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. Web3.0 Inventory Management

    Web3.0 and Inventory Management

    Published: 02/August/2021

    Reading time: 6 mins

    While Web3.0 may take time to mature enough to replace Web2.0 if an end-to-end supply chain can develop an internal network based on the underlying principles of Web3.0 defined above, it can address the following challenges of inventory management (illustrative examples, not exhaustive): Information transparency: The decentralization of information between entities will help build trust…

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    Anomaly Detection Algorithms in Supply Chain Analytics

    Published: 26/July/2021

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Anomaly detection algorithms do exactly what the name suggests – detect anomalies in the data. The simplest example is your body temperature. If you had a sensor measuring your body temperature, and the date is being fed to an anomaly detector in the form of time series data (like every one hour), if the temperature…

  3. Supply Chain Control Towers

    Evolving Supply Chain Control Towers

    Published: 22/July/2021

    Reading time: 3 mins

    Supply chain control towers are becoming a standard module in leading supply chain planning solutions. This specific module is marketed very prominently and, in some cases, is often marketed as THE capability required to run fully autonomous supply chains in the future. Suppose you are familiar with the features within the control tower functionality of…

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    Supply Chain Product Innovation With Data and Analytics

    Published: 17/July/2021

    Reading time: 4 mins

    The pressure to innovate to launch new products and solutions emerged as a top business imperative in the response to the recent SAPinsider survey on the use of data, analytics and automation in supply chain. The survey results intend to help us formulate our storyline for upcoming February research report, Building Resilient and Agile Supply…

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    Hyperscalers Focus on Supply Chain Platforms

    Published: 07/July/2021

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Supply chain planning solutions space has been a crowded and competitive segment for decades. As technology capabilities progress, we see more and more entrants in the segment, trying to compete with established players. However, a key fact of this space is that while bells and whistles may differ, the core features and functionalities remain the…

  6. Three Pillars of Digital Twin Solutions

    Published: 05/July/2021

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Digital twin solutions are generally associated with leveraging data generated by sensors on machinery to manage the health of the equipment in manufacturing environments. This capability of leveraging the data captured from the floor or equipments to replicate asset conditions and processes ,drives manufacturing digital twin offerings like  SAP IoT, based on the SAP BTP platform. Hyperscalers…

  7. TinyML

    Harnessing The Power of TinyML in Supply Chain

    Published: 16/June/2021

    Reading time: 6 mins

    You are not alone if you have not heard of ” TinyML “. The good news is that you are probably already aware of the underlying technology behind this terminology but were unaware of this marketing term assigned to it, sometime in late 2019. So let us first start by understanding what TinyML is all…

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    What Punit Renjen Brings to SAP

    Published: 12/June/2021

    Reading time: 3 mins

    The news that Punit Renjen will replace Dr. Hasso Plattner is already a few days old. In case you missed it, Punit Renjen, Deloitte's former global CEO, will replace Dr. Hasso Plattner as the new SAP chairman. Dr. Hasso Plattner is the only remaining founder still actively engaged as part of SAP leadership and will…

  9. ChatGPT SAP

    Leveraging ChatGPT in The SAP World

    Published: 27/May/2021

    Reading time: 5 mins

    In this article, we will cover how the underlying algorithm behind ChatGPT can be leveraged in SAP ecosystem in this article. ChatGPT, as you may know, is an AI model developed by Open AI, which leverages a specific type of algorithm, reinforcement learning, to engage and interact in the form of a conversational dialogue. The…

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    How Businesses Can Benefit From the Digital Twin of Our Planet

    Published: 21/May/2021

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Preserving the delicate ecosystem of our precious planet has become one of the urgent imperatives. Though humankind has done significant damage to the delicate balance of earth’s ecosystem, the positive news is that the awareness of the urgency to undo the damage has increased significantly. Companies are playing their part by trying to balance their…