SAP Build Process Automation now integrates the UiPath Platform as an SAP Solution Extension, forming a unified tool for automation across complex IT landscapes. UiPath, an enterprise automation and AI provider, announced the integration of its platform with SAP Build Process Automation as part of SAP Solution Extensions. This collaboration aims to offer companies a […]
🔍 Why is this important? Discover how IBP MRO helps extend the lifecycle of assets, optimize costs, and identify unplanned bottlenecks. Business AI and SAP Joule are crucial for enabling a resilient MRO supply chain powered by AI!
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Latest innovations in SAP IBP MRO space, and strategies for improving your maintenance and operations processes
Key Topics:
* The challenges of spare parts and resource availability and their impact on business continuity.
* Insights into the end-to-end business planning process from demand analysis to financial review
* Innovative features such as Business AI and Joule for MRO, maintenance cost budgeting, and inventory optimization
* Introducing Maintenance & Operations Planning processes
Find more information:
* SAP IBP MRO, Whitepaper: https://sap.to/6054SHze4
* Maintenance, Repair, and Operations process in IBP Help page: https://sap.to/6055SHzef
* Release Highlight Blog: https://sap.to/6056SHzeA
Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction to SAP IBP for MRO
00:25 – The Importance of Spare Parts and Resources
01:00 – Benefits of IBP for Maintenance and Operations
02:00 – Key Features and Innovations in MRO
03:00 – Demo: Identifying and Solving Maintenance Bottlenecks
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Access to essential pharmaceutical products – like medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics – can be hindered by unreliable health and supply systems. This is where modern technology plays a critical role, enabling better tracking and management of these commodities.
The U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act has mandated manufacturers to improve traceability, which is essential for ensuring that medicines reach patients safely. SAP Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences is designed to help meet these demands by streamlining the tracking process. However, as the network of users has grown, support challenges have surfaced. To address these issues, SAP introduced Built-In Support into the hub to help provide direct, seamless assistance to life sciences companies and their partners.
I had the opportunity to interview Tarun Luthra, head of Support – Industries & CX, and Andreas Krummlauf, vice president and head of Product Management Life Sciences, Health and Ecosystem, about the project’s impact. Here’s how Built-In Support is helping to enhance operational efficiency for network users in the life sciences industry.
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Krummlauf:With the rise of global regulations, manufacturers of medicine needed to develop the ability to uniquely identify every pack of medicine they sell in those countries. This is to avoid counterfeiting in the legitimate supply chain. To support this requirement, SAP’s serialization portfolio was initiated in 2015 with the SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals application, a corporate serialization repository.
SAP Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences started in 2016 with a focused goal: to manage traceability and serialization data exchange for our customers and a couple of hundred of their business partners. In 2021, the hub won the Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award.
As the network expanded to tens of thousands of partners, a key limitation emerged: we did not have a simple way for business partners, acting as network end users, to directly interact with SAP support in case of critical issues, even without having a support contract with SAP in place.
Q: What support challenges were network end users facing?
Luthra: The challenge arose from supporting an increasing number of network end users that were not direct SAP customers. Without access to SAP’s support system, the network end users had to rely on their customers to resolve issues, adding unnecessary steps and risked communication gaps. This presented an opportunity to implement Built-In Support to support our customers’ business partners as network end users when they use SAP Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences.
Q: How does Built-In Support make a difference for network end users?
Luthra: We are now providing network end users with a direct entry point from within SAP Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences, enabling them to easily contact the support team. Built-In Support is seamlessly integrated into the hub. The network end user can find help by searching SAP Knowledge Base Articles or submitting a case.
Krummlauf: This streamlined process can enhance the support experience and helps ensure users can quickly find the help they need. Network end users can now resolve issues independently or submit a case without involving customers in the resolution process. This improvement leads to faster response times. Users can efficiently search for relevant product information and potentially resolve issues on their own. This autonomy helps enhance the overall support experience and empowers users to find solutions quickly and effectively.
