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Why present at CWG / Potential Presentation Topics

Call for Presenters

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The Program Committee will support you in finding the right topic and presentation approach - presentation, workshop, or round table / discussion.

Why present at CWG?

  • Raise your and your company's reputation in the configuration community for innovative use of configuration solutions
  • Get direct feedback on your solution approach
  • Extend your network towards companies with similar business processes
  • Discuss your processes and issues with experts from other customers, consultants, partners, SAP
  • Provide highly visible input to SAP with regards to new business requirements and current issues
  • Enable other companies to leverage similar business processes to extend the customer base, for easier knowledge sharing, and to improve the likelihood of further product improvements
  • Extend your communication and presentation skills - from smaller workshops up to auditorium presentations!
  • Use your developed presentation to communicate processes and requirements in your daily work after the conference

Presentation Format

Different presentation formats are offered, from keynote presentation to round table discussions, in the general assembly or in breakout sessions:

  • Keynote
  • Presentation
  • Panel
  • Round Table Discussion
  • Discussion/Influencing
  • Best Practices
  • Partner Solutions

Types of Presentations/Workshops 

  • Customer implementation report - project, result, demo, lessons learned, ...
  • Business impact of configuration
  • Workshops / Tips & Tricks / How-Tos on specific topics - VC, IPC, Sales, Manufacturing, Engineering, Pricing, SOA, Visualization, ...
  • Discussion on specific business requirements and potential solution approaches
  • Future process requirements and current issues with configuration processes
  • New functionality offered by from SAP, consultants, partners

Potential Presentation Topics

Below you find a list of potential presentation topics. This list should only give some ideas and intends to facilitate finding the right topic for a presentation, workshop or discussion round for you to suggest.  

Building and maintaining an Enterprise Product Definition Characteristic Planning with the VC and its impact on your business How to use the Forum on the CWG Portal
Product Replication Workbench – what is it and how can I use it? Rolling out multiple plants and how to support >250 models Managing Change in your Product Models
Strategy to take my VC to an eCommerce platform: Pro’s and Con’s Best Practices testing and migration of my VC models or how I scared management into doing what we knew was best How to manage a VC implementation team that is on-shore, near-shore and off-shore
Analyzing and reporting what features and options are sold and quoted VC Project Implementation Organization Project governance for VC and IPC projects
Integration issues with the IPC to ERPxxxx VC Support Team for multi-plant implementations Do’s and Don’ts of modeling in the VC
Special Interest Group Round Tables or presentation Modeling techniques that should not be used and why CWG Sandbox; how to use and how to get access
Lead a “Expert Round Table” eCommerce applications using the IPC Why we picked the IPC for our eCommerce solution