech Scandinavia Oy
Adsotech Scandinavia Oy is a Finnish provider of IT-solutions and infrastructure products, established in 1985. Adsotech delivers IT solutions to enterprises ranging from small companies to the largest enterprises in the Nordic countries to support them in their business processes and day-to-day management of their IT-infrastructure ranging from traditional mainframes to ERP solutions running on distributed platforms.

Adsotech is a distributor in the Nordic countries for well established and certified global software and solution providers. In addition Adsotech has own product development that has resulted in a SaaS ERP and CRM service – AboveTARGET.com – available worldwide through the internet.

More information about Adsotech? Visit www.adsotech.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maxeda DIY Group implements Every Angle at Praxis and Brico

Maxeda DIY Group, the company behind the Dutch DIY company Praxis and the Belgian Brico company, has launched an Every Angle pilot program.  The launch of this type of pilot is usually also the start of a wider roll-out of the Every Angle Operational Performance Management Solution.  The Maxeda DIY Group will be deploying Every Angle as an additional tool to the company’s SAP ERP software.

The Maxeda DIY Group has 372 shops in the Benelux.  This is partly the reason why the company has such a huge SAP database volume.  For example, the database contains over 650,000 item numbers and there are more than 70 million possible item/shop combinations.  Due to the huge volume of the SAP database, there is an increasing demand for reports and analyses in order to respond to the many business questions.  Consequently Maxeda uses many queries. The combination of a large SAP database and the many queries has decreased the performance of the SAP ERP database and slowed it down considerably.  To meet the need for more flexible and faster reports within the Maxeda DIY Group, the parent company of Praxis DIY shops decided to consider Every Angle.

Optimization of the business processes
The Maxeda DIY Group needed more insight into their stocks and bottlenecks.  The problems they were having, were caused by their large data volumes and data pollution in their ERP system.  The business and logistics processes can only be optimized if everyone in the organization has more insight into the available stocks and into what is causing the bottlenecks.  Richard den Ouden, Director at Every Angle:  “Once you have that, it is possible to make proactive decisions and optimize the processes.  Thanks to the flexible and fast reporting capabilities, end users of Every Angle can now respond proactively.”

Live Demo of Every Angle
After a Live Demo in their own Maxeda DIY Group environment, the responses from the people involved were extremely positive about everything Every Angle has to offer.  Peter de Greef,  CIO  Maxeda  DIY  Group:  “Every Angle adds value and complements the existing software that is currently used.  And in addition to that, the response time is impressive.”

The options Every Angle was able to offer, as demonstrated during the Live Demo, made the Maxeda DIY Group decide to launch a pilot project with Every Angle.  After an installation that took one day, and after three days of training and a further 15 power users, the SAP add-on is now being deployed in the following areas:  Supply Chain, Masterdata, Financial  Accounting and Controlling, Procurement and Stock Management.

For more information about Maxeda  DIY  Group,  click here: http://www.maxeda.com/EN/Home.aspx.

Customer Survey: ‘We deliver more than customers are expecting’

As a solution provider, it is incredibly important to make your customers happy and keep them happy. So, we decided to ask their opinion about our tool and company. We were especially keen on finding out whether we deliver what we have promised. What we have discovered, is that we reduce stock levels, that we improve operational performance and that our customers are very happy with the Every Angle solution. 

So, we noticed Every Angle (EA) is truly helping our customers in saving money. We succeed in improving the service levels and KPI’s of companies that are using our solution. According to one customer, removing Every Angle would result in ‘a riot’. A total of 41 customers filled in the questionnaire. Most of these respondents can be categorized as Business Power Users, the type of Every Angle users that are able to define and execute Angles within the solution. We questioned three types of users: Business Power Users, IT Power Users and Business Sponsors. The last category consists of people who are typically working on a higher level or management job. They are also the ones to decide whether EA is implemented within the company. All three respondent categories include actual or potential management functions. 

Increase reliability of SAP data
One of the statements we, for instance, postulated: ‘With the use of Every Angle we have been able to increase the reliability of data in SAP’. On this statement, an impressive 81,3 percent of the respondents answered by selecting agree or strongly agree. 

Delivering additional suggestions to customers
Another example of a statement: ‘Every Angle support delivers good quality answers and solutions’. A whopping 96 percent of the respondents answered positively. We then offered the next statement: ‘When dealing with my questions or problems, Every Angle support comes with additional useful suggestions’. We found that 76 percent of our customers agree we deliver additional suggestions to improve the customer situation.  

Reducing data pollution in SAP while improving trust in SAP
Two of the most important aspects, reasons why our customers choose to implement Every Angle, are: ‘Every Angle is reducing the data pollution in SAP systems’ and ‘our solution is improving customer confidence in the reliability of SAP data’. On both questions we received very positive feedback. The first question generated a positive response of 80 percent; for the second, 62,6 percent selected agree or strongly agree.

Customer movies online
We will share more results of the customer survey at our annual customer event in November. In the meantime, we will publish more and more customer videos on our website. We prefer our customers to say if the Every Angle solution is really delivering them crucial competitive benefits and if Every Angle does improve their Operational Performance Management. It seems we do a good job, therefore please check: www.everyangle.com/videos

 

Atos Origin and Every Angle sign Business Value partnership

Every Angle Software Solutions and Atos Origin Netherlands have signed a Business Value Partnership agreement. In this agreement Atos Origin and Every Angle are complementary partners. Every Angle has developed an Operational Performance Management solution as add-on for SAP ERP systems. Under the partnership consultants of leading SAP service provider Atos Origin will use the Every Angle solution as part of the Atos Origin SAP Optimization offering, supporting logistic health checks and quick scans for SAP running businesses.

 The agreement between Every Angle and Atos Origin includes the use of the Every Angle solution during SAP projects such as implementations, migrations and upgrades and will host the solution for customers in their datacenters as well. Fred Hermans, CEO of Every Angle about the agreement: “Every Angle is growing, we feel there is a certain momentum among SAP running businesses to use our solution as an embedded tool for Operational Performance Management, and to continue this growth path we need strong partners. Atos Origin is a very strong partner and therefore I’m very pleased to announce this agreement which will benefit both Every Angle and Atos Origin.”

‘Another step in growing our business’
The agreement was signed by Bert Bulder, Managing Director Every Angle Netherlands and Atos Origins SAP Delivery Line Director Pieter van Koesveld. Bert Bulder: “Within Every Angle we have high expectations of the agreement. Atos Origin is a very important SAP services provider. The agreement is creating opportunities and it’s another step in growing our business, mainly in The Netherlands, Germany and the United States.”

Use Every Angle in SAP projects
Walter de Graaf, sector lead consultant Manufacturing within Atos Origin and responsible for the SAP Optimization service, has been one of the driving forces behind the agreement: “Atos Origin helps their customers to get more value out of their SAP investments. We have developed services to identify improvement areas in order to generate value using SAP software companies already own. A strong and unique component of these services is the usage of the Every Angle solution during the survey to determine improvement areas based on customers SAP data. So Every Angle is an important part of our toolkit to identify opportunities for business process improvements. Also, we will use the Every Angle solution for our SAP projects and will offer hosting services in our data centers.”

ERIKS Successful Seminar: “Insight in operational processes makes the difference for ERIKS”.

ERIKS, supplier of technical components, is one Every Angle’s first customers. After years of close collaboration, ERIKS showed the results they achieved by using Every Angle at the seminar which was organized on June 8. 80 people attended the ERIKS seminar, half of which also received a guided tour at ERIKS.

You can compare running a company to top-level sports. Richard den Ouden (Every Angle) made this comparison in the sense that he thinks ERIKS makes optimal use of all the opportunities Every Angle has to offer.  ERIKS uses the operational performance management solution for ad hoc analysis, but also as a proactive tool to prevent future problems. Réne Overwater, Manager Administrative Logistics at ERIKS, could do no other than confirm this: “It is clear that Every Angle helps us. We use it to control our processes, to make management reports and to get ad hoc information from SAP.

Overwater discussed the use of Every Angle as an add-on for SAP and he described the situation before the implementation of Every Angle, touching the sore spot. “Pete followed up orders which were marked ‘too late’ in SAP. But he could not see in SAP that for part of the orders there was enough stock that was not linked to any sales order.

Every Angle also offers huge benefits for the management. Overwater: “If you want an overview of the expected revenues BW does not suffice.  Every Angle gives us insight in the exact turnover. For us the status of the order intake is important. As management information tool, Every Angle offers us the necessary insight.”

Norman Witsel, National Key Account Manager of ERIKS Netherlands, focused in his presentation on ERIKS’ development over the past decade and the choices they made to continue the growth of their company. Witsel: “We manage, for example, the stock for our customers from our 25 service centers. This fits our company policy of ‘unburdening’. The management of our customers prefers to deal with core activities only, so we take over the non-core activities of our customers. It also gives us the opportunity to improve the processes at our customers by using the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) principle. We want to distinguish ourselves with price, technical knowledge, and product availability, either by standard stock maintenance or by an e-commerce system. Moreover, we are able to provide global sourcing, something which especially our bigger customers appreciate.”

Gerwin Halfwerk, manager Corporate Information Management, focused in his presentation on the process from business strategy to operational excellence. “We have an ambitious growth target. Such an objective requires certain conditions. Logistics play a key role; the logistic services have everything to do with process excellence and need to be right. Only then will we be able to increase our turnover to two billion euros.”  Although ERIKS operational excellence is country orientated, the independent national organizations will reap the scale benefits of the entire company. Structured working with SAP and Every Angle will ensure operational excellence. Halfwerk: “If our key users have the right information to work with, then it will add value to the company. As a company you can make big steps forward.”

Business Process Improvement Award 2011

Every Angle shall award the Business Process Improvement (BPI) Award for the second time. It will be awarded to a team of business or IT professionals who have implemented Every Angle software successfully thereby improving operational processes.
 
Every Angle customers are invited to submit their name for this award. Candidates should fill out a form, providing the following information:

- The improved operational process;
- How the operational process has been approved (approach, involved parties/roles, turnaround time);
- Which Angle has been used;
- The attained results (processes, organization, efficiency, costs, internal/external, communications).

Customers can submit multiple teams that implemented different improvement projects.

Every Angle shall nominate the best 3 improvement projects based on the following criteria:

- Attained results based on one Angle (practical and concrete visibility);
- Cooperation between business processes and IT/SAP support;
- Professionalism & originality;
- Organizational embedding.

During the Every Angle Customer Day at 16 November 2011 all nominees will be given five minutes to present their story. The best improvement project will be chosen based on the vote of the audience and a panel of judges. The winning team will receive dinner cheque for € 300.
 
