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Explore critical topics shaping today’s SAP landscape—from digital transformation and cloud migration to cybersecurity and business intelligence. Each topic is curated to provide in-depth insights, best practices, and the latest trends that help SAP professionals lead with confidence.

Regions

Discover how SAP strategies and implementations vary across global markets. Our regional content brings localized insights, regulations, and case studies to help you navigate the unique demands of your geography.

Hot Topics

Dive into the most talked-about themes shaping the SAP ecosystem right now. From cross-industry innovations to region-spanning initiatives, explore curated collections that spotlight what’s trending and driving transformation across the SAP community.

Agribusiness

SAP Agribusiness helps companies create transparent and sustainable food supply chains and farming efficiencies with digital technology. The world’s population continues to grow, demand is increasing for healthy and sustainable foods. To be successful businesses need smart solutions from farm to fork by running core business processes more efficiently.

Key capabilities of SAP Agribusiness are:

  • Agricultural production and farming. Digital agriculture with the internet of things (loT) and farm management.
  • Origination and trading. Agriculture origination, farmer collaboration, trading, and risk management.
  • Commodity and food processing. Dairy management, manufacturing operations, and protein management.
  • Food supply chain management. Demand management and insights, order promising, response and supply planning, sales inventory and operations planning, silo and warehouse management, farm to consumer traceability, transportation management, yard logistics.
  • Marketing and sales. Collaborative sales force automation, commerce personalization, consent-based marketing, omni-channel commerce management, optimized marketing, sales performance management, single customer view.

SAP Agribusiness helps companies create transparent and sustainable food supply chains and farming efficiencies with digital technology. The world’s population continues to grow, demand is increasing for healthy and sustainable foods. To be successful businesses need smart solutions from farm to fork by running core business processes more efficiently.

Key capabilities of SAP Agribusiness are:

  • Agricultural production and farming. Digital agriculture with the internet of things (loT) and farm management.
  • Origination and trading. Agriculture origination, farmer collaboration, trading, and risk management.
  • Commodity and food processing. Dairy management, manufacturing operations, and protein management.
  • Food supply chain management. Demand management and insights, order promising, response and supply planning, sales inventory and operations planning, silo and warehouse management, farm to consumer traceability, transportation management, yard logistics.
  • Marketing and sales. Collaborative sales force automation, commerce personalization, consent-based marketing, omni-channel commerce management, optimized marketing, sales performance management, single customer view.

To learn more about how SAP software can help your organization read the white paper on Value Creation in the Digital Agribusiness Network. Digitalization in the agribusiness sector significantly increased the ability to feed the rapidly growing world population in a sustainable way. The SAP Agribusiness roadmap includes intelligent solutions, and automated processes to help you run profitability and thrive with the mobility world of tomorrow. Including:

  • Current release highlights
    • SAP Logistics Business Network with material traceability for connecting the entire supply chain
    • Integration of SAP Agricultural Contract Management with SAP S/4HANA supply chain for transportation management
    • Ability to perform intelligent planning on milk components, instead of “raw milk only,” and with a milk balance sheet
    • SAP Farm Management by Vistex for managing the business of farming
    • Redesigned cycle-based production component providing data on ongoing growth and reproduction processes
    • SAP Rural Sourcing Management mobile app, connecting smallholder farms in developing countries with global agribusiness companies
  • Upcoming innovations
    • New Fiori apps for SAP Agricultural Contract Management to create, maintain, price, and mass-price contracts
    • Improved management and control of the affinage and cheese maturing process
    • Integration of SAP Integrated Business Planning for supply chain with SAP Farm Management by Vistex
    • Integration of SAP Integrated Business Planning for supply chain with SAP Grower Management for Perishables by Vistex
  • Future Plans
    • End-to-end cloud platform for digital farming
    • Leverage innovative technologies like machine learning in agricultural ticketing
    • Collaborate with partners in the consumer products industry to address recently added market requirements

Customized agribusiness solutions include:

  • SAP Rural Sourcing Management. Supply chain management software connecting smallholder farms to the agriculture value chain, giving full transparency into the source of the raw materials.
  • SAP Agricultural Contract Management. Flexible comprehensive contract support for agricultural commodities to track all expenses related to individual deals, consolidating complex statements, and automated processing.
RISE with SAP
Why RISE with SAP worked for Zespri InternationalZespri has been running SAP for nearly 20 years. Their existing business processes and underlying systems were based on a highly customized SAP ECC deployment with multiple bespoke .NET applications wrapped around that implementation. But Zespri has grown significantly since that initial implementation and were starting to struggle with underlying systems and processes that were originally implemented for an organization a fraction of the size. They wanted their transformation project to be about business process change. The focus of the entire project is enabling applications technology and RISE with SAP and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition made this possible. Zespri selected RISE with SAP because it would save them money over an IaaS-based SAP S/4HANA deployment. To ensure that their deployment was successful, Zespri spent significant time preparing for their move to RISE with SAP. While they signed the contract in late 2020, they are still a month away from completing the first phase of their transformation. This will include the core SAP S/4HANA Cloud deployment along with supporting financial solutions. But their preparations and their experienced internal team helped ensure that their project has run smoothly to date. • Take the time to size, price, and evaluate all the possible options when moving to SAP S/4HANA • Define detailed plans for your deployment, whether that is on RISE with SAP or a more traditional implementation • Dedicate time to preparing your team for any project on which you embark
Agriculture Commodity SchedulingAgriculture commodities follow a complex supply chain and are influenced by global demand and inventory levels along with local weather, harvest conditions, and freight availability. The commodities are traded, hedged, stored, and speculated in most of the world. The commodity therefore transacts through multiple entities before it is ultimately consumed by processing units for end-customer use. Learn how to integrate SAP Trader's and Scheduler's Workbench and SAP Transportation Management to provide much-needed agility to deal with market dynamics and changing contractual positions.
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Rainforest Connection to Use Predictive Analysis to Fight Deforestation and Protect the Global Environment

Deforestation is devastating to Earth’s rainforests, and to the planet as a whole — it creates more of an impact on climate change than the emissions of planes, trains, cars, trucks, and ships combined, according to a study. With 90% of rainforest logging being done illegally, a massive opportunity opened up for Rainforest Connection, a non-profit organization focused on using technology to combat deforestation. Rainforest Connection teamed up with SAP to analyze data collected by recycled cell phones that monitored the sounds of the rainforest not only to identify illegal logging as it was happening, but even predict where a tree could be cut illegally ahead of time, allowing rangers to stop the activity and prevent future deforestation.  

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