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. Association-rule mining

    Leveraging Association-Rule Mining in Logistics Planning

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Inventory optimization remains a key focus area for SAPinsiders, as highlighted in our most recent research report, Inventory Optimization and Management. When organizations undertake an inventory optimization initiative, they typically leverage conventional multi-echelon inventory optimization tools that leverages inventory placement in conjunction with integer programming and statistical methods to determine how much inventory to hold…

  2. Supply Chain Planning Skills

    Critical Skills for The Future of Supply Chain Planning

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    In response to the survey for our upcoming research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud, SAPinsiders highlighted advanced analytics capabilities as the top technology when the current state and immediate next steps timeframe are considered together, as shown in figure 1. As you can see from figure 1, SAPinsiders have indicated that they have…

  3. Cloud supply chain planning

    Cloud Can Address Supply Chain Planning Challenges

    Published: 15/July/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Supply chain planning capabilities have evolved from being 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 in resiliency in today’s complex business environment. Cloud provides additional capabilities to supply chain planning technologies to align better with…

  4. customization

    Customizations Challenge SAP S/4HANA Finance Adoption

    Published: 09/July/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Data from our recent research on SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance shows SAPinsider organizations increasingly recognize the potential benefits of SAP S/4HANA Finance, and we expect to see continued adoption in the coming years. SAP S/4HANA Finance offers many advantages over traditional SAP ERP financial accounting and reporting methods, including improved accuracy, transparency, and…

  5. scm planning

    Strategies to Build Supply Chain Planning Foundations

    Published: 08/July/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    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. Since the top business drivers…

  6. Customer Intelligence

    Developing a Supply Chain Visibility Roadmap

    Published: 08/July/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    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. Since the top business drivers focus...…

  7. Supply Chain Data Silos

    Eliminating Data Silos for Supply Chain Analytics

    Published: 07/July/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    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…

  8. Supply Chain Visibility

    Supply Chain Planning and Business Agility

    Published: 06/July/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    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…

  9. Machine Learning for Supply Chain

    Leveraging Machine Learning on Customer Intelligence Data

    Published: 01/July/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    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…

  10. Supply Chain Process Automation

    Increasing Focus on Supply Chain Process Automation

    Published: 01/July/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    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…