LONDON, UK – 12 June 2024 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) Ovaltine, the international wellbeing drinks business, has completed the first wave of its cloud migration to improve the efficiency and resiliency of its global operations and meet the evolving needs of its customer base.

With an existing multi-year digital transformation programme underway, the move to the cloud is helping Twinings Ovaltine enter a new phase of digital innovation and better respond to the demands of global customers.

In moving seven different ERP platforms to the cloud, Twinings Ovaltine is unifying its estate, and simultaneously addressing issues with siloed data which can impact collaboration and decision-making across markets. Now, it has the platform to expand its product roadmap, enabling it to be more agile to customer trends and behaviours, and streamline operations for growth.

In partnership since 2011, Twinings Ovaltine has placed its trust in 51风流to reduce its overheads, optimise its ERP processes from procurement to HR, and empower its decision-making with better access to data. In completing its first migration to RISE with 51风流S/4HANA, Twinings Ovaltine now deploys an entire portfolio of 51风流solutions in , and , that provides digital transformation across the business.

51风流delivers automated and simplified business processes for Twinings Ovaltine in the cloud, enhanced user experiences, real-time data and insights, and near real-time sales, inventory and process visibility. This allows Twinings Ovaltine to operate intelligently and at speed, while responding to the needs and behaviours of its customers and the wider market.

With 51风流Digital Supply Chain Management and Ariba, Twinings Ovaltine can modernise its supply chain and procurement operations, while gaining greater visibility into wider value chains. This helps to protect the company against global supply chain disruption and ensures the business can partner with suppliers that share similar values.

Sandeep Seeripat, Global Business Transformation and Technology Officer, Twinings Ovaltine, said: 鈥淭winings and Ovaltine products are sold in over a hundred countries worldwide. But what people want to consume, when and where is always evolving. We needed a platform that could scale with us and help us go above and beyond to delight our customers. Moving our ERP to the cloud with RISE with 51风流is enabling us to do just that, setting the foundations for future growth and expansion, empowering us to make faster and more accurate decisions, and streamlining our global operations.鈥�

Ryan Poggi, Managing Director, 51风流UK&I, said: 鈥淎s a longstanding 51风流customer and household name, we鈥檙e continuing to support Twinings Ovaltine as it looks to become more a resilient, customer-focused business. With the flexibility, speed and agility of the cloud, businesses like Twinings Ovaltine can intelligently adapt to meet changing consumer expectations, while also futureproofing itself against a fast-changing socio-economic landscape.鈥�

About SAP

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

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LONDON 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today announces that , one of the world鈥檚 leading communications services companies, has gone live on to transform its ERP operations in the cloud.

It鈥檚 a move that strengthens the existing partnership between the two companies, enabling BT Group to retire 11 legacy finance platforms and benefit from millions of pounds worth of annualised savings. It also showcases the value of , SAP鈥檚 tailored-to-fit cloud ERP solution, in delivering business-wide transformation at scale.

The deployment forms part of BT Group鈥檚 multi-year digital transformation journey to enhance its operations and build better colleague experiences. A partner since 2019, 51风流has supported BT Group with its modernisation programme, providing smart, streamlined finance operations under its Making Finance Brilliant initiative. At the same time, 51风流has enhanced BT Group鈥檚 colleague and customer experiences through the creation of a new 鈥楳yHR鈥� platform, powered by 51风流SuccessFactors.

Now, BT Group runs 51风流S/4HANA to take its Making Finance Brilliant initiative to the next level. It unites its finance data, reports and accounts, and powers its Business, Openreach and group finance operations in the UK.

The partnership also sees BT Group add to its robust 51风流portfolio, following its onboarding of 听听as part of its commitment to enhance its workforce experience via the creation of its 鈥楳yHR鈥� platform. These deployments form part of the strategic transformation of its digital HR capabilities, transforming learning,听听and management of contingent workers. It helps BT attract talent as well as enabling career development and workforce planning.

