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 .

Kai Muehlbauer is head of AI Product and Partner Management at SAP.
Sara Alligood is global AWS head of 51风流at Amazon Web Services.

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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鈥淥ne of our key differentiators is how we put innovation at the core of what we do,鈥� he says. 鈥淥ur experience with 51风流BTP, the opportunities it provides for innovation, and the value we have leveraged for our customers is intrinsic to us as a business. So many organizations, large and small, deliver transformation projects. But what does 鈥榞ood鈥� look like and how can that be delivered? These are the questions we always ask ourselves. Developing solutions that solve real business challenges, across industries and lines of business, and demonstrating how they can be applied to a customer鈥檚 business is pivotal in strengthening existing relationships and winning new customers.鈥�

Baukham, who鈥檚 an 51风流technical architect by profession, specializing in 51风流BTP, was 鈥� together with colleagues 鈥� instrumental in collaborating with 51风流on the platform鈥檚 development, helping in the very early days of its inception to shape it into the platform known and used today by partners worldwide.

Indeed, Baukham鈥檚 team made a name for itself by developing web-based user interfaces on top of what were then SAP鈥檚 fairly basic solutions and, therefore, became involved in the very early discussions about how to update and move 51风流forward.

鈥淲e recognized the platform as being the best way to innovate around the core to give our clients something that met their very specific needs,鈥� he says. 鈥淭he platform has now evolved and that approach is now standard, but in the early days it wasn鈥檛.鈥�

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He says that 51风流BTP is a way for the team to 鈥渄emo the art of the possible,鈥� delivering a completely different user-experience or bringing a different vision to 51风流solutions. It鈥檚 a platform that allows customers to leverage their investment in 51风流and gives them an advantage in the market, whether through finding more efficient ways of working or identifying and opening up new revenue streams.

鈥淢eeting with a client and talking about integration and databases is not going to cut it with the people in the room that are there to make business decisions and who ultimately will be using the technology. They鈥檙e not interested,” he says. “It鈥檚 more helpful to discuss 51风流BTP and how it can be the platform for continuous innovation and for delivering real benefits to a business. We change the conversation so that it鈥檚 about the benefits the tech can bring, where we can see things need to be improved, either based on other customers鈥� similar challenges or from the experience of our vast network of 51风流consultants.鈥�

51风流BTP is 鈥渢he platform where we can do things differently,鈥� he continues, and is 鈥渃entral鈥� to many conversations with existing or prospective customers. While the team can use 51风流BTP to manage the standard things 鈥� like integrating 51风流solutions to other systems, closing any gaps that have been identified, or looking at analytics 鈥� Baukham is clear that the real benefit comes from how the platform is used holistically. 鈥淭his isn鈥檛 about focusing on one particular area, but how you can use all the surfaces together to deliver a much better experience. This is about putting the users first: it has to be easy to use otherwise people avoid using it.鈥�

In client discussions, Deloitte covers all aspects of the platform. 鈥淩egardless of where clients are on their 51风流journey 鈥� whether they鈥檙e on a legacy system or ready to do a transformation 鈥� we look at whether they need a UI refresh, whether they need to simplify some apps to make it easier for transformation, whether it鈥檚 greenfield, brownfield, or selective. We look at where 51风流BTP lays in that,鈥� Baukham explains. 鈥淏ut we also then have the conversations around what鈥檚 next 鈥� once the transformation is complete, how can we help them to address other pain points that may not have been solved. Do we bring in more analytics so they have the data on hand to make decisions quicker? Do we look at the smarter technologies, the bots that can help to perform some of the more mundane tasks more easily? If they鈥檙e doing the same processes or making the same kind of decisions, do they need someone to do that or can machine learning do that for them instead? We鈥檝e always been good at pushing the boundaries and exploring what鈥檚 possible. When augmented reality first came out, a lot of competitors were using it for gimmicky things. What we did was to take CEO reports and explain and display them in 3D so people could interact with them. What we do is to try to turn these new technologies into a business case: how you can use these technologies through 51风流BTP to enhance your experience?鈥�

The three things Baukham likes best about 51风流BTP are the flexibility, the sheer volume of services available that can all integrate smoothly with SAP, and the fact that the platform is continually evolving. 鈥淏ecause it moves forward and embraces new tech, you don鈥檛 feel it鈥檚 ever going to get old. It grows with the times,鈥� he says.