To register for the BPI Award: Download here the form to register your team and send this to y.slieker@everyangle.com

Using Every Angle in FICO

While Every Angle started as a logistics focused performance management system, we’ve added more and more financial and management accountin g information (FICO) to our standard model based on customer requests. From a financial and controlling perspective, Every Angle supports analysis in the following areas:

- Working capital analysis;
- Order To Cash / Procure to Pay;
- Controlling & Cost analysis;
- G/L Journal analysis.

Next release
Our customers are used to be able to track all bottlenecks in their logistic operation. More and more customers are now using Every Angle in there accounting and controlling department to also track sources for cost and accounting documents. In our next  release we’ve extended our  model to fully support the order to cash and procure to pay process. This makes it very easy to report on eg your sales orders which are issued, billed but not paid yet. Combining the information from the different SAP areas makes this possible.

Customers who already use FICO extensively in Every Angle are ASML, DSM, Joulz, Heineken and  Sulzer.

Company wide roll-out Every Angle at Eppendorf

Eppendorf has decided to roll out Every Angle company wide after a successful pilot  in the Netherlands, Germany and later in the USA.

Eppendorf and Every Angle
With Every Angle, Eppendorf increased the visibility of their operational processes. This increased the productivity, efficiency, quality and flexibility of the supply chain and allows Eppendorf to further improve customer service.

Eppendorf
Eppendorf is a biotech company which develops, produces and distributes systems for use in life-science research laboratories worldwide. Its product range includes pipettes, dispensers and centrifuges as well as consumables such as micro test tubes and pipette tips. In addition, Eppendorf provides instruments and systems for cell manipulation, automated devices for liquid handling, and complete equipment for DNA amplification. Eppendorf was founded in Hamburg in 1945 and has more than 2,500 employees worldwide. The company has subsidiaries in 20 countries and is represented in all other markets by distributors.

Click here for more information about Eppendorf

Video: Coca-Cola (CCBCC) shows at SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 the power of analytics

In this video Jim Small, Systems and Business Process Manager Supply Chain at Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC), talks about the introduction of Every Angle at the company. The video is a compilation of Jim Small’s presentation at SAPPHIRE NOW 2011. The Every Angle solution will be deployed in the next couple of months.

The live demo of Every Angle and test results proved so successful that CCBCC is going to deploy the solution throughout the enterprise. Key business users who where very excited about the presentation include people from Finance, Accounting, Warehouse Distribution, Supply Chain, Production, Quality Assurance. Every Angle is a solution for operational performance management as add-on on SAP ERP.

Kraton Polymers is also a user in the US of the Every Angle operational performance management solution.

 
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New customer video Sulzer Eldim: Able to reduce the scrap percentage with 50 percent

‘Every Angle made it possible to collect information about first time right’

Sulzer Eldim achieved some incredible results thanks to the implementation of Every Angle in addition to SAP. “We were able to reduce the scrap percentage by more than 50 percent”, says Rene van Doorn, General Manager Sulzer Eldim.

Sulzer Eldim is a supplier of choice for various manufacturing customers worldwide. Van Doorn: “Every Angle made it possible to collect information about first time right.”

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Coca-Cola presenting the Analytics tool of Every Angle at SAPPHIRE NOW 2011

Coca-Cola Bottlers Consolidated (CCBCC) is one of the new Every Angle customers that will be presenting at SAPPHIRE NOW 2011. CCBCC will explain how Every Angle will put a very powerful Analytics tool in the hands of the Coca-Cola business users.

What CCBCC needed, according to Jim Small, Systems and Business Process Manager Supply Chain, was a refreshing new approach to providing Operational Information direcly to the business users. In the recent process CCBCC a few things could be improved. Small: “We wanted to deliver the variety and volume of data required by our business users.” Coca-Cola Bottlers Consolidated is using several tools to provide this information. “BW / BI report requests were placed in a queue for IT to deliver. Besides this data load times from ECC to BW were very long.”

80 percent of business requirements live in one week

CCBCC discovered during the Live Demo of Every Angle that the solution for operational performance management was able to implement and go live with 80 percent of the total CCBCC Business Requirements for extensions within less than one week. Small: “And several of these Business Requirements had been attempted using traditional BI technologies, without success.”

About SAPPHIRE NOW 2011

The SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 event is the biggest SAP conference globally. It’s the moment to explore new innovative business solutions within the SAP landscape. And of course Every Angle is one of those innovators, even according to Gartner. The World’s leading analyst firm named Every Angle Software Solutions a Cool Vendor recently. It made the operational performance management solution one of the five solutions which SAP customers should definitely check out to make their business run better.

Click here to register for the Coca-Cola evening (May 16th) and here for the Kraton evening (May 17th) Every Angle is organizing.

Every Angle at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2011

Every Angle will be attending the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 event in Florida. Every Angle, provider of operational performance management solutions for SAP, is one of the sponsors of the SAPPHIRE NOW event, that is being held from 15 till 18 May in Orlando. Coca Cola Bottlers Consolidated Company (CCBCC) will be presenting on behalf of Every Angle.

The SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 event is the biggest SAP conference globally. It’s the moment to explore new innovative business solutions within the SAP landscape. And of course Every Angle is one of those innovators, even according to Gartner. The World’s leading analyst firm named Every Angle Software Solutions a Cool Vendor recently. It made the operational performance management solution one of the five solutions which SAP customers should definitely check out to make their business run better.

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Kraton Polymers evening
Every Angle is, during the SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 event, organizing two special evenings dedicated to two new US customers: Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Kraton Polymers. The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. evening will be on May 16^th and the Kraton Polymers evening the day after, on the 17^th of May.

Click here to register for the Coca-Cola evening and here for the Kraton evening.

About SAPPHIRE NOW 2011
SAPPHIRE 2011 is the leading SAP conference where senior executives and business managers come together to explore new innovative business solutions within the SAP landscape.

Link to event website: http://www.sapandasug.com/

Every Angle Named Cool Vendor by Analist Firm

Every Angle Software Solutions, a provider of Operational Performance Management solutions, today announced it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the Cool Vendors in the SAP Ecosystem, 2011 report¹ by Gartner, Inc. Once a year, the list of Cool Vendors is published by the world’s leading analyst firm and consists of companies with innovative solutions to common issues taxing SAP-users. Every Angle offers a powerful tool to make operational performance management easy for SAP run businesses.

In the SAP Ecosystem there are only five companies mentioned as Cool Vendor by Gartner. The report states: “There are many impressive vendors in SAP ecosystem, so choosing five is not easy. This year’s Cool Vendors provide innovative solutions to common issues taxing SAP users. According to Gartner, organizations running SAP should consider these Cool Vendors to help close the usability gap, speed adoption and get the most out of their SAP deployments.

Fred Hermans, CEO of Every Angle: “We feel there is momentum for Every Angle”
The designation of Every Angle as a Cool Vendor is a boost for the ambitions of the company that is rapidly growing at the moment. Fred Hermans, CEO of Every Angle: “We feel there is momentum among SAP running businesses to use our solution for operational performance management. Our goal is to expand globally and to ensure that more SAP-run business will enjoy the benefits of our software. One of our USP’s is the high satisfaction of the users with our solution.”

As stated in the report “this year’s Cool Vendors provide innovative solutions to common issues taxing SAP users — the SAP user interface (UI), gaps in analytic functionality, specialized industry add-ons and tools for building customized solutions using advanced business application programming (ABAP). Organizations running SAP should consider these Cool Vendors to help close the usability gap, speed adoption and get the most out of their SAP deployments.”

¹Gartner, Inc., Cool Vendors in the SAP Ecosystem, 2011,  Thomas Otter, John Hagerty et al, April 15^th 2011

Cool Vendor Disclaimer
About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

Seminar 8 June: “Insight in operational processes makes the difference for ERIKS”.

On 8 June, Every Angle and ERIKS are organizing the seminar “Insight in operational processes makes the difference for ERIKS” and how ERIKS use Every Angle to achieve their growth target.  

Every Angle and ERIKS offers an inspiring program with interesting and practical presentations. For those who register quickly, there is the opportunity to participate with the tour.  ERIKS will explain how insight in their operational processes contributes to achieve their growth target by using Every Angle.

Besides interesting presentations, there is of course the opportunity for networking, to meet new people and to gain new ideas.  This event will take place in Alkmaar, The Netherlands and will be held in Dutch.

For more information about the seminar, than visit www.everyangle.com/eriksseminar (in Dutch).

If you want to know more about ERIKS, click here.

Every Angle Management Team presents itself

The Management Team of Every Angle consists of the following people: Fred Hermans, Jacques Adriaansen, Hans Veltman, Richard den Ouden, Bert Bulder, Bart van Dongen, Reiner Pistorius en Mark Knowles. Familiar people for many Every Angle users, but till now they were invisible on the company website. That has changed; the Management Team members do have their own page where they are visible with a picture and additional information.

Maintaining direct contact with customers is one of the key success factors of Every Angle. This is something that should be strengthened by the Management Team page. We also created a special e-mail address that enables customers and prospects to ask their questions directly to the Management Team members. The address is: mt@everyangle.com

Management Team on Every Angle website
The Management Team webpage address is: http://www.everyangle.com/company/management-team/ . You can also check the webpage by going to the homepage of Every Angle and click in the main navigation on ‘company’ and select in Management team on the left of this company page. Two of the Management Team members are not visible yet, Reiner Pistorius and Mark Knowles, they will be added to this page soon.

Event: Business Empowerment

How does your information delivery keep track with the accelerating pace of change?

All businesses are subject to a faster changing world and people are depending on information to manage business processes and to react instantaneously on these market changes. Users do require End-to-End Process Performance Analytics, but can not act on the basis of the actual reporting environment. Why? And how do you keep track with the accelerating pace of information change?

And do you also feel the pressure to deliver BI projects more efficiently? How do you free up the time of your BI team to finish high-priority projects? Are you also wondering which technologies could improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your BI operations?

Successful businesses need agile, fast responding IT support with empowered users. The creditable CIO delivers reliable support with high functionality, using ready to use standard technology, short implementations and low support costs. What are your weapons?

The event takes place on April 28, 2011, at Salons Waerboom, Groot-Bijgaarden, where Jacques Adriaansen will be speaking from 10h30 till 11h30. Jacques has been working with Eli Goldratt for more than 8 years in the past and today, Jacques is Executive professor at the University of Antwerp Management School UAMS, Managing Director of Every Angle Belgium and Co-owner of a production company.

Please feel free to visit the website of BI Community to find more information about other topics and guestspeakers on the event

Come to our open house at 7 April and subscribe

On 28 February 2011 Every Angle moved to its new premises in Gouda. Thanks to its growth in the past few years, Every Angle had outgrown its accommodation in every sense of the word. To be prepared for the future, it needed to relocate to premises which would give it the opportunity to grow further. All the staff at Every Angle have already settled in to their new working environment and the final touches are being made. We are very pleased with our new accommodation and that is why we would like to show it to you.

