WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced Xerox Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq: XRX) has chosen multiple SAP solutions to transform its enterprise architecture as part of its multi-year Reinvention.

Xerox’s Reinvention involves aligning its resources to improve and stabilize its core print businesses, increase productivity and efficiency, and focus on its emerging digital services and IT services capabilities to improve business outcomes for its clients.

Moving to the Cloud to Achieve a Clean Core

In choosing the RISE with SAP solution to move to the cloud, Xerox is embarking on the clean core approach to streamline operations across markets and business processes. By selecting SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Xerox expects to reduce IT costs, standardize global processes in connection with the creation of a global business services organization and significantly simplify its application landscape, enabling the delivery of new business models in line with the changing demands of the industry.

“By shifting to the cloud with SAP solutions, Xerox is streamlining operations, becoming easier to do business with and within, and positioning itself to be a services-led, software-enabled organization,” said Louie Pastor, executive vice president, chief transformation and administrative officer at Xerox. “SAP is a strategic partner helping us meet the evolving needs of our clients and partners as we increase our speed, agility and cost-effectiveness while providing the entire enterprise with modern tools and improved support. As we continue our Reinvention, this partnership underscores Xerox’s dedication to enabling client and partner success across the hybrid workplace.”

Single Platform of Truth

Some of the other cloud solutions chosen by Xerox include SAP Business AI, the SAP Customer Experience portfolio, SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and supply management solutions from SAP. Bringing several innovative cloud solutions together on SAP BTP provides Xerox with an integrated platform across functions such as finance, supply chain and sales. This will allow the company to have real-time insights with live drill-downs to operational transactions, creating greater agility and flexibility to add new offerings, while increasing automation, simplification and cost reduction throughout its operations. SAP Business AI will initially be deployed for business integrity screening, and additional use cases will be explored in the coming months to deliver further benefits for the business.

Xerox will also tap into digital supply chain solutions from SAP to optimize its supply chain and mitigate risks by improving inventory visibility across the nearly 145 countries in which it operates, extending analytics across the business for better data-driven decision-making.

“We are proud that Xerox has decided to leverage the power of SAP’s solutions to drive its reinvention.” said Dominik Asam, chief financial officer and a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. “Through its selection of RISE with SAP, Xerox will implement new business models to enhance client experiences and begin integrating SAP Business AI to drive its business forward. This will enable the company to build on its strong history and introduce a new era of workplace innovation for its clients.”

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It is that time of year! Get ready for SAP Spend Connect Live in 2024 at the iconic Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, this October.

Join your peers at the industry’s premier spend management event from October 14–16. Get ready for an impactful experience with breakout sessions, hands-on demos, powerful keynotes, and a celebratory finale in the City of Lights! This year, we are offering a special discount – keep reading to learn more about the event and registration deal.

As business continues to move at a frenzied pace with changing dynamics around every turn, agile and effective spend management and supply chain functions are essential to keep up. Whether it is driving cost management, digitizing manual processes, or staying ahead of changing regulations, SAP can help you bring out your best. After our exciting announcements at SAP Sapphire, I am looking forward to diving deeper into what’s in store across SAP’s spend management and business network portfolio.

Over the course of the event, we will share insights and discuss top-of-mind business challenges, opportunities, and priorities. Aside from the dazzling lights, top-notch dining, and world-renowned shows, here are some other reasons you should join me in Las Vegas for SAP Spend Connect Live in 2024.

Hear How Other Organizations Are Transforming Their Spend Management Strategy

Between customer sessions, keynotes, and informal networking, we have so many opportunities for you to hear from your peers. In addition to keynotes, several breakout sessions will feature how customers are using SAP solutions to help fuel their spend decisions across procurement, external workforce, travel and expense, working capital management, and business collaboration.

