Cirque du Soleil has embraced RISE with SAP to simplify its operations, optimize its processes, and scale its global business. Discover how SAP is helping this iconic brand take center stage in the cloud. https://sap.to/6057avLXD
Join Yannick Peterschmitt, Cloud ERP Product Success Enablement, to explore the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502 release, featuring AI-powered innovations like Joule, smart summarization, and enhanced UX tools. Discover updates in finance, resource management, and situation handling designed to boost efficiency and adaptability. Watch now to learn how these advancements can transform your business processes!
The key highlights shared in this video are:
00:50 Joule, the AI Copilot
01:33 AI-Assisted UX Features, Generally Available
02:12: AI-Assisted UX Features in Beta Testing
02:40 Finance and Risk
03:36 SAP Project and Resource Management
03:55 Situation Handling
04:45 Machine Learning
✔️ Find Yannick’s blog post further discussing the innovations mentioned above: https://sap.to/6055a0ClR
✔️ Register in the Beta Testing Program and experience the latest AI features in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502:
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For a successful execution of a remote conversion project, efficient project planning is very important. We’ll walk through essential planning steps in this section.
SAP Business One Cloud and our add-on automatically determine the amount of the deposit and show the amount accordingly. We explain the complete process and the journal entries in purchasing and sales in this article.
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At #NRF2025, we asked attendees of the retail industry’s largest event if they would let AI choose what they wear. And we learned that they’re ready.
Knowing your customer’s preferences turns them into not only loyal fans but fashion icons. https://sap.to/6059aXjJf
Tough decision? Not if you understand these principles. Hint: AI can help!
In 2024, SAP Business AI transformed more concepts into real-world impact than ever before. We kept our promise and released more than 130 high-value generative AI capabilities that came ready to use out-of-the-box across our cloud applications.
It is precisely these high-value use cases that helped SAP customers get work done faster and smarter. They helped customers win esports tournaments through AI-powered strategic insights, transformed timesheet tracking so employees could focus on high-value tasks rather than administrative duties, streamlined HR operations to increase efficiency for global football clubs, and so much more.
Looking again to our customers, we infused our generative AI copilot Joule into over 80 percent of the most-used tasks across the SAP portfolio. This way, customers can use natural language to get the most important things done. As an example, with Joule’s 1,300 new skills, customers can open a mobile phone chat to get the latest numbers or finalize an approval. We also partnered with more top-tier generative AI models this year, including AWS, Meta, NVIDIA, Mistral, and others, in order to provide flexibility to customers when building AI-powered extensions and use cases with the generative AI hub in SAP AI Core.
Today, we are helping more customers across a range of industries and applications. Before diving into the complete updates below, here are some of the highlights from Q4 2024:
This is only the beginning: 2025 promises more use cases across our entire range of solutions. Watch for forthcoming SAP Business AI releases, including SAP Knowledge Graph, Joule studio, and SAP Foundation Model, which all promise a strong ROI for businesses along with improvements to employees’ daily work while ensuring relevance, reliability, and responsibility.
Joule in SAP Mobile Start
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Joule is now integrated into the SAP Mobile Start app, enabling users with smartphones or tablets to interact with SAP applications in natural language. Since its launch a few years ago, SAP Mobile Start has been designed to provide centralized access to native mobile apps, cloud applications, and tools for decision-making and getting insights.
A simple chat with Joule can reveal the latest numbers or allow the human counterpart to intervene directly, using their own words to work on approval or maintenance activities. This integration radically changes how people work with SAP in many areas, from sales applications to human resources and supply chain processes.
On iPhone and iPad, customers can use Siri to open and send questions to Joule. For example, customers can say, “Hey Siri, ask Joule in SAP Mobile Start.” Siri will respond, and they can ask their question, which is then directly transferred to Joule in SAP Mobile Start.
In this blog post, learn about our upcoming Rheinwerk Course entitled Sales and Distribution with SAP S/4HANA: Processes and Configuration from the course instructor, Darío Franco.
The Schaeffler Group has been driving groundbreaking inventions and developments in the field of motion technology over the last 75 years. From bearing solutions and linear guidance systems to repair and monitoring services, the manufacturer has innovated a range of critical technologies, products, and services for electric mobility, CO₂-efficient drives, chassis solutions, and renewable energies.
