Accelerated digitalization has magnified the “all-or-nothing” mindset of most workplaces. As competitive differentiation continues to emerge from exceptional user experiences and agile technology advancement, companies across all industries find themselves adapting traditional strategies in counterintuitive 鈥� and sometimes unproductive 鈥� ways.

But it doesn鈥檛 have to be that way, especially when adopting a modern, cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software like 51风流S/4HANA Cloud. With听, organizations can match well-defined technologies to their unique business challenges. Then, they can use the solutions to extend the听听offering to implement 51风流S/4HANA Cloud on their terms, at their pace, and without introducing additional complexity and risk.

Gaining a Wealth of Intelligent Change

Differentiating businesses through digital technology requires having the right capabilities, culture, and instruction. And thousands of 51风流customers have checked off all those boxes by complementing RISE with 51风流with 51风流Solution Extensions, building up and putting to use new capabilities at sufficient scale and speed enterprise-wide.

In the back office, companies can simplify their finance operations with a trustworthy foundation that improves process efficiency and decision-making effectiveness. The听听can improve master data quality and completeness by identifying remediation needs and onboarding critical information to maintain a clean infrastructure for 51风流S/4HANA Cloud. Then, with the听听finance organizations can standardize and streamline their financial closing process to strengthen auditing efficiency and quality, lower audit fees, foster compliance, and boost employee productivity.

Meanwhile, HR organizations can leverage immersive learning technology to provide equitable and relevant development opportunities for their entire workforce. For example,听听can automate the sourcing, curation, and delivery of anytime, anywhere personalized learning and allow managers to monitor, track, and report on their employee鈥檚 progress. By extending the rich functionality of human experience management solutions from SAP, the application offers HR leaders a better way to drive productivity, engagement, effectiveness, and future succession while reducing the total cost of ownership.

Customer-facing business functions can also benefit from cloud-based 51风流Solution Extensions, especially when reimagining omnichannel processes to meet customer expectations and strengthen loyalty. For example, they can enable self-scanning and payment, real-time interactions on any device, and a variety of other mobile customer experiences by using the听. In addition, the efficiency of their in-store and point-of-sale processes can be improved with the standards-based听.

Focusing On Core Functions and Mission-Critical Processes

Outperforming competitors does require big moves, but not at the expense of ensuring the right ones are made. Companies should step back to thoroughly reassess their strategies, carefully choose which functions should be updated or replaced with the latest innovations, and intelligently select the right technologies to drive true transformation.

And that鈥檚 the beauty of complementing RISE with 51风流with 51风流Solution Extensions. While the fundamental strategic principles of digital transformation still apply, they enable businesses to deliver what matters most 鈥� lasting and meaningful change that drives business success.

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With access to more than 90 solutions, over 10,000 organizations 鈥� and 50 million people 鈥� rely on听51风流Solution Extensions听to help advance and realize their full potential as an intelligent enterprise. Sourced from market-leading third parties, these solutions are thoroughly vetted by 51风流to help ensure they meet exacting standards for security, accessibility, functional correctness, performance, and scalability.

Whether you鈥檙e addressing industry- or line-of-business-specific challenges, our solution extensions offer comprehensive services and capabilities that can simplify your intelligent enterprise journey. From retail and utilities to finance and human experience management (HXM), your business鈥� digital transformation can be accelerated with both RISE with 51风流and 51风流Solution Extensions.

Build Your Intelligent Enterprise, Your Way听

By combining RISE with 51风流and 51风流Solution Extensions, you can move from legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) to our modern ERP software 鈥� 51风流S/4HANA Cloud 鈥� on your terms. And in return, your business can accelerate meaningful change without committing to a high up-front investment nor creating additional IT complexity.

Solution extensions are advantageous in two key phases of the journey to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud: technical migration and application lifecycle management. As a result, you can focus on the organizational and people changes needed to enable true business transformation.

Cost-Effective, Lower-Risk Technical Migrations

During the technical migration phase, 51风流Solution Extensions help drive productivity and efficiency while accelerating the implementation and go-live of 51风流S/4HANA Cloud.

