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The educational program for ASUG Annual Conference is designed by a committee comprised of ASUG volunteers, and maps to many of the user communities within ASUG. Explore the tracks listed here to see which themes have emerged and what content is planned for this year's conference. More detailed information is available in the Agenda Builder.
Apparel and Footwear Solutions (AFS)
The ASUG Apparel and Footwear Solutions (AFS) Community supports the needs of customers who have implemented or plan to implement the SAP AFS Solution. Attendees may take advantage of the experience and insight of this community through the educational and influence opportunities at the conference. View More...
Business Integration, Technology, & Infrastructure (BITI)
The ASUG Business Integration, Technology, & Infrastructure (BITI) Community is comprised of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) dedicated to improving the experience of our peers responsible for maintaining and improving infrastructures, development, mobile, data archiving, integration, workflow, security, and data governance necessary for the effective operation of enterprise business systems. View More...
Business Intelligence
The ASUG Business Intelligence (BI) Community focuses on the efficient and effective use of SAP solutions and products to address business needs in the area of business intelligence and analytics. It is targeted toward users who have an interest in various reporting tools and technologies, including SAP Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, SAP Business Explorer/BEx, SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight, Analysis and Dashboards, on-demand solutions, and collaborative BI, as well as foundation and supporting enterprise information management (EIM) technologies such as data management, enterprise data warehousing, the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator, Sybase IQ, and SAP HANA™. View More...
CISUG
The mission of the Chemical Industry SAP Users Group (CISUG) is to provide chemical companies with a means to share their experiences, and work directly with SAP and affiliate partners to provide input on solutions in an effort to better meet chemical industry needs. View More...
Configuration Work Group (CWG)
The ASUG Configuration Work Group (CWG) is an international user group of SAP customers and partners focused on the topic of product configuration as implemented in the Variant Configurator (VC) and in the SAP Internet Pricing and Configurator (SAP IPC). CWG is one of the few industry groups of its kind, with a unique mission to promote knowledge exchange in the area of SAP product configuration and influence future SAP direction. View More...
Consumer Products
The ASUG Consumer Products Community includes SAP users with an interest in consumer-packaged-goods technology and business processes. This cross-functional group applies the content of other ASUG communities across many different processes to fully leverage SAP software capabilities for the industry.
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Customer Management
The ASUG Customer Management Community features customer-driven education and insight into how SAP customers are leveraging customer information through their R/3 and SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) implementations. Its focus is on discourse and solutions that help develop customer-centric organizations, maximize sales potential, and achieve profitable growth. View More...
Enterprise Architecture
The ASUG Enterprise Architecture (EA) Community provides enterprise architects a community in which to better leverage what is available today, plan roadmaps for tomorrow, and influence future SAP developments. Complementing the overall Enterprise Architecture Community are ASUG Special Interest Groups (SIGs) focused on business process architecture and integration architecture. View More...
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
The ASUG Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Community contributes to the design, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of an organization's physical assets, such as equipment and infrastructure. This community develops and shares business and technical best-practice solutions that contribute to an enterprise maintenance strategy ensuring optimal asset performance, reliability, and lifecycle cost management.
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Financials
The ASUG Financials Community provides customers with benchmarking, knowledge sharing and collaboration, and educational opportunities to effect improvements and increase return on investment in financial systems and processes. View More...
Health Sciences
The ASUG Health Sciences Community supports SAP customers in the health sciences industries including direct healthcare providers, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare product distributors. Focusing on optimizing usage of SAP products to support the delivery of quality devices, products, and care, this community trades ideas, communicates successes, demonstrates innovations, and streamlines processes. The Health Sciences track will cover the following areas: View More...
Human Capital Management (HCM)
The ASUG Human Capital Management (HCM) Community provides access to SAP experts – including SAP customers, SAP partners, and those from SAP itself - who work in a collaborative environment year round to address both technical and business process solutions for the successful operation of HR and payroll using SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM). Through active participation in this community, members receive continuing education, insight into SAP's latest developments, opportunities to influence SAP's future roadmap, and answers to real-life current issues and situations as these occur in their own SAP implementations. View More...
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
"Managing the overall lifecycle of a product from concept through realization and eventual retirement" – The ASUG Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Community's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) target SAP business users and technical support personnel involved in managing the overall lifecycle of a product from concept through realization and to eventual retirement. Multiple SAP modules, technologies, and functionalities give PLM a broad range of coverage using foundational cross-application components such as quality management (QM), document management system (DMS), and engineering change management (ECM).
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Professional Services
The ASUG Professional Services Providers Community targets companies using SAP that provide consulting, IT, audit & tax, and legal services. View More...
Public Sector
The ASUG Public Sector Community is comprised of three Special Interest Groups (SIGs): Government – including state/provincial, local/municipalities and federal; K - 12 education; and Higher Education. Content at ASUG Annual Conference this year is focused on process improvement and solution efficiencies and optimization.These topics are very important to the public sector as they focus on maximizing their efficiencies and getting the most out of their investment in SAP as well as improving processes. View More...
Rail
The ASUG Rail Special Interest Group (SIG) Community provides the rail industry a community in which to better leverage what is available today, plan roadmaps for tomorrow, and influence future SAP product developments. Attend this track for education sessions in the following areas: View More...
Retail
The ASUG Retail Community focuses on the current business and technology needs of retailers and provides SAP-relevant educational and networking opportunities where retailers can collaborate, exchanging information and sharing learning experiences. View More...
Services & Support
ASUG's Services and Support Community focuses on the facets of supporting your organization, including end-user empowerment and the optimization of business processes. The community supports education and influence opportunities in the following areas: global implementations, organizational change management, documentation and training, program management and maintenance, and centers of excellence. View More...
Small and Medium Enterprises
The ASUG Small & Medium Enterprises community promotes collaboration and symmetry among ASUG members. Take advantage of face-to-face contact with peers-and learn about benefits and drawbacks in implementing programs. View More...
Solution Manager
The ASUG Solution Manager Special Interest Group (SIG) provides the opportunity to exchange knowledge and feedback with SAP. Stay current on SAP Solution Manager topics, take the opportunity to influence and validate development, and provide input for future releases. View More...
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Managing a supply chain is complex and requires collaboration across business networks. The ASUG Supply Chain Management (SCM) Community focuses primarily on producing and delivering a final product or service inside and outside the enterprise network, with education sessions most valuable to operations professionals including those in manufacturing, transportation/logistics, fulfillment, and warehouse. Join this Community track for presentations covering the following special interest group areas: View More...
Utilities
ASUG's Utilities Community represents 100 utilities across North America producing and providing services in the electric, gas, water, and wastewater industries. This growing and vibrant community has relevant and up-to-date information for the various business lines within our utilities. Collaboration and exchange of ideas in focused areas includes customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise asset management (EAM), AMI/Smart Grid, generation, mobility, business intelligence (BI) and performance management, program portfolio management, document management, linear asset management, GIS, architecture, and security. The newly-formed Utilities Water Special Interest Group (SIG) is bringing together individuals to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities within the water industry. Join the Utilities Community at ASUG Annual Conference to hear about the rapid changes in our industry, share experiences and lessons learned, and network with other professionals in the utility industry.
Wholesale
Whether one is interested in material logistics, B2B sales, B2C sales, or even dynamic challenges in the world of finance and controlling, ASUG's Wholesale Distribution (WD) Community focuses on unique SAP-based solutions that extend well beyond traditional wholesale and distribution companies. View More...