鈥淭he last couple of years have shown the necessity of being able to move fast and be agile to changing circumstances without disrupting either the customer or colleague experience,鈥� said Jay Doshi, MD, Corporate Units, Digital at BT Group. 鈥淲ith our new 51风流deployment adding to our existing portfolio, we can remove the complexity from our finance processes, allowing simplifying finance operations across the Group, reducing costs, boosting productivity and deepening the insights we can access to inform wider business strategy. Our teams will now reap the rewards as our strategic transformation programme drives a new digitally-enhanced experience.鈥�

Ryan Poggi, Managing Director of 51风流UKI added, 鈥淏T Group has a long history of connecting the world through the power of telecommunications. As it undergoes its programme of transformation, our cloud-based solutions will place data at the heart of strategic decision-making, driving operational efficiencies and enabling innovation at scale.

鈥淲ith immediate savings, and wider benefits in productivity and performance, our services can scale to meet and deliver against BT Group鈥檚 transformation ambitions. That鈥檚 why we鈥檙e the only choice for organisations, of any size, that wish to modernise their ERP and stay resilient to the challenges that may come.鈥�

About BT Group

BT Group is the UK鈥檚 leading provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications and related secure digital products, solutions and services. We also provide managed telecommunications, security and network and IT infrastructure services to customers across 180 countries.

BT Group consists of three customer-facing units: Consumer serves individuals and families in the UK; Business* covers companies and public services in the UK and internationally; Openreach is an independently governed, wholly owned subsidiary wholesaling fixed access infrastructure services to its customers – over 650 communications providers across the UK.

British Telecommunications plc is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

For more information, visit

About SAP

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

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London, UK 鈥� 4 October, 2023 – (NYSE: SAP) has today announced that Plc, the leading contract and private label manufacturer for cleaning products, has selected to improve customer experience, optimise manufacturing operations, enhance efficiency and drive overall business success.

Partnering with 51风流and systems integrator NTT DATA Business Solutions, the introduction of the new ERP system is McBride鈥檚 largest critical project in terms of cost investment and scale. It will enable McBride to react quicker to its retail and contract manufacturing customer demands, produce at higher volumes and improve internal efficiencies.

Retailers require new product development at pace to remain competitive and the five-year project will allow McBride to adapt quickly to customers鈥� needs. Designed to add consistency to thinking and processes, the system will be harmonised across the entire McBride estate, seeing all departments working with one data source.

The introduction of standard and cohesive business processes will enable McBride鈥檚 12 European manufacturing sites to all work in the same way. This agile approach will realise greater efficiencies, whether that鈥檚 a future adaption to the internal system, or changes to adapt to market pressures.

Other benefits include using and for improved order processing, supply chain visibility, quality control and compliance and reliable product availability. Easy integration, including the sharing of essential and beneficial data to customers, will also enable more accurate production planning.

Commenting on the new ERP system, Group IT Director at McBride, Paul Boardman said: 鈥淭his is a once in a generation opportunity to transform McBride鈥檚 system landscape and improve its capability for staff and customers.

鈥淲e currently have seven streams of transformation, of which ERP is one. The ERP system is critical to our transformation journey at McBride, as it underpins all our programmes and goals. Every transaction, every department, and every factory at McBride goes through ERP, so it really drives the heart of the organisation.

鈥淚t is essential to have a system that will grow with McBride and support our ambitions as a company. A huge amount of time has been invested upfront to get the principles correct before deployment. As well as improving our service to our customers and staff productivity now, it is vital that the ERP system is scalable and will futureproof McBride.

鈥淭here is excitement and appetite for the new system across McBride; employees will benefit from working with the latest technology and be able to deliver a better service to their customers. This is one of the many reasons why McBride is committed to this significant investment in technology and people.鈥�

James Bates, Head of RISE, 51风流UKI, adds: 鈥淎s a longstanding 51风流customer and leader in its industry, the transition to RISE with 51风流marks a significant move for McBride in becoming a truly digitally led, forward-thinking and resilient business. At a time of socio-economic flux, McBride will have enhanced visibility into its operations and unrivalled data insights to intelligently adapt and react to a constantly changing market and ultimately, ensure its ready for the future.鈥�

This significant investment from McBride is not only a sign of its future ambitions but will play a vital role in optimising manufacturing operations, enhancing efficiency and driving overall business success. This will provide McBride and its customers with the tools and insights necessary to navigate the complexities of modern manufacturing and maintain a competitive edge in the retail market.

