The company produces healthy vegetable oils, oilseeds, creams, and spreads while maintaining a strong commitment to environmental sustainability. With a presence in over 32 countries and a team of more than 2,000 employees, Sesajal is a beacon of excellence in the food industry.

The customer has a long history of working with 51风流solutions and took a major step forward in 2024, migrating to 51风流S/4HANA Private Cloud and integrating 51风流Build as its primary tool for extending business . Sesajal used 51风流Build Process Automation to integrate AI-powered workflow automations, enabling smart decisions based on data insights.

Partnering with 51风流for transformation

Leading Sesajal’s journey into digital transformation is Chief Innovation Officer Alfonso Cedillo Navarro, who has been at the forefront of implementing technology-driven solutions to enhance operations and deliver value to customers around the globe.

The use of 51风流Build has proven to be transformative, enabling the creation of user-friendly business applications and streamlined key processes like vendor creation.

One of Sesajal鈥檚 standout projects involves a solution built with 51风流Build that integrates seamlessly with the 51风流S/4HANA system, enhancing usability and efficiency.

Collaborating with 51风流AppHaus

A pivotal moment in Sesajal’s journey was to start collaborating with the 51风流AppHaus team. Known for its human-centered approach to innovation, the team helped Sesajal unlock new opportunities brought about by 51风流Build.

“Working with the Sesajal team was truly inspiring,” shared project manager Mirela Viersa, a customer solution adoption specialist at 51风流AppHaus. “Their openness to innovation and dedication to creating real value for their users made this collaboration a success. By applying a human-centered approach, we were able to co-create solutions that not only streamlined processes, but also delivered tangible benefits — all while keeping the core clean. This project is a testament to what鈥檚 possible when technology and people work hand in hand.”

Within the 51风流Build starter kit program, the Sesajal team received comprehensive training along the 51风流AppHaus methodology. They embarked on a design thinking process to identify a business use case, eventually developing a proof of concept tailored to their needs.

鈥淭he 51风流AppHaus team is incredible to work with,鈥� Cedillo Navarro said. 鈥淭heir human-centered methodology helped us identify the right business use case and build a proper prototype. It鈥檚 a phenomenal way to connect business and user needs, saving time and adding more value to users.鈥�

Redefining innovation

By combining the power of 51风流Build with the 51风流AppHaus approach, Sesajal has found a way to address real business challenges through technology. From simplifying processes to creating tangible results, these tools are reshaping how the company operates.

Reflecting on his experience, Cedillo Navarro noted, 鈥淟everaging the 51风流AppHaus approach and 51风流Build allows us to develop applications that tackle real business challenges while utilizing the best of modern technology. It鈥檚 innovation at its finest.鈥�

Sesajal’s digital transformation journey is a testament to the potential of human-centered design and advanced technology. It demonstrates how collaboration and the right tools can drive meaningful results, setting the stage for continued innovation in the years to come.

What is true for its products also holds true for Mizuho OSI鈥檚 internal processes. Striving for operational efficiency, Mizuho OSI sought to modernize its processes. To leverage SAP鈥檚 low-code capabilities, the company worked with 51风流AppHaus in 2024. Together, they began exploring automation opportunities using 51风流Build Process Automation and 51风流Build Work Zone. During an initial 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP) , Mizuho OSI鈥檚 IT and business teams took a closer look at the manual fixed asset creation process.

Use case: Approving and creating new fixed assets

The workshop uncovered key inefficiencies in the manual purchase acquisition process, particularly its e-mail-driven workflow involving requesters, approvers, and finance accountants. This approach not only introduced a high risk of errors but also slowed down the process significantly. For high-value fixed asset purchases, the need for additional approvers and supporting details further extended the procurement cycle, highlighting the necessity for a more streamlined and automated solution.