He also says it鈥檚 inspiring to see how the platform can be used in different ways. While it is largely used to support internal processes, for some of Deloitte鈥檚 customers it has been used to help deliver external services, opening up completely new revenue streams.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a completely different way of looking at 51风流BTP,鈥� Baukham says. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e looking at the layer underneath the analytics, the federation of data across multiple sources. While you鈥檙e not looking to replicate that 鈥� that data stays where it is 鈥� you can still model it through some common data models, KPIs, and dashboards and some of our customers have done that and brought real benefit to their end customers. In both cases, we put ourselves in the shoes of their end customers to develop a new approach. That鈥檚 down to the innovative nature of 51风流BTP and the way you can make it work for you.鈥�

As this industry grew, the city attracted entrepreneurs, investors, and engineers to become the 鈥�.鈥� Wichita now nationally at No. 1 in manufacturing jobs as a percentage of all jobs and No. 3 in percentage of jobs classified as 鈥渧ery high-tech.鈥�

The recent launch of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, a new, immersive across a variety of use cases, is the latest milestone in the city鈥檚 proud history of innovation. The project, led by Deloitte, aims to accelerate digital transformation in manufacturing and address the challenges organizations are facing, including a volatile global economy, supply chain issues, labor shortages, and more, to help navigate today and build competitive advantage for the future. For visitors, it鈥檚 an opportunity to see first-hand how Industry 4.0 solutions bring connectivity, intelligence, and transparency to the supply chain within a fully operational, smart manufacturing environment.

The Smart Factory @ Wichita is expected to host more than 5,000 visitors over the next year. The 60,000 square-foot facility is housed on the Innovation Campus at Wichita State University, where it is connected to the university-managed smart grid and has renewable energy generation on-site. As a showcase for the future of manufacturing, The Smart Factory @ Wichita operates sustainably at net-zero energy consumption and is outfitted with wind trees, solar assets, and smart lighting.

The Smart Factory @ Wichita recently celebrated its opening with a summit in June. 51风流is proud to be a founding sponsor 鈥� along with Deloitte, Dragos, Infor, Siemens, and Wichita State University 鈥� within an extended ecosystem that includes stakeholders from software, hardware, robotics, consulting, academia, and others.

Darcy MacClaren, senior vice president of Digital Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 for 51风流North America, . She believes the facility is a must-see experience for customers.

鈥淭he Smart Factory @ Wichita is a truly unique experience for visitors to envision how Industry 4.0 can drive value for their business,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 cannot emphasize the value of the real-life experience strongly enough. The immersion in the live production environment allows visitors to experience smart manufacturing concepts in a way that鈥檚 not possible through standard conversations or presentations.鈥�

De-Globalization Opens the Way for Innovation

The launch of The Smart Factory @ Wichita comes at a critical time as businesses search for solutions to overcome manufacturing challenges. As a result of the pandemic and supply chain pressures, deglobalization is leading businesses to diversify their supply chains away from dependence on one supplier or region. As recently reported in , many businesses are looking for ways to move their manufacturing capabilities closer to home and improve automation.

鈥淲hile there鈥檚 recognition in the industry that the evolution to true end-to-end smart manufacturing is a must-have in today鈥檚 ever-shifting environment, at the same time, it is challenging for an organization to put the necessary complex architecture in place on its own,鈥� says Stephen Laaper, principal and smart factory leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP. 鈥淚n response, we saw a huge opportunity to convene an ecosystem of world-class solution and technology providers and bring together the Internet of Things, cloud, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and more under one roof at The Smart Factory @ Wichita.鈥�

Showcasing 51风流Solutions for Industry 4.0

The Smart Factory @ Wichita brings the to life, providing organizations an under-the-hood view of how 51风流solutions support digital transformation and intelligent automation, the underlying concepts of Industry 4.0. More than 50 use cases for smart manufacturing are available on-site, ensuring that both supply chain experts and newcomers will find the content accessible and informative.

