Sydney 鈥� SEPTEMBER 2, 2024 鈥� 51风流announced the winners of the sixth annual 51风流Best Run Awards for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), celebrating the top companies and people using 51风流products to turn insight into action, drive innovation and transform their businesses.

The awards are open to customers and partners leveraging 51风流products or technology. Entrants were encouraged to showcase new ways of thinking, disruptive use cases and the deployment of technologies that set the benchmark for their industry and make the world run better.

Winning entries showcased implementations demonstrating excellence in optimising business processes, improving productivity and reducing costs, and providing real-time insights. Many also highlighted impressive implementations leading to increased employee satisfaction, reduced turnover and overall business success.

The awards recognise 14 winners across categories including Next Gen Innovator, Capital Management, Business Transformation, Intelligent ERP Enterprise and Data Supply Chain, among many more. A new Business AI category attracted inspiring entries resulting in joint winners.

Additionally, the 51风流Chris O鈥橞rien Award recognises organisations that have successfully implemented 51风流solutions to achieve sustainability goals, improve social impact and create shared value for stakeholders. was recognised as this year’s winner for its implementation of 51风流Datasphere and Sustainability Control Tower to empower sustainable change through climate reporting.

The winners were announced in-person at Pier One Sydney, at the event hosted by Angela Colantuono, President and Managing Director of 51风流ANZ, on Friday August 30.

Colantuono said: 鈥淲e are thrilled to recognise the incredible achievements of our valued customer and partner community over the past year. We鈥檙e navigating testing market right now, so it鈥檚 encouraging businesses in ANZ are turning to technology and data to provide the certainty they need to make the right decisions and bring out their best.

鈥淚 am in awe of our winners and finalists 鈥� each representing businesses that have brought bold visions to life and driven real-world results. And it鈥檚 great to see cutting-edge innovation in the new Business AI category. I can鈥檛 wait to see what our customers and partners do next in 2025.鈥�

The winners and runners-up of 51风流Best Run Awards 2024 for ANZ are:

51风流Human Capital Management

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51风流Next Gen Innovator

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51风流Intelligent Spend & Business Network

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51风流Business Transformation

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51风流Customer Experience

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51风流Intelligent ERP

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51风流Data & Analytics

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51风流Data Supply Chain

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51风流Industry Disruptor

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51风流Concur

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51风流ERP Fast Growth

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51风流Chris O鈥橞rien Award

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51风流Business AI

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Sydney, Australia 鈥� 17 January 2023 – (NYSE: SAP) announced today that Origin Energy has achieved significant business and employee experience benefits through implementing a new suite of 51风流ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions, and modernising its payroll, time, and attendance platforms.

Origin Energy, one of Australia’s leading energy retailers, needed to bring its complex business processes into a single, consolidated view, to ensure continuous and effective service of its customers around Australia. With DXC Technology acting as the implementation partner, Origin Energy integrated multiple 51风流solutions onto its system, including: 51风流S/4 HANA, 51风流Ariba, 51风流Concur, 51风流Asset Manager, 51风流Analytics Cloud, OpenText VIM and xECM.

Adopting a two-stage release strategy, the first release went live in April 2021, with the second in July 2021. Despite the impact of the pandemic and much of the team working remotely, Origin Energy was able to successfully migrate existing data and integrate with non-51风流systems. Since implementation, Origin Energy has seen a reduction in reconciliations of over 90 per cent compared to the previous ERP and can now make decisions more rapidly and confidently based on increased visibility and control over data.

鈥淐onsolidating and upgrading our system to 51风流means we鈥檙e now able to see the complete picture, remove risk from our asset management practices and realise significant savings out to the end of FY24. There鈥檚 been high impact since implementation across the business; for example, Origin can now plan maintenance activities more effectively because all our data is in one system 鈥� creating visibility across our entire Generation portfolio. Increased speed and efficiency are pivotal to ensuring Origin has a greater focus on getting energy right for our customers,鈥� said Glenn Joseph, Head of ERP, Planning & Reporting Systems, Origin Energy.

