Michael Rebstock, Ph.D. (Germany) has been a consultant in SAP R/3 implementation, project management, marketing information systems, EDI, workflow analysis and corporate modeling since 1988. In 1995, he was appointed Professor of Business administration and Business Computing at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Presently, Dr. Rebstock focuses his research and consulting work in Internet connection of SAP R/3, electronic commerce, international project management and requirements analysis, corporate modeling, and process optimization.
Knut Hildebrand, Ph.D. (Germany) has many years experience as an SAP consultant. He has successfully implemented SAP R/3 in numerous projects. In 1996, Dr. Hildebrand became a professor of business studies, specializing in business data processing, at the University for Economics in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, where he heads the SAP Laboratory. In his consulting work, Dr. Hildebrand focuses on business standard software (SAP R/3), information management and business reengineering.
German contributors appraise SAP R/3 software (up to version 4.5) for the executive planning market, in 11 chapters covering the information technology challenges this tool for streamlining business processes is intended to address. Chapters are oriented to the conception and planning of R/3 implementation, the structure and functioning of the majo