A great way to break through that roadblock is to listen to leaders who jumped in early to use AI to transform outcomes. , a managing director of Finance in the Global IT division at Accenture, is one of those people.

The professional solutions and services company employs nearly 780,000 employees across 52 countries, who work with 350 partners to serve over 9,000 clients. The idea of transformation at 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 scale might be intimidating to some, but not Lambert. He鈥檚 leading an听ongoing transformation听of 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 finance function, which he calls 鈥渢he heartbeat鈥� of the company.

The results he鈥檚 achieved鈥� including saving the finance team a combined 57,000 hours annually by having AI generate narrative summaries for reporting鈥攕hine a spotlight on what鈥檚 possible. And he鈥檚 just getting started.

I had a chance to speak with him about how he became a leader in AI-driven transformation, and what others can learn from his achievements. This is a lightly edited version of our conversation

Q: As you know, innovating with AI is about reshaping how a business delivers value. But not every business leader is leading the charge. Some are watching and waiting. Why did you roll up your sleeves and decide to be on the forefront?

A: Taking a leadership position on AI is important to keep moving forward and shaping new services and capabilities. For example, across a company our size, even though we鈥檙e hyper focused on emerging technologies, we can find small problems across our technology landscape. There are processes and data living in different places and silos develop over time. Most large companies have this challenge. But those are valuable processes, and the business data we have is especially valuable. AI opens up new opportunities to bridge those gaps and deliver more end-to-end outcomes, so that our finance function can meet the growing business expectations of our stakeholders.

For many companies, the key to getting impactful results from business AI is to start with one function that鈥檚 central to business performance. Why was finance the right place for you to begin, and what did you want to achieve?

I always say finance is the heartbeat of our organization. I heard one of our global IT leaders use that phrase, and while it was inspirational, it also made me think, 鈥淟et鈥檚 not accidentally cause a heart attack for the organization.鈥�

Jokes aside; he was right. Your transactional and operational data flows through finance, and management decisions sit on top of it. Starting there gave us the ability to make end-to-end impact across processes that touch procurement, liquidity, forecasting, receivables, and more. And 51风流gives us a digital core where all that transactional data is harmonized.

The bottom line is that finance is the natural starting point if you want to move from reactive reporting toward more proactive, AI-driven insights that you can use to help move the business forward. So, we set out to unify data and transform finance processes in a way that scales across the whole value chain.

Cash and liquidity are so important in the finance function, and to an entire company. But managing it requires bringing together data, forecasting, and decision-making across many teams. How did AI help?

If finance is the heartbeat of a company, cash and liquidity are the lifeblood of your systems. Here鈥檚 a great example: Accenture engages in a lot of acquisitions, and we run operational cash in 50-plus countries, so it鈥檚 easy for decisions to default to historical, manual reviews. That鈥檚 what was happening at Accenture before a forward-thinking leader stopped by and asked if we could apply machine learning to the problem. Great leaders often ask great questions, and that one really got us thinking.

[AI] freed up 20% of our idle cash, which we could then move into global operations to fund acquisitions and strategic growth.

Eli Lambert

We took inspiration from retail: how stores treat inventory based on discounts and sales. If you treat cash like stock, you can apply those same learning models to figure out how much you really need to hold onto at any point in time. That鈥檚 how we built what we call 鈥淚ntelligent Cash.鈥� It brings all the business data together into a single data mart, a repository for structured data for a specific department or line of business, and uses machine learning to generate recommendations that our teams can act on.

AI is so good at this, and here鈥檚 what鈥檚 incredible: It freed up 20% of our idle cash, which we could then move into global operations to fund acquisitions and strategic growth. Now what used to take months, or even more than a year to build, we can now do it in days or weeks because SAP鈥檚 data cloud brings [SAP] Datasphere, Databricks, and our machine-learning workloads into one place. The result is faster decision-making, better visibility, and much more accurate forecasting.

I love hearing about how you were able to use gains, delivered through strategic AI innovation, and then channel those gains into a high-value activity for the organization.听 I know you also worked on receivables, something that impacts cash flow and customer relationships. What pain points did you face, and how did automation and machine learning transform the process?

Receivables were highly manual compared to payables. Clearing was inconsistent, and reconciliation took a lot of time because payments often come incomplete or with partial data. Anyone who works in or near finance knows exactly what I鈥檓 talking about. So, we co-developed on the 51风流platform a machine-learning-based receivables solution. It more than doubled the automation rate for receivables processing and tripled automatic reconciliation, about a 300% improvement.

As part of that, we introduced high-confidence, one-click matching recommendations that reduce errors and cut down the manual work. We saw a seven percent uplift in auto-clearing with a cash application scheduler built on the 51风流platform that delivers matches about 77% faster. All of that adds up to a more efficient receivables process, improved cash-flow visibility, and better productivity for the team.

In a global organization like Accenture, reconciling financial data and surfacing meaningful insights can be a huge amount of work. You turned to generative AI to help, which is really smart. What led you to that approach, and how is it changing your team鈥檚 day-to-day experiences?

We were dealing with balance sheet reconciliations across 50-plus countries, and the process was decentralized. I know a lot of companies face this problem. So, first, we moved everything online. Then we brought in machine learning and generative AI to analyze cost categories, summarize data, and surface important shifts.

[Our] Intelligent Financial Advisor, built on the 51风流platform, can generate narrative commentaries that are so accurate that over 90% are simply approved with little or no revision. That鈥檚 saved about 57,000 hours globally. Our teams can focus on higher-value analysis instead of manual reconciliation.

Eli Lambert

We then deployed an Intelligent Financial Advisor built on the 51风流platform that can generate narrative commentaries that are so accurate that over 90% are simply approved with little or no revision. That鈥檚 saved about 57,000 hours globally, just in controllership work, and helped us move to a three-day global close instead of five. The insights come faster and clearer, and the teams can focus on higher-value analysis instead of manual reconciliation. It鈥檚 also helping create more consistent roll-ups across regions and letting us use our talent more strategically.

I鈥檓 hearing this theme of not only measurable business gains from outputs, but the ability to better allocate time from manual, rote tasks to ones that deliver far more value for the business. That also applies to planning and forecasting. How did you bring AI into that part of the finance function?

Our planning work had grown too complex. Remember, we鈥檙e a large-scale, multifaceted global business. So, we replaced old models with 51风流Analytics Cloud, which gives us multi-year planning models enhanced by AI.

We applied it first to merger and acquisition modeling, where accuracy really matters. It lets us model very complex data sets and helps our finance team collaborate more easily across the business. The results have been more accurate forecasts, reduced risk of errors, and much better collaboration between executives and practitioners. Early results were strong, and that encouraged us to expand AI use in planning more broadly.

What advice do you have for leaders who are not as far along in using AI to supercharge business results?

First, start with a high-impact function tied to real outcomes. Then focus early on data quality and harmonization; it鈥檚 the foundation for everything that comes after. Then get your cadence right and your team working together. Hone in on the use cases that really matter to you鈥攖he best vendors can help you identify those鈥攁nd make sure to get the help you need from those vendors and their partners.

Use AI to spur growth. At Accenture, we鈥檝e been able to use AI to save significant cash in one area, which we then invest in another, high-growth process鈥攁cquisitions in our case. That鈥檚 how you use AI to really rethink your business and move it to the next level.

Eli Lambert, on advice to other enterprises

As you go, take a crawl-walk-run approach: start slow then increase the pace of scale and adoption over time. Be sure to invest in change management and upskilling as you go to spur learning and adoption. And partner closely with technology providers and system integrators who鈥檝e been there before. That accelerates everything.

The final suggestion I have is to use AI to spur growth. At Accenture, we鈥檝e been able to use AI to save significant cash in one area, which we then invest in another, high-growth process鈥攁cquisitions in our case. That鈥檚 how you use AI to really rethink your business and move it to the next level. And that鈥檚 possible today in ways that were not, even five years ago. Seize that opportunity.

I couldn鈥檛 agree more with Lambert. AI really does provide an opportunity to re-imagine entire business processes for greater impact.

To keep exploring what鈥檚 possible, at Accenture. Then see more AI use cases in and across all your , including procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, and more.

Brenda Bown is chief marketing officer for 51风流Business AI.

Personalization in AI is no longer an innovation layer; it is becoming a foundational expectation. Whether it鈥檚 for driving operational excellence, improving customer experiences, or enabling faster decision-making, organizations are increasingly prioritizing AI that understands their reality.

Generic AI models are designed to be broadly applicable, but that also makes them inherently limited. These models often fail to account for the specific nuances of a business, resulting in lower accuracy, generic insights, and poor cross-functional scalability. Their one-size-fits-all nature makes them difficult to adapt across industries with diverse regulatory needs, data types, and operational complexities.

In critical industries, where precision, compliance, and context are non-negotiable, relying on generic models can lead to inefficiencies and missed opportunities. Additionally, integrating these models into enterprise governance, security, and compliance workflows becomes an uphill task. The result? Underperformance and a growing recognition that one-size-fits-all AI is not built for the complexity of enterprise needs.

This is why more enterprises are investing in differentiated innovations with AI solutions designed from the ground up to serve specific business goals.

A clear example of this is our partnership with . Managing close to 1 million invoices annually across more than 40,000 contracts, the company faced a complex, manual billing process. Together, we used 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP) and generative AI to create a compliant, intuitive application that allows account executives to manage invoicing directly and navigate rate cards and contract terms without relying heavily on specialist teams.

The results are tangible. Billing is faster and more accurate, the user experience has improved, and commercial teams can focus more on clients instead of operational tasks. By year-end, billing efficiency is expected to improve by 32 percent and setup times halved. Much of the manual work has been replaced by an intelligent, automated platform.

Where it鈥檚 working: Sector-level transformation

Customer-specific AI applications are transforming industries by shaping intelligence around the specific data, processes, and challenges each sector faces.

In manufacturing, the impact of customer-specific AI applications is evident in how companies are streamlining complex operational processes. For instance, our team developed a solution for Henkel to support their financial supply chain management deduction and dispute management indexing process. This solution automates the analysis and indexing of claim documents received from customers, embedding advanced AI capabilities directly into the daily workflows of dispute management users. The result is faster, more accurate claim case creation, improved efficiency, and greater agility in handling disputes.

In oil and gas, AI models trained on geological data, equipment logs, and environmental variables are improving drilling forecasts and enabling proactive maintenance, enhancing both safety and energy efficiency. The automotive industry is seeing similar gains, with AI supporting predictive maintenance, autonomous driving systems, and real-time diagnostics, while also delivering personalized in-car experiences. Retailers are leveraging AI that adapts to regional buying patterns and live sales data, allowing for sharper demand forecasts, localized inventory planning, and more relevant promotions that reduce waste.

Even government agencies are finding value in context-aware AI, automating routine processes, prioritizing citizen requests, and designing policies with greater precision to deliver faster, more effective public services.

Across these examples, the pattern is clear: AI that understands the context in which it operates drives smarter decisions, more efficient operations, and better outcomes for both organizations and the people they serve.

SAP鈥檚 vision: Building enterprise-grade customer-specific AI applications

51风流is at the forefront of this shift toward enterprise-grade personalized AI. The company鈥檚 vision is rooted in creating AI that is not experimental, but enterprise-ready.

Rather than building standalone solutions, 51风流embeds AI directly into core business processes across finance, HR, supply chain, and more. Through co-innovation with customers and partners, 51风流is working to make every AI solution technically robust and aligned with real-world use cases.

For AI to drive true enterprise transformation, it needs to be designed in and not bolted on. That means working closely with domain experts, aligning with compliance standards, and constantly tuning models based on real-time feedback. Customer-specific AI applications are not just about code; they are about collaboration, trust, and long-term value.

Our approach is to empower organizations to build AI that mirrors their structure, culture, and customers–making it more relevant, reliable, and responsible.

The time to scale is now

Organizations that want to stay competitive can no longer afford to treat AI as a side project. The era of experimentation is over. This is the time to scale AI that works for you intelligently, responsibly, and at speed. Customer-specific AI applications are not tech features but are strategic enablers of innovation, efficiency, and differentiation.

The future belongs to those who can scale personalization without sacrificing performance. It鈥檚 time to build with AI that knows your business.

Sindhu Gangadharan is head of Customer Innovation Services at SAP.

• 51风流Business Suite enables industry-leading enterprise functions and connected intelligence with AI-driven insights
• Packaged service offerings from Accenture are rightsized for speed and ease to help customers quickly grow and secure their businesses

NEW YORK and ORLANDO 鈥� Through a strategic expansion of their longstanding partnership, (NYSE: ACN) and (NYSE: SAP) have launched ADVANCE.

For the first time, the two companies have worked together to create a pathway to the cloud for organizations pursuing high growth with annual revenue of up to US$5 billion to help create more connected, intelligent and responsive enterprises.

Drawing on more than four decades of learnings from working with the world鈥檚 largest organizations, Accenture and 51风流are applying their expertise and breakthrough innovations to help fast-track business transformation with streamlined finance, procurement, supply chain and workforce management, delivered through preconfigured services. The ADVANCE offerings leverage the power of 鈥� which brings together business applications, data and AI capabilities 鈥� combined with 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 industry, innovation, implementation, delivery and operations expertise to provide connected experiences across the enterprise while building resilience and enabling sustainable, top-line growth.听

Available in ready-to-consume, rightsized packages, the solutions leverage AI to help companies modernize faster, in as few as six to twelve months, while providing contextual data insights and achieving predictable outcomes. Tailored by industry and function, they provide a smooth service experience, from contracting to continuous innovation.

鈥淭his expansion of our longstanding partnership with 51风流will tailor leading technologies, industry insights and innovation to meet the specific demands of high-growth companies to help them reinvent, thrive and grow,鈥� said Julie Sweet, chair and CEO, Accenture. 鈥淏y bringing together the very best of Accenture and SAP, ADVANCE can help growing companies gain the speed, agility and resilience they need to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of today鈥檚 dynamic business environment.鈥� 

鈥淭o drive real transformation, companies need technology and services that help them move faster, operate more efficiently and scale with confidence,鈥� said Christian Klein, CEO of 51风流SE. 鈥淎DVANCE brings the full strength of 51风流Business Suite with 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 business transformation services to a new generation of businesses, helping them grow quickly and respond with agility to new opportunities and challenges.鈥�

To support the unique needs of this customer segment, Accenture will invest in a dedicated practice of go-to-market and SAP-certified SaaS professionals, who will collaborate closely with 51风流product specialists to deliver these packages. The purpose-built packages are focused on the following principles:

• Simple: Streamlined systems and process complexity. Preconfigured industry processes and best practices improve workflows and lower costs.听
• Secure: Reliable and secure business operations with strong encryption, access controls and centralized data management to help improve integrity and compliance.
• Fast: Rightsized solutions with transparent pricing can be implemented quickly, achieving business outcomes in months. Industry-tailored accelerators speed time to value and measurable business outcomes, from simplifying financial complexities to supply chain planning.
• Future-ready: Respond to changing market conditions faster, while leveraging continuous innovations, including AI agents.听Enhance decision-making with data and AI for better customer experience and resilience.

Additional 51风流Business Suite offerings and Accenture services are also available, including change readiness, business process management, cybersecurity, AI agents and more.

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Many organizations recognize generative AI鈥檚 potential to transform their business, but don鈥檛 know where to start. By combining advanced generative AI technologies with enterprise resource planning (ERP) data from critical systems, companies can unlock significant enterprise value: for example, optimizing delivery routes, anticipating potential impacts to supply chain operations, or developing precise financial outlooks.

The AI Co-Innovation Program represents the two companies鈥� shared vision to help partners define, build, and deploy generative AI applications tailored to their ERP workloads. The program brings together enterprise technology from 51风流and generative AI services from AWS with professional expertise from both parties 鈥� including teams of AI experts, professional services consultants, and solutions architects 鈥� to help support customers in their implementation journeys.

The program will include dedicated technical resources, cloud credits, and more to support the development, testing, and deployment of industry-specific applications.

“AWS and SAP’s long-standing partnership has helped customers accelerate their cloud journey and unlock more value from their business data,” said Ruba Borno, vice president of Specialists and Partners at AWS. “Our AI Co-Innovation Program is a significant next step that will give organizations the security and flexibility to build generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock that can analyze and act on their most critical 51风流data. This will help customers transform decades of business information into actionable insights while accelerating their path to becoming more agile, data-driven organizations.”

