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. AWS Supply Chain SAP IBP

    Will AWS Supply Chain Compete With SAP IBP?

    Published: 26/August/2022

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Among many other features that SAP ICP has for integrated demand planning, inventory management is a critical one. Respondents highlighted inventory management as one of the key focus areas in our recent research on supply chain planning in the cloud. With the increased complexities in the supply chain and the severe disruptions that many supply…

  2. Enterprise Analytics

    Exploring Key Technical Features of Enterprise Analytics

    Published: 19/August/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    As businesses become more diverse and complex, so do their associated business analytics systems. Imperatives like the need to build near real-time visibility, a data-driven culture, and digitalization have forced many organizations to invest in many data and analytics tools and technologies. Though technology and computing power have rapidly evolved during the last decade to…

  3. Inventory Optimization

    Combining Inventory Optimization With Additional Analytics Approaches

    Published: 19/August/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Inventory Optimization emerged as a key focus area over the next two years for SAPinsiders in our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. As organizations still struggle with fluctuating demand patterns developed during the pandemic, inventory policies are also evolving. Hence, it is unsurprising that inventory management and optimization remain a key focus…

  4. Promotion Planning SAP IBP

    Promotion Planning and Management with SAP IBP

    Published: 18/August/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Demand forecasting was highlighted as a key challenge in SAPinsider's recent research Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. The quality of forecasts also plays a key role in inventory management, which has emerged as another key focus area for SAPinsiders. We will also publish a research report focused on this specific topic of inventory management…

  5. Google Industry 4.0

    Impact of Google Discontinuing Cloud IoT Core on Industry 4.0 Technology Ecosystem

    Published: 17/August/2022

    Reading time: 6 mins

    Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users using the Cloud IoT Core product offering reported receiving a communication that IoT Core has been added to the end-of-life list and will be discontinued in a year. This is a significant announcement, specifically for Industry 4.0 enthusiasts. In SAPinsider's research Modernizing Logistics and Inventory Tracking, we discussed the role…

  6. Cloud Market

    The Three Ss of Cloud Market Dominance

    Published: 17/August/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    There is no doubt that cloud infrastructure will redefine how organizations build their technology capabilities and how they innovate. This has emerged as a consistent theme in our research and conversations with the SAPinsider community. Our research reports like Future of Business Intelligence, Analytics in The Cloud, Modernizing Logistics and Inventory Tracking, and Supply Chain…

  7. Process Automation Supply Chain

    Process Automation as Foundation to Build Resilient Supply Chain

    Published: 12/August/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    The need for supply chain resiliency and agility have emerged as prominent drivers in many of SAPinsider's recent research reports like Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. SAPinsider also highlights supply chain visibility and data integration as key foundational aspects of supply chain agility and resiliency. Process automation solutions are critical in helping organizations build…

  8. Supply chain planning

    Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud for EMEA

    Published: 12/August/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Supply chain planning capabilities have evolved from a portfolio of tools and technologies used to run and plan supply chain operations to a set of capabilities that can be leveraged to build business agility and resiliency in today's complex business environment.  SAPinsiders have indicated in previous research, like, Analytics in The Cloud, that cloud can…

  9. Sustainable Manufacturing

    Sustainable Manufacturing Leveraging Smart Factories

    Published: 12/August/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    While supply chain leaders across industries and geographies grapple with managing the ever-increasing supply chain complexities and risks, there is an additional demand on the companies to be more resourceful and conscientious of environmental and social needs. There is no doubt that the collective awareness around Sustainability and specifically Sustainability in supply chains has increased,…

  10. Demand Forecasting SAP IBP

    Data Outliers Detection in SAP IBP Demand Forecasting

    Published: 11/August/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    In our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud, SAPinsiders highlighted that demand forecasting remains a key challenge. Fortunately, best-of-breed supply chain tools today provide many features and functionalities, including a rich portfolio of algorithms, that can help bring more science and certainty into this exercise. However, as the popular saying of "Garbage-In-Garbage-Out (GIGO)"…