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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Eliminating Data Silos for Supply Chain Analytics
Fragmentation of data remains a key obstacle on the path of integrated supply chain planning. Many organizations have invested in point systems for planning various elements of supply chains over the years, have legacy systems, and also have data pertaining to supply chain residing in enterprise systems like ERP, CRM etc. With the advent of…
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Supply Chain Planning and Business Agility
SAPinsider will be publishing a research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud this month. As the survey for this research come to a close, many interesting insights emerge. One of the key ones is how SAPinsiders view supply chain planning as an important tool to build business resiliency and agility. This was evident in…
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Leveraging Machine Learning on Customer Intelligence Data
A key area that SAPinsiders highlight as one of the top business challenges: evolving customer expectations and demand. This has emerged as a top business driver in many of our research reports, including the most recent report, SAPinsider Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA. To meet the rapidly evolving customer expectation and demands, organizations need to understand their…
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Increasing Focus on Supply Chain Process Automation
Process automation technologies have increasingly evolved into strategic solutions during the last few years. And recently we have seen an increased focus on supply chain process automation. While the focus in the initial years of process automation adoption was primarily on achieving cost reduction, process visibility and employee productivity have increasingly become important objectives now…
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Transforming Six-Sigma with Process Intelligence
Six-Sigma pertains to a group of analytical methods that companies across industries leverage to eliminate defects in their products and processes. The core crux of this methodology is simple- every step in a business process that helps deliver a product or service is also an opportunity to introduce a defect and the methodology focuses on…
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Building Customer Intelligence Capabilities
A key area that SAPinsiders highlight as one of the top business challenges: evolving customer expectations and demand. This has emerged as a top business driver in many of our research reports, including the most recent report, SAPinsider Process Automation and SAP S/4HANA. To meet the rapidly evolving customer expectation and demands, organizations need to...…
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Managing FX Risk with SAP Treasury Management
When companies expand their business models to new countries, they are often exposed not only to the normal risks that come with any international expansion but also a risk caused by changes in currency exchange rates. This type of financial challenge can have major impacts on profitability which means it’s important for treasurers to understand…
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Machine Learning for Supply Chain Data Quality Management
Machine Learning (ML) based algorithms are slowly percolating into a wide variety of supply chain planning solutions. However, they play a key role in foundational aspects of supply chain planning as well, particularly in data quality management. Data quality has emerged as one of the aspects SAPinsiders have highlighted in their responses to our upcoming…
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Supply Chain Visibility Foundations Beyond Technology
Supply chain visibility has recently emerged as one of the most important foundational capabilities for supply chain excellence. While technical aspects of supply chain visibility are obviously critical, there are many non-technology aspects that SAPinsiders need to be aware of. This article shares some of them like: • Need to build relationship of trust with…
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Excess Inventory Management with AI
Inventory planning and management have taken a whole new form in the COVID era. Optimal inventory planning and management were never easy, but the challenges have now increased manyfold. As organizations changed their inventory strategies, many of them moving from just-in-time to just-on-case, the associated planning, and management challenges also need to be addressed. Excess…
