麻豆原创’s commitment to investing in innovation is delivering growth and value to organizations across the region. Thousands of companies continue to place their trust in 麻豆原创 to propel their digital journeys, evident in the rising adoption 麻豆原创 Business Suite and 麻豆原创 Business AI, which are redefining how work is done and processes are streamlined. Businesses are increasingly implementing AI agents to automate complex tasks, freeing up valuable time and resources for innovation and growth.听

Accompanying this transformative shift is the importance of鈥槎乖� Business Data Cloud, which integrates both 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 data. This enhanced visibility and informed decision-making capability are crucial for driving effective business outcomes and maintaining a competitive edge. 

In the second quarter, organizations that selected 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud include Acron Aviation, which also selected 麻豆原创 Business AI and 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP Private, Brown-Forman, and NEBCO, which also selected 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP.听

Coming off our partnership announcements at 麻豆原创 Sapphire and Adobe Summit, in Q2 Adobe selected 麻豆原创 Signavio, 麻豆原创 Business Data Cloud, and expanded its WalkMe footprint for an enterprise-wide adoption.听

Meanwhile, companies across the Americas are continually embracing RISE with 麻豆原创 Methodology, leveraging 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP Private to drive their digital transformations. Companies that embarked on this journey during the second quarter include:听

• LEROY MERLIN Brasil, is the largest retail chain for home improvement, present in 14 states with 55 stores. The company is renowned for its significant investments in innovation and sustainability, and it stands as 麻豆原创’s largest retail customer in the country. To drive innovation, embrace AI, and build a resilient supply chain amid the fast-paced retail industry, LEROY MERLIN has migrated to 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP Private.听听
• Mannington Mills, a fifth-generation family-owned leading manufacturer of fine flooring, selected 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP Private, 麻豆原创 Business AI, and 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors to streamline business operations and further improve productivity.听
• Iochpe-Maxion, a Brazilian multinational, is a global leader in automotive wheel production and a major manufacturer of automotive structural components in the Americas. With operations spanning Maxion Wheels and Maxion Structural Components in the automotive sector, and AmstedMaxion in the railway sector, the company produces around 50 million wheels annually. To boost its technological infrastructure and further streamline global operations, Iochpe-Maxion strategically migrated its existing 麻豆原创 S/4HANA to 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP Private听听
• Mega Alimentos, the prominent Mexican company with over three decades of experience in the candy, sauce, and chamoy industry, including its iconic brand “La Botanera,” has embarked on the path of RISE with 麻豆原创 with 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP Private as part of its commitment to digital transformation.听
• Transpire Bio is a U.S.-based, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing inhaled drug-device combination products for serious diseases where therapeutic options are significantly lacking. The company selected 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP Private to track its revenue, streamline operations, and prepare for growth as they bring their pipeline of inhaled therapies to market.听

Other organizations that chose 麻豆原创 in the second quarter include Gardner White, which selected 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP and 麻豆原创 Business AI, and Delta, a leading global airline that served more than 200 million customers in 2024. The airline selected 麻豆原创 Supply Chain Management solutions to help boost logistics visibility, ensure better process controls, and effectively manage freight costs.听听

As we look ahead, we are committed to empowering our customers to achieve more than ever before. We鈥檙e continuing to invest in the innovations that will deliver growth, value, and success to our customers around the world.

Indeed, 麻豆原创 is helping businesses lead the way into the future.

Jan Gilg is CRO, president of 麻豆原创 Americas & Global Business Suite, and a member of the Extended Board of 麻豆原创 SE.

But behind the scenes, there is a complex and high-stakes orchestration of operations that enables Cirque to dazzle audiences worldwide, night after night. Managing this level of precision, logistics, and international expansion requires a solid technological foundation. To achieve this, Cirque du Soleil has turned to RISE with 麻豆原创 to support its digital transformation and modernize its core operation and ensure its creative magic continues to soar.

As we partner with Cirque du Soleil on this transformative journey, I am excited to share how this leap into the future is empowering the company to streamline its global operations, make smarter decisions, and focus even more on what they do best: delivering unforgettable experiences for millions of fans around the world. 

The Vision

Cirque du Soleil wanted to address an internal technology debt and rebuild its technical foundation in the cloud while adding valuable insights for optimal decision-making. The costume production was particularly at risk because of older home-made applications managing costumes forecast and inventory. These systems were like worn-out safety nets — functional but increasingly risky for an organization performing at such a high level.

 Cirque needed to streamline operations, to integrate live data into one single repository, provide actionable insights for faster decision-making, and reduce the time and cost associated with maintaining custom solutions. This transformation wasn鈥檛 just about patching holes; it was about constructing a robust digital infrastructure capable of supporting Cirque鈥檚 ambitious business strategy while safeguarding its creative edge.

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Why 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Operating on a global stage with performances spanning continents and multiple touring shows, Cirque needed a unified system capable of supporting its multifaceted operations with elegance and efficiency. 

The RISE with 麻豆原创 offering became the perfect partner in this endeavor. By bundling the right tools, infrastructure, and industry best practices, RISE with 麻豆原创 enabled Cirque to swiftly and securely migrate its core processes to the cloud. With as the digital core, the organization now benefits from: 

• Real-time Insights: The real-time analytics in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition offer Cirque鈥檚 decision-makers instant visibility into key metrics such as ticket sales, supply chain efficiency, and workforce allocation. This clarity allows them to orchestrate their operations with precision.
• Enhanced Efficiency: Cirque du Soleil manages a vast network of suppliers, costumes, sets, and other resources across multiple venues. With the powerful centralized capabilities of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, the organization has streamlined procurement, inventory management, and logistics, enabling cost savings and faster responsiveness.
• Sustainable Growth: Moving operations to the cloud supports Cirque鈥檚 environmental initiatives by reducing energy consumption and physical infrastructure, aligning with its commitment to sustainable entertainment.

The organization’s transformation journey is more than an upgrade; it鈥檚 a reinvention, a comprehensive reevaluation of business processes and strategic goals, enabling Cirque du Soleil to not only streamline costs, but also become more sustainable and future-ready. 

Accelerating Creativity Through Technology   

At Cirque du Soleil, the cast and crew bring magic to life, a delicate dance between imagination and execution. But it is technology that enables the artistry to flourish on a global scale. This transformation is not just about streamlining the back-office processes; it鈥檚 about giving time and resources back to what matters most: creativity.   

The seamless integration of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition with Cirque鈥檚 existing technologies has empowered the organization to plan, create, and execute performances with unprecedented efficiency. The company can now run 鈥渨hat-if鈥� simulations to assess scenarios for tour planning, optimize budgets for show development, and maximize performance space utilization — all supported by data-driven insights. 

Looking Ahead    

Cirque du Soleil鈥檚 journey with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and RISE with 麻豆原创 is like walking a tightrope between tradition and innovation: a delicate balance that creates something extraordinary. In the coming years, we will continue working with Cirque du Soleil to explore new ways to innovate, from leveraging AI-driven insights to crafting personalized customer experiences that deepen audience engagements. 

Just as every performance begins with meticulous preparation but ends in spontaneous applause, Cirque鈥檚 digital transformation is setting the stage for limitless possibilities. As we look toward the future, 麻豆原创 remains committed to empowering companies like Cirque du Soleil to reach new heights in their digital transformations. It is an honor to play a part in Cirque’s story, helping the organization turn data into an enabler of creativity and efficiency.

In this partnership between artistry and technology, one thing remains certain: the future of Cirque du Soleil will be as awe-inspiring as the magic created on stage.

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer of Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创.

From supply chain disruptions and shifting regulations to the struggle of attracting and retaining top talent, enterprises must navigate an ever more challenging environment. Meanwhile, AI has forever changed the game for business.

Though its potential to streamline operations and spark innovation is extraordinary, it demands more than a simple overlay on siloed, legacy systems. Realizing AI鈥檚 promise requires a fundamental shift in how people, applications, and data connect to tackle challenges and seize new opportunities.

Beyond Siloed Systems

The tension between escalating complexity and AI鈥檚 transformative power is redefining modern business. The days of relying solely on transactional systems or standalone intelligence are behind us; modern enterprises demand much more. Companies today seek an integrated business suite that unifies processes, harmonizes data, and leverages AI agents to tackle challenges and seize new opportunities.

Achieving this level of interconnection calls for a fresh approach to enterprise management 鈥� one that brings together three critical capabilities:

• End-to-end process integration that generates and relies upon trusted business data. McKinsey calls this an integrated technology operating model and says this 鈥渃an help [organizations] build deeper relationships with customers, launch new business models, make processes more efficient, and make better decisions.鈥�
• Harmonized data to fuel AI-driven insights. Data harmonization brings together all data 鈥� internal and external 鈥� so it can be managed more efficiently, analyzed, and used to guide business decision-making. Harmonizing data within an organization minimizes redundancies, improves data governance, serves as a single source of truth, and makes better use of scarce resources.
• AI that goes beyond basic automation and breaks down silos, driving real-time, cross-enterprise optimization. In other words, companies need AI that not only performs repetitive tasks but also actively analyzes data, learns from new information, and makes intelligent, actionable recommendations.

Real World Impact: BSH and MOD Pizza

By design, 麻豆原创 software connects an entire organization to drive results grounded in enterprise data and in the context of business processes. This integrated approach is already delivering measurable results.

Global home appliance leader BSH is a company that already benefits from this approach, offering more than 10,000 products to 50,000 trade customers in over 50 markets. BSH achieved supply chain transparency, optimized inventory, facilitated on-time delivery, and enhanced customer experiences by synchronizing planning and execution across its extensive supply chain.

Another example is MOD Pizza. The company supports equitable opportunities and business growth by automating HR and streamlining onboarding for 1,000 new hires monthly, managing as many as 400 changes to employee data every day. Systems integration saved HR admins 15 hours per week in data entry alone.

These examples demonstrate that complexity can become a catalyst for progress 鈥� provided the right applications, data, and AI tools are in place. When these elements work in unison, the outcome is greater than the sum of its parts: a business that鈥檚 not just agile, but unstoppable.

Embracing the Next Era of Enterprise Management

We are entering a new era of enterprise management where AI agents collaborate to solve long-tail business tasks, redefining how the world does business. 麻豆原创 is ready to help our customers by bringing together applications, data, and AI like never before.

Business leaders can ensure their companies not only survive but thrive by swiftly adapting to an ever-changing environment.

Thanks to AI, the systems we’ve always envisioned 鈥� where data flows freely, processes are fully connected, and decisions are backed by precise, real-time insights 鈥� are now within reach.

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创.

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This marks a significant step in transforming how businesses operate by simplifying everyday tasks and making interactions more efficient and intelligent.

Starting today, you can use Joule to help optimize your interactions with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, the 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solution, and 麻豆原创’s product data management solutions. Additionally, 麻豆原创 Asset Performance Management customers are invited to explore early access to Joule through the 麻豆原创 Early Adopter Care program.

Joule in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: A Transformative Experience

Joule Is Now Available in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Joule is now seamlessly integrated in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition as part of the November 2024 release after being in early adoption since February this year. This isn鈥檛 just another tool 鈥� it is a transformative experience designed to help address the everyday challenges customers face. This integration offers a more intuitive way for users to interact with 麻豆原创 solutions. Instead of manually searching for information or navigating multiple interfaces, users can simply ask Joule for what they need 鈥� whether it’s insights on business data or guidance on performing specific tasks.

Joule Helps to Simplify Your Work

Joule is a part of the broader vision of autonomous ERP, which offers businesses ready-to-run cloud business solutions powered by AI. Through the embedded AI features in GROW with 麻豆原创, businesses can simplify everyday work processes while scaling efficiently.

Supported by Joule, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition users can work faster, smarter, and more efficiently, all while maintaining control over crucial decisions and data.

You can use Joule for:

• Quick navigation: Find and quickly navigate to applications for your next task.
• Instant insights: Get fast insights on critical business data, such as purchase orders and outbound deliveries.
• Enablement content: For those needing help, Joule can guide users to relevant enablement content, speeding up task completion.

A that businesses using AI-powered tools like Joule experienced a 30% reduction in time spent on administrative tasks. This saving of time allows employees to focus on more strategic activities that drive value.

Customer Experience and Feedback: AGILITA AG

Several customers have already tested Joule through the 麻豆原创 Early Adopter Care program. Their experiences with Joule give us valuable insights that help us continuously enhance our solution.

Swiss and German-based IT services and consulting company AGILITA AG has already tested Joule as a GROW with 麻豆原创 customer. As both a customer and a partner of 麻豆原创, AGILITA AG is uniquely positioned to understand the value of the latest AI solutions in GROW with 麻豆原创 and help other customers realize these values for their own businesses.

According to Thomas Neuhaus, head of Digital Experience at AGILITA AG, 鈥淲hen we started using Joule at AGILITA, we quickly observed significant improvements in our operations. Joule has made it incredibly easy for our employees to find the 麻豆原创 applications they need for their daily tasks and access help documentation quickly when required. This has streamlined our workflows, allowing our team to interact with 麻豆原创 systems seamlessly and retrieve important information much faster.鈥�

Joule in Supply Chain Management: Building Resilience

Supply chains are becoming increasingly complex, driven by global disruptions, unpredictable demand patterns, and other evolving challenges. To address these issues, businesses require AI-driven supply chain solutions that enhance agility and resilience. With Joule now integrated into supply chain management processes, 麻豆原创’s vision of AI in supply chain management is empowering customers to transition their supply chains from digital to adaptive and, ultimately, to autonomous systems. This vision comes to life when you look at what Joule can now do for you and the skills it will gain over the coming months to help you build a more resilient supply chain.

How TE Connectivity Leverages Joule for Supply Chain Planning

TE Connectivity is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. It offers a broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions that enable the distribution of power, signal, and data to advance next-generation transportation, renewable energy, automated factories, data centers, medical technology, and more.

麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning is used across the organization to enable more than 1,500 supply chain professionals to manage the demand and supply of the different business units of TE.

According to Luis Rocha, IT director for 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning Solutions at TE Connectivity, “We are excited about the future capabilities that Joule brings to TE, such as explaining planning results, quickly highlighting key constraints, and autonomously comparing different scenarios. These features will empower us to make better supply decisions with significantly less effort.” 

TE鈥檚 IT team has activated Joule in 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning and has done first tests with the help documentation use case. They confirm how easy it is to engage with the copilot and how relevant it is to do contextual querying of 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning features鈥� it speeds up the investigation of requirements and the adoption process.

Joule will be available for research and development (R&D) functions via 麻豆原创鈥檚 product data management solutions and for planners via 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning. For those that want to explore Joule to improve the health of their assets, you can now register for the 麻豆原创 Early Adopter Care program for Joule in 麻豆原创 Asset Performance Management.

See examples of Joule in action in your supply chain:

How to Get Started with Joule

For more information on how to activate Joule, please contact your 麻豆原创 support contacts directly to identify the channel and regional prerequisites. To learn more about how these tools can streamline your operations and drive efficiency, visit the 麻豆原创 Help Portal for detailed information about听, ,听补苍诲听.

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By integrating generative AI tools like Joule into everyday operations, businesses can simplify complex tasks, make faster decisions, and focus on what truly matters 鈥� driving growth and innovation. As we move forward, we鈥檙e committed to helping companies not only meet today鈥檚 demands but also thrive in the face of tomorrow鈥檚 uncertainties. Together, we鈥檙e shaping a future where technology serves as a true partner in building stronger, more agile organizations.

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创.

This integration represents more than just a technical achievement 鈥� it’s a strategic milestone in our commitment to delivering exceptional value to our customers of all sizes. It highlights the capabilities of GROW with 麻豆原创 on AWS, exploring its technical foundation and the transformative impact it can have on businesses embracing to drive innovation and operational excellence.

What Exactly Is GROW with 麻豆原创 on AWS?

At its core, is a comprehensive cloud ERP solution designed to help businesses adopt 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition quickly and effectively. By leveraging AWS’s global infrastructure, this offering can provide a ready-to-run cloud ERP system that integrates industry best practices, preconfigured processes, and continuous innovation. Our customers have consistently told us they need three things: seamless scalability, ironclad security, and the ability to innovate rapidly. This new offering delivers on all three fronts. Key features of GROW with 麻豆原创 include prebuilt industry solutions for a broad array of manufacturing-centric and services-centric industries; rapid deployment using guided tools and methodologies like the 麻豆原创 Activate process; scalability and flexibility; and embedded AI capabilities that are built into our end-to-end processes to enable real-time insights and process automation.

