GuiXT is a technology that provides user interface customization solutions to SAP applications. GuiXT is integrated with the SAP GUI environment, which enables firms to tailor SAP transaction screens to the narrower requirements of specific jobs within the organization while leaving essential SAP coding untouched. Although SAP is a very powerful ERP system, the "do-everything" SAP transactions can be overwhelming for the majority of users. This creates confusion and frustration that ultimately leads to business consequences. SAP interface complexity and navigation challenges impede an organization's ability to obtain an accurate timing on their ROI when implementing or upgrading their SAP software. Over the last ten years we have been able to consistently develop solutions to resolve different challenges in the ERP system that provide a long-term value for organizations. Below you can choose which suite best fits your organization's strategic vision.

1. How to Maximize the Business
Value of Your SAP® Software
In an Era of Changing Economic
Times White Paper > Usability

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1
Business Challenge ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Solution Description ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Benefits ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Background ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Target Market ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7
Case Studies .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10

3. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The 2009 recession brings with it an immediate and imperative need for the creation and deliverance of
Business Value within today’s organizations. While businesses look to weather the storm of the current
recession, they look for ways of creating efficiencies, increasing productivity, streamlining processes, and
reducing waste. Companies need to achieve more with fewer people. They need to identify and implement
solutions that will bring maximum value with minimum resource expenditure. And, they need to minimize or
eliminate their sunk costs like those spent on training and retraining of their staff, or investing in solutions
that do not create lasting benefits.
SAP ERP is a powerful tool that helps companies take control of their entire business via an enterprise
system capable of addressing multiple needs. And, there are ready opportunities to enhance the current
SAP footprint to extract the maximum benefit and Business Value from it. These benefits are achieved by
matching each company’s business processes to their SAP system. They are achieved by leveraging the SAP
system to its fullest and creating approaches that give companies an edge on the competition.
A technology that enables this type of quick and high-impact value is GuiXT by Synactive. GuiXT is an
embedded solution within SAP ERP. Companies leverage GuiXT to enhance their SAP systems and create
measurable Business Value in the following ways:
1. Increase productivity, efficiency, and data integrity
2. Reduce training time and increase user comprehension
3. Increase speed, ease of navigation, and ensure a comprehensive data footprint for management
The GuiXT suite of solutions enable companies to deliver rapid, risk-free, and lasting solutions that resolve
real challenges and create measurable Business Value.
This document provides the details of where, how, and why opportunities for making high-impact, real
contributions to a company’s bottom line is a reality in a fast, portable, lasting way with the minimal use of
resources. Enjoy.
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4. BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Businesses in most, if not all, industries face a multitude of challenges during the current (2009) recession.
Many of these challenges require great strategic and tactical planning–and execution to solve. Other
challenges, those of a more Macro-economic nature, are nearly impossible to quickly overcome and require
careful planning for longevity in order to outlast them while the Macro-economic turnaround takes shape.
All of the issues that companies can hope to tackle should be ranked and prioritized by the value they bring
to the business. Using limited resources, companies can consider where they can realize the most benefit,
with the least amount of capital and resources used, in the quickest path to a final and deployable solution.
Some of the areas of interest where Business Value can be achieved are:
• Days of Inventory – reduction leads to value in finished goods
• Days of Receivables – faster payments from customers shortens the time to cash cycle
• Headcount Reduction/Avoidance – absorbing business growth without growing headcount
• Headcount Productivity – gaining headcount efficiencies or effectiveness leading to more gains
• Headcount Turnover – reducing undesirable turnover and saving on the cost of hiring, training, and
interviewing
• Factory Uptime (Optimization) – increase productive factory hours
• Scrap Reduction – reduce scrap due to errors, waste, or planning processes
• Risk Avoidance – process controls that minimize costly errors or double payments and ensure that the
business is running without data–or production loss
• Time To Market (TTM) – getting to market ahead of the schedule or ahead of the competition
• Etc…
Meanwhile, the challenge is to find a fast, easily deployable, effective, and long-lasting solution that will help
in the above areas with a minimal draw on both capital and labor resources.
