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In order to hasten its digital transformation, BMW Group has increased its strategic cooperation with SAP.
BMW Group will use RISE with SAP to transfer its whole SAP software landscape once the agreement is confirmed on January 25. In order to enable cooperative innovation for crucial business areas, including finance, parts supply, warehousing, supply chain, and production, the company will integrate its cloud strategy with its current SAP S/4HANA systems. The BMW Group will be able to digitalize more quickly, thoroughly, and effectively as a result of this change.
Applications, platforms, tools, and services are all included under one contract under RISE with SAP, which is designed to promote company transformation. As a result, BMW Group will be able to integrate cutting-edge SAP technology with cloud solutions to spur corporate innovation. Both businesses will use a model that covers operations, infrastructure, and cloud applications in place of the conventional licencing model.
The executive board member for SAP SE who oversees SAP product engineering, Thomas Saueressig, continued, "Our two firms have a strong relationship thanks to 30 years of dependable collaboration. We are taking a major move toward a digital future by increasing our partnership. This demonstrates how SAP S/4HANA Cloud and our wide range of solutions lay the groundwork for businesses to foster innovation and guarantee our customers' long-term success in a cutthroat environment.
CIO and senior vice president of BMW Group IT Alexander Buresch stated: "This strategic choice will help us advance our leadership in digitalization even more quickly. Our infrastructure is becoming more adaptable, and we are achieving maximum global scalability. Most significantly, it enables us to much more quickly introduce business ideas to our users and customers. I am thus eagerly anticipating the following phases in our collaborative adventure with SAP.
Source: https://erp.today/bmw-group-drives-new-growth-with-rise-with-sap/
In a fragmented environment, SAP Responsible Design and Production Aids Businesses in Managing Plastic Taxes
Plastic is widely used because it is durable, useful, and abundant. We are oblivious to it since it is so ingrained in our daily activities. The majority of it—from the plastic-wrapped vegetables in supermarkets to the containers for creams, lotions, pills, and medications—is used just once before being thrown away in landfills or worse.
For instance, the European Union (EU) introduced the European Green Deal in 2019 as part of global efforts to combat climate change. This initiative aims to shift the economy from a linear one to a circular one that eliminates waste and pollution. The plastics tax imposed on single-use plastic, plastic packaging, and microplastics is an important step in combating plastic pollution.
However, the EU has imposed a national contribution from each of the 27 member states depending on the quantity of non-recycled plastic packaging trash it produces, as opposed to a local tax. States have very different tax structures; some concentrate on packaging in general while others solely tax single-use items. For plastic goods made in the United States or elsewhere, some countries have varying taxes. In other words, member states are free to impose the tax in their own manner and under their own set of laws.
The end consequence is a very dispersed landscape. It calls for the appropriate approach, resources, and knowledge, particularly in the areas of compliance and global supply chains. For instance, Spain's Special Tax on Non-Reusable Plastic Containers went into force on January 1 and imposes a fee of €0.45 per kilogram of Non-Reusable Plastic.
A Workable Solution
Technology has become a crucial component in aiding businesses in finding solutions to their problems, as has been the case with many difficulties in recent years. A cloud-based tool called SAP Responsible Design and Production was developed expressly to make it easier to design items for a circular economy and to aid with the entire process associated with the new levies.
SAP Responsible Design and Production gives businesses access to data on logistics and materials, including specifics on the composition of packaging, in addition to striving to automate tedious reporting processes. According to Monasor, "with this tool, businesses will be able to calculate and submit reports in relation to the Spanish plastics tax and lower the risks of non-compliance."
The Goal
Over time, SAP Responsible Design and Production may help organizations improve their capacity for measuring and managing sustainability KPIs as well as their ability to see material flows more clearly across all business processes. Improved traceability reduces compliance risks and aids in improving the accuracy of plastic tax payments. In order to lower these taxes and increase circularity, which is the tax's main objective, the answer can also reform laws and taxes, as well as optimize the materials used in packaging.