By leveraging AWS’s global infrastructure with 麻豆原创’s deep enterprise expertise, GROW with 麻豆原创 on AWS via AWS Marketplace can empower businesses to adopt a modern, intelligent ERP system designed for agility, scalability, and innovation. It brings together the best of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and AWS鈥檚 cloud capabilities and offers a comprehensive solution tailored to meet the evolving needs of businesses. Here鈥檚 how it helps deliver value:

• Empowering financial and operational excellence with AI-driven insights: GROW with 麻豆原创 integrates -powered processes, enabling businesses to make faster and more accurate decisions through real-time, data-driven insights and actionable recommendations. With Amazon Bedrock models available through 麻豆原创’s generative AI hub, customers can innovate further by embedding generative AI into core business processes. For CFOs, this can mean enhanced financial control, compliance, and cost optimization. For COOs, the solution helps streamline operations with AI automation, boosting productivity and enabling scalable infrastructure for agile business growth. It also improves cross-functional collaboration, encouraging innovation and efficiency. These features help CFOs and COOs improve overall financial performance and operational flexibility, setting their organizations up for long-term success.
• Comprehensive SaaS ERP built for industry needs: At its core, GROW with 麻豆原创 can provide a full-featured, software-as-a-service (SaaS) ERP solution designed to address both product- and service-centric industries. Leveraging over 50 years of 麻豆原创鈥檚 expertise in helping customers run at their best, the solution comes with prebuilt industry-specific capabilities. Its modular structure helps ensure customers can future-proof their operations by easily adding advanced features or new functionalities as their needs evolve.
• Faster rollouts and prebuilt processes: The solution helps accelerate time-to-value by offering preconfigured processes, guided tools, and proven methodologies like 麻豆原创 Activate. These elements can ensure a predictable implementation scope and timeline, helping business go live in months 鈥� a significant improvement over traditional ERP deployment approaches.

Accelerate Deployment with AWS Marketplace

The availability of GROW with 麻豆原创 on AWS through the AWS Marketplace allows for customers to work collaboratively with joint 麻豆原创 and AWS partners to quickly implement and scale their ERP systems. Key benefits include:

• Simplified procurement and billing: AWS Marketplace offers an integrated purchasing experience, reducing administrative overhead and accelerating adoption. Customers can procure GROW with 麻豆原创 alongside complementary 麻豆原创 solutions available on AWS Marketplace, consolidating billing into one unified invoice for easier financial management.
• Accelerate seamless deployment: By partnering with designated GROW with 麻豆原创 and AWS experts, businesses can deploy a ready-to-run SaaS ERP on AWS in a matter of months versus years with traditional approaches. This approach can reduce complexity and ensure predictable outcomes, allowing companies to focus on achieving business goals rather than navigating lengthy implementation cycles.

Why GROW with 麻豆原创 Stands Out

The combination of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and AWS infrastructure creates a transformative platform for businesses looking to modernize their operations. With embedded intelligence, modular design, rapid deployment options, and seamless integration through AWS Marketplace, GROW with 麻豆原创 on AWS is more than just an ERP solution 鈥� it鈥檚 a strategic enabler for digital transformation. For organizations seeking to stay competitive in today鈥檚 fast-paced digital economy, GROW with 麻豆原创 on AWS offers not just a path forward but a platform for continuous innovation and growth.

Looking Ahead: The Future of Cloud ERP

The introduction of GROW with 麻豆原创 on AWS represents more than just a technological advancement; it鈥檚 a paradigm shift in how businesses approach ERP adoption. By combining the strength of 麻豆原创’s enterprise expertise and AWS’s cloud innovation, this solution creates a powerful foundation for digital transformation. Together, we’re not just helping businesses adapt to change 鈥� we’re empowering them to drive it.

As organizations continue navigating an increasingly digital economy, solutions like GROW with 麻豆原创 on AWS via AWS Marketplace offer a clear path toward agility and resilience. Whether you are a mid-sized company looking to modernize or an enterprise seeking advanced AI-driven insights, this collaboration can provide the tools you need to succeed in today’s competitive landscape. I’m particularly excited about how this collaboration will enable our customers to leverage the full potential of our partnership.

For more information about how GROW with 麻豆原创 on AWS can transform your business operations, reach out to your 麻豆原创 representative or .

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创.

The recognition is based on our Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute in the cloud ERP market for both service-centric enterprises and product-centric enterprises.

This is truly fantastic news, and I believe further underlines the impact cloud ERP has on service-centric and product-centric industries by fulfilling their current and future technology needs.

麻豆原创 offers integrated cloud solutions that can support an organization鈥檚 end-to-end business processes, spanning across all functions. We help manage every part of an organization: enterprise resource management, spend management, human capital management (HCM), and customer relationship management (CRM). This deep know-how enables 麻豆原创 to understand that every business is different and within a business not every application has the same infrastructure or process requirements.

Here is an overview on both the Gartner Magic Quadrant reports.

2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises

As service-centric enterprise customers move their mission-critical ERP processes to the cloud, we believe they seek trusted vendors that can provide the technology needed to drive transformation and unlock business value.

According to Gartner, 鈥淟eaders demonstrate a market-defining vision of how service-centric ERP systems and processes can be supported and improved by moving them to the cloud. They couple this with a clear Ability to Execute this vision through products, services, and go-to-market strategies. They have a strong presence in the market and are growing their revenue and market share. In this market, Leaders show a consistent ability to secure deals with enterprises of different sizes and have a good depth of functionality across all areas of core financial management. They have multiple proofs of successful deployments by customers, in their home region and elsewhere. Their offerings are often used by SI partners to support financial transformation initiatives. Leaders typically address a wide market audience by supporting broad market requirements. However, they may fail to meet the specific needs of vertical markets or other, more specialized segments, which might be better addressed by Niche Players in particular. They may also be too complex to deal with or too costly to be considered in less complex functional scenarios.鈥�

We鈥檙e honored to be recognized in this space.

Integrated Cloud ERP Solution

IT decisions are shaped by a variety of factors, from the sensitivity and criticality of data to the need for local availability and the ability to scale ERP systems up or down. Given the complexity of modern businesses, the most efficient IT environments are those that seamlessly combine cloud services, leveraging the flexibility 麻豆原创 offers across public, private, or hybrid solutions.

However, within this complexity lies untapped value and opportunity. At the heart of this transformation is 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, empowering companies to grow, optimize, and innovate on their own terms while ensuring seamless integration across all business processes.

An example is and the value the company unlocked with the latest intelligent technologies, products, and solutions from 麻豆原创. This shows how cloud transformation is best achieved with process standardization, where composable services come together to support end-to-end processes.

I believe the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises offers valuable insights into the trends and market forces shaping the industry. Companies that take proactive steps in orchestrating a well-planned digital transformation are better equipped to navigate the significant shifts in today鈥檚 operating environment.

To quote the report, 鈥淭his Magic Quadrant reflects Gartner鈥檚 definition of ‘composable ERP.’ We define this as an adaptive technology strategy that enables the foundational administrative and operational digital capabilities for an enterprise to keep up with the pace of business change. This strategy delivers a core of composable applications and as-a-service software platforms that are highly configurable, interoperable, and flexible to adapt to future modern technology.鈥�

麻豆原创 has developed a unified cloud solution to meet evolving business needs. I鈥檝e often emphasized the importance of customer-driven product design to address unique industry requirements. Customer feedback is the ultimate benchmark for success, helping us innovate and solve today鈥檚 challenges while preparing for tomorrow. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud empowers businesses with real-time insights, AI-powered capabilities, and seamless integration of end-to-end processes, supporting sustainable global expansion.

A progressive combination of technology and innovation are key to the growth of any business today. New cloud ERP systems are intelligent, flexible, and agile, and they impart these qualities to the businesses that run on them.

With offerings like 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud at the core of our and offerings, we can provide an integrated suite of tools that streamline critical business functions into a unified system. With new AI capabilities with our ERP tools, we can help customers enhance operational efficiency and ensure businesses of all sizes can benefit from tailored ERP systems by offering scalable, flexible, and innovative solutions.

2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises

Gartner has also named 麻豆原创 a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises, with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud being evaluated. This is very good news, and we believe our positioning reflects our role as an enabler of innovation and in helping organizations become intelligent enterprises. Answering the call from our customers, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud transforms the way businesses operate and helps them run at their best.

According to the report, 鈥淕artner defines cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) for product-centric enterprises as a market for application technology that supports the automation of operational activities for the manufacturing, distribution, delivery, and servicing of goods. Cloud ERP for product-centric enterprises is delivered under a SaaS license model (with frequent mandatory updates), where application support, infrastructure provisioning, and management are the responsibility of the vendor.鈥�  

Cloud ERP impacts companies in product-centric industries by fulfilling their current and future technology needs and helps them manage finance and material resources in a sustainable way.

According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant description, “Leaders demonstrate a market-defining vision of how ERP product-centric systems and processes can be supported and improved by moving them to the cloud. They couple this with a clear ability to execute their vision through products, services, and go-to-market strategies. They have a strong presence in the market and are growing their revenue and market shares. In the cloud ERP suite market, Leaders show a consistent ability to win deals with organizations of different sizes. They have a good depth of functionality across all areas of operational and administrative ERP. They have proof of multiple, successful deployments by customers. Their systems integrator partners frequently use their offerings to support business transformation initiatives.鈥�

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is at the core of this transformational process that enables companies to grow, optimize, and transform on their own terms while providing for the smooth integration of all business processes. A strong example is the greenfield transformation at Hitachi High-Tech, which simplified life for its users, unlocking value with the latest intelligent technologies, products, and solutions from 麻豆原创.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud offers both user and developer extensibility, allowing customers to stay agile while balancing innovation and standardization. This flexibility enables businesses to adapt quickly without sacrificing control. The intelligent suite integrates end-to-end business processes across finance, procurement, supply chain, HR, and more, creating a unified system.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud serves as a single source of truth, ensuring consistent data across operations. In today鈥檚 fast-changing environment, businesses must continuously and intelligently adjust processes with automated, analytics-driven applications; 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud empowers them to do just that, fostering growth and sustainability.

We believe 麻豆原创鈥檚 recognition as a Leader in both the Gartner Magic Quadrant for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud in Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises as well as in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud in Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises acknowledges our unwavering commitment to customer-driven innovation.

We further feel that this recognition underscores our focus on delivering lean, responsive solutions that drive business transformation in the cloud.

But we鈥檙e not stopping here: our ongoing investments in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud will continue to make it smarter and more efficient for businesses of all sizes. By providing flexible, scalable ERP solutions, we aim to help organizations anticipate future challenges and thrive in a rapidly evolving world.

We look forward to continuing this journey with our customers, partners, and analysts as we shape the future together.

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创.

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So, why not lace up a new pair of sneakers in the form of a transformative endeavor powered by AI-enabled cloud ERP? It can offer a comprehensive pathway for businesses to transition from 麻豆原创 Business Suite 7 and can help tackle business challenges of today and the decades ahead.

The End of an Era: 麻豆原创 Business Suite 7 and 麻豆原创 ECC Mainstream Maintenance

For years, 麻豆原创 Business Suite 7 and 麻豆原创 ERP Central Component (麻豆原创 ECC) have been the backbone of countless enterprises, adding significant value in the form of ever-increasing process efficiencies. But as the market landscape and business needs evolve, so must your ERP. Staying with legacy systems is like trying to navigate a modern city with a paper map from 20 years ago. This is not only because 麻豆原创 is innovating, but also because its technology partners are.

Accordingly, 麻豆原创’s announcement to end maintenance for the latest three enhancement packages of core applications of 麻豆原创 Business Suite 7 software by 2027 and 2030 signals a necessary shift to the next level of modern solutions. 麻豆原创 also announced a commitment to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA until 2040. This isn鈥檛 just a required adjustment; it鈥檚 an opportunity to shift from a paper map and compass to a digital map with GPS 鈥� 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud 鈥� that helps guide businesses to stay ahead of the curve.

Rather than viewing 麻豆原创’s end of maintenance for 麻豆原创 Business Suite 7 by 2027 and 2030 as a mere necessity, consider it a strategic opportunity to help tackle the challenges your business is facing and embrace market opportunities that lay ahead.

RISE with 麻豆原创: A Pathway to the Future

In aligning our strategy more closely with our customers鈥� realities, the conversation is no longer about just transforming your IT landscape. It is about how we can support businesses with ERP and help close the gap between a need for transformation and immediate requirements. This is where RISE with 麻豆原创 comes in.

Think of RISE with 麻豆原创 as a personal coach who doesn鈥檛 just suggest a new pair of sneakers, but a comprehensive training program. It鈥檚 a solution designed to transform businesses, process by process. Imagine an AI-enabled cloud ERP, meticulously managed and optimized by 麻豆原创, guiding the journey with the help of services and tools built by 麻豆原创, so businesses can move from on-premise systems to the cloud and process diagnostics that let you understand where you are today and how tomorrow can look like.

The Momentum of RISE with 麻豆原创

Since its launch, RISE with 麻豆原创 has seen significant adoption, continually evolving to meet customer needs. Recently, 麻豆原创 integrated AI capabilities with Joule into RISE with 麻豆原创, aiming to spearhead the innovation curve and emphasize the role of artificial intelligence in driving business efficiency and innovation.

As part of its ongoing commitment to support businesses on their digital transformation journeys, 麻豆原创 has launched the 鈥� a structured approach to help guide customers鈥� transformation journeys with RISE with 麻豆原创. The methodology comprises detailed and strategic planning, execution, critical resource management, and continuous support phases, leveraging 麻豆原创’s extensive expertise and tools. This approach honors the existing investments companies have made and helps customers mitigate risks, reduce downtime, and achieve faster time-to-value, helping to make the transition process efficient and effective. In order to address customer budget constraints and the operational mindset of IT departments, we also offer attractive financial incentives to help ease the cost burden associated with migration.

Transforming with Confidence

The RISE with 麻豆原创 Methodology encompasses best practices and a structured approach to transition from 麻豆原创 Business Suite to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, something akin to having a detailed road map and a pit crew ready at every turn. This includes a detailed success plan with quality checkpoints to help ensure compliance and a approach, all while keeping existing customizations in mind. The clean core approach involves migrating only the necessary data and configurations to the new system, working to reduce complexity and ensure a smooth transition.

Case Study: Mahindra Group’s Transformation

A compelling example of a successful transition is . By leveraging RISE with 麻豆原创, Mahindra embarked on a transformative journey to modernize its ERP landscape. The dedicated support from 麻豆原创 advisors and the structured methodology enabled Mahindra to seamlessly migrate to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, optimizing its operations with a 35% increase in developer efficiency.

A future-ready foundation has also helped Mahindra support business growth. For example, when the launch of a new SUV saw 100,000 bookings in 30 minutes through digital channels, the sales transactions went smoothly thanks to a range of solutions running on a high-performance IT infrastructure. In addition, optimized processes in logistics and supply chain management have resulted in a reduction of 20% in back order processing times. As Rucha Nanavati, chief information officer of Mahindra Group, says, 鈥淩ISE with 麻豆原创 and 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform have helped us become future-ready, using technology in the best possible way to enable business growth while going to market faster and supporting agile operations.鈥�

Ensuring Success with Proven Methodologies

Every potential customer scenario can be addressed within the RISE with 麻豆原创 offering, boosted by tailored incentives and proven methodologies. These tailored incentives, such as additional support for complex transitions, are designed to help make the transition process more cost-effective and less disruptive for businesses. The structured approach, combined with the dedicated support of 麻豆原创 advisors, helps ensure that businesses are well-prepared for their transformation journey.

For example, when 麻豆原创 supported with a complex business transformation agenda using RISE with 麻豆原创, the company saved 50% of time spent on 麻豆原创 system administration and experienced a clear cut 20% reduction in their IT footprint. Together with our partners, we enabled the rapid transfer of 130 systems to the cloud within 15 months, without significant business disruption, and achieved a 20% improvement in system response time, thereby enhancing overall performance.

麻豆原创’s continued investment in its tools and methodologies, such as the clean core success plan, highlights the importance of compliance and best practices. This focus on providing a robust and reliable transition pathway instills confidence in customers, reinforcing 麻豆原创’s commitment to their success. Transitioning to a cloud ERP environment offers numerous advantages, including enhanced scalability, flexibility, real-time data access, and the ability to leverage advanced technologies like AI and machine learning, along with agility 鈥� the shift from 麻豆原创 ECC to a flexible, cloud-based ERP as a service that can adjust as quickly as businesses need to adjust.

Looking Ahead: The Competitive Landscape

麻豆原创鈥檚 unique approach to supporting on-premise customers with a flexible transition timeline sets us apart: the business vision of our customers is backed by our strong experience, competence, and clear decision-making. 麻豆原创’s commitment to its customer base showcases the dedication to ensuring a smooth, gradual, pragmatic, and successful transition for all our customers.

As businesses prepare for the end of mainstream maintenance for 麻豆原创 Business Suite 7 in 2027 and 2030, the transition to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA and the cloud with RISE with 麻豆原创 can offer a comprehensive and reliable pathway to future-proof operations. We encourage our customers to embrace the opportunity to transform their business operations with confidence and gain a competitive edge in the evolving business landscape.

