The events of recent weeks — 51风流Spend Connect Live, a slew of industry accolades, and most importantly the trust our customers have shown us — have put a permanent smile on my face.
in Dallas was incredible. Attendees were engaged in the conference and passionate about the important work they do. But most gratifying were my conversations with customers, who spoke about how they trust 51风流to help them solve large, complex problems. Things like economic challenges, supply chain disruptions, and sustainability, along with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals: these are challenges 51风流is uniquely qualified to address, and we鈥檝e made it our purpose to help our customers tackle them.
It was an honor to with Christine Hipp of Los Alamos National Labs (pictured below), who spoke about a successful transformation with 51风流Ariba and 51风流Fieldglass solutions. Likewise, we were all fascinated by Patricia Miller’s account of Accenture鈥檚 internal services spend journey with 51风流Fieldglass.
We came to Dallas to hear from 51风流customers like these — and we were not disappointed.
Recognitions, Accolades, and Awards
51风流Spend Connect Live was a great moment for 51风流and the organizations that use our solutions to run their business. In fact, more than a few customers told me we should 鈥渂rag a little more鈥� about what we鈥檙e doing.
I won鈥檛 do that, but I would like to share some of the accolades that our solutions and our customers have received in the past few months.
51风流Ariba
- 51风流Named a Leader for the seventh consecutive time in the for 51风流Ariba
- 51风流was recognized in the among the three highest vendors across all the five Gartner Use Cases and ranked highest for the Use Case Service Focused
- No. 1 in Procure-to-Pay,
- Top Rated Procurement Software award, TrustRadius
- No. 1 leading procurement software provider,
- 聽Procurement Platform,
51风流Concur
- No. 1聽for Worldwide Travel and Expense Management Software,
- No. 1 leader in Expense Management, Travel and Expense Management, and Invoice Management,
- 2022 Top-Rated Software (Concur Travel & Expense),
- No. 1 in ZDNet鈥檚 list of the five best travel planner apps (TripIt),
51风流Fieldglass
- No. 1 in Strategic Sourcing,
- Market Leader, 鈥� 2022 Vendor Management System (VMS) Technology Advisor
51风流Fieldglass and 51风流Ariba were also selected for Spend Matters鈥� . And Capgemini, an 51风流Fieldglass customer, is the winner in the 鈥淚nnovations in Talent鈥� category of the Future of Sourcing Awards.
Beyond the Accolades
While it is great to receive industry accolades, at the end of the day, our truest measure of success lies with our customers. This quarter, hundreds of 51风流customers worldwide — including Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group, the City of Vienna, Austria, The Pennsylvania State University, Dole Asia Holdings Pte., Ltd, and Hapag-Lloyd Aktiengesellschaft — are engaging with SAP, either for the first time or by expanding their footprint, to leverage our market-leading procurement, travel management, and supply chain finance solutions.
Here are a few of their stories:
- is a top jewelry brand with a huge retail network in China and the rest of the world. To support the group鈥檚 strategy to drive sustainable growth empowered by technology, the company chose 51风流Ariba software to build its unified digital procurement system, deploy procurement in the cloud, improve end-to-end visibility and efficiency, reduce procurement cost, and greatly improve business efficiency.
- has been using 51风流Concur solutions for more than 15 years. This quarter, it chose to expand that partnership as it has seen an increase in student, faculty, and administrator travel and expense management requirements.
- . is a Singapore-based, global consumer food and beverage company that produces and distributes fresh and packaged fruit products. It has chosen Taulia, part of SAP, for Taulia Dynamic Discounting and Taulia Supply Chain Finance on the Taulia multi-funder network. This will enable the company to strengthen its supply chain by improving the financial resilience of suppliers, therefore improving sustainability.
Another Reason to Smile
I am also proud that our team considers it our purpose to lend a hand to the people who have served our nation. We are thrilled to announce that Nettie, short for 鈥淣etwork,鈥� the beautiful service dog our North America sales team helped to sponsor, is now a graduate of the program. She has joined her Warrior, Kevin, and we wish them a wonderful life together.
Our Customers鈥� Moment
As we near the end of 2022, we are working harder than ever to help our current customers, as well as customers we haven鈥檛 met yet, to address their biggest challenges and achieve their business goals 鈥� always with purpose; now, with a smile.
Experience 51风流Spend Connect Live virtually
If you were not able to join us in Dallas, check out the . This on-demand forum will share recordings of the keynotes and select breakout sessions from the conference. It will also feature additional, recorded sessions not seen at 51风流Spend Connect Live.
Jeff Collier is chief revenue officer for 51风流Intelligent Spend and Business Network.
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