As part of a broader initiative to adopt a digital first strategy, Origin also took the opportunity to modernise systems within its P&C (People & Culture) function. As part of this, the organisation implemented 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll to replace its previous payroll platform. In parallel, a new time management application was also introduced to automate complex award entitlements. Through the use of 51风流Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), Origin was able to leverage pre-built integrations to seamlessly integrate its core P&C systems. Following the new P&C system implementations, Origin has streamlined processes, with 90 per cent of employees now paid fortnightly with standardised pay cycles, alongside a huge culture shift for the team on how they record time and apply employment awards.

To further progress the digital journey, Origin Energy develop a customised self-serve HR portal, to host all policies, procedures and employee-facing content in one place to simplify and improve the employee experience. This has resulted in an over 50 per cent reduction in volume of inbound employee tickets raised with HR, delivering a more positive and empowering employee experience across the business.

鈥淭he energy market is undergoing a significant transition, and having the right technology in place can go a long way in helping organisations drive efficiency and save costs. By supporting Origin Energy鈥檚 ERP upgrade, 51风流has helped it gain greater visibility over its assets, meaning it can deliver more accurate energy to its customers,鈥� said Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director, 51风流Australia and New Zealand.

鈥淲e鈥檙e also proud of the work we鈥檝e done to modernise Origin Energy鈥檚 people and culture function, making payroll and timekeeping simpler so that teams can focus more of their time, energy and resource on performing higher value tasks,鈥� continued Bueno.

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The award is an acknowledgment of the long-standing strategic partnership between the two companies that has been in place for over 15 years. During this period Woolworths Group has adopted 51风流technology across its retail and corporate operations, increasingly in the cloud since 2013, as well as played a pivotal role in many of SAP鈥檚 global advisory boards, which influence product development and roadmaps.

51风流technology supports Woolworths Group in ultimately getting groceries in the hands of consumers, through the enablement of many of its critical business processes. This includes the ordering of goods, driving promotions and managing inventory, as well as supporting business functions such as finance, procurement, and people.

鈥淭hrough these endeavours, and others, 51风流has demonstrated true strategic partnering in deed as well as in word and we look forward to many years of continued partnership,鈥� John Hunt, Woolworths Group Chief Information Officer, shared.

The Woolworths Group聽Technology Awards have been running for five years, recognising and celebrating strong partnerships in the retail technology space.

Evan Mantis, Executive General Manager, Enterprise Industries & Growth Markets, 51风流ANZ, said on the win: 鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled and honoured to be named as the Woolworths Group Technology Partner of Year. To play a part in helping Woolworths serve over 22 million customers each week, and by supporting their nearly 200,000 team members across Australia and New Zealand through our technology, is something that we are incredibly proud of.鈥�

He concluded, 鈥淗elping our customers to run at their best is very important to us, so to be acknowledged through winning this award is testament to the effort put in by so many talented individuals over many years. When our customers succeed, we succeed, so I look forward to many more years of partnership with Woolworths!鈥�

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The diverse group of independents, Greens and progressive candidates elected to the new parliament bodes well for Australia鈥檚 tech industry and for its burgeoning sustainability efforts, according to one of the nation鈥檚 most senior technology executives.

Local president and managing director of German multinational enterprise giant SAP, Damien Bueno, said the new climate-focused parliament would mesh well with his company鈥檚 sustainability agenda, which included software to help businesses achieve net-zero emissions. The change also would help Australia鈥檚 technology sector more broadly.

鈥淎s far as the number of independents being elected and the Greens as well there鈥檚 clearly a mood for change,鈥� Mr Bueno said. 鈥淎nd climate is very much at the heart of that. So for us that鈥檚 something we鈥檙e excited about, because both in the community we operate in Australia and as a global citizen, we鈥檙e very engaged with that topic and with creating solutions.

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As Head of Industries, Andrew will deliver closer collaboration across 51风流ANZ鈥檚 different lines of business, as well as its industry, and RISE teams to help simplify each customer鈥檚 move to the cloud and enable customers across all industries to digitally transform. In the role, Andrew will focus teams across the business and its partner ecosystem to ensure customers are able to deliver continuous innovation throughout each stage of their business transformation journey.