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Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创.

Enter 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: a game-changing, flexible ERP solution designed to meet the unique challenges of emerging businesses. This cloud-based platform not only streamlines operations but also empowers startups to innovate and scale without limits, offering a competitive edge in today鈥檚 fast-paced market.

Let鈥檚 explore why 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is the ultimate ally for startups looking to gain a competitive edge and aiming to transform their visions into reality.

Scalability and Flexibility for Rapid Growth

Startups often experience rapid changes in size, scope, and strategy. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is built with scalability at its core. As a business evolves, 麻豆原创 cloud ERP solutions allow for effortlessly adding new features, modules, and users as needed. This adaptability helps ensure that an ERP system remains aligned with business goals, enabling startups to stay agile and responsive to market changes. Whether a company is a small team today or planning to expand globally tomorrow, cloud-based ERP from 麻豆原创 adapts to needs without the need for costly and disruptive upgrades.

Gero Decker, general manager of 麻豆原创 Signavio and co-managing director of 麻豆原创 Berlin, witnessed the impact of 麻豆原创 cloud ERP on business growth: 鈥淏eing a founder myself, I can tell you that 麻豆原创 cloud ERP is a key catalyst for achieving hockey stick growth.鈥�

Cost-Efficiency for Tight Budgets

One of the biggest challenges startups face is managing limited resources. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition operates on a subscription-based model, which means lower upfront costs and predictable expenses. This financial flexibility allows startups to allocate more resources toward innovation and growth rather than being tied down by expensive IT infrastructure.

Enhanced Collaboration and Real-Time Insights

In a startup environment, every decision counts. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition provides real-time analytics and insights, empowering a team to make informed decisions quickly. The platform fosters collaboration by connecting different departments and ensuring everyone has access to the same up-to-date information. This unified approach not only streamlines operations but also enhances productivity across the board.

Robust Security and Compliance

For startups, especially those handling sensitive data, security is paramount. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition comes equipped with world-class security features, ensuring data is protected against threats. Additionally, 麻豆原创鈥檚 compliance tools help with navigating complex regulatory requirements, offering peace of mind when expanding into new markets.

Seamless Integration with Other Tools

Startups often rely on a variety of software tools to manage different aspects of their business. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition integrates easily with other applications, creating a seamless ecosystem where all business processes are connected. This integration reduces manual work, eliminates silos, and allows a startup to operate more efficiently.

Support and Expertise from a Global Leader

When you choose 麻豆原创, you鈥檙e not just choosing software, you鈥檙e gaining access to decades of experience and a global network of experts. 麻豆原创 provides comprehensive support to help startups navigate the complexities of ERP implementation and maximize the benefits of the platform. This partnership approach ensures that a company is never alone on its journey to success.

The 麻豆原创 startup community is a unique resource that is supportive for all startups, which all share 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud in place as their business backbone, alongside the dedicated 麻豆原创 for Startups Team.

Companies like Get Your Guide, FINN, and everdrop have leveraged extensive support and expertise from 麻豆原创 to achieve strategic goals and drive their businesses forward. This is just a sample of the many successful partnerships 麻豆原创 has with clients.

Bits & Pretzels in Munich, September 29-30

For startups looking to transform operations and scale business, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is the solution they have been waiting for. Don鈥檛 miss the opportunity to see it in action: Join us at Bits & Pretzels in Munich, September 29-30, 2024, where we鈥檒l be showcasing the full capabilities of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.

鈥淎ttending Bits & Pretzels 2024 offers unparalleled networking, learning, and funding opportunities, bringing together 5000+ top entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders,” 鈥� shared Stefan Wagner, managing director of the 麻豆原创 Labs Munich Campus. “It’s a unique chance to gain insights, build partnerships, and experience the event’s vibrant blend of business and culture during Oktoberfest in Munich.”

As president and chief product officer for Cloud ERP, I am excited to reveal how 麻豆原创 cloud ERP solutions can revolutionize startup operations, slashing costs and turbocharging efficiency. Come and discover how 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Public Cloud Edition can drive your startup鈥檚 success. We look forward to seeing you there!

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer of Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创.

This new award for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, building upon the three “Best Of” TrustRadius awards announced earlier this year, is based on unbiased customer reviews and feedback. It recognizes 麻豆原创鈥檚 commitment to delivering innovative, best-in-class solutions that empower organizations to thrive in an increasingly digital and dynamic business environment.

The Top Rated Award

The organization鈥檚 2023 Top Rated awards help distinguish products that have received excellent marks for customer satisfaction. Award criteria are based on reviews within the last 10 months, product ratings, and product relevancy.

 鈥溌槎乖� S/4HANA Cloud has won a Top Rated award in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),鈥� said Megan Headley, VP of research at TrustRadius. 鈥淭hese awards are based directly on feedback from customers. Reviewers agree that 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud enables smooth data exchange and collaboration between various systems, which allows for smoother business administration.鈥�

The 2023 Top Rated award for ERP from TrustRadius is a testament to the positive feedback and satisfaction expressed by 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud users. This prestigious recognition highlights our commitment to excellence and our ability to meet the evolving needs of businesses across the globe.

A Heartfelt Thank You

Thank you to our teams of more than 20,000 customers and our ever-growing community of 麻豆原创 and global partner experts! Together the team has focused on bringing next-generation ERP to the world. We dedicate this award to you! We are deeply humbled by this recognition and will continue in our mission of delivering intelligent enterprise resource planning that helps accelerate your digital journey to the cloud.

Here are a couple of reviews from our users:

鈥淯sing 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud as our leading ERP, it is an innovative and customizable solution that encompasses our business needs across various systems and has proven to be a reliable ERP system for cross-functional groups. We have barely scratched the surface. There are endless possibilities and a plethora of functions and features that we are excited to check out.鈥�

鈥淧roduct features are the most promising factor that helped me to choose this software above others that are available in the current market. I also considered 麻豆原创始s reputation in the current market as well. [麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud] contains so many features that I have already defined, where I use this software for its purpose. [麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud] is very fast and has so many built-in features.鈥�

Accelerating the Path to Intelligence-Enabled ERP for the Next Generation

With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, we help our customers stay at the helm of their business transformation. We know that the right choice of a sustainable, resilient, and agile cloud ERP can unleash valuable business outcomes in the most efficient way possible, delivering real value and meaningful change.听

鈥淩eceiving the 2023 Top Rated award for ERP from TrustRadius reaffirms 麻豆原创’s commitment to delivering exceptional solutions that help businesses thrive in the digital age,鈥� said Eric van Rossum, chief marketing and solutions officer for Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创. 鈥溌槎乖� S/4HANA Cloud’s recognition is a testament to our dedication to innovation, customer satisfaction, and providing organizations with the tools they need to drive growth and stay ahead of the competition. We remain committed to empowering businesses worldwide with intelligent ERP solutions that unleash their full potential.鈥�

Customer Success Stories

Countless organizations have already embraced 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and have achieved remarkable success. From accelerating digital transformations to optimizing supply chain management, our customers have witnessed tangible improvements across their operations. Companies like , , and have embraced 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud. Find out about their experiences and explore more customer success stories .

Learn more about how 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud can help your company accelerate its journey to the cloud at .

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创.

The recognition is based on our completeness of vision and ability to execute in the cloud ERP market for service-centric enterprises. As service-centric enterprise customers transition their mission-critical enterprise resource planning (ERP) processes to the cloud, we believe they look to recognized vendors for the technology to transform and realize business value. According to Gartner, 鈥淟eaders execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow.鈥� We鈥檙e honored to be recognized in this space.

This is truly fantastic news and, I believe, further underlines the impact cloud ERP has on the service-centric industries by fulfilling their current and future technology needs. 麻豆原创 offers integrated cloud solutions that can support an organization鈥檚 E2E business processes, spanning across all functions. 麻豆原创 helps manage every part of an organization: enterprise resource management, spend management, human capital management, and customer relationship management. This deep know-how enables 麻豆原创 to understand that every business is different and that within a business not every application has the same infrastructure or process requirements.

An Integrated Cloud ERP Solution

IT decisions are influenced by several different factors, whether it be the sensitivity and gravity of the data, the locality and level of availability required, or the need to scale ERP systems up and down. Businesses are complex entities and, as such, the most efficient IT environments will be able to combine cloud services 鈥� leveraging the flexibility of choice 麻豆原创 provides, whether they are public, private, or hybrid solutions. But complexity conceals value and opportunity. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is at the core of this transformational process that enables companies to grow, optimize, and transform on their own terms while providing for the smooth integration of all business processes.

A great example is to more countries in Asia under its 鈥淐loud Asia Until 2025鈥� plan. According to Chengbo Yu, CIO, Asia-Pacific Region, REHAU AG China, the company looked to 鈥渂uilding a cloud-based business platform that鈥檚 fit for the future in a dynamic market and facilitating business process standardization and integration across Asia Pacific and the world and achieving supply chain excellence along the industry value chain.鈥� That is the value it unlocked with 麻豆原创鈥檚 latest intelligent technologies, products, and solutions. This is a classic example of how cloud transformation is best achieved with process standardization, where composable services come together to support end-to-end processes.

I believe the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises is an interesting report of what trends and market forces drive conclusions. Businesses that are prepared to act quickly by orchestrating a planned digital transformation early on are better suited to respond to the dramatic changes in the operating environment. To quote the report, 鈥渢his Magic Quadrant reflects Gartner鈥檚 definition of 鈥榗omposable ERP.鈥� We define this as an adaptive technology strategy that enables the foundational administrative and operational digital capabilities for an enterprise to keep up with the pace of business change. This strategy delivers a core of composable applications and as-a-service software platforms that are highly configurable, interoperable, and flexible to adapt to future modern technology.鈥�

With this in mind, 麻豆原创 has pursued a unified solution in the cloud that responds to our customers鈥� business requirements. I have often written about how product design needs to be customer-driven and how we need to meet their unique industry needs with solutions that enable their growth and profitability. 鈥淣o matter what industry you are in, there is no greater benchmark of success than customer feedback,鈥� said Thomas Saueressig, member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE, 麻豆原创 Product Engineering. 鈥淭he more feedback we get from our customers, the better we can serve them with innovations that help companies solve today鈥檚 business problems and take on tomorrow鈥檚 challenges. With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, they are best positioned to do so impactfully and sustainably.鈥�

This perspective guides every decision our teams make when we are defining, investing in, and designing our solutions for every business, including organizations that aren鈥檛 yet completely ready for the cloud. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is a complete, composable cloud ERP solution powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics that helps customers run mission-critical operations in real time from anywhere and can give them the insight and information they need to steer their business through changing and challenging times. It enables them to digitally transform their business by helping build flexible value chains with end-to-end processes, introduce new business models in their industry, and expand globally yet sustainably with a trusted partner in 麻豆原创.

Making real progress on sustainability requires real data. We’re rising to that challenge at 麻豆原创 by introducing the green ledger, ledger-based accounting for carbon so companies can manage the carbon entering and leaving their systems and balance their “carbon books” the same way they balance their financial books.听麻豆原创 Sustainability solutions help customers replace estimated or average emissions values with actual, verified data, accelerating the move toward a green ledger where bottom-up, audit-ready sustainability values are managed with the same accounting quality as corporate financial data. The green ledger offers deep insights by being embedded into听听飞颈迟丑听听and the听听solution, with additional capabilities added with every release.

With 麻豆原创鈥檚 cloud-first approach, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is at the core of our RISE with 麻豆原创 and GROW with 麻豆原创 offerings, which help unlock new ways of doing business. The goal is to respect organizations鈥� individual pace of movement to become an intelligent and sustainable enterprise by supporting them with clear and transparent road maps and by helping ensure that new innovations can be made available to them on a continuous basis.

A progressive combination of technology and innovation are key to the growth of any business today. We believe 麻豆原创鈥檚 inclusion in this Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises once again highlights the fact that we are doing the right thing by our customers in creating a leaner, more responsive, customer-oriented business to help drive and deliver innovative solutions in the cloud. Customers repeatedly tell us they recognize that software-as-a-service (SaaS) ERP is their ultimate end-state.

We are thrilled to be recognized as a Leader again in this year鈥檚 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises. But our ambitions don鈥檛 stop here. We are continuing to invest in making 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud even better with innovations that will make our products smarter and more efficient for enterprises of all scale 鈥� global, large, and mid-market. We understand the importance of making the right investment decisions when it comes to digital transformation, and we believe a strong digital backbone is the centerpiece. With 麻豆原创鈥檚 cloud ERP solutions, we continue to focus on growth and value generation for businesses and their customers and we are here to be a partner on this journey.

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Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer of Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises, Denis Torii, Sam Grinter, Tim Faith, Naveen Mahendra, Neha Ralhan, Robert Anderson, 29 August 2023.
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Climate change and the energy crisis we are facing have exposed the need for greater transparency when it comes to understanding and managing our energy consumption. Compound that with economic uncertainties, remote work, inflationary spirals, global warming, and compliance issues and you have a shortlist of what businesses face today. Nearly every company must manage facilities, offices, shops, or other types of physical spaces, and the need to balance supply and demand along with investment and costs, as well as contractual obligations, is key.

But do we really understand how certain actions impact our carbon footprint?

This is where smart technologies take center stage in reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions. Professional real estate organizations are facing multidimensional challenges that need to be supported by data-driven processes and latest technologies. By unleashing the enormous potential of connected data, you enable and manage optimization strategies to future-proof building operations. The partner ecosystem can also play a critical role in enabling data-sourcing for smart real estate management by combining expertise in data integration, analytics, domain knowledge, and collaborative innovation.

The Best Ecosystem Wins

A collaborative network is key for companies of all sizes to increase speed of innovation and to become more resilient. Teaming up with our partners not only unlocks innovation but ultimately provides faster time-to-value for our customers and addresses critical capabilities as part of our 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud road map. The way to embed partners and collaborate with them has changed over time: today, many 麻豆原创 partners leverage 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP) to create well-integrated solutions to provide seamless processes and experiences for our customers.

Combining the strengths of market-leading organizations like Planon and Schneider Electric with the expertise of 麻豆原创 will provide significant business value and innovation to their real estate business by connecting buildings, people, and processes. The cloud ERP solution from 麻豆原创 serves as the backbone for managing end-to-end business processes, together with Planon, market leader for vertical real estate and facility management software, and Schneider Electric, global specialist in energy management and automation for buildings.

Customers will benefit from the data flowing from smart technologies seamlessly into ERP processes. This will unleash the potential of the huge amount of real estate-related data, transforming this into real business value.

鈥淲ith this partnership, both 麻豆原创 and Planon customers will be able to derive end-to-end value across the enterprise,鈥� said Pierre Guelen, CEO and founder of Planon. 鈥淭he combined solutions will enable customers to run best-in-class real estate and workplace operations and elevate user experience. Greater efficiency will reduce costs, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions.鈥�

Delivering Enterprise-Wide Value

This is something that only 麻豆原创, together with a partner ecosystem, can deliver in an integrated way. The partnership will lead to a joint product road map for deeper process and technological integration to deliver enterprise-wide value, including greater compliance and IoT-connected business insights and automation. Customers will benefit from seamless data exchange among all departments involved in management, maintenance, and support of real estate facilities, such as finance, purchasing, accounting, and business-specific functions like real estate and facility management.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, together with 麻豆原创 BTP as the technological backbone to drive such innovation, will unlock new ways of doing business. 麻豆原创 BTP will serve as the central integration platform for the new combined solutions, which allow customers and partners to integrate easily with existing 麻豆原创 solutions. The joint offering will be available as a premium certified Endorsed App via our digital commerce platform 麻豆原创 Store and will provide value to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, public and private edition, customers.

The partnership with Planon follows a 360-degree partnership approach that includes:听

• Strong product co-innovation and collaboration to create integrated scenarios where customers benefit from premium certified integrations
• Proven premium certification, where 麻豆原创鈥檚 validation increases customer confidence by providing the assurance of a fully tested, out-of-the-box, 麻豆原创-approved integration that meets our product standards
• Strong go-to-market collaboration with active co-selling, joint positioning, co-marketing, and executive sponsorship to bring the co-innovation to our customers

The partnership activates a broad set of capabilities to help real estate portfolios become more sustainable while increasing access to consumption data, initiatives, and related investments. The Planon Real Estate Management for 麻豆原创 solution is already . A fully integrated version is intended to be available early next year.

This partnership strengthens the vision of our collaborative, data-driven, and networked cloud ERP solution by bringing together 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud as the heart of an intelligent, sustainable enterprise together with the power of our ecosystem.

By implementing smart cloud ERP solutions that are designed to reduce energy consumption and optimize operations, organizations can achieve a more efficient and sustainable business environment — similar to how a well-functioning thermostat can create a comfortable and energy-efficient workplace.

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创.