We therefore warmly invite you to our Open House on Thursday 7 April. Between 4 pm and 6 pm you are welcome to come and view our new offices and raise a glass to the growth of Every Angle. If you would like to attend, please subscribe at www.everyangle.com/openhouse.

Where can you find us?
Kampenringweg 45C
2803 PE Gouda
The Netherlands 

Three Every Angle customer case presentations at the VNSG Congress

Every Angle is attending at the biggest SAP themed event in the Netherlands: the VNSG Congress. The Congress will be held in Groningen from 14 and 15 April. This year you can attend three Every Angle customer case presentations: Sulzer, Vrumona and Electrabel. Of course there are many other activities during the congress for you to attend. We invite you to make a note of the following presentations in your agenda: 

Sulzer Eldim Netherlands: An improved production process with a financial dashboard
Time: 14 April at 12.00

The link between the workfloor and financial KPIs plays an important role in many companies, especially production companies. It is very difficult to maintain good links between the production floor and the financial department, because their experiences and working environments are so different. However, financial results depend heavily on production processes, and so in order to bring both closer together Sulzer has developed a financial dashboard. This shows the financial KPIs clearly for each production cell and enables the user to view the underlying production order with a click of the mouse. Sulzer will present the dashboard and the results in its presentation.

The successful cooperation between SAP BO and Every Angle will also be demonstrated live.

Log in with your LinkedIn account to everyangle.vnsgcongres.nl (dutch), go to ‘programme’ and put this presentation in your diary.

 

Vrumona: Insight and transparency between Technical Department and Production
Time: 14 April at 13.30

During this presentation, Ruud van der Burg, Maintenance Engineer, will explain why cooperation between the Technical Department and Production is a must with TPM. In order to optimise this, it is supported by several reports which are generated quickly and conveniently and can be used to work on front-line maintenance focusing on production. These include the following aspects:

- Labels (M1, maintenance request) from production to completion report;
- Breakdown (M2 breakdown) deployment at cause level;
- Warehouse stock reduction while retaining level of service;
- Work orders that cannot be carried out on time because of shortages of materials;
- The various aspects concerning Maintenance at Vrumona are dealt with using the documentation of the DMS implementation on the workfloor.

These reports are generated with Every Angle in combination with SAP DMS and SAP PM/MM.

Log in with your LinkedIn account to everyangle.vnsgcongres.nl (dutch), go to ‘programme’ and put this presentation in your diary.

Electrabel: Operational BI from SAP
Time: 15 April at 11.00

This presentation deals with the question ‘Business Intelligence for the end user: who doesn’t need it?’ Every Angle makes this possible.

Flexible and fast reports on operational data are what Every Angle adds to the SAP landscape. A smart transaction process developed by Every Angle provides a versatile and powerful functionality direct for the end user, namely an on-demand Operational BI in the SAP GUI.

Log in with your LinkedIn account to everyangle.vnsgcongres.nl (dutch), go to ‘programme’ and put this presentation in your diary.

The full programme
Click here for more information on the activities and the programme during the VNSG Congress.

Cooperation Pro Formit and Every Angle for extending the HR module

Pro Formit and Every Angle Software Solutions have entered into a partnership for the development and rollout of the Every Angle HR solution; an indispensable, fast and flexible addition for many SAP users. In this cooperative venture, Pro Formit has been appointed as the Software Development and Business Value Partner.

The aim of this cooperation between Every Angle and Pro Formit is to extend further the existing HR module of Every Angle. ‘There is a considerable need in the market for making the fast and flexible reports that Every Angle offers available for the SAP-HR-module as well. This cooperation will enable us to speed up development in this area’, says Fred Hermans, CEO of Every Angle Software.

On-going development of existing Every Angle HR solution
Mike Hoksbergen of Pro Formit has identified a considerable need for operational reports in the HR world. ‘With its operational reporting options, Every Angle is filling a gap in the market which is not being filled at present in the HR world. We are convinced that this solution, which we are helping to develop, will serve our clients even better.’ Hoksbergen refers here to the considerable need among users, such as clients who currently use SAP BW for all kinds of operational reports even though this solution was actually developed for drawing up management reports. ‘By using the Every Angle HR module, these companies relieve the burden on BW. Users will also be impressed by the speed and flexibility of the module.’

About Pro Formit
Pro Formit is a business service provider which assists, advises and coaches clients in the controlled implementation and use of SAP HCM software. Pro Formit stands for an open, honest and transparent service, as demonstrated in our cooperation with clients, staff and each other. Our basic principle is that our expertise must provide added value for your business.

 For more information about Pro Formit go to www.proformit.nl (Dutch)

Kick-off 2011 at Kraton Performance Polymers with Every Angle solution

Kraton Performance Polymers, a manufacturer of styrene-based thermoplastic elastomers (polymers), is one of the first new users of the Every Angle SAP add-on in 2011. Kraton visited the SAP Sapphire Event in Orlando and got so interested in the Every Angle solution, it asked for a live demo.  

In early 2010, the SAP competency center at Kraton went to SAP Sapphire Orlando in search of a reporting and analytics tool that would allow users to create their own ‘reports’ without having to engage IT.  “When they observed the Every Angle booth signage that said ‘Fully Functional on Your SAP in 3 days’, their initial response was disbelief”, said Mark Knowles, VP Sales and Marketing at Every Angle US. “Intrigued, they decided to learn more.  Before the day was over, 8 or more Kraton people had crowded into the Every Angle booth to see this new and exciting technology.”

Expanding Every Angle at Kraton to be expected
Several weeks later, Every Angle conducted an on-site demo at the Kraton headquarters in Houston Texas.  From here, a two month pilot was commenced.  Training was conducted in Houston, twice, and at their production facility in Belpre Ohio USA.  Overall, Kraton has 5 manufacturing facilities around the world and may expand their Every Angle usage to these plants. Kraton has played a historically significant role in the development of styrene-based thermoplastic elastomers.  These polymers have been used in footwear, roads and roofing, soft-touch plastics in consumer goods (cases and covers for hand held devices). In 2001 Shell divested and Kraton was formed.

Click here for more information about Kraton.

Erik Brouwer explains the role of Every Angle for Perfetti at Logicon event

Erik Brouwer, Director Supply Chain Management North-West Europe at Perfetti Van Melle, explained during the Logicon 2011 event in Amsterdam how he transformed the supply chain of Perfetti Van Melle into a SMART supply chain. Every Angle, the solution that makes Operational BI made easy for SAP run businesses, helped Brouwer a lot in reaching his goals.

“Making things easier and understandable for everyone in the Perfetti Van Melle organization”, was the main message in his presentation at Logicon. Key points in making things smart within Perfetti Van Melle were to increase consumer responsiveness and to use a more direct consumer input used to balance demand and supply. In addition Brouwer put the focus of the organization on horizontal cooperation in platforms and finally there was a focus on new IT technology and infrastructure.

‘Insight in performance with Every Angle’
Brouwer, who became Supply Chain Professional 2010 in The Netherlands, was one of the stimulators of the rollout of Every Angle throughout the worldwide Perfetti Van Melle organization. While Every Angle was initially rolled out in the Benelux region (The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg), it is now used to provide insight in performance (KPI’s) through transparency to all involved in the company. It is also used to monitor actions and results. “Every Angle was a very important solution to support employees in achieving those results”, quoted Erik Brouwer. “Every Angle is a nice tool to make sure that people don’t only hear weekly what their performance was, but also have the tool to monitor their performance on a daily basis.”

Event: How to make IT more agile than your business?

Modern businesses are depending on actual management information based on operational facts to manage business processes and to react instantaneously on market changes. Users do require End-to-End Process Performance Analytics, but can not act on the basis of the actual reporting environment. Why?
And do you also feel the pressure to deliver BI projects more efficiently? How do you free up the time of your BI team to finish high-priority projects? Are you also wondering which technologies could improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your BI operations?
Successful businesses need agile, fast responding IT support with empowered users. The creditable CIO delivers reliable support with high functionality, using ready to use standard technology, short implementations and low support costs. What are your weapons?

Following speakers will share their expertise within this domain and are looking forward to have an open discussion with you:

How Sulzer Eldim designed and implemented Closed Loop Performance Management in an SAP R/3 environment
Truus Zorg – Sulzer Eldim – Manager Information Systems
In her presentation Truus Zorg elaborates on the core elements that made this initiative a success:
- Business Processes and Process flows (information, goods, cash) are leading;
- Select and apply the proper appliances with an as low as possible total cost of ownership;
- Empower the business professionals with fast and easy access to correct business information.

“Building blocks for operational excellence”
Niek Vaessen – Bridgestone Europe – General Manager Supply Chain Management & Information Technology
- How does our systems & processes landscape look like?
- What ingredients does a High Performance Operational Environment require?
- How does technology contribute to Operational Excellence?

Why your IT department has to be more agile than the business.
Jacques Adriaansen – Every Angle – Managing Director
In the last decades change has become a constant in the business environment, and these changes come at an increasing frequency and amplitude. In a constantly changing environment, the business information need is also constantly changing. This implies that the IT department has to run in front to deliver the correct information timely to management and execution.
This evolution explains the need for Operational BI (next to Strategic BI) in companies.

In his presentation Jacques Adriaansen elaborates on:
- Operational BI in relation to Strategic BI
- Agile Closed Loop Performance Management

Practical arrangements
Timing: March 17, 2011, 18h00-21h00
Location: Arenberg, Kapeldreef 46, Heverlee (Egenhoven) bij Leuven (www.restaurantarenberg.be).

You may subscribe yourself and  enjoy a discount of €30,00 by filling in next promotion code EXD20110317. Your participation fee will be €95,00, Tax not included, instead of €125,00, Tax not included.

Every Angle will move on 25th of February

Every Angle is expanding. This means not only larger ambitions but also more staff and they will need more office space. For this reason, on the 25th of February 2011 Every Angle will move to a new location where we will have the room to realize our ambitions and to deliver to you the quality you are accustomed to. Please keep in mind that Every Angle will probably be harder to reach both by phone and by email.

Availability Service Desk
Due to the relocation, the Service Desk will have limited availability on Friday, February 25 from 10:00. For urgent matters please contact us by phone at +31 (0)6 22 68 72 70. We will resume normal hours on Monday, February 28.

Our new address:

Kampenringweg 45C
2803 PE Gouda
The Netherlands
+31 (0)182 577 744
Our phone numbers and fax number will remain the same.

QBusiness Consultants and Every Angle intensify cooperation

QBusiness Consultants and Every Angle have entered into a Business Value Partner agreement. This serves to strengthen the existing relationship. For example, QBusiness Consultants is already well-trained in the ins and outs of the Every Angle solution. The Business Value Partner agreement will generate even more advantages in the future.

