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Concurrent engineering: Concurrent engineering cuts time-to-market by stacking up business processes whenever functions can take place concurrently rather than consecutively. The R/3 System’s flexibility and integration help you form the real-time workflow application links required for concurrent engineering. Lean Implementation: The R/3 System promotes lean implementation through its modular structure. By selecting key portions of the R/3 System for first-time implementation, and minimizing customization, new users bring the full power of the R/3 System to address their business issues with great speed, at a reasonable cost. Once running, the R/3 System makes it easy to add more functional pieces. Tools on various system levels allow you to fine tune all R/3 System functional modules. Gradually adding functionality makes core solutions available sooner without sacrificing long-term application muscle. Desktop Integration: Desktop integration in the R/3 System means that whenever you want data moved into a desktop PC application, it is a mouse-click away. Download or export a file to your PC’s hard drive and then open it in your favorite spreadsheet or word processor. No awkward or failure-prone communications between hardware or to hinder hinders your productivity Online Integrated Graphics: Online integrated graphics in the R/3 System save you time and effort, while making your information more meaningful. From most locations in the R/3 System, you can instantly create full-color 2-D or 3-D graphics from your data. If you change any data, you can instantly see it affect the graphics you have selected. You can also use your mouse to change graphics manually. Functionality: The R/3 System offers you a software solution that covers all commercial processes and transactions commonly occurring in a company or group of companies. Integration: All work processes within a company or group of companies are linked through data and functions using the R/3 System. User Friendlyness: The R/3 System has a uniform graphical user interface for all application areas. Individual Solutions: System-controlled customizing procedures allow you to create solutions from a wide variety of prepared application variants to satisfy individual requirements. Flexible Structure: Whether in a departmental organization or on the warehouse or factory floor, change is the only facet of your business that will not vary. Adaptability must be universal, and the R/3 System’s flexible structure and extensive integration helps make that easier. Enterprise-Wide Integration: SAP’s enterprise-wide R/3 System solutions meet the needs of constantly changing, continually evolving businesses. The R/3 System’s application components are fully integrated. Transaction-related process chains trigger the next activity as needed from engineering to materials management, to production planning, to sales and distribution. The R/3 System’s full integration pulls your enterprise together, promoting data access, flexibility, and productivity. No other product or suite of products provides the R/3 System’s functional links between processes that multiply the power of each person’s work. Real-Time Information:  The R/3 System’s ability to “drill down” to whatever level of detail you need is legendary. More than any other product, the R/3 System provides up-to-the-minute, real-time information wherever and whenever you need it.