About SAP

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

About McBride

McBride is the leading European manufacturer and supplier of Private Label and Contract Manufactured products for the domestic household and professional cleaning and hygiene markets.

McBride sells one billion products every year, supplying 49 of Europe’s top 50 grocery retailers.

99% of its packaging is recyclable, and McBride products are used 850 times per second every day.

McBride employs over 3,400 people across 18 locations in 12 countries, with a diverse, inclusive, and engaging culture at all levels. Divisions include Liquids, Unit Dosing, Powders, and Aerosols, in addition to its Asia Pacific division that produces a range of personal care products for consumers across the region. For more information, visit

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The new 51风流S/4HANA system will be hosted in the cloud by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Moving to a 鈥榮tandard鈥� cloud-based solution 鈥� the 51风流Business Technology Platform (BTP) – will make McBride more agile in terms of integrating with other applications and 3rd parties.

New processes will be based on 51风流standard best practice and streamlined with unnecessary steps removed and automation implemented where possible. In addition, system analytics will aid continuous improvement, as well as scalability to accommodate the growing needs of customers.

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LONDON, UK 鈥� 16 August 2022 – (NYSE: SAP) has today announced that Central Bedfordshire Council is the latest UK public sector organisation to select to modernise its IT and technology infrastructure in order to deliver efficient services to its local residents.

Having witnessed a boom in its number of residents the council is investing in technology to transform the ways it supports this growing community.

A long-time 51风流customer, having first started using 51风流in 2006, the Central Bedfordshire Council moved to the latest version of 51风流software, in September 2019. And now, with a stable 51风流service in place, the council is looking to upgrade to the latest cloud version of S4/HANA , deployed via a scalable, secure and highly resilient Microsoft Azure cloud-based infrastructure platform.

In addition to transforming its core ERP via the latest cloud version of 51风流S/4HANA, Central Bedfordshire Council will be leveraging , a new generation of cloud analytics combining all capabilities 鈥� including planning, predictive analytics & business intelligence in a single-software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

Cllr David Shelvey, Executive Member for Corporate Resources at Central Bedfordshire Council, comments: 鈥淐entral Bedfordshire Council aims to become a visionary within local government. Alongside delivering cost-savings and efficiencies, we want to enable fast and continuous adoption of future innovations that allow our employees to create the types of services that best suit the needs of our residents.鈥�

Satpal Biant, Head of Public Sector at , added: 鈥淥ur partnership with Central Bedfordshire Council is one we鈥檙e greatly proud of. It constantly wants to push the boundaries of what it can provide its residents, and with RISE with SAP, is ideally placed to meet that objective. They are one of many UK councils that use the latest 51风流technology and innovation, to make the most out of the investment in technology that it makes.鈥�

With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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How does cloud computing translate into better business transformation in the heart of your enterprise?

Across the board, CEOs are on the hunt for better business performance. They know that in a VUCA world yesterday鈥檚 performance is a distant memory and tomorrow鈥檚 success is never guaranteed. They must grow – profitably and sustainably while building a culture, organisation, and systems that foster flawless execution, innovation, agility, and resilience. In these inflationary times they must balance growth against margin protection and liquidity management. They must do all of this through a strategic blend of differentiated customer experiences, talent deployment, financial performance, supply chain, and ecosystem design and innovative products and services. This is the essence of business transformation – it鈥檚 not new, but it is getting more complex, more urgent, and more dynamic. And leaders know this rests on exploiting data with digital technologies which can be delivered fast and at scale via the cloud.

So, what if any, is the connection between ERP and cloud computing?

To do all the above tasks, you need a robust digital core and powerful digital technologies to fuel data driven insights and decision making. You need highly automated, yet flexible business processes to deliver outcomes and productivity. And you need an information-empowered workforce able to do what humans do best – strategy, relationships and solving complex problems. And by the way those processes and the people who work with them, extend beyond the boundaries of your organisation – so you need a platform that enables secure process and people collaboration across your ecosystem.