鈥淭he Smart Factory @ Wichita is a terrific showcase of the digital supply chain technology that helps our customers unlock the value of Industry 4.0,鈥� says MacClaren. Visitors will see an impressive array of advanced robotics and automation that power everything from the shop floor to the robot coffee baristas. At the core is 51风流S/4HANA, the intelligent enterprise cloud solution that runs mission-critical operations with integrated supply chain solutions for manufacturing and asset management. These and other digital solutions enable the physical production line on the shop floor.

The next step, according to MacClaren, is to enable the full end-to-end supply chain scenario, including 51风流technology supporting product innovation for R&D and engineering, logistics for warehousing and transportation, and supply chain planning.

For customers during their innovation journey, the solution offers business transformation-as-a-service to smooth the evolution to a cloud-based, intelligent enterprise that runs smart manufacturing solutions. Find out about .

STEM Education Kits to Empower Students

Core to the purpose of The Smart Factory @ Wichita is its mission as a factory that helps produce and distribute a product with a purpose. In partnership with , The Smart Factory @ Wichita turns out components for Smart Rover Kits, all of which use 100% recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) collected from the local recycling stream as the primary raw material, bringing the circular economy to life.

The kits are then assembled and shipped to schools with initial donations impacting 1,000 middle school students in Metro Detroit, Philadelphia, and Wichita. The program aims to reach 800,000 students in the U.S. over the next four years. The mission of Deloitte鈥檚 Smart Factory Believers Program is to empower the traditionally underrepresented students of today to become the diverse STEM innovators of tomorrow.

Closing the Skills Gap in Partnership with Industry

The Smart Factory @ Wichita also serves Wichita State University students as an applied learning environment for smart manufacturing and its impact on sustainability outcomes. The need is critical, according to a from Deloitte: 鈥淭he manufacturing industry is facing a skills and talent gap that will leave 2 million of nearly 3.5 million manufacturing jobs unfilled.鈥�

鈥淲e鈥檙e building traction as an emerging leader in the field of digital transformation; and trailblazers 鈥� like Deloitte 鈥� are taking notice that Wichita State鈥檚 research and expertise give them a competitive edge,鈥� said Dr. Rick Muma, president of Wichita State University. 鈥淎nd our students benefit from the applied learning opportunities that they鈥檒l gain at The Smart Factory @ Wichita. As Deloitte professionals educate the workforce of tomorrow, Shocker students train side-by-side with experts in the fields of smart manufacturing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and robotics.鈥�

For more information, visit . And to learn about 51风流solutions for smart manufacturing, industry 4.0, or supply chain, visit .

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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.

Against this backdrop, employee well-being has become a critical topic for business leaders. Many companies are coming to the realization that good people management is about taking care of the quality of life at work rather than just focusing on the quality of work produced by employees.

In trying to address overwork issues before they impact mental health, professional services company Deloitte is a pioneer.

鈥淚 know from my own personal experience that burnout is no fun for anyone from the point of view of physical and emotional health,鈥� said Jen Fisher, chief well-being officer at Deloitte US. 鈥淗owever, it鈥檚 also very bad for business. If your workforce is burned out, your productivity and profits are both affected.鈥�

Spotting the Warning Signs

According to Fisher, it鈥檚 important for managers to stay alert and look out for signs of strain among their teams. Is someone acting differently? Is their productivity down? Are they being negative when they normally have a positive outlook on life? Are they sending e-mails in the middle of the night? Fisher explains that these are clues that should prompt you to check how someone鈥檚 doing and see if they鈥檙e overloaded with work.

Establishing a culture of openness is also crucial to help ensure that people ask for help when they need it. 鈥淥ne thing I鈥檝e learned is that if you鈥檙e feeling under pressure, there is someone else around you who will be feeling the same thing,鈥� remarked Fisher. 鈥淭hey might just be afraid to say it.鈥�

Setting Boundaries to Help Maintain Work-Life Balance

Fisher believes that helping employees set their own boundaries in regard to work-life balance is crucial if you are to create a happy and healthy working environment. 鈥淲e lock up our cars and other possessions, but when it comes to one of our most precious assets 鈥� our time and energy 鈥� we just give it away,鈥� said Fisher.

