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. Six-Sigma

    Transforming Six-Sigma with Process Intelligence

    Published: 01/July/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    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…

  2. Customer Intelligence

    Building Customer Intelligence Capabilities

    Published: 29/June/2022

    Reading time: 3 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...…

  3. Evolving business intelligence

    Managing FX Risk with SAP Treasury Management

    Published: 24/June/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    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…

  4. Machine Learning for Supply Chain

    Machine Learning for Supply Chain Data Quality Management

    Published: 24/June/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    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…

  5. Supply Chain Visibility

    Supply Chain Visibility Foundations Beyond Technology

    Published: 24/June/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    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…

  6. Supply Chain Planning Analytics

    Excess Inventory Management with AI

    Published: 23/June/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    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…

  7. SAP Kyma

    Machine Learning Renaissance with SAP Kyma 2.0

    Published: 22/June/2022

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Open source development is very normal in the data science world. The popularity of languages like Python and R can be attributed to the explosion of development work happening to leverage open-source tools and technologies. However, many who are on SAP technologies are often unsure how to leverage and integrate open source tools within their…

  8. Warehouse Mobility

    SAP and Apple Partnership will Transform Warehouse Mobility

    Published: 20/June/2022

    Reading time: 4 mins

    As customer demand and expectations become complex, associated warehouse operations also become complex. Advances in computing and technology, specifically on the edge, allow organizations to leverage smart devices and mobile solutions in a tactical way to address warehousing operations challenges. Miniaturization, increased performance & energy efficiency, and lower production costs of smart devices, have all…

  9. FP&A to xP&A

    From FP&A to xP&A

    Published: 17/June/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Organizations today face a complex array of challenges, and the traditional financial planning and analysis (FP&A) process struggle to keep pace. Business leaders now recognize the need for advanced planning and analytics to drive organizational insights, as respondents from our SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance State of the Market benchmark report cited the demand…

  10. scm planning

    Supply Chain Planning Integration Imperative

    Published: 17/June/2022

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Supply chain planning solutions have existed for decades now. However, as technology and business requirements evolve, so do these solutions. New technologies and capabilities emerge that integrate with existing supply chain planning solutions and contribute to the evolution of planning solutions. A good example is the cloud. SAPinsider recently published a research report, Supply Chain…