With guidance from 51风流experts, the joint project team designed a streamlined, automated process for fixed asset approval and creation. Leveraging and , Mizuho OSI鈥檚 in-house IT team successfully developed and deployed a solution using a low-code application framework, accelerating implementation while reducing complexity.

鈥淎s we grow from a mid-sized to a large enterprise, tools like 51风流Build Process Automation are essential鈥攏ot only for driving process efficiency but also for extending the reach of our lean IT team,鈥� Lindsay Neill, director of Enterprise Application at Mizuho OSI, said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e grateful to 51风流AppHaus and the 51风流product team for their guidance throughout the journey鈥攆rom identifying the right use case to providing the technical support needed to bring this proof of concept into production. The new automated process is a major improvement over our previous manual approach. I couldn鈥檛 be happier with the results!鈥�

Measured results

After testing and implementing this new solution, both end users and the project team could measure a reduction in manual effort and observe improved process efficiencies, such as:

• 40% increase in process efficiency from days of pending response to automatic processing
• 65% reduction in approval time since asset costs below a certain threshold can be automatically processed
• 70% decrease in manual efforts, with fewer errors and faster decision-making since human intervention is now only required for exceptions

“It鈥檚 been a true pleasure collaborating with the team at Mizuho OSI. Their forward-thinking mindset and readiness to challenge the status quo made this collaboration exceptional,鈥� Tina Tuan, senior director at 51风流AppHaus Palo Alto, said. 鈥淚’m proud of what we achieved together using 51风流BTP and 51风流Build solutions and even more excited to see how this success inspires and empowers them to take on future projects with confidence and momentum.”

Through close collaboration between 51风流and Mizuho OSI, this project has proven that roadblocks can be overcome with the right partnership. The team successfully implemented an innovative solution for fixed asset approvals, laying a strong foundation for future initiatives leveraging 51风流Build solutions and . On the horizon is a promising next milestone, somewhat broader in scope, such as material master automation.

One thing is certain, the Mizuho OSI project team is driven by the company鈥檚 powerful mindset: Dare to go further. Care to do more.

Imke Vierjahn is communications lead for 51风流AppHaus.

RPA and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are essential for organizations that want to drive innovation and improve efficiencies across their business. Our solution, , was developed with the bold vision that business users and developers alike should be able to build automations and workflows. It is an AI-powered solution that combines workflow management, task automation, and decision management into one comprehensive, cloud-based solution running on (51风流BTP).

51风流is recognized in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for RPA for our Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. We believe this recognition exemplifies SAP鈥檚 strong product offering, continued investment in customer programs, and tight integration across 51风流S/4HANA, 51风流Signavio, and 51风流BTP.

Automate ERP and Other Business Applications with Confidence

Most business applications need to be adapted to meet customer specific requirements. Part of 51风流Build, 51风流Build Process Automation is uniquely designed to enable organizations to quickly increase the automation rate, extend, and customize business processes running in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud and other business applications.

In concert with other industry-leading solutions —聽,听, and聽聽—聽it enables customers to meet their specific requirements, quickly and easily connect any on-premise or cloud IT landscape, gain visibility into business processes and their performance, and then automate those processes seamlessly enabling end-to-end .

Gain a Competitive Edge with 51风流Build Process Automation

Since launching 51风流Build Process Automation, we have seen tremendous growth in customers embracing automation in impactful ways. , for example, increased its developer efficiency by 35% and accelerated back-order processing by 20%. automated data collection and entry tasks to increase the transaction volume in material logistics process for defective parts by over 40%. And has created over 60 bots to enhance process efficiency and accuracy across all business areas.

Next Steps

To learn how 51风流Build Process Automation adds value to your cloud ERP, you can that address specific challenges in your and processes. And, if you鈥檙e ready to unlock the full potential of automation and AI, take the next step with the following resources:

• and
• Activate your entitlements (existing RISE with 51风流and GROW with 51风流customers)

JG Chirapurath is chief marketing officer for 51风流BTP.