This is the world of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) – translating the possibilities and potentials of a myriad technologies into business capabilities that the CEO needs for their strategy to succeed.听Historically CIOs have done this in their on-premise data centres – buying, assembling, and running all the different elements of the technology 鈥渟tack鈥� needed to run their businesses with ERP systems as the foundation. And then customising, augmenting, and integrating those monolithic ERPs to suit the way 鈥渂usiness gets done here鈥�. It鈥檚 been a complex and arduous business, even with the help of systems integrators. It takes time, which businesses don鈥檛 have, and talent which is hard to come by. And in many cases, those old approaches to customisation have cut organisations off from the innovations that their vendors deliver.

Legacy ERP systems, constrained by the limitations of yesterday鈥檚 technologies, are no longer fit for purpose and struggle to keep up with the pace of innovation demanded. Simply lifting and shifting them to the cloud will not deliver the step changes in required business performance.

It is now time to modernise and replace those old ERP systems with a simple, future-ready business foundation. A modern ERP with comprehensive and powerful business processes, infused with AI and machine learning for greater productivity. An ERP offering an engaging consumer-grade user experience. An ERP that enables business model innovation and comes with embedded analytics and predictive capabilities to steer the organisation in an agile manner. This is the essence of . In mid-2022 some twenty thousand customers have chosen 51风流S/4HANA and 72% of those are live and reporting significant and wide-ranging business benefits.

RISE with 51风流鈥� the answer to crucial questions

RISE with 51风流answers a couple of key questions. How do we help companies reap the benefits of 51风流S/4HANA and the advantages of cloud? How do we do this whilst also recognising that ERP does not live in a vacuum and each company鈥檚 situation is different?

To do all this, RISE with 51风流brings together, in a single, subscription-based contract (built for each customer鈥檚 unique journey) relevant 51风流software including 51风流S/4HANA (as a service), cloud infrastructure, tools and accelerators and 51风流technical services.

While each RISE with 51风流contract is customer-specific, common to all of them is that 51风流takes accountability for providing all these elements as a service with a 99.7% SLA. This frees customers up to focus on applying this 51风流solution to their business to achieve their transformational objectives.

RISE with 51风流is now 18 months old with a growing cohort of projects and live customers 鈥� hear from some of them.

SAP鈥檚 customers are embracing RISE with 51风流as the solution to the challenges of moving to 51风流S/4HANA in the cloud. It enables them to reduce risks and costs and deliver ongoing business transformation, process optimisations and digital innovations.

The videos below will give you additional insights into why companies have elected to go with RISE with SAP, and will help you plan your own journey to a better future for your business.

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Why has 51风流launched RISE with SAP?

RISE with 51风流is about modernising ERP and accelerating innovation for the digital era.

ERP has been around for three decades. It has been enormously successful, initially adopted by large organisations but now relied upon by companies of all sizes, in all industries. However, the mindsets and architectures that underpin much of the global ERP installed base (not just 51风流but many other brands), may no longer be fit-for-purpose in the fast-paced digital world. Yesterday鈥檚 ERP architecture and implementations stem from a very different era:

• The economy and supply chains were not globalised to the extent they are today
• There was no mobile computing
• The Internet was in its infancy
• Integration standards and methods were clunky
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) was yet to emerge from its second winter and Big Data was uncommon
• In-memory computing was not economically viable
• Cloud computing, as we know it today did not exist.

Today鈥檚 world is very different and the demand for innovation has been dramatically accelerated by:

• Globalisation and geopolitics
• Venture capital enabling digital start-ups to scale new business models very quickly
• Technological advances 鈥� typified by Moore鈥檚 Law
• The global pandemic 鈥� especially WFH and the way it highlighted supply chain vulnerabilities
• The sustainability agenda
• Increasing regulatory requirements
• Generational change in the workforce.

RISE with 51风流drives innovation in key business processes

These changes amount to a major inflection point for businesses. RISE with 51风流is SAP鈥檚 response to our customers鈥� need to accelerate their innovation and transformation. This is accomplished by modernising their ERP backbone at the same time as seizing the multiple benefits of cloud computing. Furthermore, for companies that customised their ERP systems to the extent that they cut themselves off from effective innovation in the heart of their business, RISE with 51风流offers a path back to a clean core based on best practices.

What is in RISE with SAP?

