SAP Solution: ERP

In a digital IT landscape, existing SAP customers need a robust and reliable ERP infrastructure. The best compliment from customers is when they don't realize that their SAP environment is running on Suse.

Businesses need a functioning IT landscape. To ensure this, regular system environments testing is required, but despite automation, this is often still a time-consuming task.

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.

Companies cannot wait until data is up to date. In an ever-changing business environment, companies must be able to respond immediately to market developments.

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.

SAP partner BearingPoint has initiated an extensive transformation at retail company Sonepar in Germany. The executive responsible at Sonepar, Andreas Möller, found time to answer key questions for E3 Magazine.

An international study by SAP partners NTT Data Business Solutions and Natuvion shows that companies underestimate the lead time and complexity of digital transformation projects.

In a week's time, the E3 editorial team will be publishing a report on SAP licenses in our German May 2024 issue, with the recommendation that companies should perhaps select a larger cloud license package than is currently necessary in certain situations. Why is that?

Many are familiar with the book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter. The first time I tried to read the English original in 1989, I failed. However, after a lecture by AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber, I purchased the German edition and devoured it from cover to cover.

S/4 is only the successor to ECC 6.0, but the SAP Business Technology Platform brings new perspectives, expanding horizons. SAP, however, is losing its unique selling point, and customers are gaining new freedoms.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for SAP customers to obtain relevant information about the capabilities of the ERP software they are using. The SAP list of prices and conditions seems to be the only remaining source of information.

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.