SAP-Solution: ARIBA

Digitizalition in purchasing? Still a non-issue for many SMEs. Yet SAP Ariba provides a modular platform for procurement and supplier management that enables SMEs to gradually come to grips with the topic.

The globally active specialty chemicals manufacturer Archroma has switched its procurement centrally to Ariba.

The topics of security, access and defense are becoming increasingly important in a heterogeneous, mobile and agile IT landscape. For a long time, the focus was on the challenge of cyber security. However, the topic must be understood more broadly and universally.

When it comes to supply chain finance, many believe that the choice of technology or transaction platform is the deciding factor for a successful implementation. This is not wrong

While SAP is on a buying spree, integration is falling by the wayside. But it is more important than ever if the vendor wants to continue to recommend itself as a strategic supplier of business software.

An ERP solution is expected to provide transparency, clear workflows, and the control and optimization of operational processes. SAP has other solutions to satisfy customers' hunger and not drive them into other people's kitchens.

Christian Klein is a member of SAP's Executive Board and officially has the role of Chief Operating Officer. In real life, he is rebuilding and restructuring SAP. CFO Luka Mucic is looking after the money and CEO Bill McDermott is driving the sale. Klein is breathing new life into SAP's machinery.

The person who should be doing Operations is now doing Development at SAP. The world is upside down: Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller has disappeared and his colleague on the Executive Board, Chief Operation Officer Christian Klein, is doing his job.

What existing customers demanded and former Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert tried to do for a long time has not been an issue at SAP since Sapphire: integrating cloud acquisitions like Qualtrics into the core ERP/CRM system based on the Hana database platform.

Hooray! The direction is right! But is there enough time? To ensure that the Hana and S/4 journey does not become an odyssey, the existing SAP customer must look around for professional help:

"We may have taken a year or two too long with the integration," SAP board member Christian Klein told Handelsblatt. For Professor Plattner, the problem was not an issue at this year's Sapphire in Orlando.

Professor Hasso Plattner began his whimsical appearance at Sapphire 2019 in Orlando by saying that his low-cost keynote would now follow SAP CEO Bill McDermott. The day before, McDermott stood on the Sapphire stage and promised the existing customers who had come to the event a fantastic future.