Source: https://news.sap.com/2023/01/sap-responsible-design-and-production-manage-plastic-taxes/
Businesses need a way to innovate more quickly with less resources as consumer demands and operational requirements rise and talent resources continue to be insufficient. SAP Build at SAP TechEd is a low-code tool that anybody can use to quickly build and enhance enterprise applications, automate procedures, and create professional websites with drag-and-drop ease.
By reducing processing times, enhancing service quality, and minimizing manual errors, the SAP Build Process Automation solution enhances the processes that are currently in place and interacts seamlessly with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
Automation Starter Pack for SAP and RISE
The RISE with SAP for S/4HANA Cloud, public version comes with the beginning pack of SAP Build Process Automation at no extra cost. This deal is meant to get businesses started on the road to automation and to foster productive communication between process experts and IT staff. The starter kit contains:
- Two knowledgeable users who can design procedures and automate processes
- Twenty regular users that can start workflows and take part in those that the advanced user creates
- Unattended automation that can be started without a person's help
How SAP Build Process Automation Benefits Customers Using SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Customers using SAP S/4HANA Cloud are able to cut expenses, get rid of manual errors, boost customer happiness, use KPI process dashboards to make crucial decisions, and optimize processes even in the absence of APIs.
Source: https://news.sap.com/2023/01/new-automation-starter-pack-sap-s4hana-cloud-public-edition/
Together, SAP and Amazon Web Services (AWS), the most complete and widely used cloud platform in the world, are accelerating digital transformation to better serve their clients.
By combining the technology, solutions, and flexibility that customers require to support them in succeeding in the digital economy, this collaboration builds on the success of the long-standing SAP and AWS partnership. With thousands of consumers, the companies have been in a strategic alliance for almost ten years.
With the help of this technology-driven project and combined investment, two strong engineering companies will be brought together to spur innovation and support clients' transitions to sustainable, intelligent businesses. In reality, SAP has advanced its sustainability goal to 2030 and is a signatory to Amazon's Climate Pledge, which commits to net-zero carbon emissions.
The companies have made it a priority to offer the value of RISE with SAP on AWS as we go into the new year by giving customers the tools to hasten their adoption of the cloud along with a top-notch selection of innovation and extensibility options. The following is a list of the partnership's future steps:
- To handle complicated customer requirements, a joint reference architecture is used.
- Demand generation campaigns, conferences, SAP marquis events, and other multichannel marketing strategy initiatives
- A single framework for international sales actions that will allow the teams to collaborate with systems integrator partners
- There are devoted individuals working on the SAP/AWS go-to-market throughout the world
The utilization of the internationally accessible SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) on AWS serves as an illustration of the capabilities of this cooperation. Together, the firms have created a reference architecture that supports more complex use cases and exemplifies the benefits of federated SAP and AWS services. Customers will receive advice on how to best combine SAP and AWS to achieve digital transformation from the joint reference architecture. To encourage innovation and increase its warehouse capabilities, Ally Logistic Property (ALP), Taiwan's leading institutional property developer, integrated SAP BTP along with a number of AWS services.
AWS and SAP enter 2023 more prepared than ever to assist customers in adopting cloud solutions that enable them to innovate more quickly and take advantage of the digital disruptions occurring in their industries. This is thanks to a partnership that is focused on transformation, innovation, and delivering for our customers.
Source: SAP and AWS Accelerate Digital Transformation | SAP News
A new co-innovation approach was launched by PwC and SAP with the goal of integrating sustainability into everyday company operations. The goal of the strategy is to develop dependable answers to the major business problems associated with environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). It covers supply chain emission reductions, climate risk, and competitive analysis in addition to carbon measuring, reporting, and steering.
The current partnership between PwC and SAP, which has successfully provided business transformation solutions to clients in more than 80 countries, forms the foundation of the new ESG approach.
The strategy comprises co-innovated solutions made possible by PwC's extensive ESG and accounting knowledge, with the goal of empowering businesses to use reliable, auditable, and verifiable ESG criteria throughout their operations. Together with the SAP Sustainability Control Tower and SAP Product Footprint Management solutions, the solutions make use of SAP® Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises. Collectively, PwC and SAP assist businesses in utilising the solutions necessary to meet regulatory standards, stimulate growth, and meet the rising demands of consumers and investors. Additionally, they help clients shape the direction of their sustainability reporting and net zero approach.
