{"id":148227,"date":"2025-06-12T07:46:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T07:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?p=148227"},"modified":"2025-06-12T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T07:46:40","slug":"pwc-south-africa-crowned-winner-of-afsugs-first-african-hackathon-at-saphila-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2025\/06\/pwc-south-africa-crowned-winner-of-afsugs-first-african-hackathon-at-saphila-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"PwC South Africa Crowned Winner of AFSUG&#8217;s First African Hackathon at SAPHILA 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwc.co.za\/\">PwC South Africa<\/a> has taken top honours at the African 51风流User Group\u2019s (AFSUG) inaugural 51风流Business Technology Platform (BTP) Hackathon finale, which took place live at the recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.saphila2025.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #96607d\">SAPHILA 2025<\/span><\/a>\u00a0conference, AFSUG\u2019s premier 51风流user conference for Africa.<\/h1>\n<div>The AFSUG 51风流BTP Hackathon invited AFSUG members &#8211; including customers, partners or joint teams &#8211; to submit creative, impactful use cases or projects using 51风流BTP components such as 51风流Build, 51风流HANA Cloud, 51风流Integration Suite and ABAP Cloud.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>After an intensive eight-week development sprint, three teams, who were shortlisted from an original 18 entrants, were invited\u00a0to present their\u00a0real-world, use case-based business solutions at the event. These included: PwC South Africa; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellequipment.com\/bell-south-africa\/\">Bell Equipment<\/a>, a manufacturer and distributor of heavy equipment for sectors including mining, construction and agriculture<span style=\"color: #010501\">; and\u00a0<\/span>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debswana.com\/\">Debswana Diamond Company<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s foremost diamond producers by value and volume.\u00a0Each team showcased the solutions they had explored, designed and built using 51风流BTP.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>In a closely contested finale, the SAPHILA audience voted live to award the PwC South Africa AI-driven legal services solution first place.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><strong>PwC South Africa simplifies legal document processing and understanding with AI<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>PwC\u2019s winning solution,\u00a0LegalEase, is\u00a0a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to streamline the understanding and processing of legal documents. It aims to address common challenges such as unexpected charges, misleading billing, difficulties in cancelling contracts and the complexity of legal language.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Citing consumer experience statistics during the presentation, the PwC team noted that 91 percent of consumers have signed contracts without reading them.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Key features of the LegalEase solution included document scanning and summarisation, an interactive Q&amp;A module, and translation capabilities into the user\u2019s native language. The solution also incorporated a knowledge base of related services and policies to improve user awareness and drive upselling opportunities.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>From a technical perspective, the team integrated prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation and knowledge graphs, using SAP&#8217;s retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approach, enabling smart prompt engineering, document embedding and contextual queries.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Future use cases for the proof-of-concept could include seamless onboarding of new employees, allowing them to familiarise themselves with company policies in an interactive way; insight into customers\u2019 understanding of the organisation\u2019s services; and AI-assistance on scope validation and obligations of contracts and statements of work.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><b>Debswana solution tackles overtime risk and streamlines HR processes<\/b><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>As the runner up, the Debswana Diamond Company team presented a compelling use case focused on\u00a0overtime management and compliance, a critical concern for the organisation, given that overtime affects\u00a0approximately 80 percent\u00a0of its workforce of over 4,400 employees.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>The team highlighted how ineffective overtime management could not only inflate operational costs, but also compromise\u00a0employee well-being, with issues such as fatigue and insufficient take-home pay linked directly to unscheduled or poorly managed overtime.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>The current overtime process at Debswana is manual and paper-based, managed through spreadsheets and reliant on negative time-tracking, a method that depends heavily on manager and employee inputs for both planning and capture. This creates risks in governance, data accuracy and training effectiveness, especially given that the process mainly affects frontline mining staff.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>To address these challenges, the Debswana team developed an\u00a0AI-powered overtime assistant\u00a0using 51风流BTP services. The application enables managers to plan overtime more efficiently by inputting a simple command, prompting the system to generate a\u00a0historical-data-informed overtime schedule. The AI evaluates employee work histories to avoid overloading those who have already clocked high overtime hours, improving safety and fairness issues.