Learn How AI Can Transform Your Business

According to this year’s Economist Impact report, 44% of the spend management executives who were surveyed listed AI strategy as their top driver for digital transformation. AI has quickly proven to be a powerful asset for agile, efficient decision-making, and it is here to stay. There are several AI-focused session offerings at SAP Spend Connect Live where you will have the opportunity to:

• Learn how built-in AI capabilities help create resilient supply chains through customer demand prediction and suggested adjustments.
• Join a road map session to learn about recent and upcoming product innovations, like how we are integrating Joule into our spend management solutions to help bring natural language processing to day-to-day processes.
• Participate in a hands-on master class to discover how SAP Business AI use cases can apply to your business needs.
• Attend a solution deep dive to learn about scenarios within SAP Fieldglass and SAP Ariba solutions where AI makes a big impact.
• Learn how to leverage AI-based predictive analytics to help create dynamic supply chains that react and respond in real-time.

Attend Keynotes, Breakout Sessions, and Demos Aligned to Your Unique Business Needs

With over 120 sessions delivering content about the latest market trends and industry innovations, it is a sure bet that you will leave with ideas about how to shape your spend management strategy and meet your business challenges. You will have your choice of road map sessions, solution deep dives, and even hands-on master classes. This year, you can look forward to must-see sessions such as:

• Supercharge workforce management strategy with generative AI and analytics
• Revolutionize sourcing success with SAP Ariba Category Management
• Cutting costs that count: Transform your travel spend
• Build stronger supply chains with SAP Business Network
• AI in action: Transforming procurement and supply chain dynamics

Browse the content tracks and find the full session catalog to plan your agenda.

Network with Experts, Peers, and SAP Leadership in the Marketplace

Our attendees consistently report that the Marketplace is one of their favorite things about SAP Spend Connect Live. The Marketplace is your innovation destination – a one-stop shop to connect with partners, subject-matter experts, and executives while learning how to make the most of your SAP solutions. Explore each part of SAP’s spend management portfolio with demos for hands-on learning, booths to discover members of the SAP partner ecosystem, and “expert bars” where you can get answers to solution-specific questions. This year, we are introducing new ways to expand your knowledge with free, 30-minute, one-on-one solution consulting sessions and adoption labs where you can learn how to optimize your solutions.

Deepen Your Expertise with Exclusive In-Person, Pre-Conference Trainings

Make the most of your conference experience with on-site training at SAP Spend Connect Live. These comprehensive, expert-led sessions will help increase your expertise in an era where upskilling is of the utmost importance. Take the opportunity to learn something new that will enable you to help achieve your organization’s procurement goals. Space is limited, so register soon to secure your spot.

Connect with Peers at Celebration Night and Make a Difference at the Els Autism Charity Golf Tournament

Have you really visited Vegas if you haven’t had an awesome night out? With over 80,000 square feet of entertainment – including bowling lanes, six on-site bars, and live music – Celebration Night at Brooklyn Bowl will be one to remember. Don’t forget to catch mentalist Oz Pearlman for mind-boggling illusions!

In the mood for golf? Participate in the Els for Autism Charity Golf Challenge to make a difference in the lives of those living with autism and those who care for them. Space is limited, so be sure to reach out to your account executive to participate.

Take Advantage of the “Buy 4, Get 1 Free” Registration Deal

Remember: what happens in Vegas…shouldn’t stay there! Join us this fall for a dynamic experience that will leave you with the tools to help bring out the best in your business. Register now.

Ready to sign up, but unsure how to get approval? Download our “convince your manager” template to explain why your company needs representation at SAP Spend Connect Live in 2024!

Etosha Thurman is chief marketing officer for Intelligent Spend and Business Network at SAP.  

WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today launched new cloud capabilities for SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) solutions. In a strategic co-innovation with Hilti AG, a leading global provider of products and services for the construction industry, SAP is helping customers connect their business data to both engineering and research and development departments, enabling businesses to be more efficient and save money.