Solutions for an enterprise wide ESG strategy are included in the PwC and SAP plan, spanning from third-party risk management to competitive analysis and trade optimization. There will also be discussion of the following three key ESG, net zero, and sustainability reporting issue areas:
- Submitting and disclosing aiding in meeting the needs of lenders, investors, regulators, and customers for materially reporting and disclosing investor-grade carbon measurement data.
- Operationalizing sustainability encourages the direct integration of ESG factors, particularly those related to carbon concerns, into corporate processes including trading, capitalisation, and tax.
- Support for ESG measures is extended through supply chain risk management, monitoring, and compliance to include the effect of suppliers on organisational performance.
PwC and SAP are committed to assisting businesses in meeting the reporting and auditability standards set by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) (ISSB). Additionally, they assist businesses in adhering to a similar rule that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has suggested (SEC). The real-time, data-driven environment that customers need to run and expand the sustainable enterprise of the future is made possible by solutions from PwC and SAP.
Review Results: SAP Achieves "Best Software" Ranking from TrustRadius for Numerous Solutions
The first TrustRadius Best Software List, which comprises goods catering to the changing market and offering end users products and service to satisfy their business needs, included five SAP solutions to the list. Topping both the For Mid-Sized and Overall Best Software Lists, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, and SAP Analytics Cloud received badges. The For Enterprise List also recognised SAP SuccessFactors, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and SAP HANA Cloud.
Here are a handful of the customers' evaluations of the five products listed on the Best Software List.
The SAP Business Technology Platform's SAP Analytics Cloud combines analytics and planning with a special connectivity to SAP applications and easy access to diverse data sources.
The multisource business intelligence service of the SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, offers data modelling, networking, virtualization, and access throughout the company.
With a single database-as-a-service (DBaaS) foundation for modern analytics and applications among all enterprise data, SAP HANA Cloud enables security, privacy, and anonymization with demonstrated enterprise reliability, giving businesses access to trustworthy actionable information from a single solution.
With the help of AI and analytics, SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a fully modular cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution created for every business need. It enables companies to run mission-critical operations in real time from any location, introduce new industry business models, and grow internationally.
Including basic HR and payroll, talent management, HR analytics and workforce planning, and employee experience management, SAP SuccessFactors offers a comprehensive, international suite of HR solutions.
Source: https://news.sap.com/2022/11/sap-earns-trustradius-best-software-list/
The landscape of purchasing digital solutions is changing, with a greater concentration on speed, ease, and transparency in purchases. According to a new SAP internal study, 79% of SAP customers would like to make further purchases through an easy, quick e-commerce process for the cloud solutions they are already using.
In July 2022, SAP developed a self-service indirect digital upgrade solution that enables speedy repurchasing of cloud products to further simplify this procedure. The remedy can be found on the current SAP for Me customer portal on SAP Store for clients and partners, our customer portal designed to streamline customer product portfolios.
The respective self-service platform enables to electronically repurchase current cloud solutions within the conditions and terms of their original purchase, drastically cutting the time to repurchase and streamlining the repurchasing process, and ultimately facilitating faster and easier digital transformation, a global trend that is on the rise. Additionally, it makes it simpler for partners to manage their current SAP cloud software subscriptions, improving their ability to interact with clients and identify their needs as they develop.
Advantages for the Partners
With SAP for Me, SAP partners will profit because it allows them to easily extend client contracts and purchase licences online. While allowing partners to add new users to active client contracts, utilising already existing reductions and terms, partners can manage "carts" for consumers with current products visible at once.
Benefits for the Customers
This new partner functionality replicates the digital upsell motion that was introduced for all client segments in 2021 and expands on SAP for Me's current features.
Customers don't need to go through a protracted procedure or complicated preparation to swiftly and easily purchase more SAP products that their employees are already utilising.
Digital transformation is an effective choice for businesses wishing to continuously grow and update their services since customers can extend and update services in the cloud more quickly than they can with on-premises upgrades.
Additionally, teams can align new licences with previous contracts and receive the same or better agreed pricing for current SAP systems.
The average sales time is cut in half, from six hours to six minutes, giving customers more resources and time to focus on the more complicated deals, more sales conversations with SAP, and other needs as they emerge.
