2007-03-15――ABB與德國商業軟件公司SAP簽署了一項戰略協議用于開發SAP ERP軟件（企業資源計劃軟件），幫助統一和簡化ABB的一些重要業務流程，未來取得客觀的效益。 該協議的簽署意味著ABB已經采用了SAP軟件作為其主要的ERP軟件。該協議今天聲稱未來三年內SAPs ERP系統將應用于ABB業的大部分業務組織管理。 除了支持ABB各項業務流程外，SAP軟件還將應用于人力資源管理，財 z政，行政和公司管理職能，樹立其高的管理標準。 ABB首席信息官Haider Rashid表示：“我們需要一個解決方案幫助客戶在保持其自身發展目標的同時確保與我們共同的全球目標結盟。” Rashid表示兩家公司的合作將幫助ABB降低成本，大大簡化其全球業務流程。他還表示SAP軟件具有很強的靈活性，能夠整合本地自身發展目標和mySAP的全球會計準則的現存業務流程應用和管理政策，風險政策和安全政策。 SAP客戶方案和業務部經歷Léo Apotheker（左）和ABB總裁兼CEO Fred Kindle（右）。在未來三年內SAPs ERP系統將應用于ABB業的大部分務組織管理。 經過收購多家公司，ABB曾經有超過500個ERP系統，70個不同的ERP業務運營品牌。現在只有225個ERP系統，但是每個國家的分公司只有一個ERP系統，最后，ABB公司每個地區只有一個ERP平臺。 在超過30個國家的ABB業務目前都在研究將SAP軟件引入到其業務流程中，列入ABB公司一個流程管理之下。 Rashid 補充道：“通過簡化業務流程將使我們取得效益成果，進一步加強運作，采用SAP的ERP軟件，我們將毫無障礙的成為一個統一的簡單的團體，這么做也是為了達到投資取得可觀回報的目標” 新用戶 該協議將使ABB成為SAP在該行業一個最大的客戶之一，約有22，000名ABB員工目前采用SAP軟件，ABB在其全球的公司采用SAP軟件將會增加66，000名用戶，還將把該軟件推廣到所有員工使用。 ERP軟件將幫助ABB用一個簡單的整合集成軟件項目（該項目設計代替財政，行政，HR，和公司管理單機系統）集成各個部門，由此各個部門可以更好的共享信息，更方便的互相通訊。 original text [COLOR=#708090]2007-03-15 - ABB has signed a strategic agreement with the German-based business software company, SAP, to deploy common SAP ERP （enterprise resource planning） software to help unify and simplify some of ABB‘s most important business processes, and over time achieve significant savings. The agreement means ABB has adopted SAP as its main ERP software. Over the next three years, SAPs ERP systems will be deployed across most of ABB‘s business organizations, it was announced today. In addition to supporting ABB‘s various business processes, SAP will be used to bring about a high degree of standardization in the human resources, finance and administration and corporate governance functions. “We need a solution that empowers users to maintain their local best practices but at the same time ensures alignment with our common, global aims,” said Haider Rashid, ABB‘s Chief Information Officer. Cut costs and simplify Rashid said the partnership will help ABB cut costs and greatly simplify its global business processes. He added SAP software is also flexible enough to integrate local best practices and applications in existing business processes with mySAP‘s global accounting standards and policies for governance, risk and compliance. Léo Apotheker （seated left）, president of SAP Customer Solutions & Operations, with ABB President and CEO, Fred Kindle （right）. Over the next three years, SAPs ERP systems will be deployed across most of ABB‘s business organizations to help cut costs and simplify global business processes. As a result of numerous acquisitions, ABB at one time had more than 500 ERP systems and 70 different ERP brands in operation across its businesses. The number has now been cut to 225, but the target is one ERP per country, and ultimately one ERP platform per region for all of ABB. ABB businesses in over 30 countries are currently studying the introduction of SAP software into their processes under the umbrella of One Simple ABB. “We will achieve efficiency gains and further strong operational improvements by simplifying our business processes. With SAP, we are on a clear path to becoming one, simplified organization, and we are doing so with the goal of achieving a significant return on the investment.” Rashid added. New users The agreement will make ABB one of SAP‘s largest industrial customers. About 22,000 ABB employees currently use SAP software, and the global agreement will add a further 66,000 users, with an option to extend the software to all employees. ERP software will help ABB integrate departments and functions with a single, unified integrated software program that is designed to replace stand-alone systems in finance and administration, HR and corporate governance, so departments can better share information and communicate with each other more easily. [/COLOR]