RISE with 51风流brings together core components for successful digital transformation into a single contract:

• Key software services from SAP鈥檚 Intelligent Enterprise Framework:
  • as the foundation for business.
  • 51风流Business Technology Platform Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement Credits for integration, extensions, and innovation.
  • Starter Pack: ARIBA for sourcing and procurement, Logistics Business Network for logistics collaboration and 51风流Asset Intelligence Network for asset management based on a shared digital twin.
  • Starter Pack including 51风流Process Insights (50 GB data volume and one time data load), 51风流Signavio Process Manager (3 users), 51风流Signavio Process Collaboration Hub (10 users).
  • Solutions – as appropriate to the customer鈥檚 business scenarios.

• Data-driven insights to identify the value of moving to the cloud and to shape the transition journey for each customer including:
  • Process Discovery and tailored Recommendation
  • Custom Code Migration App
  • 鈥� (content view)
  • (application lifecycle management)
  • (1 user per FUE) and 51风流Mobile Start app
• 51风流Enterprise Cloud Services whereby 51风流takes more accountability for the customers鈥� 51风流systems by providing Technical Managed Services and Application Management Services (as required).
• The infrastructure-at-scale benefits of hyperscalers such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

Who is RISE with 51风流for?

Whilst all the components embraced by RISE with 51风流are offered under a single commercial contract, this is configurable. This means RISE with 51风流serves;

• Existing 51风流ECC 6.0 customers looking to transform to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud
• Existing 51风流S/4HANA On Premise customers looking to transition to cloud
• Companies new to 51风流ERP wanting to leverage the world鈥檚 leading ERP solution

What are the benefits of RISE with SAP?

The benefits of RISE with 51风流focus on business innovation, transformation and IT modernisation and will be unique to each organisation. A RISE with 51风流engagement identifies and quantifies these benefits in a robust business case for each customer. That said, these are some of the benefits that customers can anticipate:

• Improved business processes. Many customers are burdened by the complexity and technical debt that comes from customising and augmenting their old ERP systems. Despite these efforts, business processes are still disjointed, opaque and overly manual. It鈥檚 a bit like trying to add airbags, seatbelt pretensioners and cruise control to an old motor car. 51风流S/4HANA has been completely re-architected to take advantage of digital era technologies. 听As a result, companies can drive higher productivity through process automation and the elimination of batch jobs. They can also derive better insights through embedded analytics on more granular data and maintain happier users through consumer-grade user experiences.
• Accelerated innovation. By exploiting the innovations already embedded in 51风流S/4HANA, such as AI and robotic process automation, and enhancing these with the 51风流Business Technology Platform (also part of RISE with SAP), companies can accelerate their pace of digital innovation. Furthermore, by reducing or eliminating customisations, and by moving to the cloud, it becomes easier to adopt and consume the benefits of SAP鈥檚 research and development investments across the products that make up the RISE with 51风流offering (鈧�45 billion in 2020).
• Making better use of scarce resources. The war for talent is real and at the same time many of the ERP professionals who laid down the existing systems are heading for retirement. By moving to RISE with SAP, where 51风流takes on the technical managed services associated with running ERP, companies can pivot their IT resources from running IT to focusing on the application of services to drive transformation and business progress.
• A closer relationship with SAP. Many customers want a closer relationship with the vendor whose software runs their mission-critical processes. RISE with 51风流delivers this because, 51风流assumes much greater accountability for the customer鈥檚 landscape and shows up every day in the customer鈥檚 business – not just running the systems but actively guiding improvements and ensuring that business value is being realised.
• Innovation without upfront IT costs. Because RISE with 51风流is a cloud solution, it brings the benefits of accessing digital business capabilities like 51风流S/4HANA and the 51风流Business Network without upfront capex on infrastructure and licenses.
• Simplicity to focus on what matters. Companies can move to the cloud on a piecemeal basis, buying compute, storage, database, and operating system services as needed. However, then they must manage the complexity associated with governance, security, SLAs, consumption and so forth. Also, while a technical 鈥渓ift and shift鈥� approach may deliver some benefits to the IT department, it typically does not have a significant impact on the business. In their 2021 report, 鈥�鈥� McKinsey pointed out that $1 trillion value will be enabled by adopting cloud by 2030 and that 鈥渁lmost all of that value comes from business innovation and optimization rather than IT cost reduction.鈥� RISE with 51风流folds business and architectural value into a single contract, a guided journey and relationship where 51风流is more accountable. This simplicity means that IT professionals can focus on higher value activities that move their company forward to capture their share of that $1 trillion.

