Muhammad Alam鈥檚 opening keynote supercharged 51风流Spend Connect Live with the announcement of and how it can help businesses see and analyze their spend across all categories. We also saw how 51风流is using artificial intelligence (AI) to drive scope 3 carbon reporting within total spend management.

On the procurement side, we鈥檝e had so much news to share. This includes demos of ; the ; and Joule, the embedded AI copilot in 51风流Ariba Sourcing. We also provided a sneak peek at the future of supplier management 鈥� we’re referring to as “the new supplier 360” that can deliver instant access to risk data, AI-powered sustainability information, and operational evaluation to help track metrics like price variance.

We put the world on notice that 51风流Ariba solutions are the future of procurement, and that future is already a reality. We鈥檝e taken the investment, innovation, and integration across our product lineup 鈥� successes we relived together 鈥� to deliver a complete portfolio. Everything procurement at 51风流is now 51风流Ariba.

Eliminate the Mundane. Elevate the Strategic.

You may have noticed that while others in the market were making noise about AI, 51风流has been relatively quiet. But we鈥檝e been very busy, with many use cases in production today and more on the way.

Our goal is to streamline procurement processes to remove mundane, manual interventions, elevate strategic activities, and accelerate decision-making and approvals. At 51风流Spend Connect Live, we announced a series of procurement innovations focused on this goal.

Enhancing 51风流Ariba Category Management with the Power of Generative AI and Joule

In August, the new solution became generally available to our customers. It helps empower category managers to use data insights strategically to help identify trends, develop and implement strategies, and evaluate success relative to tangible business metrics.

Now, we are pleased to announce the integration of 51风流Ariba Category Management with large language models through 51风流Business AI. This can empower procurement professionals to jump-start category strategy development and planning.

By harnessing generative AI, we are enhancing our market analysis tool, offering valuable, visual insights into supply and demand, risk, opportunity, and top suppliers. Additionally, we will be simplifying category segmentation, powering up cost structure analysis.

These innovations help streamline content creation, saving category managers weeks of time and expediting strategy development. General availability is planned by the end of 2023, representing a substantial leap in enterprise-level category management efficiency.

Embedding Spend Analysis Capabilities in 51风流Ariba Solutions for More Informed Decisions

To make it easier for procurement professionals to make timely, informed decisions, new dashboards in 51风流Ariba Sourcing and 51风流Ariba Buying embed near real-time insights where they鈥檙e most useful 鈥� within key process workflows.

These capabilities are available today and built on a new architecture that helps create the foundation for future innovation. Advanced AI features and the ability to see across all spend 鈥� in 51风流cloud ERP solutions, 51风流Ariba solutions, 51风流Fieldglass solutions, and 51风流Concur solutions 鈥� can help uncover cost-saving opportunities in the new 51风流Spend Control Tower solution beginning in the first quarter 2024.

Delivering Risk-Aware Procurement by Embedding AI-Infused Risk Assessment in Source-to-Settle Solutions

Successfully managing third-party supplier risk often comes down to the ability to answer basic questions accurately. Does the supplier have the ongoing capacity to satisfy the needs of the business? Do they meet environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards? Are their risk scores in danger of slipping below the acceptable corporate risk standard?

There are software solutions that offer information to answer these questions via dashboards, reporting, and alerts. But this approach can be risky, requiring savvy business users to check the information and assess the risk profiles of suppliers within a specific context. This approach can also waste resources because it allows unqualified suppliers to slip into RFx events, even though they鈥檒l ultimately be eliminated through resource-intensive due diligence.

鈥淩isk-aware procurement鈥� refers to the embedding of risk knowledge into source-to-pay decision processes via software solutions. 51风流has embedded AI-powered supplier risk assessment capabilities into its source-to-settle solutions to help business users make smarter decisions faster.

This can make it possible to assess risk profiles within the sourcing, contracting, and buying solutions as an integral part of these processes to determine third-party risk. Supplier risk assessment capabilities are available today in 51风流Ariba Sourcing, 51风流Ariba Contracts, and 51风流Ariba Buying.

