Next-gen SAP Ariba is generally available. SAP Spend Connect 2026 had the customers, the demos, and the receipts to prove it.

Among the top announcements:
🟢 Next-gen SAP Ariba is generally available, and customers like IBM are already live
🤖 Joule Agents now collaborate across SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass in a single conversation
🤝 Oro Labs joins SAP as a new procurement orchestration partner

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Finance is moving from reporting to shaping what happens next.

At SAP Connect, we shared new innovations across Autonomous Performance Management, SAP Pay, and governance, helping finance teams move faster with more context, control, and confidence.

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HR has a new mandate: Don’t just manage work. Redesign it.

At SAP Connect, we announced our intent to acquire TechWolf, bringing deeper skills and workforce intelligence into SAP SuccessFactors as it moves toward Autonomous HCM.

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Watch the SAP Connect 2026 Supply Chain Connect keynote, live from Las Vegas. SAP leaders, customers, and partners show how Autonomous Supply Chain Management is moving from vision to business value, with SAP Business AI, connected decisions, live demos, and real customer proof points across planning, logistics, manufacturing, warehousing, and operations.

What you’ll see:
➡️ Autonomous SCM — how SAP is helping supply chain teams anticipate disruption, accelerate decisions, automate processes, and improve resilience
➡️ SAP Business AI for supply chain — why trust, scalability, business context, and governed execution are critical for AI agents in real-world operations
➡️ Connected supply chain decisions — how AI can help teams move beyond local optimization to better end-to-end outcomes across the enterprise
➡️ SAP Supply Chain Management Suite — the foundation for trusted data, business rules, and connected processes from planning to execution
➡️ AI assistants and agents — how SAP is expanding agent capabilities across supply chain domains, including logistics, planning, manufacturing, business network, and operations
➡️ Live autonomous supply chain demo — a new product launch scenario showing assistants working across product design, planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, finance, and workforce planning
➡️ Customer proof points — Bosch, Döhler, Microsoft, and Blue Diamond Growers share perspectives on supply chain AI, decision velocity, standardization, and business value
➡️ Industry AI — why industry-specific context, regulations, and forward-deployed engineering are key to scaling AI transformation with measurable outcomes
Customers featured: Bosch, Döhler, Microsoft, Blue Diamond Growers

Speakers: Hagen Heubach, Chief Marketing Officer, SAP Supply Chain Management & Industry AI; Devesh Mishra, General Manager and Chief Product Officer, SAP Supply Chain Management; Florian, Head of UX for SAP Supply Chain Management; Anna Fleming, Bosch; Stefan, Döhler; Jeevan Potdar, Microsoft

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Chapters:
0:00 — Opening: Supply Chain Connect 2026
1:45 — Autonomous SCM: From vision to business value
3:00 — Why trust and scale matter for supply chain AI
7:15 — Product strategy for Autonomous Supply Chain Management
11:30 — Start with the decision, not the AI use case
14:30 — SAP Supply Chain Management Suite as the foundation
17:10 — AI assistants and agents across supply chain domains
22:05 — Live demo: Autonomous supply chain in action
29:00 — Customer panel: Bosch, Döhler, and Microsoft
37:15 — Moving AI from experimentation to strategic priority
43:00 — Customer collaboration and early adopter programs
46:30 — SAP Logistics Management and scalable AI adoption
50:45 — Open AI collaboration across SAP and Microsoft
52:35 — The future of supply chain: Humans and agents together
56:20 — Industry AI and forward-deployed engineering
58:35 — Key takeaways: Agentic AI, connected decisions, trust and scale

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Watch 17 minutes of keynote highlights from SAP Connect 2026, live from Las Vegas. See how SAP Business AI, trusted data, and the Autonomous Enterprise come together, with Joule Work, SAP Autonomous Suite, SAP Business AI Platform, customer proof points, and enterprise-grade governance.

