Technology

Technology today plays a major role in supporting how organizations run today. Advances in computing power and technology are the primary driver behind the digital transformation that enterprises across industries are actively engaged in. Technology helps facilitate how organizations run their operations across functions like sales, marketing, operations, supply chain and finance. From helping streamline business processes to integrating people and processes across functions, the role of technology in helping businesses run and transform today cannot be overemphasized.

SAP and Partner Technologies

Technology today plays a major role in supporting how organizations run today. Advances in computing power and technology are the primary driver behind the digital transformation that enterprises across industries are actively engaged in. Technology helps facilitate how organizations run their operations across functions like sales, marketing, operations, supply chain and finance. From helping streamline business processes to integrating people and processes across functions, the role of technology in helping businesses run and transform today cannot be overemphasized.

SAP and Partner Technologies

Enterprise software technology companies like SAP have, for decades, helped provide organizations with technology tools that can help them run their businesses more effectively and efficiently. SAP and partner technologies today focus on technology solutions across various industries like energy & natural resources, service industries, consumer industries, discrete industries, financial services, and public services. Technology solutions offered range from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions to technology platforms that can help organizations build intelligent enterprise capabilities.

Business Technology Categories

Enterprise Resource Planning: These solutions help organizations integrate business processes across their enterprise and facilitate a seamless information flow across the organization. These solutions generally have modules focused on various functions and sub-functions that exist within organizations such as finance, procurement, CRM and customer experience, HR and people engagement, and supply chain management. Best-of-breed ERP solutions integrate both transactional/operational as well as planning capabilities.

Specialized business operations point systems: These solutions are specialized solutions focused on certain functions or business processes within certain functions and are transactional systems that help capture business operations transactions. Examples are supply chain and logistics, accounting solutions, treasury management solutions, GRC solutions, spend management solutions, HR and payroll solutions, CRM systems etc.

Planning point systems: These systems focus on business planning, often leveraging data from transactional systems or modules for planning purposes. Examples of such systems are supply chain planning systems, financial planning and analysis systems, business intelligence (BI) tools, and advanced analytics solutions. These solutions or systems help generate insights from the data that can then help organizations run their operations more effectively.

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    Workforce Shortages in Supply Chain and Logistics: A Call to Action for SAP Users

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    In a recent study conducted by Descartes Systems Group, a leading global provider of logistics solutions, alarming statistics have emerged regarding the state of workforce shortages in the supply chain and logistics industry. The study, titled “How Bad Is the Supply Chain and Logistics Workforce Challenge?” sheds light on the significant impact that these shortages…

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    Modernizing Your Warehouse: Embracing SAP EWM and STRM for Efficiency and Growth

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    SAP’s Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and Stockroom Management (STRM) solutions offer tangible benefits for businesses seeking to streamline operations and enhance efficiency. EWM provides a comprehensive suite of features designed to optimize warehouse processes and improve visibility. From basic functionalities to advanced analytics, EWM empowers users to manage labor efficiently and ensure seamless operations. For…

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    How Equipping Yourself with Risk Mitigation Knowledge Can Help Secure Your Assets

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    In the world of expanding data, the mitigation and understanding of threats and risks are crucial for any business’s success. This is especially the case for SAP users currently undergoing a digital transformation. Knowing how to prevent data breaches, establish and maintain compliance audits and classify data is key to maintaining a healthy and secure…

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    The End Of SAP SolMan Is Coming, Are You Ready?

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    As the end of maintenance for SAP Solution Manager (SolMan) draws near, SAP users are faced with the pressing need to reassess their strategies for change and transport management. For many, particularly those heavily reliant on Change and Request Management (ChaRM), the transition away from SolMan poses a significant challenge. Although SAP Cloud ALM stands…

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    Navigate your SAP S/4HANA Transformation Without Complexity

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    Navigating an SAP S/4HANA transformation can often be complex, timely and costly for SAP users, especially when needing to migrate vast amounts of data efficiently. According to Worksoft, around 39 percent of users are said to have underestimated the complexity of S/4HANA migration. As S/4HANA migration can be the biggest project for most IT departments,…

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    How Cloud Integration Platforms Can Help SAP Users Improve Transparency and Communication

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    Today, many companies feel that traditional ways of managing SAP systems require a lot of manual handling and are not efficient enough to fulfill required business goals in time. This is especially the case in functions, such as purchase requisition and invoice approval. With the growing need to digitalize their systems, organizations adopt various external…

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    Mitigating Risks by Moving on from Manual Controls Monitoring

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    SAP users are aware of how important it is to develop a thorough risk management policy, especially in the age of constant digital transformation and modernization. As the IT environment grows more complex, workloads and applications move to the cloud and employees work remotely, there is a growing issue of control oversight. With the required…

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    Protecting Sensitive Data Stored in Legacy Databases During Cloud Migration

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    In today’s globalized economy, businesses are experiencing the rapid expansion of data while also trying to stay on top of the changes in data protection legislation. Especially in the process of digital transformation and migration to SAP S/4HANA, maintenance of legacy databases can become costly and complicate overall processes by increasing risks of exposure of…

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    How to Amplify Your RISE with SAP Journey by Leveraging Industry Expert Solutions

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    Each year, more and more organizations are choosing to move their enterprise platform to cloud. Knowing and understanding the complexity of that process, SAP developed RISE with SAP – a comprehensive migration solution aimed at helping to modernize companies’ legacy SAP ERP. Among the benefits that companies can extract from migrating to the cloud are…

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    Transforming Agreement Processes in Enterprise Platforms

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    SAP users know that partnerships and collaborations are highly important for a business to thrive. Especially for those offering services, signing agreements is a necessary part of operations. Whether for employee onboarding, MSAs, legally binding contracts, procurement RFPs or internal forms, signing an agreement is an important step in these processes. Agreements contain crucial data…