The knowledge that QBC has of the defence and aviation industry in particular and the added value of Every Angle as supplier of an Operational BI solution for SAP ERP software is a strong combination and both parties are aware of the potential of this.

SPEER project
QBC has a good position within Dutch Defence, which includes the SAP implementation project SPEER. This project is expected to run until 2014. QBC has also been engaged as partner for various Defence projects in Norway. According to QBC, the Operational BI solution from Every Angle is certainly of added value for the sectors in which QBC is active.

Every Angle CEO Fred Hermans about the cooperation: “We see QBC as a partner with an excellent position in the Defence and aviation sector. The QBC network, the current clients and the business value they can provide are all very valuable to us.”

About QBusiness Consultants
QBusiness Consultants is a specialized service provider in the field of Business Consultancy and SAP-implementations. We represent quality of the solution, quality of the organisation and quality of the project. A team of enthusiastic consultants with years of experience in both the public and private sector.

Click here for more information about QBusiness Consultants

The Fresh Connection

Every Angle is associated with “The Fresh Connection” as a sponsor again this year. “The Fresh Connection” is a simulation game for supply chain professionals, in which they must make tactical and strategic choices. The Dutch competition starts on 7 February and ends on 26 March 2011.

The competition
“The Fresh Connection” is an international competition for professionals in the field of Supply Chain Management. The objective is to highlight the expertise of the best supply chain teams and to simultaneously provide an experimental learning environment. 

The company “The Fresh Connection”:

- Is a manufacturer of fruit juices, supplying to the retail sector and “out of home” channel;
- Suffered serious losses last year;
- And has a new management team that has the task of making the company profitable again by making tactical and strategic changes to the supply chain.

There are six rounds in which strategic and tactical Supply Chain-related choices in the field of Supply Chain must be made as a team. The underlying intelligent game software calculates the consequences of those choices on a weekly basis. The results then form the starting point for the following week.

Final event
The final event of “The Fresh Connection” will be held on 21 April 2011. The best teams from the competition will battle for victory and the competition. The winner of “The Fresh Connection” qualifies for the international final event in Pisa, Italy.   

Every Angle will attend the final event, as sponsor, just like they did last year. Every Angle will also hold a presentation at the final event to demonstrate how Every Angle can be used in the supply chain.

For more information see www.thefreshconnection.nl

Every Angle Software and Ictopus Group BV work together

Every Angle Software and Ictopus Group intend to cooperate. Every Angle is a supplier of an Operational BI solution for SAP, which enables companies to improve performance management. Ictopus Group is specialised in training staff who work with the SAP and Microsoft ERP systems.

There are two parts to this partnership. Ictopus will use the Every Angle solution as part of the in-house SAP trainee programme. Jos van der Haar, Training Consultant at Ictopus: “By incorporating Every Angle in the Ictopus SAP trainee programme, the trainees become much more aware of the practical problems that can be encountered by SAP users on a daily basis. Especially as the SAP users often do not have the useful tools they need to efficiently monitor and safeguard work processes and to resolve bottlenecks.”

Potential future employees
Every Angle reaps the benefits from the partnership as young, enthusiastic and well-trained future employees become available. Every Angle could realise future ambitions with this influx. It is the ambition of Every Angle to make substantial headway on the international highway.

Ictopus is very pleased with the opportunities created by the cooperation. CFO Jo Derks about the partnership between Ictopus and EA: “The cooperation creates a win-win situation for both organisations and for our clients. This helps to prepare our trainees for their further career and they obtain a better impression of the use of SAP in practical situations. Moreover, we hope that we can make a contribution to the ambitions of Every Angle by providing young and enthusiastic future employees for the company.”

The speed and flexibility at which reports can be compiled using the Every Angle SAP add-on immediately demonstrates the scope of this powerful SAP add-on for the SAP user during the daily operational activities. This applies to monitoring the current status and for resolving and structurally eliminating bottlenecks. As a whole, this leads to reduced costs, a consistent approach to work and more pleasure when working with SAP and making reports.

About Ictopus Group
Ictopus enables organisations, regardless of the format, to realise their objectives through sustainably optimising operating processes and by developing human capital; their employees. To this end, the IT traineeships available at Ictopus include SAP and Microsoft and a broad scale of corporate training courses. The Ictopus IT traineeship is in place to enable young Intermediate/Higher Vocational Education/University graduate students to develop their IT skills further. Moreover, the trainee education programme also provides a broad scale of soft-skill training courses. The Ictopus trainees provide added value for companies in the Netherlands and neighbouring countries thanks to the mix of technical IT and functional IT training courses, combined with the development of soft skills. The Ictopus employees are spread across the following business units: Ictopus Professional Trainees and Ictopus Academy.

Click here for more information about Ictopus

Every Angle is growing strongly and expresses international ambitions

2010 was a good year for Every Angle. While the Dutch ICT sector recorded a slight growth, the software supplier from Gouda increased their turnover with 10 percent. The number of Every Angle installations increased by 28 percent. One of the customers who is starting to use Every Angle in 2011, is the American company Kraton Performance Polymers Inc.
Both in terms of turnover and in numbers of users, Every Angle had a strong growth in 2010, just like in 2009. The number of installations of the operational BI solution increased by 28 percent compared to 2009. In the same period the number of users of increased by 42%. And the turnover increased by 10 percent. Every Angle already had a strong position in the SAP landscape and with this growth this position is becoming  stronger.

New customers and more users
The growth of Every Angle is caused by new customers on the one hand and on the other hand by current customers who add more users to the system. In 2010 more and more companies are using Every Angle more intensively and more widely across the organization. Some of them switched to a company-wide contract which enables them to add unlimited number of Every Angle users, without consequences for the license fee. Customers who have expanded the number of Every Angle users in 2010 include Heineken, DSM and Electrabel.

Achieve international ambitions
In 2011, Every Angle wants to continue this strong growth internationally. The first steps have been made. By creating national organizations, the organization structure of Every Angle is adjusted to the international ambitions. Every Angle now has an organization in Germany, Belgium and in the U.S. A new customer who signed the contract in 2010 and is starting to use the software in 2011, is the American company Kraton Performance Polymers Inc. Kraton is a leading supplier of high-performance polymers. 

Every Angle opens German subsidiary

Gouda (NL) / Kleve (D) — Every Angle Software Solutions, thought leader in Operational Business Intelligence for SAP ERP, today announced the opening of a German subsidiary.  Reiner Pistorius has been appointed Managing Director of Every Angle Deutschland GmbH.

„We would like to become the world leading software vendor for Operational Business Intelligence solutions based on SAP ERP. A key prerequisite to fulfill this ambition is the success in the German market. We do already have presence in Germany.  With customers like Continental, Schunk and Eppendorf  Every Angle has already very satisfied companies using the solution. In addition, there are several multinationals, where Every Angle is implemented, who have subsidiaries in Germany. Recently we decided that Germany, Austria and Switzerland is one of our main strategic regions. And Reiner, with his remarkable experiences in building and structuring sales teams and his in depth knowledge about SAP and the SAP customer, especially in the DACH region, makes him exactly the right leader for us”, said Fred Hermans, CEO of Every Angle Software Solutions BV.

Effective January 1^st, Reiner Pistorius will be responsible for Every Angle’s activities in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). Reiner was 14 years active in leading Sales and Business Development functions at SAP and responsible for the success of SAP’s strategic topic Enterprise Performance Management in the German market.  In his last role, he was heading up Software and Service Sales within the DACH region at NAKISA GmbH.

Perfetti Van Melle customer case at Logicon 2011

On 1-3 February Erik Brouwer (Director Supply Chain Management – Perfetti Van Melle) will give a presentation about his vision on supply chain management and Every Angle at Logicon 2011.

Logicon is the leading Retail and FMCG global logistics & supply chain conference that takes place in Amsterdam. More than 40 world-leading SCM directors will give a multi-faceted perspective into the latest retail logistics & supply chain issues, trends and progress. Across the three days of this conference, there is the opportunity to hear the big picture, high-profile keynote presentations as well as attend dynamic break-out discussions, panel debates and intimate SCM workshops. There will be speakers of companies like Perfetti Van Melle, Carlsberg and Sara Lee.

Supply Chain Manager at Perfetti Van Melle

Erik Brouwer is Supply Chain Manager at Perfetti Van Melle, the company behind global brands like Mentos and Chupa Chups. In 2010 he was elected “Supply Chain Professional of the year” by Supply Chain Magazine. His presentation at Logicon 2011 is titled: “SMART supply chains in food”. During this presentation he will share the importance to organize for decisiveness and his vision on how to make your supply chain smart with Operational BI solution Every Angle.

Click here for more information about Logicon

VNSG Congress 14 and 15 April

This year Every Angle is platinum sponsor of the biggest SAP themed event in the Netherlands: the VNSG Congress. During this event, attendees can find out a lot about Every Angle through the many activities and presentations, such as: three customer case presentations (Sulzer, Vrumona and Electrabel), a workshop and an Every Angle Operational Excellence pavilion.

The VNSG Congress event will be held in Groningen from 14 and 15 April. The congress is an initiative by the Dutch SAP User Group. This event is the place for getting information about new developments and solutions of SAP, exchanging knowledge and ideas with other SAP users, networking and listening to the experience of speakers about different subjects related to SAP.

Three Every Angle customer case presentations
This year you can attend three Every Angle customer case presentations: Sulzer, Vrumona and Electrabel. Also, Richard den Ouden (Director – Every Angle) will give a presentation on the importance of data management and how Every Angle helps you to get grip on and improve your SAP data quality.

Every Angle Operational Excellence pavilion
During both days of the event Every Angle will host a series of presentations and roundtable discussions at the Every Angle Operational Excellence pavilion on the main exhibition floor.

Click here for more information and to register for VNSG Congress

Every Angle wishes you a wonderful Christmas and a successful 2011

Every Angle wants to give you information at light speed. So you can see today, how to get the best business results tomorrow. Thanks for a great 2010. We are looking forward to continue our relationship in 2011.

Best regards, The Every Angle team

Successful Workshop in Executive Performance Management

On 8 December Ozone Consulting and Every Angle organized, in collaboration with Erasmus University Rotterdam and SAP Netherlands, a workshop in performance management. Participants of the workshop were users of Heineken, PPG and Hunter Douglas.

The workshop was focused on the importance of setting the right goals and the ‘road’ to achieve these goals. Essential is keeping up to date of relevant developments by having the right KPIs in order to be able to adjust and react if necessary. This theory was put into practice through a simulation game.

