ChemOne,designed specifically for the chemical industry, is a robust solution that provides a closed loop view of key information across the enterprise. Everyone from procurement staff and production planners, to sales and customer service agents, onsite or offshore, is provided with a clear view into plant information to set customer expectations, make smarter decisions and control costs.

The comprehensive features of TechOne, in turn, greatly benefit those organizations that are in the high-tech software industry. Packed with preconfigured business scenarios including procuring, selling, and analysis, TechOne eases compliance regulations such as revenue recognition.   

"ChemOne and TechOne are particularly attractive to organizations that want to have access to the rich functionality of SAP ERP to get their businesses running efficiently with minimal risk and disruption," said Tushar Srivastava, Product Manager, SAP Solutions, YASH Technologies.  "The successful requalification of ChemOne and TechOne from SAP, validates YASH's commitment to this marketplace and to develop leading solutions based on best practices".

Both solutions are delivered on a fixed price with rapid deployment utilizing a combination of S-Imple, YASH's proprietary implementation methodology, and leading SAP methodologies. ChemOne and TechOne can be adapted to support even the largest organizations, and its preconfigured business scenarios help SMEs rapidly realize benefits. Also, YASH's recent addition of new business processes to all of its Business All-in-One solutions allows organizations to activate, at any time, the expanded functionalities to meet their unique business needs and bolster their competitive advantage.

For more information about YASH Technologies, please visit www.yash.com/sap or email info@yash.com.

SAP services partners help SAP customers design, implement and integrate solutions, optimize business processes, and provide strategic business consultation. As an SAP services partner, YASH will take an active part in the support, customization and deployment of SAP solution-based systems.

Adding to their multiple partner credentials including SAP gold channel partner status, YASH as an SAP services partner brings vast expertise and implementation experience to customers in core enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, as well as human capital management (HCM), customer relationship management (CRM), application management services (AMS), and business intelligence (BI) enterprise solutions. Additionally, as an SAP services partner, YASH's positioning will be further expanded to deliver SAP BusinessObjectsTM solutions to companies looking to improve operational efficiency with BI initiatives.

"YASH as an existing SAP partner has the credentials, in-depth experience and knowledge that customers expect from an SAP partner," said Abe Iruegas, Vice President, SAP Solutions for YASH Technologies. "Now that YASH is also an SAP services partner, we're able to respond and execute solutions quickly utilizing proven processes and best practices, to facilitate even greater benefits to our customers."

Designed for Small-to-Midsized Enterprises (SMEs), the additional functionality provides extensive pre-configured business scenarios, training and documentation for faster implementations and rapid Return-on-Investment (ROI).  These extensions are delivered standard as part of YASHs SAP Business All-in-One solution implementations allowing organizations to activate the new functionality as needed based on their business demands.

YASH developed these solution extensions based on client feedback, internal research and numerous implementations, comments Jacinto Arauz, Vice President of Sales for YASH Technologies, SAP Software Sales Division. The benefit to our clients is that the functionality comes standard now with our SAP Busines All-in-One solutions and gives clients a competitive advantage of having industry specific functionality that is not standard in other business software solutions.

While some of the extended functionality was designed to span across all of YASH's SAP Business All-in-One solutions, there are pre-packed scenarios that meet industry specific needs.

As a contributing partner for SAP, YASH was responsible for loading, personalizing, configuring, and testing the best practices. Any errors reported by YASH were used by SAP to take corrective measures. Recognized by SAP for deep domain expertise in the High-tech industry, YASH has provided technology solutions for prestigious High-tech customers worldwide. YASH provides full lifecycle services around SAP, including a certified SAP ERP Business All-in-One solution, TechOne, which is based on High-tech Best Practices and provides out-of-the-box functionality to save customers up to 60% in implementation costs.

"We're honored to be a part of the SAP development process that will help High-tech companies link people, processes, and information. Our industry expertise will provide guidance to companies wanting to collaborate with less effort, adapt to gain better insight, boost efficiency while managing costs, and be agile enough to respond to changing market demands," said Jacinto Arauz, Vice President of YASH Technologies' SAP Software Sales Division.

In 2008, YASH was one of only 17 partners selected globally by SAP to create an inaugural, localized version of their Chemical Best Practices for the Indian market.

"YASH Technologies" previous contributions to SAP Best Practices have been well recognized and SAP is proud to have partners such as YASH to be part of our efforts to make continuous improvements and create best of breed solutions for our customers," said Hanuma Rupakula, Manager, Best Practices for SAP.