Here, employers have an important role to play in discouraging 鈥渟elf-sacrificial鈥� behaviors, such as people staying up all night to complete a project. It鈥檚 also important to create an environment where employees feel that they can disconnect from technology for an hour or two without disastrous consequences.

Making the Connection Between Well-Being and Performance

As well as helping create a happy workforce, the business case for prioritizing well-being in your organization is powerful. 鈥淭here鈥檚 a clear connection between well-being and performance, and care initiatives really hit the bottom line, with impacts on everything from productivity to absenteeism and staff retention,鈥� said Fisher. 鈥淯ltimately, if you don鈥檛 invest in your people, your business will suffer.鈥�

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Deb Lyons is senior director of Global Marketing for 51风流SuccessFactors.

51风流has native knowledge of its underlying applications and can easily map solution capabilities onto customers鈥� existing process challenges, in order to help them get the most out of the applications. Solutions from Signavio add process modeling, mining, and management software to the mix. Along with the vast process data to which 51风流solutions already have access, the result is a comprehensive offering to transform business processes.

Showcasing 51风流Process Insights

The next solution in the BPI portfolio is , planned to reach general availability in the third quarter of 2021. With this technology, enterprises can make the shift from transformation based on instinct or 鈥済ut feeling鈥� to data-based process improvement. 51风流Process Insights enables organizations to generate dynamic, real-time reports that assess the speed and efficiency of existing business processes.

Armed with this knowledge, businesses can then more quickly compare and contrast the performance of their own processes against a vault of over 300 different key performance indicators (KPIs) derived from the aggregated data of thousands of 51风流customers around the world.

51风流Process Insights can help businesses identify bottlenecks and, thanks to integration with and automated bot building, introduce recommended improvements with corrective actions, then align operations through automated monitoring capabilities. This supports both rapid cost and time savings, as well as longer term benefits in efficiency and process optimization.

Automated and advanced process data visualization builds a real-time picture of how a business really works. Coupled with live monitoring of process performance, organizations can increase operational transparency to break silos and meet consumer demands faster than ever.

The solution more quickly provides transparency about additional sources of value within the 51风流ERP application or 51风流S/4HANA, maximizing returns across business areas. Companies can boost continuous improvement initiatives with enhanced performance views and process drill downs, for a clearer understanding of business processes.

51风流Process Insights is positioned to help organizations make the right decisions across their business areas, including asset management, manufacturing, and logistics. This way, companies gain new levels of improvement in lockstep with enhanced business resilience, resulting in stability, business continuity, and lasting improvements to customer experience.

But don’t take our word for it. 51风流is offering organizations worldwide the chance to experience this and other BPI solutions 鈥� for free.

New Kick-Starter Offering

A new promotional offering* gives up to 300 organizations six months of free access to business process intelligence solutions to enable them to decide whether this technology provides the expected value and return on investment (ROI). In addition, 51风流is providing free service days to help kick-start implementation and help organizations get the most out of the solutions on offer.

This enterprise-grade program is designed to showcase the immediate value of end-to-end transformation by evaluating the status quo of process performance and ways to maximize business gains. Combining automated process data extraction, in-depth analysis, and data-driven process improvement recommendations can deliver significant value to a business.

This offer is a strong signal to 51风流customers that we are committed to supporting businesses around the world in achieving their maximum potential through ongoing, end-to-end business transformation. Organizations wishing to participate in this program can or contact their account executive to learn more.

*Editor’s note: This offering ended December 31, 2021.

Strategic Partnerships

We are also pleased to announce partnerships that can provide high value to customers and help them achieve true process transformation with BPI solutions from SAP. , , and are the initial ecosystem partners that have made a strategic decision to put BPI at the center of their process transformation practices.

These partnerships will combine the insights delivered through BPI process capabilities with the consultancies鈥� implementation expertise and market-leading tools and methodologies. This combination of insights, as well as implementation and process management practices, will provide organizations with holistic support to build the process foundation required to support the innovative edge of intelligent enterprises.

In addition, as a result of these partnerships, organizations that are working with Deloitte, EY, or Infosys to migrate their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to 51风流S/4HANA will benefit from a quicker time to value.