Performance Management
Performance Management was, is and remains an important topic. Since the introduction of the Balanced Scorecard in the late eighties, many self-respecting companies or organizations moved to a KPI-based management model. But this move was not always successful. There are various obstacles identified that frustrates the Performance Management process. For example: we always act in a constant changing market, which means that you continuously have to make choices at strategic, tactical and operational level. If you don’t make any choices, then you can’t speak of a strategy and your company is like a rudderless ship.

KPIs and Dashboard Engine Every Angle
It takes a lot of time and effort to get a KPI in a BI report. This has various implications. Two of these consequences are the “First-time-right” approach and the “information overload”. It often happens that it takes so long to formulate the right KPIs that people lose interest by the lack of results, or that they are overtaken by reality, in which case you speak of “First-time-right”. With regards to “information overload” many KPIs are appointed – as a precaution – (hundreds of KPIs on a single dashboard are no exception) to make sure nothing is missed. You can guess the effect: an overload of KPIs betrays a lack of choices and decisions and without making decisions, there isn’t a strategy: a rudderless ship.

A solution to solve this problem is the “multiple-time-right” approach. In this approach the focus is on the rapid prototyping of Performance Management and particular on KPIs. This gives you the opportunity to change quickly your KPIs based on market developments. The new Every Angle Dashboard Engine perfectly matches with this approach and gives you the opportunity to make changes to your Dashboard quickly and cost-effectively.

What is new in EA 2011?

Release 2011 of the Every Angle Solution Suite is a strong improvement of release 2010. The Every Angle team worked hard to achieve higher levels of user satisfaction in ease of use, stability, speed and coverage of SAP. The most important changes are:

- Every Angle Dashboard Engine
- Every Angle in the SAP Client ZEA03
- Support of huge databases
- Ease of use

Read more about the Every Angle Solution Suite 2011.

The European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit from 14th to 16th June

This year Every Angle is attending again at the European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit. The Summit will take place in Berlin from 14th to 16th June 2011.
The European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit is well established as the annual meeting place for all professionals involved in the supply chain and logistics industry within Europe. This event has been running for over 10 years and it has consistently been attended by more than 300 directors and heads of supply chain and logistics management. Over the course of two days, you will experience a wide range of thought provoking and challenging sessions designed to stimulate and inform.

Read more about the European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit.

VNSG Congres 14 – 15 April

This year, Every Angle is one of the sponsors of the VNSG Congress. This event will be held in Groningen from 14 – 15 April. The congress is initiated of the Dutch SAP User Group. This congress is the place for getting information about new developments and solutions of SAP, exchanging knowledge and ideas with other SAP users, networking and listening to the experience of speakers about different subjects related to SAP.

Click here for more information about the VNSG Congress.

Logicon

Also this year Every Angle is attending as a sponsor at Logicon 2011. Logicon is Europe’s leading Retail and FMCG global logistics & supply chain conference. More than 40 world-leading SCM directors will give a multi-faceted perspective into the latest retail logistics & supply chain issues, trends and progress.
Across the three days of this conference, there is the opportunity to hear the big picture, high-profile keynote presentations as well as attend dynamic break-out discussions, panel debates and intimate SCM workshops.

Read more about Logicon.

Follow Every Angle on Facebook

After Twitter and LinkedIn, you can now follow Every Angle also on Facebook! On our Facebook page you can find the latest news and developments of Every Angle. Facebook also offers you a platform where users can meet other users to exchange ideas and tips.

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Dockwise uses Every Angle for six months

In the spring of 2010 Dockwise implemented Every Angle. They wanted to unlock their SAP data on an easy way and to build operational reports. One of the most important criteria was the possibility to combine data from various SAP modules.

After using Every Angle for 6 months, it was a perfect timing to evaluate and to see where improvements lie.

“Still we are using Every Angle not enough,” said Rick Ackerman, Procurement Manager. “We have the reports and the information is good, but now we have to ensure that more people will use it.”

Within the Administration Division Every Angle is more a part of the daily practice. Rob van den Broek, Lead Administration, indicates that his department could not work without Every Angle anymore. “We have defined a number of overviews who are regularly used by the users now. We also use data from Every Angle for several KPI reports.“

Jess Brock, project leader of the Every Angle implementation, summarized the whole implementation, “Every Angle has a lot of opportunities. And now it is important to take full advantage of it.”

Dockwise
Dockwise provides transportation, logistics, project management, procurement and engineering for heavy marine transports and installation to some of the most challenging environments in the world. Dockwise operates the largest and most versatile fleet of 20 semi-submersible heavy transport vessels in the world. Dockwise offers a full range of logistical and transport management services to ensure seamless operations.”

Read more about Dockwise.

World drug Manufacturing 2010

This year, Every Angle will attend the World Drug Manufacturing Summit 2010 in Berlin on the 30th of November. Every Angle will show its added value for the drug industry in a presentation.

“World Drug Manufacturing 2010” is the leading event for small molecule and biologic manufacturers. It regularly attracts over 300 industry members from across manufacturing and supply chain disciplines.

The industry is facing increasing pressure to reduce costs, in order to remain competitive against generics. It is therefore more important than ever that companies reduce waste, streamline processes and increase their global presence.

“World Drug Manufacturing 2010” will feature case studies from leading companies such as Novartis, Merck & Co and Johnson & Johnson, addressing these issues.

Read more about the “World Drug Manufacturing 2010”.

Fred Hermans appointed new CEO of Every Angle

As from 1 November 2010 Fred Hermans has been appointed the new CEO of Every Angle.

Up until 1 January 2010 Fred Hermans was CEO of Qurius NV and the legal predecessor of Magnus. “After more than 10 years as CEO of a medium-large listed IT company, I needed a new challenge. Every Angle fits the bill.”

“As a co-shareholder, I have had a long-distance relationship with Every Angle and its core staff since its foundation in 1997. Over the past years the company has shown a solid growth and has built up an excellent relationship with its very appealing customer base.”
“This innovative and promising product with its unique positioning in Operational Business Intelligence and combined with excellent references, all give the company a huge amount of potential. My most important task is to develop the company’s international ambitions”, explains the new CEO of Every Angle.

Roundtable session Every Angle at the CIO Day 2010

This year Every Angle attends the CIO Day as a gold Partner. The CIO Day brings the top of the Dutch IT community together, including all nominees for the CIO of the Year Award, top IT analyst and CIO’s.

CIO Day offers an attractive and inspiring program with over more than 500 participants. This offers the opportunity to network, exchange ideas and learn from each other. The theme for the CIO Day 2010 is: ”C2IO; The most incredible Chief!”

Roundtable Sessions
On 16 November Every Angle hosts a roundtable session at the CIO Day about the following topic:

How to make IT more agile than your business
Modern businesses are dependent on actual management information based on operational facts to manage business processes and to react instantaneously on market changes. Successful businesses need agile, fast responding IT support with empowered users. The creditable CIO delivers reliable support with high functionality, using ready to use standard technology, short implementations and low support costs. What are your weapons? 

Click here for more information about the CIO DAY.

Lab session: Make your supply chain visible within SAP

We collect input from users at an early stage to ensure that new developments of Every Angle are regarded as useful. We, therefore, held a first lab session on May 26. The Every Angle product roadmap indicates that an important expansion is to be expected for Q4 2010, namely the display of an angle within the SAP GUI (display function). The reactions at the lab session were very positive.

Every Angle focus groups
We will organize more Every Angle focus groups in the near future. We do not have a fixed programme yet, but are working on the presentation of issues such as process improvement (e.g. P2P, O2C), sector sessions (utility, wholesale), reporting and integration (Business Objects/BW). Would you like to participate or do you have any issues you would like to discuss with other Every Angle users? Please contact Bert Bulder (b.bulder@everyangle.com or +31 (0)6 2070 3898

How Heineken Netherlands determines the Carbon Footprint with Every Angle

During the seminar of Every Angle and Heineken, Anton Romijn (Strategic Supply Chain Analyst, Heineken Netherlands) demonstrated how he uses Every Angle to get the necessary information out of SAP to determine the Carbon Footprint in just five minutes.

This is a complex analysis that involves many SAP tables and where a lot of SAP and logistics expertise is required. Because this knowledge is built in Every Angle it was possible for Anton Romijn to analyze their Carbon Footprint in just a few clicks.

Sustainability is currently a hot item. Also in the supply chain sustainability has full attention. The benefits of a sustainable supply chain are clear: less energy, costs and environmental impact. An important measurement of how green a supply chain is, is the Carbon Footprint. This determines the influence of the supply chain on the environment.
 
More and more companies are mapping their carbon footprint to measure how green their supply chain is. They are using this information in their operations.  In a supply chain that is controlled by SAP Every Angle a powerful tool to determine the Carbon Footprint, as showed by Anton Romijn.
 
In addition to determining the Carbon Footprint Every Angle helps management and staff of Heineken Netherlands with better and faster management information and KPI measurements for the supply chain. It helps to answer questions regarding overall stock levels (in order to reduce working capital) and to measure the conformance to schedule of departures of vessels from the Rotterdam Harbour.

Sulzer Eldim wins Business Process Improvement Award 2010

At the Every Angle Customer Day 2010 on 7 October, the project team led by Katja Hegger (Business Analist, Sulzer Eldim) won the Business Process Improvement (BPI) Award 2010.

The BPI Award is an initiative of Every Angle for which Every Angle users can submit their successful improvement projects to contend for the BPI Award. Many project teams submitted a project, including teams working at Alliander, Electrabel, ERIKS, Intervet Schering-Plough Animal Health and Vrumona.

During the Every Angle Customer Day the audience selected the project they liked the best based on the project team presentations. Sulzer Eldim won the award with their “Next Step in a Cell Concept” project which uses a financial dashboard to increase the focus on the result of the various cells and levels within the organization.

Katja Hegger on the winning project: “The cell summary is used at various levels of the organization, ensuring the same information is available to everyone. The financial information can be easily and quickly grouped into an overview. This allows us to present information from the various SAP modules (PCA, CO and FI) on a single A4 sheet per cell. This sheet not only includes the costs per month but also data on the registered hours and KPIs which make trends visible.”

Truus Zorg, Sulzer Eldim Manager Information Systems, on Every Angle: “When I introduced Every Angle eight years ago I believed it would provide opportunities. At the time I could not have foreseen that there would be this many advantages and that the added value would be this high. I am very proud of the Sulzer Eldim team and the Every Angle staff who paid such close attention to the objectives of the team.”

Please read the further information on how Every Angle was used at Sulzer Eldim to create a financial dashboard.

Successful Customer Day 2010

On Thursday 7 October 2010, Every Angle had a successful and memorable Customer Day on board the James Cook at the port of Rotterdam.

The Customer Day started with the workshops Data Quality Management and Product Roadmap Session. At the Data Quality Management workshop, Jacques Adriaansen and Richard den Ouden discussed with the participants how to structurally increase the quality of data and how to maintain this high quality. At the Product Roadmap Session, Hans Veltman and Jan Wicher Draijer explained a few product-development spearheads.