Finally, this new method enables clients to prevent copies of a solution within their company, conserving priceless resources and removing the worry of unintentional purchases.
Source: https://news.sap.com/2022/11/sap-for-me-on-sap-store-cloud-software-repurchases/
Why SAP Partners Spend Money on Certification
Prior to investing in the services of a software platform or partner, business executives often put in a lot of time and effort to make sure they will get the service quality and performance they require. Since such technical certification is thought of as a direct mark of approval, accreditation swiftly communicates that proof of expertise.
Getting new clients is one thing; keeping them is quite another. In both situations, being up to date on the newest certifications—from hot issues to specific skills—reassures clients and motivates them to initiate contact and return visits. According to IDC, certified consultants perform projects with less rework and more client satisfaction than their noncertified counterparts. They also accelerate implementation timeframes by up to 15%.
The capacity to draw in, nurture, and maintain the excellent talent pool that clients demand is another benefit of certification. According to a global survey by Pearson VUE of more than 10,000 IT professionals, certification in this field is more valuable than simple training. Benefits include a culture that encourages self-assurance in one's talents, improved job satisfaction, increased respect among co-workers, more autonomy and independence at work, opportunities for promotion and progress, and higher pay and earnings.
A Framework of Competencies for Competitive Certification
Fast access to the learning materials required to get certified comes as an added bonus for partners working with SAP. In addition, they receive a graphic badge that they can display on their websites and in their marketing materials.
Additionally, by certifying a certain number of their consultants and developers, SAP partners can acquire competences and specialisations using the recently unveiled Competency Framework, allowing them to achieve essential, progressed, or expert competency categories. In order to assist potential clients in making well-informed partner selections based on the necessary solution knowledge, these competences and associated specialties are subsequently made public on SAP Partner Finder.
For partners to develop specialised skill sets and provide highly specialised advising and implementation services, SAP offers a wide range of certifications. A vast array of skills and knowledge levels are covered by more than 100 certifications for a variety of SAP systems and services. In reality, the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) offers eight specialised certifications, including ones for the SAP Integration Suite, SAP Extension Suite, SAP HANA Cloud database, SAP Analytics Cloud solution, and low- and no-code development apps and automation tools.
The SAP Learning website offers free access to learning materials for certification tests for SAP BTP. Additionally, as SAP technology solutions as SAP BTP—continue to advance and add new features, partners can maintain their skill sets through ongoing certification training and examinations that are updated to incorporate each new SAP cloud release.
True Transformation Is Driven by Proven Competence
Technology is developing at a rapid rate. People of all levels of experience must adapt to this reality by expanding their knowledge and considering how these new talents may be used to increase production and efficiency, address current problems, and achieve transformative results.
Source: https://news.sap.com/2022/11/sap-partners-invest-in-certifications/
Organizational executives are aware that they must act to operate more sustainably, yet many focus simply on regulatory compliance and forego taking the necessary measures for a more profound business transformation. Businesses claim that their inability to advance their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) plans is due to insufficient technologies. In order to grow positive impact, they now require greater data transparency and collaboration.
According to a SAP Insights report, approximately 70% of CEOs find it difficult to evaluate ESG data throughout their value chains. Because data is frequently run manually or separately from enterprise planning and management software, this measurement is challenging. Many firms rely on estimated data, which hinders operational decision-making and comprehensive strategy planning. It is hardly surprising that businesses are finding it difficult to incorporate sustainability into their operations given the lack of data transparency.
Businesses need regulatory reporting that is quick, dependable, and compliant, and SAP and its network of partners are aware of this. In order to assist clients in establishing confidence and transparency in their ESG reporting, SAP has created cutting-edge solutions and forged a wide range of collaborations. SAP is a pioneer in integrating integrated sustainability and ESG practises in our own business.
Collaborating to advance sustainable business
Sustainability is a major objective that SAP and the community of partners share. SAP’s vision for a sustainable business includes key aspects of corporate ESG management, such as responsible and inclusive value chain management, carbon accounting, waste management, and design for circular economy operations.
