How Autonomous Are Your SAP Operations, Really?
In this post, let’s explore why enterprise SAP needs a shared language for autonomy — and the five levels that provide it.
Product Compliance in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 | Release Highlights
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 brings new Product Compliance innovations to help organizations improve dangerous goods management, automate compliance checks, and increase transparency across the logistics value chain.
In this release highlights video, Claudia presents through her digital twin to explore the latest Product Compliance updates in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608. See how new capabilities for multi-component products and dangerous goods information can help logistics, transportation, and warehouse teams reduce manual effort, improve regulatory compliance, and manage complex transport scenarios with greater confidence.
You’ll see how logistics integration for multi-component products helps support dangerous goods compliance for products that contain two or more dangerous goods. When a document is processed in the value chain, the system can automatically execute transport permissibility and mixed-loading checks, then include the corresponding dangerous goods information on value chain documents to support end-to-end compliance.
The video also covers additional dangerous goods information for the value chain. Transportation planners and warehouse teams can access more granular information for multi-stage transport documents, such as journeys involving road and sea. The release also provides clearer stage-specific compliance information, including details required by regulations such as ADR 1.1.3.6, and extends visibility to multi-component products and products packaged using logistics packing instructions.
Highlights include:
🤝 Logistics integration for multi-component products — Support compliance for products that contain two or more dangerous goods.
✅ Automated transport permissibility and mixed-loading checks — Execute critical safety and compliance checks when processing documents in the value chain.
📦 Dangerous goods information for value chain documents — Include corresponding dangerous goods information on logistics documents to support compliant end-to-end processes.
🚚 Enhanced support for multi-stage transportation — Add optional stages for transport documents involving complex loading, unloading, and multiple modes of transport.
📄 Stage-specific ADR compliance information — Provide clearer dangerous goods information per transport stage, including information required by ADR 1.1.3.6.
🔍 Improved visibility for logistics teams — Give transportation planners and warehouse teams configurable views for multi-component products and packaging instructions.
Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome and introduction
00:27 – Logistics integration for multi-component products
00:53 – Automated transport permissibility and mixed-loading checks
01:12 – Additional dangerous goods information for the value chain
01:26 – Enhanced support for multi-stage transportation documents
01:37 – ADR compliance information by transport stage
01:48 – Improved visibility for multi-component products and packaging instructions
02:01 – Release summary and key benefits
02:29 – Thank you and additional resources
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Why Product Development Is Now a Leadership Priority | Customer Insights with DSC Software AG
Product development is becoming a strategic leadership priority. Here’s why an integrated PLM approach matters.
In this interview, Sarah Mei Niesel from SAP speaks with Achim from DSC Software AG, an SAP partner, about why product development can no longer be treated as a purely operational function. As markets change faster, product portfolios become more complex, and decision cycles continue to shrink, organizations need greater transparency, stronger governance, and better access to trusted product data.
You’ll hear why product development is increasingly a C-level concern, with direct impact on competitiveness, profitability, and business resilience. Achim explains how shorter innovation cycles, rising customer expectations, and growing product complexity are changing the way companies need to steer product development. The discussion also covers why leaders need clear goals, reliable data visibility, and fact-based decision-making to create value from product development.
The conversation explores common challenges that organizations often underestimate, including complex data structures, locally adapted processes, knowledge transfer, and workforce transformation. Achim also explains why isolated optimizations are no longer enough. To unlock the full value of PLM, companies need an integrated, end-to-end approach that connects product development with manufacturing, supply chain, external partners, and broader business objectives.
Watch to learn how an integrated PLM strategy can help organizations reduce complexity, improve transparency, support knowledge transfer, and build a stronger foundation for future-ready product development.
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Why strategic leadership in product development will make or break your future
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Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
01:06 – Why product development is a leadership topic
01:41 – Challenges organizations often underestimate
02:20 – Why an integrated PLM approach matters
03:02 – How DSC Software AG supports PLM transformation
03:19 – Closing remarks
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Accounting Accruals Agent for Scalable Precision | Joule Agents
See how the Accounting Accruals Agent helps finance teams save time, improve accuracy, and manage accruals with scalable precision.
Accruals management can be time-consuming and complex, especially when accounting teams need to apply corporate policies consistently across large volumes of data. With agentic AI, finance teams can move from manual accrual analysis to a more automated, governed, and audit-ready process.
In this video, discover how the Accounting Accruals Agent can create accrual proposals based on your accounting policy. The agent applies policy formulas, analyzes historical data in SAP Cloud ERP, calculates potential accruals, and presents summarized results that are consistent, traceable, and governed.
For organizations that have not recorded accounting policies in SAP Cloud ERP, teams can use an accounting policy template to execute with the same precision. The result is a faster, more reliable way to support accruals management, helping accountants spend less time on manual calculations and more time on strategic finance activities.
With the Accounting Accruals Agent, policy-driven precision is scalable, helping finance teams strengthen accuracy, governance, and audit readiness.
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A Look at a Typical Closing Calendar, Tasks, and Ownership in SAP S/4HANA
Financial close, like all things in life, follows a natural pattern.
Autonomous Enterprise: It’s the Start of a Bold New Way of Doing Business
Welcome to the Autonomous Enterprise, where people direct and AI executes across finance, spend, supply chain, HR, and CX.
Business is moving faster than ever. But many organizations still rely on disconnected systems, manual handoffs, and delayed insights to respond to change. The Autonomous Enterprise offers a better way forward: one intelligent, connected system where SAP applications, data, and AI work together to help teams act with speed, precision, and control.
In this video, see how enterprise AI can support better days for your people and better outcomes for your business. AI agents can help close invoices, anticipate supply and demand shifts, and execute routine workflows so leaders can focus on higher-value decisions. With SAP, AI is grounded in business context across core processes, from finance and procurement to supply chain, human capital management, and customer experience.
