The EPI-USE AppHaus Pretoria has celebrated numerous successes, particularly in client engagement and interaction. The space has facilitated impactful sessions that have allowed for a deeper understanding of clients’ objectives and challenges. By adopting a human-centred approach, the AppHaus has successfully delivered solutions that resonate with clients, and place the end-user first.

The AppHaus concept has also played a pivotal role in fostering innovation within the 麻豆原创 ecosystem. Collaborating with clients already immersed in 麻豆原创 technology, the EPI-USE Labs鈥� AppHaus team has recognised the potential of 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (BTP) to bring about rapid innovation, automation, and enhancements. The focus on quick returns on investment has positioned the EPI-USE AppHaus as a catalyst for driving innovation and progress within the 麻豆原创 landscape.

In a post-remote work era, teams across EPI-USE Labs use the space to come together and tackle complex problems. With innovation embedded in EPI-USE Labs, and the AppHaus rekindling the innovation flame, a culture of collaboration and creativity has thrived, bringing teams closer to end-users and their needs. From being a physical space within offices, it has transformed into a vibrant centre for creativity and fun. The key lesson learned is the importance of putting the user first; technology, while integral, is not always the sole solution to problems. By embracing a user-centric approach, our AppHaus has adapted and grown into a space that understands the intricacies of problem-solving.

As the EPI-USE AppHaus turns one, the focus for the upcoming year is on聽. The goal is to leverage BTP for providing holistic solutions to clients within the 麻豆原创 environment. Ensuring that the end-user remains at the forefront of solution delivery, the EPI-USE AppHaus Pretoria aims to continue its journey of innovation, addressing challenges in a rapidly-changing technological landscape. The AppHaus aligns seamlessly with 麻豆原创’s broader strategy of transitioning clients to the cloud, and a clean core. This shift empowers clients to reimagine processes and embrace new possibilities. The AppHaus, by using available methodologies, works hand-in-hand with clients to harness technology like BTP, delivering solutions while prioritising the human aspect of the entire process. This alignment reinforces EPI-USE Labs鈥� commitment to adding value through innovation.

The journey so far has been one of growth and learning, setting the stage for another year of exciting advancements and contributions to the 麻豆原创 ecosystem!

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RIYADH, KSA聽鈥斅�February 9, 2023 鈥�聽At the LEAP technology event in Riyadh today, 麻豆原创 announced the establishment of the 麻豆原创 Business Network within Saudi Arabia. The move will enable Saudi public and private enterprises to trade, buy and sell on the world鈥檚 largest business digital network in 190 countries, with millions of trading partners conducting transactions worth more than US$5 trillion annually.

The announcement was made by Ahmed AlFaifi, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Middle East & Africa North, who said, 鈥淎s part of our increased investment in Saudi Arabia, we are very pleased to launch the 麻豆原创 Business Network in the Kingdom. This launch will contribute to achieving the objectives of Saudi Vision 2030 as it offers immeasurable trade and supply opportunities, positions KSA as global logistic hub, grows non-oil exports in addition to supporting the Kingdom鈥檚 sustainability efforts.

As part of the 麻豆原创 Business Network, buyers, suppliers, logistic providers, financial institutions, and original equipment manufacturers will be connected on one trading platform. Bringing the 麻豆原创 Business Network to be hosted in KSA will further position Riyadh to be a global digital and trade hub.

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Perhaps what we鈥檙e experiencing is something business leaders have known for years: uncertainty and disruption are the constant. It鈥檚 how we deal with them that sets us apart.

As we approach 2023, the same questions linger: How long will inflation continue? Will there be a recession?

Unfortunately, it鈥檚 difficult to find clear answers. For example, The Wall Street Journal recently reported , which should eventually lead to lower prices. But on the same day, it also reported — more ominously — that the globalized supply chain continues to .

With global supply chains remaining dynamic and perpetually susceptible to disruption, where does this leave us? If the past few years were focused on responding and surviving, 2023 looks to be the year when business leaders leverage proven technology to build long-term resilience for their organizations.

We asked our leaders for their perspective on this as well as what they expect in 2023. Here鈥檚 what they had to say.