鈥淏uyers have many options for the Enterprise Resource Planning Systems category,鈥� said Megan Headley, vice president of Research at TrustRadius. 鈥溌槎乖� S/4HANA Cloud earned Winter Best Of awards for Best Feature Set, Best Value for Price, and Best Relationship based entirely on feedback from its customers.鈥�

During the three-month awards process, TrustRadius looked at customer reviews from the last two quarters of 2022 to determine awards using the following criteria:

• Best Feature Set: Based on the highest percentage of respondents who were happy with the product鈥檚 feature set
• Best Relationship: Based on Key Insight data in the product reviews for Would Buy Again, Implementation Expectations, and Sales and Marketing Promises
• Best Value for Price: Based on the highest percentage of respondents who were happy with the product鈥檚 value for the price

For 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, 鈥�97% of reviewers on TrustRadius said they were happy with the feature set, 100% stated it delivered good value for the price, and 99% said they would buy the product again,鈥� said Headley. 鈥淢any reviewers praised the low cost of the cloud ERP system and its facilitation of their digital transformations.鈥�

As 麻豆原创, we set out to never dictate to a customer how they should run their enterprise software. And there is no one-size-fits-all solution, and that’s why we want to give our customers flexibility to choose what works best for them.

鈥淣o matter what industry you are in, there is no greater benchmark of success than customer feedback,鈥� said Thomas Saueressig, member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE, 麻豆原创 Product Engineering. 鈥淭he more feedback we get from our customers, the better we can serve them with innovations that help companies solve today鈥檚 business problems and take on tomorrow鈥檚 challenges. With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, they are best positioned to do so impactfully and sustainably.鈥�

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is a complete, modular cloud ERP system, powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics, that helps customers run mission-critical operations in real -time from anywhere and gives them the insight and information they need to steer their business through changing and challenging times. It enables them to digitally transform their business by building flexible value chains with end-to-end processes, introduce new business models in their industry, and expand globally yet sustainably with a trusted partner in 麻豆原创.

As an 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, customer, , a Netherlands-based manufacturer of marine engines for sailboats and powerboats for both recreational and high-speed boat operations company, has seen firsthand why choosing the right cloud ERP solution matters.

Yanmar needed a scalable cloud ERP solution that could match its growth aspirations and help ensure it has all the right information from across its business to drive decision-making.

With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, of having all of its employees working with consistent processes, based on industry best practices from 麻豆原创. Yanmar now has real-time visibility to accurately plan working capital and has reduced financial close from three days to just half a day.麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud has been a catalyst for change and has helped businesses transform and navigate their way to becoming intelligent and sustainable enterprises.

We thank all our 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud customers for their continued support and for placing trust in 麻豆原创. And we thank all the customers who took the time to provide thoughtful feedback on peer-review platforms like TrustRadius.

We understand the importance of making the right investment decisions when it comes digital transformation, and we believe a strong digital backbone is the centerpiece. With 麻豆原创鈥檚 cloud ERP solutions, we continue to focus on growth and value generation for businesses and their customers and we are here to be a partner on this journey.

Learn more about how 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud can help your company accelerate its journey to the cloud at .

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.
Eric van Rossum is chief marketing and solutions officer for Cloud ERP at 麻豆原创.

麻豆原创 and Microsoft are excited to announce that they have teamed up to take collaboration in to the next level — easier, faster, more effective — with the integration of Microsoft Teams.

The shift to a hybrid working model in most companies makes collaboration tools and business process efficiency more critical than ever before. Tools that support communication and remote work help build a clear process around collaboration. We help our business users to manage their daily activities in the work environment that is most convenient to them, supported by collaborative enterprise resource planning (ERP) features in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

With the latest 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud update, we released the preview of a collaborative ERP feature that allows business users in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud to share links to live business data in Microsoft Teams chats. By minimizing context switching between different applications — for example, downloading reports in Microsoft Excel and sending them around via mail — people can get more done in less time and with fewer errors. Our customers in the Early Adopter Care program are using a preview of the feature and are already leveraging efficiency gains in their productive environments. .

This is just the first step. As featured at , during his keynote, the work we are doing together, and we plan to build even more collaborative features.

We are enabling business users of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud to share their most relevant business data using Adaptive Card-based Loop components in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook. The data in Loop components is always live and up to date, allowing users to take action and complete tasks while in the flow of their work. Users will also be able to embed 麻豆原创 Fiori elements-based apps as tabs in Microsoft Teams to collaborate. .

To access the new collaboration features as they are released, including share as Teams tab and share as Adaptive Card-based Loop components, join the Early Adopter Care program for Microsoft Integration in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud. to actively influence the next collaborative ERP features in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

The future of work is one led by collaboration: it means less overhead and more productivity. We need to deeply integrate our various modes of communication into organizational processes and workflows and this is central to enhancing cross-team or cross-app collaboration.

With our next-level ERP collaboration, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud understands this need to jointly determine the future of work and enable a frictionless enterprise.

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

Answering the call from our customers, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud transforms the way businesses operate and helps them run at their best. The recognition is based on our completeness of vision and ability to execute in the cloud ERP market for product-centric enterprises. This has come quick on the heels of the recent recognition by Gartner, where 麻豆原创 was named as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises in July 2022.

This is very good news, and we believe our positioning reflects our role as an enabler of innovation and in helping organizations become intelligent enterprises.

The core capabilities of product-centric cloud ERP suites, as mentioned in the report, are:

• 鈥�Operational ERP: Supply chain and manufacturing-related functionality such as demand management, order management, material requirements planning, inventory management, supply chain/direct procurement, manufacturing control capabilities and distribution/logistics.
• “Financial management functionality: Financial accounting, subledger accounting, consolidation and financial reporting.鈥�

Cloud ERP impacts companies in product-centric industries by fulfilling their current and future technology needs and helps them manage finance and material resources in a sustainable way.

According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant description of Leaders, “Leaders demonstrate a market-defining vision of how ERP product-centric systems and processes can be supported and improved by moving them to the cloud. They couple this with a clear ability to execute their vision through products, services, and go-to-market strategies. They have a strong presence in the market and are growing their revenue and market shares. In the cloud ERP suite market, Leaders show a consistent ability to win deals with organizations of different sizes. They have a good depth of functionality across all areas of operational and administrative ERP. They have proof of multiple, successful deployments by customers. Their system integrator partners frequently use their offerings to support business transformation initiatives.鈥�

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is at the core of this transformational process that enables companies to grow, optimize, and transform on their own terms while providing for the smooth integration of all business processes.

A great example is to more countries in Asia under their 鈥淐loud Asia Until 2025鈥� plan. According to Chengbo Yu, CIO, Asia-Pacific Region, REHAU AG China, the company looked to build 鈥渁 cloud-based business platform that鈥檚 fit for the future in a dynamic market and facilitating business process standardization and integration across Asia Pacific and the world, and achieving supply chain excellence along the industry value chain.鈥� That is the value they unlocked with the latest intelligent technologies, products, and solutions from 麻豆原创.

Our modular cloud ERP solutions use standardized industry-leading best practices to improve efficiency and quality. Highly automated processes help reduce errors, redundancies, and variances and pave the way to operational excellence.

could count on a stable, reliable, and innovative ERP such as 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud in its transformational journey, which helped provide the process standardization and simplification that the company needed. This helped to consolidate multiple legacy ERP systems on 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and supported the journey of intelligent transformation without stopping. Standardization and multi-tenancy mean that switching to the cloud reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) and frees up resources to focus on value-added innovations.

While it delivers fast time to value, standardization alone is not sufficient. Extensibility is key to the differentiation of business processes for customers, such as , one of Europe鈥檚 leading photo service providers, which acquired and integrated WhiteWall to expand service and reach. According to Dzifa Buati, program lead for CEWE Stiftung & Co. KgaA, 鈥淭he essence of the project is to create a foundation for growth. With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, we believe we have a system that can grow with us and form the basis for a billion-dollar company.鈥�

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud offers both user and developer extensibility. In this way, customers can maintain agility. With such extensibility options for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, customers no longer need to choose between innovation and standardization, but can pursue both while safeguarding their need for flexibility.

In 2021, we launched , an offering that includes products, processes, and services to help customers unlock new ways of doing business. The intelligent suite natively integrates end-to-end business scenarios by bringing together finance, procurement, supply chain, logistics, human resources, research and development, services, and sales.

The core functionalities of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud can be extended across the 麻豆原创 portfolio by integrating line-of-business and industry solutions. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud can be integrated to achieve consistent data across end-to-end processes by serving as an actionable single source of truth. 麻豆原创 technology stores master data in a central location in order to create a single and reliable source of truth that can be distributed where needed.

And in the light of the challenges that we have faced in recent times, organizations have had to quickly recast key operational business processes and can expect this to be the new norm going forward. Business processes must be readjusted on a constant basis by moving to automated flexible, analytic-driven, project-oriented, and industry-oriented applications that play within a larger ecosystem.

While we are proud of our success, we also know that it is also only possible thanks to our customers, partners, and analysts and their confidence in us. Delivering the modular suite and enabling organizations to inspect business processes holistically are key strategic goals for 麻豆原创. This can give our customers the required agility, flexibility, and time to value that they need.

Businesses need to think about where they are going to be in five years; they must think about what is lurking around the corner, how that may disrupt their business environment, and how they need to change their business model accordingly. With the democratization of intelligent ERP, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is the answer for companies of all sizes, enabling both business transition and business transformation. It supports organizations no matter where they are and offers a solution that can fit best to their needs.

We look forward to welcoming more customers into the 麻豆原创 community and providing them with the solutions needed to succeed in a changing world.

Jan Gilg is chief product officer and president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

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To remain successful in the face of such disruptions and evolving expectations, companies are transforming their business models to the next level. They realize that they need to stay ahead of competition by providing valuable business outcomes to their customers while achieving efficiency, profitability, a great user experience, scalability, and resilience.

This has a major impact on the quote-to-cash requirements as the centerpiece of companies that enable their organizations to sell, deliver, and charge for products and services. Quote to cash is one of the most critical but complex process that encompasses multiple activities in an organization. Whether in a B2B or a B2C setting, it is a comprehensive process that no off-the-shelf, end-to-end solution can handle.

“Cash is king” is an often heard truism in business landscapes, but when it comes to services organizations, it takes a lot more to be successful.

(Products + Services) x Subscriptions = Solution

Transformation means change and that involves understanding both the reason to change and the consequences of change. To thrive today and gain flexibility and variance, businesses need to transform to solution-based business models that expand the responsibility beyond the initial sale: products combined with services, often sold with a contractual promise of an outcome.

Right System for the Right Results

麻豆原创 enables all customers according to their specific needs and allows them to keep ahead of today鈥檚 challenges and quickly adapt to tomorrow鈥檚 world. This is done by simplifying the challenges in three main ways:

• Be more efficient in what you do
• Scale and provide modern ways of selling
• Move from selling standalone products and services to offering bundled solutions to customers

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud provides all the core quote-to-cash and finance processes that businesses need to adopt a holistic, solution-based business model rather than cobbling various processes together manually. By doing so, it allows a business to transform into a one-stop shop to offer the best solutions to customers.

One-Stop Shop

Our quote-to-cash process makes it possible for your business to integrate new solutions and subscriptions, which in turn enables your company to cut costs, improve efficiency, and gain visibility with your customers throughout the entire life cycle.

A great example is IBM, which recently underwent an enterprise resource planning (ERP) transformation as it moved its processes to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

鈥淚BM introduced 麻豆原创 S/4HANA as a strategic quote-to-cash platform to accelerate the growth of its subscription license, as-a-service, and software-offering business,” said Prasad Chennuru, chief architect at IBM. “The market-leading capabilities of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA to sell holistic solution and subscription bundles enabled IBM to improve the performance and usability of its order management and financial processes, thus reducing time to value and time to market.”

Besides the business transformation to bundled solutions, quote to cash also powers modern product and service sales by putting user experience at the center and enables streamlined, intelligent, and automated processes to take manual tasks away from the end user.

Our New Generation of Sales

Today the pace of data generation is accelerating, with 90% of the world鈥檚 data having been generated in the last two years alone. In addition, last year about 51% of the workloads were processed in the cloud and this will only grow in the foreseeable future. Exponential growth of this kind means that customer experience will become one of the key brand differentiator — dethroning price and product as the leading factors.

With quote to cash as one of an organization鈥檚 most critical and complex processes, few ever look to make improvements — until a crisis shocks them into realizing the problems and pitfalls of an inefficient quote-to-cash process.

But complexity conceals value and opportunity. With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, customers can refine their quote-to-cash process to improve performance and scalability that enables a seamless end-to-end process integration and helps boost sales and service productivity by using intelligent technologies like robotic process automation and machine learning. This supports making the right decisions at the right time with embedded advanced analytics and leveraging the pay-per-use offerings.

, one of Europe鈥檚 leading photo service providers, acquired and integrated WhiteWall to expand service and reach. Prior to its acquisition, WhiteWall鈥檚 order processing capabilities were limited by its existing systems, which prevented the company from taking full advantage of seasonal sales periods, such as the winter holidays. Today, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud automates and accelerates the quote-to-cash process. From the moment a customer places an order on one of WhiteWall鈥檚 online stores, the 麻豆原创 solution processes the sales order, starts the production, then manages payments from PayPal and other payment providers.

According to Alexander Nieswandt, founder of WhiteWall Media GmbH, 鈥淥ur employees think it’s great because they don’t have to wait for processes to run in the background; they can really concentrate on their work and focus on providing an even better service to our customers.鈥�

Enabling, Integrating, and Incentivizing Sustainability with Subscription Billing

is an end-to-end solution for recurring revenue at high transaction volumes. It provides rapid design of new service-based business models, holistic management of recurring and usage-based revenue, and customer-focused settlement and service at scale. It is designed for enterprises in any industry that want to or that are transforming their offerings into services or aim to lower cost in revenue management and customer satisfaction.

is the only solution in the market that natively integrates high-volume billing into financial excellence powered by 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

Courier company DTDC Express Limited is one of India鈥檚 leading express parcel service providers. Founded in 1990, the company has grown rapidly and wanted to unify and digitalize its sales and billing processes to help ensure that its . Implementing 麻豆原创 Sales Cloud and 麻豆原创 Billing and Revenue Innovation Management has seen an increase in the efficiency of the sales and accounts teams at DTDC — the same number of employees now manage 1.5 times more payment transactions than before implementation.

By driving intelligent automation deeper into and across companies, 麻豆原创 helps to improve both customer and employee experience. But this must go hand-in-hand with delivering end-to-end processes that include any variation of physical product, installation service, maintenance contract, project, and subscription, as well as embracing complex service scenarios — from one-off repairs to long-term engagements, all the while maintaining and improving compliance, security, and sustainability through all this change.

In the environment that we find ourselves today, companies鈥� health depends on its liquidity and ability to react fast to changes. We build on our experience and our deep insights into what matters to our customers today and enable that in our end-to-end solution in order to unleash the potential of the cloud and design, streamline, and automate this process to have a direct impact on improving customer and user experience.

Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

Transforming How Products and Services Are Offered and Sold

This is very good news and, we believe, further underlines the impact cloud ERP has on the service-centric industries by fulfilling their current and future technology needs. 麻豆原创 offers integrated solutions that can support an organization鈥檚 E2E business processes, spanning across all functions. 麻豆原创 helps manage every part of an organization: enterprise resource management, spend management, human capital management, and customer relationship management.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud marks an important technology transition for 麻豆原创 toward a modular cloud ERP solution composed of multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and services, enabling customers to adjust to new business realities and economic challenges, and to make a fast adjustment from people to process to product.

If you look closely at the Magic Quadrant, I believe it is an interesting study of what trends and market forces have driven the conclusions in the report. Businesses that are prepared to act quickly by orchestrating a planned digital transformation early on are better suited to respond to the dramatic changes in the operating environment. With this in mind, 麻豆原创 has pursued a unified solution in the cloud that responds to our customers鈥� business requirements.

I have often written about how product design needs to be customer-driven, and how we need to meet their unique industry needs with solutions that enable their growth and profitability. This perspective guides every decision our teams make when we are defining, investing in, and designing our solutions for every business using it — including organizations that aren鈥檛 yet completely ready for the cloud.

With 麻豆原创鈥檚 cloud-first approach, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is at the core of our offering unlock new ways of doing business. The goal is to respect organizations鈥� individual pace of movement to become an intelligent and sustainable enterprise by supporting them with clear and transparent road maps and by helping ensure that new innovations can be made available to them on a continuous basis.

A progressive combination of technology and innovation is key to the growth of any business today. With the publication of this Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises, we believe it once again underlines the fact that we are doing the right thing by our customers in creating a leaner, more responsive customer-oriented business to drive and deliver innovative solutions in the cloud. Customers repeatedly tell us they recognize that SaaS ERP is their ultimate end-state.

