Leveraging the "Multi" in your Channel Business with SAP

[ingo_woesner]

Dear community members,

Today’s online customers are empowered like never before. We are dealing with a “New Kind of Customer” who is socially networked, well informed and empowered through ability to engaging with organizations across a range of touch points and enjoying the benefits that come from greater price transparency, increased access to information, and personalized content from their social networks and online communities.

This is a transformational trend that is dramatically changing the way organizations need to approach customer relationships. There is a need to look beyond traditional vendor-determined relationship management to a community-driven engagement management – both before someone becomes your customer and afterwards too. This is both an opportunity and a threat for companies. Ability to rapidly transform will be key to success.

SAP is most capable of delivering a TRUE Multi Channel solution combining our channel solutions with our market leading business applications

Only SAP offers innovative, market leading functionality, enabling true multi channel consumer experienace, e.g.
 

• SAP Web Channel Experience Management (WCEM) can do B2C and B2B and E-Commerce, E-Service and E-Marketing on one single platform, hosting multiple web shops (with potentially all different designs, products, etc).
  • WCEM supports cross-channel scenarios (e.g. buy online, pick-up in store), full CRM integration (e.g. loyalty, campaign management, real-time recommendations, real-time availability checks on store level), Web 2.0 capabilities (e.g. store locator with google maps, ratings & reviews) as well as social plug-ins.
  • WCEM is enhanced by market leading partner offerings for Web Content Management (CoreMedia) and Web Analytics (Webtrends)

• SAPs Instore MIM capabilities allow store employees to easily deliver on multi channel promise, e.g.
  • Cross-channel sales scenarios (receive order from web for in store pick-up, visibility of stock levels across all stores & warehouses, etc)
  • Visibility into 360 degree view of customer to e.g. fulfill customer service requests (independent of how service request got created)
  • Access to campaigns & promotions as well as customer loyalty information.

• SAP Point of Sale solution to capture all POS sales transactions and – in combination with loyalty management – use them for cross channel visibility, 360 degree customer view, loyalty rewards, etc.

• SAP is market leader in Mobile Solutions
  • WCEM offers a powerful webservices framework for customer to develop mobile apps

• SAP is market leader in CRM (also see latest Gartner report 2012) – No 1 in CRM overall, No 1 in Marketing and No 1 in Service – the two most relevant solution areas for Multi Channel
  • High-volume customer segmentation based on SAP HANA (mention great UI!)
  • Multi Channel campaign management (mention great UI of Marketing Calendar)
  • Loyalty Management
  • Most complete order management capabilities, incl. cross-channel order management processes, real time availability down to store level, (customer specific) pricing, configure-to-order, etc
  • Full service capabilities
  • All CRM capabilities are integrated into channel solutions
  • Channels take full advantage of market leading CRM, unlike with our competitors!

• SAP's leading Interaction Center solution empowers interaction center employees to deliver consistent customer experience
  • Visibility into 360 degree view of customer/ relevant transaction history to best support customer in specific situation
  • Access to knowledge base (SAP or eGain) to deliver high-quality support to customer inquiries
  • Full integration into end-to-end service processes
  • Provide real-time, predictive cross-sell and up-sell bundled offerings leveraging SAP RTOM

And the story doesn't end here. Multi Channel remains a key strategy and investment area for SAP.

There are BIG things to come - stay tuned!

Enjoy,

Ingo Woesner

Dr. Ingo Woesner
Product Management - Multi Channel | Application Innovatio

ingo.woesner@sap.com

Find expert information in the SAP Web Channel Experience Management WIKI