鈥淒uring the last two years of continuous disruptions, companies were forced to realize the necessity of supply chain visibility. As companies shift to building more proactive strategies, they will make plans to adopt new technology to achieve such visibility, helping them build resiliency within their organization. User experience will also remain a top priority for companies, allowing employees to accomplish the tasks they need across their spend management applications. As we look ahead, data insights and intelligence will also play a significant role in helping end users do their jobs more effectively to deliver more value to an organization. Skill shortages will remain a concern among many industries; however, finding, onboarding, developing, and retaining talent are what will differentiate the successful organizations from the ones that aren鈥檛.鈥�

– , President and Chief Product Officer,
Intelligent Spend and Business Network, 麻豆原创

鈥淕iven the supply chain challenges we continue to experience, businesses will most certainly continue to digitalize spend management processes and leverage business networks to increase supply chain collaboration, to improve organizational agility, and to gain real-time business insights. The other side of this coin is people. Thinking about how to avoid the ongoing talent crisis and build a workforce of longevity, we will see more businesses focus on nurturing their employees to retain good talent. They will enhance the workforce by upskilling existing talent to meet employees鈥� desire for career growth while also meeting evolving business expectations. Businesses will attract early talent to the workforce by enticing them to make a difference in the world by helping to solve the next generation of problems. This will require businesses to continue to drive clarity on their mission and purpose. Last, but certainly not least, businesses will maintain focus on including diverse perspectives to ensure they are delivering the strongest strategic decisions that can only come from diversity and inclusion. If an organization cannot deliver on the above expectations, they will inevitably be less competitive in the market for top talent and a resilient workforce.鈥�

– , Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer,
Intelligent Spend and Business Network, 麻豆原创

鈥淎s we approach 2023, it鈥檚 clear that the world鈥檚 business leaders will continue to grapple with economic, political, and environmental uncertainty. The good news is that dealing with uncertainty does not mean operating our businesses blindly. Digitalized procurement processes, data visualization, and business networks have ushered in a new era of visibility, collaboration, and strategic decision-making. With the right technology, procurement and supply chain professionals have access to an integrated view of total spend across their enterprise and deep visibility into their supply chain. This enables improved inventory management, predictable lead times, more efficient sourcing of supply, and cost savings. It also helps them tackle some of their most complex challenges, like achieving sustainability compliance and building long-term resilience for their business.鈥�

– , Chief Revenue Officer,
Intelligent Spend and Business Network, 麻豆原创

“Over the last few years, workers and employers alike have come to see the huge upside of leveraging a flex workforce. Even pre-pandemic, workers were looking for a different experience, one that offered flexibility and the opportunity to try new things. Temporary workers have proven they offer an effective way to address staffing and skill gaps, control costs, and manage the overall workforce more effectively. This year an found that 50% of organizations surveyed plan to increase their use of external workers. My prediction for 2023 is that businesses will continue to build on the efficiencies of the temporary workforce. They鈥檒l leverage coupled with freelance management systems and direct sourcing providers to find, engage, and manage external workers — both contract and contingent — enabling them to streamline recruiting, contracting, onboarding/offboarding, and security.”

– , Chief Technology Officer,
, 麻豆原创

鈥淚n 2023, the 麻豆原创 Business Network team will strengthen its commitment and partnership with customers to achieve supply chain transparency, resiliency, and sustainability. We will continue to modernize and innovate our network to drive vibrancy, infuse the trading partner experience with enhanced one-to-many supplier integration and intelligent insights, and improve platform performance and scalability. In addition, we will accelerate the transformation to our federated next-generation 麻豆原创 Business Network, enhancing value for all trading partners within the world鈥檚 largest B2B marketplace.鈥�

– , Senior Vice President, Chief Product
Officer, and Head of 麻豆原创 Business Network, 麻豆原创

鈥淚n 2023, market conditions and inflation will remain volatile as a new paradigm impacts interrelated supply chains. This is driving businesses to focus on fundamentals like controlling costs and finding new revenue. Meanwhile, governments, employees, and consumers are elevating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to a higher priority. These factors are driving buyers to diversify their supply chains, creating opportunities for suppliers to 鈥榮hine brighter鈥� by highlighting their presence and value and their ESG credentials. Interestingly, inbound and outbound logistics continue to emerge as key competitive differentiators to drive efficiency, control cost, and earn customer loyalty. Business networks offer transparency, access to working capital, and connection that enable buyers and suppliers to address disruption collaboratively and build supply chain resilience. In 2023, organizations should look to leverage robust business networks adapted to their industry — not just generic solutions.鈥�

– , Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing and
Solutions Officer, 麻豆原创 Business Network