RISE with 51风流draws on SAP鈥檚 proud heritage of helping customers navigate change

For over 50 years, 51风流has helped it customers navigate major changes in business and technology; the shift from mainframes to client-server, globalisation of business, the rise of ERP, eCommerce, in-memory computing, and mobile work. Now RISE with 51风流is helping companies to move to the cloud with their most important business systems.

RISE with 51风流is a strategic decision

Every company has its unique strategy, but what is common to early adopters of RISE with 51风流is that they all see the value and rich possibilities inherent in the offering.

A global player in the automotive industry has adopted RISE with 51风流to accelerate its digital innovation in the face of changes to the features of cars themselves – electric, shared, connected and autonomous – and changes in consumer behaviour.

Furthermore, a global FMCG company that has grown through acquisitions, wants to get better visibility, planning, and coordination across its global supply chain without losing prized regional management autonomy. RISE with 51风流helps them to standardise and harmonise on a single platform, reduce costs, and drive growth through even better business performance.

Hear from your 51风流Customer peers about why they are choosing RISE with SAP

If your company is looking for innovation, productivity gains and industry best practices then RISE with 51风流is ready to help you.

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London, UK – (NYSE: SAP) today announces that it has extended its partnership with global logistics, consulting and manufacturing organisation, Unipart Group. An existing 51风流customer for 21 years, Unipart Group will now adopt S/4HANA on RISE with 51风流to embrace cloud innovation and evolve its business as an IT services-led company. The collaboration will also see Unipart Group strengthen its capability as an 51风流Systems Integrator to empower its own customers to transition to cloud technology under RISE with SAP.

With roots in the automotive industry, Unipart Group has built a reputation as an industry world leader in manufacturing, logistics and consultancy. Over time Unipart wants to use its extensive experience in logistics and ERP to commercialise solutions at pace and sell IT services beyond logistics, expanding its customer portfolio, which currently includes Jaguar Land Rover, Sky and NHS Supply Chain.

Turning to its existing partnership with 51风流to accelerate its transformation into an agile technology company, Unipart Group hosted joint workshops and discovery sessions to define the best path forward. Recognising the necessity of the cloud to support its service expansion, Unipart chose to adopt RISE with 51风流to provide the flexibility and bandwidth to scale its business and accelerate products to market. It can now enjoy access to a single Digital Core platform that delivers automated and simplified businesses processes, real-time data insights and near real-time sales and process visibility. This means it is better placed to understand and respond to the needs of customers and the wider market.

The move to embrace RISE with 51风流both as part of its own IT estate, as well as an 51风流Systems Integrator, ensures Unipart Group will significantly modernise its solutions and data architecture, offering its customers a product synonymous with a modern, innovative IT services company.

Yiannis Levantis, Group Chief Information Officer at Unipart, said: 鈥淩einvention is part of our DNA, it means our transformation journey is never finished and that we can always better serve and provide innovative solutions to our customers. As we look to shift our business model towards being an IT services company first, with deep expertise in logistics, manufacturing and supply chain, expanding our capabilities alongside 51风流has been the next step to make this a reality.鈥�

Michiel Verhoeven, UK & Ireland Managing Director at SAP, added: 鈥淲e鈥檙e proud of our long-standing relationship with an industry heavyweight in Unipart. As it evolves to become a truly digital-first company, RISE with 51风流is the perfect solution to enable faster, more agile, automated and insight-driven business services. With more than two decades already behind our partnership, we鈥檙e excited to see where we can take Unipart next.鈥�

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LONDON, UK 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today announced global healthcare solutions company , has selected with , the largest digital operating transformation provider to mid-market and mid-enterprise. The platform will support rapid growth and diversification at the Dublin-based innovator of healthcare services, facilitating greater control, collaboration and confidence. The initial project is anticipated to be live in December 2022, with roll-out to the company鈥檚 laboratories to follow in phase two.

LetsGetChecked experienced exponential growth since its founding in 2015. Having secured $71 Million in Series C funding, opened its first privately owned state-of-the-art laboratory in Monrovia, CA in the US, and delivered against overwhelmingly high demand for COVID-19 testing, a new platform had become imperative to underpin global operations and sustain future growth. The company closed a $150 million Series D round of financing in June 2021, which brought the total capital raised by LetsGetChecked to more than $260 million.

