EMEA

SAP EMEA is the region where the parent company of SAP resides. Founded in 1972, the company headquarters are located in Walldorf in the south of Germany.

What is SAP?

SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in data processing. SAP has over 100,00 employees worldwide are supporting more than 440,000 customers across 180 countries. It is a global network of customers, partners, employees and thought leaders all helping the world run better and improve people’s lives. About 80% of its customers are small and midsized companies.

SAP EMEA is the region where the parent company of SAP resides. Founded in 1972, the company headquarters are located in Walldorf in the south of Germany.

What is SAP?

SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in data processing. SAP has over 100,00 employees worldwide are supporting more than 440,000 customers across 180 countries. It is a global network of customers, partners, employees and thought leaders all helping the world run better and improve people’s lives. About 80% of its customers are small and midsized companies.

What does SAP do?

SAP develops software solutions to help organizations of all sizes and all industries run their businesses profitability, adopt continuously, and grow sustainably. The software collects and processes data on one platform, covering everything from raw material purchasing to customer satisfaction. SAP solutions can be installed on premise or used from the cloud helping companies to design and evaluate the entire value chain. They can help to seamlessly link operational data on business processes with experience data, this enables companies to better understand and respond to their customers. SAP strives to drive innovation, high performance, and employee satisfaction with these key values:

  • Purpose: To help every customer with a best run business through purpose and profit.
  • Vision: Help the world run better and to improve people’s lives.
  • Mission: Deliver technology to help the world run better and improve people’s lives.
  • Strategy: To enable enterprises to become intelligent, networked, and sustainable – bringing together the solutions.

Total revenue in 2021 was €27.84billion, including €9.4 billion from its cloud business which is expected to reach more than €22 billion by 2025. Today, SAP customers generate 87% of total global commerce. With concern about the climate crisis, the company aims to become carbon neutral in its own operations by year 2023, which is two years earlier than originally planned.

SAP offers application software for businesses such as supplier relationships, production, warehouse management, sales, customer relationships, and administrative functions. Today, SAP has more than 230 million cloud users and more than 100 solutions covering various business functions. SAP’s machine learning, Internet of Things (loT) and advanced analytics technologies help turn businesses into intelligent enterprises. SAP Business Technology Platform brings together application development, data and analytics, integration, and AI into one platform. It is the central element of SAP’s “RISE with SAP” offering.

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  1. Inventory System Dynamics

    Leveraging System Dynamics in Supply Chain Planning

    Published: 21/October/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Any analytics technique or any analytics jargon, whether it's data science or advanced analytics, is eventually all about leveraging data or information to extract insights and knowledge based on specific techniques. However, using defined techniques sometimes leads to challenges or failures when companies try to leverage these algorithms in the real world. The reason we…

  2. Agent Based Modeling

    Understanding Agent Based Modeling

    Published: 21/October/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Agent based modeling is a relatively more recent method that originated in the early 2000s. Some of the key drivers behind agent-based modeling coming into the picture were advances in technology and computing power since agent-based models are much more demanding in terms of system capability requirements, the proliferation of computer science techniques like object-oriented…

  3. Bullwhip Effect

    Measuring the Bullwhip Effect

    Published: 21/October/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    When the pandemic made the demand for certain products skyrocket, we started hearing the term "bullwhip effect" a lot. But the bullwhip effect has existed in supply chains for decades. The fact is, the technology to address this has existed for a few years now. The issue is more rooted in trust among the players…

  4. Manufacturing Execution Systems

    Critical Role of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

    Published: 18/October/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    As supply chain challenges increase due to increasing supply chain complexities, organizations are increasingly looking at leveraging data and analytics tools and technologies to help them address their supply chain challenges. Manufacturing plays a crucial role in supply chain networks, and recent events have emphasized its importance in building supply chain resiliency and agility. This has…

  5. SAP BTP

    Tenova Realizes 10% Savings in HR Costs with SAP Talent Management Solution

    Published: 13/October/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Tenova recognized the need for an HR system that could support international expansion and engage an evolving workforce. Strategic decision-making, uniform people management, and common ways of working through policies and procedures were all critical to continued success. Learn how SuccessFactors was leveraged to help Tenova achieve cost savings and efficiency on a global scale.

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    HSBC: Implementation and delivery of Employee Central Payroll in 5 countries

    Published: 12/October/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Six years ago, HSBC embarked on the most complex global HR and payroll transformation ever undertaken. The objective was to simplify the global IT estate, transform payroll operations and provide an optimized employee experience for HSBC staff. Learn how HSBC delivered SuccessFactors EC Payroll for HSBC’s largest payrolls and future-proofed its HR and payroll infrastructure…

  7. Maslow’s Hierarchy for Digital Transformation

    Published: 12/October/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    We live in an era of Empathy driven innovation and disruption. If you peel the layers of the onion, you will find that technologies being used by many disruptors were not radically new technology. The key driver behind these successful disruptors, in my mind, was the ability to identify a customer need and provide a…

  8. Mobility Warehouse

    Mobility Solutions in Warehouse Management

    Published: 07/October/2022

    Reading time: 6 mins

    Warehouse operations have always been intricate enough to manage seamlessly and efficiently but COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the challenges. The pandemic has created many “new normal” paradigms and to address these, warehousing executives will need to create scalable systems to accommodate not only unanticipated demand but associated evolutions in the wake of COVID. For example,…

  9. AIoT and Simulation

    Combining AIoT and Simulation Modeling

    Published: 06/October/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    AIoT on smart cameras has the potential to create innovative solutions in many domains. These cameras' capabilities can be paired with other emerging or existing tools and technologies to help create innovative solutions. Therefore, IoT-based analytics will be one of the focus topics in our February 2023 research report, Supply Chain Data And Analytics State…

  10. Executive Roundtable: 5 Steps to Modernize Your SAP Landscape to Fuel Continuous Innovation

    Modernizing core business applications are among the priorities that SAP customers are focusing on, often this objective is easier to talk about than complete.