“Through the AI Co-Innovation Program with AWS, we’re enabling businesses to solve their most complex operational challenges with precision and speed,” said Philipp Herzig, CTO and chief AI officer at SAP. “By combining the power of our fully integrated platform with 51风流BTP and our deep business process expertise with AWS’s comprehensive generative AI capabilities, partners can now create purpose-built AI agents that solve their most pressing challenges 鈥� identifying financial anomalies in real time to automatically optimizing supply chains during disruptions.鈥�

The program also allows partners to rapidly build and scale generative AI applications using the latest generative AI tools and services from Amazon Bedrock, including large language models (LLMs) such as Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude in AI Foundation on 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP).

This announcement expands on the work AWS and 51风流are doing to help customers 鈥� including Hyundai Motor Group, Moderna, and Zurich Insurance Group 鈥� modernize and move 51风流workloads to AWS, realizing the availability, flexibility, and scalability of the cloud. Running 51风流workloads on AWS allows customers to then combine their data with generative AI solutions. Partners including Accenture and Deloitte are among the first to work with AWS and 51风流through the program, helping them accelerate the development and deployment of generative AI solutions to solve complex challenges.

鈥淭he AWS and 51风流AI Co-Innovation Program brings together AWS cloud infrastructure and 51风流enterprise software experience. Combined with Accenture’s AI transformation expertise and industry knowledge, we can show companies exactly how to integrate generative AI services with their most critical business workloads,” said Caspar Borggreve, senior managing director and 51风流Business Group lead at Accenture. “For example, together with AWS and SAP, we are working with a utilities client to build a natural disaster asset resiliency capability to anticipate and respond to environmental challenges, protecting asset-intensive landscapes and maintaining service continuity for its customers.鈥�

“This AI Co-Innovation Program combines cutting-edge generative AI capabilities from AWS and 51风流with Deloitte’s deep industry experience and technology capabilities to deliver transformative solutions for our customers,” said Nishita Henry, AWS global chief commercial officer at Deloitte Consulting LLP. “Through the program, we are building a finance solution powered by Amazon Bedrock to help healthcare and life sciences companies optimize their product mix, improve forecast accuracy, and maintain competitive pricing, even during uncertain market conditions.”

For more details on the AWS 51风流AI Co-Innovation Program, visit .

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Part of 51风流Sustainability solutions, 51风流Green Ledger allocates carbon emissions to specific economic activities and transactions captured by ERP solutions from SAP. This innovation empowers organizations to accurately account for, analyze and report carbon footprints across products, services, and organizational units.

Addressing the growing consensus that decarbonization is required to combat climate change, 51风流Green Ledger helps companies:

• Track and account for carbon footprints in relation to their financial impact
• Lower emissions alongside financial optimization and thus facilitate carbon budgeting
• Establish carbon planning for carbon neutrality and net zero targets
• Benchmark departments, business units and profit centers from both a financial and environmental perspective
• Prepare for sustainability audits
• Improve supplier-based processes to decrease carbon emissions in the supply chain (2025)

51风流Green Ledger builds on existing financial and ERP solutions from 51风流that are established in thousands of companies worldwide. By extending these solutions to integrate emissions data, businesses can make more informed, sustainable decisions that link environmental impact with financial performance, enhancing compliance, efficiency and transparency.

鈥淓normous investments are required to abate CO₂ in order to curb global warming. Besides smart, reliable regulation also accurate data on emissions along the supply chain is paramount to trigger the necessary investment,鈥� said Dominik Asam, CFO and member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淥nly by moving from averages to actuals 鈥� audited at reasonable assurance 鈥� can freeriding and greenwashing be avoided, thereby protecting such valuable investment and our planet. 51风流Green Ledger delivers precisely that.鈥�

Today, 51风流Green Ledger provides a first step for businesses to address regulatory requirements by integrating financial and environmental data. It helps companies navigate the complex global landscape of sustainability regulations, such as EU CSRD*, while establishing a scalable foundation over time, to adapt to evolving regulations such as EU ETS** and EU CBAM鈥�, as well as to international standards such as ISSB鈥犫��. The launch of the solution marks the beginning of a new era in carbon accounting systems, which are expected to significantly impact businesses worldwide as decarbonization becomes a legal and market imperative.

51风流Green Ledger was developed with support from companies such as Accenture, Deloitte, EY, PwC and TCS (Tata Consulting Services) as well as with pilot customers such as Covestro. Covestro is currently evaluating 51风流Green Ledger in an early pilot phase and testing the linking of carbon dioxide values to 51风流Green Ledger, as they are generated during the manufacture of specific products in the supply chain.

Accenture is helping organizations achieve their net-zero and sustainability targets in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.  鈥淎s organizations seek to gain visibility into both the financial and environmental performance of their businesses, 51风流Green Ledger can provide the sustainability metrics and insights needed to enhance decision-making that reduces emissions, drives efficiencies and optimizes performance,鈥� said Stephanie Jamison, global resources industry practice chair and global sustainability services lead at Accenture. 鈥淎s a strategic co-innovation partner, Accenture helped shape the development of 51风流Green Ledger and can apply our understanding of the technology and its capabilities to help our clients get the most for their organization.鈥�

Through its Strategic Advisory Group for Green Ledger, 51风流was able to gain insights from Deloitte鈥檚 breadth and depth of knowledge in sustainability measurement and reporting. 鈥�51风流Green Ledger offers new levels of precision in carbon accounting for organizations as they track, manage and report their greenhouse gas emissions, and provides leaders with a holistic view of the costs and benefits of sustainability initiatives, enabling them to make data-driven decisions that can build business resilience,鈥� said Jennifer Steinmann, Deloitte Global Sustainability Business leader.

Deloitte is working with companies as they adopt sustainability disclosure standards and get ready for assurance. 鈥淭echnology solutions can help generate traceable, bottom-up emissions data,鈥� said Veronica Poole, Deloitte Global IFRS and Corporate Reporting leader. 鈥淟everaging the robust governance and controls of enterprise systems is needed to help organizations achieve the rigor that enhances corporate accountability and enables a move to reasonable assurance.鈥�

Norman Emmenlauer, partner for CFO-Led Sustainability at EY Business Consulting, said about 51风流Green Ledger: 鈥淭his is a solution that integrates carbon accounting into the core financial processes, making sustainability a tangible part of business operations.鈥�

Carina Schoellmann, partner for ESG Data & Tech at EY Technology Consulting, added: “This solution will help our EY clients by seamlessly integrating carbon accounting into their financial systems, enabling more informed and sustainable decision-making.”

Amy Brachio, EY global vice chair for Sustainability, pointed to the strategic nature of the topic: 鈥淪ustainability is at the heart of everything organizations do; business operations such as procurement, manufacturing and logistics are great examples. 51风流Green Ledger will enable granular and auditable data capture across the value chain, supporting organizations to transform ESG from compliance exercise to value-creation strategy.鈥�

Sameer Shah, partner at EY Technology Consulting, added: “51风流Green Ledger is a game changer for sustainability practitioners, providing the tools needed to measure, manage and report on carbon emissions with the same rigor as financial data.”

“Having participated in the pilot program, we’re excited to see the launch of 51风流Green Ledger, an essential digital approach for integrating carbon accounting and management into strategic business operations,” explained Will Jackson-Moore, global sustainability leader, PwC UK. “With 51风流Green Ledger, businesses can seamlessly align financial performance with sustainability goals, while achieving the transparency and precision needed for real-time emissions reporting and resource management. Building on this foundation, PwC is developing CSRD-ready content to enable end-to-end reporting and steering, helping organisations meet regulatory requirements, prioritise sustainability at the C-level, and drive meaningful change in environmental accountability. We’re proud to support our clients in leveraging 51风流Green Ledger to navigate complex sustainability challenges, achieve measurable decarbonisation and progress toward net-zero commitments at speed.”

51风流partner TCS has also cooperated on 51风流Green Ledger, with a focus on accelerating action to achieve carbon neutrality. TCS Enterprise Solutions Global Head Vikram Karakoti said, 鈥淲ith our participation in the pilot program for 51风流Green Ledger, TCS is embracing innovative sustainability solutions to build a better future. This will enable organizations to move beyond regulatory compliance and make sustainability a growth engine. By embedding carbon data into the enterprise planning process, organizations can unlock previously unexplored areas for growth, transformation and environmental renewal.鈥�

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*The (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) defines the rules concerning the social and environmental information that companies have to report. It entered into force on 5 January 2023.
**The (EU Emissions Trading System) is a 鈥渃ap and trade鈥� system to reduce emissions via a carbon market. Since 2005, it requires polluters to pay for their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, covering emissions from the electricity and heat generation, industrial manufacturing and aviation sectors 鈥� which account for roughly 40% of total GHG emissions in the EU.
鈥烛丑别 (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) is the EU’s tool to put a fair price on the carbon emitted during the production of carbon-intensive goods that are entering the EU, and to encourage cleaner industrial production in non-EU countries. CBAM will apply in its definitive regime from 2026.
鈥犫�烛丑别 (International Sustainability Standards Board) is developing 鈥� in the public interest 鈥� standards that will result in a high-quality, comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosures focused on the needs of investors and the financial markets.

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51风流Business AI is center stage at the show and top of mind for our customers. These innovations are not just about technological excellence; they’re about delivering real-world results.

Our goal is to provide clear and meaningful value with AI. More than 27,000 customers are already experiencing the substantial impact of 51风流Business AI. For example, Team Liquid, a leader in the competitive esports and gaming world, saves approximately 10,000 hours per year on manual analysis. But we鈥檙e not stopping here. With 51风流Business AI, we are both changing how businesses operate and revolutionizing how users interact with 51风流software.

Generative AI copilot Joule is rapidly becoming the natural language interface across the portfolio as we continue to embed AI across 51风流applications at an accelerated pace. Our focus on advancing AI means that customers benefit from effective solutions that drive real-world results.

Sandra Voeller, CEO of Agilita AG, agrees. 鈥淯sing 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and 51风流SuccessFactors with Joule copilot poises Agilita to redefine industry standards,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hese tools are not just innovations; they are our future 鈥� unlocking unprecedented business agility and intelligence. I鈥檓 thrilled for the transformative journey ahead.鈥� 

We have also engaged our robust partner ecosystem with business AI to offer customers more choices to tackle their specific business needs. Over 60 ecosystem partners are working on more than 80 use cases built on AI Foundation on 51风流BTP, including the generative AI hub. This same foundation powers innovation for our development teams and customers, ensuring tailored enterprise-class AI solutions that address real business challenges and opportunities.

Dive into the latest AI capabilities and ecosystem innovations we are presenting this week at 51风流Sapphire, all aimed at delivering real-world results:

• Joule
• Human Resources
• Finance
• Supply Chain
• Procurement
• Sales, Services, Marketing, and Commerce
• IT and Platform
• Industries
• Breakthrough AI Innovations
• Responsible AI
• New Partnerships

New Business AI Capabilities and Ecosystem Innovations

Joule

Joule is transforming how users interact with 51风流business systems, making every touchpoint count and every task simpler. Business users can execute transactional tasks 90% faster and access 51风流Help Portal content 95% quicker without leaving their 51风流applications.

Since its launch in September 2023, Joule has quickly become pervasive across the 51风流portfolio, streamlining operations, improving decision-making, and boosting efficiency across various business functions. Today, Joule is already embedded in HR, finance, ERP, sales, services, marketing, and commerce applications, transforming how employees, managers, accountants, field personnel, and front-office professionals work. By the end of this year, 80% of the most frequently performed transactions across 51风流business applications will be fully automated with Joule.

Joule is also integrated with multiple components of 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), enhancing everything from application development to integration and data management. In the second half of this year, we plan to expand Joule鈥檚 reach to supply chain management, analytics, and planning solutions through integration with 51风流Ariba, various supply chain management solutions, and 51风流Analytics Cloud. Joule will also support several additional languages, including German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. With a multilingual Joule integrated across the 51风流portfolio, businesses around the globe will be able to work faster and smarter and achieve better outcomes.

We are also enhancing Joule with additional capabilities to help the ecosystem streamline 51风流implementations. Joule will provide consultants with vital information through natural language interactions, drawing from insights in more than 200,000 pages of product documentation and knowledge shared by the 51风流community. Once rolled out to an ecosystem of more than 5 million consultants, this capability has the potential to save up to 600 million working hours per year. This is especially critical for supporting customers transitioning to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud as part of RISE with SAP, helping them accelerate implementations and save money.

The 51风流partner ecosystem is embracing AI innovations that accelerate customer value. 鈥淲e鈥檙e embracing Joule and Joule鈥檚 51风流Consulting capabilities to help our clients build the organizational agility needed to continuously transform with a generative AI-enabled digital core,鈥� shared Lan Guan, chief AI officer at Accenture.

This capability will be available later this year.

Human Resources

Transforming HR with AI creates dynamic, inclusive, and future-ready workplaces. With Joule integrated into the 51风流SuccessFactors Recruiting solution, hiring managers can create compelling, bias-free job descriptions 90% faster, significantly enhancing hiring efficiency and outcomes.

We have also expanded Joule capabilities across the 51风流SuccessFactors HCM suite to enhance the employee experience. Employees will soon be able to get instant answers to HR policy questions and complete HR processes using natural language. Joule鈥檚 advanced document grounding capabilities will enable comprehensive responses by accessing business documents in 51风流and third-party repositories such as Microsoft SharePoint.

A new generative AI writing assistant capability helps employees draft personalized and measurable performance goals, development plans, and feedback reports more effectively and consistently. This saves employees up to 30% of the time spent crafting written communications and reduces the time people managers spend defining individualized development goals by 60%.

Managers also benefit from AI-assisted person insights that summarize complex compensation data, make recommendations, and provide talking points for discussions with employees 鈥� saving time and improving retention rates. Similarly, recruitment becomes more productive with the new AI-assisted applicant screening capability, which helps identify the most promising candidates by matching skills extracted from resumes with those in job descriptions.

These AI-driven enhancements empower organizations to build a connected, data-driven, and employee-centric workforce, leading the way in HR innovation and efficiency.

Finance

With 51风流Business AI, we鈥檙e enhancing performance across a range of financial activities, from payments and expense management to financial close, invoice management, auditing, and forecasting.

For example, financial collection departments are leveraging generative AI in 51风流Enterprise Service Management to automate processes, analyze and summarize correspondence, prioritize urgent issues, and generate automated replies. These capabilities reduce costs by up to 70% and accelerate service requests by up to 30%, enhancing customer satisfaction.

Billing specialists are now using Joule integrated into 51风流Advanced Financial Closing to unlock unstructured content from inbound customer correspondence, improving the accuracy of risk determinations. Joule also generates summaries of project profitability, prioritizes projects for further analysis, and proposes actions for project improvement. Additionally, 51风流Fiori apps now feature Joule-enabled insights, allowing the copilot to summarize available data and produce visual data narratives.

Later this year, new generative AI capabilities in 51风流Advanced Financial Closing will automate error detections and root cause analysis, helping users quickly resolve common closing errors. With up to two hours saved per error remediation, customers will be able to accelerate closing times while lowering support and compliance costs. Financial controllers will be able to also take advantage of personalized video data stories, highlighting top projects based on key metrics such as recognized revenue, utilization rates, and margins. Collections specialists using 51风流Billing and Revenue Innovation Management will be able to mitigate risk of late customer payments by analyzing customer behavior and business correspondence to predict the likelihood of delayed payments.

Integrating AI into finance helps businesses streamline processes, reduce costs, and drive meaningful business outcomes.

Supply Chain

51风流Business AI is empowering companies to create risk-resilient and sustainable supply chains. By leveraging AI, customers can increase supply chain agility and efficiency.

For instance, generative AI-powered capabilities in 51风流Transportation Management will expedite freight verification and documentation, enabling companies to achieve up to 50% faster inbound delivery note processing and reduce truck idle time at the gate by 40%. The system will automatically extract, post, and check critical information from delivery notes, streamlining the validation of freight orders.

Joule will play a crucial role in enhancing supply chain management. Later this year, supply chain planners will benefit from integration with 51风流Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain by getting detailed analyses of planning runs. Joule will identify the root causes of order delays and suggest corrective measures. Logistics providers will be able to use Joule to expedite transportation planning and the intake of goods in 51风流S/4HANA Supply Chain for transportation management, enhancing overall logistics efficiency.

For manufacturers, 51风流Business AI will significantly improve quality management. 51风流Quality Issue Resolution will allow users to address recurring issues faster by using AI to bundle similar quality incidents and identify effective problem-solving processes. Furthermore, AI in 51风流Asset Performance Management will aid technicians, inspectors, and managers in visually inspecting asset conditions. Images collected from visual inspections will be able to be easily annotated, displayed, and compiled into inspection alerts, facilitating timely and accurate maintenance decisions.

