SAP Intelligent Technologies

The need to innovate leveraging digital technologies is an imperative that has been consistently highlighted by SAPinsiders. The good news is that SAP provides a portfolio of capabilities, embedded into SAP Business Technology Platform to help organizations develop intelligent technologies, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning. These portfolio of tools and technologies that are integrated and embedded in BTP can help organizations optimize their business processes, enable informed decision-making through data-driven insights, and promote the cherished innovation they desire. SAP Intelligent technologies is hence not one technology but a portfolio of tools that are enabled by SAP BTP platform. Examples of building capabilities leveraging intelligent technologies are:

Business Processes transformation:

Leveraging SAP AI Business Services, organizations can automate and optimize business processes. In this capability, you can use relevant machine learning models that are available, and which allow users to leverage machine learning services without any data science know-how, and extract and process structured and unstructured data.

Business Processes transformation:

Developing Intelligent Applications:

With AI Foundation, organizations can build intelligent applications using the SAP AI Core infrastructure and SAP AI Launchpad. These tools help them deliver data-driven innovation and intelligence across their enterprise.

Building Conversational Agents:

Learn how to build powerful conversational agents in a heartbeat with SAP Conversational AI services, which enable human-to-machine interactions using a human conversation. Explore how to train, build, connect, and monitor developed conversational scenarios that run embedded and extended with SAP solutions.

Designing and Orchestrating Robots with SAP Intelligent RPA: Design and orchestrate intelligence bots to automate your repetitive manual tasks with SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (SAP Intelligent RPA) technology. With the power of citizen automation, this can be managed by all developer personas, including the citizen developer. Learn about the latest enhancements of SAP Intelligent RPA and how it is accelerated with low code and no code.

Set Up Preference Processing in SAP ECC and SAP Global Trade Services

Published: 15/December/2009

Reading time: 14 mins

See how to set up and perform preference processing within your global customs practices through your supply chain in both SAP ERP Central Component and SAP GRC Global Trade Services. Preference processing allows you to capture and determine the duty preference, drawback, and allowance based on the country of origin and tariff for the product....…
Add Custom Text to Your Applicant Correspondence

Published: 15/November/2004

Reading time: 12 mins

You can personalize letters you send out to applicants. The author explains how to do this using the example of adding the initials of the person writing the letter. Key Concept The functionality described here exists within the R/3 HR Recruitment module since release 3.0D. Recruitment will be part of the mySAP ERP core. It...…
- SAP ERP
Optimize Inventory Using Product Interchangeability in SAP APO SNP

Published: 28/December/2015

Reading time: 23 mins

Learn how to carry out product interchangeability in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) Supply Network Planning (SNP) when one product needs to be replaced with another from a particular date or when you need to plan a set of interchangeable products with the same technical properties. Key Concept There are two major interchangeability...…
- SAP APO
Manage Lifecycle Planning in SAP APO

Published: 18/May/2016

Reading time: 13 mins

Learn how lifecycle planning can be configured in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) to forecast a new product, manage the introduction of the new product (phase-in), phase out the old product being replaced, and integrate it with forecasting techniques. Follow a step-by-step procedure to configure and run the associated master data objects, run...…
- SAP Central Finance
Decoding the Cost Object Mapping Framework in SAP Central Finance

Published: 29/September/2017

Reading time: 13 mins

Learn about the concept, purpose, configuration, and execution of the cost object mapping framework in SAP Central Finance. Key Concept SAP Central Finance in SAP S/4HANA offers a new configuration for the cost object mapping framework, which is mainly used for short-living cost objects such as an internal order, a production order, or a service...…
Part 2: Plan For and Implement SAP Learning Solution

Published: 15/November/2006

Reading time: 32 mins

SAP Learning Solution (LSO) configuration builds on SAP Training Management configuration. Follow these expert tips that relate to Training Management and LSO. Understand key configuration decisions before moving into your blueprint phase to configure LSO quickly and painlessly. Key Concept Your blueprint documentation should describe your key business processes and mirror the structure of the...…
Part 3: Plan for and Implement SAP Learning Solution’s Authoring Environment

Published: 15/December/2006

Reading time: 22 mins

SAP Authoring Environment, a component of SAP Learning Solution, allows course authors and instructional designers to design and structure Web-based training content and tests. Learn about the key functionalities of Authoring Environment and discover undocumented tips about how to use Authoring Environment successfully. Key Concept SAP Authoring Environment is a locally installed application in SAP...…
- SAP Analytics and AI
Fully Integrate Your SAP HANA Database Procedures into ABAP with AMDP

Published: 21/December/2015

Reading time: 20 mins

ABAP Managed Database Procedures (AMDP) is a new technology to embed native database source code into ABAP applications. With the current focus on SAP HANA, ABAP developers now can use database features beyond the scope of Open SQL. AMDPs are available with SAP NetWeaver 7.40 Support Package 5 though some features described here require subsequent...…
- SAP Controlling
Live from SAPinsider Studio: Rohana Gunawardena on SAP CO

Rohana Gunawardena, Director, SAP Practice, QS&S, joins SAPinsider Studio at the SAPinsider FIN 2016 event in Las Vegas to discuss the SAP CO philosophy and using CO beyond cost center accounting, such as internal orders, as well as what SAP S/4HANA means for SAP CO. This is an edited version of the transcript: Ken Murphy,…
- SAP Financial Closing Cockpit
A Look at Current SAP Marketplace Trends

Published: 16/January/2020

Reading time: 3 mins

SAPinsider recently sat down with an expert in the SAPinsider community, Rohana Gunawardena, Director – SAP Practice, Exium Inc., to discuss some of the trends he’s seeing in the marketplace. A Major Priority for Finance Company CFOs A big priority for SAP customers in the finance industry right now, says Rohana, is making the monthly…