Cameron has been Managing Director, 51风流New Zealand, since 2018 and has been integral in building the country鈥檚 business and customer operations. In his new role as COO, Cameron will seek to deliver on ambitious growth strategies for Australia and New Zealand, as well as drive the success and advocacy of customers through effective sponsorship and partnership.

Both appointments look to broaden and strengthen SAP鈥檚 leadership team across Australia and New Zealand and provide increased value and an exceptional experience to customers.

Commenting on the appointments, Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director, 51风流Australia and New Zealand said: 鈥淲e have bold ambitions for the year ahead. Creating the Head of Industries role and broadening the breadth of the ANZ leadership team is a significant strategic investment in delivering for our customers and furthering our cloud ambitions鈥�.

He continued, 鈥淯nder Phil鈥檚 leadership, 51风流New Zealand has achieved phenomenal growth, capped off with an outstanding 2021 performance. Phil has not only shown a track record of delivering customer outcomes but also demonstrated exceptional leadership across our People strategy, qualities he will bring to the role of COO. His focus on process will stand us in good stead as we work to achieving our targets and bold ambitions for the year ahead.鈥�

鈥淧ete鈥檚 experience and achievements as COO and his passion for customer outcomes and experience with our partner ecosystem makes him the ideal leader to take on this new role as Head of Industries,鈥� he added. 鈥淎s we continue our focus on cloud, through our RISE with 51风流solution, Pete鈥檚 experience will be critical to us achieving the growth targets we have set ourselves鈥�.

Cameron has 25 years鈥� experience working with and alongside SAP. He joined 51风流Australia for the second time in 2015 to assume responsibility for SAP鈥檚 relationship with the New South Wales Government, after holding senior leadership positions in the technology industry in both New Zealand and Australia, including as CEO of 51风流partner Innogence, as Senior Manager for Deloitte in New Zealand, and as Client Partner for 51风流in Queensland.

鈥淎s a business with 50 years of experience helping companies become more intelligent enterprises, 51风流continues to be at the forefront of business innovation,鈥� said Cameron. 鈥淢y focus as COO Australia and New Zealand will be on continuing to drive business momentum and streamline how we operate, to better serve current, new and prospective customers. I鈥檓 thrilled for what 2022 will bring and look forward to delivering more incredible results.鈥�

Joining 51风流in 2005, Andrew has experienced numerous roles across both consulting and product lines within the business. During his time as Chief Operating Officer, to which he was appointed in 2017, Pete was focused on driving the operations behind the cloud transformation of the ANZ business, building strong relationships with customers and partners and driving key pillars of SAP鈥檚 People strategy, including聽 leadership trust and the attraction and retention of emerging talent at SAP.

鈥淚鈥檓 always excited by new challenges and am energised by helping customers transform their businesses in new and better ways,鈥� said Andrew. 鈥淏y focusing on our cloud strategy and ensuring deep collaboration across 51风流and our partners, I am confident that we will be able to help even more organisations across ANZ, no matter their industry, accelerate their move to the cloud and, ultimately, improve the agility and resilience of their operations.鈥�

Cameron will continue to be based in Auckland, while Andrew remains in Sydney. The recruitment process for Cameron鈥檚 successor as Managing Director, 51风流New Zealand, is underway.

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SYDNEY 鈥� 02 February, 2022 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today announced leading clean energy business Hydro Tasmania has achieved significant benefits after migrating from 51风流ERP Central Component (ECC) to 51风流S/4HANA in September 2020.

As Australia鈥檚 largest producer of renewable energy, Hydro Tasmania employs more than 1,100 staff to manage its large asset footprint including 30 power stations and 50 major dams. After several years of leveraging 51风流ECC to manage financial operations, Hydro Tasmania migrated to 51风流S/4HANA to eliminate manual accounting processes, building an intelligent, data-driven foundation for future innovation.