The analytics and data management teams of SAP’s strategic partners, who provide sustainability advice, have the knowledge and experience to link and integrate data sources and indicators. With regard to developing and implementing sustainability efforts, internal data management, and external disclosures to various frameworks and regulations, this provides clients with a holistic view to assist them in moving from strategy to action.
Furthermore, utilising the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), more than 23,000 SAP partners can create a wide range of rewarding for SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises, tackling particular innovation opportunities such as industry clouds, content collaborations, or pre-configured packages for regulatory and reporting requirements.
Capgemini:
“Capgemini aspires to assist its clients in saving at least 10 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2030 in addition to lowering its own carbon emissions. With Capgemini's "Green Core with SAP Solutions" service, the SAP S/4HANA core system's sustainability data may be tracked to measure environmental information, social statistics, and other ESG KPIs along the value chain. For supply chain-intensive industries like manufacturing, automotive, consumer goods, and retail, it is the ideal illustration of how our sustainable goal is being realised. The addition of SAP Sustainability Control Tower to analytics and dashboards that offer effective, client-specific sustainability data, suited to specific industry demands, and intended to align results with enterprise-defined sustainability aspirations will be made possible. In order to fulfil our commitment to jointly create a more sustainable future, SAP Sustainability Control Tower.”
- Benjamin Alleau, executive vice president, group offer leader for sustainability at Capgemini, and leader of the company's sustainability business services group.
Source: CSRWire - SAP Partnerships Accelerate Sustainable Business
SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud
The SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud is a shop floor manufacturing solution that helps production managers and employees with their daily tasks live on the factory floor. It has a close integration with SAP S/4 HANA or SAP ERP, which is where production orders are scheduled, where inventory is supplied, and where following supply chain operations are started and completed.
The primary system for master data such as material, BOM, or routing that will be migrated to SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud is SAP S/4HANA or SAP ER
To give global visibility across all plants while coordinating implementation and monitoring production activities down to the individual work centre, SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud links shop floor equipment to top floor business platforms.
Using a number of open APIs and a selection of extensibility options provided by SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud, partners and clients can customise the solution to meet their own specific needs.
Extensions
With the Digital Manufacturing Cloud, a variety of expansion options is provided.
Business Process Extensions
Every production is unique to each customer. Some processes require further development, such as the ability to link and interface with external systems in order to post or enrich data. Although those external processes or applications have their own logic, they nevertheless need to obtain the business context from DMC, for example, which resource is now being used? and which material is created. After processing the logic, the extension must be able to send the outcome back to DMC for additional processing.
Business procedures can be improved by:
Calls to third-party web services, calls to SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) transactions (new with DMC 2011), and calls to production processes created using the Design Production Processes app within the SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud itself are all examples of extensions and applications created by customers and partners using SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) (new with DMC 2011)
UI Extensions
The worker's interaction with the system is particularly important during manufacturing. For instance, he needs large touchscreen buttons since he is wearing gloves, scanner assistance, or he constantly needs to search up specific product-related information from an external system. SAP Digital Manufacturing offers a variety of choices to give our customers freedom and the greatest user experience possible:
POD (\Production Operator Dashboard, user interface for the worker) configuration using the POD Designer App. The production engineer can customise the pre-delivered DMC standard plugins, such as the Data Collection plugin, SFC worklist, etc., to the needs of the worker using the POD Designer.
For specific requirements, such as to display additional unique data sent from ERP, create own custom plugins. Once they are enrolled in the Manage Service Registry App, those plugins may be configured and integrated into the POD using the POD Designer. They can be created using any UI technology of choice.
Creating a complete SAPUI5 custom application using the public APIs from the SAP API Business Hub in the customer's or partner's PaaS tenant.
Machine Learning Extensions
One of the main goals of the new AI/ML scenario for Visual Inspection was to make it easier to integrate a new machine learning model into the business process in a matter of minutes rather than weeks. Without writing a single line of code, Visual Inspection in SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud enables you to upload a trained machine learning model (also known as Bring Your Own Model) and activate it for use on the shop floor.
But that's not all; SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud also helps collect data quickly and automatically for machine learning model training.
Source: SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud – Ready for Extensions | SAP Blogs
