Blogs

• SAP Supply Chain Planning

How Do Operations and IT Approach the Digital Transformation of the Supply Chain Differently?

SAPinsider recently published a report titled, “Transforming the Intelligent Supply Chain,” which benchmarks the leading SAP customers in supply chain management on their progress in digital transformation in the supply chain. Digitally transforming the supply chain involves a range of technical and strategic considerations. In this case, digital transformation of the supply chain means multiple…

• SAP S/4HANA Implementation

SAP Australia User Group CEO Mark Baker to Step Down

The SAP Australia User Group (SAUG) announced today that Mark Baker will leave his post as CEO next month, November 22, 2019. Baker’s departure comes on the heels of the announcement that SAP CEO Bill McDermott is stepping down. SAUG is one of the largest in the Asia-Pacific region, boasting more than 3,500 members from…

• SAP HANA

Bill McDermott Leaves CEO Position at SAP: Impact for SAPinsiders

SAP CEO Bill McDermott announced yesterday that effective immediately he is stepping down from the helm of the German software company after nine years on the job. During his near-decade leading SAP, McDermott steered SAP in several significant ways. The company began its transition to its cloud, snapping up over $20 billion of acquisitions while…

• SAP Digital Twin

Serialization in the Supply Chain for a Deeper Analysis to Identify Bottlenecks and Issues

We recently interviewed leadership at ACSIS about its serialization capabilities in its Intelligent Product and Asset Traceability solutions. Serialization essentially means separating out the data from each individual product. Here, we share some of our thoughts on serialization with IoT and analytics technologies and how it builds on SAP ERP functionality to contribute to digital…

Guidance for Supply Chain Professionals on Customer Experience Management and Beyond

Manufacturing and operations are areas that businesses of all sizes can’t ignore — as managing customer and procurement data is not optional when it comes to optimizing the supply chain. And these areas don’t work in a vacuum. Designing products, planning production, and making and delivering products involves partners and suppliers. SAP, which has long…

• SAP Business Technology Platform

Inside Juergen Mueller’s SAP TechEd 2019 Executive Keynote

The video that played at the start of the SAP TechEd 2019 opening keynote in Las Vegas concluded with “We live in the experience economy. Be the experience company. Experience Management is here.” And that perfectly set the stage for the comments that followed over the next hour and a half. First to take the…

• SAP Machine Learning

5 Important Announcements for SAPinsiders

SAP TechEd took place this week in Las Vegas, unveiling several developments for the SAPinsider community – not the least of which being SAP’s and Microsoft’s joint announcement that Microsoft Azure Blockchain Service and SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain Service will be interoperable. During his main keynote, which outlined SAP’s business technology platform strategy for the…

• SAP SuccessFactors

SAP’s 2019 SuccessConnect Las Vegas Emphasizes Human Resources ‘Experience’

At SAP’s 2019 SuccessConnect Las Vegas conference in Las Vegas, September 16-18, “experience” was the keyword. While SAP’s message at the event was heavily focused on the SAP Qualtrics Employee Engagement solution and the topic of employee experience, there was still plenty of content and chatter about other key solutions like Employee Central and Employee…

• SAP Blockchain

Microsoft, SAP Announce Interoperability of Azure Blockchain Service and SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain Service

SAP and Microsoft announced a blockchain technology partnership at SAP TechEd 2019 in Las Vegas. Joint customers of the two companies will benefit from increased flexibility to construct and implement blockchain solutions leveraging SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service on Microsoft Azure’s cloud infrastructure and linked with the Azure Blockchain Service. Here, we share some of…

• SAP Manufacturing Automation

Event-Driven Messaging Empowering Real-Time Factory Analytics Beyond the Plant

SAPinsider has started to produce a research report titled, “Integrating SAP Systems with the Factory Floor,” which will show that leaders – SAP customers with integrated IT and operational technology (OT) systems – improve operations through increased visibility into the factory floor. The report presents findings that demonstrate that leaders focus on extracting data from…