SAP Solution: Sensors

Voice control, sensors, IoT and machine learning are fundamentally changing shopping behavior and creating a paradigm shift in digitally supported commerce.

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Voice control, sensors, the Internet of Things, and machine learning are fundamentally changing shopping behavior and creating a paradigm shift in digitally supported commerce.

SAP CEO Bill McDermott was in Davos, before that in Barcelona at the SAP Fkom, Field Kick-off Meeting. There was little sign of flexibility and responsibility there. The Davos topic could also have come from the DSAG user association. When will SAP start listening to its existing customers?

The digital structural change is leading to profound changes in industrial purchasing. The days of operational purchasing as an organizational unit are numbered. Procurement processes are largely automated - also via Ariba and S/4.

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