Take, for example, the听. This cloud-based application tackles one of the most challenging aspects of digital transformation: data migration. It leverages machine learning to help streamline migrations, drive data integrity, and support the transition into an intelligent enterprise. In addition, you can capture data changes, policies, and other related information, acquire recommendations for next steps, preserve knowledge for future use, and improve decision-making.

Organization-Enabling Application Lifecycle Management

The ability to assess, design, operate, and optimize technology supports an application lifecycle management process that empowers lines of business to evolve as needed. Integrating solution extensions with RISE with 51风流enables to identify high-risk application areas, automate testing, and simulate real-world conditions to test application performance.

For instance, 51风流application testing solutions by Tricentis allow organizations to accelerate solution innovations through cost-effective, simplified, and optimized software-testing processes enabled by artificial intelligence (AI), advanced automation, and risk-based test plans. These activities include听,听 of 51风流and third-party applications,听听of new applications and upgrades, and automated听.

Magnify the Promise of Digital Transformation

51风流brings a lot to the table. But when we combine our technologies with the expertise and ingenuity of our partners, businesses of all industries and sizes can achieve their complete picture of an intelligent enterprise faster and better than ever.

That鈥檚 the beauty of 51风流Solution Extensions. Tightly integrated with 51风流offerings such as RISE with SAP, solution extensions clear the way to a more impactful digital transformation journey 鈥� on your terms.

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Most executives are aware that generic business software creates a foundation that tackles the basics of running a business during constant business change, economic uncertainty, and market volatility. But 51风流customers also understand the value of extending their digital strategies with听. They are tailoring processes and codifying reporting and analytics to become more efficient, cost-effective, and compliant in terms of employee and customer expectations.

Below is a snapshot of how 51风流Solution Extensions cater to the unique needs of specific industries and subindustries.

Wholesale Distribution: Unleashing the Potential of Negotiations

Negotiating better agreements is critical for wholesale distributors when driving savings, increasing profitability and margins, and fostering customer and supplier relationships. But it’s still an intricate function of various partners, extensive information, and complex calculations.

With a comprehensive solution such as the听, distributors can increase control of the negotiation lifecycle, simplify processes, and gain insights into possible enhancements for profitability. Real-time simulation and analysis of the impact of any actively negotiated deal give distributors the visibility to strike an agreement that protects their profitability, lowering the cost of goods sold through a streamlined, closed-loop process.

Fashion Retail: Redefining the Purpose of Brick-and-Mortar Stores

For fashion retailers, the new norm of mask wearing, social distancing, and controlling the number of employees and consumers in one location is particularly challenging, considering their high-touch nature. However, with the right business model, they may create a mobile-responsive, integrated service that delivers a consistent, reliable, and safe digital experience across all devices and channels.

For instance, available on premise or through the cloud, the听听allows retailers to support an authentically omnichannel consumer experience. The solution extension enables our customers to control their worldwide outlets centrally. With scanners, scales, kiosks, vending machines, and other peripherals and storefronts, fashion retailers can acquire the real-time visibility and transactional capabilities to provide a seamless and personalized shopping experience.

To succeed with this omnichannel retail model, fashion brands deliver a diverse, dynamic array of products that consumers want through听. It replaces spreadsheets and e-mails to deliver a single version of correct and complete master data to all users 鈥� leading to lower costs, informed decision-making, and timely response to market change.

Furthermore, no matter how sophisticated the brick-and-mortar model for retail becomes, fashion brands still need to mitigate an ever-present risk: revenue loss. The听听facilitates an advanced approach to distinguishing potentially fraudulent activities from irregularities, such as business process issues, gaps in employee training, or cases of deception. In return, our customers are eliminating time-consuming and error-prone manual reporting methods and empowering their stakeholders to understand anomalous data better to control and prevent loss on their own.

Agribusiness: Widening Slim Margins with Insight and Efficiency

Agriculture’s economic fragility is a concern across the industry. For years, weather disasters, a trade war, and commodity pricing below production costs have placed tremendous stress across the value chain. And with today’s fluctuating demand across all forms of grocery and food services, agricultural futures are becoming more uncertain.

Although the same stress is felt across the entire industry, virtually every category of farming is governed by distinct regulations and best practices when responding to dynamic market shifts. The needs and requirements of running a dairy farm, for example, are vastly different from those of a grower running an orchard.

