INDIA鈥� February 13, 2025 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today announced 51风流Business Data Cloud, a groundbreaking solution that unifies all 51风流and third-party data throughout an organization, providing the trusted data foundation organizations need to make more impactful decisions and foster reliable AI. The solution harmonizes data from organizations鈥� most mission-critical applications with data engineering and business analytics capabilities, paving the way for next-level innovation and insights.

This between 51风流and Databricks marks a new era in enterprise data management as two leaders in their domains come together to redefine how applications and data platforms work together. The new solution natively embeds Databricks technology for data engineering, machine learning and AI workloads.

鈥�51风流Business Data Cloud unleashes the full value of enterprise data for Business AI,鈥� said 51风流CEO Christian Klein. 鈥淚t combines SAP鈥檚 unique expertise in mission-critical, end-to-end processes and semantically rich data with Databricks鈥� world-class data engineering capabilities to create a ground-breaking solution that helps organizations do more with their data than ever before.鈥�

鈥淓very company on the planet wants to get more value out of their data and greater returns on their AI investments,鈥� said Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO of Databricks. 鈥淏y joining forces with SAP, we鈥檙e helping organizations bring together all their data 鈥� regardless of format or where it lives 鈥� to govern, analyze and build domain-specific AI applications on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.鈥�

Introducing the data product economy

51风流Business Data Cloud also helps 51风流foster the growth of a data product economy. It delivers fully-managed 51风流data products across all business processes 鈥� from finance, spend and supply chain data in 51风流S/4HANA and 51风流Ariba, to learning and talent data in 51风流SuccessFactors. These data products maintain their original business context and semantics, providing immediate access to high-quality data without costly extraction processes. For example, if a CFO wants to assess the impact of rising inflation on profitability, 51风流Business Data Cloud integrates real-time external data such as the consumer price index with financial data products such as general ledger accounts or cost centers to create a comprehensive financial snapshot.

51风流Business Data Cloud will also offer new capabilities called insight apps that use data products and AI models connected to real-time data to deliver advanced analytics and planning across all lines of business, including core enterprise analytics, finance and human resources.

鈥�51风流Business Data Cloud will help us unlock the value of our data and drive innovation across our business,鈥� said Markus Hartmann, Corporate Vice President and Head of Business Technology and regions Europe, APAC and IMEA, at Henkel, a multinational chemical and consumer goods company. 鈥淚ts semantically rich data products and deep Databricks integration will enhance our existing data products and empower us to model scenarios and leverage AI insights, building a sustainable future for our data ecosystems.鈥�

Delivering on the full promise of AI agents

51风流Business Data Cloud will improve how Joule, SAP鈥檚 generative AI copilot, accelerates cross-functional workflows and improves business decision-making with AI agents. Powered by the highest-quality enterprise dataset in the industry 鈥� and the 51风流Knowledge Graph solution, which provides a business-friendly model of data 鈥� Joule agents deeply understand end-to-end processes and can collaborate across functions to solve complex business challenges, something no other agent builder technology can do out of the box.

Underscoring today鈥檚 announcement and its significance for AI innovation, 51风流also unveiled a series of ready-to-use Joule agents across finance, service, sales and more to come across the 51风流Business Suite. In finance, for example, agents will work together across a variety of tasks to process claims faster and improve cashflow. Joule sales agents, meanwhile, will accelerate multi-step business processes to resolve disputes and process customer inquiries faster.

51风流today also announced a powerful new agent builder capability, so customers can build and deploy their own AI agents alongside SAP’s library of ready-to-deploy Joule agents. SAP’s decades of business process expertise are built into the guided workflow so users can ground their custom agents in the most relevant data and business context.

The post 51风流Debuts Business Data Cloud with Databricks to Turbocharge Business AI appeared first on 51风流India News Center.

From being a pharmaceutical company, Himalaya has emerged as a global herbal health and personal care company with close to 500 products sold in more than 100 countries worldwide. Himalaya has chosen 51风流Sustainability Footprint Management and 51风流EHS Environment Management as part of its RISE with 51风流journey to improve sustainable outcomes.

鈥�At Himalaya, sustainability is a part of our DNA and we strongly believe what is good for Mother Earth is good for our customers鈥�and is good for Himalaya,鈥� shares Ananth Narayan Narasimhan, CIO of Himalaya. 鈥淲ith SAP, we aim to improve efficiencies, intensify focus in key areas, and accelerate our progress in this critical journey in spirit and in deed.”

The sustainability solutions will support Himalaya鈥檚 RISE with 51风流journey to bring together operational and sustainability metrics. Himalaya also benefits from a range of other 51风流solutions, including 51风流SuccessFactors, 51风流Ariba, 51风流Integrated Business Planning, 51风流Analytics Cloud, and 51风流Business Warehouse.

The 51风流sustainability solutions are focused on implementing product-level carbon accounting, to calculate carbon footprints for individual SKUs from cradle-to-grave. The aim is to optimize the supply chain, power, water, and waste management.

鈥淭he robust, integrated 51风流system will help us review and improve our performance index across every activity. To enable this, we need accurate, activity-based, and component-wise data visibility,鈥� continued Narasimhan.