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5. SOLUTION DESCRIPTION
GuiXT® Solutions by Synactive™ Inc. are proven and risk-free ways of quickly identifying areas of
improvement within your business and resolving them by improving the already capable SAP ERP footprint.
GuiXT, for the past 11 years has assisted a multitude of companies in matching their SAP ERP systems to
their internal processes and thereby creating efficiencies that lead to increased productivity, reduction in
error, reduction or elimination of the need for training and retraining of staff, and creating a cleaner, more
robust data profile for reporting needs.
GuiXT is a software solution that is embedded in–and bundled with SAP ERP. It enables you to achieve the
following enhancements with minimal effort and is deployed with ease while surviving through the upgrade
processes:
• Reduce training time and increase user • Change standard ERP terminology to those of
comprehension your organization’s pervasive business terms
thus eliminating ambiguity and uncertainty
• Reduce manual data entry by automating
redundancies
• Increase productivity, efficiency, and data • Rearrange your ERP tabs and fields to match
integrity those of your internal processes
• Hide unused fields and create validations for all
of the fields necessary to achieve a complete
set of mandatory data
• Increase speed, ease of navigation, and ensure • Consolidate multiple tabs and screens within
a comprehensive data footprint your transactions and create a streamlined and
easy to navigate environment
• Consolidate multiple transactions into one
screen and ensure that users provide all
necessary data without expending extra effort.
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6. BENEFITS
Enabling the GuiXT functionality within SAP ERP creates the following benefits:
1. Increase in productivity creates direct Full Time Employee (FTE) benefits thereby enabling a
redeployment of resources to other areas of the business
2. Increase in efficiency improves employee experience and reduces training and retraining burden from
the company and management
3. Speed, clarity, and ease of navigation creates enhanced customer satisfaction and leads to more happy
and reference-able clients
4. Automation and validation reduces the time required to navigate through systems and ensures a more
comprehensive data set for management reporting
5. Consolidation and streamlining creates a cleaner and more scalable environment that is more conducive
to retention of existing workforce without the need for additional resource expenditure
6. Survival of enhancements through upgrades ensures that your investment is preserved and additional
resources are used for additional enhancements
7. Ease and speed of deployment ensures that you can create a multitude of enhancements in a very short
time with near immediate results
8. GuiXT can enable Mobile, Web, and Offline environments for your SAP ERP application in addition to the
traditional SAP GUI
The following page provides a first hand look of a Purchase Requisition transaction that was streamlined and
rearranged to match the company’s processes, products, and industry language using GuiXT. See next page:
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7. BENEFITS
Purchase Requisition before GuiXT
Purchase Requisition after GuiXT
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8. BACKGROUND
• Founded by Dr. Gerhard Rodé and Thomas Ewe
• Dr. Gerhard Rodé
• Initiated and developed the ABAPTM programming language at SAP AG
• Thomas Ewe
• Developed the Merlin/GuiLib DLL
• Developed the SAP GUI for Java at SAP Labs
• Core runtime bundled with SAP R/3® since 4.6B
• Selected by SAP as CSP (1998)
• SAP America Leverages GuiXT
• Supported in the OSS (SAP Support Portal)
• Bundled in SAP NetWeaver® Business Client
• Bundled with ITS 6.20
• Installs on client desktops and scripts are stored in the SAP server
• No special hardware is required
• GuiXT is activated from SAP GUI & SAP NetWeaver Business Client by clicking “ALT + F12” or selecting
“Activate GuiXT” menu item
• Once activated, GuiXT starts automatically every time the SAP system is launched
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9. TARGET MARKET
The following areas of interest are among the most sought after for GuiXT enhancements:
1. Sales & Distribution (SD)
Helps to optimize all the tasks and activities carried out in sales, delivery and billing. Key elements
are: presales support, inquiry processing, quotation processing, sales order processing, and delivery
processing, billing and sales information system.
2. Plant Maintenance (PM)
Equipment servicing and rebuilding. These tasks affect the production plans.
3. Materials Management (MM)
Supports the procurement and inventory functions occurring in day-to-day business operations such as
purchasing, inventory management, reorder point processing, etc.
