E3 Category: Manager Magazine Edition

Many companies are taking advantage of the opportunities offered by digitization to optimize core processes. SAP is increasing the speed of change for its customers by switching to S/4 and cloud-based solutions.

Many companies are faced with the dilemma of driving forward the digital transformation in a revolutionary way or preserving and safeguarding what has been achieved. In addition, there are organizational and technical challenges in the SAP S/4 release change.

The future lies in data. The digitization push of the past few months bears impressive witness to this. But if you neglect your history, you will also gamble away the future.

Integration is a fundamental component of successful digitization, says the Bitkom Association's ERP Trend Check 2021. If processes are mapped holistically, then end-to-end automation is created and data is used across systems.

SAP partner Rödl & Partner asked itself this question and, together with analyst Lünendonk, set up a study. Rödl & Partner reports on the challenges that existing customers face during the S/4 Hana transformation and how they are overcome.

With the Corporate Business Solutions success model and the high-performance culture of its customers, cbs is writing an extraordinary success story with strategic competitive advantages on its way to becoming a global market leader.

If you want to equip your company for the future, it's better to push ahead with digitization today than tomorrow. This applies in particular to accounting - traditionally a rather conservative area of the company that likes to stick to tried and tested processes.

No other SAP topic is associated with as many emotions as license management. Here, the CFO and CIO are pitted against SAP together, because the aim is to protect their own company from damage in the long term.

The Beyond Brownfield approach of SAP partner Consilio is not only intended to secure earlier investments, but also aims to create real added value in the company through the appropriate process and system optimization after conversion.

The challenge for sustainable success - i.e. Continuous Improvement - is a very different task than an ERP release change, database upgrade or a move to the cloud. Digital transformation is the continuous relaunch of business processes. It's the domino effect. One thing leads to another and the existing SAP customer should have a reliable partner by their side for this journey....

In the current E-3 short interview, xSuite CEO Matthias Lemenkühler comments on the tasks of digitization during the pandemic, on the questions of "cloud first" or "cloud only" and how our paperless work really stands.