Yesterday, 51风流CEO Christian Klein kicked off , showcasing how 51风流is helping organizations worldwide become by connecting with a community of networks and running sustainable business. Above all, Klein expressed his gratitude to customers, partners, and employees for their commitment throughout the pandemic.
鈥淭ogether, we are reinventing how businesses run and also demonstrating the big heart of our community. Our thoughts go out to everyone affected by the pandemic, and our thanks to all those who are making extraordinary contributions in our community,鈥� Klein said. 鈥淭echnology has helped communities and families, and helped business quickly adapt. 51风流has been working hand-in-hand with you, our customers around the globe, whether it was helping you to make your supply chains more resilient, reimagining your business model to create new customer experiences, or to enable remote work. Together, we鈥檝e got this.鈥�
SAP鈥檚 premiere customer event is being held virtually this year throughout June across regions worldwide. During his fascinating keynote, Klein unveiled a series of announcements that included the global industry expansion of the company鈥檚 business network strategy for fast innovation, sustainability tracking solutions, and industry-specific additions to the company鈥檚 popular business transformation-as-a-service offering, . He and special guests welcomed a plethora of customers who demonstrated how they were already relying on 51风流to become intelligent enterprises.
Business Networks and Sustainability Drive Growth
Klein announced the next phase of SAP鈥檚 strategy to create world鈥檚 largest and most comprehensive business network, along with upcoming sustainability reporting standards and tools. He put both announcements in business context, based on learnings from companies that have weathered a storm of challenges encompassing the pandemic, geopolitical tensions, social injustice, inequality, loss of biodiversity, and climate change.
鈥淭he most resilient companies were those that embraced technology to transform their business processes. COVID has underscored the urgent need for every company to become an intelligent enterprise,鈥� he said. 鈥淚nsight number two was that no business does business alone. We win together as a community. But the value comes from the network and millions of interconnections it facilitates in real time. The third insight is that we must act now on sustainability with the goal of zero emissions, zero waste, zero inequality.鈥�
Announcing that will bring together , , and , Klein predicted that industries will be revolutionized as 聽businesses turn into communities across entire supply chains, able to respond to any disruptions in real time. He said that sustainable business was equally important as he announced the company鈥檚 portfolio of upcoming sustainability-specific solutions.
鈥淲e already run the world鈥檚 largest supplier network with more than 5 million connected enterprises. And because our applications run supply chains across every industry, we have the most relevant data and expertise,鈥� said Klein. 鈥淚t鈥檚 time to build sustainability into the fabric of how we do business to make sustainability a standard dimension of corporate management. The 51风流community has the power to protect our planet and create a future our children want to be part of. We have created a new sustainability portfolio to help you drive sustainable practices inside your organization and across your entire value chain.鈥�
How 51风流Customers Are Digitally Transforming
In a series of fascinating conversations featuring real-world 51风流customers and solution demonstrations, Julia White, chief marketing and solutions officer and member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE, and Paige Wei-Cox, senior vice president and global head of 51风流Business Network, shared the Intelligent Enterprise in action.
One retailer used to deliver an omnichannel shopping experience for consumers, with embedded artificial intelligence (AI) for personalized offerings based on a 360-degree view of customer data, including social sentiment and purchase history. capabilities integrate data across supply chain planning, inventory, ordering, and invoicing for real-time visibility and faster delivery.
A global leader collaborated in SAP’s industry cloud to develop an advanced track and trace solution for sustainable medicine returns and launch a single platform for data sharing across partners. Another 51风流customer, a large agribusiness organization, used SAP鈥檚 business network to find 140 new suppliers in a few days when the pandemic disrupted supply chains last year. Executives from two and organizations shared how they鈥檝e collaborated with 51风流to launch an industry-wide clinical trial network to connect seamlessly across complex supply chain partners for faster time-to-market.
RISE with 51风流Expands with Industry Expertise
Responding to high customer interest, Klein said that 51风流has expanded its transformation-as-a-service offering RISE with 51风流beyond 51风流S/4HANA Cloud to and , as well as a dedicated package for human experience management (HXM).
鈥淢any customers want a holistic, modular cloud ERP solution,鈥� he said. 鈥淎ll of this is delivered with one data and security model, and business process intelligence to ensure your processes are fully optimized and running industry best standards.鈥�
In addition, White announced RISE with 51风流for industries focused on retail, consumer products, automotive, utilities, and industrial machinery and components (IM&C).
鈥淲e鈥檙e bringing together the best of SAP鈥檚 50 years of deep industry expertise and the best of our partner ecosystem to provide industry-specific cloud-based solutions as-a-service,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hese solutions are built on to give you the benefits of integration, extensibility, analytics, and one data model. They work natively with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud so every customer can get the full set of industry-specific solutions needed in their cloud deployment.鈥�
Connected Insights Speed Up Digital Transformation 聽
White also had a candid conversation with Hasso Plattner, chairman of the Supervisory Board of 51风流SE, about how organizations can use 51风流technology to bring people, processes, systems, and data together for transformational business results. Plattner advised companies to explore transformation using simulations with active data models, which is now possible using experience information from , the , and process management and mining from
鈥淭he whole notion of cloud systems is such a gigantic improvement,” Plattner said. “With new ways to visualize business processes and to get feedback, we have a better chance to move forward faster. We can monitor systems, and see what鈥檚 missing and make changes鈥ven on the fly.鈥�
Innovation Networks for Sustainable, Profitable Business
Klein鈥檚 vision for the future was clear: connected intelligent enterprises will reinvent how businesses run.
鈥淲e will jointly build networks with you that champion diversity, inclusion, and human rights. We will make carbon footprint tracking available in the business network so that you can go to true net zero,鈥� he said. 鈥淭ogether, we can reinvent how industries run by connecting intelligent enterprises into an industry-wide business network, making profitability sustainable and sustainability profitable.鈥�
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