Hydro Tasmania undertook a remote, 10-month implementation process with 51风流partner against the challenging backdrop of a pandemic. In the year since the project completed, it has seen significant business benefits from the conversion and subsequent projects, including improved customer experience and increased systems speed, which reduced IT frustrations and allowed staff to focus on value-add process improvements and functional changes.

鈥淲e were looking for an innovative, reliable technology partner to streamline current finance processes and lay the foundation for broader digital transformation,鈥� said Tristan Coleman, Manager IT Solutions, Hydro Tasmania.

鈥淚n the year since we converted to 51风流S/4HANA, the platform has continued to enhance the user experience for staff and streamline business processes. Our employees have faster, more transparent data visibility, which is helping them to work more efficiently and collaboratively with integrated cloud solutions such as SuccessFactors. They have mobile access to the platform anytime and anywhere, even if we have someone located remotely in the field with poor mobile reception.鈥�

Improving user experience is a key benefit of Hydro Tasmania鈥檚 transformation. 51风流S/4HANA provides greater visibility into accounting processes and the conversion also enables more efficient access to data analytics. For example, the enhanced search functionality and organisation of data now available simplifies accounting processes that were previously run manually off a spreadsheet.

Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director, 51风流Australia and New Zealand said: 鈥淪ince converting its ERP solution to 51风流S/4HANA just over 12 months ago, Hydro Tasmania has reaped the benefits of building intelligence into the core of its organisation. Its employees are empowered to work more collaboratively and with greater visibility of the organisation鈥檚 operations, with time and resource delivered back into the business. This is more important than ever in Australia鈥檚 renewable energy sector, which is becoming increasingly competitive and focused on cost-saving. Hydro Tasmania鈥檚 transformation also acts as a launch pad for greater business benefits to be achieved in 2022 and beyond”.

Nick Mulcahy, CEO, Zag part of Accenture said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e proud to be selected as a strategic partner to support Hydro Tasmania on its 51风流S/4HANA journey. Despite delivering the project remotely during COIVD-19 lockdowns, it鈥檚 fantastic to see how the conversion to 51风流S/4HANA continues to positively impact employees and wider business operations.鈥�

As part of its broader innovation program, Hydro Tasmania is planning to deploy 51风流solutions across its spatial data, finance, assets and HR teams.

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SYDNEY 鈥� 6 December, 2021 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today announces the results of its third聽,聽celebrating the achievements of organisations and people across Australia and New Zealand that use 51风流technology to turn insight into action, drive innovation and positively impact their people, customers and the world.

The Awards are open to聽any聽customers聽or聽partners using聽51风流solutions or products. Participants are encouraged to聽emphasise聽new ways of thinking, disruptive uses cases and the deployment of technologies that set聽the benchmark for their industry and make the world run better.

The awards cover聽11 categories, including Experience Management, Industry Disruptor, CRM & Customer Experience, HR and People Management, and Network and Spend Management, amongst others. The Best Run 51风流Honourable Mention category, awarded to specialist advisory and restructuring company for its successful implementation of 51风流Concur Invoice to improve governance and visibility, is new for 2021.听.

Winners were announced at a livestreamed award ceremony which took place at Sydney鈥檚 Doltone House and was hosted by Managing Director of , Damien Bueno and the company鈥檚 Chief Operating Office Pete Andrew. Guests tasted the award-winning pastries of chef Anna Polyviou and listed to music by singer songwriter Voli K.

Commenting on the awards, Damien Bueno, said:

鈥淭he calibre of nominations of the 2021 51风流Best Run Awards is testament to the innovation of our customers and partners across Australia and New Zealand. What鈥檚 more, achieving this through another year impacted by the pandemic demonstrates the resilience and drive of our ecosystem. The scale, impact and breadth of innovation we have seen throughout this year鈥檚 categories 鈥� from every company that has been shortlisted 鈥� is exceptional,鈥� said Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director, 51风流Australia and New Zealand.