The partnership includes the 51风流Process Insights solution, as well as the process analytics, design, and optimization capabilities of Signavio, which 51风流acquired in March 2021.

Susan Rafizadeh is senior director of Global Marketing for Business Process Intelligence at SAP.

Drenched in a paradox that combines technology with the human experience, these were three major findings from the of 9,000 business and human resources (HR) leaders worldwide.

鈥淭his data gives us cause for hope because it shows that the greater value comes with the fusion of technology and humanity in the world today,鈥� said Kristin Starodub, principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP. 鈥淥rganizations that embed purpose, potential, and perspective into the DNA of who they are and how they operate have the opportunity to bring a human focus to everything they touch. This will empower people to be productive with technology, creating lasting value for the workforce and the organization.鈥�

Unlike traditional organizations, social enterprises aim to balance revenue growth and profits with support for the communities in which they exist. HR has a clear role in building worker resilience across these new enterprises for a competitive business advantage.

Positive Change Happens When People Unite for Shared Purpose

While employee well-being was the top ranked workforce trend in this study, most organizations have not taken full advantage of this opportunity. For example, 80 percent of survey respondents said that worker well-being was important or very important for company success over the next 12 to 19 months, yet only 12 percent felt ready to address that issue. In a heightened environment of rapid change, organizations need to move beyond managing employees for maximum productivity to greater adaptability. This shifts HR鈥檚 role to provide both human and technologically driven support.

鈥淧eople are actually highly adaptable to change when organizations provide them with a sense of purpose, community, and care,鈥� said Steve Hunt, chief expert, Work and Technology, 51风流North American Innovation Office. 鈥淥rganizations need to equip HR and front-line managers with and employee listening tools to understand workers鈥� experiences, as well as a suite of connected that allow them to create a culture that supports people dealing with an ever-accelerating pace of change.鈥�

It is not enough to merely ask employees questions during annual surveys. Organizations needs to ask the right questions at the right moments, using embedded to understand and quickly act on what employees are experiencing. This kind of pulse-taking moves beyond anecdotal, averaged feedback to actionable insights about individual workers and their managers.

Reinvent Workforce Development to Unleash Potential

Fifty-three percent of survey respondents said that between half and all their workforce will need to change their skills and capabilities in the next three years. Instead of anchoring business and HR strategies in what is known about the capabilities of their existing workforce, organizations need to look ahead and find ways to develop every worker鈥檚 true potential.

鈥淲e should be cautious about building HR programs or processes that are influenced by demographic variables that employees have no control over, like age,鈥� Hunt said. 鈥淏ias affects everyone to some degree, although it definitely hurts some groups far more than others. Bias prevents people from opportunities based on things that are irrelevant to their ability to do the actual job. Organizations need to focus on reducing bias, which means helping all people unlock their potential with new opportunities to contribute in different ways. This is critical to building a supportive, inclusive culture, which enables a resilient workforce that can overcome constant disruption.鈥�

Transform Uncertainty with Decisive Action

Ethical challenges are especially pronounced at the intersection of humanity and technology. Indeed, 85 percent of respondents in this study believed the future of work raised ethical challenges, but only 27 percent said they had clear policies and leaders in place to manage them.

Hunt sees diversity and compensation as two major ethical issues that are driven by everything from social media to demands for social justice. The antidote is twofold: organizations need to be transparent about how decisions that affect people鈥檚 lives are made and embed that approach in workplace technology.

鈥淐ompanies need open, honest conversations about how much employees are paid and why,鈥� he said. 鈥淏eing fairly paid is about understanding and accepting the criteria and decisions around someone鈥檚 compensation. Transparency and dialogue are equally important when it comes to inclusiveness. We need to have these uncomfortable conversations and root them in transparency that reflects the reality of the world and what we need to do to make it better.鈥�

Thriving in the Post-Pandemic Workplace

For chief human resource officers (CHROs), perhaps the best news from this study was that 93 percent of respondents believed HR remains a distinct and important function. HR can blend technology and humanity together and take a leading role in helping organizations 鈥� and their workforce 鈥� adapt to fast-changing employee and business demands. HR cannot control how much change employees face, but it can have a huge impact on people鈥檚 ability to effectively respond. This positions organizations to recover and thrive whatever the next decade brings. After all, adaptability is only human.

