We at eworks did truly fascinating implementations using SAP Folder Management over the last two years for clients, whose main business is to drive processes, that go alongside with land management. Examples given:

• Saudi Arabia: Saudi Aramco serves the government as a state owned company to manage parcels, deeds and thus questions of ownership of land
• South Africa: The City of Cape Town services the region of the Western Cape with even more: Besides parcels, deeds, ownership of land - sectional titles and low cost housing are areas of service and thus need software supporting these business processes

In both business cases, the value of the service offered is vital to the society and thus covers business processes, that might take a long time to execute. Think of developing a new suburb with all its infrastructure: It is macro and micro management of pieces of work at the same time! There might be parties filing complaints, there might be change of ownership. Scenarios are pretty complex.

SAP Folder Management is a perfect tool to document the flow of decision making within SAP. At the same time, it does easily allow to link in the partners and objects involved in the process of planning, taking decisions, executing them and justifying them at a later point in time.

Example given, we at eworks know, that this does apply not only to Governmental Organizations! Corporates do need to provide for the same kind of transparency as well!

At eworks we do consider both references "green field projects". Disparate components and building blocks had been available, such as SAP Folder Management, ESRI GIS, SAP RE-FX LUM and SAP IS-U, but tying them together in ONE application, that has a continuous flow of information was the big challenge. For sure, within both projects, the return of investment will be in one or two years after go alive!

Corporate scenarios covered within Cases:

• Planning and Building: 
  • Building Plans
  • Subdivisions and Consolidations
  • Cadastral Case
• Housing: 
  • Acquisition of Property
  • Sale of Property
• Property Management: 
  • Acquisition of Land
  • Sale of Land via Public Tender
  • Lease of non-viable Land
  • Lease Renewal of non-viable Land
  • Sale of non-viable Land

Front-Office scenarios covered with Cases:

• Rates Clearance (before sale) 
  • Freehold/Property
  • Sectional Title Scheme and Unit
  • Exclusive Use Area
  • Registered Rights

As a conclusion:

• SAP Folder Management help the organization or corporate perfectly to document business processes
• It can be well integrated into existing SAP modules and provide for the governance of long lasting processes
• It even can tie into non SAP applications nicely

For more details please feel free to contact us directly!