Built-In Support Enhances User Experience and Support Efficiency
In conclusion, the integration of Built-In Support within SAP Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences marks a significant advancement in enhancing user experience and support efficiency. When network end users are empowered to directly access support resources and resolve issues independently, we not only help to streamline the support process but also reinforce SAP’s commitment to improving lives through better life sciences solutions. As regulatory demands evolve, our innovative approaches will continue to drive progress and collaboration in the life sciences sector. For more insights, stay connected with SAP’s ongoing developments.
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In today’s dynamic market, agile organizations require seamless collaboration among business users, IT professionals, and software developers. Low-code application platforms empower both professional and citizen developers to rapidly create and deploy digital solutions through guided development, automation, and robust governance, fostering innovation and agility.
SAP Build has been developed with the bold vision that business users and developers alike should be able to augment enterprise applications and build new functionality, automate business processes, and design digital workspaces using the tools of their choice. It is an AI-powered cloud service that combines application development, workflow management, task automation, and workspace creation into one comprehensive, cloud-based solution running on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
Strategic Challenges in Modern Software Development
Developers today face several significant challenges.
First, it is difficult for many organizations to leverage the deep insights from non-technical business experts across functions like finance and supply chain. While AI is a powerful new tool, its efficacy hinges on its integration with business-specific data and processes; without this, its broader benefits are diminished. Building or extending business applications is often time-consuming and expensive, prompting a shift toward customizable pre-built solutions for greater agility. Finally, developers grapple with fragmented systems requiring extensive integration, hindering efficient workflows and resource utilization.
These challenges collectively underscore the need for a more robust development platform.
The SAP Build Advantage
SAP is recognized in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Low-Code Application Platforms for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. SAP Build offers unique benefits that streamline the development process and ensure innovative and efficient solutions.
Build together: SAP Build supports a fusion development approach, accommodating different skill levels and project needs across diverse technologies. This environment fosters team collaboration with business experts and increases productivity by allowing developers to select the most appropriate tools, whether they prefer low-code visual tools or programming with Java, JavaScript, or ABAP.
Develop faster with business AI: Generative AI in SAP Build, using the AI copilot Joule, automates coding, workflow, and workspace creation customized to a company’s needs. Joule uses large language models (LLMs) and data specific to the company’s finance, supply chain, and other processes, ensuring relevant and reliable solutions for each customer.
Start ahead with pre-built, industry-specific solutions:SAP Build provides more than 500 industry-specific, pre-built solutions that developers can utilize to jump-start application development. These solutions are complemented by generative AI capabilities that simplify and automate complex workflows across various business domains.
Extend business applications with confidence: SAP Build ensures seamless integration with both SAP and non-SAP applications, facilitating the extension of core business systems. The integration capabilities are bolstered by a new extensibility wizard in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, enabling developers to smoothly incorporate custom fields, customer business logic, and automation, and to create bespoke applications while remaining aligned with fundamental business operations and maintaining robust security and connectivity.
Extend ERP and Other Business Applications with Ease
Typically, most business applications need to be adapted to meet customer specific requirements. SAP Build empowers organizations to accelerate automation, tailor business processes, and extend the functionality of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and other business applications.
SAP Build follows a clean core paradigm, which future-proofs an ERP system, ensuring upgrades become seamless and moving to the cloud is simplified. This translates to lower costs, faster innovation, and the agility to adapt to changing business needs, all while ensuring custom extensions continue to work flawlessly.
Gain a Competitive Edge with SAP Build
Since launching SAP Build, we have seen tremendous growth in customers embracing future-proof extension building in impactful ways. Trumpf, for example, streamlined operations by reducing time spent with administrative tasks by 60% and doubling the efficiency of assembly instruction generation. BMW enhanced data quality and reduced collection time, ensuring reliable reporting of sustainability KPIs for better informed decision-making. And Piller has delivered 80% faster system access, a tailored user experience, and reduced search time for optimized employee efficiency and productivity.
Next Steps
To learn how SAP Build adds value to cloud ERP, explore use cases that address specific challenges in business processes. To unlock the full potential of application development, automation, and AI, take the next step with the following resources:
Bharat Sandhu is senior vice president of Application Development, Automation, Integration, and AI at SAP.