AI-powered supplier risk assessment capabilities within 51风流solutions can offer numerous benefits across the procurement process:

• Supplier management: Improved user decision-making throughout supplier lifecycle processes
• Sourcing: Exclusion or warnings when high-risk suppliers are included in sourcing decision-making
• Contracting: Systematic reference risk scoring to include mitigation clauses and activities in authoring and contract signature as needed
• Buying and invoicing: The inclusion of risk workflow if the risk score drops below an acceptable standard

A great example of this activity in action is Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (LkSG), the German supply chain act focused on human rights due diligence. With this, information is not only available to support the due diligence activities with suppliers, it also helps business users make natural decisions that help prevent non-compliant activities from occurring systematically.

Continuing to Lead in Procurement Innovation

Of course, the innovations and use cases we demonstrated at 51风流Spend Connect Live are just the tip of the iceberg. The coming year promises to be just as exciting, as we continue to roll out new features and capabilities to enhance our comprehensive set of procurement solutions.

We hope you will be along for the ride!

Salvatore Lombardo is senior vice president, chief product officer, and head of Engineering for 51风流Procurement.

51风流Continues to Innovate with Generative AI and Its New Copilot Joule

The newly released will be enhanced with the power of generative AI to help procurement professionals build comprehensive and effective category strategies faster. This capability will help jump-start the market analysis process and offer a suggested category strategy for procurement professionals to refine and execute, saving category managers weeks of valuable time and increasing strategy validity. General availability is planned by the end of 2023. 51风流will also embed Joule, its new generative AI copilot, throughout its cloud solutions, with availability in its spend management software planned for 2024. 51风流is also developing in collaboration with customers, with availability planned for the first half of 2024. 鈥淭hese are just some of the examples of how we are thoughtfully integrating generative AI technology with our market-leading spend management solutions to help our customers be more productive,鈥� said Muhammad Alam, President and Chief Product Officer, Intelligent Spend and Business Network, SAP. 鈥淎s with all of 51风流Business AI solutions, we are developing these new spend management AI innovations with security, privacy, compliance, ethics and accuracy in mind.鈥�

51风流Spend Control Tower to Deliver Comprehensive Spend Analysis Capabilities

The new 51风流Spend Control Tower solution will include advanced AI features and the ability to see across all spend to help customers uncover cost-saving opportunities and discover process improvements. These capabilities will be available starting in the first quarter of 2024. New dashboards in the 51风流Ariba Sourcing and 51风流Ariba Buying solutions also give customers near real-time information within key process workflows, making it easier for procurement professionals to help make timely, informed decisions. These capabilities are available today and built on a new architecture that creates the foundation for future innovation.

AI-Infused Risk Assessment Embedded in Source-to-Settle Solutions

51风流has embedded AI-powered supplier risk assessment capabilities into its source-to-settle software to help business users make smarter decisions faster. The new features make risk assessment profiles an integral part of sourcing, contracting and buying solutions, helping users better determine third-party risk. Supplier risk assessment capabilities are available today in the 51风流Ariba Sourcing, 51风流Ariba Contracts and 51风流Ariba Buying solutions.

AI-Powered Supplier Discovery from Scoutbee to Integrate with Guided Sourcing

51风流and GmbH, a leading AI-powered supplier intelligence and discovery platform company, plan to integrate an AI-powered supplier search solution with the 51风流Ariba Sourcing solution. solution, called Scoutbee Discovery, quickly identifies suppliers aligned with complex requirements, such as production capacity, quality standards and certifications. Through the integration, short-listed suppliers will be imported automatically into guided sourcing events, enabling sourcing professionals to make decisions with more confidence. The integration will be available in the first quarter of 2024. Scoutbee Discovery complements the 51风流Business Network Discovery solution capabilities to help sourcing professionals quickly find new suppliers that are aligned with their requirements but are outside the network.

Expense Payment Manager Saves Time and Money

51风流Concur solutions now offer a new Expense Payment Manager service that offers customers the ability to reimburse employees in more than 25 currencies. A streamlined payment process saves hours, money and headaches in the expense reimbursement process. Contracting directly with third-party payment providers increases flexibility. Expense Payment Manager, which also gives customers the opportunity to select their payment provider, is now generally available.

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These days, business buyers need to think very differently about how they buy, who they buy from, and the impact of their buying decisions. The five 鈥渞ights鈥� still apply. But there are other factors at work, requiring a more elevated buying experience.

Consider personal online buying, where it gets easier all the time to find and purchase the goods we need. Today鈥檚 casual business buyers and procurement professionals want that same experience 鈥� one that is personalized for them and their role as well as predictive, offering suggestions based on the work they do. They also want intelligent recommendations to help them make informed decisions and weigh the sustainability and environmental impact of their purchases.