Having used cloud accounting application Xero since its inception, LetsGetChecked鈥檚 market potential and ambitious growth plans necessitated a more scalable, intelligent and comprehensive end-to-end platform, which would support the entire business. Crucially, the solution needed to support nuances such as complex LOT traceability,expiry date management, and regulatory compliance around patient health records.

Following a thorough evaluation of the market, LetsGetChecked selected from a shortlist comprising Netsuite and Microsoft. The decision was based on the system鈥檚 depth of capabilities, intelligence and scale as well as ease of use – access to for greater collaboration in procurement was also considered particularly valuable. Sapphire Systems was chosen as the deployment partner based on experience and expertise on similar projects and there was a strong cultural fit with the team.

鈥淲e鈥檝e seen massive disruption in the healthcare market as consumers and employers have become more and more comfortable with the concept of at-home testing and care, and this has catapulted our model extremely quickly,鈥� said Gary Fitzgerald, Group Financial Controller of LetsGetChecked.

鈥淥ur decision to invest in a world-class digital platform was pivotal to support our next stage of听听听听听 growth and it quickly became clear that would be an excellent fit for our complex business model. Their system delivers automation, simplifies business processes in the cloud, provides real-time business insights and visibility of the entire sales, inventory and fulfilment lifecycle. Complementing the platform, Sapphire Systems understands all our complexities and specific needs. Their team worked closely with us to scope out the right project methodology and expedite performance,鈥� continued Fitzgerald.

鈥淚f there is one thing the last two years have taught us, it is that speed of change and adaptability to change defines success,鈥� comments Chris Gabriel, Chief Strategy Office for Sapphire. 鈥淲e are incredibly excited to be partnering with LetsGetChecked and 51风流to deliver the powerful combination of speed and RISE adaptability to create the digital operating platform that will now sit at the core.鈥�

鈥淩ISE with 51风流is designed to help organisations deploy in the most straightforward, structured way possible, enabling their digital transformation in the cloud,鈥� comments Michiel Verhoeven, managing director for . 鈥淲e have a great sense of pride from servicing high growth, market innovators such as LetsGetChecked. Through the strength of Sapphire Systems as a quality 51风流Partner, RISE will enable a faster time to deploy, implementation of standard processes and innovation outside the core.鈥�

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At the heart of the solution sits on Microsoft Azure, supported by and which will digitalise procurement operations, and support Twinings Ovaltine as it looks to modernise its core capabilities from finance to manufacturing to logistics; all the elements needed to run a global business in a real-time, intelligent and agile manner.

Looking to avoid a drawn out IT implementation, Twinings Ovaltine turned to RISE with 51风流for a quick deployment that delivered on speed to value. It also ensures Twinings Ovaltine is delivering on the internal standards the company sets itself and that any elements of its transformation programme aren鈥檛 just a re-implementation of ERP, but a game changing innovation. The RISE programme delivers on that promise, using standardisation alongside automation to guarantee it can meet the expectations of today鈥檚 ever-demanding consumers.

鈥淲hen we started our transformation journey and reflected on what we wanted to do, it was never a technology conversation. It was a conversation about how do we get closer to our customers, understand what they want and how to deliver on that鈥�, comments Sandeep Seeripat, Global Chief Information Officer at Twinings Ovaltine. 鈥淲e need partners that are matching our business drive, and it鈥檚 clear 51风流does that. While others can offer the technology, 51风流really stood out with its understanding of our business objectives and how it can simultaneously deliver an experience to our customers that goes beyond expectation, whilst setting the platform for our growth agenda.鈥�

With a process for making tea being refined for over 300 years, for Twinings Ovaltine tea is more than just a drink. It鈥檚 become a part of people鈥檚 daily lives and has satisfied generations of tea lovers, thanks to its 330+ varieties, and production facilities that manufacture anywhere between 45 million and 75 million tea bags per week.

Thanks to RISE with SAP, Twinings Ovaltine can deliver automation and simplification of business processes in the cloud, enhanced (consumer-grade) user experience, real-time data and insights, and near real-time sales, inventory and process visibility. This will enable the business to respond more adeptly to the needs and behaviours of its customers and the wider market.