51风流understands that reality and offers four unique solution extensions to aid customers as they address issues that are vital to their long-term continuity:

: Designed for farm management operations, the application facilitates everything from planning and planting to growing and harvesting. It addresses the daily need for information and visibility among field managers, supervisors, and workers while delivering crucial analytics to senior executives.

: This integrated solution helps manage complex processes and relationships between buyers and growers of perishable products, such as fruits and vegetables. 51风流Grower Management for Perishables establishes a contract setup and a wide array of farming, logistics, and accounting services that assist all players in efficiently and profitably fulfilling commitments.

: The application streamlines and optimizes processes, from raw milk reception to processing finished products. Dairy farmers can use the technology to streamline operations, turn real-time data into revealing insights, and improve performance and competitiveness.

: With data-driven technology embedded, this application enables meat, poultry, or fish businesses to simplify the storage, processing, and flow of information and insight across the organization. The entire meat or fish value chain can oversee food-processing functions in ways that help ensure quality products are delivered to store shelves to meet the needs of every consumer that wants them.

Capital-Intensive Industries: Creating Lasting Value for Customers and the World

Capital-intensive industry segments 鈥� such as utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing, mill products, mining, transportation, chemicals, engineering, and construction 鈥� are taking on a new life of their own as they help create livable homes, towns, and cities running on sustainable energy. Delivering on this promise requires intelligent solutions for energy generation; storage, water, and waste management; and energy grids efficient enough to keep up with fluctuating demand and inspire consumers to generate their own power.

51风流customers are realizing this goal by tapping into accurate, up-to-the-minute transactional data to manage complex assets, maximize uptime, and improve responsiveness to changing circumstances. The听听unifies and streamlines data governance to improve maintenance planning, reduce asset downtime, increase productivity and profits, and support compliance and safety. A smooth exchange of trusted master data is also facilitated with business partners through mobile apps and devices, across cloud and on-premise applications and services.

To keep consumers engaged in this vision of a more sustainable world, utilities are no longer merely providing an online presence with basic account functions and a call center. They are interacting with consumers on the Web and through mobile apps by using the听. The tool provides a user-friendly engagement platform with self-service capabilities that serve as a starting template for intuitive, multichannel experiences.

Meanwhile, from an operational perspective, connecting asset lifecycle management with digital technology fosters enterprise collaboration and data-driven decision-making. Controlling engineering information, work processes, and risk allows firms to improve efficiency and time to production for their capital projects and operations.

础听听opens the door to a more intelligent approach to capital projects and operations. The add-on integrates structured engineering data with unstructured information, including computer-aided design drawings, models, technical specifications, user manuals, maintenance records, and service contracts. Plus, it gives businesses the control they need to handle engineering documents, work processes, and risk across the distributed enterprise, which enhances decision-making and agility while reducing costs.

The solution extension add-on for 51风流Extended ECM also supports role-specific workspaces to increase operational efficiency with aggregated content, data, people, and tasks related to a common business function, project, or use case. Content is seamlessly available to employees who need it, when they need it and governed automatically and transparently according to current policies.

Media and Entertainment: Unifying Rights and Royalties with Intelligence and Clarity

The use of disconnected spreadsheets, generic applications, and bolt-on technologies can create a dangerous landscape when competing against massive global players and emerging competitors 鈥� most of whom are offering content. Content distributors need a single point of truth to control their rights and royalties while gaining the trust of their consumers and network of creators, licensors, and publishers.

Consider the occasion when distributors negotiate their right to exploit new content. A core of听rights and royalty intelligence and clarity, supported by听, enables distributors to听prove their financial viability, platform strength, and audience growth. The solution extension consolidates multiple sources of truth to just one enterprise system to create legal-approved contracts, acquire rights, move content to production, and trigger royalty payments based on a schedule.

Impactful Digital Transformation Is Within Reach for Your Business

This series has covered how听听can help companies address unique needs across functional areas and distinct industry requirements. 51风流customers embrace our portfolio of solution extensions to simplify IT complexities while reducing their risk, accelerating business change, and futureproofing their digital investments.

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