For more information on YASH's High-tech industry solutions, please visit http://www.yash.com/sap-all-in-one/techone

ChemOne is a certified SAP® Business All-in-One solution that is specifically designed for Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the chemical industry. It accelerates an organization's return on investment by providing fully optimized operational systems to support rapid growth with minimal risk of disruption to the business.

"YASH is excited to partner with Microbia on their ERP initiative,"comments Kevin Jansen, Executive Vice President of YASH Technologies. "With their aggressive plans for growth, ChemOne will provide the system optimization needed to sustain this vision."

Microbia is positioning itself as a future market leader in the production of sustainable, specialty ingredients and biomaterials utilizing fermentation technology. The comprehensive functionality of ChemOne supports the key business processes of planning, procurement, sales, and analysis in a single platform, and it incorporates industry best practices for standard operating processes required by chemical and biotechnology companies.

"Microbia decided to invest in an SAP solution that would provide the necessary level of integration to support our commitment to innovation, leadership and growth in the biotechnology industry," said Rich Bailey, President and CEO of Microbia. "In addition, Microbia specified key manufacturing capabilities to ensure compliance with product traceability and safety requirements a critical considerations in today's marketplace."

TechOne is a prepackaged ERP solution, built on industry best practices, that delivers the processes, content, and methodologies required for a cost-effective, turnkey deployment.With pre-configured business scenarios tailored for the high-tech industry, StreamServe will quickly realize benefits via real-time visibility across the entire enterprise. TechOne can be fully integrated with other prepackaged software, such as CRM or HCM packages.

"With over 310 joint customers, StreamServe and SAP have a long-standing and positive relationship," commented Dennis Ladd, StreamServe's president and CEO. "Given our experience with SAP, we are very aware of all the functionality that comes with SAP-certified solutions such as TechOne. The predictability in implementation costs, duration, and risks, as well as the scalability provided by TechOne and YASH made our decision to deploy their solution an easy one."

StreamServe has a corporate initiative to automate all of its business processes, including Financials, Sales and Receivables .TechOne supports these exact process areas and will also be able to integrate with StreamServe's CRM tool. All customer and license data can be transferred to TechOne for simpler customer invoicing. By optimizing these operational processes with an integrated system, StreamServe will benefit from savings on maintenance costs while future proofing their growth initiatives in a dynamic marketplace.

AOne Max is designed to give SMEs a competitive advantage and demystifies the perception that SAP is too large, too complex, and too expensive to implement. It is an all-inclusive program that offers managed hosting options and application management services, in addition to the standard software implementation, enterprise maintenance support included in most ERP offerings. This innovative program allows SMEs to experience the ROI, process efficiencies, economies of scale, and value that an SAP ERP solution delivers to an organizations bottom line.

CPGOne is a completely defined and documented, ready-to-operate solution, built on SAP Best Practices, that allows full real-time information integration for complete control of business operations including financials, sales processing, procurement, materials inventory and more. Based on pre-defined, industry specific business scenarios, CPGOne delivers a comprehensive set of business functionalities with little or no customization required. This means minimal disruption to daily operations during installation, and maximum return on investment.

CPGOne is a robust solution that incorporates features designed to address key business process areas including:

• Sell and Deliver
• Sales Order Creation
• Inbound/Outbound EDI Processes
• Sourcing and Procurement
• Consumable Purchasing
• Return to Vendor
• Manufacturing
• Logistics Planning
• Make-to-Stock-Process Industry
• Operational End-to-End Scenarios
• Warehouse Management Shipping and Receiving
• Quality Management
• Enterprise Management and Support
• Financials
• Controlling
• A full features and benefits list can be found at http://www.yash.com/aio
  

Because most businesses cannot invest in long project durations, YASH Technologies incorporates S-Imple, a proprietary SAP implementation methodology that delivers "off the shelf" business functionalities. Rather than spending valuable time and money defining and configuring standard business processes, CPGOne implementations that utilize the S-Imple methodology focus on data cleansing, conversion, design by exception, show versus tell, knowledge transfer, and end-user learning.

Highlights of the SAP Business All-in-One Fast-Start Program:

• Affordability: Reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) with pre-tested software, which includes SAP MAXDB and SUSE Linux.
• Rapid Time-to-value: Accelerate implementation with clearly defined project scope as well as industry best practices and functionality for manufacturing, trade, and services.
• A Safe, Proven Investment: Establish a strong foundation for growth with a proven world-class application and state of the art technology, which scales to meet changing business environments.

