SAP for Railways

The framework governing the railways has been undergoing radical changes in Europe in recent years.The key concepts have been separation of infrastructure and transport operations, deregulation and commercialisation as well as the internationalisation. Railway enterprises of today are no longer dealing with nationally oriented tasks only. Despite the challenges the situation seems to be generally favourable. Railways represent the means of transport that has the most development potential in terms of higher speeds, comfort and service. The aim of the European Union is to revitalise railways, not least for environmental reasons. The EU forecasts that the volume of rail traffic in Europe will double over the next 20 years. Customer orientation, profit orientation and competition demand an efficient and flexible software to support

Enterprise Management;
Business support;
Core processes.

Railway services leaving their national territorities need multi-currency and multi- language systems for their business support/core processes. Since a long time railways (long- and short-distance traffic) have been SAP customers using both, R/2 and R/3 standard functionality. The biggest SAP user forum ( SAP Railway worldwide usergroup) meets twice a year to exchange experiences and to inform about the latest innovations in and around SAP.