What you’ll see:
➡️ Joule Work — SAP’s AI engagement layer, built on conversations, Spaces, and Joule Studio to help users work in natural language
➡️ Trusted data and business context — how SAP Knowledge Graph connects data fields, tables, APIs, data products, and process knowledge to give AI the context it needs
➡️ SAP Autonomous Suite — AI assistants and agents across finance, spend, HCM, supply chain, customer experience, and industry AI
➡️ SAP Business AI Platform — the foundation to build, contextualize, and govern AI across the enterprise
➡️ Autonomous Spend and sourcing — how AI agents can support bid analysis, negotiation support, sourcing events, and productivity gains
➡️ Autonomous Supply Chain — how real-time sales, inventory, production data, demand signals, and agents can help teams move from reactive to predictive planning
➡️ Autonomous HCM — SAP’s acquisition of TechWolf and how work intelligence can help organizations understand skills, tasks, and workforce needs
➡️ SAP Pay — payment execution embedded directly into SAP Cloud ERP, with agents supporting execution and reconciliation
➡️ Industry AI and trust — why industry-specific context, governance, security, compliance, and human oversight matter for enterprise AI

Customers featured: Novartis (procurement), Morgan Foods (supply chain), Nestlé (finance), PwC (industry AI and professional services)

Speakers: Christian Klein (CEO), Jan Gilg (President, Autonomous Suite), Muhana Albuloushi (Business AI Platform), Rebecca Schofield (SAP SuccessFactors), Marielle Ehrmann (Trust & Security), and customer guests

Chapters
0:00 — Opening: The Autonomous Enterprise in action
0:40 — Joule Work and SAP Business AI
2:33 — SAP Autonomous Suite across every business domain
3:45 — SAP Business AI Platform: Build, contextualize, govern
6:03 — Autonomous sourcing and supply chain in action
8:01 — TechWolf and the future of Autonomous HCM
9:53 — SAP Pay and finance transformation
11:28 — Industry AI, customer experience, and trusted context
12:45 — Trust, security, compliance, and AI governance
15:56 — Closing: This is the Autonomous Enterprise

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At #SAPConnect 2026, SAP customers like Novartis, Nestlé, and so many more show what’s possible with the Autonomous Enterprise.

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Watch the full Finance Connect 2026 keynote, live from Las Vegas. SAP leaders and customers show how Autonomous Finance is moving from road map to reality, with agentic AI innovations, live demos, customer proof points, and new capabilities across finance, payments, performance management, and governance.

What you’ll see:
➡️ Autonomous Finance — how SAP is helping finance teams move beyond efficiency to deliver business outcomes with AI that is accurate, reliable, compliant, and grounded in business context
➡️ Joule for finance — AI-powered assistants that help finance teams work across accounting, billing, planning, consolidation, disclosure, governance, risk, compliance, and more
➡️ Customer proof points — PwC, ITOCHU, and Winncom Technologies share how they are using SAP solutions to improve adoption, reduce manual work, and scale finance innovation
➡️ Autonomous Performance Management — SAP’s vision for connected enterprise performance management across planning, consolidation, disclosure, and business steering
➡️ SAP Pay — payment execution embedded directly in SAP Cloud ERP to help simplify payments, reduce manual reconciliation, and improve visibility
➡️ Governance, risk, and compliance — new AI-enabled capabilities for signal analysis, remediation, access governance, and auditable human-in-the-loop controls

Customers featured: PwC, ITOCHU Corporation, Winncom Technologies

Speakers: David Imbert, Chief Marketing Officer, Financial Management, SAP; Lawrence Martin, General Manager & Chief Product Officer, SAP Finance & Spend; Catharina Riedl, Chief Revenue Officer, Finance, SAP; Peter Graulich, Chief Revenue Officer, SAP Finance & Spend Management; Jill Notz, Chief Accounting Officer & Business Services Leader, PwC US/MX; Shusaku Harada, IT Strategist and CSO of CISD, ITOCHU Corporation; Vladimir Fedoroff, CFO, Winncom Technologies

