On April 30,2014 DeeDee Kato, Product Marketing Director from Synactive with special guest Cindi McCarthy, SAP/GuiXT Functional Analyst presented a webcast titled “NuVasive Straightens SAP Processes With GuiXT Liquid UI” describing the benefits what GuiXT has provided to NuVasive over basic functionality of SAP.
NuVasive is a medical device company,third largest in US and fourth largest globally focused in developing surgical products and procedures for the spine. Cindi McCarthy, who has been working more than 10 years with NuVasive, justifies how GuiXT eliminated redundancy in work and improved performance without increase in man power.
With the help of GuiXT they managed to optimize the ECM ( Engineering Change Management ) and made it user friendly, making engineers more productive to design NuVasive products instead of being bogged down figuring out how the SAP system worked.The ECR (Engineering Change Request) was optimized by eliminating tabs that are not used by the user.
GuiXT also helped to make different change types for different type of tabs so user can change type as per their requirement.
Document Control Improvements are done by changing the revision automatically and if it is not processed it can be shown by just clicking on a button (made using GuiXT ) to show unprocessed items.
Cindi also explained how this saves them 3-5 minutes on each Document control and with 2000 Documents a year which saved them a lot of time rather doing double checks on each one manually.
NuVasive has different type of sales orders , and to help their customer service team they made changes in graphical user interface of the initial screen of sales order using GuiXT to make it more user friendly.After making changes to the user interface the customer sales reps only need to know what type of order they are taking and the customer number. It will then show automatically on the screen with visual aid of the country flag they are working in. The pricing conversion for different countries are also done automatically with the help of GuiXT.
So this makes sense what value does GuiXT provides to companies even if someone does not have proper understanding of SAP. The benefits reaped by the company was:
1) Reduced user frustration
2) Improved User Acceptance
3) Shortened time-to-market
4) Reduced processing time by 61%, which is huge
NuVasive has been able to keep up with the fast paced ever changing requirements of doing business both domestically and internationally by applying GuiXT to standard OOB SAP.
The main highlight of the webcast was how GuiXT has developed since its launch in 1998 and with its latest Liquid UI which is available for various platforms,including native apps for iOS and Android and Windows CE/Mobile changing the way people use SAP.
To sum it up here are some comments by NuVasive users using GuiXT:
- Utilizing GuiXT and custom programming reduced the release time of an ECO by 61% while still being compliant, minimized possible input errors and made the process more user friendly.
Dave Ivanko, Vice President Manufacturing
- It has eliminated several steps: before I would have open two different TCodes and release PRDS and Materials in two different transactions, I can now release all at once. It also automatically assigns the next Rev level, as before we had to go into every single object and manually enter in the revision. By the push of a button, all of those redundant steps are gone.
Tiffany Bull-Enriquez , Senior Analyst, Document Control
- GuiXT for the Windchill interface took an EXTREMELY manual and tedious process and turned it into a few button clicks. It also allowed us to implement some system checks that would prevent a user from submitting a request without critical information which helps prevent unnecessary routing/approval delays.
Jeremy Malik, Manager Product Development
- OMGosh THIS IS AWESOME!!!! I know it seems like a little silly thing but this is HUGE for us. THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!!_
Michele Mroz, Senior Manager, Customer Service, Customer Service