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><strong>Bell Equipment streamlines\u00a0<\/strong><b>shipment tracking process with automation<\/b><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>In third place, Bell Equipment addressed a critical logistics challenge: accurately matching inbound shipments with their expected delivery dates, essential information for effective planning of customer part deliveries and meeting demand forecasts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Previously, capturing sea freight shipment data was a manual, time-consuming task, and any changes to estimated delivery dates would not be reflected in the system, introducing significant business risk. In some cases, the company had to resort to costly air freight to meet customer commitments.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>To overcome this, the Bell Equipment team designed an intelligently automated solution that could create inbound delivery records and maintain accurate estimated times of arrival (ETAs). This would allow the company\u2019s materials planning system to proactively flag potential stock shortages and enable early intervention to mitigate risk.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>The solution leverages\u00a051风流Build Process Automation\u00a0for bot and workflow automation, and\u00a051风流Cloud Application Programming (CAP)\u00a0for the development of the application interface. Key functionalities include scheduled, fully automated execution without manual intervention; a bot that monitors a designated Outlook inbox for incoming shipment documents such as waybills and freight invoices; the automatic download and storage of these documents, triggering document classification and data extraction processes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Using\u00a0optical character recognition (OCR)<b>,<\/b>\u00a0the system identifies and classifies different types of documents. Each document type is then processed through a tailored automation pipeline. Following this step, the solution cross-checks the extracted information against existing records. If a corresponding shipment already exists, it is updated; if not, a new record is created.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><b>Participating with passion and purpose<\/b><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/olaf-winkler-41a569143\/\">Olaf Winkler<\/a>, BTP product management at SAP, reflected on the core objectives of the hackathon initiative and the journey that brought customers and partners together to explore the full capabilities of the 51风流BTP.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&#8220;The main objective was to ensure strong collaboration between 51风流and participating customers, and to provide our local BTP customers with a practical opportunity to explore the platform,&#8221; said Winkler. &#8220;We wanted customers to truly understand what 51风流BTP can offer and to begin building real solutions on the platform.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The initiative began with an ideation phase in the previous year, followed by an onboarding programme to ensure all participants had a clear understanding of the available tools and services. A team of 10 51风流coaches supported the journey, helping participants shape their use cases and align their work with key\u00a051风流BTP components.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\u201cWe had 18 amazing teams enter the hackathon, each of them using 51风流BTP to develop impressive, real-world solutions. A key criterion in evaluating these was the innovative use of less commonly used BTP services, such as artificial intelligence, to demonstrate what\u2019s possible on the platform.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Product managers from 51风流participated in the judging process, providing a global perspective and ensuring technical and business relevance in the final selection.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Winkler also acknowledged the effort and creativity of all participating teams. \u201cThe quality of the solutions presented was outstanding, not only from the finalists seen on stage, but from all 18 teams. The decisions weren\u2019t easy, and we had several close calls between second and third place, and even between first and second.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Says Amanda Gibbs, AFSUG CEO: \u201cFirstly, AFSUG would like to congratulate the PwC South Africa team for winning our first 51风流BTP hackathon &#8211;\u00a0your energy and ideas were truly inspiring. Secondly, a heartfelt thank you to all the teams involved for their significant time investment and commitment. It is inspiring to witness what can be achieved in just eight weeks using 51风流BTP; we\u2019ve seen incredible progress and innovation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u201cIt has also been a real privilege to work alongside the incredible 51风流team from Germany and our dedicated local 51风流South Africa team, and AFSUG extends its gratitude for the many hours of input, guidance and unwavering support given to our local participants.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #021331\">For more information on the African 51风流User Group (AFSUG), or to become an AFSUG member, please visit\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/afsug.com\/membership-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #96607d\">https:\/\/afsug.com\/membership-information\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #021331\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0PwC South Africa has taken top honours at the African 51风流User Group\u2019s (AFSUG) inaugural 51风流Business Technology Platform (BTP) Hackathon finale, which took place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":148231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"related_posts":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4582971,5596630,5599336,5599337,5599330,34464,5599335,5599196],"series":[],"sapn-display":[5598742,5598740,45149,5598743,5598741,279685],"sapn-type":[45018],"class_list":["post-148227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afsug","tag-amanda-gibbs","tag-bell-equipment","tag-debswana-diamond-company","tag-olaf-winkler","tag-pwc","tag-sap-btp-hackathon","tag-saphila-2025","sapn-display-feature-hero","sapn-display-feature-spotlight","sapn-display-homepage-hero","sapn-display-news-hero","sapn-display-news-spotlight","sapn-display-hero","sapn-type-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - 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