Determining Strategic Goals 
Determining Strategic Goals
Use
Certain factors – like increased competition in the industry, or changes in core processes – force the enterprise to define new goals and put them into action. This definition of new or altered strategic goals often takes place during the implementation of an R/3 System.
The aim of any R/3 implementation in an enterprise is to optimize the entire business system, or at least those parts of it that are crucial to the enterprise.
Integration
The strategic goals defined at the start of the implementation project affect the application components that form the system:
The interdependence of these components may mean that business processes need to be adjusted and information flows need to be redefined, when the business processes of the enterprise are being re-engineered.
The effect of strategic goals on organizational processes and structures
The strategic goals of an enterprise form the basis for defining the main tasks faced by an enterprise. The enterprise needs to use the strategic goals it has defined for itself to derive appropriate business processes and organizational structures.
Strategic Information Requirements
The strategic goal of an enterprise is to become the leader in a particular market segment. To reach this goal is to the enterprise needs a cost accounting system that provides information at a glance.
Questions to ask:
What do we need to do, to create an efficient cost accounting system?
(question on what business processes are appropriate)
Where do we need to do it? (What organizational structures are appropriate)?
Solution strategy
If you want a cost accounting system that provides information at a glance, it may make sense to collect all the relevant cost-accounting data created during Logistics processes, in profit centers. In these profit centers, the Logistics processes can be analyzed and the acquired data compressed to strategic information (ROI, and so on).
This analysis may show that it is not possible, using existing business processes and organizational structures, to become cost leader in the market. If so, then either the business processes and organizational structures or the strategic goal itself must be changed.