Elevating the Guided Buying Experience for Today

The guided buying capability in 51风流Ariba solutions remains the gold standard for purchases of goods and services. At 51风流Sapphire, as we incorporate 51风流innovations and other leading-edge technology. The buying 360 capability is the latest step in this evolution. It adds new services that help make purchasing more predictive, personalized, and sustainable.

Buyers are directed to goods and services based on their role and the organization鈥檚 procurement and sustainability policies. This helps make procurement more targeted and strategic. Additionally, integration between 51风流Ariba solutions and 51风流S/4HANA enables a seamless fulfillment experience by converting purchasing requests into purchase orders and then tracking the fulfillment process.

Our plan is to make the new buying 360 capability available in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, public edition during the third quarter of 2023. For existing 51风流Ariba Buying customers, the buying 360 capability is available via the standard 51风流Ariba Buying cloud upgrade process.

A More Flexible, Personalized Buying Experience

The buying 360 capability is built using 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP) services to make it highly flexible. We are planning other innovations to enable smooth adoption by existing customers.

The new capabilities leverage artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent recommendations, and machine learning. This creates a holistic view of what the buyer is purchasing and how the purchase stacks up against their organization鈥檚 environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.

A Personalized Buying Experience

With the buying 360 capability, 51风流Ariba Buying and 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, public edition can deliver a buying experience that is personalized for individuals and their roles. As soon as the user logs on, they are greeted with a clean and friendly user interface. They are directed to goods and services based on their role and their organization鈥檚 procurement and sustainability policies.

Predictive Recommendations

Leveraging AI and machine learning, the buying 360 capability offers intelligent recommendations to help users make informed decisions for their role. We鈥檙e designing the user interface so these recommendations display at the right time and the right place 鈥� for example, in catalogs, in contracts, in the marketplace, or even as a spot quote 鈥� using automation to reduce the manual work required of buyers. In the future, we plan to add functionality that will help buyers make purchases that comply with the procurement and sustainability policies of their business.

Here are some of the predictive capabilities being made available via the standard 51风流Ariba Buying cloud upgrade process and that are planned for availability with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, public edition:

• 鈥淩ecommended for You鈥�: Guided buying is extremely helpful for buyers who know what they鈥檙e looking for. But sometimes they need more information. The buying 360 capability understands the user鈥檚 role and the roles of their peers, and it uses AI and algorithms to determine what people in similar roles have ordered to make recommendations.
• 鈥淚ntelligent Search鈥�: The buyer types a search term and our Intelligent Search 3.0 sorts through connected marketplaces and supplier-connected catalogs to show the best options. This helps provide relevant entries that have been sorted and personalized to their role.
• 鈥淎lso Bought Together鈥�: After the buyer selects the item they want, the system displays other items their colleagues purchased with that item. These are chosen based on previous shopping carts with the help of a powerful machine learning algorithm.

Environmentally Aware Buying Decisions

As the needs and priorities of business evolve, so will the guided buying capability. Today, organizations are being challenged to balance cost savings against the environmental impact of their purchasing decisions. To help them, we are designing enhancements for future releases to provide sustainability information, including carbon footprint, packaging footprint, and energy consumption.

The Future of Buying

While the buying of yesterday was just about price and policy, future purchasing also needs to be personalized to the user, predictive to reduce manual effort, and done with an eye on sustainability.

The buying 360 capability represents the next wave in the evolution of guided buying services from SAP. As we roll out these new capabilities, we will continue to focus on the individual and their buying needs, the organization and its objectives, and the ESG aspirations of both with a holistic, 360-degree view of the purchasing process.

Look for more developments moving forward. In the meantime, current 51风流Ariba Buying customers are already seeing many innovations provided through SAP鈥檚 standard cloud upgrade process. We also plan to make the new buying 360 capability available in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, public edition during the third quarter of 2023.

and see it in action along with more 51风流spend management innovations at .

Salvatore Lombardo is senior vice president, chief product officer, and head of Engineering for 51风流Procurement.

Royal DSM utilized and to enhance the sustainability of its global indirect procurement. As a result, the company learned several valuable lessons that can be applied by other organizations looking to transform their procurement practices in a sustainable manner.