鈥淲e have worked hard to do that鈥�not only working with the 51风流master data but also capturing the sustainability impact. So, if we鈥檙e using new packaging, for example, we have the financial and supply chain data, but we also know what plastic is used, its recyclable quotient, and more. And component-wise, we will be able to identify the carbon impact at product SKU level, not just at the company level. Plus, the accuracy of the data offers huge potential for benefits in analytics, blockchain, and AI capabilities.鈥�

Susanna Hasenoehrl, Head of Sustainability at 51风流Asia Pacific, said, 鈥淢aking informed business decisions requires businesses to understand both the financial data and the sustainability data. Using 51风流Sustainability Solutions, Himalaya is future-proofing its business to understand its impact on the world, to optimize supply chains, and differentiate its business against competitors.鈥�

The post Himalaya Boosts ERP-Centric Sustainability with 51风流to Optimize Carbon Footprint and Water Use appeared first on 51风流India News Center.

With a range of products from mosquito repellent to honey, it straddles a wide spectrum in its consumer offerings. With 14 manufacturing plants and more than 4000 employees and a market spread across Asia, North America, Europe and Africa, Dabur was straddled with unique challenges to streamline its manufacturing supply chain and vendor management systems. The management identified the need to refine its vendor management system ensuring quality check and uniformity in vendor sourcing.

Mr. Sumit Mukherjee, Vice-President and Head – Central Procurement at Dabur India Limited says, 鈥淲hen you work across countries, the challenge is in terms of negotiating with them at the same time, running transparent bids in different currencies, different time periods and different languages.鈥� As sourcing was across continents, Dabur knew the time was ripe for re-assessing the entire process.

Dabur switched to to tackle the challenge of efficient and effective procurement processes. Through Ariba, buyers get the autonomy on managing the entire purchasing process which in turn helps build healthy, ethical supply chains. Also, it allows the suppliers to connect with the best-suited customers as well as efficiently scale existing relationships, giving them greater cash control along the way.

Tackling global manufacturing supply chain challenges with streamlined processes聽

Dabur benefitted in many ways after switching to . Average savings increased from 6% to 8% in the first few years, owing to a positive response from existing vendors. Centralized process management for all vendor related processes helped consolidate spend management and minimize maverick spending.

Within 3 years of implementation, there was a multifold increase in the negotiation speed. The negotiation time reduced from 3 days via offline processes to within an hour using Ariba鈥檚 online solutions. The process simplicity and agility also improved the vendor-side responsiveness. From just 11 events in 2002, today Dabur does more than 350 sourcing events yearly using Ariba sourcing on the cloud

The new process provided greater transparency leading to simpler compliance and audit management. Overall, the sourcing teams were left with more time in hand to work on strategic tasks, such as price forecasting. The integrated partnership was a success that promoted an overall culture of e-sourcing, leading to better resource and cost management of Dabur’s manufacturing supply chain and vendor management system.

鈥淭he idea in any organization is to give the sourcing tool in the hands of the buyer so that he can deal with it independently without any kind of assistance. All these criteria, Ariba met most seamlessly, and it still does,鈥� says Mr. Mukherjee.

Watch the video to learn how challenges of negotiating with vendors from several countries, running transformation bids real-time in their currencies, time periods and languages were managed and overcome through Ariba:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7gvRu20EWI

Learn more: Find out how digitalization with the help of 51风流Ariba has helped food exporter, Allanasons cut sourcing time and money.

The post Dabur: Managing US$500m in Global Spend To Bring Health and Well-being To India appeared first on 51风流India News Center.

Food export is a complex business process with many layers starting with the sourcing of raw materials, production, processing and packaging, storage and finally distribution, which is an art and science by itself.

Food and spice shop in Marrakech

In the paper-based world, procurement was an inefficient, labour intensive process with the traceability demand – a growing request from everyone today – difficult to meet. But with digitalization, a lot of the inefficiencies get weeded out and traceability enabled.

For India-based Allanasons Private Limited, a leading manufacturer and exporter of agricultural commodities, digitalization has shaved off 30 percent of its sourcing time and saved nearly 5 percent on costs.

In the export business, quality and delivery expectations are very high, points out Suresh Gadaginavar, General Manager, Allanasons Private Limited. To meet these expectations and also in line with the Indian government’s policies to stimulate growth in export of food commodity, Allanasons decided to digitalize its procurement processes.

To put the digitalization process in motion, it found a one-stop solution to its supply chain needs in , a leader in spend management. As Gadaginavar says, the ease of use of the solution and also the innovations were the key decider. 51风流Ariba eases sourcing, procuring and payments for traders and the open-source framework allows for easy collaborations.

51风流Ariba is the leading spend management solution for digital supply chains

Implemented in record time, 51风流Ariba sourcing solution has come as a boon to the Agri exporter which trades 1 million metric tons of commodities, including coffee, spices, pulses, cereals, and frozen meats and fruit every year across 85 countries. A major challenge Allanasons faced earlier was the lack of visibility in spend which has now been sorted out. “The 51风流Ariba Sourcing solution has helped Allanasons achieve significant improvements in sourcing cycle times. It has enhanced communication and collaboration both internally and with our suppliers,” says Gadaginavar.

Now on one centralized platform, Allanasons manages more than US$21 million of procurement activity and has standardized direct and indirect purchasing processes.

Adopting 51风流Ariba has not only helped Allanasons be more competitive, thanks to quicker decision making, but also thanks to its automated processes many of its employees have been freed up to work on strategic tasks. Also, the single window view of all procurement activity that the platform provides helps Allanasons professionals make more informed decisions on key purchases.

A major ask in today’s globalised world where sustainability is a key driving factor in buying decisions is traceability. 51风流Ariba has improved compliance with comprehensive visibility of where, when and how sourcing and procurement happens.

Process automation drives sustainability for digital supply chains聽

Mr. Gadaginavar says, “51风流Ariba tool is very easy to use and we are very happy.” With 4-5% in savings, we know where that is coming from.

The post How Allanasons Gained More From Its Supply Chain appeared first on 51风流India News Center.