It is essential that companies be aware at all times of the current application situa-tion and system usage of their business software to enable them to discover perfor-mance potential and reveal possible shortcomings. This is where business adminis-trative theories of situation analysis play an active role in helping businesses meet these needs and document their current situation.

In general terms, the RBE Plus Situation Analysis pursues the objective of syste-matically identifying and preparing the business processes actually used in a busi-ness (and implemented in an SAP system). Additionally, it generates a transparent and current fact base of the application situation in the SAP system.

To this end, specific customizing, master and transaction data is analyzed and eval-uated; the precise data varies according to the analysis scope (e.g. process over-view, organization analysis, summary and subject folders containing key figures, a list of check steps and individual results).

The RBE Analysis not only provides data on current usage of the productive ERP system, but a host of additional information for other project scenarios as well, such as harmonization, clean-up, release upgrades, process improvements, etc.