Chapters:
0:00 — Opening: Finance in high-stakes business moments
1:50 — Welcome to Finance Connect 2026
2:38 — Why finance needs AI that delivers business outcomes
3:45 — Autonomous Finance recap from SAP Sapphire
4:28 — Customer momentum and early adopter feedback
5:48 — SAP Business AI Platform and Joule Work for finance
6:16 — Customer panel: PwC and ITOCHU on Autonomous Finance
7:10 — Building the foundation with SAP Cloud ERP and clean core
9:23 — Why ITOCHU started with finance
10:50 — PwC: Billing assistant and user adoption
13:29 — ITOCHU: Accounting assistant and data analysis
14:44 — PwC: Billing assistant value case and ROI
15:48 — ITOCHU: Reducing operation hours with AI
18:29 — New Autonomous Finance announcements
19:21 — Enterprise financial consolidation and SAP Pay
20:33 — Autonomous Performance Management vision
24:03 — Live demo: CFO sensing, planning, consolidation, and disclosure
27:40 — Enterprise Performance Management adoption paths
29:45 — SAP Pay announcement
30:46 — SAP Pay for embedded payment execution
32:12 — Winncom Technologies: SAP Pay customer story
36:40 — SAP Pay outcomes: automation, reconciliation, and cash flow
41:28 — Governance, risk, and compliance deep dive
43:12 — New GRC agents for signal analysis and remediation
44:06 — Live demo: Governance assistant for segregation of duties
46:47 — Live demo: Access Governance and Security Assistant
48:23 — Foundational finance investments beyond AI
50:24 — Why SAP Business AI is grounded in business process context
52:33 — Closing: Continue the Autonomous Finance conversation

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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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Watch the full Success Connect 2026 keynote, live from Las Vegas. SAP leaders and customers reveal how Autonomous HCM is helping HR move from AI promise to measurable business outcomes, with live demos, customer perspectives, and new innovations across SAP SuccessFactors.

What you’ll see:
➡️ Autonomous HCM — the future of human capital management, where AI automates end-to-end processes, supports context-aware decisions, and helps optimize the workforce at scale
➡️ Joule for HR — AI-powered experiences that help resolve payroll issues, analyze skills gaps, update job architecture, and personalize learning journeys
➡️ SAP SuccessFactors innovations — new assistants and agents designed to automate operational work, redesign how work gets done, and reinvent workforce development
➡️ Workforce intelligence — how SAP’s intent to acquire TechWolf can strengthen skills intelligence with real-time insight into what people can do and what the business needs next
➡️ Customer proof points — IBM and SAP leaders discuss AI-first HR transformation, skills readiness, clean core, governance, and the future of work

Customers featured: IBM and SAP

Speakers: Lara Albert, Chief Marketing Officer, SAP SuccessFactors; Siva Sundaresan, GM and Chief Product Officer, SAP SuccessFactors; Rebecca Carr, President, HCM Products and CEO, SmartRecruiters, SAP; Nadja Ericsson, Customer Advisor, SAP Sweden; Gina Vargiu-Breuer, Chief People Officer and Labor Director, SAP SE; Jon Lester, VP HR Technology, IBM

Chapters:
0:00 — Opening: A new era for HR
1:35 — Business change becomes a workforce challenge
4:47 — SAP research on AI, work redesign, and HR capacity
7:41 — Automate, redesign, reinvent: Three priorities for HR
9:18 — Autonomous Enterprise and the role of business context
11:03 — SAP announces intent to acquire TechWolf
13:05 — What Autonomous HCM means for HR
15:07 — Live demo: Automating payroll issue resolution with Joule
18:37 — Live demo: Redesigning skills and job architecture
22:51 — Live demo: Reinventing learning and development
28:39 — Connecting HR outcomes across SAP SuccessFactors
33:06 — Vision demo: Workforce strategy to execution
39:23 — Why TechWolf matters to SAP SuccessFactors
42:38 — SAP SuccessFactors customer strategy for Autonomous HCM
45:16 — Customer panel with IBM and SAP
58:38 — Closing: Building the future of HR

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This #SAPConnect, SAP showcased the Autonomous Enterprise in action, including Joule Work, SAP Autonomous Suite, and SAP Business AI Platform.

SAP launched the Autonomous Enterprise at Sapphire 2026. At this year’s SAP Connect, customers are weighing in on how they’re using it and how much farther they can go with it. Customers like Novartis, Nestle, and more are actually showing proof of the results.

Trust and business context are key factors when it comes to reliable AI systems, and by its innovations built inside the Autonomous Suite, SAP is proving this is the Beginning of Better.

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00:00 Christian Klein, SAP
00:07 Sebastian Steinhaeuser, SAP
00:41 Thomas Saueressig, SAP
01:10 Chris Paine, SAP Mentor

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