DSM has set ambitious sustainability goals, which include making a positive impact on people, the planet, and communities through its “purpose-led, performance-driven” strategy. This includes transitioning to a net-zero economy, fair supplier arrangements, and ensuring adequate access to healthy food for all.

To support these goals, DSM implemented a transformation of its global, indirect sourcing and buying operations. This was essential for the company to create truly sustainable end products. It is not possible to be a sustainable business without having sustainable partners.

buy.SMART Program

DSM’s buy.SMART program aimed to not only achieve cost savings but also digitize and automate procurement transactions to align its spending on indirect goods and services with its sustainability and supplier diversity policies. Through this process, the company learned several valuable lessons.

1. Leverage a Business Network

To achieve the buy.SMART vision, DSM integrated 51风流Business Network with an upstream, indirect source-to-contract process. The company did this using 51风流Ariba Sourcing, 51风流Ariba Contracts, 51风流Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance, and 51风流Ariba Supplier Risk. For the downstream, indirect procure-to-pay process, DSM chose the 51风流Ariba Buying solution.

This setup offers multiple advantages, including faster identification of suitable trading partners in your supply chain, such as suppliers, logistics service providers, asset operators, and maintenance contractors. Thanks to automation, you can perform many tasks more efficiently or even automate them completely. Automation enables more efficient and even fully automated processes as well as increased visibility into all supply chain processes.

The integration of automation and sustainability in procurement can bring several benefits. For example, automation can facilitate the collection and analysis of supplier sustainability data, which can help in making more informed decisions when selecting suppliers. Additionally, automation can help in monitoring and tracking the sustainability performance of suppliers over time, which can help in identifying and addressing sustainability issues more quickly. Automation can also help in reducing the environmental impact of procurement activities, such as by decreasing paper usage and transportation emissions.

“Thanks to 51风流Ariba solutions, DSM has strengthened collaboration with suppliers, improved the user experience of all participants, automated the transaction flow, and significantly reduced errors,” says Andries Feikema, global director of Procurement Digitalization & Transformation at DSM.

2. Leverage Independent Sustainability Ratings

Using criteria from external vendors is crucial for enhancing procurement processes with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations. Having transparency into the sustainability performance of your supply chain is crucial for modern business. DSM utilizes EcoVadis, which is integrated with 51风流Ariba solutions, to provide the necessary sustainability solutions to enhance procurement processes with ESG. This allows DSM to obtain reliable ESG ratings on its trading partners and efficiently evaluate suppliers based on specific sustainability criteria. Additionally, DSM continues to expand its sustainability assessments to provide procurement professionals with greater insight into their business partners.

“Sustainability is in DSM’s DNA. It therefore plays a major role for our procurement organization. It is an important element in the selection of our suppliers, and we test that directly in 51风流Ariba solutions. It is important that we select the right suppliers to do business with. This is directly embedded in our process design,” says Feikema.

3. Do the Pilot in the Most Challenging Market

It may be tempting to test a procurement solution in an easy market, but it’s not always the best approach. DSM adopted a different strategy: it started with the most challenging market. By doing so, it was able to identify and address potential issues early on. The company piloted the new procurement system in Brazil, which has a complex tax system. This approach helped it learn a lot about the solution and processes, making the global rollout much smoother.

Brazil has a complex tax system with multiple federal, state, and local taxes. The country has implemented several tax incentives to promote sustainability and environmental protection, making it an interesting pilot case.

4. Standardize Where Possible

Standardizing the pilot process design across all countries led to immediate efficiency gains for DSM. The design was only modified to comply with local tax or regulations. This standardization streamlined procurement processes globally, accelerating rollouts and increasing transparency and efficiency.

Procurement processes that include sustainability focus on buying products and services with positive environmental and social impact. This includes using sustainable materials, choosing suppliers with a strong sustainability record, and considering the entire lifecycle of a product or service. Standardization enables easy replication of processes and, by incorporating sustainability and standardizing their procurement processes, organizations like DSM can scale their sustainability impact.

5. Don’t Forget Change Management

Digitization relies on the implementation of new technologies and processes, and success in this endeavor is contingent on the participation of all employees. Without their buy-in, return on investment will be negatively impacted. Therefore, change management must be a key component of any transformation program.