All this hard work and ingenuity has turned Schaeffler into a reliable partner in making motion more efficient, intelligent, and sustainable across the entire life cycle.
According to Christof Heurung, head of Strategic Digitalization at Schaeffler: “We see sustainability and digitalization as key topics for our future success. By combining the right digital technologies, such as AI innovations, with our pioneering spirit, we can take sustainability to the next level and create an even more sustainable future for Schaeffler, as well as for our customers and suppliers.”
Shipping diverse offerings to customers worldwide requires a wide array of containers — all of which must be managed efficiently and transparently across internal operations, suppliers, and customers. However, to be successful, this approach demands the integration of numerous business systems and applications to access and exchange information securely, streamline processes strategically, and react to new challenges and opportunities with precision.
Unfortunately, most companies fall short of achieving this advantage. Shipping containers are often managed with a fragmented application landscape. This setup challenges the ability to respond quickly to packaging trends and new business requirements. It also limits the transparency needed to reconcile customers’ returnable-packaging accounts accurately and outsource delivery services to the right shared-service center. Suppliers using the same containers operate on a separate third-party system, leading to disjointed operations.
“After using SAP solutions for around 40 years now, during the past five years, we have established a strategic partnership with SAP to develop and introduce new IT application systems while forging ahead in our desire to run a more sustainable operation,” says Gerhard Stoessel, IT program lead for SAP S/4HANA at the Schaeffler Group. “Such a relationship is allowing Schaeffler and SAP to identify unmet industry needs and launch numerous innovations.”
One of those innovations is the SAP Returnable Packaging Management solution. The industry-specific solution supports circular logistic flows for returnable and reusable packaging material such as containers, boxes, and pallets — from supplier and customer deliveries to intra-company movements and the journey back to the company.
When Schaeffler first used SAP Returnable Packaging Management, it covered only 30% of container management requirements. Sven Proschek, product owner of SAP S/4HANA Cloud for logistics at Schaeffler, notes that the company’s close collaboration with SAP was key to turning this trend around: “Our partnership with SAP enabled us to enrich the solution with the industry-relevant capabilities that companies like ours need, as well as near-seamless, end-to-end integration of the container management cycle.”
Schaeffler is currently rolling out the solution across over 80 manufacturing plants in its worldwide ecosystem. This approach is streamlining the supply chain into a more efficient and robust network, resulting in fewer delivery failures and deeper transparency in the company’s packaging material inventory. The overall workload is decreasing even though the company ships products to more customers — thanks to AI capabilities such as container reconciliation automation and self-services for reordering packaging materials and checking inventory.
“We can now react quickly to new trends, support an end-to-end collaborative solution for suppliers and customers, and save time and costs through automation,” Proschek reports. “Efficient container management also helps us avoid delivery failures due to shortages.”
Schaeffler is also exploring new AI-enabled capabilities for SAP Returnable Packaging Management that can help the business, as well as its peers, further bridge the gap between sustainability and cost efficiency.
One idea that is gaining traction is machine learning-powered returnable packaging account matching. It aims to reduce the manual effort needed to analyze unmatched items and determine whether the underlying issue is a logistical exception or a discrepancy in matching attributes between incoming statements and open line items.
With this capability, Schaeffler can perform returnable account matching with the help of machine learning models and automate the matching process by activating line-item matching. Doing so streamlines the reconciliation process and enhances efficiency, empowering packaging planners to focus on strategic tasks. Additionally, it minimizes errors and increases the accuracy of the returnable packaging material inventory across the supply chain.
Schaeffler’s commitment to innovation and sustainability is evident in its adoption of AI-powered solutions for sustainable packaging and supply chain management. By using technologies such as the line-item matching functionality available in SAP Returnable Packaging Management, Schaeffler is not only streamlining its operations but also reducing costs, minimizing errors, and increasing efficiency.
As Schaeffler continues to lead the way in sustainable packaging practices, it sets a compelling example for the industry, showcasing the transformative potential of cloud innovations and AI in driving sustainable business practices.
Korbinian Koblitz is Business Development lead at SAP.
The SAP Green Ledger solution aims to redefine carbon accounting by integrating environmental metrics directly into financial data, offering a comprehensive system to track and manage carbon emissions. SAP Green Ledger is a central component of SAP’s sustainability portfolio, developed to assist businesses in addressing the growing demand for actionable carbon data. This solution connects […]
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