Pole traveller and expedition leader Marc Cornelissen gave an interesting lecture in the afternoon. He told us how he plans and executes a pole expedition in a continually changing environment. Every Angle customers Coats and Electrabel followed with presentations about their experiences with the Every Angle software.

Coats
Hizmy Hassen, Coats Global Supply Chain Director, gave a presentation on how Coats uses the software. Hizmy Hassen: “Every Angle is considered to be the tool to actually resolve problems and to manage processes. Every Angle converts data into useful information at a very high speed.”

Electrabel
Luc De Munck, Electrabel Purchasing Manager, was next and he spoke about the use of Every Angle at the Doel nuclear power plant. “Every Angle shows the bottlenecks, backlogs and risks (in deliveries). We also uses Every Angle to generate an overview of the workload and to optimize the process flow with the aid of fast and flexible analyses.”

BPI Award
The Customer Day ended with the BPI Award ceremony. Many customers, including Alliander, Electrabel, ERIKS, Intervet Schering-Plough Animal Health, Sulzer Eldim and Vrumona, had submitted successful improvement projects. The winner of the Business Process Improvement Award is Sulzer Eldim with their ‘Next Step in a Cell Concept’ project. The objective of this project was increasing the effectiveness of the various production cells. This project included a financial dashboard, powered by Every Angle. The KPIs displayed in the dashboard are made daily and automatically with Every Angle.

Every Angle and Magnus sign a Business Partnership Value agreement

Naarden / Gouda,4  October 2010 – On 1 October 2010, performance management software vendor Every Angle from Gouda and SAP specialist Magnus Technology Consultants from Naarden signed a Business Value Partnership agreement.

This partnership means that Magnus invests in the knowledge of Every Angle and they will be involved in the implementations of Every Angle. In addition, Magnus and Every Angle cooperate to generate new business and presales activities. Finally, Magnus will be involved by supporting the users, for example building new ‘Angles’.

With operations in 28 countries and an increase in the number of Every Angle users of 65% compared to 2009, the added value of Every Angle in the SAP landscape is increasingly acknowledged. Therefore the need for local representation by reliable partners is increasingly important.

“For years Magnus has been a well-known company with high quality of SAP consultants. We are confident that they will correctly represent the proposition of Every Angle”, said Jacques Adriaansen, General Manager of Every Angle. “Magnus also offers us the necessary functional and technical SAP expertise to expand our portfolio in the Netherlands.”

“We are always looking for innovative add-ons for the SAP ecosystem who are adding value to our customers,” said Hans Hoogsteen, director of Magnus. “With this partnership we can offer our customers even more and better solutions for their operational reporting requirements.”

About Magnus
Magnus helps companies to better exploit their IT systems and investments by providing high quality consultancy and system integration. The idea is to simplify the IT business and to enlarge the agility of the companies. As an SAP Service Partner Magnus provides implementation, upgrades, migrations, training and coaching, maintenance, functional and technical management and hosting. Magnus has expertise in SAP Product Lifecycle Management, Logistics, Sales & Marketing, Financial Management, Business Intelligence, IS-Media and Technology. Magnus also has the deep technical expertise in areas such as composite applications development, e-business, integration, customization and SharePoint Solutions. Magnus’ keywords regarding the service to their customers are: shoulder to shoulder, pragmatic, focused and results oriented. More information is available at www.magnus.nl.

Contact
Magnus Technology Consultants
Kimm van Splunter-Mazer
T: +31 (0)35 699 6060
E: k.vsplunter-mazer@magnus.nl

Every Angle Software Solutions bv
Philippe Bos
T: +31 (0)182 577 744
E: p.bos@everyangle.com

Every Angle keeps growing!

The fact that Every Angle is a powerful system to manage and optimize operational processes is something we have known for a long time. Now, however, it seems that more and more companies are convinced about this as well. Every Angle is growing impressively underlining the important part it plays in the SAP landscape.

The growth rates of Every Angle speak for themselves:

• In one year time the number of Every Angle users grew with 67%!
• Every Angle is active in 28 countries now. Last year Every Angle was still active in 22 countries.

The impressive growth is due to new users both at new and existing customers. An interesting development is that more and more existing customers are expanding the number of Every Angle users within their organizations. This way they increase the added value of Every Angle for their organization as a whole when it comes to optimizing operational processes and improving the quality of the SAP system.

New Every Angle display function in SAP

To make Every Angle even more useful to the operational level, Every Angle has built a display feature in SAP. This means that the Every Angle Client can be used within the SAP GUI, without the need of installing the Every Angle Client.

With this new function, intended only for the viewing users, it is possible to request angles (reports) in the SAP layout and to export them to Excel. users will not be able to create new angles or modify them in the SAP-GUI. Only the power users with a complete Every Angle Client are able to do this. With the SAP transaction only existing angles can be viewed.

During our lab session on May 26 people were very enthusiastic about this development. The display function will be available in the release of Every Angle 2011, which will be available in Q4 2010.

Sulzer Eldim builds financial dashboard with Every Angle

Sulzer Eldim has launched a project to make the results and costs of its various production cells transparent. Every Angle is, according to Rob Noldus, Finance Manager at Sulzer Eldim: “A valuable tool that provides the necessary information at the right level every day.”

Making results and costs more transparent
Sulzer Eldim has launched a project to make the results and costs of its various production cells transparent. Through a financial dashboard Sulzer Eldim would enable their production cells to check their own performance, direct costs, scrap, hiring from other cells and other KPI’s.

How the Financial Dashboard works
Every Angle feeds the dashboard with information from Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Controlling (CO) and Financial Accounting (FI). Each night, a set of angles are exported and automatically loaded by Excel. Subsequently the Excel dashboard presents the key figures in the desired layout. It is also possible to click on the KPI’s to get more details and do root cause analyses to solve or prevent possible bottlenecks.
 
Results according to Finance Manager Rob Noldus
Rob Noldus, Finance Manager at Sulzer Eldim, about the financial dashboard:
“With Every Angle we have developed a valuable tool that provides us the necessary information at the right level of responsibility on a daily basis.This results in a better financial insight and awareness and develops a result oriented incentive on multiple levels within our organization.”

New Customer: Eppendorf

Eppendorf has decided to implement Every Angle. With Every Angle, Eppendorf will increase the visibility of their operational processes. This increases the productivity, efficiency, quality and flexibility of the supply chain and allows Eppendorf to further improve customer service.

Eppendorf
Eppendorf is a biotech company which develops, produces and distributes systems for use in life-science research laboratories worldwide. Its product range includes pipettes, dispensers and centrifuges as well as consumables such as micro test tubes and pipette tips. In addition, Eppendorf provides instruments and systems for cell manipulation, automated devices for liquid handling, and complete equipment for DNA amplification. Eppendorf was founded in Hamburg in 1945 and has more than 2,500 employees worldwide. The company has subsidiaries in 20 countries and is represented in all other markets by distributors.

Global Supply Chain Director of Coats plc speaks at Every Angle Customer Day 2010

Hizmy Hassen, the Global Supply Chain Director, will present Coats’ vision about operational control and working capital reduction in a complex supply chain. He also will speak about how Every Angle helps in this process.

“Every Angle helps us to analyze hundreds of thousands of records effectively and in the process has helped us increase the quality of our data and effectiveness of our supply chain processes. This has been part of the improvement program that has helped Coats reduce its NWC % to sales from over 31% to 20% and at the same time improve customer service performance.” (Hizmy Hassen, Coats)

Check out more about Coats and their improvement program on 7 October at our Customer Day 2010 in Rotterdam. You can register yourself at www.everyangle.com/customerday2010

Register your team for the BPI Award and win an iPod Nano!

Among all the participants of the BPI Awards, we will give away 5 iPod Nano’s!

How can you win the Award and the iPod Nano?
That is very simple! Register your team and tell us how Every Angle has improved your operational processes. The team that presents the best improvement project during our Customer Day will win the BPI Award and receive a dinner check for 300 EUR. And you also have a chance to win one of the iPod Nano’s!

Read more about the BPI Award and register your team at www.everyangle.com/customerday2010!

New demo’s online

Recently we added some new demo’s online.
The demo’s will give you an impression of how Every Angle answers your questions in no time.
We recorded some demo’s with the questions below.

Which open sales orders are too late and have got a negative influence on your sales and customer service level?
Which open sales orders are not late yet, but will be late if you don’t do anything about it?
Which sales orders are polluting your SAP system?
Which stocks do not have any demand in your SAP system?
Which open sales orders can be delivered early, because for example they are already in stock?

New customer: Bridgestone Europe

Following a 12 week pilot, Bridgestone Europe NV/SA has decided to deploy Every Angle with a view to supporting its day-to-day business processes. Every Angle helped Bridgestone to increase the visibility of their end-to-end supply chain processes, improving the monitoring and control of operations and increasing production. Bridgestone indicates that efficiency (less time consuming) and flexibility are the most important positive elements of the Every Angle software.

About Bridgestone
Bridgestone Europe NV/SA – with European headquarters in Brussels, Belgium – is a key division of the Bridgestone Corporation. It develops and manufactures top-quality tyres in Europe which, through its 20 subsidiary sales companies and other channels, are distributed all over Europe including the Eastern European markets. Products are also exported outside Europe, including to Japan.

DSM presents Every Angle results at SAPPHIRENOW 2010

Johan Neuteboom (Project Manager at DSM Food Specialities) held a presentation entitled “DSM Gains Huge Efficiency Improvements Using Every Angle and SAP Software” at SAPPHIRENOW 2010 in Orlando during which he presented the results obtained using Every Angle.

DSM Food Specialties is a manufacturer of specific ingredients, such as enzymes and yeast extracts, for the food and beverage industry. The application of Every Angle has increased efficiency considerably. The return on investment of Every Angle was 3 to 6 months.

The results include the following:

• 16% stock decrease.
• Decrease in costs required to generate reports: 240,000 USD.
• Decrease in logistics costs.
• Increased planning transparency.
• 50% decrease in data pollution in 4 weeks.
• Increase in SAP user satisfaction

Customer day 7 October 2010

This year we are organizing the Every Angle Customer Day on Thursday 7 October onboard the Abel Tasman. Onboard this vessel we will view the Rotterdam ports. Our customers will soon be receiving a personal invitation for this day.

Program
The programme starts with two workshops, the Product Roadmap workshop and the Masterdata & System Cleaning workshop. Pole traveller and expedition leader Marc Cornelissen will be our guest speaker in the afternoon. After the speech, Coats and Electrabel staff will talk about the results that have been achieved with Every Angle. And of course we will be informing our relations of the latest developments in the Every Angle software.

