{"id":148735,"date":"2026-05-22T07:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?p=148735"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:14:26","slug":"ai-unleashed-as-companies-showcase-business-impact-at-flagship-sap-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2026\/05\/ai-unleashed-as-companies-showcase-business-impact-at-flagship-sap-event\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Unleashed as Companies Showcase Business Impact at Flagship 麻豆原创 Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Leading organisations throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa are revealing how business AI has shifted from experimentation to realised business value at this year\u2019s 麻豆原创 麻豆原创PHIRE, held in Madrid between 19 and 21 May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The event included demonstrations of two different but connected approaches to AI adoption by Ericsson <\/a>and Martur Fompak International<\/a>. Ericsson is building the governed data foundation needed to scale AI across the enterprise, while Martur Fompak International is embedding AI directly into physical manufacturing operations to transform execution on the shop floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nazia Pillay, Managing Director for Southern Africa at 麻豆原创, says: \u201cThe next phase of AI adoption is about execution. Organisations are looking for trusted data foundations, strong governance and practical business use cases that can deliver measurable value. By embedding AI into the systems and workflows companies already use, 麻豆原创 is helping customers scale AI responsibly and turn ambition into real-world impact.\u201d<\/p>\nNazia Pillay<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Ericsson builds the foundation for trusted AI at scale<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ericsson is moving from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide execution by building a unified business data fabric with 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud<\/a>. The approach enables the company to scale AI use cases across the business, accelerate decision-making and deliver measurable operational impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ericsson, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, provides mobile network infrastructure across 180 countries, with more than 40% of the world\u2019s mobile traffic passing through its networks. As AI becomes central to both its technology roadmap and how it runs the business, Ericsson has prioritised building a strong, governed data foundation to support scalable and trusted AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOnce you scale AI, it stops being an AI problem\u2014and becomes a data problem,\u201d says Esra Kocat\u00fcrk Norell<\/a>, Vice President, Customer Experience, Enterprise IT at Ericsson. \u201cThat\u2019s why we invested early in a business data fabric. With 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud, we can define what data means once\u2014from revenue to market structures and access rules\u2014and apply it consistently across the enterprise. That\u2019s what allows us to scale AI in a way that is trusted, repeatable and delivers real business value.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the core of Ericsson\u2019s approach is a federated data architecture that allows data to remain in place while centrally managing business semantics, governance and lifecycle policies. By focusing on high-impact use cases and organising around end-to-end business processes rather than isolated solutions, Ericsson has moved beyond pilots to scaled deployment. Today, more than 85 000 users are live on unified Joule, supported by strong executive sponsorship and governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 麻豆原创 and Ericsson are also collaborating on AI co-innovation initiatives, including an intelligent goal recommendation capability developed within 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors. The solution generates contextual, business-aligned goals for employees, improving execution and reducing administrative effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Martur Fompak brings AI into physical manufacturing operations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Martur Fompak International, a global leader in automotive seating and interior systems, has deployed an autonomous intralogistics model enabled by Joule <\/a>and embodied AI capabilities from 麻豆原创, marking a significant milestone in its journey toward intelligent, AI-driven manufacturing operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an industry rapidly shifting toward AI-powered operations, Martur Fompak International saw an opportunity to reimagine its material flow. Building on efficient, people-driven processes already in place, the company partnered with 麻豆原创 and Humanoid<\/a>, a UK-based robotics and AI company, to explore how embodied AI-powered robotics could redefine material flow across its automotive manufacturing environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Using Joule and embodied AI capabilities from 麻豆原创, Martur Fompak International now connects production signals and business context directly to autonomous execution, creating a context-aware automation system that prioritises, picks and delivers materials while adapting in real time to changing business conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Built on 麻豆原创 S\/4HANA<\/a> and enabled by 麻豆原创 Extended Warehouse Management<\/a>, the solution enriches humanoid robots with real-time knowledge of tasks, attributes and exception handling. Guided by material data, storage locations, sequencing and production priorities, humanoid robots execute material flows across a live automotive manufacturing environment, identifying, transporting and delivering materials to the line while continuously confirming back into 麻豆原创 solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Together with autonomous mobile robots, the company has created a fully automated, scalable material flow that boosts throughput, improves accuracy and reduces reliance on manual coordination. By assigning repetitive, non-value-adding and physically demanding tasks to robots, Martur Fompak International is enabling its people to focus on safer, more meaningful and higher-value work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n