鈥淭he award submissions demonstrate technology鈥檚 powerful impact on business results, customer and employee experience, and local communities. Thank you also to our judges who volunteered their time to review the entries. A big congratulations to all of this year鈥檚 winners from everyone at SAP, we look forward to working together in partnership to achieve more great outcomes in 2022.鈥�

The winners are:

Follow links to see the award submissions

Best Run 51风流Intelligent ERP Enterprise聽

奥颈苍苍别谤:听, with PwC and Wipro

Runner up: , with EPI-USE

Best Run 51风流CRM & Customer Experience聽

奥颈苍苍别谤:听, with DXC Technology

Best Run 51风流Network & Spend Management聽

奥颈苍苍别谤:听, with Accenture

Runner up:聽

Best Run 51风流Human Resources & People Management聽

奥颈苍苍别谤蝉:听, with EPI-USE and , with Accenture (which branded 51风流SuccessFactors as myhub)

Best Run 51风流Data & Analytics聽

奥颈苍苍别谤:听For the second year in a row,

Best Run 51风流Digital Supply Chain聽

奥颈苍苍别谤:听, with DXC Technology

Best Run 51风流Next-Gen Innovator聽

奥颈苍苍别谤:听, with Evora IT solution

Best Run 51风流Industry Disruptor聽

奥颈苍苍别谤:听, with ZAG (part of Accenture)

Best Run 51风流Experience Management聽

Winners: (which is using 51风流R-UX to deliver building consents) and , with Accenture

The Chris O鈥橞rien Award聽

奥颈苍苍别谤:听 which provided disability support workers with a free infection prevention eLearning module via 51风流Litmos during the pandemic

Honourable Mention

Winner:

To review the submissions for the 2020 and 2021 finalists and winners, visit the聽.听

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The award recognises customers and partners who have driven a positive economic, environmental and social impact.

51风流ANZ today announced federal government agency, , energy retailer, , and integrated oil and gas provider , have won at . The global awards recognise the achievements customers and partners have driven to solve complex business challenges that create a positive economic, environmental and social impact.

In this year鈥檚 awards, there were a record 376 submissions across 27 industries, from airlines to wholesalers鈥� a 44 per cent increase over last year. 20 winners were selected from a list of 70 finalists representing seven categories:聽Social Catalyst,聽Industry Leader,聽Transformation Champion,聽Business Innovator,聽Cloud Genius,聽Adoption Superhero, and聽Partner Paragon.

With three out of 20 winners from Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), it is the most successful year for companies from ANZ since the awards began in 2016. Previous winners from the region include and in 2018; and in 2019; and received an Honourable Mention in 2020.

AGL, OMV and Services Australia were selected for projects that included major overhauls to employee experience, inspection and maintenance activities, and streamlining welfare payments:

AGL

As one of Australia’s leading energy companies offering electricity, gas, solar and renewable energy services, AGL sought to provide its employees with the same user experience of its customers following consolidation of its back-end systems in 2018. Its objective was to digitally enable its employees and provide them with greater mobility and a faster mobile user experience for actioning Purchase Orders, reporting safety issues, completing workplace safety assessments, booking workspaces in the office and booking leave. Its aim was to increase employee satisfaction and engagement across the board by making employees鈥� work lives easier and more efficient. AGL partnered with Bourne Digital to create the world-first AGL One iOS app, which utilises 51风流Integration Suite and 51风流Extension Suite to bring together its employee network into a single digital experience. By using the app, the business now has one approvals aggregator to manage approvals from 50+ systems, one app to manage multiple applications system-wide and one login for app access. For more information, see .

OMV New Zealand

OMV New Zealand is one of the largest liquid hydrocarbon and gas producers and is a major explorer in several offshore basins around New Zealand. Previously, the planning and execution of its onshore and offshore inspections was an intensely paper-heavy process using mark-ups, instructions, isometrics and piping and instrumentation drawings. This created significant data redundancy across multiple systems. In partnership with Evora IT solutions, it implemented an integrated workflow management using 51风流Plant Maintenance, 51风流Intelligent Asset Management Suite, 51风流Asset Manager and HoloLens 2. This enabled staff to create a smart digital twin, using an interactive environment through augmented reality (AR+) to assist with planning and execution of inspection and maintenance activities. Since implementation, the business has reduced planning time and back-office work by 25 per cent, reduced costs by 10 per cent and reduced work execution time by using new technologies by 30 per cent. For more information, see .