I believe this report reinforces 麻豆原创鈥檚 leadership and ability to offer exactly what customers are looking for: to grow and innovate with agility and resiliency with a trusted name in ERP. The strength and transformative power of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud cannot be denied.

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Jan Gilg is president and chief product officer for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA at 麻豆原创.

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Having received this news on the eve of 麻豆原创 Sapphire 2022, it highlighted once again that we are doing the right thing by our customers in delivering innovative solutions in the cloud and enabling them to transform their businesses effectively, efficiently, and intelligently.

Manufacturing ERP

In times of unanticipated events and sudden demand shocks such as COVID-19, competition has never been higher in manufacturing. There are more companies competing for the same customer base and this makes differentiation a challenge. The commoditization of products impacts a manufacturer’s ability to grow revenue or move into new markets.

For manufacturing companies, a solution to issues such as agility, sustainability, the right product-service mix, customer experience, modular and integrated systems, continuous focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, and an anywhere, anytime access is key.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is a complete, modular cloud ERP software designed for every business need 鈥� powered by AI and analytics. With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, customers can run mission-critical operations in real time from anywhere, introduce new business models in their industry, and expand globally with a trusted partner. For 50 years, 麻豆原创 has been proudly helping enterprises of all sizes 鈥� in all industries and geographies 鈥� run at their best with ERP software.

is based on a thorough evaluation of 麻豆原创鈥檚 strengths and capabilities and lists them as follows:

Manufacturing Footprint and Expertise
麻豆原创’s expansive footprint and experience working across the manufacturing industry is a clear strength. Customers that have been interviewed backed up this sentiment, stating that they can’t think of a vendor with more expertise than 麻豆原创 when it comes to automotive and engineering-to-order type industries as an example, and it allows a lot of best practices to be adopted. This is also reflected in the customer base, as customer references noted that all major companies in their industry use 麻豆原创 or are at least familiar with the company, which makes finding employees experienced with the system much easier.

Innovation
麻豆原创 continues to evolve its products with innovation, combining technological expertise with its industry expertise. 麻豆原创’s focus on AI and machine learning was cited by multiple manufacturing customers as an area they are very excited about. Automation is another area mentioned by manufacturers as an important focus that 麻豆原创 is helping with. One reference shared how over the next few years the company expects to generate a lot of additional efficiencies by reducing efforts through process automation.

Level of Value Delivered
麻豆原创 continues to deliver value for clients, from innovation to best practices to additional insights. Customers have mentioned that the best practice use cases and additional insights provided are bringing substantial value as they reset their businesses to new business processes and the use of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

Operational ERP

Demand for cloud-based ERP applications continues to grow because of the ability to access and analyze massive amounts of data in near real time and with anywhere, anytime access. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-enabled ERP systems enable growing businesses to quickly expand into new regions around the globe without making major investments into their technology infrastructure because they are extremely adaptive to accelerated rates of change. SaaS and cloud-enabled systems are adaptive to dynamic operations environments,听which is why this is extremely important as a technology vendor guide for today’s COOs, CFOs, CIOs, and IT buyers.

The IDC MarketScape evaluated criteria important to using technology as a competitive edge for discrete manufacturing companies, recognizing that manufacturers are looking for technology that can be an innovation accelerator. Operational ERP includes product-centric organizations in industries such as manufacturing, high-tech, engineering, and consumer products. These organizations鈥� ERP systems incorporate operational modules, including order management, finance, procurement, enterprise asset management (EAM), manufacturing, and supply chain, to maximize operational efficiencies. According to the report, the following issues were top of mind:

• Key metrics: Improvements in productivity are key.
• Manual processes: Organizations still use error prone manual processes.
• Visibility issues: Resources need to spend extra time to report and verify transactions.
• Resource constraints: Employees are asked to do more with less and, in many cases, the use of legacy systems add to the workload instead of reduce it.
• Lost money: Companies with inefficient operational and financial processes often lose opportunities to take advantage of cost-effective and efficient processes.

As part of digital transformation initiatives, operational workflows are changing fast. Characteristics such as robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning, embedded intelligence, predictive analytics, modular and integrated systems, and anywhere, anytime access were most commonly found in the IDC MarketScape research.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud offers the following strengths:

• Level of value delivered: From innovation to best practices to additional insights, 麻豆原创 continues to deliver value for clients. Customers reported that the best practice use cases and additional insights provided are bringing substantial value as they reset their businesses to new business processes and use 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.
• Innovation: 麻豆原创 continues to evolve its products with innovation. One reference said, “Our operations and finance areas have been enhanced with artificial intelligence and machine learning, helping us generate more in operational efficiency with greater automation of processes.”
• Pricing models and terms: Customers told IDC they find the flexibility of pricing, including units as a component of the pricing, appealing, supportive, and customer friendly. In addition, organizations noted the opportunity to migrate is much more palatable with this aspect of pricing.

麻豆原创鈥檚 recognition by IDC MarketScape is a testament to our steadfast dedication to pushing the envelope and developing cutting-edge solutions for customers that leverage the greatest enterprise systems for manufacturing customers and customers aiming to increase the efficiency of operational processes. We believe that this evaluation is a superior measure of the competitive position of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud in the market and shows that our solutions and innovations prove our underlying commitment to our customers. Our teams have worked day and night to successfully navigate the challenging environment of COVID-19 and other disruptions to deliver on our promises to our customers and help them confidently take yet another step in the right direction.

For the report excerpts, please visit: and .

*IDC MarketScape Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Operational ERP Applications 2022 Vendor Assessment, and IDC MarketScape Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Manufacturing ERP Applications 2022 Vendor Assessment by Mickey North Rizza and Reid Paquin from International Data Corporation (IDC), 2022

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA at 麻豆原创.

By adopting a fundamentally different approach in the way we create and design products, services, and solutions we can, for instance, take finite resources to design infinite, regenerative systems that can work sustainably in the long run. In doing so, we can apply circular design as a shorthand for the practice of applying principles at the design stage of everything and enable the way design changes and redefines our relationship with the world.

Today, we face a devastating pandemic, new levels of global warming, extreme ecological degradation, and continuous setbacks in our work toward global goals for more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable development. Simply put, the state of the planet is broken, where every tenth of a degree of warming matters and those who have done the least to cause the problem are suffering the most.

Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century. With recently concluded , nations, along with businesses, negotiators, and citizens came together to address the burning issue of climate change.

While the focus at COP26 was mostly on climate action, to ensure progress on our sustainability ambitions, we need a systemic approach that looks at the complete big picture. finds that our transition to renewable energy 鈥渃an only address 55% of emissions. The remaining 45% comes from producing the cars, clothes, food, and other products we use every day.鈥�

In acknowledging that ambitious goals require ambitious action, : to take decisive action and provide a mandate to business to drive solutions to achieve our shared global goals.

As a part of our sustainability journey, we believe we can design and provide highly innovative and viable solutions that will not just repair the damage to the earth humans have caused so far, but actually prevent more harm. Eighty percent of a product鈥檚 environmental impact is baked in at the time of its design, proving that the only way we can create a successful circular economy is with a focus on how our products are designed, sourced, made, and delivered.

I previously discussed the sustainability portfolio in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and how 麻豆原创 is addressing four dimensions, including climate action, circular economy, holistic steering and reporting, and social responsibility. 麻豆原创 has announced the availability of — an embedded, cloud-native 麻豆原创 S/4HANA solution — to help customers with the sustainable design and responsible management of materials and products so that they can accelerate their transition to a more circular economy.

With 麻豆原创 Responsible Design and Production, businesses can embed circularity principles into core business processes, helping to eliminate waste, circulate products and materials, and regenerate natural systems to unlock new value. The new solution gives companies better visibility into how materials flow through their processes, including tracking and complying with rapidly changing regulations for things like packaging and plastics.

They can also keep pace with increasingly strict regulations like extended producer responsibility standards, which can put significant financial and physical responsibility on the company about how they manage the disposal of their products. These standards differ across regions and countries. For example, a shampoo brand manager has visibility into the full product life cycle, including extended producer responsibility obligations and the plastic taxes of different markets. These costs can be very expensive. This visibility helps the brand manager make design changes to eliminate waste and decisions on how to reduce the costs of re-use and recycling systems.

Technology solutions like are a fundamental step in enabling businesses to become intelligent, sustainable enterprises and drive global impact at scale. But business should not commit only to doing less harm, but to doing more good. Business has the power to not only reduce and reuse, but also to regenerate. We need to go from seeking to reduce our ecological footprint and “chasing zero,” to becoming net- or nature-positive, building not just a circular economy, but a regenerative economy.

The regenerative economy implies a circular approach beyond the narrow view of products to one that includes the social, natural, and built environment. It is an approach similar to natural ecosystems that find synergies and balance. The regenerative business is intelligent, using innovative technology to gather insight and apply it to scale change. It measures impact, holistically and in real time.

Cementing Partnerships to Drive Corporate Sustainability and Circularity

Accenture shares 麻豆原创鈥檚 vision of zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality. To achieve a sustainable world, organizations must transform into intelligent enterprises, and intelligent enterprises must form a network of intelligent enterprises.

In addition to the accepted top line and bottom line, a new 鈥済reen line鈥� covering the environmental, social, and governance aspects needs to be established as another dimension of success across business processes and along value chains. This way, organizations achieve transparency and influence that span beyond company borders.

The recently published shows that many global industry leaders are already demonstrating behaviors that are critical to achieving a competitive advantage from sustainability. Accenture and 麻豆原创 are ready to help organizations accelerate in their journeys to become sustainable intelligent enterprises.

According to Peter Lacy, chief responsibility officer and global sustainability services lead at Accenture, 鈥淲ith the circular economy we have an unprecedented opportunity to transform some of the challenges we face into opportunities, creating economic value and sustainability impact for business and society. In fact, our research shows the value at stake is massive: $4.5 trillion of upside, even at conservative estimates. We are proud to partner with 麻豆原创 to seize the circular advantage, as we believe business can spur innovation, create new markets, and set our current global direction toward one that is more sustainable and resilient.鈥�

Just as the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, 麻豆原创 and Accenture recently welcomed two new cohorts for the external startup accelerator 麻豆原创.iO Foundries North America. Thirteen startups were selected for the cohort among hundreds of applicants by a jury of 麻豆原创 and Accenture experts, partners, and customers. They are building innovative solutions to drive sustainability for consumer and retail companies across the value chain in areas including reusable packaging, responsible and ethical supply chain, and emphasizing a circular economy.

With the launch of 麻豆原创 Responsible Design and Production, 麻豆原创 aims to address two critical challenges: managing complex extended producer responsibility regulations and plastic taxes, which vary from country to country, and enabling every organization to reduce their use of plastic, thereby contributing to sustainable and profitable growth through less plastic and less exposure to regulatory costs.

Because 麻豆原创 Responsible Design and Production directly leverages data from core enterprise resource planning (ERP) processes, it enables determining material compositions and calculating extended producer responsibility fees across numerous product lines as well as adhering to a growing number of different extended producer responsibility declaration schemes.

To date, we have four clients testing the beta version of the new solution, released at the end of August, and they will be closely involved in assessing new releases. We are co-innovating with many of the world鈥檚 largest consumer products organizations in the solution development to support long-term industry success and delivery of the zero waste ambition.

To this end, our joint teams are ready to deliver. We are helping our clients to define their road maps, identify priorities, and accelerate their journeys through the selection and implementation of relevant 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud capabilities and new 麻豆原创 solutions. Our sustainability management portfolio is enabled by a modular 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, helping us to drive a positive planetary impact in a holistic manner while incrementally expanding it along further aspects, including water, energy, land use, and social dimensions.

When sustainability is embedded in its DNA, building software that helps companies measure, account, and take the right action in dynamic and heterogeneous environments is the final step in managing environmental impact.

As Sir David Attenborough rightly said, “If working apart we are a force powerful to destabilize our planet, surely working together we are powerful enough to save it,” before concluding, “In my lifetime I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery.”

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

Whether it鈥檚 the delivery of that product we ordered this morning, the next season of the series we just binge watched, or — in my case — the update that unlocks my phone while wearing a face mask, we increasingly bank on our expectations to be satisfied almost instantaneously or, at the very least, at our convenience.

With this we see how technology and innovation have revolutionized the manner and the extent to which society and businesses behave and shift priorities over time.

As a company that touches 77% of the world鈥檚 transactions, 麻豆原创 is poised in many ways to not just keep pace with market behavior, but stay a step ahead to influence and enable agile enterprise planning and decision-making. Solving today鈥檚 challenges and capturing tomorrow鈥檚 opportunities requires a complete, innovative, and industry-ready cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.

This new face of ERP uses data and artificial intelligence (AI) to turn traditional processes into dynamic transactions and agility and scalability have become an intrinsic part of the mix. With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, the future of ERP is a cycle of continuous innovations and improvements for businesses and their customers, where seamless maintenance and upgrade cycles help ensure a resilient environment. The fast-paced cloud business enables us to adjust quickly to changing circumstances and provide new capabilities to customers right when they need them. Keeping this in mind, we are constantly looking for ways to improve our customers鈥� experience with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

Our fourth quarter release, , is packed with innovations across all lines of business that have one thing in common: each is designed with the business success of our customers in mind. And while there are too many to mention all, there are some that lead the way.

We鈥檝e been growing the scope of solution order management release by release, and now with the latest enhancement that supports third-party process, our customers will be able to achieve increased efficiency through lower stocks and associated costs. The solution order specialist can transfer end-customer requirements directly to external suppliers, helping ensure that customer requirements as part of a solution order can be fulfilled despite material shortages.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud has always led the way in helping customers achieve excellence in financial management and accounting with regulatory compliance and improved margins. In the area of finance, with the release of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud 2111, we introduce support for commercial and corporate real estate processes, giving organizations a single source of truth for their entire real estate portfolio, independent of geography and business unit. A streamlined master data model in the cloud enables end-to-end real estate business processes, allowing businesses and spaces to be better managed. With this, the customer can use a single application to manage space for corporate and commercial requirements. The application also supports intelligent leasing decisions, offering comprehensive contract management solution with financial integration with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud. Embedded analytics for the detailed analysis of costs, revenues, and capacity utilization help ensure that companies can understand how best to use their real estate for greatest efficiency. This innovative feature is also available in .

In sales, our customers can now look forward to an increase in their sales force efficiency through significant enhancements to the application process sales orders. Internal sales representatives can quickly and easily create a sales order containing basic information, can view the available-to-promise check result, upload attachments, and maintain delivery groups and other sales order creation tasks. By automating as many steps as possible without impacting the flexibility or speed of the process, we enable our customers to boost their efficiency and productivity, which is critical to their overall success.

In the area of governance, risk, and compliance, we introduce two predefined stories in 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud to provide compliance managers with full transparency into the status quo of their organization鈥檚 compliance analysis and analysis of controls master data. This information — delivered as interactive, flexible, out-of-the-box dashboards — aids decision makers in identifying company-wide trends and spot compliance issues in good time and provides metrics for gauging compliance effectiveness.

As part of 麻豆原创鈥檚 strategy for sustainability, we now offer product carbon footprint analytics embedded in sourcing and procurement. With this, we now provide our customers with real-time insights into carbon footprint values of requested products and related purchase requisition amounts across various dimensions, such as by product, product category, or plant. In , customers can now avail the product footprint management to support the calculation of product footprints periodically and at scale, taking into account the entire product life cycle of products from headquarters and subsidiary ERP companies. This innovation is based on the simple principle that carbon transparency and the climate impact of individual products is always accompanied by a commitment to reduce them.

In enterprise portfolio and project management, the existing integration between enterprise projects and procurement has been tightened further, adding the ability to plan and monitor human resource demands in the manage project demand app. Planning can be done at high level — based on activity type and planned effort — or in more detail by directly staffing resources as required. This enhancement is integrated with the Manage My Timesheet app and boosts project planning possibilities while also providing additional value to business users for their daily work.

This release also sees us kicking off the early adopter program for Registration for Indirect Taxation Abroad (RITA), which will enable companies operating in multiple countries to satisfy the indirect tax and reporting regulations of each of the countries in which they do business. This means they can create and maintain an indirect tax registration in a foreign country without the need to create a new legal entity. This innovation empowers a lean 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud organizational set-up without redundant IT artifacts. Note that RITA is not intended for permanent establishment abroad. If you are interested in joining the , registration starts on November 1, 2021.

Back in September, we also kicked off a further significant early adopter program for 3-system landscape of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and now move into a second phase of that program with further selected customers. By default, all customers of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud are provisioned with a 2-system landscape consisting of a quality system and a production system. The 3-system landscape consists of a development system, a test system, and a production system and paves the way for an additional extensibility option known as developer extensibility. Using the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud ABAP environment, customers with a 3-system landscape can create advanced coding projects based on development objects that 麻豆原创 has released for this purpose. This new architecture decouples the software and content life cycles, resulting in minimized disruption (including blue-green deployment with minimized downtime), reduced upgrade complexity, and sufficient flexibility and time to adopt and adjust desired business processes.