To that end, DSM dedicated significant attention to change management by establishing an expert desk to support suppliers and assist with contract implementation, as well as a global team of 270 “champions” to help with adoption and guide users through new procurement processes. These champions were able to communicate in the local language and provide training to end users. Many young employees and the new generation of workers desire to be a part of sustainable business practices and goals, which has also contributed to the success of the adoption of these new technologies and processes.

“We made communication, training, and change management part of program management. We approached our program not as the implementation of a tool, but as a real business transformation. Users are central to the success of our transformation program,” concludes Feikema.

Jeff Collier is chief revenue officer for Intelligent Spend and Business Network at SAP.

鈥淲e have seen significant growth this quarter with companies around the world continuing to prioritize improving their spend management operations,鈥� said John Wookey, president of 51风流Intelligent Spend and Business Network. 鈥淏y modernizing and digitalizing critical business processes across procurement and external workforce management, our customers are gaining visibility and insights that enable them to control costs, reduce risk and drive innovation and growth for their businesses.鈥�

Highlights from the quarter include:

Alcon Vision, the Fort Worth, Texas鈥揵ased company, is a global leader in eye care, specializing in surgical medical devices and nonsurgical vision care products. Alcon selected 51风流Ariba solutions for sourcing and procurement for direct and indirect materials. The company also selected the Qualtrics XM for Suppliers solution to help build stronger and more collaborative relationships with suppliers. With a new and improved intuitive source-to-pay experience, Alcon aims to foster simplicity, speed and user-friendly buying services with increased data transparency and compliance.

Refrigeration and air conditioning technology manufacturer BITZER SE has implemented the 51风流Ariba Buying solution with guided buying capability to help streamline and digitalize its procurement operations. With the 51风流Ariba solution, BITZER, based in Sindelfingen, Germany, aims to drive a more efficient, paperless, transparent process from sourcing to payment as it expands globally.

The Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) selected 51风流Ariba solutions for sourcing, contracts, buying and invoicing, and commerce automation to modernize its statewide procurement system with a cloud-based solution. DMS plans to standardize and automate procurement processes across the State of Florida, increase spend visibility and control, and enhance savings statewide.

Aligned with its innovation and sustainability strategy, Grupo Financiero Banorte, S.A.B. de C.V., one of the largest financial holdings companies in Mexico, continues its procurement transformation with the renewal of 51风流Ariba solutions. By further digitalizing its procurement processes and strengthening its supply lifecycle management automation, Banorte will help improve the experience of more than 21,000 suppliers while enhancing process efficiency and spend compliance.

Molson Coors made a strategic investment in 51风流Ariba solutions to help modernize its global procurement operations, building on its implementation of the 51风流Ariba Contracts solution and adding the 51风流Ariba Buying and Invoicing solution with commerce automation capabilities. With the new solutions integrated with its multiple ERP infrastructure, the company, headquartered in Golden, Colorado, and Montreal, Canada, intends to standardize on best practices from source to pay, improve efficiency in supplier relationship management and minimize risk.

Promigas SA ESP, a leading Colombian provider of natural gas, has selected 51风流Ariba solutions for digital procurement as it continued its transformation journey with SAP. Building on its existing transportation management system based on 51风流S/4HANA, Promigas will adopt the cloud-based 51风流Ariba solutions to help standardize and automate its procurement processes, increase purchasing efficiencies and reduce costs and risks.

Roca Sanitario SA, a global leader in bathroom equipment, selected 51风流Ariba solutions for strategic sourcing, buying, commerce automation and supply chain collaboration. The Spanish company will adopt the digital to help improve, standardize and automate spend management processes across the organization. The company expects to increase visibility into spend and supplier performance to optimize costs and operational efficiencies.

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With the 51风流Ariba solution, BITZER, based in Sindelfingen, Germany, aims to drive a more efficient, paperless, transparent process from sourcing to payment as it executes on its global expansion plans.

鈥淭o overcome challenges and thrive in today鈥檚 business environment, visibility, resiliency and agility in our procurement operations are critical,鈥� said Christian Stenzel, BITZER director of organization and IT. 鈥淯ntil now, our employees have procured indirect materials through manual processes. By standardizing on a digitalized procurement process, we are increasing efficiency and transparency across our operation to deliver value for our business.鈥�

The company has implemented 51风流Ariba solutions to help centralize its procurement operations on a single cloud-based platform, and with help from consulting firm apsolut GmbH, it can continue its digital transformation journey.

