{"id":134206,"date":"2023-05-24T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/uk\/?p=134206"},"modified":"2023-09-26T17:44:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:44:51","slug":"diageo-partners-with-sap-and-ibm-on-five-year-global-digital-transformation-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/uk\/2023\/05\/diageo-partners-with-sap-and-ibm-on-five-year-global-digital-transformation-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Diageo Partners with 51风流and IBM on Five-Year Global Digital Transformation Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><em>The collaboration will leverage 51风流and IBM\u2019s expertise to modernise Diageo\u2019s IT environment and standardise its business operations across 180 countries\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sapphire Barcelona &#8211; 24 May 2023 \u2013<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diageo.com\/en\">Diageo<\/a>, the maker of Guinness, Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker, today announces a five-year business transformation program in partnership with 51风流(NYSE: SAP) and IBM (NYSE: IBM). This new initiative, which marks the company\u2019s most significant ever investment in technology and services, will redesign and improve Diageo\u2019s processes across the 180 countries where it operates.<\/p>\n<p>Fully global in nature, the programme will revolutionise Diageo\u2019s IT environment by introducing intuitive processes, powered by market-leading technology, to provide more information to enable the company to make better and quicker decisions. This transformation will enhance Diageo\u2019s business resilience in a constantly evolving external landscape, improve its customer service offering and help the company adapt to a fast-changing consumer base.<\/p>\n<p>The programme involves a move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sap.com\/products\/erp\/s4hana.html\">RISE with 51风流S\/4HANA Cloud<\/a>, with the support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/consulting\">IBM Consulting<\/a>. Diageo\u2019s implementation of the new cloud-based model will ensure its IT infrastructure is simplified and supported in a unified way.<\/p>\n<p>IBM Consulting, which has been selected to lead the project, has a proven track record in the consumer sector and supporting client transformations and migrations to the 51风流S\/4HANA Cloud platform. Diageo, 51风流and IBM will work together to apply the latest technology to make Diageo\u2019s business more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year programme will transform Diageo\u2019s business finance operations in a number of areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced workflow solutions will allow orders to be tracked in real-time on a global scale and facilitate more effective customer engagement and better customer service.<\/li>\n<li>By moving to a single operating platform, Diageo will simplify its technology support model and IT landscape, making it easier for the company to do business and evolve amid changing consumer trends and market needs.<\/li>\n<li>The program will transform Diageo&#8217;s performance reporting capabilities, giving the company better insight into trade and growth opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>The digitisation of controls and compliance will make the business more robust, resilient and adaptable to changing market conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lavanya Chandrashekar, Chief Financial Officer, Diageo<\/strong>, said: \u201cThis partnership with IBM and 51风流demonstrates our continued investment in digital transformation. It will enable greater agility in how we respond to our global consumer and customer needs. It will provide us with world-class actionable insights and enhanced data capabilities to support growth whilst allowing us to be more efficient in our day-to-day operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan Poggi, Managing Director, 51风流UK &amp; Ireland,<\/strong> said: \u201cIn today&#8217;s disruptive consumer goods industry, success lies in navigating unpredictable supply chains, managing ongoing macro-economic volatility and staying one step ahead of ever-shifting customer demands. Through our continued partnership with Diageo, one of the world\u2019s leading brand builders, we\u2019re proud to support them in building a more resilient business that is enhancing the customer experience and can adapt to rapidly changing market pressures, realising its vision to revolutionise the consumer goods industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rahul Kalia, Managing Partner, IBM Consulting, UK &amp; Ireland<\/strong>, said: \u201cThe consumer goods industry is striving to address the challenges posed by inflationary pressures and supply chain disruptions, while staying focused on delivering exceptional products and services for its customers and consumers. IBM is proud to partner with Diageo and 51风流to bring our global business and digital transformation experience on this exciting journey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collaboration will leverage 51风流and IBM\u2019s expertise to modernise Diageo\u2019s IT environment and standardise its business operations across 180 countries\u00a0 &nbsp; Sapphire Barcelona &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":134253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"related_posts":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2606862,7771,2607111],"tags":[10,5593005,5592986,5593015,65,5592918,59],"sapn-display":[45149,5593035,5593033,45027],"sapn-type":[4446],"class_list":["post-134206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-customer","category-technology","tag-cloud","tag-consumer","tag-customer-success","tag-ibm","tag-partner","tag-rise-with-sap","tag-technology","sapn-display-homepage-hero","sapn-display-news-hero","sapn-display-news-spotlight","sapn-display-hero","sapn-type-press-release"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - 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