Now that our final quarterly release of the year is off the starting blocks, it is time to look ahead at what鈥檚 to come. We have listened to your feedback and are working hard to make the process of consuming our innovations easier. To that end, our new release strategy will see us reducing the number of comprehensive releases and system upgrades per year and providing frequent non-disruptive updates between those releases. The effort required for release upgrades will decrease substantially, since the provided innovations are delivered continuously without disruption.

In addition, customers can adopt desired functionalities flexibly according to their individual requirements — as an option immediately after the update or as part of the next release.听 For full details, please visit the upgrade schedule and maintenance schedule for and . This development not only provides greater stability to customers, but it also gives greater flexibility regarding the adoption of innovations and allows 麻豆原创 to react faster to customer requirements.

I鈥檓 excited about the changes ahead and look forward to continuing to keep our engagement with our customers dynamic. ERP has always been about running businesses. With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, our customers can power the best-run businesses in the world by adopting innovations via the cloud in a way that works best for them — as and when they need them.

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

I grew up in Germany and can still remember when we started to separate our trash for recycling back in the 80s or 90s 鈥� our rivers and forests were suffering, and the environment was becoming a big topic. Even though we have seen progress on this front here in Germany, if you look at the global situation today, it鈥檚 clear we need to do more. It goes far beyond separating our trash. I sometimes wonder if I am part of the last generation that had the privilege to grow up in a world where natural disasters were an exception rather than the rule. Thinking about my own children, this is certainly a gut-wrenching thought.

I do not know if there is a guide through a slow-motion emergency, but the fact that climate change is already at our front door is inescapable. With the current state of the planet setting the context for us, talking about sustainability is talking about survival. It is about redefining growth, rethinking progress, and limiting financial risk. How we view our business or our industry will be a key driver in how well we proceed in creating a sustainability vision for our organization, both from within and without.

And . By placing sustainability at the front and center of our purpose, 麻豆原创鈥檚 strategy underlines the importance of technology, and specifically technological innovation, in enabling and accelerating climate action, hand in hand with our customers and partners.

Placing Sustainability at the Front and Center

With , we are uniquely positioned to create a lasting,听positive impact for our future generations. Leveraging 麻豆原创鈥檚 exemplary track record of managing enterprise resources for close to five decades, we want to collaborate and work closely with our customers to transition to sustainable business models.听Our vision to enable customers to transform into intelligent, sustainable enterprises is based on our shared values in “chasing zero“: zero emissions (GHG), zero waste, and zero inequality.

By integrating sustainability data into end-to-end business processes across industries and value chains, we can have a significant impact and accelerate the pace of change needed. In close collaboration with our partners, customers, market makers, and standard bodies, we intend to jointly shape the future sustainability landscape that enables and drives new, redefined business process models.

The success of the in April this year clearly shows that our ecosystem is ready to join forces with us, making it clear that business leaders — in addition to their top and bottom lines — also want to focus on managing their 鈥済reen line鈥� for sustainable business success. This has become the guiding principle for the way we want to evaluate and steer businesses in the future.

Embedding Sustainability Across the Entire Value Chain

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud鈥檚 sustainability portfolio addresses four dimensions, including climate action, circular economy, holistic steering and reporting, and social responsibility.

Through a highly differentiated set of products, we will enable organizations to assess and reduce their carbon footprint, increase resource productivity through circular processes, and run safer, sustainable business processes while providing industry-specific insights that combine operational and financial data across value chains, embedded in core business processes.

麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management has now been released. In the next few months, we will release 麻豆原创 Responsible Design and Production, already available as beta, and 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, and we will deliver innovations via modular embedded 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud services, based on an open, flexible architecture built on top of 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform. We will continue to expand across the breadth of our 麻豆原创 portfolio, bringing additional capabilities with 麻豆原创 Business Network and different lines of businesses, addressing most critical use cases in different industries to enable our customers to manage their environmental, societal, and planetary impact.

麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management is an embedded 麻豆原创 S/4HANA cloud-native application that enables our customers to optimize their business decisions by integrating footprint scores, preconfigured and flexible, in end-to-end business processes, periodically and at scale, considering the entire product life cycle. Our customers can gain insights by combining financial, logistic, and environmental data in analytics and can evaluate and derive footprints at scale by leveraging 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud data and capabilities as much as possible.

麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management is preconfigured, prescriptive, and focuses on business users (persona-based). It is based on 麻豆原创鈥檚 business data and application logic and is consistent in the calculated product footprints being integrated into the end-to-end operational processes covering all relevant business users in every department.

麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management is an answer to various challenges that our customers have encountered, whether it is the availability of emissions data to calculate product footprint across the product life cycle or the availability of calculation adhering to standards aligned to GHG Protocol ISO 14040. These indicate that high efforts are required for calculating the footprints and understanding how to use the results or the data gained from it to better optimize the way businesses are run.

Businesses agree that they need to calculate the footprint on a product level in the future, but they are unsure about how to go about it. They are still exploring different data and calculation methods. Our customers want to calculate the product footprints and then they want to analyze it — with their own tools.

To evaluate the environmental impact of the collected business data and goods movements and to be able to calculate footprints at scale, this data needs to be combined with emission factors. , a not-for-profit organization, is our first partner to offer product-related emission factor datasets from its database. Building on more than 20 years of experience in lifecycle assessment methodology and around 18,000 datasets covering global supply chains, the ecoinvent emission factor datasets can be, with a license, easily imported into 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management.

In the future, we plan to enable other content providers as well so that our customers can use every provider whose data is standardized as per our applications.

It is important to establish a clear governance, ownership, and process for managing and reporting on carbon emissions. Clarity on governance will in turn drive the clarity on underlying data needs, as well as system requirements. Our partnership with the United Nations (UN) Global Compact and Accenture on is an important component of our sustainability efforts. SDG Ambition aims to engage leaders across more than 1,000 companies in over 40 countries over the next two years and draw greater focus on making sustainability core to business strategy.

With our technologies, we will enable our customers to accelerate their journeys to achieving ambitious targets, helping them advance the integration of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their core business systems, thereby systematically working toward their .

Completing the Picture by Achieving Sustainability Multi-Dimensionally

With听, we enable our customers to manage their corporate environmental footprint — air, water, waste, carbon — as well as their GHG emissions at a corporate level. 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management captures product lifecycle emissions required by Product Standards, as outlined in .

To approach the challenge of climate change in a holistic manner and to expand it along further aspects, including water, energy, and land use as well as social dimensions, we need to begin at the core: 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

Having recognized and taken this major step, we plan to build on it and will expand to include and embed exchange emissions data into our line-of-business applications, including procurement, travel, and expense, to help bring a complete emissions transparency for our customers through 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower.

As an example, companies can gain visibility into carbon footprint data throughout a product鈥檚 supply chain, bringing the ability to take sustainable supply chain decisions based on actionable insights. Product-related carbon footprint data, such as for production, material sourcing, or transport, from 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management can be utilized in .

The issue of sustainability can sometimes be overwhelming and it is easy to feel hopeless. But because it is a global, complex issue, it has risen to the forefront, not only in policy conversations about how to make a change, but also in the business consciousness. There is a real shift happening now in terms of how we view climate change and how we believe we can turn concern into action.

Businesses are well positioned to lead on innovations and technology that will help slow down their impact on the environment and recognize that business can only succeed if society thrives.

While there is no ready-made, off-the-shelf answer to the questions our next generation asks us, we simply must make sure that what we do today gets us closer to where we want to be tomorrow — because what we save also saves us.

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

Barring any unexpected upheavals, we can look forward to shaping our futures rather than just grinding through the present. Companies are re-configuring their operations and inviting opportunities to transform their businesses.

麻豆原创鈥檚 role in their business transformation was highlighted in our recently announced second quarter results, which clearly reflect the strong adoption of our cloud portfolio by our customers. But reevaluating your business goals halfway through the year also means analyzing your progress and making adjustments. Ongoing updates and new feature releases enable us to keep up with changing customer needs and help ensure the technology is running at maximum capacity.

With the launch of , I鈥檇 like to reflect upon the innovation journey we鈥檝e been on in recent years.

One area of innovation that we鈥檝e been expanding upon since we introduced it one year ago is solution order management, in which sales and service functions merge seamlessly. Solution order management helps customers grow their margins by transitioning away from selling individual products and services to providing bundled business solutions consisting of products, one-time services, and recurring service subscriptions.

New in this release is the ability to include projects in a solution order, which is of particular relevance to customers in the professional services industry. When they create a solution order with a project, all relevant details such as project timeline, organizational data, and net project are included and the solution order can be used to track project progress while also notifying involved parties of changes.

With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud we enable the subscription economy, allowing companies across all industries to establish subscription and usage-based models and helping to ensure that revenue recognition takes place to optimize the financial outcomes for the company. Today鈥檚 update in finance also brings event-based revenue recognition and margin analysis for solution orders, helping our customers across all industries to understand revenue and costs using individual sales and service documents, subscriptions as well as solution orders. Not only does this bring full transparency to the revenue recognition process, but it also enables compliance with the revenue accounting standard.

Also worthy of note from the area of finance are the purchase order deferrals services, which automate the calculation and posting of deferrals and accruals for purchase orders. With this, the customer can shorten and optimize the financial closing process even more and improve the accuracy of external reports. As in most instances where automation plays a role, customers can reduce the effort required for tedious manual work and are able to improve process reliability and compliance.

Automation also plays a key role in inter-company document matching, where this release introduces machine learning to optimize the matching process, in which transactions must be properly booked in both parties. Until now, this task was handled with the support of user-defined rules and accountants had the cumbersome and error-prone task of matching the remainder of documents manually.

In recent releases, sales operations organizations have seen improvements that simplify their task of sales order creation. This latest release can further boost sales efficiency for our customers by enabling the mass upload of data from a spreadsheet to create multiple sales orders, thereby reducing the administrative overhead and cost of sales.

Looking toward supply chain management and manufacturing, a key innovation in warehouse management will significantly change the way daily processes are handled. Workers can now use radio frequency devices for day-to-day tasks including putaway, picking, packing, and replenishment. They can scan bar codes to record and verify data, such as storage bins, products, and handling unit numbers or just to enter picked quantities. This enhancement to warehouse management with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud 2108 provides ready-to-use mobile user interfaces, meaning there is no need for additional technology or homegrown apps. This will support users in making quick decisions and increasine productivity, all with the information in the palm of their hand.

Further to this, customers using both 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and 麻豆原创 Ariba software will benefit from improved communication with suppliers. The new capability supplier collaboration with material requirements planning (MRP) change request enables a highly automated exchange between the material planner and the supplier, helping ensure the planner is informed as soon as supply issues are anticipated. This exchange enables our customers to take advantage of the integration scenario with an external procurement system to directly inform their suppliers about exceptions that occurred in a planning run.

Two-tier ERP, where a company implements different enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for different parts of the organization, often in the headquarters and a subsidiary, remains a valid and agile deployment approach for many customers. For a two-tier deployment approach with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, we continue to grow our dedicated scenarios. In financials, inter-company reconciliation automation for multiple connected 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud or non-麻豆原创 systems will help our customers to reduce operational costs through machine learning and will enable them to significantly limit the need for costly manual matching efforts. This new efficiency will enable our customers to accelerate month-end closing and increase the accuracy of the matching process. This will also give greater transparency into inter-company relationships.

In manufacturing, two-tier-based predictive material and resource planning (pMRP) and scheduling agreement integration allows businesses to create planning simulations at both headquarters and subsidiary levels, taking into consideration various types of flexible constraints and allowing effective planning with resource-based simulations. The integration also enables joint planning between headquarters and the subsidiary, leading to a consensus plan for the final product and sub-assembly.

Furthermore, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is continuing to embrace the Intelligent Enterprise by offering standard integrations into the new industry cloud solutions. For example, a full set of out-of-the-box integrations are available in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud for , and in productive use with pilot customers. The interfaces to additional business objects such as customer master, residual items, clearing items, and others were expanded, so that it enables an easy and fast integration during an implementation process. In addition, all interfaces on 麻豆原创 API Business Hub are made available so that independent systems integration projects can be planned and executed. Other industry cloud products, including 麻豆原创 Intelligent Returns Management, will follow suit from September onward.

Last — but by no means least — we are continuously innovating to enable the intelligent sustainable enterprise. Sustainability is increasingly becoming a critical factor for staying ahead of the competition and increasing profitability. Governments require more transparency on sustainability metrics. Consumers and job seekers turn toward companies with a clear purpose, while investors shift their portfolios toward greener companies and circular economy business models grow in popularity.

As a part of our growing sustainability management portfolio, we just added new capabilities for indirect greenhouse gas emissions management and added integrations related to product compliance. As with all other updates, watch out for more product announcements relating to social responsibility, climate action, and circular economy, as well as holistic steering and reporting in the coming months.

As always, this is just a small subset of what 麻豆原创 S/4HANA 2108 holds in store for our customers. Be sure to check out the and for more details, read the .

Rolling out new product updates and features to customers is exciting because it signifies how our products are growing and expanding to better meet our customers鈥� evolving needs. While it often begins with listening to customer feedback and collecting their feature requests and goes through our internal evaluation and development phase, it is always important to us to close the loop by sharing these updates with our customers.

To me, every 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud release cycle highlights the relationship we share with them and the role we play in the transformation of their business. Because customer success is a continuous process and enabling it is at the core of our business culture at 麻豆原创.

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

In July 2020, 麻豆原创 and Siemens announced a strategic partnership to deliver a digital thread that bridges engineering, manufacturing, and business. By teaming up, we are putting our customers on a faster path to bringing together the best of our leading product lifecycle management (PLM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms. Our goal is to help customers to break down siloes so product design teams, manufacturers, and service managers have the information they need to quickly create and manage customer-centric product and service offerings.

Now, after close collaboration and teamwork, we are in a position to share more details about our joint for the integration of and software. This integration builds upon best practices across system and line of business boundaries, to result in a new integrated solution that blends engineering, manufacturing, and business. It comes with unique differentiating capabilities that will allow organizations to accelerate time to market — without worrying about the complexity of integration — and reducing total cost of ownership.

We will be delivering the integration in three phases through the end of 2022, with additional phases planned beyond this time to address new digital threads.

• Phase I (October 2021) focuses on product engineering fundamentals, establishing a framework of core business scenarios on a shared domain model that will underpin end-to-end business processes. This enables enhanced traceability, federation, and linkages across the Siemens and 麻豆原创 system boundaries.
• Phase II (Spring 2022) aims to shorten time to market by providing optimized integration between product engineering, extended supply chain, and manufacturing operations, and delivers the foundation for advanced capabilities such as variant rules and schema, project and portfolio management, and integration to manufacturing.
• Phase III (Fall 2022) will focus on bi-directional traceability and closed loop collaboration between manufacturing engineering and production engineering covering use cases such as cross-system impact analysis, change initiation, and process execution.

This road map provides clear direction to our valued Siemens and 麻豆原创 customers to help them manage increasingly complex and configurable products and meet the challenge of an ever-increasing rate of innovation. Our collaboration will help our customers accelerate their digital transformation by more closely connecting our industry-leading solutions. This end-to-end solution aims to allow teams across the business network to efficiently work together to design and deliver innovative products productively, profitably, and sustainably.

This collaboration affirms both companies鈥� commitment to working together to deliver innovations to meet the needs of our joint customers today and in the future. This combined integration solution will be developed and provided by 麻豆原创 and Siemens, it will be made available to customers of both companies.

Our teams could not be more excited about the opportunities that we are creating for our customers to grow their businesses.

is president 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.
is president and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software.

麻豆原创 has also been named a Customers鈥� Choice in the December 2020 Gartner Peer Insights 鈥淰oice of the Customer鈥�: Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises. We consider both to be a testament to the strength of our strategy and our ability to deliver.

As always, this quarter鈥檚 update to our includes innovations for all lines of business. You will see additions to familiar themes that are growing in scope from release to release, such as parallel accounting or subscription billing. In other areas, we are kicking off the rollout of brand new capabilities to help our customers achieve operational excellence and gain competitive edge.

One such example is in the area of sourcing and procurement, where we introduce proactive delivery insights for ordered items, using Internet of Things (IoT) and situation handling to give a holistic and transparent view of the entire delivery process. Unlike before, when damage to ordered goods could only be ascertained and reported upon delivery, purchasers can now be kept informed of the condition of goods during transit. Should any damage occur, the purchaser is immediately informed and prompted to take appropriate action to increase on-time delivery performance. By understanding and accounting for these nuances, we can help elevate our end-customer experience.