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To head off further disruption, participants in a 20-minute recorded webinar, presented by 51风流in partnership with management consultancy Deloitte, argued that business leaders must build supply chain resiliency through diversification of sourcing and distribution in a connected way that ensures transparency across the entire supply chain network.

鈥淭here are two differences here,鈥� said Jim Kilpatrick, Global Supply Chain and Network Operations leader for Deloitte, during the recent webinar about supply chain strategies for the COVID-19 crisis. 鈥淥ne is the demand side. If you鈥檙e selling into markets that are shut down, you鈥檝e seen a massive shock to the demand side. And in some cases, if you source out of an impacted market, you鈥檝e seen a shock to the supply side.鈥�

The webinar, 鈥�Leading with Confidence During Disruption: Supply Chain Strategies,鈥� provided the type of grab-and-go, pragmatic tips that managers could take with them to their next meeting, as well as more strategic advice about long-term solutions for reconfiguring supply chains for resiliency to weather a more protracted crisis. Along with Kilpatrick, it brought together a panel of experts that included host Tony Harris, global vice president of Supplier Solutions, SAP; Martin Barkman, senior vice president and global head of Solution Management and Digital Supply Chain, SAP; and Sean Thompson, executive vice president of Network and Ecosystem and Procurement Solutions, SAP.

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Gain Visibility into the Extended Supply Chain Network to Mitigate Risk

If a business has been impacted on the demand side, then it is imperative to have a clear understanding about the drivers of these changes, according to the webinar panelists. Have customers moved to a different service channel? Are there additional risks impacting demand in a specific region? Kilpatrick recommended focusing attention on forecasting cash flows, noting that it is not just the flow of product that matters now, but also the flow of cash and information.

On the supply side, Kilpatrick said that for those who have access to inventory, now is the time to revisit the inventory policy to be sure they are getting the appropriate allocations and decide where they need to inject incremental supply stock in the event that the supply chain is disrupted.

鈥淵ou need to get as much visibility as you can into your extended supply chain network,鈥� Kilpatrick advised. 鈥淲hat we were seeing in the early days was that it wasn鈥檛 necessarily the tier-one suppliers that were causing the shocks to the system 鈥� it was the suppliers鈥� suppliers.鈥�

Build Resilience by Creating a Digital Twin of the Supply Chain

Businesses are increasingly turning to digital solutions for the real-world problems brought on by COVID-19. Flexibility has become a key characteristic of resilient supply chains. Whether partnering with a new manufacturer or quickly identifying alternate logistical routes, businesses are relying on digital technologies now more than ever.

鈥淩esilient supply chains can flex 鈥� can bend 鈥� without breaking,鈥� Barkman said. 鈥淐ompanies that are best prepared are the ones that have created essentially a digital twin of their real-world supply chain that allows them to model, collaborate, and transact quickly, digitally, and frequently.鈥�

Catalyze Real-Time Connectivity in the Digital Supply Network

Access to real-time information in a connected network is a critical differentiator for a new approach to supply chains, as businesses realize the traditional linear supply chain model is no longer sufficient. Among the advantages of being in a network is sharing information in a transparent way that can help identify the specific risks that a supplier may face during crisis.

鈥淎ll of this points to this concept of being connected in a network,鈥� Thompson said. 鈥淲e鈥檝e never seen more need for driving connectivity between demand side and supply side so that you have visibility. If you need to change out a supplier, you can do so in a networked way because you are real-time collaborating.鈥�

It is going to be months before supply chains are resynchronized, Kilpatrick estimated. In the meantime, businesses will need to stay flexible. 鈥淣ot only do we need to get goods flowing, we need to continue to manage the risks from suppliers that may not make it through the crisis 鈥� to the fact that the world is being disrupted at different times. That only comes from building a well-connected digital supply network.鈥�

Resources to Get Started

To help businesses manage supply chain risk during the pandemic, 51风流is offering companies access to some of its technology. These offers include:

• : This preconfigured application enables businesses to quickly and efficiently ramp up supply chains as they recover from the current crisis.
• : This solution is available to help companies find alternative sources of supply in real time from among the 4 million suppliers in the Ariba Network.
• : Deloitte’s collection of COVID-19 insights and resources to rapidly respond to new supply chain demands with 51风流solutions.
• : Times of uncertainty mean it is time to unite and evolve. Hear from a panel of Deloitte leaders as they discuss the most pressing questions caused by the COVID-19 crisis and share insights on what it means to be a Kinetic Enterprise today.