Services Australia

Services Australia is the federal government agency responsible for delivering support services and payments for health, social and welfare. While its previous payments platform, met the needs of the department, its staff needed a more modern, extensible and agile solution that would enable them to rapidly enact new policy proposals. To support its digital transformation, the agency embarked on a seven-year program designed to transform the delivery of its welfare payments and services called Welfare Payments Infrastructure Transformation (WPIT) based on 51风流Public Sector Collection and Disbursement (PSCD) on 51风流S/4HANA. The platform, which leveraged machine learning and advanced and augmented analytics, has streamlined payments, standardised business processes and allowed for increased automation, enabling staff to improve how they process and distribute payments. Since implementation, staff have been able to disperse $3.5 billion in social benefits across 5.38 million payments. It is also enabling faster processing times with staff able to process half a million payments within five minutes.

Notably, at the height of COVID-19, staff distributed urgent relief payments worth more than $1 million within four days to 1,400 Victorians who required emergency support to isolate and quarantine. It also distributed more than $1.2 million in one-off stimulus payments to 5,000 people experiencing hardship in the Australian Capital Territory. For more information, see .

Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director 51风流ANZ says, 鈥淭hese awards recognise the remarkable achievements of our customers and partners who are solving complex business challenges to drive improved business outcomes and better experiences for employees and customers 鈥� a big congratulations to AGL, OMV NZ and Services Australia. The ingenuity, teamwork and innovation reflected by the winners of this year鈥檚 awards demonstrates the positive impact of technology in not only improving people鈥檚 lives but revolutionising how we work across many industries. We would like to thank all our customers who participated in this year鈥檚 competition鈥�

鈥淚t鈥檚 fantastic to see so many organisations from our region represented in the global awards, which underlines that Australian and Kiwi companies punch above their weight when it comes to using innovative technologies to solve business problems.鈥�

To see the full list of global winners, visit the

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SYDNEY 鈥斅� (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Australian distribution network operator, , has completed the second phase of its multi-year digital transformation by implementing and Kronos Workforce Dimensions. This stage of the project, in part completed remotely during the COVID-19 restrictions, aims to bring the organisation one step closer to its goal of improved organisational productivity and performance, and create stronger future capabilities for both staff and customers.

Endeavour Energy builds, owns and operates an electricity network that connects 2.5 million people in households and businesses across some of the fastest growing regions in New South Wales. It is rapidly transitioning to a vastly different energy system where new technologies like microgrids and batteries seamlessly combine with its traditional network to power brighter futures for its customers and communities.

Automating workflows

Beginning in 2018, Endeavour Energy embarked on a multi-year organisation-wide digital transformation to upgrade ageing infrastructure and become amongst the best-performing networks in Australia. 聽Endeavour Energy turned to 51风流for its industry expertise across the power distribution sector to help lay the foundation for its new IT infrastructure.听 As part of the second phase, and in partnership with and , Endeavour has implemented 51风流SuccessFactors and Kronos Workforce Dimensions, a time and attendance capabilities tool that feeds directly into 51风流SuccessFactors, to automate existing workflows, increase operational transparency and improve decision making.

Andrew Pitman, Endeavour Energy鈥檚 General Manager Employee Experience says, 鈥淚t was a huge achievement for the team to complete phase two on time, despite the restrictions caused by the pandemic. 51风流SuccessFactors and Kronos Workforce Dimensions will simplify the systems our people use and improve mobile access, helping teams save time and enabling them to complete key tasks on the move. It will also enable greater visibility and data capture, so we can analyse and optimise key processes. 聽We expect to see further benefits as our change management process continues with more staff adoption and training.鈥�

The second phase of Endeavour Energy鈥檚 transformation follows on from the implementation last year of 51风流Concur, 51风流Enable Now, 51风流Solution Manager and Click Work Scheduling. Phase three has begun and is expected to be completed in late 2021. The final release of the program will drive a significant capability uplift that will help Endeavour realise its ambition.