In asset management, we鈥檝e added the 麻豆原创 Maintenance Assistant, a native mobile app for technicians to manage various tasks, including handling work orders and operations, creating and managing maintenance requests, and assessing priorities. The app empowers workers on the move: it allows them to download relevant data on their phone and gives them the option to work effectively offline. Not only does this make the workforce more flexible and efficient, it also cuts back significantly on paperwork. In addition, with the object part code in notifications to maintenance technicians, we can help them leverage machine learning algorithms to propose likely failure codes in the maintenance notification. With this, we enable predictive maintenance by automatically analyzing information already collected during the maintenance process. This not only increases the quality of the data but improves user performance and maximizes efficiency for the customer.

Since one of the key challenges in managing a project is handling the impact of changes to its budget, we now offer customers, under the umbrella of enterprise portfolio and project management, a new 麻豆原创 Fiori app to manage project budget transfers. This app is designed to tackle this challenge with the greatest of flexibility; budget plans can be adjusted at work-breakdown structure (WBS) element level without having to upload the budget plan for the entire project.

Processes that support businesses in monetizing subscription-based business models have been in focus in our recent releases. The latest enhancements in the 2105 release will continue to enhance subscription lifecycle management, billing, and accounting, as well as include the integration of听麻豆原创 Subscription Billing into contract accounting and invoicing for high-volume subscription scenarios. This enables charges to be consolidated into a single invoice. Additional features include integration to contract-based revenue recognition, fine-grained control of subscription profile settings, enhanced integration of bills, and support for subscription lifecycle management, billing, and accounting.

Similarly, universal parallel accounting has been an area of significant development in recent releases. It allows companies to prepare and present financial statements according to different sets of accounting standards using ledgers across end-to-end processes. This latest release gives customers even more flexibility when choosing to perform parallel valuations and reporting for each ledger, resulting in individually calculated values for financial and management accounting. This helps ensure that our customers can take full advantage of consistent parallel value flows and full audit trails that fulfill local and group-wide reporting requirements. High levels of automation support greater accuracy and decreased manual effort.

The 2105 release also delivers new business content for 麻豆原创 Financial Compliance Management — more than 30 of the most-used out-of-the-box controls that can be tailored to the organization鈥檚 specific needs as required. With these controls in place, customers can now take advantage of the proactive risk management qualities and increasing levels of financial compliance.

I also wanted to mention our new bot environment,听麻豆原创 Intelligent Robotic Process Automation 2.0. To find out how the hundreds of bots already delivered can help you to meet your automation goals, check out the 听and听. And new built-in support improves the customer support experience by providing access to real-time support while using 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud. Providing efficient, simplified, and guided support channels, built-in support allows users to search for information, get help from an intelligent chatbot, or communicate with 麻豆原创 Support experts. This will help further redefine the customer service landscape and allows us to support customer needs at more touchpoints along their journey

That concludes the whistle-stop tour of my favorite innovations in this quarter鈥檚 release.

To hear more about all the other great innovations that come into play with the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud release 2105, take a look at our and .

As always, our goal is to provide our customers with timely innovations that they need to remain at the top of their game. In a challenging business climate, preparing for a digital business transformation is imperative for our customers — 麻豆原创 S/4HANA is a powerful companion to take that next step.

Jan Gilg is president 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

Customers are increasingly educated and demand products and services that minimize negative environmental impact. Investors are integrating climate risk in their portfolio strategies. Government regulation is on the rise around the world, affecting carbon emissions, waste management, product design, and producer responsibility. Employees are increasingly vocal about their employer鈥檚 environmental policies and actions, making it challenging for businesses to recruit top talent without a genuine environmental vision and track record.

Based on Accenture research*, enterprises with high ratings for environmental and social governance (ESG) performance attained operating margins nearly four-times higher than those with low ESG ratings and generated annual total returns to shareholders that were double their peers. According , 54% of CEOs agree sustainability is critical to the future success of their organizations, and 71% of investors believe the pandemic will accentuate global policies to tackle risks related to climate change.

From Periphery to Core

Enterprises must show accountability through ESG performance and manage end-to-end operations responsibly. By reimagining its business model, any company can operate in an intelligent way, minimize negative environmental impact, and unleash a new dimension of enterprise resource planning (ERP). Decision-makers can use this intelligence to design better products, create engaging experiences, and equip employees to do their best work by eliminating busywork. They can create an efficient, ethical, and adaptable supply chain, reaching beyond organizations and first-tier suppliers to proactively manage performance and risks with trading partners around the world.

Just like any other core business function, sustainability performance must also be managed in real time and integrated into wider business decision making. True, integrated reporting will go hand-in-hand with ESG management, and information transparency will provide a solid foundation to optimize financial results and sustainability performance together.

Most companies have a long way to go before they move beyond the basics of simply reporting ESG performance to actively steering their business operations toward ambitious sustainability goals. While the UN Global Compact鈥檚 SDG Ambition program has challenged companies to enhance their commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), only aligned to societal or environmental needs. Although CEOs acknowledge the universal call-to-action to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, into their operations.

Words into Actions

If we plan to deliver on the UN SDGs by 2030, the performance of every process and product must be measured, managed, and delivered against sustainability goals. It is an imperative that spans across the value chain 鈥� from companies鈥� key design decisions to product lifecycle management.

麻豆原创 and Accenture believe that steering a company holistically 鈥� by looking not only at financials, but also at the social and green bottom lines 鈥� leads to better management decisions and more resiliency in their value chain. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA helps companies to drive bottom line profitability through operational efficiency, top line growth and adaptability. It offers flexible business model innovation and transparency into its green line environmental responsibility. 麻豆原创 and Accenture鈥檚 goal is to make sustainability profitable and profitability sustainable.

To achieve this, enterprises must integrate sustainability into the heart of their strategy and core business systems. This is the rationale behind the collaboration between 麻豆原创 and Accenture, which focuses on innovation, development, and scaling sustainability across four go-to-market sustainability initiatives:

SDG Ambition: Scaling Business Impact for Decade of Action

The first of these initiatives is our partnership with the UN Global Compact on the SDG Ambition. 听Announced at the World Economic Forum 2020 in Davos with 3M as Patron Sponsor, 麻豆原创 and Accenture are rolling out the SDG Ambition through the . This includes how to implement these goals at a systemic level and how to develop new capabilities powered by 麻豆原创 technologies. As of today, more than 600 companies have already signed up for the program.

麻豆原创 and Accenture are working together to co-innovate and develop new 麻豆原创 solutions that address sustainability and enhance existing core technologies. Both new and existing systems have a role to play in the other three joint sustainability initiatives.

Circular Economy: Taking Action Toward a Zero-Waste Economy

The power of 麻豆原创 and Accenture鈥檚 partnership enables their customers to better manage material flows through their supply chains and innovate business processes to accelerate the circular economy. The initial focus is on packaging in the consumer goods and retail industries, specifically accelerating the development and delivery of the 麻豆原创 Responsible Design and Production solution. Designing and promoting reusable products to address waste management is a fundamental principle of the circular economy.

Decarbonization: Enabling Our Customers to Contribute to a Zero-Carbon Economy

麻豆原创 and Accenture are working together to offer intelligent technologies that help companies 鈥� especially in natural resources, energy, and utilities 鈥� account, analyze, manage, and ultimately reduce carbon emissions. If companies cannot account for and manage total carbon emissions, they could lose their competitive edge. Solutions such as the Climate 21 initiative and 麻豆原创 Product Footprint Management help companies to embed sustainability as a new dimension of success into their analytical and transactional applications to enable ERP and intelligent enterprise to optimize their resources not only of an individual enterprise but across value chains for the entire product life cycle.

Startups: Collaborating with Innovators to Create a Positive Impact on Both Society and Business

Accenture and 麻豆原创 are also tapping into their respective global innovation networks to nurture and engage startups through a to help address climate action, carbon reporting, and circular economy challenges across industries. Together, 麻豆原创 and Accenture will leverage this rich source of creativity to help solve our customers鈥� biggest sustainability challenges.

Helping Companies Become 鈥淭win Transformers鈥�

Untapped value exists at the intersection of digital technologies and sustainability, though only a few companies 鈥� referred to 鈥� already link the two.

From now on, twin transformation 鈥� directing innovation investment to initiatives that combine sustainability impact and the power of technology as opposed to splitting resources between advancing sustainability and technology deployment 鈥� will be critical to success. Companies that harness emerging technologies while finding new sources of value and pushing for green operations will gain a competitive advantage.

Our customers provide daily proof of just how relevant our solutions are. Together, 麻豆原创 and Accenture are committed to working with customers to make their sustainability ambitions a reality.

We are showcasing our 听vision to jointly build a sustainable future at the on April 28 and 29. Stay tuned for updates!

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA at 麻豆原创.
Peter Lacy is chief responsibility officer and Global Sustainability Services lead at Accenture.

*Source: Research analysis by Arabesque S Ray

Today鈥檚 new normal requires businesses to pivot and adapt with speed. Customers sense the urgency to digitally transform their businesses to survive and gain an advantage through the pandemic and beyond.

Digital transformation has to be holistic, meaning it needs to encompass the entire value chain, every business department, and internal and external factors. It is crucial that companies align their digital transformation efforts with their individual strategic business goals. Transformation strategies across organizations can look similar as — by their very nature — the focus is firmly on big-picture items: technologies, capabilities, business goals.

However, specific plans need to vary widely through the expectations, priorities, needs, and types of interactions that take place among the people who directly impact how a company grows and changes.

Addressing all these variables, 麻豆原创 has launched a flagship offering for holistic听business transformation as a service听飞颈迟丑听, where we can help customers to reimagine business models and processes end to end in order to deliver the best business outcomes.

In doing so, we recognize and acknowledge that every customer has a different context and a different point of departure. This new approach will enable them to keep their eye on the goal of the Intelligent Enterprise.

With RISE with 麻豆原创, the customer鈥檚 migration and business change aspects of their journey is completely on their terms and their timeline. A redesign of their business plans and processes demands new thinking and new technologies that unlock new ways of doing business. This business evolution is made simpler by bringing together all the components of our new offering under a single subscription and in alignment with our partners. It is anchored by 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and will ultimately help accelerate digital transformation for our customers, taking them from wherever they are today to become an intelligent enterprise.

When and How Fast? You Choose

A key tenet of RISE with 麻豆原创 is that customers can decide when and how they want to migrate their enterprise resource planning (ERP) to the cloud. As a part of the RISE with 麻豆原创 offering, the customer has primarily two options for deploying 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud as their digital core.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is our default public cloud offering. This is the preferred deployment model for all customers opting for a greenfield, best practice implementation and where functional extensibility and localization requirements can be addressed. With this, customers have access to a complete, modern, native SaaS ERP solution with the full benefits of public cloud. This enables them to reimagine business processes fueled by intelligent technologies. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud offers standardized processes based on industry best practices, which provide the innovation companies require as well as the simpler 麻豆原创-managed solution life-cycle management customers expect. In addition, it provides customers the flexibility to configure and extend the pre-configured best practice processes to match their unique requirements.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, targets customers that plan to convert to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and carry over enhancements or modifications with the ability to extend and enhance. This deployment option will help rapid conversion to a cloud-based architecture, stitching in the flexibility of a traditional on-premise application as well a subscription-based cloud economics. It is a simple and standardized offering with predefined materials including pre-sized and standardized infrastructure assumptions, clear and consistent services and service-level agreements, and a three-tier standard system landscape. Our continuous focus on customer-centricity and the value of our conversations with and feedback from all stakeholder groups are a deciding factor in what we offer our customers and how we back them up in their business decisions — no matter where and how they are placed.

Innovation, Optimization, Transformation

The driving factor for any ERP decision needs to be value and time to value. Let’s start with value.

With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud we enable the subscription economy, allowing companies across all industries to establish subscription and usage-based business models and helping ensure that revenue recognition takes place to optimize the financial outcomes for the company. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is at the heart of Industry 4.0, building out the digital thread from engineering to manufacturing and logistics, all the way to asset maintenance. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud also helps to move from documenting risks to self-healing systems that stay in compliance automatically. It actively manages cash and working capital, which is more important now than ever. These are just some of the innovations we deliver and continue to build out with the next generation of ERP in the cloud.

In rethinking and constantly re-framing 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, we enable companies to become more agile by providing intelligence and insights, which helps to improve decision making, speed up innovation, and offer better customer experiences. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud provides real-time insights along with real-time planning, forecasting, and simulation, as well as embedded analytics at each step. It opens up new opportunities for companies to gain value from embedding artificial intelligence, running end-to-end business processes, differentiating with dedicated but integrated industry solutions, and, above all, achieving sustainability goals, thereby enabling competitive differentiation for businesses. With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, organizations can also reimagine and redefine processes with greater ease, develop best practices and identify better ways of working.

Now let’s look at time to value. Whatever deployment option is selected, the customer can choose an approach that helps launch 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud quickly and efficiently the first time, while continuously delivering advanced technologies to drive sustained innovation. provides a clear process of structured and solution-specific practices for businesses to choose how to adopt and extend new and differentiating capabilities across the organization.

Following the launch of RISE with 麻豆原创, we now have the availability of the new 听for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, that complements 麻豆原创 Activate Methodology for听 for our customers adopting 麻豆原创鈥檚 public cloud offering. This new release builds on the success of the cloud implementation road maps and offers further guidance during the customer鈥檚 journey to RISE with 麻豆原创.

Spending time in dialog with our customers and listening carefully to their concerns and challenges has placed us in the unique position of being able to help them grow, develop their business, and adapt proactively. The insights customers have given us are takeaways that provide new techniques for managing customer experiences during and post-pandemic. For example, with the , a significant part of the business continuity and success that we offer includes the right guidance, and governance, the correct process, tools, and accelerators, and, most importantly, the shift in our mindset to be more collaborative and build a bridge to the cloud. The experience and service we provide is vital in helping them navigate any crisis.

Transforming a business digitally provides the means for it to survive in a complex new world. When things return to normality, our consumers will remember positively the businesses that were helpful and supportive in their times of need. It is an opportunity to help our customers reduce costs, adopt innovations quickly, and enable business transformation to the Intelligent Enterprise.

It is indeed the basis for the next phase of growth and innovation — no matter what else the future brings.

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.
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The difference is that as adults, we know it鈥檚 not spells and charms, but a whole web-like community of devices called the Internet of Things (IoT) that connects us to engage with each other and with the devices. And nothing makes this more relevant than now — a time when collaboration across virtual locations is being constantly redefined by an ongoing pandemic that has managed to turn the world on its head.

COVID-19 has become a classic case study in what happens when businesses undergo an unprecedented crisis and recognize the need to respond with agility and speed to ensure business continuity. In order to build resilience and accelerate the return to normal operations, companies have accelerated their automation strategies, which include the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0. This strengthens the need for plant automation and deeper integration with their manufacturing execution systems, maintenance systems, quality management systems, and field service management, as well as logistics, warehousing, and transportation. In addition, companies need to increase transparency relating to key parts of their businesses in order to optimize production, save costs, and improve product quality while at the same time detecting new customer requirements.

To empower our customers to benefit from Industry 4.0, 麻豆原创 has a dedicated strategy, , that combines business expertise, software solutions, enablement technology, and a partner ecosystem to make data-driven applications, decision-making, and operational excellence available to the entire enterprise.

IIoT and Edge Computing

At the edge of the landscape are business-critical processes, applications, and services that need to be delivered with reliability and low latency. and enable our customers to collect, store, transform, enrich, analyze, and act upon IoT sensor data at the edge and in the cloud.

麻豆原创 IoT offers an end-to-end, managed cloud solution for Industry 4.0. This solution generates business outcomes by combining real-world usage data from sensors and devices with business semantics such as master and transactional data. 麻豆原创 IoT enriches applications with real-world IIoT context to respond to critical events and assist decision-making proactively and intelligently. 麻豆原创 IoT business services are consumed by 麻豆原创 applications as well as by customer and partner applications and complemented by other services on . For instance, 麻豆原创 Digital Supply Chain solutions such as provide customers with integrated capabilities for advanced analytics and machine learning — enabling, for example, anomaly detection, failure prediction, and predictive maintenance.

Power-generation leader manages complex projects around the world. But sub-optimal, siloed processes were limiting operational visibility — making project planning and delivery more difficult. To address these issues, the company is rolling out . At the same time, it is enabling predictive asset service with 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, resulting in a dual digital transformation that will also help Ansaldo streamline manufacturing and improve its offering.

Today the company has a 75% reduction in paper-based quality controls, greater process integration across lines of business and group companies, and 80% less time and effort to onboard new customers on the services portal. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA connects back-end systems for manufacturing, product life-cycle management, and warehousing, while 麻豆原创 Internet of Things and 麻豆原创 Edge Services enable predictive plant maintenance and service.

