SAP Overview

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SAP CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) includes features and functions that support core business processes in the following areas:

• Marketing – Analyze, plan, develop, and execute all marketing activities through all customer interaction points. This central marketing platform empowers marketers with complete business insights – enabling you to make intelligent business decisions and to drive end-to-end marketing processes.
• Sales – Maintain focus on productive activity to acquire, grow, and retain profitable relationships with functionality for sales planning and forecasting, territories, accounts, contacts, activities, opportunities, quotations, orders, product configuration, pricing, billing, and contracts.
• Service – Reduce the cost of service while enhancing customer satisfaction with support for sales and marketing for service; service contract management; customer service and support; return and depot repair; field service management; warranty and claim management; installation and maintenance; parts logistics and finance; and service analytics. Call centers, channel service, and e-service provide multiple channels for service delivery.
• Partner channel management – Attain a more profitable and loyal indirect channel by managing partner relationships and empowering channel partners. Improve processes for partner recruitment, partner management, communications, channel marketing, channel forecasting, collaborative selling, partner order management, channel service, and analytics for partners and channel managers.
• Interaction center – Maximize customer loyalty, reduce costs, and boost revenue by transforming your interaction center into a strategic delivery channel for marketing, sales, and service efforts across all contact channels. Activities such as telemarketing, telesales, customer service, multifunctional shared service, and interaction center management are supported.
• Web channel – Increase sales and reduce transaction costs by turning the Internet into a valuable sales, marketing, and service channel for businesses and consumers. Increase profitability and reach new markets with functionality for e-marketing, e-commerce, e-service, and Web channel analytics. Deploy these capabilities directly against the SAP ERP application or with SAP CRM as a fully integrated customer channel.
• Business communications management – Improve contact center and communication-dependent business process effectiveness and reduce costs through SAP Business Communications Management – an all-software, IP-based communications solution, natively integrated with SAP CRM. Whether customers contact your company by phone, e-mail, chat, text message, or fax, SAP Business Communications Management routes the contact to the right person with the right skills, whether the person is in the office or working remotely – all without the need for costly, cumbersome hardware-based communications systems, significantly reducing total cost of ownership.
• Real-time offer management – Advanced recommendation engine that optimizes any decision-making process across all customer interaction channels, enabling you to take the most appropriate next action to enhance customer relationships and maximize your customers' lifetime value.