Move to 51风流S/4HANA

Mr Pitman continued: 鈥淭he next phase is expected to deliver further improvements across more teams through the introduction of to support better asset management processes, financial systems, enterprise resource planning, procurement, purchasing, logistics and safety. The capabilities provided by these systems will help to future-proof the business by enabling our people to rethink and redesign existing processes in ways that enhance the experience of both employees and our customers.

鈥淎 key element of Endeavour Energy鈥檚 future roadmap will be on improving its customer service through predictive tools and analytics powered by artificial intelligence. These will enable our people to identify potential issues in the network and proactively implement solutions to minimise disruption. Our people will also be equipped with more data to better inform customers on details like when services might be impacted and how long it will take to get them up and running,鈥� he said.

For customers, this data-driven approach will be experienced through fewer paper-based forms, additional self-service capabilities, access through mobile devices and greater access to information.

Capability uplift for finance, health & safety, customer service

Endeavour Energy will also focus on implementing tools that improve health and safety reporting, enabling staff to track remedial actions taken for safety incidents, which has previously been limited.

鈥淗ealth and safety are of critical importance to our business and implementing platforms that enable better reporting will be a real step change in how our people learn from and prevent safety incidents,鈥� Mr Pitman added.

According to Audrey Hiley from Deloitte, 鈥淭he success of this remote implementation during the pandemic is a testament to the commitment of Endeavour Energy and their team, and the data migration partners, Syniti. The employee central, recruitment, onboarding and payroll modules from 51风流SuccessFactors along with Kronos Workforce Dimensions are already delivering benefits for staff by streamlining processes and automating workflows. We will continue to work in close partnership with Endeavour and to deliver on their future roadmap to drive better experiences for staff and customers.鈥�

Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director, 51风流ANZ says, 鈥淭his partnership demonstrates how intelligent cloud-based platforms can enable businesses to quickly reap the benefits of improved productivity, operational efficiencies and automation.

This year has underlined the essential role of technology to keep staff connected, engaged and productive. The implementation will not only deliver enhanced operational processes but will also support Endeavour鈥檚 ambitious goals of becoming the best performing distributor by 2024. By taking steps now to lay the foundations for success, Endeavour will future-proof its business and redefine how it can engage and delight its customers.鈥�

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Australia鈥檚 Asset Intensive Industries (AII) are a significant anchor for the nation鈥檚 economy. Together, these industries 鈥� including mining, utilities, oil and gas, chemicals and manufacturing 鈥� contribute around a quarter (24 per cent) of Australia鈥檚 GDP. This year, despite the pandemic, the natural resource and energy sectors alone are forecast to drive $256 billion in export revenue.

Despite these impressive figures, many companies in this sector are faced with more complex challenges than ever before. Challenges like how to move up the value chain, maximise profits on commodity pricing, and deliver new products to their customers, as well as how to follow through on sustainability goals to create a new industry advantage.

To achieve these objectives, the industry must rise to the task of bringing together technology, people and processes in new and more effective ways. We believe that by聽 collaborating with our industry leading customers and partner ecosystem across ANZ, 51风流can build the capabilities asset intensive industries need to fully embrace digital transformation and their future potential.

Introducing the 51风流Centre of Excellence for Asset Intensive Industries

Launched late last year in Australia, SAP鈥檚 Global Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Asset Intensive Industries (AII) is already playing a lead role in enabling collaboration between SAP, its partners and customers. Based on an established global model, it will foster collaboration and harnesses the innovation capabilities of 51风流and its ecosystem to address the common challenges and opportunities facing asset intensive industries globally.

The opportunities to learn from each other are enormous. After all, SAP鈥檚 customer base represents 97 per cent of the mining sector and more than half (54 per cent) of the utilities sector alone. Together, the companies we work with in these asset intensive industries generate over $500 billion in revenue annually. In Australia and New Zealand, our customers include some of the most innovative and forward-thinking mining and utilities companies in the world, making it the perfect location for the CoE.