The new capabilities of SAP PLM solutions include native connectivity with SAP cloud ERP solutions and supply chain management solutions from SAP. This connectivity enables businesses to deliver the right product at the right time at the right price by providing end-to-end visibility and control across the entire value chain. By smoothly linking product data with business processes, companies can efficiently organize product information, streamline workflows and foster cross-functional collaboration, ultimately enhancing their ability to meet market demands. Leveraging partnerships with DSC Software AG, Cideon and others, the solution also integrates with third-party product data management and computer-aided design tools, shrinking implementation times.

“Integration is critical for companies modernizing their manufacturing strategies and operational processes,” said Dominik Metzger, head of engineering for SAP Digital Supply Chain. “Collaborating with Hilti not only demonstrates their trust in our product lifecycle management solutions but also allows us to shape the future of cloud-native SAP PLM offerings.”

A centralized repository for product data management is embedded directly into the SAP PLM portfolio, serving as a single source of truth. This simplifies data organization, minimizes errors and accelerates time to market by fostering effective teamwork across various stakeholders.

“By leveraging cloud-native SAP PLM solutions, we are not only enhancing our product development processes for customer-specific products, but we are making construction better,” said Johann Stadler, head of large projects IT for Hilti.

Hilti, operating in over 120 countries, has been at the forefront of innovation with a comprehensive range of construction products. The company has embarked on its next phase of digital transformation by adopting SAP PLM to bring unprecedented levels of efficiency and transparency to its product development processes, providing customers specifically engineered and on-demand prefabricated products.

Learn more about cloud-native SAP PLM solutions here or watch the SAP PLM Keynote 2024.

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“BLS AG is a very diverse transportation company,” Horst Johner, head of HR & Transformation and member of the Executive Board at BLS, says. “In our core business of rail transport, we operate commuter and leisure lines and maintain a 420-kilometer-long railway network. Additionally, we incorporate bus operations, car rental, shipping services, and freight transport under our umbrella.”

For many years, numerous SAP products have been in use as on-premise solutions at BLS. In HR, the company has made efforts to establish standards, but differences in the execution of core processes still remain.

“When I joined BLS in 2019, I was used to a completely different level of digitalization from previous employers,” Johner explains. “Some processes were still running in spreadsheets.”

As head of HR & Transformation, he is particularly concerned with the attractiveness of BLS as an employer: “New employees expect a certain degree of digitalization as well as state-of-the-art applications. And standard digitalization is, of course, also a matter of cost. Nevertheless, the standardization and digitization of our main HR processes were important goals to increase efficiency.”

Digital Transformation with SAP Standard Content Activation Service

To address these issues, BLS decided to implement SAP SuccessFactors HCM at the beginning of 2020.

Johner says: “We chose the SAP standard content activation service. Our requirement was that we could adopt at least 80% of the processes as a standard solution. SAP provided the framework and suggested best practices to quickly get up and running, with minor adjustments to tailor the configuration to our needs.”

Stefan Fuhrer, head of Management Services at BLS AG, is also pleased with the implementation process: “What really paid off was the introduction of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central as the first module. This allowed us to migrate all master data from the on-premise SAP ERP Human Capital Management solution to SAP SuccessFactors solutions, which simplified the implementation and integration of all other modules and packages. By implementing SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, we were able to create a single data source for HR data to manage HR processes throughout the organization.”

“Most customers are used to the classic approach of ordering and implementing modules one by one,” Roland Christen, customer success partner at SAP Switzerland AG, says. “The SAP standard content activation service offers a different approach, as complete processes are introduced instead of individual modules. The customer can immediately gain added value.”

At the same time as the introduction of SAP SuccessFactors solutions, BLS also defined the roles and teams that should be responsible for the tasks in these processes. “Where possible, we aligned internal structures with the processes,” Johner says.

Process-Oriented Implementation of SAP SuccessFactors HCM

BLS now uses all modules of SAP SuccessFactors HCM. “We now have the ability to technically map the entire HR-related career of employees – from their application to, if necessary, leaving the company – in a system configured with best practices,” Johner explains. “The implementation of SAP SuccessFactors solutions has laid the foundation so that, after connecting to the other subsystems, we can now gradually reduce the administrative effort.”