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To that end, we’re pleased to announce the 51风流Build portfolio聽is now included in the RISE with 51风流and GROW with 51风流offerings.

The 51风流Build portfolio includes unified, low-code solutions built on 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP). It enables people closest to the business problems 鈥� the finance managers, supply chain gurus, and manufacturing experts 鈥� to create and augment amazing Web and mobile enterprise applications, design business sites, and automate tedious and repetitive processes, all with drag-and-drop simplicity. With a growing library of pre-built connectors, the 51风流Build portfolio allows you to natively integrate with 51风流applications, allowing high scalability while cutting out complexity in your IT landscape.

Low Code Is the Future of Development

Organizations are reimagining their cloud-first strategy to become more resilient and flexible. However, despite high demand for digital transformation initiatives, there remains a significant shortage of workers capable of developing business processes and cloud-native applications.

Historically, business experts have partnered with their technical colleagues to create technical solutions, followed by mock-ups, wire frames, development, testing, and staging for deployment. This process simply does not meet the needs of the modern business unit. Today, business experts need to be able to quickly create applications on their own timelines and without the need for mastery of code languages like Python, JavaScript, or Swift.

Businesses today…

How 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Customers Succeed with 51风流Build聽

With the availability of low-code solutions like the 51风流Build portfolio, organizations are closing the gap between their business needs and development requirements. This is especially important for ERP customers because these processes are mission-critical and optimizing them is equivalent to optimizing how your business runs. Business users understand what is working 鈥� and what isn鈥檛 鈥� and the best improvements to propose. The 51风流Build solutions support 51风流S/4HANA Cloud business experts to:

• Optimize ERP processes with 51风流Build Process Automation: For over 50 years our customers have trusted 51风流with their mission-critical processes. With 51风流Build Process Automation, customers can optimize these processes with robotic process automation (RPA) for automation, workflows, and business decisions. 51风流Build Process Automation includes pre-built bots and workflows for common 51风流S/4HANA Cloud scenarios to help jump-start your automation projects. Learn how sped up its financial closing process by automating repetitive tasks.
• Augment 51风流S/4HANA Cloud with 51风流Build Apps: 51风流Build Apps lets everyone build enterprise apps without professional coding experience. Empower users to create easily, integrate seamlessly, and scale fast on both iOS and Android devices while saving on development costs. about how it significantly improved customer experience and engagement by optimizing its onboarding process.
• Create business sites with 51风流Build Work Zone: Create role-based desktops for employees that need access to multiple applications, including 51风流S/4HANA Cloud. It also allows organizations to grant secure and curated 51风流S/4HANA Cloud access to external stakeholders like suppliers. For example, a distributor portal can show order status, allow credit limit extension requests, and provide product training can dramatically improve distributor satisfaction and effectiveness.

Let鈥檚 look at a simple business scenario like invoice management, which typically requires multiple manual steps and complex approvals. To start, a mobile app can be built with 51风流Build Apps so invoices and receipts can be conveniently uploaded. This action will automatically trigger an approval workflow in 51风流Build Process Automation, where the embedded artificial intelligence (AI) extracts the pertinent invoice details. Once the purchase is approved, 51风流S/4HANA Cloud can be updated and the payment process kick-started.

This type of pre-processing can happen before the standard 51风流S/4HANA Cloud workflows are invoked and customized for your organization. Beyond that, required approvals and other tasks can easily be shared in 51风流Build Work Zone so business users can track all their actions in one place. The best part is that you don鈥檛 need to start from scratch. Based on the most common automation scenarios with our 51风流S/4HANA Cloud customers, we鈥檝e created to help you get started.

See 51风流Build with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud in action with our .

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Learn how to for 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, visit the to learn more, and explore 51风流S/4HANA-specific pre-built content in this .

JG Chirapurath is chief marketing and solutions officer for 51风流BTP.
Eric van Rossum is chief marketing and solutions officer for 51风流Cloud ERP.

