Watch the full Spend Connect 2026 keynote, live from Las Vegas. SAP leaders, customers, and partners show how Autonomous Spend Management is moving from vision to reality, with next-gen SAP Ariba, live AI demos, customer proof points, and a new procurement orchestration partnership.
What you’ll see:
➡️ Autonomous Spend Management — how SAP is helping procurement move from reactive management to continuous intelligence with AI, trusted data, integrated workflows, and governed automation
➡️ Next-gen SAP Ariba — now generally available, with customers already live and using an AI-native foundation built for source-to-pay transformation
➡️ Spend Intelligence and SAP Business Data Cloud — how procurement teams can identify opportunities, monitor spend signals, and act before costs escalate
➡️ Joule and AI agents — live demos of opportunity analysis, bid evaluation, obligation management, services procurement, and change orders across SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass
➡️ Customer proof points — IBM, KPMG Germany, and ElringKlinger share how they are modernizing procurement with SAP
➡️ Procurement orchestration — a new SAP solution extension partnership with ORO Labs to support heterogeneous procurement landscapes
Customers featured: IBM, KPMG Germany, ElringKlinger AG
Partners featured: apsolut GmbH, ORO Labs
Speakers: Baber Farooq, CMO, Spend Management, SAP; Peter Graulich, Chief Revenue Officer, SAP Finance & Spend Management; Fang Chang, GM and Chief Product Officer, SAP; Aabhas Bhardwaj, Chief Revenue Officer, Procurement, SAP Ariba & SAP Fieldglass; Lorie Meola, CPO, IBM; Michael Muennich, Head of Procurement / CPO, KPMG AG Germany; Johanna Noack, Purchasing Process Manager, ElringKlinger AG; Kevin Drescher, Associate Partner, apsolut GmbH; Sudhir Bhojwani, Co-founder and CEO, ORO Labs
Chapters:
0:00 — Opening: Procurement in the age of AI
1:29 — Welcome to Spend Connect 2026
3:23 — Certainty, uncertainty, and the future of procurement
6:59 — Economist research and changing expectations for procurement
7:35 — Four signs of real Autonomous Spend Management
10:37 — The state of next-gen SAP Ariba
11:29 — IBM: Trust, transformation, and next-gen SAP Ariba
21:13 — Live demo: Spend Intelligence with SAP Business Data Cloud
24:18 — Spend opportunity agent and sourcing event creation
26:35 — Live demo: Bid analysis and award recommendations with Joule
28:12 — Contract creation, Cloud ERP integration, and obligation management
29:53 — Live demo: Services procurement with Joule, SAP Ariba, and SAP Fieldglass
34:18 — SAP User Research Panel and product feedback
34:57 — KPMG Germany: Procurement transformation and source-to-pay maturity
42:45 — KPMG: Invoice management, sourcing, and AI-enabled procurement
46:53 — ElringKlinger and apsolut: Next-gen sourcing implementation
55:44 — New SAP solution extension partnership with ORO Labs
57:20 — Procurement orchestration and evolving user expectations
1:02:09 — Roadmap for SAP and ORO Labs integration
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