These advancements will make supply chain management more agile, efficient, and sustainable for customers.

Procurement

With 51风流Business AI, we鈥檙e transforming procurement into a proactive, data-informed, and agile operation.

For example, AI in 51风流Ariba Category Management allows procurement organizations to reduce the onboarding time for new category managers and accelerate category strategy and planning development by as much as 56%, improving operating margins and outcomes. 

External Workforce
We have added new generative AI capabilities to the 51风流Fieldglass portfolio, enabling procurement departments to streamline the recruitment of external workers. Hiring managers can generate and maintain effective job descriptions faster, while project managers can deliver detailed statements of work more rapidly. This enables businesses to quickly identify and engage contractors with the right skills and qualifications. Job descriptions can be easily translated into 21 different languages, and a new resume-ranking capability can surface the most promising candidates, leading to as much as a 15% reduction in work orders. This flexibility allows customers to quickly react to fluctuating workloads and rapidly fill expertise gaps.

Buyer Journey
A new generative AI feature in the buying 360 capability for 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition will make procurement more intelligent, allowing buyers to bundle products and services into a single transaction. Users will be able to describe their purchasing needs using natural language, and the system will generate a recommended bundle of products and services ready for purchasing. This will save users considerable time spent searching catalogs for individual items while also enhancing the efficiency of the procurement process. These capabilities are planned for later this year.

Sourcing
By the end of the year, sourcing managers will be able to leverage intelligent product and supplier recommendations to create requests for proposals much faster with Joule integration in 51风流Ariba Sourcing . These recommendations will consider cost-effectiveness, carbon footprint impact, local compliance regulations, and past transactions, optimizing spend management performance.

Through these enhancements, 51风流Business AI is making spend management more efficient, responsive, and cost-effective.

Sales, Services, Marketing, and Commerce

51风流Business AI is revolutionizing sales, services, marketing, and commerce operations, significantly improving productivity and customer engagement. For instance, the 51风流CX AI Toolkit provides a comprehensive, configurable AI solution for e-commerce, marketing, sales, and service teams. These professionals can use it to streamline content creation tasks and analyze data from across the enterprise 鈥� with e-commerce teams experiencing productivity increases of 50%, larger average order values, and higher conversion rates.

Sales Productivity
New AI capabilities enhance the productivity of sales professionals using 51风流Sales Cloud. Sales teams can benefit from predictive forecasting, which predicts the likelihood of closing deals across the entire business portfolio. This gives chief revenue officers more comprehensive revenue forecasting, enabling better strategic decisions.

In addition, predictive recommendations will enhance sales efforts by suggesting the best people to involve in a deal and the most suitable products for each customer. This will eliminate manual extensive research on customer needs and preferences, allowing sales teams to focus on selling. AI account summaries and lead boosters will automatically generate detailed reports about sales prospects, combining company details, industry context, and relevant news. As such, we can reduce the manual effort needed for information gathering, giving salespeople more time to close deals.

Digital and User Experiences
Today, a generative AI tool builder already enables system administrators to create customized AI tools for business users leveraging data from 51风流Commerce Cloud, 51风流Sales Cloud, and 51风流Service Cloud solutions. These tools can help personalize content to meet specific customer experience needs.

By the end of this year, 51风流CX AI Toolkit will also introduce new AI features to enhance customer interactions. An AI shopping assistant will allow shoppers to ask questions using everyday conversational language and receive accurate product information and personalized product recommendations on sites powered by 51风流Commerce Cloud. This will enable consumers to find products faster and improve their overall shopping experience.

51风流CX AI Toolkit will make marketing and sales teams more productive. Later this year, a new image creation feature will allow business users to generate new product images for their 51风流Commerce Cloud catalog using natural language prompts, significantly reducing image production times. They will also benefit from an AI expert recommendations feature, which will identify experts within their organization who can provide needed answers and insights. Instead of wasting time browsing through emails and organizational charts, these professionals will be able to use natural language to express their needs and instantly find the right experts. This capability will be generally available later this year.

These advancements in 51风流Business AI are transforming sales, services, marketing, and commerce operations, making them more efficient, personalized, and successful.

IT and Platform

51风流Business AI embedded in 51风流BTP empowers IT professionals and business experts to extend 51风流solutions and drive faster, better decision-making throughout the enterprise while accelerating customers鈥� digital transformations.

For example, professional developers are leveraging generative AI capabilities in 51风流Build Code to accelerate application development by 30%. They can generate data models, services, and samples with a few simple prompts and use natural language to automate business logic and testing.

Application Development
Joule continues to increase developer productivity and simplify the extension of 51风流applications. Integration with ABAP Cloud will revolutionize the work of the 5 million-strong ABAP developer community, accelerating the development of extensions that interact with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, and 51风流BTP, ABAP environment. Trained on over 250 million lines of ABAP code, Joule will be able to outperform industry-leading general-purpose code assistants. We expect more than 10% efficiency increase, based on initial studies and benchmarking. Early adopters are using this innovation to generate ABAP business objects and will soon be able to complete and explain code and create unit tests. The first capabilities will become available later this year.

Joule continues to strengthen 51风流Build Code capabilities by enabling developers to use generative AI to quickly build 51风流Fiori front ends for 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, greatly simplifying clean-core extensions.

These advancements in 51风流Business AI are empowering IT professionals and business experts to innovate faster, streamline operations, and drive meaningful business outcomes.

Process Innovation
We are continuously strengthening 51风流BTP with new AI capabilities that accelerate process innovation. Joule integration with 51风流Build Process Automation empowers process experts to generate automation and workflows using natural language requests without IT intervention. Similarly, Joule integration with the 51风流Signavio portfolio enables users to leverage natural language requests to generate process models. By empowering users with varying levels of expertise to innovate, customers can accelerate time-to-value and free IT professionals to focus on more strategic tasks.

Process AI solutions from 51风流Signavio introduce a new collection of generative AI capabilities trained on a large language model (LLM) comprised of expert business process knowledge and more than 5,000 51风流best practices. Later this year, the process recommender feature will provide ready-to-use, AI-generated business process model recommendations and suggest the most influential measures to assess the performance of a business process. This will offer vital insights into streamlining operations and reducing overhead. A prompt-based process mining feature will automatically generate business-relevant charts and metrics in response to natural language requests for business insights, dramatically lowering the effort for business users who need answers to complex business questions.

Integration
System integration is foundational to the success of enterprise automation initiatives and effective ecosystem collaboration, but connecting heterogeneous systems inside and outside the enterprise is an onerous task. Later this year, developers will be able to take advantage of Joule integration with 51风流Integration Suite and use natural language to accelerate the design of integration flows across 51风流and third-party applications.

A new AI-powered anomaly detection capability will recommend remedial actions when API usage patterns or performance fall outside desired thresholds due to unusual errors, traffic surges, suspicious API access, or unusual latency. With performance insights and support for identifying causes and effects, administrators of complex technology landscapes will be able to act faster, achieving greater operational efficiency at a lower total cost of ownership.

Content Creation and Compliance
IT administrators, training managers, and content developers will be able to cut the time spent writing content by up to 20% with automatic content generation and enrichment in 51风流Enable Now. Customers use the digital adoption platform to improve the adoption, productivity, and efficiency of their software by providing in-application help and e-learning content to users. New generative AI capabilities will add to this value, enabling companies to free up resources for more critical tasks and accelerating knowledge transfer within organizations.

Compliance and IT professionals can leverage Joule for enhanced productivity and precision. Joule integration with the new regulatory change manager tool on 51风流BTP enables these professionals to evaluate numerous regulatory updates within the context of their business and 51风流solutions. With insights and quick answers on the typically more than 1,000 annual regulatory changes, users can save 70% of the time usually spent on understanding local and global regulations. The tool provides impact analysis across 51风流products and solutions, helping customers maintain compliance and seamlessly manage their day-to-day operations. Compliance and IT professionals can also use AI in localization as a self-service for 51风流S/4HANA Cloud to automate tasks such as payment format localization and form localization, reducing processes that once took days to just a few hours.

Administration
With Joule integrated in 51风流BTP cockpit, administrators can automate tasks and onboard new users more easily. They can search for information 95% faster and execute transactional tasks or navigation 90% more quickly. The business impact is substantial, as the cockpit helps these professionals manage resources, services, and security, monitor application metrics, and perform actions on cloud applications.

Redefining the capabilities of IT and platform management positions 51风流customers at the forefront of technological advancement and operational excellence.

Industries

51风流is delivering trusted AI and machine learning across industries to manage complexity, overcome challenges, and help customers modernize. AI-driven solutions empower businesses to streamline operations and focus on strategic outcomes, driving significant value in their respective fields.

Oil, Gas, and Energy, Agribusiness, and Metals and Mining
Commodities traders and business operators will soon be able to eliminate repetitive data entry tasks with 51风流S/4HANA for commodity management for physical contracts. With Joule, business operators will be able to create new commodities deals by simply describing the deal using conversational language. Planned for later this year, the capability will allow traders to focus more on producing better commercial outcomes for their clients rather than getting bogged down by administrative tasks.

Industrial Manufacturing
Sales engineers in the manufacturing sector will benefit from more precise product configuration recommendations for complex, configurable products through 51风流Intelligent Product Recommendation. By simply describing requirements in natural language, sales engineers can generate tailored recommendations that better meet customer needs. Generative AI services can analyze text from diverse sources, such as emails and notes captured in 51风流Customer Experience solutions or multi-page specification documents such as request for proposals or requests for quotations. 51风流Intelligent Product Recommendation also provides suggestions based on estimated parameters for lead times and CO₂ footprints, enhancing accuracy and efficiency of product configurations, and ultimately improving customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Public Sector and Higher Education
Later this year, Joule will be enhanced with budget and grant management business context for the public sector, higher education, and research industries. With this new context awareness, Joule will streamline and improve the user experience for these regulated industries, enabling users to navigate their financial systems more efficiently and make better strategic decisions. For example, 51风流S/4HANA users will be able to ask Joule for definitions, summaries, or how-to guidance, saving time and reducing the demand on IT departments. This enhancement will help government organizations and higher education institutions manage their budgets and grants more effectively, reducing extensive training typically required during financial system rollouts.

Breakthrough AI Innovations

51风流is pushing the boundaries of AI with the new 51风流Foundation Model for structured data, investing in this cutting-edge AI technology to unlock the value of generative AI technology advancements for structured business data. The goal is to deliver a foundation model that is business-centric by design, providing actionable, job-specific insights directly within 51风流applications customers use daily.

Traditional AI models require significant effort, expertise, and training data to handle specific tasks on structured data effectively. In contrast, we are developing 51风流Foundation Model to adapt to multiple use cases with minimal or no fine-tuning. Ultimately, we aim to bring the same transformative power to structured business data that LLMs have brought to text. While LLMs like GPT-4 excel with unstructured text and images, they struggle with the structured data typical in enterprises, often performing between 20 to 50% worse than narrow AI methods. 51风流Foundation Model will bridge this gap, focusing on structured business data to deliver more accurate predictions and insights while maintaining the versatility of foundation models.

Early benchmark tests are promising, showing 51风流Foundation Model outperforming narrow AI models by up to 15% on customer datasets after a quick fine-tuning round. This superior performance, combined with its deep understanding of complex business processes, promises to enable businesses to reap the rewards of AI faster and more efficiently.

With 51风流Foundation Model, we aim to set a new standard for AI in the business domain, transforming how enterprises leverage data to achieve remarkable outcomes. .

Responsible AI

At SAP, innovation goes hand in hand with responsibility. We are committed to ensuring that AI technologies are not only innovative but also ethical, secure, and sustainable. The strategic use of business data is integral to the success of AI, and by leveraging business data responsibly, we not only enhance the capabilities of AI solutions but also improve outcomes for customers.

51风流remains firm in its commitment to prioritize data privacy and security as it releases new AI capabilities. The same rigorous standards that govern all 51风流product development extend to AI offerings. Strong security, product, and data privacy protocols are applied to help ensure AI solutions are developed responsibly, with all AI use cases reviewed by an AI ethics committee.

Building on the fundamental dedication to responsible AI that we started back in 2018, this year, 51风流is proud to further the commitment by affirming the 10 guiding principles of the UNESCO Recommendation on the . These principles cover proportionality, safety, fairness, sustainability, privacy, human oversight, transparency, responsibility, awareness, and multi-stakeholder collaboration, ensuring that AI solutions respect human rights and contribute to sustainable development.

In line with this commitment, sustainability is a key pillar of SAP鈥檚 corporate strategy. We are determined to harness the benefits of AI while minimizing its energy footprint and helping customers manage theirs. For example, a new AI-enabled capability in 51风流Sustainability Footprint Management enhances the accuracy and speed of carbon footprint calculations through automated, intelligent emission factor mapping recommendations, reducing manual effort and improving precision.

By integrating responsible AI practices into innovations, we continue to drive meaningful and sustainable business outcomes for customers.

New AI Partnerships

The vast 51风流partner ecosystem is fully engaged with 51风流Business AI. Leading up to and at 51风流Sapphire, we have announced groundbreaking new and expanded partnerships to accelerate AI adoption across business processes:

• Accenture: Accenture and 51风流are helping clients transform business models, processes, and customer and employee experiences while realizing value through data and AI. This year at 51风流Sapphire, Accenture is announcing its plans to embrace the consulting capability for Joule and ABAP code generation in compressed cloud ERP transformations. Additionally, Accenture and 51风流are teaming on 51风流Signavio and 51风流LeanIX solutions to help customers with insights, governance, and other capabilities to achieve their transformation outcomes.
• Apple:We are听deepening听 our partnership with Apple to revolutionize the boardroom with AI听and spatial computing. By integrating Apple Vision Pro with听business applications from SAP,听users can听create听an infinite听enterprise workspace, and听navigate tasks using听their eyes, hands, and voice. 51风流has launched apps like 51风流Mobile Start and 51风流Analytics Cloud,听giving users the ability to create a spatial boardroom to visualize their entire enterprise.听Now, with 51风流Build Code, customers can easily bring their 51风流apps to Vision Pro, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.听51风流is also leveraging the power of Apple鈥檚 Neural Engine to run 51风流AI workloads securely and privately on Apple devices, supercharged by 51风流BTP.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS): AWS and 51风流announced an expanded, strategic collaboration to transform modern cloud ERP experiences and help enterprises drive new capabilities and efficiencies with generative AI. Together, 51风流and AWS are striving to make it easier for customers to adopt RISE with 51风流on AWS, to improve the performance and efficiency of 51风流workloads running in the cloud, and to embed generative AI into an enterprise鈥檚 entire portfolio of business-critical applications.
• Boston Consulting Group (BCG): BCG , which recommends opportunities to maximize transformation investments using 51风流Signavio and 51风流LeanIX solutions. The offering allows companies to navigate continuous change and prioritizes ways to onboard AI-based innovations.
• Google Cloud: We have better predict and mitigate supply chain risk. The expanded partnership begins by enabling marketing and sales departments to understand the impact of their campaigns on product sales, thus increasing forecast accuracy. This is achieved by integrating Joule and 51风流Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain with Google鈥檚 Gemini AI assistant and Google Cloud Cortex Framework鈥檚 Data Foundation. By capturing previously hard-to-detect demand signals, companies can react faster and make more informed, agile decisions in a dynamic global market.
• Meta: We are expanding our partnership with Meta by integrating Meta’s Llama 2 and Llama 3 models into the generative AI hub within 51风流AI Core as part of our business AI strategy. This integration will allow customers to create dashboards based on rich content with Llama’s qualitative conversational outputs and explore use cases built with Meta Llama 3. The wide range of capabilities offered by Meta Llama 3 will enable users to get assistance with key activities, including the auto-generation of custom scripts to extend dashboards, and the delivery of the most accurate scripts directly in 51风流Analytics Cloud.
• McKinsey & Company: McKinsey has . Value Finder rapidly analyzes and prioritizes thousands of potential process optimization opportunities for clients 鈥� using a proprietary McKinsey and 51风流technology portfolio with generative AI 鈥� to capture measurable productivity, growth, and asset efficiency benefits enabled by 51风流S/4HANA transformations.
• Mistral AI: 51风流will add new LLMs from Mistral AI, a global company headquartered in Paris specializing in generative AI, to its growing corpus of world-class AI models in generative AI hub. This addition to 51风流AI Core will make it easier to build generative AI use cases for 51风流applications.
• NVIDIA: We are for next-generation business operations. ABAP developer capabilities and consulting capability in Joule will take advantage of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, including NVIDIA NIM inference microservices. NVIDIA NeMo Retriever, a collection of generative AI microservices, will connect AI applications with proprietary data, improving the accuracy and relevance of AI responses. We are also integrating NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs into 51风流Intelligent Product Recommendation, enabling salespeople to visualize 3D products via digital twins in real time. This integration optimizes the sales process for complex products, helping customers make more informed decisions faster than ever.