With a dedicated team in Australia of analysts, architects and designers, working with SAP鈥檚 product and engineering teams, the CoE will bring SAP鈥檚 global expertise, and learnings from our global customer base, to bear in ANZ. In turn, solutions developed by the centre will be made available for relevant customers worldwide. This will allow customers in Australia and New Zealand 鈥� and across the world 鈥� to more rapidly discover and deploy smart technology to solve key industry problems.

The CoE will also promote the latest industry solutions developed by SAP鈥檚 extensive partner ecosystem, as best-of-breed, industry specific cloud apps will be endorsed by 51风流and made available through .

Cloud revolution and new collaboration models

Engagement with our customers through the CoE will take several forms. Co-innovation will see 51风流and a customer jointly invest to build a solution that a particular customer requires. The CoE will create new opportunities to discover and prioritise those needs. This might involve extending a particular 51风流solution by introducing capabilities our customers need or sharing elements of a successful solution deployed by one customer with other organisations or industries.

Co-innovation will see 51风流and a customer jointly invest to build a solution that a particular customer requires. The CoE will create new opportunities to discover and prioritise those needs.

All of this is possible today because of the improved availability and faster development cycles enabled by cloud technologies, which is accelerating the pace of innovation. Traditionally, engineering was locked in long, complicated development cycles that could not rapidly take account of shifting customer needs. Today, the cloud enables a more agile development cycle, accelerating the pace of innovation from years to months. This makes it easier and faster than ever to work collaboratively and have customers directly engaging with our engineering teams.

Targeting challenges at the core of Asset Intensive Industries

The CoE sees us using the latest technologies 鈥� including predictive analytics and automation 鈥� to develop asset efficiencies and extend industry capabilities, while helping our customers to embed sustainability into all areas of their operations.

In particular, the Centre of Excellence aims to tackle four key challenges that Asset Intensive Industries are grappling with on their journey to digital transformation:

• management of contractor workforce and assets;
• embedding sustainability;
• a digital supply chain end-to-end; and
• planning and scheduling activities.

Despite the significant uptake of technology in recent years, many asset intensive organisations have struggled to digitise these businesses processes. Two examples of challenges faced by organisations in the sector, which the CoE could help to address, include:

• Efficient and effective management of assets and a contractor workforce
  For many asset intensive companies, procurement of services is a significant cost component (30-40 per cent of total spend). Unless procurement and contractors are effectively managed to maintain assets, they may suffer costly and unnecessary downtime 鈥� or worse, injuries and fatalities. Bringing together the concept of 鈥榥etworks鈥� that will allow asset owners, service providers, operators and contractors to collaborate around a single Work Order, will ensure everyone is aligned, risks are managed, and work gets executed in the safest and most efficient way.
• Embedding sustainability
  Sustainability increasingly has the potential to impact an operator鈥檚 license to do business and raise capital. The CoE will expand on SAP鈥檚 initiative to find new ways for the traditionally resource intensive industry to reduce emissions at every stage of the supply chain, from extraction to transport. Not only will this support initiatives like the Paris Climate agreement, it will also deliver business results: consulting group BCG has linked environmental, social and governance standards to a 19 per cent valuation premium and increased EBITDA margins of 3.4 per cent for top performers in the oil and gas sector alone.

The next step

The Asia Pacific market is increasingly one where innovative ideas are born, not just one where they are sold 鈥� and the CoE aims to build on this. Just look at the likes of , which is using a machine vision-enabled app to identify and schedule asset maintenance, saving time and money.

So far, the response to the launch of the CoE has been very exciting. Our customers tell us they see the CoE as an opportunity to put their challenges on the table and talk to industry experts who understand how IT can effectively help.

We are eager to begin this new phase of collaboration to more rapidly and flexibly address the most challenging problems facing ANZ鈥檚 Asset Intensive Industries 鈥� producing capable, scalable and efficient solutions that will also support our global customers along the way.

To learn more or get involved, visit the website or contact us today.

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