For BITZER, 51风流Ariba solutions, integrated with 51风流S/4HANA, help to drive a more efficient procurement process and tighter collaboration with suppliers. The guided buying capability in the 51风流Ariba solution will help BITZER reduce maverick spending, provide an intuitive purchasing experience and drive more consistent compliance with purchasing policies such as budget limits, minimum bids and preferred suppliers.

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More Than 70 New Customers, 245 Renewals and 290 Go-Lives

In second quarter of 2020, more than 70 new customers selected solutions for procurement and . These include Carrefour and NEC, as well as the following:

• Indelpro, one of the largest polypropylene resin manufacturers in Mexico, continues to execute on its digitalization strategy by choosing 51风流Ariba and 51风流Fieldglass solutions to help strengthen the management of its supply chain and specialized external workforce to streamline production processes.
• Fermaca, a Mexican natural gas transport company, continues to innovate its digital strategy with SAP. To manage expenses, the company selected 51风流Ariba solutions to help strengthen its procurement and contract management processes, enabling efficiencies and savings and swift response to regulatory compliance.
• MOL Plc, a leading petroleum company in Hungary, has chosen 51风流Ariba solutions as its enterprise-wide purchasing platform to fuel higher visibility and significant cost savings.

Additionally, more than 160 existing 51风流customers licensed additional 51风流Ariba and 51风流Fieldglass capabilities. Hundreds more during the second quarter finished implementing 51风流Ariba and 51风流Fieldglass solutions. Those customers include the following:

• ABB Group, a leader in industrial technology products serving customers in utilities, transport and infrastructure based in Switzerland, replaced legacy solutions with to harmonize group-level sourcing, contracting and supplier information management for direct and indirect materials.
• BRK Ambiental, one of the largest private sanitation companies in Brazil, is now running on 51风流software, including 51风流S/4HANA, 51风流Ariba, 51风流Concur and 51风流SuccessFactors solutions. The company鈥檚 system went live despite COVID-19 challenges, and its operations are now entirely digital. Multiple public concession operations were consolidated into one integrated structure, reducing costs and improving transaction synergies.
• , one of the world鈥檚 largest makers of aeronautical engines and components, based in Spain, digitalized its procurement with 51风流Ariba solutions to enhance transparency, traceability and accuracy in operations across its highly complex, international supply chain. Its new standardized and streamlined supply chain operations will support the company鈥檚 design, manufacturing, assemblage and service of civil and defense aircraft engines.
• ZKW Group GmbH, an Austrian producer of lighting systems and electronics for the automotive industry, implemented partner editions of the and solutions, part of the 51风流Ariba Snap program, to help increase visibility and control over spend, enhance collaboration with suppliers and standardize its source-to-contract process.

鈥淰isibility and agility could not be more important during these uncertain times, and procurement leaders are center stage for making them happen,鈥� 51风流Procurement Solutions President Chris Haydon said. 鈥淎s a result, we are seeing many companies accelerate digitalization projects to balance getting the supplies, materials and external talent resources needed to adapt quickly and meet customer demand no matter what comes next.鈥�

Customer success is also attributed to SAP鈥檚 robust of global system integrators, implementation partners and resellers. Partners such as Accenture, Deloitte, IBM and SouthEnd S.A. led 58 percent of successful 51风流Ariba and 51风流Fieldglass solution implementations in the second quarter. 51风流continues to focus on developing partners鈥� expertise and capacity through programs to increase the number of certified consultants (currently at 45 percent annual growth).

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No matter how integrated a business鈥� systems and processes were before the COVID-19 pandemic, significant disconnects across all organizations are beginning to emerge. For example, planning and risk analysis often lack the depth required to fully understand the potential impact and importance of critical decisions. Meanwhile, no one knows with certainty whether end-to-end workstream processes are running as efficiently as they should.

Such a situation is far from ideal for a workforce that is now primarily remote. Any hint of a complex process that is predominantly manual and highly customized with out-of-system workarounds is no longer reasonable. However, the inability to consume and deploy software cost-efficiently and fast enough is hampering efforts needed to close those gaps and ensure business continuity.

51风流is firmly committed to supporting customers as they navigate through unexpected disruptions 鈥� whether it be repatriating stranded travelers, automating contact tracing of COVID-19 patients, or countless other initiatives. A portfolio of solutions and services help businesses innovate and adopt at lightning speed with out-of-the-box capabilities and ready-to-run processes. These deployments can be further accelerated with software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud solutions that are supported by 51风流Model Company, 51风流Advanced Deployment, and 51风流Activate.

