E3 Category: Business Management

The digital transformation towards sustainability presents managers with challenging transformation tasks. They demand economic solutions through number-based decisions as a valid foundation for all "green" endeavors.

The retail sector continues to find itself in a challenging market situation. Despite a slight increase in sales, as the industry association BEVH recently announced, sales are below the previous year's level.

Outdated systems are still slowing down business-critical communication processes in companies today. In purchasing, for example, unstructured, partly analog data often comes together that has to be processed manually.

Plant and machinery companies are facing one of the biggest transformations: they must evolve from manufacturers to service providers. End-to-end digital processes that go beyond ERP play a key role in this transformation.

The migration to S/4 is complex, and data migration is seen as one of the biggest challenges. This is because the data in the legacy systems should ideally be consolidated into the new data model with a central business partner master.

For the survey, a total of 600 supply chain management executives worldwide were asked about their experiences over the past year.

A number of companies have already made the switch to a future-oriented business warehouse such as BW/4 Hana and Datasphere as a cloud solution, or a combination of both. Large corporations basically all already use a data warehouse.

In times of international crises and wars, it is more important than ever for companies to secure their value creation. To achieve this, all supply chains must be organized as flexibly and resiliently as possible. The foundation for this is valid data.

Impending recession and supply chain problems: Germany's companies are facing numerous challenges.

The challenge for the selective transformation approach was to reduce the complexity created over the past twenty years by in-house developments and to standardize processes worldwide.

Minimizing attack surfaces, stregnthening applications—no SAP customer can avoid these cybersecurity basics today. Proactive SAP cybersecurity is a requirement. SecurityBridge has acquired a leading position in this area in recent years.

SAP-based purchasing reaches its limits when it comes to seamless collaboration with construction service providers. EVH, a municipal energy service provider in Halle (Saale), closes unpleasant process breaks with innovative 2bits tools.