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
Manchester Airports Group, also known as MAG operating in Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, has implemented SAP’s Rise service on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
SAP already has MAG as a client. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, 60 million passengers travelled through its three airports in 2019. It had more than 40,000 employees working there at the time.
In a joint statement, SAP and MAG said that when the economy began to recover following the pandemic, the company made the decision to invest in technology as part of a corporate drive internally known as Project Build Back Smarter.
The firm chose to have SAP's S/4 Hana enterprise resource planning (ERP) system provided via the cloud, with AWS serving as the cloud infrastructure provider. This system served as the foundation of the group's technology initiative.
Furthermore, Rise is a service built on S4, an ERP system built on SAP's Hana columnar, in-memory database, which combines managed cloud infrastructure and managed services into a single contract. It was introduce in January 2021.
Asda, the logistics company Unipart, Twinings Ovaltine, the process engineering firm Briggs of Burton, the London-based automotive sector company Inchcape, the gas station and food retailer EG Group, and MAG are among the UK businesses that have joined Rise.
According to reports, the first step in MAG's transition to Rise is a "lift and shift" of its current SAP ECC estate into the cloud. Additionally, the business wants to make the most of its use of the SAP Ariba and SAP SuccessFactors human resources systems.
"We're thrilled to be assisting Manchester Airports Group as it embarks on its road towards full digital transformation," said Michiel Verhoeven, UK & Ireland managing director at SAP. The tourist sector has been severely impacted over the past few years, but as MAG grows more adaptable, automated, and insight-driven, it is positioning itself to thrive when international limitations loosen.
According to the statement, SAP and MAG collaborated to gain a deeper understanding of MAG's HR problems, including personnel reductions brought on by ongoing furlough programmes. In March 2022, MAG went online on Rise, beginning a five-year makeover.
SAP announced its earnings for the third quarter of 2022 on October 25, citing a strong cloud quarter and increasing momentum across all indicators. Cloud revenue worldwide increased by 38% to €3.29 billion, or 25% at constant currency rates, driven by double-digit growth across the SaaS and PaaS portfolios.
Moreover, in Q3 of 2022, SAP's cloud revenue increased by 27%, reaching 411 million Euros in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ).When compared to the same period in 2021, total APJ Q3 2022 revenue increased by 5% to 1.1 billion Euros.
Also. new RISE with SAP customers in APJ comprised RICOH CO., LTD., Fonterra, Nikon Corporation, and Dabur India Ltd. Additionally, Wipro and Birlasoft went live with RISE with SAP S/4HANA.
Based on SAP S/4HANA Cloud's complete vision and ability to execute in the cloud ERP market, SAP was named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises in September. This indicates that SAP's cloud strategy continues to demonstrate global momentum. In July, SAP was recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises.
"Businesses are realizing the value of our flexible, extendable, and innovative set of business tools in the cloud – building on SAP's strength in connecting organizations and improving processes," stated Paul Marriott, president of SAP APJ. From cloud-based business transformation to strengthening supply chain resilience and integrating sustainability into the core of business, our cloud-centric strategy and best-in-suite portfolio are assisting customers across APJ in addressing their most pressing challenges.
Source: https://news.sap.com/sea/2022/10/sap-announces-q3-2022-results-asia-pacific-and-japan-view/
