A Paper Portal into the SAP Ecosystem
Lexmark print, scan and document delivery technologies improve the on-ramp and off-ramp movement of information between paper and SAP – extending the value of your SAP implementation and providing huge savings and significantly improved productivity.
Users invest in SAP enterprise applications in order to increase information visibility, improve collaboration, enforce best practices and improve business process efficiency. By holding and sharing information electronically, SAP reduces paper process flow. Yet many business processes still depend on paper to initiate a process or to transfer information outside of the SAP system. Indeed, research shows that 40% of information coming into the average organization from outside is paper based. Where those paper processes exist, Lexmark solutions expand the efficiency and effectiveness of the SAP ecosystem.
Where information enters the SAP system from paper documents, Lexmark MFP and document capture technologies improve the speed and quality of this information transfer, so that it can be leveraged in the SAP system more quickly. Lexmark’s Document Distributor and award winning MFP eTask operator panel provide customized workflow prompting to guide users during scan-to-SAP processes. Key documentation is captured and linked to SAP using simple, user friendly processes. This significantly reduces the time users spend getting information into the SAP system, and improves the quality of the data transfer. These MFPs serve as a portal into the SAP system, allowing users to initiate tasks as part of the SAP system, without having to do so from a computer screen. Additionally, Lexmark workflow solutions are customized to a user’s terminology and work practices, reducing training and improving user efficiency.
When printing from SAP, Lexmark solutions transform the way in which documents are formatted, delivered and secured. Lexmark printers and document delivery technologies can provide user security, preventing unauthorized users from viewing the printouts. Lexmark Print Release lets users send a print job from their workstation or mobile device to be stored and printed later on many Lexmark multifunction printers (MFP) and Lexmark printers, eliminating the gap between document printing and pickup so that confidential jobs do not sit at the printer. It also cuts costs by deleting jobs from the queue if not printed within a specified time—no more unnecessary printing of “forgotten” or obsolete jobs.
For mobile users, Lexmark solutions allow users to retrieve print from varying locations, by holding the print job at a central location until a user requests the print job. Plus, Lexmark solutions can reduce the number of pages printed, driving down the cost of output. And, with Lexmark’s Unicode printer support for SAP, global organizations can use one printer configuration for all language needs.
For over ten years, Lexmark has been an SAP Global Technology Partner and Global Software Partner. Together SAP and Lexmark developed the first Unicode printer and Lexmark options simplified forms and bar code printing from SAP. These and other solutions are helping businesses around the world to improve the way they create, print and deliver documents associated with their SAP applications.
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