Business Process Improvement Award

Every Angle shall award the Business Process Improvement (BPI) Award for the first time. It will be awarded to a team of business or IT professionals who have implemented Every Angle software successfully thereby improving operational processes.
 
Every Angle customers are invited to submit their name for this award. Candidates should fill out a form, providing the following information:

• The improved operational process;
• How the operational process has been approved (approach, involved parties/roles, turnaround time);
• The role played by Every Angle;
• The attained results (processes, organization, efficiency, costs, internal/external, communications).

Customers can submit multiple teams that implemented different improvement projects.

Every Angle shall nominate the best 5 to 10 improvement projects based on the following criteria:

• Attained results (practical and concrete visibility);
• Cooperation between business processes and IT/SAP support;
• Professionalism & originality;
• Organizational embedding.

During the Every Angle Customer Day all nominees will be given five minutes to present their story. The best improvement project will be chosen based on the vote of the audience and a panel of judges. The winning team will receive dinner cheque for € 300.
 
The Every Angle customers will soon be informed on the procedure and opportunity to submit their entries.

What’s new in SP3 2010

The standard functionality of Every Angle is expanded in the next Service Pack (SP3, available in Q3 2010) with a powerful functionality that supports the management in their management of working capital. Two important indicators have been added to the wide range of indicators: “DSO (Days Sales Outstanding)” and “DPO (Days Purchase Outstanding)”.

DSO provides, per customer, the relation between not yet paid invoiced sales value and the total sales value in a specific year, expressed in days.

DPO provides, per customer, the relation between not yet paid invoiced purchases value and the total purchases value in a specific year, expressed in days.

Successful Gazelle seminar

On 16 June Every Angle and Koninklijke Gazelle organized the seminar “How Gazelle improves operational processes in a SAP run business fast”. The seminar was well attended and the topic was much appreciated, in short: the event was a big success.

Program
After a tour of the historic Royal Dutch Gazelle bicycle factory the more than one hundred attendants heard the Gazelle project team explain how they apply Every Angle. During the seminar Rolf Verspuij (CFO Gazelle), John Smits (IT manager Gazelle) and Tjalling de Vries (Supply Chain Manager Gazelle) explained the optimization of SAP, the improvement in data integrity and the monitoring of the Gazelle operational processes using Every Angle. This was followed by an interactive workshop. Richard den Ouden, senior consultant at Every Angle demonstrated how to attain operational excellence. Next, Jan Heerema (SAP Netherlands) explained the SAP vision on Supply Chain Performance Management.

Gazelle and Every Angle
The Gazelle bicycle production process is considerably complex. To handle this complexity even better, Gazelle wanted to increase their insight into the internal processes. In everyday practice, there was a demand for extra operational control information. Gazelle responded by implementing the Every Angle standard software system. Immediately after the installation of Every Angle Gazelle had fast and easy access to all operational information from their SAP system. Since then Gazelle uses Every Angle to optimize SAP, to improve the data integrity and to monitor the operational processes.

SCOR and Every Angle

At the end of last year, Astellas started the pilot project Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR). Astellas’ objective was to determine which results were needed in order to be able to complete the SCOR model for Astellas (for one product family).
Wim van der Poel (SCOR/SAP consultant at Van der Poel Consultancy) has performed a great number of analyses and SCOR measurements using the Every Angle software. Every Angle has given functional support, with a view to establishing whether the software can be used to perform SCOR analyses.

SCOR
The Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR) is a globally accepted reference model to determine and analyze the goods flows.
The SCOR model charts the logistic processes, based on the following five processes: Purchasing, production, distribution, planning and returns.

The SCOR model consists of three detail levels:

1. On the first level, the KPIs and a score card for the current position are compared with the competition.
2. On the second level, all threats are represented in a diagram.
3. On the third level, the business specific processes are studied and analyzed.

Usability of Every Angle
Every Angle has been used to extract data from Astellas’s SAP system. Within six days, more than 50 angles were created with which the data for the second detail level could be calculated.
According to Wim van der Poel, using Every Angle has the following advantages:

• Every Angle is flexible;
• ONC transparency (insight into the chain through allocation of open and planned demand to available stock and planned acquisitions); 
• Every Angle processes huge data volumes at high speed; 
• Angles can be reused: With an elaborate SCOR model, the same calculations are made where only the parameters change. 
• Sharing angles means sharing knowledge; 
• A power user can create angles himself based on SCOR calculations, he can adjust selections to the business specific processes and SAP configuration and he does not have to rely on IT consultants or software developers.
• Using an available application. Every Angle happens to be in place at Astellas already.

Conclusion: SCOR and Every Angle are a fine combination
Wim van der Poel concluded that the combination of knowledge of goods flows, SCOR and the use of Every Angle is a great tool to analyze the goods flows with the aid of the SCOR model.

Every Angle at the VNSG Conference 2010

The annual VNSG Conference (Vereniging van Nederlandstalige SAP Gebruikers, Association of Dutch SAP Users) took place on 8 and 9 April: it is the number one event where SAP professionals get together. This year’s theme was: Ahead through IT.

Every Angle was one of the main sponsors with two stands and ran the workshop ‘Measuring KPIs = actions? = result!’. Just as in previous years, there was something special to be experienced at our stand: visitors could “ride” a Gazelle racing bicycle on a virtual track of 1 kilometer. The fastest cyclist could win a Gazelle bicycle. Arnout Salomé of IFS Probity (Ctac) won the bicycle in the men’s competition. Corrie Steffens of the University of Amsterdam won the women’s competition.

Every Angle at SAPPHIRE 2010 in Orlando and in Frankfurt

This year Every Angle will be one of the sponsors at the annual SAP conference: SAPPHIRE 2010. SAPPHIRE 2010 is the leading SAP conference where senior executives and business managers come together to explore new innovative business solutions within the SAP landscape.
This year SAPPHIRE will take place in Frankfurt (Germany) and in Orlando (Florida, United States). Every Angle will be at both conferences.

SAPPHIRE Frankfurt
In Frankfurt SAPPHIRE will take place from May 17 - 19 in the Messe in Frankfurt.
For more information, visit the SAPPHIRE Frankfurt website at http://www.sapevents.com/sap/sapphire2010emea/index.cfm

SAPPHIRE Orlando
In Orlando SAPPHIRE will take place from May 16 – 19 at the Orange County Convention Center. For more infrmation, visit the SAPPHIRE 2010 Orlando website at www.sapandasug.com

INSynQ Project Partner of Every Angle

As an Every Angle Project Partner, INSynQ will concern itself primarily with defining and implementing KPI dashboards using the Every Angle Dashboard Engine. By appointing external partners, Every Angle has the opportunity to meet the rising demand and to enrich the application of Every Angle with additional competencies.

“Improvement processes are often marred by the fact that improvements cannot be demonstrated and by the lack of flexibility to measure new things. With Every Angle software, we have the right information so we can support improvement processes efficiently and effectively in our relations. In a manner of speaking, Every Angle makes our improvement model ‘lean’”, says René de Veer, the man in charge of Marketing, Sales and Alliances at INSynQ.

“The improvement model of INSynQ is based on the assumption that processes can only be controlled and improved if there is an understanding of the processes. This requires measurements. The service that Every Angle provides is based on the principle ‘to measure is to know’. The INSynQ consultants ‘know what to measure’. They have the knowledge to make points capable of improvement more transparent with Every Angle and subsequently to link these to improvement actions, with regard to both the way in which SAP is used and the way company processes are structured”, said Jacques Adriaansen, General Manager at Every Angle.

About INSynQ
INSynQ supports its customers in achieving their organisational changes by advising them on their process choices and the deployment of ICT tools. Our project managers, architects and consultants are enterprising and innovative people who generate pragmatic solutions for all ‘stakeholders’.

Every Angle at the SAP Logistics and SCM Conference in Milan

This year, Every Angle is one of the sponsors of the SAP Logistics and Supply Chain Management Conference. This international conference is organised by WIS Publishing (WISpubs) in co-operation with SAP. The event will be held from 21 – 23 April in Milan (Italy) and its main focus is on supply chain topics in the SAP landscape.
The conference coincides with the SAP conferences:
• PLM;
• Procurement and Materials Management;
• Manufacturing.

Breakout session
Richard den Ouden (Every Angle Senior Consultant) will run the breakout session: “Using your SAP ERP data to achieve full supply chain transparency within 24 hours with Every Angle”. He will explain how to deploy Every Angle in order to retrieve information from your SAP ERP system in a quick and flexible process and how in doing so you can make your supply chain transparent and support your business process optimization projects.
For more information on the event go to: http://www.scm2010.com/index.cfm?u=europe&s
For more information on SAP events by WISpubs go to http://www.wispubs.com/sap/conferences.html

Every Angle sponsors a microfinance project for women in Ghana

Every Angle has sponsored a microfinance project (CAsUD) for women in the Tamale region in Northern Ghana. As part of this project three students from Groningen delivered a Toyota Hilux in Ghana in the end of March.

CAsUD
Community Aid for Sustainable Development (CAsUD) provides microfinance for women in the Tamale region in Northern Ghana. By means of finance projects they attempt to assist the communities in sustainable and responsible development

Every Angle project and SAP improvement project at Friesland Foods

Following a pilot project in Supply Point Beilen, Friesland Foods decided to permanently implement Every Angle. Supply Point Beilen produces children’s food for the Dutch market (Frisolac for instance) and for international sales organisations.

During the pilot project, the data quality of master data and transaction data in SAP were significantly improved. During the next period, the focus will shift to the processes themselves, optimising the total supply chain.

A SAP improvement process was started parallel to this project, so as to improve the use of SAP and the level of knowledge of SAP within the user organisation

Every Angle and SAP Netherlands intensify cooperation

For SAP users who want to quickly analyze their operational SAP data to directly manage their operational processes, the collaboration between SAP and Every Angle offers the solution.

SAP Netherlands and Every Angle will intensify their collaboration. The combined portfolio enables SAP users to optimize their business processes and maximize the added value of their SAP implementation for their organization.

Every Angle delivers SAP-certified software that enables users to retrieve information from the SAP data structure with just a couple of mouse clicks. The software fits into the new category of object-oriented operational analysis tools that enable users to consult SAP data to manage and optimize their operational processes. This software system can be combined with business intelligence (BI) systems, which provide the management of organizations with information for their strategic decision making.

Marcel Groenenboom (Director Ecosystem & Partner Group, SAP Netherlands) sees Every Angle as an important partner for SAP, because it has proven to be a solution that increases the added value of SAP within organizations. “Because Every Angle customers improve their administrative and logistic processes and optimize the knowledge and use of their SAP system, the overall added value of SAP ERP within their organizations increases. This results in greater customer satisfaction.”