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Michael Ameling show you how SAP Integration Suite is leveraging the power of AI to optimize your integration scripts and boost performance. Discover how SAP Integration Suite, Premium Edition, uses AI to optimize custom scripts effortlessly. Learn how to improve memory consumption in your integration flows without writing a single line of code. Watch now to see AI in action and enhance your SAP integrations with ease.
Watch on Demand: https://sap.to/6050UQOum
In this demo, you’ll discover:
00:00 – Introduction to AI-Generated Recommendations
00:10 – Optimizing Custom Scripts
00:30 – Integration Flow Inspection
00:50 – Generating Optimization Proposals
01:20 – Applying and Deploying Optimized Scripts
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The new SAP Services and Support eBook explains SAP’s offerings in a clear, comprehensible way and addresses differences between the requirements of new customers and experienced users.
It is not a marketing brochure, as evidenced by the participation of SAP user groups like ASUG and DSAG, whose feedback has been reflected in the eBook. For instance, Geoff Scott, the CEO of ASUG, provided significant input.
Focusing on ongoing development and support, it provides a great deal of relevant information about the right SAP offerings for the different phases of the customer journey – summarized in a single document that refers to a wide variety of sources.
SAP Services and Support in Action
What’s more, the eBook not only states the highlights of the SAP Services and Support portfolio, but also provides a clear overview of applications in actual customer scenarios. Through six exemplary customer scenarios, the eBook illustrates how customers can use SAP solutions and services as efficiently as possible to help achieve optimal results and drive innovation forward more quickly.
The most important customer scenarios on the way to the cloud with SAP S/4HANA include transformation strategies, RISE with SAP, SAP Business AI, SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), SaaS and integration scenarios, and hybrid operations.
The SAP Services and Support eBook provides full transparency for SAP’s portfolio and support services, together with useful information about specific scenarios. Click to enlarge.
Support for Differing Customer Needs
The “Power Your Support” chapter shows customers which tools and services are already part of their software licenses and therefore available free of charge, and invites them to explore the diverse range of SAP offerings to help further optimize their software landscapes.
“Accelerate Your Path” demonstrates how to enhance the value of SAP solutions with personalized plans and project-based services, working to ensure SAP solutions are used in the best possible way to support strategy and business goals.
“Drive Company-Wide Transformation” provides insights into premium engagements, strategic long-term partnerships that offer a holistic approach and support companies in implementing transformation in functions, processes, and business areas. Find out how SAP can support you on your individual transformation journey.
WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) will release its full results for the third quarter of 2024 on Monday, October 21.
SAP CEO Christian Klein and CFO Dominik Asam will host a virtual analyst conference to present Q3 financial figures, as well as an outlook on the current financial year. Media representatives may listen in on the virtual analyst conference via Webcast at 11:00 p.m. CEST/ 5:00 p.m. ET.
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SAP continues to enhance its AI-driven technologies with a focus on empowering businesses through advanced solutions, as seen in the latest Q3 2024 updates on SAP AI solutions. SAP’s ongoing efforts to integrate artificial intelligence across its cloud applications showcase the company’s intent to drive productivity and efficiency for businesses globally. The latest innovations deliver […]
Join Cecilia Huergo as she showcases the latest advancements in SAP Build, including revolutionary GenAI capabilities that are transforming application development. Discover how to accelerate your SAP S/4HANA Cloud development projects with GenAI and Joule. This video walks you through adding custom fields, extending applications, integrating real data, and managing ABAP cloud projects using SAP Build and Joule. Learn practical steps to enhance productivity and streamline your development process.
Watch on Demand: https://sap.to/6053UQHd9
In this live coding demo, you’ll witness:
00:00 – Introduction to GenAI and Custom Fields
00:14 – Extending SAP Applications with Joule
01:05 – Creating Custom Fields and API Integration
02:09 – Developing Services with SAP Build Code – DEMO
Step-by-step instructions on developing business logic and services to connect to third-party services, enhancing productivity with Joule.
03:35 – Managing ABAP Cloud Projects and Key Takeaways
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