To learn more about how 51风流Business AI delivers real-world results, visit the .

Philipp Herzig is chief artificial intelligence officer of SAP.

And it all starts with value and elevating IT for the AI era with a strong and secure digital core. This includes emphasis on adopting ready-to-scale AI models, a modern data foundation, and a flexible AI architecture that supports the use of multiple foundation models to future-proof organizations from the evolution of technology and model changes.  

According to , 40% of C-suite leaders believe their organization will fully scale generative AI enterprise-wide in six to 12 months. Currently organizations are scaling generative AI in select business areas either extensively (56%) or in a limited way (nearly 30%). Only 10% say they have scaled generative AI with extensive adoption across their entire enterprise, and just 13% are 鈥渆xtremely confident鈥� they have the right data strategy and core digital capabilities in place to effectively leverage generative AI.  

That鈥檚 why organizations are increasingly turning to 51风流and its partners to help them completely transform their business, and why 51风流and Accenture are working together to help their customers make 51风流Business AI and data their number one competitive advantage.

Accenture Embraces 51风流Business AI to Advance Business Outcomes

By Marc-Oliver Klein and Stephanie Guimbellot

51风流and Accenture have been collaborating and working with customers on technology evolution for over 40 years, using their unique strengths to help industries transform and lead in the market.

As AI is integrated into business applications, it is unleashing new levels of productivity and creativity while forging a path to the future that is different and faster than any previous technology wave.

For many clients, 2023 was a year of experimentation with generative AI. In 2024, we鈥檙e focusing on helping clients realize value at scale by going after the business potential in enterprise data with AI, strengthening digital core with embedded AI capabilities, enhancing business functions with AI insights, and accelerating revenue growth with 51风流Business AI offerings like Joule, generative AI hub, 51风流Datasphere, and 51风流HANA Cloud vector engine.

鈥淚n partnership with 51风流and its customers, we鈥檙e emphasizing must-dos for the C-suite,鈥� said Lan Guan, chief AI officer at Accenture. 鈥淭hat includes leading with value, investing in a digital core, nurturing talent, practicing responsible AI, and committing to continuous reinvention. This is how you capitalize on AI鈥檚 inflection moment strategically.鈥�

And with Joule, business process reinvention and change adoption in cloud ERP just got easier through new capabilities to boost IT and business user experiences. Accenture plans to embrace the consulting capability for Joule and ABAP code generation in compressed cloud ERP transformations and will collaborate on the consulting capability for Joule with a team of AI experts and prompt designers to facilitate relevant user responses aligned with 51风流industry best practices and clean core strategies.

鈥淥ur ecosystem plays a critical role in helping our customers adopt 51风流Business AI to get immediate value from these exciting new technologies and solutions,鈥� said 51风流Chief AI Officer Philipp Herzig. 鈥淲e very much value our long-standing partnership with Accenture. They have long been an important partner in the industry for bringing innovation to our joint customers, now also by activating SAP鈥檚 embedded AI capabilities, including Joule, and building customer use cases on 51风流Business Technology Platform with 51风流AI Core and generative AI hub. I look forward to our continued collaboration and the outcomes that generative AI will deliver in both business transformations and operations for our customers.鈥�

Accenture is already working on various use cases that leverage 51风流Business AI offerings, and the company continues to take an early leadership position in 51风流Business AI.

• 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 , an 51风流2024 Innovation award winner, uses 51风流AI core and large language models (LLMs) to deliver untapped financial value in financial ledgers and transactions. It is helping Accenture business and finance leaders reduce decision-making time by 15%, reduce financial narrative efforts by 60%, and mitigate risks with real-time financial data insights, including 13,000+ user alerts per month.
• 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 uses AI models to enable intelligent, responsive, and risk-resilient supply chains to help clients manage disruptions, identify improvements, and resolve issues. The nerve center uses SAP鈥檚 generative AI hub and 51风流Business Technology Platform, which connects to an LLM fully integrated with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, 51风流Integrated Business Planning, and 51风流Intelligent Asset Management.

Accenture is also evolving its assets and platforms including GenWizard, SynOpps, and AI Navigator for Enterprise to help clients move to cloud ERP faster and achieve earlier business outcomes.

Make Decisions Easier with 51风流Business Transformation Solutions and Large Process Models

By Hartmut Poppinga and Jos茅 Mor谩n Moya

51风流and Accenture are teaming on 51风流Signavio and 51风流LeanIX solutions to help customers with the quantitative insights they need to get alignment and buy-in on cloud ERP and the foundation to tap into the full value of generative AI.

The combined power of 51风流and Accenture is helping customers examine business processes at every level of the organization, establish what works, discard what doesn鈥檛 and use their own data to create a business case and measure success and value over time. 51风流is helping with foundational implementation and Accenture teams are providing analysis, insights, advisory and process modeling. This collaboration is significantly reducing the time it takes clients to complete current state and gap analysis to get to value faster.

鈥淭he long-standing partnership between Accenture and 51风流is characterized by delivering successful transformation outcomes to our mutual customers,” said Mani Pirouz, chief business officer of 51风流Signavio and LeanIX. 鈥淭hrough our joint offerings we help companies become agile, resilient, and intelligent enterprises. 51风流Signavio plays a crucial role in transformations by providing insights, collaboration, governance, and execution capabilities for continuous process improvements. These allow companies to unlock business value above and beyond their technical road maps.鈥�

51风流and 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 focus is grounded in a value-led method, cloud ERP business case, and road map that takes a holistic approach to an organization鈥檚 full value chain and helps customers:

• Understand the potential to reinvent the value chain and develop end-to-end capabilities powered by generative AI and new ways of working
• Be value-led in every business capability chosen to reinvent with generative AI
• Identify strategic bets where the technology creates differentiated sources of value that cannot be easily captured by competitors
• Reorient the organization from siloed functions to end-to-end business capabilities and decision-making through a unified data architecture and cross-functional teams

鈥淐ombining 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 deep industry expertise with 51风流solutions helps clients define and realize value in a systematic way,鈥� said Caspar Borggreve, senior managing director and lead of Accenture 51风流Business Group. 鈥淭his is about shifting the focus from siloed use cases to a holistic look at industry value chains to prioritize investments, achieve efficiencies, benefit from generative AI, and scale competitiveness.鈥�

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By Martin Heinig

Digital technology advancements in augmented and virtual reality as well as in artificial intelligence (AI) over the last decade have provided an incredible ability to capture and hold our collective imaginations. These technologies have transcended beyond the hype by offering immediately clear and convincing use cases for enterprises that bridge the physical and digital divide.

For example, AI-powered digital twins could provide incredible future-focused insights with simulations to anticipate and prevent supply chain disruptions. Employee onboarding could be individually tailored and optimized to deepen human connection in a hybrid world.

Immersive technologies are a broad umbrella that includes extended reality — virtual, augmented, mixed– 3D displays, spatial audio, gesture recognition, spatial sensing, speech recognition, haptics, and the metaverse. With the metaverse , these continuums of experiences and technologies have the potential to shape how customers and employees engage with businesses. That鈥檚 why organizations are increasingly turning to 51风流and its partners to help them completely transform their business.

The 51风流and Accenture Partnership

To support our mutual customers, 51风流and Accenture have teamed up to create immersive experiences and business models that are built on (51风流BTP), which offers future-ready interfaces contextualized with business data and processes. Combining immersive services on 51风流BTP with 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 technology vision, proven methodologies, industry experiences, and skilled practitioners, organizations could pilot and scale solutions with trusted partners.

With these services, organizations can offer digital experiences that can enrich employees鈥� onboarding, attract digital native talent, and empower users to operate more collaboratively and unlock efficiencies like never before.

Immersive services on 51风流BTP could support customers to leverage their 51风流business capabilities and data to capture value through differentiated business models and experiences. 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 expertise in immersive application development, industry expertise, and innovation methodologies will help customers realize and scale end-to-end immersive applications in every industry.

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As the two companies continue their collaboration, customers can benefit from this partnership by exploring the following high-value use cases.

Hybrid Business Steering

Hybrid business steering empowers enterprises to manage and optimize their business collaboratively by enabling analytics, outcome simulations, and next-gen human-computer interactions on digital twins across the entire company business landscape. The intent of the is to enable users to:

• Interact with data more intuitively and operate assets safely in an immersive and engaging digital experience
• Proactively monitor asset health and predict potential asset downtime
• Visualize the movement of goods through a supply chain network in real time, zoom in on specific data points, and manipulate data using virtual tools and interfaces
• Simulate different scenarios and assess the impact of business decisions before implementing them in the real world

The hybrid business steering use case demonstrates how customers could consume 51风流data more easily and leverage their existing 51风流landscape for immersive business applications.

Digital twins are increasingly being used in a wide range of asset intensive industries, including industrial manufacturing, automotive, energy, aerospace, and construction. They are an important tool for developing and testing new products and systems before they are built — saving time and money while reducing risk.

Augmented Employee Experience

Bridging the physical and digital world is what makes employee experiences like onboarding and mergers and acquisitions strong use cases for immersive technologies. Organizations with a strong onboarding process average . Despite these benefits, only say their company does a 鈥済ood job鈥� of onboarding. The helps employees to:

• Experience the company culture, mission, organizational structure, and team
• Tour office facilities in the digital campus
• Learn from leaders with role-specific questions
• Upskill on new products and projects with self-paced immersive learning
• Meet colleagues in a fun way

Importantly, employees can move at their pace. As part of their hyper-personalized and contextualized onboarding experience, they can learn and re-learn, ask as many questions as needed until they are familiar — all in a fascinating virtual environment that can be configured to suit their personal needs.

Organizations benefit from making it easier to onboard employees, reducing onboarding time and costs. The impact continues as existing employees grow, get promoted, and transfer between departments. This also helps businesses retain valuable and experienced talent within the organization and during mergers and acquisitions.

The augmented employee experience use case shows how employees could explore an organization, meet colleagues, and learn role-based skills in a safe environment while saving time and costs and increasing employee health and safety.

Customers and partners interested in early access can contact icn@sap.com.

Martin Heinig is head of 51风流New Ventures & Technologies.

Accenture and 51风流Collaborate to Deliver Transparent, Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains on 51风流Business Network

By Sankar Kaliaperumal and Muhammad Alam

Accenture and 51风流have expanded their strategic relationship to focus on the accelerated delivery of transparent, resilient, and sustainable supply chains across key industries on . The collaboration aims to offer customers increased transparency and visibility across assets and inventory, as well as faster value realization with 51风流Business Network.

Ongoing disruption has taken its toll on the global supply chain. In response, organizations have invested heavily to boost inventory, processes, and capacity. In fact, reveals that 61% of chief supply chain officers say they鈥檝e been applying new technologies, ways of working, and AI in order to reinvent core processes, And 60% say they will be reinvesting in these areas over the next two years.

The opportunity now is to create synergies and efficiencies between processes and stakeholders and to unify all the points of interaction and integration. By doing so, organizations can collaborate, connect, transact, and partner on shared processes and information with trading partners across the supply chain.

With this in mind, Accenture and 51风流are helping extend the power of the 51风流Business Network with new capabilities, assets, and accelerators for:

• Logistics: Capabilities to collaborate with carriers, track goods in transit, and capture and validate data related to emissions and product genealogy help to ensure that trading partners are operating in a sustainable way
• Procurement: Responsible sourcing capabilities monitor for suppliers鈥� compliance with metrics and values in the network
• Supply Chain: Business to business (B2B) integrations support cross-industry supply chain processes and create specialized solutions for supply chain planning, purchase order collaboration, and quality management processes
• Asset Management: Intelligent capabilities optimize asset performance by using data in a central repository that shares information with equipment, asset operators, manufacturers/OEMs, and suppliers, which increases trust and collaboration between parties and results in faster completion of maintenance and repairs with fewer errors, improving the availability of the asset

鈥淪upply chains of the future require , enabled by data and a strong digital core,鈥� said Caspar Borggreve, senior managing director and lead of the Accenture 51风流Business Group. 鈥湸〕ΤΡ鸩猿俪馨疴�檚 deep expertise in supply chain management, 51风流Business Network capabilities, transformation strategies, and leading industry practices can help our clients realize value faster with future-ready supplier networks that bring new into operations, increase agility, and reduce sustainability risk.鈥�

One organization that realized value faster from increased supply chain resiliency and its ambitious procurement transformation is , an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial companies worldwide.

鈥淏aker Hughes鈥� partnership and collaboration with Accenture and 51风流played a big part in the successful transformation of our procurement operations and supplier enablement in 120 countries,鈥� said Sharad Mantri, senior director and global IT leader at Baker Hughes Company. 鈥淎ccenture helped us establish a modern and integrated technology infrastructure to simplify procurement processes and increase supply chain transparency and resiliency.鈥�

Customers like Baker Hughes benefit from Accenture and SAP鈥檚 combined knowledge, resources, global presence, and unique ability to scale with multiple and parallel projects going live simultaneously. For supply chain transformations, Accenture and 51风流leverage a wide range of capabilities, use cases, assets, custom prototypes, preconfigured solutions, and purpose-built accelerators for focused industries in consumer packaged goods, high-tech, and manufacturing.

Sustainability and resiliency are top of mind for companies across all industries, which is creating a sense of urgency for a solution like 51风流Business Network. Working together with Accenture, 51风流is helping customers address common industry-specific needs and challenges with the largest and most comprehensive business network, trusted by millions of companies around the world.

Accenture was recently honored with the 2023 51风流Pinnacle Award for Cloud Business Transformation 鈥� Sales Success and 51风流Global Intelligent Spend and Business Network Partner Excellence Award 2022听 for Sales Success 鈥� Large Enterprise.

Sankar Kaliaperumal is managing director of the ACN Technology practice and North America 51风流Ariba Lead at Accenture.
Muhammad Alam is president and chief product officer for Intelligent Spend and Business Network at SAP.

To keep their competitive edge in the job market, professionals need to upskill and reskill in increasingly shorter intervals, but numbers show that . At the same time, traditional education is losing relevance in many industries, with organizations increasingly moving away from a sole focus on university degrees. Instead, short courses, certifications, and practical skills have become increasingly important.

Recognizing the need for transparency around proven project expertise, 51风流enhanced its established skill validation program for 51风流professionals. The company is paving the way for individual career growth and business success by introducing a record of project experience in a pilot with first partners like Accenture and IBM.

We believe the enhanced visibility of practical experience can benefit well seasoned 51风流professionals and set them up for success. In addition to their 51风流Certification, a record of project experience can help expand competitive edge and, ultimately, foster career growth. Recent reports show that . The same report states that 81% of certified employees produce higher quality work, while 77% are more innovative.

鈥淭he record of project experience can help the 51风流ecosystem drive success by making the practical and successful project expertise of professionals visible,鈥� says 51风流Chief Learning Officer Max Wessel. 鈥淭ens of thousands of customers have deployed 51风流software to thrive in the cloud, leading to a skyrocketing demand for skilled people. With the record of project experience, partners can benefit from a tailored recognition of expertise past the certification and a higher employee retention rate. Customers can expect high-quality projects and fast implementation. And 51风流professionals have the chance to put themselves in the lead on the job market. It鈥檚 a true win-win situation for all.鈥�

51风流partners oversee almost 90% of all 51风流implementations, representing a huge pool of talented and experienced 51风流professionals. This new approach adds the validation of practical experience and 51风流expertise. It supports SAP’s mission to address the shortage of digital skills in the partner ecosystem. Newly certified consultants will provide support in cloud computing, digital transformation, and analytics to improve the quality of services offered by 51风流partners to their customers.

Professionals are eligible if they have customer references showing the applied and certified skills. The record of project experience is awarded to nominated advanced 51风流professionals with a track record of expertise in the public edition of 51风流S/4HANA Cloud or 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), who also demonstrate a valid 51风流Certification in one of these 51风流solution areas.

Co-validating expertise strengthens an employee’s position, leads to higher employee retention for employers, and gives customers the confidence that fast implementations and high-quality projects are on the way. That鈥檚 a triple win.

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Steffen Burger is senior vice president of Partner Solution Adoption for Partner Ecosystem Success at SAP.