Jacques Adriaansen (General Manager, Every Angle), sees the closer cooperation as a recognition that Every Angle has become an integral part of the SAP landscape. “The fact that our relationship with SAP is reinforced in this manner, confirms our view that our solution is clearly complementary to the ERP, BI and SCM solutions from SAP.”

Richard den Ouden (Marketing Director, Every Angle) indicates that this closer collaboration with SAP Netherlands is in favor of SAP users. “For customers it is important to get a clear picture and advice, a road map showing them where they need to deploy BI tools and where they need to deploy our operational analytics. The combination makes a valuable contribution to the optimization of business processes, especially in times of recession in which businesses must respond quickly to internal and external changes. “

Contact SAP Nederland B.V.
Cees Kardolus
T: +31 (0)73 645 77 39
E: cees.kardolus@sap.com

Every Angle Software Solutions bv
Philippe Bos
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Successful Heineken Seminar

On Thursday March 11th 2010, Every Angle and Heineken organized the well attended seminar ‘Fast KPI-Dashboard’ at Heineken Netherlands’. More than two hundred guests listened to presentations by among others Fred Holvast (Logistics Director, Heineken Netherlands) and Hans Veltman (Product Manager, Every Angle).

Impressive tour
A number of guests began the seminar with an impressive tour along the production lines of the brewery. There they observed a small part of Heineken´s complex logistical process.

Every Angle within Heineken Netherlands
Fred Holvast explained the Heineken organization and showed which 20 KPI´s he has available for everyday use to manage both the Den Bosch and Zoeterwoude breweries.
Then Pieter van Kooten (S&OP Manager, Heineken Netherlands) took the floor. He clarified the new Sales & Operations Planning process. Goal of this new process is to improve decision making across the entire supply chain based on accurate data. Using the Every Angle Dashboard Engine all members of the S&OP team use the same set of data. The advantages are clear: thanks to the Every Angle Dashboard Engine the work can be done much more efficiently.
Anton de Romijn (Strategic Supply Chain Analyst, Heineken Netherlands) and Peter Schalenkamp (Business Controller, Heineken Netherlands) gave a live demonstration of the Every Angle Dashboard Engine. They showed how easy it is to create a KPI and display it on a portal.

KPI in 5 minutes
Hans Veltman explained to the audience what Every Angle is exactly: software which makes data from SAP accessible in an ultrafast and simple way. Then he showed that, using the Every Angle Dashboard Engine, he can take a KPI from SAP data within 5 minutes time.  Merely a couple of mouse clicks were needed to create a KPI.

A beer afterwards
The seminar was finalized at the bar serving all different kinds of Heineken beer. After enthousiastic discussion about the Dashboard Engine and its variety of applications, all attendees returned home having been presented with special beer glasses, a beer tray and a box of Heineken apple cider. A succesful seminar which we proudly look back on.

Heineken Seminar about new Every Angle Dashboard Engine

Heineken Netherlands has implemented a complete supply chain KPI dashboard within two months, thanks to the Every Angle Dashboard Engine. On 11 March 2010 Heineken Netherlands and Every Angle will organize an event around this project.
During this event, Heineken Netherlands will show how the KPI Dashboard is used within the area of Sales & Operations Planning. The project team will explain the approach, team set up and also give a demonstration of the tool. The Every Angle product manager will give a short product presentation of the Every Angle Dashboard Engine and will present future development plans. Of course, there will be plenty of opportunities for questions during both the tour around the brewery and a beer afterwards!

Every Angle Dashboard Engine
Heineken is one of the first companies in the world using the new Every Angle Dashboard Engine to extract and interpret data from SAP in this way. Usually, the interpretation and analysis of this kind of data is a well known, notoriously difficult exercise, but using this new toolset, this topic is solved with a minimum of effort. The KPIs on the -easily accessible- internal website consist of several stock overviews, service levels, lead-times in the supply chain and measurements for forecast accuracy and bias. An overview of the most important KPIs of Heineken Netherlands is presented as a balanced score card. In a historic overview, Heineken’s management can quickly evaluate the progress on the KPIs, compare the performance with pre set targets, and slice & dice the data using the powerful and intuitive drill down functionality of the KPI dashboard.

2009: Top year for Every Angle!

Although 2009 has been a year that was dominated by the global recession, Every Angle has experienced one of its most successful years to date.

Every Angle has seen impressive growth on every level. Turnover increased with 19%, and the number of users worldwide jumped up with a staggering 28%.

One of the most important things is that our customers keep on being the most enthusiastic customers we could wish for. We couldn’t have accomplished such a top year without them!

What’s new in EA 2010, Service Pack 1

Functional extensions
An important functional extension is the new EA4ETL (Every Angle for Extract, Transform & Load) component. Using this component, system managers and developers can use the Every Angle system as the data engine for other applications. This opens a wide variety of application areas for the system. Since Every Angle is unique in its knowledge of SAP data structure and business logic, it can be a very powerful data source for many reporting and planning tools, saving developers a vast amount of time (and money!) for their developments.

The last functional extension is the new capability to obtain a kind of ‘link’ to an angle. Very handy if for example you want to share an angle with a colleague without having to send the entire angle result. You can just send the ‘Hyperlink’ string via e-mail, and when the receiver clicks on it, the EveryAngle client will automatically start and after logging on, will execute the indicated angle.

Improvements in the ease of use
Every Angle is now even more easy to use because of the following improvements:
• In the field chooser, the source of every field is clearer because next to each field is an icon indicating if the field comes from SAP, Every Angle or is custom made.
• In a matrix, one can define the ‘0’ as a separate bucket and define lower- and upper limits. For example, you want all orders above Eur 1 mio grouped together and all orders that are free of charge.
• Follow-up questions now have help texts. You can call up these texts via the right-button mouse menu.  

Configuration
Once again, a lot of energy was spent making the system more applicable in multiple situations and easier to configure. The most important change in this area is the large extension of functionality in Finance and Controlling (FiCo). Costing Documents and Product Costing are now part of the standard installation, along with objects for Commitment Management. In addition, the number of master data objects from FiCo is extended with Cost elements and Cost components. The number of references from Accounting Documents to logistic objects is extended and Parked Documents were added.

Two modules are extended and added to the standard list: Projects (PS) and Work Order Extensions. The latter is able to detect missing components in production and calculate its supply chain consequences.

System stability
Some strong improvements were made concerning system stability. For example, the FTP process is extended with functionality to resume a lost connection and compress the data, the SAP Job Class is configurable and the command line tool EAX3 is extended with a command to stop an SAP job (maybe hanging) and retry it.

Software Partner SAP Netherlands

Every Angle has been a Global Software Partner of SAP AG since 2001. Recently Every Angle also officially became Software Partner of SAP Nederland, the Dutch organization of SAP AG.
Based on this partnership Every Angle will cooperate even more closely with SAP Nederland to support Dutch customers to optimize their SAP landscape en maximize the added value for both IT and business.

Heineken dashboard interest group

On December 1, a number of Every Angle users familiarized themselves more with the Heineken dashboard, which has its content augmented by the software of Every Angle. The participants shared their experiences about how their organizations use Every Angle reports. The conclusion is that the advantages of Every Angle are even more prominent (‘making angles accessible’) if the angles can be made accessible in an unequivocal way within an organization in a dashboard.

Speed
The thread in the discussion is the speed one can work at in the development of a KPI in a dashboard. For example, not all specifications are known exactly beforehand, although a responsible manager can give his feedback; any reactions are then quickly processed. As a result, internal definition discussions (e.g., on ‘types of revenue’) are finished quickly. With Every Angle, you can quickly create a good KPI, after which you can implement the results of such an angle in no matter which dashboard.

Management reporting structure
It is of paramount importance to think long and hard about the management reporting structure. If there are many report details, you can soon get lost in a maze. Now it becomes urgent to start using certain classification codes for real, for example for product or customer groups. The participants agree that if you do this directly in SAP R/3, this yields added value instantaneously.

Standardizing the presentation layer
Every Angle enables the user to develop a KPI, read it into any dashboard and present it in the dashboard within 1 or 2 days. Thanks to the standardization of the presentation layer (dashboard), Heineken can present a KPI on its own without needing to programme anything. The benefits are that an organization with short iterations can provide the business quickly with up-to-date control information. Compared with a classical approach using lists, a consistent web page is the solution, because then everyone will be talking about the same details: from the board room to the coffee machine on the shop floor. The use of the dashboard is therefore no longer limited to a small group, but also noticeable across the many layers in the organization. It goes without saying that the management’s commitment is essential for the implementation.

Cross-pollination
The participants are enthusiastic about the cross-pollination: it is educational to hear from others how some affairs are organized in another company. For Every Angle, the discussion offers many points of departure for optimizing the software. If there is more interest from the users, then similar sessions will be repeated. This session wil be continued at the end of February when the Heineken dashboard results will be presented.

New customer: DSM Food Specialties

Following a 10 week pilot, DSM Food Specialties (DFS) has decided to deploy Every Angle with a view to supporting its day-to-day business processes. DSM Food Specialties is currently training a group of viewing users. The Every Angle roll-out will subsequently be extended.

About DSM Food Specialties
DSM Food Specialties operates worldwide as the leading supplier of ingredients for the food and beverage industry. DSM Food Specialties is an important manufacturer of flavour ingredients and flavour enhancers (such as yeast extracts), food enzymes, dairy ingredients and ingredients for functional foods.
DSM Food Specialties has 1,400 employees in 25 locations worldwide. For more information on DSM Food Specialties please visit http://www.dsm-foodspecialties.com/.

Pilot project
15 power users were trained during the pilot project. Using Every Angle, they can now get answers to questions regarding a number of pre-defined business cases from various areas such as order to cash, purchasing, planning, FICO, logistics, quality management and master data management. At the end of the pilot period, the power users presented the results, which showed that Every Angle has an important added value.

Further roll-out
At this moment, groups of viewing users are trained within DSM Food Specialties to enable a further roll-out. By deploying Every Angle as a standard reporting tool, DSM Food Specialties demonstrates clearly that Every Angle has an important added value in the business process.

Proof of Concept with Niko

Niko has experienced that it isn’t easy to retrieve information from their SAP system in a quick, simple and a cost-effective way. Having seen the Every Angle software, Niko has commissioned Every Angle to provide a Proof or Concept to see whether this becomes easier with Every Angle. During this project, Every Angle is deployed to support the business processes and the added value of the embedded SAP and business logic of Every Angle will be evaluated.

About Niko
Niko is a Belgian company offering over 3,500 products such as: switches and power points, connections for telecommunication and data communication, door telephony and videophony, movement detectors, solutions for lighting control and dimming and domotics systems (for home automation). Niko sells its solutions from establishments in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Spain. They offer a range of more than 3,500 products, from switches and power points to door telephony and domotics.

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