Integrating the SAP SuccessFactors Document Management Core solution by OpenText has also worked well. Compared to other solutions, Johner sees the great advantage of SAP SuccessFactors Document Management Core in its deep integration with the individual SAP SuccessFactors solutions. “It was also important for us to have a solution that is able to comply with the established life cycles for individual documents and, if necessary, also delete them – a key compliance factor for us at BLS AG,” he says.

This is all the more important as SAP SuccessFactors Document Management Core is currently used at BLS as an employee dossier.

Johner appreciates the high level of transparency that the solution provides: “Each employee has self-service access to their own employee file. Controlled through role-based permissions, managers and HR staff also have access to the documents of defined employees. These documents can be uploaded via workflow. In addition, contracts can be automatically created and stored in the employee dossier after signing.”

Currently, only payroll, time management, and shared services are on premise. The next planned steps include integrating the planning tool – for the deployment of train personnel, for example – with time management and payroll. In addition, existing, rarely used subprocesses, such as a request for unpaid leave, will be integrated through an interface.

The project aligns with BLS’s overall strategy, which focuses on managing resources through more efficient processes via digitalization. “I believe that with the introduction of SAP SuccessFactors solutions, we have made a significant contribution to the company’s strategy,” Johner says.

Significant emphasis was placed on stakeholder management toward internal customers from the beginning. “We continuously informed and provided insights into the status of the project company-wide,” Johner explains. “Important internal customer groups have been represented on the project committee from the start and have been able to accompany the upcoming changes.”

Training opportunities for relevant user groups also played a great role. The system was positively received. “HR initially viewed the system with some skepticism because the processes and responsibilities have changed,” Johner says. “But now the benefits – such as having congruent data across the entire system and the disappearance of media breaks – are highly appreciated.”

“I also notice that our employees are increasingly thinking in end-to-end processes,” Johner says.

The Swiss business newspaper Handelszeitung, which ranks the most attractive employers in Switzerland every year, has ranked BLS as No. 1 in the Swiss railway industry in 2024. In the overall ranking, BLS AG is ranked 11^th out of 250 companies.

“This confirms for us that our activities in HR and the modernization measures of recent years have clearly put us on the right track,” Johner says.

This first appeared on the German SAP News Center.

WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that the SAP Supervisory Board has reached a mutual agreement with Executive Board Members Scott Russell and Julia White to leave the the company’s Executive Board, effective August 31.

Chief Revenue Officer Scott Russell has played a central role in helping SAP customers around the world on their journey to the cloud. His success gives SAP the opportunity to develop the full potential of the company’s best-of-suite offering, ensuring customers take advantage of SAP solutions to maximize agility and innovation. A search for Russell’s successor is underway. SAP CEO Christian Klein will assume responsibility for the sales organization in the interim.

Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer Julia White has successfully modernized marketing and communications while also building SAP’s product marketing function to support a cloud-first model. SAP will now strengthen the synergy between product marketing and product teams by bringing those teams together. The SAP Supervisory Board and Julia White agreed that this notable shift marks an appropriate juncture to dissolve the distinct Marketing & Solutions Board area. This adjustment, effective September 1, streamlines SAP’s Executive Board structure.

“In the context of SAP’s ongoing successful cloud transformation, the SAP Supervisory Board believes now is the moment to embark on the next era of growth,” said Pekka Ala-Pietilä, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE. “We thank Scott Russell and Julia White for their significant accomplishments and wish them all the best in their future endeavors.”

“Scott and Julia have contributed significantly to SAP’s successful business transition in the cloud and our leadership in Business AI,” said SAP CEO Christian Klein. “I’m pleased to take this opportunity to thank them for their unwavering dedication to our clients and partners, and to join the Supervisory Board in wishing them all the best for the future.”

This strategic transition occurs at a time of strength for SAP. The changes will further accelerate the company’s transformation and enhance its focus on a suite- and AI-first strategy. By prioritizing these key areas, SAP is positioning itself to further expand its position as a leading enterprise software company.

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