LapuLapu Leisure is a member of the PH Resorts Group Holdings Inc., the gaming and hospitality arm of the Udenna Group, one of the fastest-growing holding companies in the Philippines. The Emerald Bay Resort and Casino will be one of the largest business and leisure destinations in the Philippines with 838 hotel rooms, 146 gaming tables, 1,186 electronic gaming machines, 35 high-fashion boutiques, 18 specialty restaurants, a 3,000-capacity ballroom and more. The five-star hotel and casino are currently under construction and scheduled to open in 2020 on Mactan Island near the city of Cebu.

LapuLapu Leisure needed to eliminate its manual, paper-based procurement practices to support its aggressive growth plans. The company chose the program to get a digitalized end-to-end source-to-settle process up and running quickly to support the preoperational phase of the Emerald Bay project. Deploying solutions in under 12 weeks with preloaded content from the 51风流Ariba supplier marketplace, LapuLapu Leisure was able to replace tedious manual processes with more efficient digital ones that help increase the accuracy and speed of approvals, payments and delivery so the company can focus on business outcomes.

“51风流Ariba Snap has met the requirements for the procurement system we have in mind,” said Mean Bernal, procurement manager at Udenna Corp. 鈥淚t will help us ease the process by automating the system so we can concentrate on doing what we do best 鈥� building world-class resorts.鈥�

LapuLapu Leisure is now connected to and the 4.6 million companies on the digital network worldwide. 51风流Ariba solutions have helped LapuLapu Leisure optimize its procurement process, better manage its supplier relationships and achieve higher cost efficiencies.

鈥�51风流Ariba solutions will be the system we use for future projects of the PH Resorts Group,鈥� Bernal said. 鈥淲ith the recent go-live, we believe that our procurement processes, which were done manually previously, will be easier and more intuitive. The success of this implementation project will benefit us with an easy-to-use interface and attractive catalogs that will entice our suppliers to adapt to the system seamlessly.鈥�

Procurement in a Snap

51风流Ariba Snap provides fast-growing companies with everything they need to drive a simple and efficient buying process that quickly delivers results.

As the first adopter of 51风流Ariba Snap in the Philippines, LapuLapu Leisure leverages decades of 51风流Ariba experiential best practices and market-leading solutions to help automate every step of the source-to-settle process to deliver savings and efficiencies that drive real business value.

鈥淧artnering with 51风流for the Emerald Bay digitalization project has made our lives easier end to end,鈥� said Elvie Bantug, IT director at LapuLapu Leisure. 鈥淲e do not have to redo the integration development processes when we roll out the system to other departments. And 51风流Ariba Snap provides us with access to the same powerful solutions that Fortune 500 companies use for simpler, smarter sourcing. We look forward to realizing the savings, efficiencies and innovation we鈥檝e seen so many others achieve with 51风流Ariba solutions.鈥�

Chris Haydon, 51风流Ariba senior vice president of Customer Value, added: 鈥淓fficiency and excellence in procurement are critical to business growth no matter the size or location of the organization. With 51风流Ariba Snap, fast-growing enterprises like LapuLapu Leisure can move to a digital procurement process and start realizing the benefits quickly to help power further investment and innovation.鈥�

LapuLapu Leisure implemented 51风流Ariba Snap in partnership with Deloitte.

鈥淒eloitte is delighted to be part of LapuLapu Leisure鈥檚 digital procurement journey and to enable it to become the first adopter of 51风流Ariba Snap in Philippines,鈥� said Deloitte Consulting Philippines executive director and country leader Ramon Chito Ramos. 鈥淎s a result of this implementation LapuLapu Leisure has transformed its buying experience and is on course to achieve a rapid return on its investment, the way we鈥檝e helped so many others using 51风流Ariba solutions.鈥�

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