GCS was acquired by YASH in 2003 and has been providing the SMB market with complete end to end SAP solutions including software sales and professional services for implementations, consulting, and outsourced application management services that lower total cost of ownership and speed ROI. The acquisition provided YASH the ability to extend its reach in the SAP SMB market space and establish a sound presence in the Northeast. With new organizational initiatives that include the expansion of the SAP Practice focus, the need to execute a well defined brand message to customers and partners drove the identity change to YASH Technologies, SAP Software Sales Division. Now integrated and branded as one company, YASH will continue the strong momentum of providing solutions and services around the SAP suite of products to clients in the Northeast. In addition, clients will receive the added value of an expanded portfolio that includes eBusiness, Business Analytics, and Security for end-to-end enterprise solutions.

"The high caliber of our SAP Practice is signified by the innovative solution offerings to global clients," states Manoj Baheti, CEO YASH. Our well defined portfolio, including our business All-in-One solutions (pre-packaged SAP vertical solutions for the chemical, high-tech, wholesale distribution, and consumer products and goods SMB market), will be expanded to meet the needs of other verticals to speed productivity and streamline operational processes. With plans to launch additional strategic offerings, the timing is right to integrate the brands."

As part of GCS' identity change to YASH, an organizational structure change was also made. Jacinto Arauz, Vice President of Sales, will also focus on the SAP alliance and build on the already strong alignment with SAP and tap into the extensive partner network. "This is an exciting time for YASH, its employees, and customers," comments Mr. Arauz. "We have aggressive initiatives moving forward as YASH. Our strong history of delivering quality solutions, outstanding consultant base, global capabilities, and proven project methodologies, all of which benefit our customers abilities to run their businesses efficiently, provides YASH a solid foundation of growth."

SAP Supports Identity Change

"The move to a cohesive identity as YASH Technologies allows for greater presence outside the Northeastern market, while leveraging GCS' strong experience with the mySAP Business Suite, states Andy Moller, SAP Channel Manager. YASHs brand message as a leading SAP provider will be even stronger on a national level. We look forward to working together to solve business challenges for clients utilizing the SAP suite of products."

YASH Technologies SAP Portfolio Highlights:

• Business All-in-One Solutions: ChemOne, TechOne, WholesaleOne and CPGOne.
• mySAP Business Suite: Software sales and support,upgrades and rapid implementations of full suite of SAP business software, NetWeaver and functional extensions; composition of new solutions, proprietary implementation methodology:  S-IMPLE.
• Flexible AMO and Delivery Models: On-site, off-site or off-shore 24x7 management of the entire environment.
• Strategic Consulting: Expert planning, designing, and architecting for SAP solutions

Out-of-the-box Industry Functionality

WholesaleOne is based on the SAP ERP Business Suite solution and proven SAP Best Practices offerings and can be implemented in less than 14 weeks. The solution contains predefined business processes that can be individually configured to meet specific needs. WholesaleOne includes tools to ensure rapid and successful implementation, tools for data transformation, along with ready to use end-user training to help achieve a rapid return on investment and quick time to benefit. GCS was one of the select partners that SAP chose to jointly develop this solution in conjunction with SAP and other SAP Business All-in-One channel partners. "After the rigorous design and development process, combined with the strict qualification process of SAP, we knew the WholesaleOne solution would be ready for the marketplace," said Bill Fontaine, SAP product manager for GCS. "We now have a solution that can be implemented quickly and deliver full functionality out-of-the-box, while still open to additional tailoring to address the unique needs of larger businesses."

WholesaleOne can be implemented in a fixed-price, fixed timeline and provide customers with full functionality and all the benefits of an SAP ERP solution. Supported by the SAP development teams, SAP Business All-in-One solutions are continually enhanced to add functionality to address the latest regulatory compliance including SEC, FASB, SOP 97-2 and SOX.

It also includes the comprehensive SAP back office business processes such as procurement, full accounting, financial analytics, software asset management, engineering change management, quick and configurable sales order entry, and customer entitlement management. Unparalleled adaptability comes from the foundation of the SAP ERP Business Suite which can be extended and changed without coding during the implementation. WholesaleOne puts the power of an integrated business solution within the reach of all mid-sized companies.

About GCS

GCS is an SAP channel partner authorized to resell the SAP Business All-in-One solution. For over ten years, GCS had a single focus to service and deliver SAP solutions for our customers with a single point of contact for all of their needs. GCS implements, integrates and supports strategic application solutions in manufacturing and distribution industries with a focus on SAP applications. Headquartered in Woburn, MA, GCS accelerates the pace by which clients realize business value from their technology investments. GCS offerings include qualified SAP Business All-in-One partner solutions, enterprise resource planning implementation, enterprise application integration, technology architecture and management, and customer support solutions.

For more information call 877-513-9200 or visit www.yash.com/aio