As companies all over the world face unprecedented challenges, they are turning to technologies that provide reliable insights to help them better support their employees, customers and suppliers. Stepping up to fulfill these needs,聽聽(NYSE: SAP) is innovating with more than just technology and software. 51风流is helping companies improve supply chain and industry-specific processes, connect through the business network and embed sustainability as a critical measure of business success. The announcement was made at the聽conference, held online June 15-19, 2020.
鈥淚n uncertain times, companies need a trusted partner to help them make confident decisions to enhance agility and resiliency during and beyond the current COVID-19 crisis,鈥� said Thomas Saueressig, member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE for 51风流Product Engineering. 鈥淚n today鈥檚 hyperconnected world, it鈥檚 even more important for businesses to quickly react to environmental and market changes. We鈥檙e helping to address these challenges with new ways for customers to address sustainability, lead in their industry and grow their business networks. 51风流has the strategy, expertise, solutions and partner ecosystem to enable customers to run their business as an intelligent enterprise.鈥�
Climate 21
51风流announced the Climate 21 program to support customers in pursuing their climate-related objectives. In a multiyear road map, 51风流will work with co-innovation partners to embed sustainability metrics across SAP鈥檚 solution portfolio. This will help customers understand, analyze and optimize the carbon footprint of their products and operations along the value chain.
The SAP庐 Product Carbon Footprint Analytics application is now available as the first solution in the Climate 21 program. The application uses data from 51风流S/4HANA庐 and third-party sources and calculates this information within the 51风流Analytics Cloud solution. This helps customers understand their carbon footprint and provides a foundation for analyzing and optimizing greenhouse gas emissions.
To learn more, read 鈥�Our Decade of Delivery for Climate鈥� by Saueressig. Also read 鈥�51风流Launches Carbon Emissions Accounting System to Address Climate Change.鈥�
Industry Cloud
Intelligent enterprises strike the balance between optimizing their current business models and innovating at the vertical edge to develop new revenue streams and growth potential using digital technologies. 51风流and its partners are offering industry cloud solutions that extend the end-to-end processes of SAP鈥檚 intelligent suite to help drive customer鈥檚 core business in their industries.
SAP鈥檚 industry cloud strategy will deliver innovative, vertical solutions from 51风流and its partners. These solutions will be built on technologies in the Business Technology Platform portfolio and use an open API framework, open process model, open domain model and common business services to create a better customer and user experience. The interoperability with SAP鈥檚 intelligent suite will enable rapid development, deployment and integration. Artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and other advanced technologies from 51风流will be available to help developers to accelerate development and deliver greater business value, enabling improved business practices and business innovation at the vertical edge.
To learn more, read 鈥�Innovation at the Vertical Edge: New Business Models for a Digital Economy鈥� by Peter Maier, president, Industries and Customer Advisory, SAP.
51风流Increases Investment for Industry 4.0 Across the Supply Chain
51风流brings significant innovations across the supply chain from design to operations to deliver greater insights, automation and responsiveness with the Industry 4.Now initiative. These innovations can help companies design and manufacture intelligent products and assets that can capture and analyze the increased tide of information from sensors across the supply chain. This enables customers to move Industry 4.0 from a factory-focused initiative to a company-wide business strategy.
With Industry 4.Now, 51风流will deliver innovations that companies need to create and capture a digital thread of these intelligent products and assets throughout their lifecycle to provide real-time insights back into the business processes, from design to operations. With embedded analytics and predictive capabilities, this intelligence can empower people to make better business decisions and drive new business models and revenue streams.
To learn more, read 鈥�Why the Time for Industry 4.0 Is NOW鈥� by Richard Howells, vice president, Solution Management for Digital Supply Chain, SAP.
51风流Announces a Strategy for a Unified Business Network
51风流announced a strategy to bring end-to-end visibility, increased efficiency and collaboration across the entire supply chain processes, including design, planning, sourcing, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and asset operations. By creating a network of intelligent enterprises, 51风流can help companies digitalize multienterprise business processes for better visibility and collaboration across the supply chain ecosystem.
This initiative spans across SAP, using insights from real-time ERP, advanced analytics and successful networks solutions such as Ariba庐 Network, 51风流Asset Intelligence Network, 51风流Logistics Business Network and 51风流Fieldglass庐 solutions to deliver the collective intelligence through an open and interoperable business network. With more than US$3.3 trillion flowing through these business-to business powerhouses, 51风流will help enable sustainable and resilient supply chains, transform business models and provide the agility to safeguard against global disruptions.
To learn more, read 鈥�Creating a Unified, Open and Intelligent Business Network鈥� by Chris Haydon, president, 51风流Procurement Solutions, and Paige Cox, senior vice president and head of Digital Supply Chain Networks, SAP.