The Autonomous Enterprise is human-led and AI-enabled. People set the direction. AI executes. Every agent is governed. Every action is traceable. And every process is connected through a trusted foundation of business applications, data, and AI capabilities designed to help your business stay ready for what’s next.
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Take a Tour Through the Autonomous Enterprise | Experience Center at #SAPSapphire
Go behind the scenes of the SAP Sapphire Experience Center 2026 and follow the visitor journey through Orlando and Madrid.
See how guests explored the Autonomous Enterprise in action, from immersive showcases to picking up their personalized soccer jersey as part of the experience.
SAP brings together data, applications, and AI through the Autonomous Enterprise so you can operate as one and perform when it matters most. https://sap.to/6054BBAjha
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Autonomous HCM: Connect Workforce Insights with AI
Connect people, insights, and actions with Autonomous Human Capital Management from SAP, powered by Joule and trusted workforce data.
When workforce data is trapped across disconnected systems, HR teams are left making decisions without the full picture. Whether you’re hiring the best candidate, developing talent from within, or keeping work moving across teams and time zones, you need the right insights in the right moment.
In this video, see how Autonomous HCM helps HR teams move faster with more clarity and confidence. With Joule, teams can ask for what they need, surface the right context, and coordinate HCM assistants and AI agents across the talent lifecycle. Behind the scenes, AI can help analyze workforce data across skills, performance, and experience, identify gaps, surface opportunities, and orchestrate next steps.
Autonomous HCM brings applications, contextualized data, and industry-specific AI together in a complete HCM suite, helping HR become more autonomous while creating better experiences for the people your business depends on.
Welcome to Autonomous HCM. Welcome to the beginning of better.
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SAP Business AI Platform and Autonomous Enterprise | SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026
SAP Business AI Platform brings together business data, process context, and governance to help enterprises scale AI with confidence.
In this SAP Sapphire Orlando 2026 keynote segment, Christian Klein, SAP’s Chief Executive Officer, explains why enterprise AI needs more than generic models. While AI can generate text, images, and code with increasing speed, mission-critical business processes require accurate, reliable, and compliant outcomes.
The video introduces SAP Business AI Platform, which brings together SAP’s AI foundation, SAP Business Data Cloud, and SAP Business Technology Platform to support SAP’s vision for the Autonomous Enterprise. Christian explains how SAP infuses deep ERP process knowledge, SAP Knowledge Graph, SAP Domain Models, and a semantic data layer across SAP and non-SAP systems into AI agents.
He also introduces Joule Studio 2.0 as an open, agnostic build layer for developing agents with direct access to business logic, along with a governance layer designed to manage SAP and non-SAP agents through SAP AI Agent Hub in LeanIX.
Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome to SAP Sapphire 2026
00:52 – The beginning of something better
01:23 – How AI is changing work and life
02:19 – Why 80% accuracy is not enough in business
02:51 – Why many companies see limited AI value
04:09 – How SAP solves the enterprise AI challenge
04:21 – ERP as the brain of every company
05:10 – Connecting Joule to ERP business context
06:02 – Launching SAP Business AI Platform
06:52 – Vision for the Autonomous Enterprise
07:04 – Context layer, Knowledge Graph, and SAP Domain Models
07:43 – Connecting SAP and non-SAP data
08:12 – Joule Studio 2.0 and the build layer
08:49 – Governance layer and SAP AI Agent Hub
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From Track to Tech: David Coulthard at SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando and Madrid
SAP is excited to announce that former Formula 1 Driver and Grand Prix Winner David Coulthard will be a special guest together with Mika Häkkinen at SAP Sapphire 2026, appearing at both the Orlando and Madrid events. Visitors will have the opportunity to experience Coulthard and Häkkinen live at the Services and Support Center, where performance, precision, and innovation come together.
With a distinguished career in Formula One, Coulthard is known for his consistency, race intelligence, and deep understanding of high-performance environments. His presence at SAP Sapphire brings valuable perspectives on how precision, teamwork, and data-driven decision-making translate from the racetrack to the world of business.
Performance meets innovation
Throughout his career, Coulthard demonstrated the importance of preparation, adaptability, and collaboration—qualities that strongly resonate with SAP’s Services and Support organization. At the Services and Support Center, attendees can experience how these same principles help businesses navigate complexity, accelerate outcomes, and maintain peak performance.
Coulthard and Häkkinen will share insights from their time in Formula One, offering perspectives on competition at the highest level, the evolution of technology in racing, and the critical role of teamwork in achieving success.
Event highlights
Visitors to the Services and Support Center can look forward to several exclusive opportunities:
- Experience Coulthard and Häkkinen live in the Formula One Racing Simulator at the Race of Legends.
- May 13 in Orlando at 1:00 p.m.
- May 20 in Madrid at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
- Join theater sessions featuring voices from the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team.
- Take part in exclusive interviews with Coulthard and Häkkinen.
A unique experience with SAP Services and Support
The Services and Support Center at SAP Sapphire is designed as a hub for inspiration and interaction. With Coulthard and Häkkinen on-site, visitors can expect engaging sessions, real-world insights, and hands-on experiences that connect motorsport excellence with business innovation—brought to life by SAP’s Services and Support organization.Â
Join us in Orlando and Madrid
Whether attending SAP Sapphire Orlando or Madrid, this is a unique opportunity to experience two of Formula One’s most respected drivers up close—and to explore how SAP helps organizations achieve peak performance. Don’t miss the chance to meet Coulthard and Häkkinen at the Services and Support Center and discover how insights from the world of Formula One can inspire your business transformation journey.
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- SAP Sapphire 2026 Orlando services and support sessions
- SAP Sapphire 2026 Madrid services and support sessions