As Michiel Verhoeven, UK & Ireland Managing Director of SAP, says: 鈥淭he move to RISE with 51风流is a simplification of an engagement Twinings Ovaltine already has with us, as well as establishing a service level that meets the demands of the organisation while delivering an upgrade path that reduces complexity across the business. We鈥檙e excited to continue our partnership with Twinings Ovaltine, a company with a rich history of innovation, and one that is now ideally placed to meet the needs of its growing customer base as it continues its legacy of being one of the most recognisable beverage brands in the world.鈥�

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Yes, but it鈥檚 a mistake to think that fast-growing companies don鈥檛 have similar business needs to the bigger players. Some examples I come across a lot include: needing full visibility of their organisation in real-time, getting a tighter grip on their financials and becoming more competitive through the efficiency and innovation benefits of intelligent technologies (which are embedded with 51风流S/4HANA) such as AI, predictive analytics and machine learning.

You might be surprised to know that around . Even pre-revenue start-ups are choosing 51风流S/4HANA to enable them to achieve their ambitious growth plans. To date, we have over 16,400 51风流S/4HANA customers and half of these are midsize businesses.

We know that the ability to be agile drives operational excellence. In the face of constant change you need to pivot quickly. 51风流S/4HANA allows the office of CFO to plan in real-time, to innovate fast and to quickly respond to change.

I鈥檇 like to share a few examples of our SME customers鈥� successes with 51风流S/4HANA. Founded in 2011 to shake up the UK broadband market with its 鈥渇ull鈥� fibre optic technology, now has around 940 employees. Their disconnected systems were limiting their ability to grow, and their CEO told us that they knew they needed a world-class ERP platform if they were to scale and progress.

51风流S/4HANA, implemented by 51风流partner TATA Consultancy Services, is now an integral part of Hyperoptic鈥檚 technology landscape. They can access real-time data for deeper insights and to make better business-critical decisions especially in the area of inventory, supply chain and
finance operations. In fact, they鈥檙e achieving 25% faster decision-making and 60% faster financial close due to having 鈥榦ne source of the truth鈥� for their business.

We have some great commercial offerings which make 51风流S/4HANA more affordable, and digital transformation more accessible, for the midmarket. For example, our new makes 51风流S/4HANA even more attainable for small, growing businesses.

To truly transform a business at your preferred speed and on your terms, you need more than infrastructure-as-a-service or software-as-a-service. You need a more holistic offering, business transformation-as-a-service. RISE with 51风流is a subscription service which brings together everything you need to transform your business in a way that works best for you. It allows businesses to change not only once, but to continually evolve to address new challenges and changing business needs.

In March 2021, we signed the UK鈥檚 first RISE with 51风流customer, engineering firm Briggs of Burton. They selected RISE with 51风流as the vehicle to help them increase revenue to 拢100m by 2024, from about 拢16m in 2016. We are currently working with , to ensure they go live by the end of this year.

[] Briggs鈥� Finance Director, Nathan Beddoe, realised that was the right platform to achieve their ambitious growth targets and to provide them with the real-time reporting and efficiencies they need to proactively manage the business.

Like Briggs, many fast-growing companies get to a point where getting onto an intelligent ERP platform is essential if they are to continue their growth journey in a sustainable, controlled way. Data-driven insights can nurture growth as this explains. Moving from an onpremise CAPEX model to a Cloud OPEX model also means they can reduce IT spend and have more cash to invest in their business growth.

For small and midsize companies, the digital transformation journey can sometimes seem pretty daunting. I liken it to running as fast as you can off the edge of a cliff and hoping that the drop is two feet and not two hundred feet. To make your digital transformation way less scary, you need a transformation partner you can trust, who is experienced and has the programs in place to support your growth plans.

This is where the security of almost 50 years of ERP know-how, along with our market-leading partner network, can reassure you that we have got your back. In fact, we focus on having some of the best people in the industry and the most advanced, yet easy-to-use, technologies to ensure that there is no drop ahead and to help you fly 鈥� or should I say RISE?!

I invite you to join us in the for thought-provoking insights from business leaders, industry experts, and transformational stories from your peers.

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