麻豆原创鈥檚 strategy for IIoT for cloud and edge stands on three pillars while providing customers with choice via interoperability options and avoiding lock-in with cloud providers:

• Embed IIoT insights into line-of-business and industry business applications
• Extend line-of-business and industry business applications with IIoT
• Enable critical business processes to run at the edge for low latency execution and business continuity

Let鈥檚 look at a few of the most recent examples of innovation in these three core areas.

Embed IoT Insights into Handling Unit Management

The handling units (HUs) are an approach in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA to model physical units of packaging material and the goods that are contained in it.

Imagine you are a warehouse manager who needs to monitor if sensor-equipped HUs were exposed to sudden shocks, drops, or other critical conditions. A classic example here would be the high-voltage battery, which is the most expensive and sensitive part of an electric vehicle. Sub-optimal state of charge during material storage decreases its energy capacity and the expected lifespan.鈥� In addition, incorrect charging cycles or storage temperatures can damage the battery cells and increase the risk of explosion and fires.

It is a tall ask made easy with the IoT-enabled handling unit management, which embeds IoT insights into 麻豆原创 S/4HANA and allows shipping specialists or warehouse clerks to act proactively in case the state of charge reaches a critical level. In this way, we can help businesses prevent their customers from receiving and using products in sub-optimal conditions, resulting in superior customer experience.

Extend Replenishment with IoT Sensors

Many 麻豆原创 customers in the food processing, chemical, pharmaceutical, and other industries produce material and store them in either silos or containers, which are then shipped to their customers. They often face challenges in stock keeping and stock tracking, where manual observation of the fill-level in a silo can lead to outdated stock accuracy in enterprise resource planning (ERP), low stock availability, and production down times. This is where 麻豆原创 IoT can step in to leverage real-world data from fill-level sensors attached to receptacles to turn replenishment into an automated data-driven process. 麻豆原创 IoT enables monitoring the fill level of receptacles in real time.

When customers embed IoT insights into 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, it allows them to trigger a purchase order automatically, as soon as the fill level falls below a predefined value. This approach leads to just-in-time replenishment, higher stock availability, and process efficiency due to the increased automation of process steps, thereby proving how intelligent enterprises using the latest technologies can turn insight into action across their business in real time.

Run It at the Edge but Orchestrate It in the Cloud

Manufacturers in the era of IIoT and Industry 4.0 require solutions that are intelligent, networked, and predictive. The advantage of edge computing lies in executing the business processes locally in real time, eliminating latency. 麻豆原创鈥檚 offering for the edge includes IoT data processing but it goes far beyond that. For many years, provided services to ingest, persist, and analyze IoT data as well as locally execute predictive analytical models and run mainly ERP business processes at the edge.

With for edge computing, customers can deploy business-critical application components in manufacturing execution to edge appliances running in manufacturing plants. At the same time, they keep in sync with their companion applications in the cloud. This helps ensure resilience, low latency execution, and business continuity where production would otherwise be exposed to the risk of disrupted operations due to connectivity issues in the cloud. At the same time, software life-cycle management for edge and the required business configuration is orchestrated centrally from cloud, thereby supporting low total cost of ownership.

To become an intelligent enterprise, manufacturing companies need to re-think their business models and start their Industry 4.Now journey now. Intelligent technologies such as IIoT and edge computing are no longer just nice-to-haves, they are fundamental to the continued success of a business; the more data a company can collect, store, and analyze, the better it can compete.

At the end of the day, we need to continue to play our role in empowering our customers in their decision-making processes and enabling them in dynamic self-management and continual adoption of innovation. The link between imagination and innovation isn鈥檛 just an invisible creature hiding within your smart device — it鈥檚 proving how amazing things can happen when we connect the unconnected.

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA
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Supply chains had to adjust overnight, businesses had to move to online sales within days, and climate change is an ever-present reality. Business leaders around the world have to transform their businesses 鈥� and they are doing so.

At 麻豆原创, our market success has its foundation in enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions that help our customers be compliant and run at scale. This remains true with our next-generation suite of business applications that spans from finance to logistics. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA leverages emerging cloud capabilities to help customers cope with business model changes that are driven by technology, sustainability, or changing customer behavior.

Best-run businesses are intelligent enterprises, and as such, they use information in innovative, effective, and sustainable ways, connecting it with execution and management. Intelligent enterprises lead from a single shared source of information with a user experience that matches the way people work. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA benefits finance professionals by using flexible finance processes and eliminating data replication and redundancy.

required a cutting-edge cloud ERP solution that it could roll out efficiently across their global company in order to support their growing business. As an 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud customer, New Sega reports a 50% reduction听in budget and forecasting costs with financial planning, as well as a 20% boost听in the number of automated financial postings in AR using machine learning.

Innovations in Universal Parallel Accounting

Chief financial officers (CFOs) of international companies need to provide consistent financial data reporting according to different accounting standards and currencies in parallel. To do this, they need to follow parallel accounting standards for group and local GAAP, which affect inventory valuation, work-in-progress, asset values, and so on.

Thousands of 麻豆原创 customers already rely on the capabilities of 麻豆原创 ERP systems to maintain multiple sets of books and in parallel to satisfy all different legal requirements of financial statement users accurately, efficiently, and effectively. 麻豆原创 HANA has provided a new technology foundation that has removed technical barriers and opened up a whole host of new opportunities for companies. Based on that, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA was built on a brand-new architecture with the universal journal at its center. The universal journal is our established foundation for accounting processes; it captures all financial data that had previously been distributed across multiple tables in one place. This allows for consistent parallelism across all sub-ledgers and value flows.

With the newest capabilities included in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, we are offering a solution approach that takes parallel accounting to the next level: universal parallel accounting.

A new important innovation delivered with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud release 2011 is the flexible assignment of accounting principles. This means that new 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud customers will also benefit from a new configuration option for the flexible assignment of a local GAAP, such as the German commercial code and accounting standards (HGB), as a leading accounting principle for the group ledger. This innovation is especially beneficial for our cloud customers as it gives them a higher level of flexibility that they did not have before. Only one configuration activity is required to update the assignment of the ledger to the accounting principle throughout finance applications such as general ledger, treasury, revenue recognition, and so on.

Universal Parallel Accounting at the Core of the Intelligent Enterprise: Next Innovation Steps

On top of that, parallel valuation is the next larger innovation in finance that is planned for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA in 2021 and will offer consistent and universal support of parallel accounting standards for end-to-end processes like make to stock/order and manufacturing of assets. These are now fully enabled for parallel accounting and allow the representation of different accounting principles across the whole value flow. With this, the solution will be able to valuate business processes in parallel for each required accounting principle in real time. Customers will also benefit from increased transparency and availability of real-time data, and a reduced total effort for implementation and configuration.

Looking ahead, we will continue to enhance parallel accounting by adding further use cases with the next topics on the road map to include consolidated views and alternative fiscal year variants. Consolidated views will offer customers an improved basis for decision-making and overall business steering effectiveness through increased data transparency and accuracy. In addition, the consistent support of alternative fiscal year variants offers next-level standardization alongside a lower level of workarounds and associated manual effort. Asset accounting is one example where manual effort will be significantly reduced in the context of alternative fiscal year variants.

Finance for the Digital Age

Finance professionals are increasingly moving into more strategic roles within their businesses and urgently need to advance beyond the restrictions of complex and redundant system landscapes. They need a single digital core that supports all their requirements for both transactional and analytical processes. An ERP system should be a single source of truth for the financial and operational data of a business. Data replications, reconciliations, and redundancies should be removed through process and technology simplifications while business continuity with reduced effort is guaranteed through a finance function that is powered by analytics.

Packed with innovations, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA is our intelligent finance solution for the digital age that is available in cloud, on premise, and in hybrid deployment options. Running on the in-memory platform of 麻豆原创 HANA, our solution provides flexible and easy-to-consume financial reporting for accounting, accounting and financial close, treasury and cash management, accounts payable and receivable, risk management, and much more. To find out more about what 麻豆原创 S/4HANA can do for your business, visit .

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA
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The recently published provides an overview of the strategy for the flagship product, but I would also like to share some of my thoughts on this here.

In the past, ERP systems were built during a time of stability; business strategy did not change as quickly as it does today, and market trends took longer to find their footing. This resulted in heavily customized, monolithic IT landscapes that no longer suit the rapidly changing business environment of today, nor can they keep up with future trends.

Whatever the size of a business, 麻豆原创 believes that organizations cannot solve today鈥檚 challenges with yesterday鈥檚 tools and processes. Businesses need an where agility is the key differentiator. With nearly 50 years of experience in ERP, 麻豆原创 is a trusted partner that recognizes the needs of its customers. By continuously evolving the ERP product line, we are meeting customer needs with solutions they can rely on to succeed as best-run businesses now and in the future.

Flexible, Predictive, Responsive

麻豆原创 S/4HANA was launched as a purpose-built product for its underlying in-memory database 麻豆原创 HANA. It is available in two flavors: a traditional on-premise solution and as a cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA enables critical business processes for finance, human resources (HR), manufacturing, and supply chain, to name a few.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA is changing the game regarding intelligent ERP. By leveraging advances in technology like predictive analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), 麻豆原创 S/4HANA helps businesses to be flexible, predictive, responsive, and adaptable to organizational growth. Because 麻豆原创 S/4HANA has intelligent technologies embedded, it provides data-driven insights that allow organizations to continue to run operations at their highest efficiency so they can allocate precious employee effort to more mission-critical tasks.听This helps customers optimize their bottom line through increased automation while also helping grow the top-line by generating new data-driven insights and decisions.

By releasing many of the new 麻豆原创 S/4HANA innovations cloud-first, 麻豆原创 is helping ensure faster time to market for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud customers, with on-premise options following once a year. By providing real-time insights, real-time planning, forecasting, and simulation, as well as embedded analytics at every step, customers can reimagine and redefine processes with greater ease. They also benefit from enriching industry-specific capabilities and deep integration into other 麻豆原创 applications as well as open interfaces to integrate third-party applications for end-to-end business process support.

Sustainable, Viable

There is no doubt that the best-run businesses of tomorrow must run their operations efficiently and with highest flexibility in order to remain sustainable and viable. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA helps businesses to be responsive and responsible because it can simulate and understand the viability of new business models while also managing a company鈥檚 impact on the earth, communities, and ecosystems, as well as on the employees and customers it serves.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA is at the core of the company鈥檚 intelligent enterprise strategy. The integrated, industry-focused, and flexible intelligent ERP platform grows with a business and helps customers accelerate the deployment of new business models.

End-to-End Processes

Especially in the cloud, companies are looking for standardized services that cover end-to-end processes rather than individual capabilities. Our vision for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is to provide a business-process-as-a-service (BPaaS) ERP platform with out-of-the-box integration into other 麻豆原创 solutions and open interfaces to third-party products.

Examples of our end-to-end processes include the recruit-to-retire scenario that provides a new simplified employee/employment integration in conjunction with 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central, our travel-to-reimburse scenario that supports the payment of travel expenses, and the source-to-pay scenario, which integrates the processes for sourcing, guided buying (including lean services), and supplier collaboration using Ariba Network.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Through nearly 50 years鈥� experience in ERP, 麻豆原创 knows that businesses of different sizes have different requirements of their ERP solutions 鈥� one-size-fits-all is not a likely scenario for an ERP solution. A 10-person shop looks for something much different than a 200,0000-employee multinational conglomerate, and at 麻豆原创 we are in the unique position to be able to offer something to both of these businesses 鈥� and everything in between. While 麻豆原创 S/4HANA represents the core of our intelligent ERP offering, we provide additional solutions for small enterprises.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA is aimed at large and upper midsize customers with more complex organizational structures and industry requirements. Available both on premise and , 麻豆原创 S/4HANA is infused with intelligent technologies to automate processes and converges the world of analytics and transactions to drive unprecedented insights that help steer a company to achieve both operational excellence and top-line growth. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is a SaaS offering fully managed by 麻豆原创. With predefined business process content and best practices that allow customers a high degree of standardization and fast time to value, it is a true SaaS solution that allows customers to consume the latest application innovations on a regular basis.

For small and (lower) midsize enterprises (SMEs), 麻豆原创 Business ByDesign is the available easy-to-use and fully integrated suite-in-a-box solution. While the business processes of SME customers do not differ much from those of large enterprise customers, they typically have less complex organizational structures, which means that an out-of-the-box solution can work well.

In short, 麻豆原创 is the provider that has coverage for a range of companies of all sizes. We can provide a solution that suits a customer鈥檚 needs and helps them grow into a successful, best-run, and sustainable business of tomorrow.

To find out more about 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, or .

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

麻豆原创 was founded nearly 50 years ago with a very clear purpose: to help the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. Now more than ever, you can count on us to help. In fact, just last month 麻豆原创 supported the .

But this crisis is affecting all aspects of our lives — health, society, economy. To survive, companies will have to define and focus on their core competence, drive deeper customer relationships, develop new business models, adapt their supply chains, streamline their operations, and manage their finances. Those that have an intelligent backbone to support their business functions will be able to do this quickly and will emerge stronger.

I am proud to see how we are all working together as well as the care that 麻豆原创 customers are showing in this crisis. They are rapidly changing supply chains to cater for emergency supplies, changing production lines to produce products that are in need, altering work patterns, and doing whatever it takes to deliver the services and products that their customers need.听 This means changing business focus quickly and includes a renewed reliance on data and business insights to rapidly take the pulse on business and react effectively. In short, we are helping our customers ensure business continuity and deliver results in these challenging times.

Business Continuity: Trust and Reliability

No matter what the situation, 麻豆原创 has always been trusted to keep business running. Above all, this means protecting operations and managing change safely and quickly. 麻豆原创 stands ready, by your side, to help as your business changes. We can help rapidly implement solutions, turn on existing functionality, and help ensure that it is all managed with long-term digital transformation in mind.

We understand the challenge of business disruption and remote work that all organizations are facing, and we support changes in business focus. This demands environments that are secure, accessible, and controlled to ensure business continues to run while also adapting to new needs.

As employees are asked to work from home, managing both internal processes and external customer and vendor relationships remotely presents a changed management structure that puts technology in the center. This is where 麻豆原创 can help; for example, with cloud deployments, access to free to stay informed. We have also to help buyers and suppliers connect amid the global supply chain disruption.

Keep Running and Adapt Quickly

Just as we see manufacturing companies take on new production lines to adapt to a changing landscape, others are refocusing on their core competence of design or innovation, using subcontract supply, production, and logistics to deliver product. This puts greater importance on being able to operate in a dynamic, virtual world with access to business networks and solutions such as Ariba Network for suppliers and 麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions for contingent labor. These solutions can be turned on quickly as extension of an intelligent ERP solution.

And as organizations change, so too, do their employees. Using intelligent technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotic process automation (RPA) to act based on rapidly changing, data-driven insights allows organizations to continue to have operations run smoothly and allocate precious employee effort to more mission-critical tasks.

In addition, companies keep adopting new business models; for example, by offering value-added services in addition to products. This requires uniting business processes end-to-end with the real world and a deep domain expertise by line of business and industry.

麻豆原创 provides that scope of tools, the line-of-business coverage, and the industry expertise needed to carry you forward.

At the core of 麻豆原创 is 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, with 13,800 customers by the end of 2019. 听麻豆原创 and partners are supporting the acceleration of the move to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA with rapid return on investment and high value returns in short times.

Together, Our Values Will Define the New Normal

I am proud to be part of 麻豆原创 and know we can play our role in helping ensure your business continues, adapts, and thrives in this challenging environment. Never has speed, agility, and depth of service been more important.

麻豆原创 is committed to partner with you as we work together to make the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives.

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

Technology and customer expectations have evolved during that time, and 麻豆原创 S/4HANA has continued to progress to meet user demands and keep 麻豆原创 customers ahead of the competition.

Thus, we have put this new introductory course, , together to help customers get up to speed with what 麻豆原创 S/4HANA looks like in 2020.

In this short overview course, I am joined by Thomas Saueressig, member of the 麻豆原创 Executive Board, who will speak about today鈥檚 business challenges and how 麻豆原创 S/4HANA can help customers address them and turn them into business opportunities. Together with other experts from 麻豆原创, I will present the value proposition for customers and explain how 麻豆原创 S/4HANA can change the game for running mission-critical processes.

Here is an overview of what you will learn during this course:

• How to build a modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to cover end-to-end processes
• A practical and actionable overview of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA
• Integration with other systems, including machine learning, user experience, and extensibility
• 鈥淎nyPremise鈥� and cloud
• The value of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA for customers and how to get there

For those completely new to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA and ERP or those just looking for the latest information, is a good place to start, as participants get valuable insights from the experts who built 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.

All participants need to sign up for open麻豆原创 is a valid email address. After that, all learning content is provided free of charge. The course will take just four to six hours to complete and users can meet the experts and other learners in the discussion forum to ask questions and discuss topics.

The course starts on April 22, and participants can earn a record of achievement and digital badge by completing the course assignment before May 28. Enrollment for is now open.

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