鈥淎s we head into 2023, I expect businesses to act on the need for agility and instantaneous collaboration with trading partners, no longer relying on manual processes to connect buyers and suppliers. As we have been reminded countless times in recent years, supply chain volatility is all but guaranteed. I anticipate a shift in how companies prepare for disruption; while 2020 to 2022 has largely consisted of supply chain shortages, many companies could also start to face supply and inventory overages, given the current macroeconomic state. Having visibility to manage both ends of the spectrum and creating supply chain transparency is critical. Companies will look to evolve their business network into one with real-time collaboration capabilities and unobstructed inter-company visibility across trading partner networks. Collecting and acting on intelligent insights will be key to developing networked enterprises beyond the siloed, disconnected nature of previous years.鈥�

– , Global Head, 麻豆原创 Business Network
Customer Success and Go-to-Market, 麻豆原创

鈥淭he year ahead will be a test of leaders鈥� abilities to do more with less, including weighing the costs and benefits of their corporate travel program in maintaining key business relationships. The pandemic taught us a lot about the value of business travel. According to from early 2022, most U.S. finance managers said their company experienced a revenue loss in 2021 as a direct result of employees鈥� inability to travel at pre-pandemic levels. It鈥檚 important that leaders keep these learnings in mind as they prepare for uncertainty in 2023. They鈥檒l have to balance saving money where it counts, continuing progress on priority initiatives like sustainability, and positioning their company for growth when the economy stabilizes.鈥�

– , President,
Concur Travel, 麻豆原创 Concur

鈥淲ith the role of procurement continuing to become increasingly more strategic, we are seeing a greater need to digitalize category management. This is confirmed by a conducted by Economist Impact and sponsored by 麻豆原创, which found that more than 40% of respondents said category management is a top priority in driving digital transformation in procurement. Additionally, businesses are looking to create buying experiences that are more predictive, personalized and sustainable for their employees as well as buyers of strategic categories across all types of spend — direct and indirect materials, maintenance, repair, and operations and service. In 2023 and beyond, we expect the demand for procurement technologies such as these to continue to grow as they enable businesses to make the data-driven decisions needed to better inform their indirect and direct spend channels.鈥�

– , Senior Vice President and
Chief Product Officer, Procurement Solutions, 麻豆原创

To hear more perspectives from supply chain leaders, tune into the featuring Bryan Rawson, senior manager of Software Development at T-Mobile, and Sudy Bharadwaj, vice president of Strategic Engagements for Intelligent Spend and Business Networks at 麻豆原创, as they discuss how organizations can make more agile, informed business decisions to help prepare for what lies ahead in 2023 and beyond.

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The company today unveiled the first step toward creating the world鈥檚 largest business network with聽麻豆原创 Business Network, which will bring together聽Ariba Network,聽麻豆原创 Logistics Business Network聽and聽麻豆原创 Asset Intelligence Network.

More than 5,5-million organisations will benefit from being members of this connected community.

To support this central announcement, 麻豆原创 is also announcing new innovations designed to help companies modernize and digitalise their business processes to become intelligent enterprises. In addition, customers can benefit from a new portfolio of sustainability-specific business applications that deliver exceptional transparency and measurement capability across the supply chain.

鈥淒uring this unprecedented year, the importance of the communities we鈥檙e part of has never been clearer,鈥� says Christian Klein, CEO and member of the executive board of 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淥ur new vision will build the world鈥檚 largest business community, enabling customers to easily connect with companies across supply chains and creating networked economies across industries.鈥�

While we have all seen the power of networks in our personal lives, this networked ecosystem for businesses doing business together is unique, he says. Members of the new聽麻豆原创 Business Network聽will be able to access a single, unified portal to gain a holistic view into their supply chain ecosystem, logistics and traceability, and equipment management and maintenance.

During the pandemic, the most resilient companies were those who embraced technology to transform their business processes. Those who simply leveraged cloud infrastructure and didn鈥檛 actually digitalise core business processes did not fare as well.

To enable every enterprise to become an intelligent enterprise, 麻豆原创 announced the聽RISE with 麻豆原创 transformation packages for specific industries.

Building on the successful introduction of the聽RISE with 麻豆原创聽offering in January, the RISE with 麻豆原创 packages for specific industries provides business transformation as a service with five initial industry-tailored cloud solutions for retail, consumer products, automotive, utilities and industrial machinery and components.

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