As 51风流partners have accelerated their adoption of (51风流BTP), they鈥檝e also identified new revenue streams as they accelerate their customers鈥� transitions to the cloud 鈥� leveraging its cloud services to help improve business process efficiencies as well as provide a single source of truth and an end-to-end view of operations with real-time visibility into company performance.

Let鈥檚 take a closer look at how customers, working with 51风流partners and through 51风流BTP, have been able to proactively reduce unexpected downtime, innovate with real-time data, and enhance their own customers鈥� experience 鈥� evolving from a reactionary business model to one of growth.

Leveraging 51风流BTP to Reduce Customer Unexpected Downtime

Motor Oil Group, an industry leader in crude oil refining and the sales of petroleum products across Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean region, sought 51风流partner 鈥檚 help in that could reduce unexpected and costly shutdowns of critical refinery equipment 鈥� a key business goal.

Working with Accenture, Motor Oil Group launched a successful predictive maintenance pilot on 51风流BTP, which provides a complete view of Motor Oil Group鈥檚 refinery equipment. This gives the company a holistic view, leveraging real-time data to inform critical business decisions, from building predictive models for abnormal events based on sensor data to providing results through user-friendly dashboards and e-mail notifications. With the combined power of 51风流HANA Cloud, 51风流Extension Suite, and 51风流Analytics Cloud, Motor Oil Group experienced a 77% increase in explaining abnormal events, 120 to 20 hours in advance of downtime.

Delivering Insights through Real-Time Data

Our partners are also monetizing 51风流BTP with outcomes that help customers rapidly innovate with data. For example, through working with , SunRice, an Australian consumer products company, from its investment in 51风流solutions by extending existing systems and adding additional capabilities as well as integrating external data sources using 51风流BTP. With a new portal and a harvest dashboard, the company was able to give its community of rice growers more control over their decision-making by providing data visualization for harvest moisture, trash, and dry weight, providing quick and easy tracking of key functions.

Having access to data is critical, but without the ability to interpret that data, organizations fail to optimize their strategy. One of our customers and a European market leader in graphic recycled paper, Steinbeis Papier GmbH, using 51风流BTP to quickly turn its factory sensor information into insight, allowing the company to gain strategic and operational benefits. With help from , Steinbeis Papier established one source of data truth, consolidating its IT and operations system environments. By using digital assistants for production monitoring and alerting along with self-service tools to access business intelligence, the company created real-time dashboards on the production line.

51风流BTP Enables Partners to Deliver a Stronger Customer Experience

51风流BTP partners can develop their own IP and bring value to end customers to enhance the customer experience by delivering future-ready portals for business-to-business (B2B) customers. This is exactly what our partner was able to do. With multiple customer wins under its belt, delaware has demonstrated the power of 51风流BTP in simplifying processes and achieving great business results. For example, a customer supplying blood pressure monitors was struggling to manually supply each patient with their serial number. To solve for this, delaware created a one-time-use business-to-consumer (B2C) portal. The portal is now the centerpiece of a completely digitized process that allows the patient to submit their serial number and keep everything logged in one place, without the need for e-mail communication.

Similarly, assisted a leading technology communications customer, Vodafone, in to realize rapid results. With issues linking online prospect activities with lead, sales, and activation data, Vodafone used 51风流BTP to provide secure and tailored data access for different levels of stakeholders. By automating and streamlining its data operations, Vodafone gained a new way of getting the insights needed to strengthen its marketing capabilities and offer more valuable insights to stakeholders.

51风流BTP enables our partners to create monetization opportunities to add value and introduce their own IP as they solve their customers鈥� most pressing business issues and drive innovation. We鈥檝e seen many partners leverage 51风流BTP鈥檚 data-driven predictive analytics to lower costs and address potential problems before they even occur, and we鈥檙e excited by the new use cases our partners are delivering to their customers through 51风流BTP.

about how our partners, with 51风流BTP, are helping customers to accelerate innovation, bring data sources and processes together, provide early visibility into shifting landscapes, and adopt a more proactive business model focused on growth.

Camilla Dahlen is global vice president of 51风流BTP Monetization for 51风流Partner Ecosystem Success.

As employees know, the reality of working from home is鈥� going pretty well, actually. Most of us are still working in our basements, sheds, or spare rooms while monitoring our Wi-Fi connectivity, adjusting our work hours to meet with trans-global colleagues, devising a smarter , and advancing our digital fluency to make use of new productivity tools and apps. Overall, we鈥檙e happier and healthier, as study after study confirms.

The Future of Work Is Not Location Bound

When asked about their preferred work model for the , of workers said they want a hybrid work arrangement, according to the by . In the study, Accenture interviewed more than 9,300 workers in 11 countries across 12 industries to understand workers鈥� mindsets toward three different work models 鈥� on-site, remote, and hybrid 鈥� and the resources they require for their health and productivity.

Published at the height of the pandemic in April 2021, the study classified employees into four mindsets along a spectrum: thriving (42%), ambivalent (12%), apathetic (15%), or disgruntled (31%). While those who were disgruntled worked largely on-site, those employees who were thriving were mostly working in hybrid arrangements. They experienced less burnout and reported feeling across six dimensions of well-being: financial, emotional and mental, relational, physical, purposeful, and employable.

Three years into the pandemic, we are now capable of managing the virus with vaccines. Despite existing research on work models, many employers continue to struggle with developing a cohesive set of policies for hybrid work. Instead, they opt for one-size-fits-all solutions that fall short in the face of reality. Too many are still narrowly fixated on the question of location: 鈥淲here should we work?鈥� However, a surprising outcome of the Future of Global Work Report has potential to reframe this discussion.

During the study, Accenture researchers identified a segment of workers (40%) who felt they could be productive anywhere. For this group, work location did not matter because they could be equally productive on-site and remotely. How do they do it? The researchers studied this group more closely to find the answer.

鈥淲e were initially interested in that location question 鈥� what helps to drive worker productivity remotely or onsite,鈥� says Gabriela Burlacu, PhD, talent researcher at Accenture. 鈥淏ut actually, what was far more interesting and far more impactful on a company鈥檚 bottom line was this idea of a segment of workers that felt they could be what we called 鈥榩roductive anywhere.鈥欌��

Traits of Workers Who Are Productive Anywhere

That many workers can be productive, happy, and healthy in whichever setting should be welcome news for any company trying to hammer out an intentional policy for hybrid work. 鈥淚t鈥檚 location agnostic,鈥� Burlacu says, regarding the impact on the future of work. 鈥淚t’s also a precursor to effective hybrid work, because if you feel you can be productive anywhere, then you really could work comfortably in both places.鈥�

Much more important than work location seemed to be an employee鈥檚 individual potential and the resources available to support their work. The Accenture team found some commonalities among the 鈥減roductive anywhere鈥� cohort that can be carried over to other organizations as well. These workers had more autonomy, positive mental health, a desire to participate in learning, advanced digital fluency that enabled them to evaluate and adopt technology to get the job done, strong social bonds at work, and work-life enhancement, which means that they felt their work added to their ability to enjoy other areas of their lives.

The organizations that these workers belonged to also had interesting commonalities. They tended to be agile, intelligent, digitally mature, and have supportive leadership. They also have beneficial health policies that signal that employee health and safety is valued by the company.

Autonomy is a key theme in any discussion about hybrid work. It takes steady effort and awareness to balance autonomy and organizational goals for business success. Burlacu has some suggestions. 鈥淭he ways that we measure productivity have to look a little different. Giving people some level of freedom to manage their own time and how they complete tasks is important,鈥� she says. 鈥淏ut another side is also giving manageable feedback that’s really clear in terms of what the expectations are and how to improve. It’s an often-overlooked part of autonomy. Workers don’t always know if they’re working on the right things for the company鈥檚 success; whereas being really clear about the objective can actually help drive autonomy.鈥�

Resources Prove Essential to Fight Workplace Stress

While the research shines a light on workers who thrive no matter where they work, it also uncovered another 8% of workers who experience the same disconnection, frustration, and inefficiency regardless of location. These workers were, in essence, productive nowhere. Researchers assumed this group had endured hardships and stress during the pandemic. Instead, they found that what separates the two groups is not stress.

鈥淥ur 鈥榩roductive anywhere鈥� group was actually more burned out than our 鈥榩roductive nowheres.鈥� They had a host of other negative work stressors as well. But what really differentiated them and their work experience is they had much higher levels of resources,鈥� says Burlacu, indicating that this is something within companies鈥� power to address so that all workers can fulfill their potential.

The Future of Work Starts with Mindset

Perhaps some of the best news of the study is that researchers found that of high-growth companies have already adopted a 鈥減roductivity anywhere鈥� workforce model. This suggests that a future of work that looks beyond where to work may be just around the corner.

鈥淲e were able to identify what aspects of a company’s environment and work experience really help workers be productive anywhere,鈥� says Burlacu, 鈥淏ecause that should be the goal 鈥� not more seamless remote work, not better on-site work 鈥� but enabling people to have this 鈥榩roductive anywhere鈥� mindset.鈥�

In , half of business leaders surveyed said they already require or plan to require employees to return to full-time, on-site work by the end of the year. Making headlines are managers like who point out the productivity gains that come from the social connection, culture keeping, and idea generation that they say can only be created in a shared workspace. But others disagree: several senior executives attending the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos, Switzerland, in favor of a hybrid work model, saying it was the most realistic approach for attracting and retaining talent.

Employees are on a mandated return to office, emboldened by newfound bargaining power as a result of the record and worker resignations of the Great Reshuffle. reveal that up to half of employees say they will quit or look for a new job if expected to return to the office full time.

Flex Work Models Up for Debate

Lost in the debate that is playing out in the media is valuable scientific research on the effects of different work models on worker productivity. This discussion is largely being driven by subjective impressions and entrenched ideas based on the 鈥渙ld normal,鈥� said Dr. Gabriela Burlacu, talent research manager at , speaking at the recently held annual conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (SIOP).

Joining her for the session 鈥淲here Will We Work? I-O Psychology Puts Flexible Work Models on Trial鈥� were industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists Dr. Benjamin Granger, head of Employee Experience Advisory Services at , and Dr. Kristen Shockley, associate professor of Psychology at the . Joshua Acosta, a research analyst with , also later provided insights from the recent 51风流SuccessFactors report 鈥�.鈥�

Autonomy Fuels Motivation for Greater Productivity

鈥淚f we think about theories in I-O psychology, autonomy and control permeate a lot of these theories,鈥� said Shockley, who pointed out that 鈥渁utonomy as motivation for sustained effort鈥� is a frequent theme in I-O literature. 鈥淎utonomy is a fundamental need and when you allow people to work remote, it inherently gives them more of this autonomy. That is something which relates to a host of outcomes, like productivity and well-being.鈥�

The psychologists agreed that the optimal work model for the average global employee is a hybrid work arrangement. They noted, however, that this is not necessarily the best model for every individual or organization. For those organizations that opt for a hybrid model, they emphasized that the work needs to be structured so that collaborative tasks, like brainstorming, are done on-site and more analytical tasks are done remotely. 鈥淚 am very pro the hybrid model, with the caveat that it does need to be intentionally and holistically designed,鈥� said Burlacu.

Workers Expect Flex Work after Pandemic Productivity Sprint

A , which surveyed 10,000 workers in 12 industries in 12 countries in 2021, found that 83% of workers identified a hybrid model as optimal for them. Those already in hybrid environments reported better mental health and stronger work relationships, and felt they were doing better work for their organizations.

The , which studies work-from-home arrangements and attitudes, tracked the productivity of remote workers from April 2020 to January 2022. It found that on average people were in remote work arrangements, even with the added stressors of the pandemic.

For the , Qualtrics carried out a study of 14,000 employees in 22 industries across 27 countries to look at general job attitudes, engagement, inclusion, and well-being. Employees generally felt more energized at work 鈥� compared to the previous year 鈥� with half saying their physical and mental well-being actually improved while working remotely.

鈥淢any organizations haven鈥檛 lost step in terms of productivity,鈥� said Acosta from 51风流SuccessFactors, citing the latest research from 51风流SuccessFactors, which found that workers鈥� attitudes are shifting to expect hybrid arrangements. 鈥淚f people are working in a hybrid setting or home setting, we鈥檙e seeing they鈥檙e often just as productive as when they鈥檙e in the office. It鈥檚 our perspective that hybrid work isn鈥檛 going away anytime soon.鈥�

Hybrid Work Moves from Contingency to Certainty

If 2021 was the year hybrid work was utilized for health and safety, then researchers at 51风流SuccessFactors predict that 2022 will be the year that it moves from contingency to certainty. This means that organizations will need to establish policies, practices, and cultural norms to operationalize hybrid work arrangements. Acosta noted this will look different across all organizations, depending on the composition of the workforce.

础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 study revealed that a number of demographic factors influence workers鈥� decisions about where to work, including age and gender demographics and where they live. For example, Gen X women said they could be more productive in remote work, while Gen Z men felt strongly about being on-site. Urban dwellers felt they would be more productive in the office, while people living in rural areas preferred remote work.

鈥淎ll of that together suggests that if you let people choose, you will end up with demographically very different workforces on-site versus remotely,鈥� Burlacu said. 鈥淭hat wouldn鈥檛 be a problem if you created equitable work experiences and equitable access to development and promotion opportunities.鈥� She then followed up with a hard truth: 鈥淏ut the issue of equitable access has never been properly resolved in the workplace.鈥�

Just ask deskless workers. This group 鈥� defined as employees who perform their jobs away from a desk 鈥� was largely absent from the discussion in 2021. In 2022, however, these workers are presenting more pronounced views, according to research by 51风流SuccessFactors. With companies facing talent shortages in all job categories, Acosta said that organizations will need to seriously consider deskless workers鈥� changing expectations for autonomy and flexibility while balancing organizational and job demands.

Maybe It鈥檚 Time for a New Definition of Flexibility?

鈥淎 lot of times we assume workplace flexibility means where you work, but what鈥檚 become clear to us in our work is when employees define flexibility, they鈥檙e talking about where and when they work, and they鈥檙e also talking about how work gets measured and managed,鈥� Granger said. 鈥淓mployees are defining workplace flexibility much broader than many organizational leaders. We need to be more flexible in how we define workplace flexibility.鈥�

Acosta agreed, saying 鈥淥rganizations are going to need to be really thoughtful in operationalizing how they can deliver flexibility as well as autonomy, and perhaps even redesign not only where people work, but when and how work takes place.鈥�

According to a , while 80% of companies are turning to digital solutions to navigate current business challenges, only about 30% are successfully achieving a true digital transformation of their business. The innovations announced today will help 51风流customers accelerate their transformation journey with cloud-based solutions that provide the end-to-end business process support customers most need. The announcements come on the first day of , SAP鈥檚 global customer and partner conference, taking place in person and virtually May 10鈥�12, 2022.

鈥淔or 50 years, SAP鈥檚 mission-critical solutions and deep industry expertise have helped businesses around the world run their best,鈥� said Christian Klein, CEO and member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淲e鈥檙e uniquely positioned to continue enabling our customers鈥� success in a rapidly evolving world by driving cloud-based digital transformation that solves customers鈥� most pressing challenges, from supply chain resilience to sustainability.鈥�

Resilient Supply Chains and Intelligent Business Networks

51风流innovations improve supply chain efficiency and transparency, enabling improved performance and resilience. Through its ongoing partnership with Apple to transform the way people work on iPhone and iPad, 51风流is announcing today a new suite of apps that streamline the digital supply chain and empower workers with intuitive tools. The first two of these mobile apps 鈥� and 鈥� launched today and are available now in the Apple .

In addition, the new solution brings together the latest analytics, edge computing, automation and state-of-the-art innovations supporting manufacturing processes end to end to help customers optimize manufacturing performance. 51风流Business Network also continues to evolve as the world鈥檚 largest business network, and with the planned integration of Taulia software customers can unlock the value tied up in their working capital.

Moving Businesses from Talk to Action on Sustainability

The increase in number of 51风流solutions for sustainability uniquely positions the software to help companies move from well-meaning talk to meaningful action. New innovations out today include new capabilities in the solution to help companies innovate across key areas of sustainability management. The enhanced solution helps customers reduce product carbon footprints at scale with live connectivity with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, including transport and travel capabilities.