Uniting Finance and Procurement with Intelligence and Governance

With a global, distributed, and diverse operational ecosystem, companies can maintain analytical and operational transparency as well as control business-wide compliance. And for many companies, it all begins with the integration of finance and procurement operations.

The portfolio is uniquely qualified to help businesses overcome these challenges 聽quickly, seamlessly, and intelligently. The portfolio blends established applications with emerging technologies and draws on the latest innovations, industry experts, and ecosystem of innovators from SAP. With a strategy based on a consistent core of data and delivered through out-of-the-box functionalities and, when needed, limited customization, it brings an opportunity to further optimize operations and initiate change faster with less risk. The reasoning behind this approach is based on five fundamental principles of transformation:

• Focus on improving processes and optimizing change management, not just enabling technology and IT platform innovation
• Drive changes necessary to improve functionality, efficiency, and effectiveness with a business-led initiative
• View the IT platform as an enabler of the business and its capabilities
• Ensure innovations reflect breakthrough industry trends and value driver aspirations and expectations for change
• Align business needs and technology investments to achieve mutual organizations goals

This mindset allows us to enable customer success through that challenge transformation journeys and reimage processes. In addition, the latest relevant industry innovations are used to support the realization of business value with a standard service option for transforming finance and procurement operations 鈥� a selective data transition with centralized processes across procurement and finance.

In this scenario, our customers maintain existing operations in legacy applications while moving adopted capabilities into two editions of 51风流S/4HANA step by step and at their own pace.

can accelerate digital transformation programs by providing a modern, innovative platform and a common user interface for centrally managed finance operations. It captures real-time financial transactions from multiple source systems to consolidate financial reporting and transactional processing without disrupting 51风流or third-party enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The solution also comes with a set of enabling technologies that allow customers to innovate with 51风流S/4HANA Finance within a few months, depending on scope.

With the central finance solutions, our customers can gain a reconciled general ledger foundation that supports on-demand finance consolidation and analysis of key performance indicators during a specific period. They can drill down to the source line-item detail and identify errors in the closing process early on through integrated validation.

On the other side of the integration is . The solution supports organizations that require multiple business units to operate independently based on industry complexity, legal and regulation compliance, and defense and security requirements. It collects and merges procurement activity while significantly reducing the replication and consolidation of master data. Procurement activity is also combined and aggregated into a single instance of 51风流S/4HANA to increase visibility into purchasing decisions, communicate better with suppliers, analyze spend comprehensively, and foster compliance with shared services centers.

For example, the guided buying capability, available in the 51风流Ariba Buying solution, can be integrated into 51风流S/4HANA for central procurement to guide employees through requisitioning, contracts, and purchasing goods and services. Additionally, procurement data is distributed to local, operational backend systems to give organizations insight into their buying habits and budget needs.

Backend ERP and legacy system independence is another set of critical value drivers for centralized procurement. It allows business units to operate independently and retain unique business processes while leveraging the global spend capabilities of an entire organization. Negotiating global agreements and distributing them to all connected backends enable related spend from all systems to be accrued automatically in the central contract. In return, the business gains significant savings for all purchasing groups and business units.

Moving Beyond Disruption with a New Approach to Digital Innovation

Considering the pace of change right now, reporting and analytics tools must provide the visibility and insight needed to address the everyday minutia of change. This requires tight integration across the entire heterogeneous system landscape, tying together everything from legacy applications to the latest technology residing on premise and in the cloud.

This reality is what inspires 51风流Business Transformation Services to help customers succeed in challenging transformation journeys. We help reimagine business processes and support the latest and most relevant industry innovations by analyzing our customers鈥� current states, recommending the best architecture to deliver on their expectations, and defining their transformation road map. Best of all, everything we do is delivered with a commitment to realize business value on our customers鈥� terms.

Now more than ever, businesses must reduce risk and realize short-term benefits. This requires an agile approach to integrate business functions, such as finance and procurement operations, and 51风流Services and Support offerings are ready to deliver such an intelligent operation.

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Gary Feist is a services architecture expert and principal architect at SAP.
Michael Parfenov is a services architecture expert and principal architect at SAP.
Sobana Iyengar is an enterprise architect at SAP.