Now, to help customers jump-start their automation programs, we鈥檙e thrilled to include a new starter pack of 51风流Build Process Automation in the public edition of 51风流S/4HANA Cloud.

The 51风流Build Process Automation solution integrates seamlessly with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud to improve the processes that are already running by decreasing processing times, improving service quality, and reducing manual errors.

As a low-code solution in the 51风流Build portfolio, it gives the business experts closest to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud tasks the ability to build processes and approvals, automate routine tasks with robotic process automation (RPA), and leverage built-in artificial intelligence (AI) for automatic data extraction of PDFs, excels, and more.

Automation Starter Pack with RISE with SAP

The starter pack of 51风流Build Process Automation is included with RISE with 51风流for S/4HANA Cloud, public edition at no additional cost. This offer is intended to help organizations jump-start their automation journey and drive meaningful collaboration between process experts and IT users. The starter pack includes:

• Two advanced users who can create workflows and build automations
• Twenty standard users who can initiate and participate in workflows created by the advanced user
• One unattended automation that can be triggered without human intervention

How 51风流S/4HANA Cloud Customers Benefit from 51风流Build Process Automation

51风流Build Process Automation enables 51风流S/4HANA Cloud customers to reduce costs, eliminate manual errors, improve customer satisfaction, leverage KPI process dashboards to make important decisions, and optimize processes even when no APIs are available.

Jonathan Rhodes, vice president of Solution Management for 51风流Cloud ERP, shares more:

Q: How do you see automation impacting enterprise resource planning (ERP) customers?

A: Any time you can reduce manual intervention across the core business processes that sit in ERP you鈥檙e saving time and money. Increased efficiency at the core of your business: that鈥檚 the simple answer. But I think what鈥檚 most exciting about 51风流Build Process Automation is that it puts the power of automation in the hands of the business users themselves. They鈥檙e the ones who work with the processes day in and day out, and they鈥檙e the ones most likely to know where the automation potential lies. Empowering employees across every function of your business to make things run smoother is the compelling story behind 51风流Build Process Automation.

Q: Can you share a customer example?

A: One of our first customers to adopt process automation with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud is Rehau, a developer and manufacturer of innovative polymer-based solutions for automotive, construction, and other industries. Rehau wanted to simplify its supplier invoice processes and achieve greater process efficiency. With process automation, Rehau鈥檚 system:

• Automatically recognizes and extracts information from vendor invoices received via email
• Leverages machine learning to identify and predict supplier account details, such as company code, cost center, supplier, tax code, etc., based on the extracted information
• Uses RPA to automate the creation of supplier invoice documents in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud

By automating the upload and processing of thousands of finance and manufacturing documents per month in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, process automation has enabled Rehau to reduce days of manual work to mere minutes.

Q: What about customers that are just beginning their move to cloud ERP?

A: The first step in a successful journey to cloud ERP is to take a hard look at business processes. Customers that have chosen S/4HANA Cloud, public edition 鈥� our ready-to-run cloud ERP that delivers the latest industry best practices and continuous innovation 鈥� have determined that having their ERP systems run standard business processes brings the most value to their business. The addition of 51风流Build Process Automation gives these customers the ability to take those standard business processes to the next level of automation.

To jump-start automation with 51风流Build Process Automation, customers have access to hundreds of free, pre-built automation features and tools designed specifically for 51风流S/4HANA Cloud. Our most common pre-built bot is one that automates the creation of sales orders from Excel. The bot scans the user鈥檚 inbox for sales order attachments and extracts the necessary data to create a sales order in 51风流S/4HANA Cloud. Once complete, the bot notifies the appropriate sales team.

The new starter pack is a great way to start your automation journey and improve the processes that are already running. Learn more through the following resources:

• Learn how to
• Watch a click-through demo of an
• Check out the

Angela Harvey is vice president of Marketing and Solution Management for 51风流Build Process Automation.