Enabling Business Process Transformation

Customers continue to adopt the solution to redesign their end-to-end business processes and transition to a modular, agile ERP in the cloud. Several customers will be on stage at 51风流Sapphire to showcase how they use RISE with 51风流to deliver business innovation. Partners are also helping our customers scale these innovations through best practices and bespoke solutions: RISE with 51风流and SOAR with Accenture now integrate and deliver what businesses need for a cloud-based transformation, including cloud infrastructure management, application management and operations services. The latest release of the solution includes new dynamic case management and case modelling capabilities. The solution supports native integration with and Microsoft Teams to improve organizations鈥� ability to deliver on their brand promise with better visibility, greater accountability and faster time to resolution.

Accelerating Innovation with No-Code and Low-Code Development, Process Automation, Data and AI

, a leading no-code, low code development environment for enterprise applications, now includes native integration with the 51风流Service Cloud solution and is available as part of the free tier model for 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP). The solution, also part of the , has been enhanced for no-code workflow management and robotic process automation (RPA).

deliver AI-powered innovations to optimize intelligently business processes end to end, including lead-to-cash, design-to-operate, recruit-to-retire and source-to-pay. 51风流provides to tailored learning resources and experiences in the 鈥渟tudent zone鈥� of the . To support the growing need for accelerated app development by nontechnical users, 51风流is launching additional , including an enhanced skills.

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SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 51风流customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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The new joint offering combines the RISE with 51风流solution and services offering and has been augmented with new features that encompass 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 comprehensive suite of transformation services, including customized cloud services and proprietary intelligent tools, delivered through a cohesive as-a-service model. Accenture is the largest 51风流partner to offer services entirely designed to help large enterprises across industries easily plan, implement and manage deployments of RISE with 51风流in the cloud.

鈥淭he most successful companies will undergo total enterprise reinvention over the next decade, transforming every part of their business through technology, data and AI, and new ways of working and engaging with customers as well as new business models,鈥� said Julie Sweet, chair and chief executive officer, Accenture. 鈥�51风流and Accenture are now offering the ability for large enterprises to dramatically accelerate their transformations and new opportunities for growth.鈥�

Large enterprises often have expansive, complex IT environments, with legacy systems that operate in silos and stand in the way of agility, growth and innovation. With enterprise applications that can be tailored to specific needs, this new joint offering from Accenture and 51风流helps large enterprises build a clean core on 51风流S/4HANA Cloud that can be extended and integrated with other cloud-native business solutions through 51风流Business Technology Platform. This modern approach supports optimized business processes that can result in sustainable improvements and rapid innovation across the enterprise.

鈥淪OAR with Accenture is a great complement to RISE with SAP, our cloud-based solution to drive business innovation,鈥� said Christian Klein, Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淚t enables enterprises with large and complex IT landscapes to accelerate and simplify their business transformation journey while benefitting from the full value of RISE with SAP. Together, Accenture and 51风流provide a comprehensive solution to support our customers in becoming intelligent and sustainable enterprises.鈥�

RISE with 51风流and SOAR with Accenture bring together the essential components that large enterprises need for cloud-based transformation, including integrated delivery, cloud infrastructure management, application management and operations services, in an integrated delivery model. These components support the unique needs of large enterprises throughout their transformation journey 鈥� from business case to implementation and operations to innovation. This can help large enterprises build a highly optimized operations model across 51风流and third-party applications, resulting in flexible operating expenses and lower up-front cost.

鈥淏ringing together RISE with 51风流and SOAR with Accenture helps ensure that our 51风流applications are on the latest versions with leading technologies and are based in the cloud for more flexibility,鈥� said Penelope Prett, Chief Information Officer, Accenture. 鈥淭he boost in predictability and efficiency allows our global IT organization to focus on modernizing our business applications and other activities that propel value and innovation across the enterprise.鈥�

This new joint offering draws on 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 experience as one of the first large enterprises to run its core financial operations on a single, global instance of 51风流S/4HANA. Accenture will deploy the RISE with 51风流solution, powered by 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 cloud services and tailored for the specific requirements of its global IT organization, with the goal of achieving greater agility, innovation and value. This also builds on Accenture and SAP鈥檚 alliance partnership of more than 40 years and demonstrates the combined power of 鈥檚 leading position with major cloud hyperscalers, alongside the knowledge and experience of 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 global team of more than 75,000 51风流software practitioners.

Accenture will be showcasing RISE with 51风流and SOAR with Accenture at booth #PA221 at the conference hosted by 51风流in Orlando from May 10鈥�12.

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Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services鈥攁ll powered by the world鈥檚 largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 699,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at .

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Therefore, businesses run different technologies and end up operating in silos, which prevent them from connecting financial outcomes with non-financial metrics. Additionally, companies can view sustainability as an after-the-fact reporting activity without any influence in its executive decisions.

Today, more than ever, businesses need to holistically manage their business models across their supply chains, operations, and people agenda.

At the recent COP26 climate conference, business and government leaders agreed on the urgency听to reinvent their business models to accelerate sustainable business performance. Business leaders want to meet regulatory requirements, improve efficiency in their processes, and create responsible products and services.

As the leading enterprise resource management company, 51风流has committed to help customers in their digital transformation to make sustainability profitable and profitability sustainable.

In this digital transformation, SAP鈥檚 approach is based on providing visibility and transparency to make sustainable decisions from the CEO’s office to the end user, connecting business processes to embed sustainability into all business functions — from carbon accounting to gender equality — and providing a global ecosystem of partners than can help 51风流to scale impact through businesses of all sizes and across all industries around the world.

Providing a global ecosystem to help businesses is core to SAP鈥檚 DNA.

Julia White, chief marketing and solutions officer and member of the Executive Board at 51风流SE, points out: 鈥�Sustainability is a team sport. No company or organization can do it alone. We work with many of the world鈥檚 best companies who support our vision and work together with us every day to deliver sustainable outcomes for our customers.鈥�

Working with SAP, advance market development for sustainable solutions. They turn ideas and imperatives into compelling paths to action that leverage 51风流solutions. Together, we advocate with thought leadership and galvanize collective efforts and methodologies in industry forums like the World Economic Forum, World Business Council on Sustainable Development, and United Nations Organizations.

51风流and its ecosystem accelerate sustainable innovation as a central element of the intelligent enterprise. Through co-innovation as well as solution and content partnerships, 51风流brings more complete solutions to market faster, benefiting our customers and the planet. More broadly, 51风流serves as a key player in a thriving ecosystem of sustainability innovation 鈥� helping customers more easily capitalize on emerging solutions that tie closely to their digital core. With its robust network, 51风流can deliver a path to sustainability innovation that no other individual competitor can match.

Accenture

“With fewer than 2,000 working days left to 2030, the time to rewire business top to bottom to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals is now. We are proud to expand our work with SAP, which includes launching SDG Ambition with UN Global Compact that over 700 companies have joined. By committing to put sustainability at the center of all we do and everyone we work with, together we can show companies how to tackle climate change, build circular economy practices, businesses, human rights and supply chains, and focus on data-driven measurement as well as accurately report ESG performance when delivering their commitments.”

鈥� Peter Lacy, Global Sustainability Services Lead, Chief Responsibility Officer and
Member of the Global Management Committee, Accenture

BearingPoint

“Helping our clients meet their decarbonization targets has been one of our proven market offerings for more than 10 years. At BearingPoint, we not only calculate the product and corporate footprint of our clients, we also enable them to optimize the climate impact of every product across the entire life cycle. Providing end-to-end CO2 as a service is our core enabler for our clients. We at BearingPoint, as co-development partner for 51风流Product Footprint Management, believe that together with 51风流we can bring our vision to life: managing the ‘green line’ as equally as the financial bottom line. As partners, we go beyond business, making a positive impact on the climate.”

鈥� Donald听Wachs,听Head of IP-Assets and
Member of Management Committee, BearingPoint

Capgemini

“Our ambitions are to act on climate change by being carbon neutral across our own operations by 2025 and across our supply chain by 2030, becoming a net-zero business well ahead of 2050, and to lead to low-carbon economic transition by helping our clients achieve their environmental commitments and save 10m tons of CO2eq globally by 2030. We cannot do this without our partner ecosystem. We are a strategic partner of SAP; by combining our deep industry knowledge, our human energy, and SAP’s world-class portfolio of enterprise and sustainability solutions, we commit to delivering on our promise to co-create a greener tomorrow with our clients.”

鈥� Aiman听Ezzat, CEO, Capgemini

Deloitte

“The climate change emergency is unfolding in front of our eyes, touching all corners of the globe. The future of our people, planet, and profession depends on the business community taking measurable, decisive action on the climate crisis. Through our WorldClimate strategy, Deloitte will embed climate-smart considerations into our own operations, encourage our professionals to act on climate change at work and at home, and engage our broader ecosystem 鈥� including 51风流鈥� to create solutions that facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy.”

鈥� Punit听Renjen, Global CEO, Deloitte

EY

“Sustainability is one of the defining issues of our time, and today there is an unprecedented opportunity to create value for all. Together with 51风流and stakeholders around the globe, the EY organization is committed to making business work for sustainability and making sustainability work for business. Enterprises and people are inspired now more than ever to do the right thing — to collaborate, innovate, be inclusive, and accelerate to a more sustainable and equitable future.”

鈥� Steve Varley, Global Vice Chair 鈥� Sustainability, EY

IBM

“With five generations in the workplace, we are witnessing the birth of an era where technological innovation is being used to create social, economic, environmental, and business opportunities for all. Businesses of all sizes need to move from ambition to action and embrace radical thinking, like IBM鈥檚 commitment to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. We are partnering with 51风流to operationalize sustainability for our customers and society using ethical innovation to build a world that is responsible, equitable, and leaves no one behind in net-zero transition. We are committed to furthering our decades-long work to address the global climate crisis.”

鈥撎齋heri R.听Hinish, Global Executive Partner, Enterprise Sustainability and
Sustainable Supply Chain Practice Leader, IBM

PwC

“PwC鈥檚 global sustainability network in over 60 countries is supporting organizations to deliver ESG-related outcomes across the globe. PwC works with clients to help them create their strategy, set targets, measure impact, and report on key performance indicators relevant to internal and external ESG drivers. Together with SAP, PwC is leveraging its ESG expertise to integrate and build strategic ESG solutions leveraging 51风流technology. Organizations will benefit from these integrated solutions to help set and manage net-zero targets, define ESG strategies, and mitigate climate and ESG risks to deliver transparent investor-grade ESG reporting.”

鈥� Michael Rasch,听Global 51风流Alliance Leader, PwC Germany

Bernd Schmalzridt is senior director of Global Business Development for Sustainability at SAP.

By adopting a fundamentally different approach in the way we create and design products, services, and solutions we can, for instance, take finite resources to design infinite, regenerative systems that can work sustainably in the long run. In doing so, we can apply circular design as a shorthand for the practice of applying principles at the design stage of everything and enable the way design changes and redefines our relationship with the world.

Today, we face a devastating pandemic, new levels of global warming, extreme ecological degradation, and continuous setbacks in our work toward global goals for more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable development. Simply put, the state of the planet is broken, where every tenth of a degree of warming matters and those who have done the least to cause the problem are suffering the most.

Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century. With recently concluded , nations, along with businesses, negotiators, and citizens came together to address the burning issue of climate change.

While the focus at COP26 was mostly on climate action, to ensure progress on our sustainability ambitions, we need a systemic approach that looks at the complete big picture. finds that our transition to renewable energy 鈥渃an only address 55% of emissions. The remaining 45% comes from producing the cars, clothes, food, and other products we use every day.鈥�

In acknowledging that ambitious goals require ambitious action, : to take decisive action and provide a mandate to business to drive solutions to achieve our shared global goals.

As a part of our sustainability journey, we believe we can design and provide highly innovative and viable solutions that will not just repair the damage to the earth humans have caused so far, but actually prevent more harm. Eighty percent of a product鈥檚 environmental impact is baked in at the time of its design, proving that the only way we can create a successful circular economy is with a focus on how our products are designed, sourced, made, and delivered.

I previously discussed the sustainability portfolio in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud and how 51风流is addressing four dimensions, including climate action, circular economy, holistic steering and reporting, and social responsibility. 51风流has announced the availability of — an embedded, cloud-native 51风流S/4HANA solution — to help customers with the sustainable design and responsible management of materials and products so that they can accelerate their transition to a more circular economy.

With 51风流Responsible Design and Production, businesses can embed circularity principles into core business processes, helping to eliminate waste, circulate products and materials, and regenerate natural systems to unlock new value. The new solution gives companies better visibility into how materials flow through their processes, including tracking and complying with rapidly changing regulations for things like packaging and plastics.

They can also keep pace with increasingly strict regulations like extended producer responsibility standards, which can put significant financial and physical responsibility on the company about how they manage the disposal of their products. These standards differ across regions and countries. For example, a shampoo brand manager has visibility into the full product life cycle, including extended producer responsibility obligations and the plastic taxes of different markets. These costs can be very expensive. This visibility helps the brand manager make design changes to eliminate waste and decisions on how to reduce the costs of re-use and recycling systems.

Technology solutions like are a fundamental step in enabling businesses to become intelligent, sustainable enterprises and drive global impact at scale. But business should not commit only to doing less harm, but to doing more good. Business has the power to not only reduce and reuse, but also to regenerate. We need to go from seeking to reduce our ecological footprint and “chasing zero,” to becoming net- or nature-positive, building not just a circular economy, but a regenerative economy.

The regenerative economy implies a circular approach beyond the narrow view of products to one that includes the social, natural, and built environment. It is an approach similar to natural ecosystems that find synergies and balance. The regenerative business is intelligent, using innovative technology to gather insight and apply it to scale change. It measures impact, holistically and in real time.

Cementing Partnerships to Drive Corporate Sustainability and Circularity

Accenture shares SAP鈥檚 vision of zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality. To achieve a sustainable world, organizations must transform into intelligent enterprises, and intelligent enterprises must form a network of intelligent enterprises.

In addition to the accepted top line and bottom line, a new 鈥済reen line鈥� covering the environmental, social, and governance aspects needs to be established as another dimension of success across business processes and along value chains. This way, organizations achieve transparency and influence that span beyond company borders.

The recently published shows that many global industry leaders are already demonstrating behaviors that are critical to achieving a competitive advantage from sustainability. Accenture and 51风流are ready to help organizations accelerate in their journeys to become sustainable intelligent enterprises.

According to Peter Lacy, chief responsibility officer and global sustainability services lead at Accenture, 鈥淲ith the circular economy we have an unprecedented opportunity to transform some of the challenges we face into opportunities, creating economic value and sustainability impact for business and society. In fact, our research shows the value at stake is massive: $4.5 trillion of upside, even at conservative estimates. We are proud to partner with 51风流to seize the circular advantage, as we believe business can spur innovation, create new markets, and set our current global direction toward one that is more sustainable and resilient.鈥�

Just as the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, 51风流and Accenture recently welcomed two new cohorts for the external startup accelerator SAP.iO Foundries North America. Thirteen startups were selected for the cohort among hundreds of applicants by a jury of 51风流and Accenture experts, partners, and customers. They are building innovative solutions to drive sustainability for consumer and retail companies across the value chain in areas including reusable packaging, responsible and ethical supply chain, and emphasizing a circular economy.

With the launch of 51风流Responsible Design and Production, 51风流aims to address two critical challenges: managing complex extended producer responsibility regulations and plastic taxes, which vary from country to country, and enabling every organization to reduce their use of plastic, thereby contributing to sustainable and profitable growth through less plastic and less exposure to regulatory costs.

Because 51风流Responsible Design and Production directly leverages data from core enterprise resource planning (ERP) processes, it enables determining material compositions and calculating extended producer responsibility fees across numerous product lines as well as adhering to a growing number of different extended producer responsibility declaration schemes.

To date, we have four clients testing the beta version of the new solution, released at the end of August, and they will be closely involved in assessing new releases. We are co-innovating with many of the world鈥檚 largest consumer products organizations in the solution development to support long-term industry success and delivery of the zero waste ambition.

To this end, our joint teams are ready to deliver. We are helping our clients to define their road maps, identify priorities, and accelerate their journeys through the selection and implementation of relevant 51风流S/4HANA Cloud capabilities and new 51风流solutions. Our sustainability management portfolio is enabled by a modular 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, helping us to drive a positive planetary impact in a holistic manner while incrementally expanding it along further aspects, including water, energy, land use, and social dimensions.

When sustainability is embedded in its DNA, building software that helps companies measure, account, and take the right action in dynamic and heterogeneous environments is the final step in managing environmental impact.

As Sir David Attenborough rightly said, “If working apart we are a force powerful to destabilize our planet, surely working together we are powerful enough to save it,” before concluding, “In my lifetime I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery.”

