SAP Digital Transformation

While the benefits of a digital transformation are clear, the variety of technologies available to help companies undergo this transformation can be overwhelming. SAP’s vast ecosystem of strategic partners is a treasure trove of proven resources that can help you successfully navigate these options and tailor an implementation to your unique requirements. Learn how three recipients of SAP Pinnacle Awards, which recognize top-performing SAP partners, helped SAP customers tackle some of their most critical challenges and successfully become live businesses. 

In a business environment that rewards agility and innovation, small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) have a compelling opportunity to grow. To grow successfully, however, SMEs need to undergo a digital transformation built around the concept of “running live” and enabled by technologies that allow all parts of the business to harness real-time information. Read on to learn five guiding principles that can help SMEs succeed in the digital economy and to see examples of how SMEs are using SAP technology with the help of partners to overcome common business problems. 

Transforming your organization into a digital enterprise involves more than just updating your website or creating a new app. A successful digital enterprise provides a seamless end-to-end customer experience, requires a digitized core business, and last but far from least, has a strong digital ecosystem of business and technology partners. Read on to learn why digital ecosystems are a core element for success in the digital age, the importance of growing and nurturing a digital ecosystem, and how SAP and its ecosystem of 14,000 partners can help you unlock the full potential of the digital economy.

SAP’s partners are critical to SAP customer success. Partners are the primary interface to the majority of SAP customers and they provide the support, expertise, and complementary technology that many organizations need to be successful. That is why SAP launched its “Partner First” strategy — a strategy dedicated to supporting and working with SAP’s partner ecosystem. Discover how SAP puts its partners first to provide customers with choice, access to talent, best practices, and all the ingredients necessary for success.

The flexibility and scalability of cloud-based solutions hold a lot of promise for sourcing, procurement, and supply chain processes, but many organizations already have on-premise infrastructures built around SAP ERP devoted to managing these processes. How do you protect your existing investments while also taking advantage of the innovations offered by the cloud? Learn how SAP Ariba solutions enable easy integration between on-premise implementations and cloud-based technology, so that you can benefit from the best parts of each. 

The business world is changing, driven by digital technologies such as the Internet of Things, and individual organizations are changing right along with it. DSAG harnesses the insights of its members to serve as an invaluable resource for companies as they seek to transform their business model to take advantage of the opportunities opened up by digital technologies. Learn how DSAG can help you navigate the opportunities presented by a digital transformation and achieve business success in the digital age. 

In 2006, the European Union passed a new regulation that heralded dramatic changes for Varian Medical Systems, a producer of medical devices for oncology, imaging, and proton therapy. Under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, Varian had to reengineer many of its products in order to make their chemical compositions environmentally compliant. This was a big task, and Varian needed a solution that could aid them along every step of the way, from efficient reengineering to transparent manufacturing. Learn how Varian adopted SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to meet complex compliance requirements and, in the process, streamline and improve its engineering and production departments.

The last time you went to the market, there’s a good chance you purchased something distributed by Topco Associates – a cooperative that serves member grocery stores, wholesalers, and food service companies throughout the United States and other parts of North America. For Topco, success depends on optimized customer service. That’s why the organization decided to revamp its technology platform to provide its customers with more agile pricing and increased order visibility. Discover how Topco transitioned to using a wide range of SAP solutions that enabled the cooperative to increase efficiencies, drive savings, and – most importantly – keep its customers returning.

Tanja Rueckert was named SAP Executive Vice President, Line of Business Digital Assets and IoT in April 2016, with end-to-end responsibility for products and innovation for SAP digital assets and IoT solutions in the areas of manufacturing, supply chain manufacturing, asset management, IoT, and Industry 4.0. With SAP since 1997, Rueckert’s present focus is helping customers accelerate their digital transformations. In this in-depth Q&A, Rueckert discusses her new role and shares trends in the IoT space and what organizations need to do to prepare for connected assets in the enterprise.

Collaboration between procurement and finance is nothing new; in many organizations, those two teams have been working together for some time on source-to-pay processes. But today, there’s a third team that needs to be a part of this collaboration: IT. By joining the expertise and resources of IT with those of the finance and procurement teams, businesses can create more efficient and responsive source-to-pay processes that better adapt to market changes. Discover the benefits of this collaboration and strategies for encouraging it in your organization.