4. Quality Management (QM)
A quality control and information system supporting quality planning, inspection, and control for
manufacturing and procurement.
5. Production Planning (PP)
Used to plan and control the manufacturing activities of a company. This module includes: bills of
material, routings, work centers, sales and operations planning, master production scheduling, material
requirements planning, shop floor control, production orders, product costing, etc.
6. Project Systems (PS)
This Module is where you can manage your projects, large and small, including make-to-order, plant shut
downs (as a project), third party billing (on the back of a project).
7. Financials and Controlling (FICO)
General ledger, book close, tax, accounts receivable, accounts payable, consolidation, special ledgers,
cost elements, cost centers, profit centers, internal orders, activity based costing, product costing.
8. Human Resources (HR)
People are the important part of this SAP module, including employment history, payroll, training, career
management, succession planning.
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10. CASE STUDY 1
Steelscape used GuiXT for RF/Mobile development:
CHALLENGE
• There was a need to make SAP transactions available on hand-held
devices
• Goal was to keep development to a minimal level
RESULTS
GuiXT and GuiXT Mobile enhanced Steelcape’s user interfaces,
improved employee productivity, and facilitated better shipment tracking.
Steelscape processes about 3000 scans a day, using about 200 man
hours. With GuiXT that is reduced to 17 man hours. (12X faster)
Before GuiXT After GuiXT
Scanning Coils in Shipments 4 minutes 20 seconds
Assigning Coils to Delivery 2 minutes 4 seconds (30x faster)
Creating Truck Shipments 12 screens, 4.5 min. 3 screens, 20 sec.
Single screen done in 1 minute
Creating Rail Shipments 13 screens took 10 minutes
(10X faster)
Man Hours for 500 coils
114,000 minutes 7,500 minutes
in 24 hrs
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11. CASE STUDY 2
Canada Post optimizes HR appraisal process using GuiXT:
CHALLENGE
There are no employee names or numbers
on the initial PPPM or PPPD screens,
making it impossible to differentiate
between the appraisals listed without
clicking on additional icons to go to another
screen. As more and more appraisals are
tied to a People Manager, it became more
time consuming to find a specific appraisal.
There were problems with ensuring correct
appraisals were displayed/updated without
having the personnel number of the Line
Manager and employee indicated on the
individual appraisal screen.
RESULTS
Canada Post cited that using GuiXT increases productivity and user satisfaction by simplifying the screens
and streamlining the processes. Through GuiXT, Canada Post can reduce training costs and eliminate the
usability barrier between the users and the business processes.
Before GuiXT After GuiXT
Training Hours per Person 18 hours 2 hours
Data Efficiency / Productivity 104 key-strokes 33 key-strokes
Time to Complete HR Appraisal 50 minutes 15 minutes
Support Calls 216 calls 26 calls
Error Rate 20 % error rate 1 % error rate
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12. SUMMARY
By leveraging the proven and risk-free GuiXT suite of solutions within their SAP ERP software, companies
can battle the challenges of the current recession by creating real and measurable Business Value.
This is achieved by streamlining of processes, matching of business methodologies and specific language to
SAP ERP enterprise systems, and by reducing errors and inefficiencies while increasing comprehension and
productivity.
The GuiXT suite of solutions are easily deployed in a rapid manner. They survive through upgrades and
create enhancements that represent portable and lasting Business Value and sound investment.
Companies can use GuiXT to introduce a variety of platforms to their existing SAP ERP systems. These
include Mobile, Web, and Offline platforms in addition to the traditional SAP GUI footprints.
Synactive assists companies by providing Accelerators, Quick Start Programs, and All-in-One packages.
Synactive assembled these services to accompany its GuiXT suite of solutions by leveraging its 11 year
history of enhancing SAP ERP systems and by conducting annual Voice of Customer (VOC) research and
integrating its findings into its solutions.
To find out more about how GuiXT can help your company create an edge over the competition, or to
receive a free Business Value Potential Assessment, contact Synactive, Inc. at +1-650-341-3310 or visit
www.GuiXT.com.
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