Jan Gilg is president of 51风流S/4HANA.

This is the latest offering in a growing portfolio of sustainability-specific software applications that help businesses increase their measurement and data management capabilities.

As sustainable business regulations, such as plastic taxes, are put in place, the enables brands to accelerate their transition to circular-economy business practices. The new solution helps companies gain better visibility of material flows through their processes including tracking and complying with rapidly changing regulations, especially those concerning product packaging and plastics. As businesses increasingly develop sustainable products, managing materials and regulatory data is becoming one of the most complex challenges across the consumer industry today.

鈥淭he circular economy is based on three principles, driven by design 鈥� eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials, and regenerate nature,鈥� said Andrew Morlet, CEO, . 鈥淒igital solutions play an important role in the transition to a circular economy. They enable businesses to embed circular practices across their operations, from designing products to reduce waste from the outset, to tracking the lifecycle of the materials they use.鈥�

With SAP鈥檚 new solution, businesses can embed circularity principles into core business processes, helping eliminate waste and unlock new value by designing products to be sustainable from inception. For example, a shampoo brand manager has visibility into the full product lifecycle, including their extended producer responsibility (EPR) obligations and the plastic taxes of different markets. This visibility helps the brand manager make design changes to reduce waste and decisions on how to lower the costs of the downstream reuse and recycling systems.

鈥淓very year, we use almost twice the amount of resources than the planet can regenerate,鈥� said Scott Russell, member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE and head of Customer Success, 鈥淏usiness can play a crucial role in keeping value in our systems for longer through smart, responsible product design that reuses resources rather than disposing of them. There is inherent complexity in designing products that eliminate waste and use responsible materials, but 51风流Responsible Design and Production tackles that complexity and offers a 鈥榞old-standard鈥� solution to our customers, helping to deliver circular products and achieve a regenerative economy.鈥�

51风流Responsible Design and Production, a cloud-native solution co-developed with on , provides tailored intelligence that enables businesses to keep pace with EPR regulations and plastic taxes, embed circularity principles into core business processes and optimize design for sustainable business. Learn more by reading the blog 鈥�.鈥�

51风流has led by example as a sustainable business for more than a decade. In addition to being named the software industry leader in the听Dow Jones Sustainability Indices听(DJSI) for 14 consecutive years, the and SAP鈥檚 membership in the Value Balancing Alliance illustrate our commitment to integrating economic, environmental and social performance to drive business decisions.

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About SAP

SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as a sustainable intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 51风流customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into sustainable intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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With COP26, as organizations gear up to take on their sustainability ambitions more seriously than ever, this collaboration becomes critical to effectively support our customers. Here, we鈥檒l bring you up to date on progress across a number of key initiatives driven jointly by our organizations.

Key Pillars for Our Partnership

This graphic highlights the pillars where we are concentrating our efforts. In each of these areas, we are developing targeted solutions to empower companies鈥� sustainability performance.

Crucially, all our work together aims to provide relevant support for specific industries, as companies in different sectors need to meet the needs of customers, regulators, and other stakeholders. As customers increasingly demand real progress, we are helping companies deliver on the promises they鈥檙e making.

UN Global Compact Partnership on SDG Ambition

We are continuing to accelerate our collaboration with the United Nations (UN) Global Compact on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Ambition. The momentum of the continues to grow, with more and more companies now mobilized to accelerate both their adoption of ambitious corporate targets and integration of the 17 UN SDGs into core business management.

By embedding SDG-aligned practices deep into their business operations and across their value chains, these companies can make more rapid progress toward achieving the goals of the 2030 agenda.

The first round of the program successfully concluded in June, with over 600 companies across more than 65 countries participating and more than 1,200 company leaders taking part in accelerator workshops. The results were overwhelmingly positive, with 89% of participants satisfied with the program and 88% agreeing that the accelerator helped them identify new ways for their company to contribute to the SDGs. Additionally, we are about to launch a second round of the program, with an enhanced curriculum and multiple additional local tracks, including in Australia, Korea, Kenya, Argentina, and Canada. So far, more than 700 companies from over 80 countries have signed up.

Accenture shares SAP鈥檚 vision of zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality. To achieve a sustainable world, organizations have to transform into intelligent enterprises, and intelligent enterprises have to form a network of intelligent enterprises.

In addition to the accepted top line and bottom line, a new 鈥済reen line鈥� covering the environmental, social, and governance aspects needs to be established as another dimension of success across business processes and along value chains. This way, organizations achieve transparency and influence that span beyond even company borders.

Accenture and 51风流together want to help organizations to become sustainable intelligent enterprises. To enable this, 51风流is developing new solutions and embedding sustainability into existing solutions along the dimensions climate action, the circular economy, and social responsibility, as well as holistic steering and reporting. Accenture is helping organizations to design and implement strategies for achieving ambitious sustainability goals by leveraging the growing portfolio of sustainability management solutions from SAP.

Climate Action: Enabling Our Customers to Move to Low-Carbon Business Models

51风流and Accenture work together to help organizations design and deliver carbon intelligence strategies that are powered by 51风流solutions and technologies and address both direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We help our clients to define their decarbonization strategies and road maps. These go beyond simply achieving a target but are also intended to help sustain and monitor future ways of working. Our objective is to empower organizations to move beyond a compliance and reporting mindset, and instead harness emission-related intelligence in their businesses as a lever for growth and strategic transformation.

With the 51风流solutions coming out of its Climate 21 initiative, we鈥檙e helping companies to accelerate their journeys to net zero, to kick-start the decarbonization of their end-to-end processes, and to integrate carbon emissions management into their business decision-making. All this is possible through 51风流Environment, Health, and Safety Management (emissions management), whih allows tracking and managing environmental footprints on a corporate level, and the recent release of 51风流Product Footprint Management, which allows calculating environmental footprints on product level at scale.

In addition, numerous 51风流solutions — including 51风流Ariba Procurement, 51风流Concur, and 51风流E-Mobility — will provide additional levers in the future for reducing scope 3 emissions.

Circular Economy: Joint Product Development

We have co-developed a new solution that 51风流intends to make generally available this month, 51风流Responsible Design and Production. The solution aims to address two critical challenges: managing complex extended producer responsibility regulations, which vary from country to country, and enabling every organization to reduce their use of plastic, thereby contributing to sustainable and profitable growth through less plastic, fewer fines, and lower cost.

Because 51风流Responsible Design and Production directly leverages data from core enterprise resource planning (ERP) processes, it enables determining waste compositions and calculating EPR fees across numerous product lines as well as adhering to a growing number of different extended producer responsibility declaration schemes. To date, we have four clients testing the beta version of the new solution, released at the end of August, and they will be closely involved in assessing new releases.

Expanding SAP.iO Sustainability Cohorts

We have already seen 13 startups selected and moving ahead through the Sustainable Future program (). We continue to build on that momentum together, jointly mobilizing through SAP.iO Foundries locations in New York, San Francisco, Paris, and Singapore, where we identify, select, and mentor new startups that will bring new ideas to help solve our customers鈥� sustainability challenges in energy and natural resources, retail, and consumer goods.

Enabling Better ESG Reporting and Steering

Together, we are helping our customers achieve greater transparency in how they report on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. This includes addressing the data capture and integration challenge so they can successfully build an ESG capability and choosing the most appropriate reporting framework for their organization. Our objective is to help them achieve integrated reporting that captures both financial and non-financial metrics, keep up with fast-evolving regulatory demands, and create differentiated ESG value propositions for stakeholders across the various frameworks, including GRI, SASB, TCFD, and others.

The World Economic Forum Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics promotes the adoption of universal and common standards and disclosures, unlocking long-term value through greater transparency, accountability, and business transformation. Based on these metrics, 51风流is developing the 51风流Sustainability Control Tower solution, which leverages SAP鈥檚 leading data integration, data management, and analytics solutions. 51风流intends to make the solution generally available in December 2021.

Ready to Deliver Together

Our joint teams are ready to deliver. We are helping our clients to define their road maps, identify priorities, and accelerate their journeys through the selection and implementation of relevant 51风流S/4HANA capabilities and new 51风流solutions.

As we look ahead, we鈥檙e all focused on COP26 and the recommendations that emerge from it. To join us, s:

• Unlocking Promise of Sustainability in Asia-Pacific
  November 3, 2021, 9:00-10:15 a.m. GMT
  
• Business and Nature: Businesses Role in Realizing a Nature-Positive Economy
  November 8, 2021, 10:00-11:00 a.m. GMT
  

Learn more about our collaboration on sustainability here. Do not hesitate to get in touch to discuss how we can help you accelerate your transformation into a truly sustainable organization.

We look forward to sharing further progress soon.

Gunther Rothermel is senior vice president and head of Sustainability for 51风流S/4HANA at SAP.
Stephanie Guimbellot is managing director at Accenture and global lead for 51风流Sustainability and Innovation.

Unsurprisingly, many companies are daunted by the seemingly insurmountable challenges, so 51风流and Accenture are taking action to help them.

The Right Time

By now, we all know we must radically change the way businesses run, our impact on the environment, and the inequalities in society. That鈥檚 the only way to ensure a lifestyle that allows us to meet our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.

The signs are everywhere. Consumers are increasingly aware about the negative environmental impact of products and services, such as fast fashion, single-use plastics, food waste, and excessive packaging. They are demanding accountability and responsible business models from their favorite brands. Governments are increasing regulations around carbon emissions and waste management and are demanding manufacturers to take responsibility for their impact on the environment.

Enterprises are under pressure from investors to include their environmental, societal, and governance (ESG) factors in their financial performance reports. And finally, employees are increasingly vocal about the environmental policies and actions of their employers. Businesses know they need to act, but few are rising to the challenge.

A study by Accenture found while the United Nations (UN) Global Compact鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) program has challenged companies to enhance their commitment to the UN SDGs, only 25% have set goals aligned to societal or environmental needs. Although CEOs acknowledge the universal call-to-action to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, less than 50% have implemented sustainability into their operations.

The Challenge

As a survey of business drivers and actions to improve the environment at planetary scale conducted by 51风流Insights revealed there are numerous barriers. Almost 7,500 CEOs and other business leaders from 16 industries around the globe participated in the survey. The top three reasons they cited for not moving ahead were lack of clarity on how to embed sustainability in business processes and IT systems, lack of clarity on how potential actions would align with strategy, and difficulty proving return on investment. Other factors include lack of funding, lack of expertise, or lack of support from senior management.

The challenges are daunting, which is why solving sustainability issues is not something individual corporations or governments can do alone.听 The way ahead involves . In this decade of delivery, partnerships are crucial.

A Will and a Way

Accenture and SAP, for example, have just announced they are expanding their long-term engagement to help companies embed sustainability across the full spectrum of their business operations. This will help unlock new value and realize long-term growth.

By combining 51风流technology with 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 , the partners plan to jointly create new solutions that can empower companies to accelerate their progress on decarbonizing their supply chains and capture their share of the projected $4.5 trillion economic growth that the .

Together, Accenture and 51风流will develop the new 51风流Responsible Production and Design solution, which will help companies consume fewer resources and build sustainability within the design process. It will also enable companies to apply analytics to the operational, asset, and process data collected across the value chain. Such an integrated view will help them determine clear sustainability goals and metrics across business processes.

As a result, companies will be able to reduce the costs of compliance and extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulation by designing and producing products with .

Accenture also supports SAP鈥檚 initiative, which allows companies in any industry to use analytics to measure and minimize carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and lower the carbon footprint across the product life cycle. Adding sustainability metrics across the supply chain provides an integrated view of environmental savings and helps optimize operations.

This type of co-innovation could help solve some of the barriers cited in the 51风流Insights survey. Embedding sustainability in business processes and IT systems and measuring return on investment (ROI) gives enterprises a better understanding of how to fund their sustainability efforts. With time and success companies can gain expertise, set aside funds, and engage senior leadership to support their sustainability journey.

Call to Action

The Accenture study identifies three things leaders anywhere in any industry can do to start implementing and scaling plans of action to address climate change, social inequalities, and resource availability.

• Raise ambition and impact: Leaders must drive change in their own organizations, and through the disruption of market systems.
• Change collaboration: Key players must connect in new ways because meaningful transformation is not a solo sport.
• Redefine responsible leadership: Leaders must embrace their role as change agents to champion the sustainability agenda.

To learn more about the 51风流and Accenture partnership for a sustainable future, join the virtual听, taking place April 28-29. The event will focus on how companies are reducing their environmental footprints and managing limited resources productively while steering and reporting their businesses holistically.

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Combining 51风流technology with 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 and broad industry knowledge, the partners are expanding their alliance to jointly create new solutions that can empower companies to accelerate their progress on fully de-carbonizing their supply chains and capture their share of the projected $4.5 trillion economic growth that the circular economy could bring.*

Through this extended partnership, Accenture and 51风流plan to co-innovate and co-develop SAP鈥檚 new solution for responsible production and design, which includes capabilities that help companies embed sustainability metrics across their value and supply chains with a focus on product design and manufacturing. Using integrated data from across operations, companies can better design and produce products with less waste, improved recyclability and more recycled content. This will also help reduce the growing cost of compliance driven by new regulations for packaging and extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulations.

鈥淥ur work together will enable SAP鈥檚 customers, which include 92% of the Forbes Global 2000, to use their core systems to help drive their sustainability agenda, optimize their ESG performance and achieve their goals,鈥� said Julie Sweet, chief executive officer at Accenture. 鈥淭his expanded collaboration builds on our long history with 51风流鈥� including our joint partnership with the 鈥� and our shared commitment to drive adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals.鈥�

Accenture also supports SAP鈥檚 initiative, which allows companies in any industry to use analytics to measure and minimize carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and lower the carbon footprint across the product lifecycle. For instance, research shows that emissions from upstream suppliers are on average over five times as high as those from direct operations.** With sustainability metrics added across the end-to-end supply chain, companies gain an integrated view of environmental savings and cost impacts and more easily optimize their operations.

鈥淭o successfully tackle the greatest threat to our world today, we need to collaborate at every level of business and society,鈥� said Christian Klein, chief executive officer at SAP. 鈥淏uilding on our long-standing and trusted partnership, 51风流and Accenture are joining forces to help our customers realize long-term growth in a sustainable way. We鈥檙e creating visibility into the environmental impact across the entire value chain, providing enterprises with the insights they need to take the right action and accelerate their transition to the circular economy.鈥�

Last month, 51风流and Accenture kicked off a global sustainability-focused accelerator program at Foundries. The Sustainable Future program, the largest cohort in SAP.iO to date, aims to help early-stage B2B startups drive digital transformation and innovation in four target areas: carbon tracking and trading, resource efficiency, climate risk tracking and mitigation, and circular economy. Thirteen startups have been selected to work with SAP.iO Foundries Berlin and Munich, in tandem with Accenture experts and leading companies in various industries.

鈥淚mplementing sustainable supply chain management and circular economy principles is an incredibly challenging task for companies, given the diverse set of ESG issues and multiple stakeholders involved,鈥� said Bjoern Stengel, senior research analyst, Worldwide Business Consulting and ESG Business Services at IDC. 鈥淎ccording to IDC鈥檚 research, issues around enterprises鈥� value creation process 鈥� product design and lifecycle management, materials sourcing, etc. 鈥� are the ESG topics that will generate the greatest near-term demand. This new offering from Accenture and 51风流allows clients to generate critical, data-driven end-to-end insights that take into consideration non-financial metrics that are needed to build sustainable supply chains and help companies create shared value.鈥�

This collaboration is the latest in a series of initiatives from Accenture and 51风流that help businesses capture value from sustainability. The United Nations Global Compact with the support of Accenture and 51风流SE, supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SDG Ambition in January 2020 and the SDG Ambition and Integration Guides in September 2020. Together, through the SDG Ambition Accelerator that began in February 2021, more than in 65 countries are being upskilled to apply these tools to their businesses.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services鈥攁ll powered by the world鈥檚 largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 537,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at .

About SAP

SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 77% of the world鈥檚 transaction revenue touches an 51风流system. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit

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Customers are increasingly educated and demand products and services that minimize negative environmental impact. Investors are integrating climate risk in their portfolio strategies. Government regulation is on the rise around the world, affecting carbon emissions, waste management, product design, and producer responsibility. Employees are increasingly vocal about their employer鈥檚 environmental policies and actions, making it challenging for businesses to recruit top talent without a genuine environmental vision and track record.

Based on Accenture research*, enterprises with high ratings for environmental and social governance (ESG) performance attained operating margins nearly four-times higher than those with low ESG ratings and generated annual total returns to shareholders that were double their peers. According , 54% of CEOs agree sustainability is critical to the future success of their organizations, and 71% of investors believe the pandemic will accentuate global policies to tackle risks related to climate change.

From Periphery to Core

Enterprises must show accountability through ESG performance and manage end-to-end operations responsibly. By reimagining its business model, any company can operate in an intelligent way, minimize negative environmental impact, and unleash a new dimension of enterprise resource planning (ERP). Decision-makers can use this intelligence to design better products, create engaging experiences, and equip employees to do their best work by eliminating busywork. They can create an efficient, ethical, and adaptable supply chain, reaching beyond organizations and first-tier suppliers to proactively manage performance and risks with trading partners around the world.

Just like any other core business function, sustainability performance must also be managed in real time and integrated into wider business decision making. True, integrated reporting will go hand-in-hand with ESG management, and information transparency will provide a solid foundation to optimize financial results and sustainability performance together.

Most companies have a long way to go before they move beyond the basics of simply reporting ESG performance to actively steering their business operations toward ambitious sustainability goals. While the UN Global Compact鈥檚 SDG Ambition program has challenged companies to enhance their commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), only aligned to societal or environmental needs. Although CEOs acknowledge the universal call-to-action to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, into their operations.

Words into Actions

If we plan to deliver on the UN SDGs by 2030, the performance of every process and product must be measured, managed, and delivered against sustainability goals. It is an imperative that spans across the value chain 鈥� from companies鈥� key design decisions to product lifecycle management.

51风流and Accenture believe that steering a company holistically 鈥� by looking not only at financials, but also at the social and green bottom lines 鈥� leads to better management decisions and more resiliency in their value chain. 51风流S/4HANA helps companies to drive bottom line profitability through operational efficiency, top line growth and adaptability. It offers flexible business model innovation and transparency into its green line environmental responsibility. 51风流and 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 goal is to make sustainability profitable and profitability sustainable.

To achieve this, enterprises must integrate sustainability into the heart of their strategy and core business systems. This is the rationale behind the collaboration between 51风流and Accenture, which focuses on innovation, development, and scaling sustainability across four go-to-market sustainability initiatives:

SDG Ambition: Scaling Business Impact for Decade of Action

The first of these initiatives is our partnership with the UN Global Compact on the SDG Ambition. 听Announced at the World Economic Forum 2020 in Davos with 3M as Patron Sponsor, 51风流and Accenture are rolling out the SDG Ambition through the . This includes how to implement these goals at a systemic level and how to develop new capabilities powered by 51风流technologies. As of today, more than 600 companies have already signed up for the program.

51风流and Accenture are working together to co-innovate and develop new 51风流solutions that address sustainability and enhance existing core technologies. Both new and existing systems have a role to play in the other three joint sustainability initiatives.

Circular Economy: Taking Action Toward a Zero-Waste Economy

The power of 51风流and 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 partnership enables their customers to better manage material flows through their supply chains and innovate business processes to accelerate the circular economy. The initial focus is on packaging in the consumer goods and retail industries, specifically accelerating the development and delivery of the 51风流Responsible Design and Production solution. Designing and promoting reusable products to address waste management is a fundamental principle of the circular economy.

Decarbonization: Enabling Our Customers to Contribute to a Zero-Carbon Economy

51风流and Accenture are working together to offer intelligent technologies that help companies 鈥� especially in natural resources, energy, and utilities 鈥� account, analyze, manage, and ultimately reduce carbon emissions. If companies cannot account for and manage total carbon emissions, they could lose their competitive edge. Solutions such as the Climate 21 initiative and 51风流Product Footprint Management help companies to embed sustainability as a new dimension of success into their analytical and transactional applications to enable ERP and intelligent enterprise to optimize their resources not only of an individual enterprise but across value chains for the entire product life cycle.

Startups: Collaborating with Innovators to Create a Positive Impact on Both Society and Business

Accenture and 51风流are also tapping into their respective global innovation networks to nurture and engage startups through a to help address climate action, carbon reporting, and circular economy challenges across industries. Together, 51风流and Accenture will leverage this rich source of creativity to help solve our customers鈥� biggest sustainability challenges.

Helping Companies Become 鈥淭win Transformers鈥�

Untapped value exists at the intersection of digital technologies and sustainability, though only a few companies 鈥� referred to 鈥� already link the two.

From now on, twin transformation 鈥� directing innovation investment to initiatives that combine sustainability impact and the power of technology as opposed to splitting resources between advancing sustainability and technology deployment 鈥� will be critical to success. Companies that harness emerging technologies while finding new sources of value and pushing for green operations will gain a competitive advantage.

Our customers provide daily proof of just how relevant our solutions are. Together, 51风流and Accenture are committed to working with customers to make their sustainability ambitions a reality.

We are showcasing our 听vision to jointly build a sustainable future at the on April 28 and 29. Stay tuned for updates!

Jan Gilg is president of 51风流S/4HANA at SAP.
Peter Lacy is chief responsibility officer and Global Sustainability Services lead at Accenture.

*Source: Research analysis by Arabesque S Ray

Recent M&A activity meant FMC would need to consolidate and integrate legacy back-end systems to make the most of the acquisition, a challenging task that the company鈥檚 leadership entrusted vice president of Procurement, Thaisa Hugenneyer, to solve.

We recently sat down virtually with Hugenneyer to learn more about FMC鈥檚 digital transformation strategy and how a recent upgrade to 51风流S/4HANA and integrated business planning has helped FMC modernize a global landscape of IT systems and disparate business processes.

An Acquisition Sparks Innovation

FMC鈥檚 51风流S/4HANA implementation journey began with its acquisition of DuPont鈥檚 Crop Protection Business, a move aimed at expanding the company鈥檚 agricultural sciences offerings and capabilities. While this would create efficiencies needed to support FMC鈥檚 transformation, the disparate IT landscape听 and lack of harmonized business processes had to be addressed.

No stranger to a technological challenge, the company opted to invest in a greenfield 51风流S/4HANA implementation that would make this integration — and future acquisitions — easy to navigate.

鈥淥ur vision centered on one, standardized system with a single set of global processes for our company,鈥� Hugenneyer said. With its implementation strategy and a strong partnership with 51风流MaxAttention and Accenture, which has led more than 500 successful customer implementations, as well as a consulting partner in place, the new 51风流S/4HANA system would create instant value for the company, allowing FMC to map all processes across its global operations.

The World Goes Virtual

In the middle of the implementation, the global pandemic struck, forcing workforces across the world to transition to remote work. By design, Hugenneyer had developed a best practice years earlier centered on remote collaboration, which mitigated the impact the pandemic had on the implementation project.

鈥淲e were already well adjusted to remote work as most of our team worked in different areas of the world,鈥� Hugenneyer explained. 鈥淲hen the pandemic started impacting the world, we were already in year three of our program and we had a strong group of colleagues who were working remotely already.鈥�

This included the implementation partner鈥檚 team and 51风流MaxAttention, which led advisory and safeguarding services for a full, integrated approach. Another ingredient for success: Hugenneyer鈥檚 change management strategy. This would not be a simple system implementation; the new 51风流S/4HANA system would drive immense value for the organization, but it would require a special focus on business readiness given the scope of the transformation. Hugenneyer navigated this change by partnering with company leadership and leading close collaboration with the business to help them adjust and take advantage of the new systems.

51风流S/4HANA Delivers a Path to New Growth for FMC

Since its last go-live, FMC has already seen immense value from 51风流S/4HANA.

鈥淚t鈥檚 an enabler for us to evolve our operating model — we now have one global process where we are able to truly have center-led functions with centralized transactions,鈥� said Hugenneyer.

As someone who is heavily engaged in the IT community, Hugenneyer shared several key learnings gathered from the project. First, focus on building the perfect team composed of the best and diverse talent. Results are only as strong as the team driving them, she said. Second, take advantage of the resources that 51风流provides to 51风流S/4HANA customers, including hypercare, and consider as a value driver. Third, think bigger than system implementations. Projects of this size and scope require leaders, including IT, to become culture and change management facilitators given the potential solutions like 51风流S/4HANA have to drive growth.

For Hugenneyer, an industry veteran who has years of experience leading successful projects for global teams, all three factors set FMC up for success.

Lloyd Adams is senior vice president and managing director of the East Region for 51风流North America.

Sustainable Future is the largest SAP.iO cohort to date. Thirteen startups have been selected to work with SAP.iO Foundries Berlin and Munich, in tandem with Accenture experts and leading companies in various industries.

鈥淭o address global challenges such as climate change, businesses must partner on all levels and across organizations, industries and regions,鈥� said Daniel Schmid, 51风流chief sustainability officer. 鈥淭eaming up with Accenture to accelerate early-stage startups is part of our holistic innovation approach to integrate new solutions in our portfolio that help our customers understand and improve their environmental and societal impact.鈥�

Sustainable Future is an equity-free program that seeks to propel digital transformation and corporate-startup innovation in four target areas including carbon tracking听and trading, resource efficiency, climate risk tracking and mitigation, and circular economy. The program builds upon 51风流and 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 long-standing partnership and shared commitment to using technology to help the world build a more sustainable future.

鈥淥ur clients are increasingly turning to technology to enable sustainability agendas across their business and deliver on their purpose-based missions to drive value for their stakeholders,鈥� said Caspar Borggreve, global lead for the Accenture 51风流Business Group. 鈥淭ogether with SAP, we are helping startups bring innovation to life with solutions and services that allow companies to raise the bar by integrating sustainability into their core processes, strategies and operating models.鈥�

The startups in this cohort will receive curated mentorship, access to 51风流technology and application programming interfaces (APIs), and exposure to 51风流and Accenture customers to develop high-impact proofs of concept. The accelerator program will run for three months and conclude with a demo day on July 8, 2021.

The Sustainable Future cohort includes the following startups:

• provides an integrated platform to access, analyze and deliver earth-observing data and geospatial information using artificial intelligence (AI).
• motivates and rewards employees in a playful manner to participate in healthy and environmentally friendly activities.
• measures and analyzes common pollutants like nitrogen oxides, ozone or particulate matter in real time using machine learning and Big Data technologies.
• has built the largest and most regionalized lifecycle database for the chemical industry to help companies reduce their environmental impact with evidence-based guidance.
• is a digital platform that monitors the circular performance of different suppliers, products, components and materials throughout supply chains to improve their impact on people and the planet.
• is a mobile application that promotes source transparency and enables consumers to check the ingredients in food and cosmetics by scanning the barcode.
• helps businesses measure, report and reduce their carbon footprint across their operations and supply chains by automating data collection and processing.
• enables consumers to accurately measure their feet at home and find the right shoe size, thus avoiding returns, costs and CO₂ emissions for online retailers.
• provides traceability from the extraction of raw materials until the final disposal of generated waste using blockchain technology to create transparency across the supply chain.
• uses machine learning, AI, data scraping and cohort analysis to recommend the most nutritious and more sustainable ingredients for food companies.
• is an AI-powered waste detection system to improve the performance of recycling companies, from waste collection to sorting and recycling.
• helps retail brands enact their rental business model and successfully enter the circular economy.
• connects consumers to restaurants and stores that have unsold, surplus food to fight food waste.

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鈥淲hen a celebrity wears our product, it certainly creates a buzz around the company,鈥� said Carhartt CIO John Hill. 鈥淚t raises brand awareness and exposes products that some consumers may not be aware of.鈥�

Behind the scenes, technology transformation became crucial for Carhartt to keep up with fast-paced growth. So, after more than 130 years in business and continued growth in popularity, it became imperative for U.S.-based company to transform both its apparel offerings and its business foundation.

鈥淚t鈥檚 important to realize that Carhartt was as far away from a virtual company as you could be,鈥� Hill said. 鈥淲e quickly realized that not only did we need to transform our technology, but also the processes that the technology was enabling. We identified hundreds of pain points that existed across that value chain. And if we can get rid of those pain points with 51风流technology, ultimately we were going to provide a better experience for our associates and our customers.鈥�

After thoroughly researching different options, Carhartt realized tapping the power of SAP’s intelligent enterprise was the best solution. Yet this hugely innovative upgrade coincided with one of the biggest challenges of our time; believe it or not, Carhartt went live during the worst of the pandemic.

Closing Shop Was Never an Option

It was a top priority for Carhartt to remain open and provide a frictionless shopping experience for customers, ensuring there was no downtime and no negative impacts on business. 鈥淎t the end of the day, the brand needs to be able to react to the demands of those customers. Ultimately the customer doesn’t care what it takes to deliver,鈥� said Hill.

With his office closed, Hill鈥檚 technology team prepared to go live while they worked from their homes.

鈥淵ou can’t underestimate the challenge of doing a large scale of digital transformation, while you’re growing the business at the pace we are, and still serving customers,鈥� said Hill.

Yet, he shares that bringing 51风流technology online proved easy.

鈥淔rankly, the harder thing in dealing with a pandemic has been there’s no blueprint of how to plan,鈥� Hill shared. 鈥淲e were taking down our revenue on a weekly basis, and then increasing it the next week. So it was a very difficult year from that perspective. The actual technology transformation felt like a more normal course of business during the year.鈥�

Strained Supply Chains

Businesses across the planet share Carhartt鈥檚 forecasting challenges.

鈥淧eople know what they want and they want it when they want it,鈥� said President of 51风流North America DJ Paoni. 鈥淎nd they know how they want it. Every customer in every industry has acknowledged that COVID-19 has put the maturing of the global economy on fast-forward. So those companies that have a more sophisticated digital technology are certainly able to pivot faster and connect with their customers on a whole new level.鈥�

Carhartt believes further investment in digital technologies is a winning strategy that will also provide a fantastic experience for customers.

鈥淪o far, we implemented 51风流solutions to support our retail businesses,鈥� said Hill. 鈥淭his year, we will be implementing solutions to support our wholesale and our direct-to-consumer e-commerce business. I believe that the marketplace has continued to reward those customers that deliver not only a great product, but also a digitally native experience.鈥�

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Using intelligent technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the 51风流S/4HANA Cloud solution for upstream oil and gas helps customers to further increase visibility into operations and cash flow. Additionally, the solution includes contributions from leading global oil and gas companies such as ConocoPhillips and Shell.

鈥淲orking together with Accenture and a consortium of industry leaders, we have delivered an industry-defined intelligent solution that has the capabilities upstream oil and gas companies need to reduce complexity by using market standards,鈥� said Benjamin Beberness, 51风流global vice president of the Oil and Gas Business Unit. 鈥�51风流S/4HANA Cloud for upstream oil and gas is a flexible and agile solution that can provide customers a 360-degree view of the intelligent enterprise 鈥� from operations to the boardroom, enabling operational excellence.鈥�

Now generally available globally, 51风流S/4HANA Cloud for upstream oil and gas is a scalable solution that can help oil and gas companies reduce total cost of ownership and operational costs, as well as create new revenue opportunities. Tools for preconfigured, integrated and user-friendly business processes are included so that companies can shrink implementation time while working to reduce risk of business disruption. The solution delivers new industry standards that help simplify operations and free up resources to drive more business value.

To define market-standard end-to-end processes that are preconfigured within the solution, 51风流and Accenture are working with a consortium comprised of leading exploration and production companies including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Equinor and Shell.

鈥淐onocoPhillips collaborated with 51风流and Accenture for more than two years to launch this solution, based on a flexible cloud architecture that can scale and deliver real-time insights into oil and gas upstream processes,鈥� said Mike Pfister, CIO, ConocoPhillips.

鈥淭his release represents an important milestone demonstrating the impact of our ongoing collaboration,鈥� said Scott Wahl, CIO Upstream, Shell. 鈥淲e look forward to continuing to work together to deliver a mature solution that creates business value for the upstream oil and gas industry.鈥�

鈥�51风流and Accenture are delivering a solution that brings in innovative technologies like AI to deliver real-time insights, greater visibility and better decision-making,鈥� said Jan van den Bremen, a senior managing director and lead for Accenture Intelligent Platform Services in Europe. 鈥淲e are proud to be the only 51风流co-development partner working side by side to deliver leading oil and gas industry solutions. We鈥檝e worked with 51风流and leaders in the oil and gas industry to co-develop a solution that helps enable faster adoption of new technologies to better manage changing market conditions.鈥�

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions 鈥� underpinned by the world鈥檚 largest delivery network 鈥� Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 505,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at .

About SAP

As the Experience Company powered by the Intelligent Enterprise, 51风流is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 77% of the world鈥檚 transaction revenue touches an SAP庐 system. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables more than 440,000 business and public customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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