Many companies think the PLM journey ends with managing CAD and engineering data. But that’s only the beginning.

In this SAP interview, Achim Rossel, SVP Business Development at @dsc_software_ag, explains why Product Lifecycle Management creates its greatest value when engineering connects with manufacturing, supply chain, and the broader enterprise.

Hosted by Sarah Mei Niesel, Global Product Marketing for PLM Solutions at SAP.

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Discover how ContiTech built a scalable manufacturing template with SAP Digital Manufacturing to support traceability, standardization, and faster global rollouts.

In this customer success story, Hendrik Neumann and Yannick Kreuz from ContiTech join Christian Köllner from implementation partner IGZ to share how ContiTech created a modern MES foundation for its global production network. Starting with a greenfield facility in Aguascalientes, Mexico, the team implemented SAP Digital Manufacturing, built reusable templates, and established in-house capabilities for future deployments.

In this video, you’ll:
✔️ Learn how ContiTech built an MES solution from scratch in a greenfield environment
✔️ See how a lighthouse project in Aguascalientes created a template for global rollouts
✔️ Understand why ContiTech transitioned from SAP Manufacturing Execution to SAP Digital Manufacturing
✔️ Explore how full traceability supports production from material reception to finished goods
✔️ Hear how intuitive dashboards and digital workflows help operators work more effectively
✔️ Learn how IGZ transferred knowledge so ContiTech teams can support future rollouts independently
✔️ See how cloud-based manufacturing capabilities can support long-term scalability

Whether you’re modernizing manufacturing execution, moving from SAP ME to SAP Digital Manufacturing, or building a standardized rollout model across multiple plants, this story shows how ContiTech is creating a foundation for scalable, future-ready operations.

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Chapters:
00:00 – Project impact and adoption
00:20 – Meet ContiTech and IGZ
00:52 – Greenfield MES and rollout challenges
01:22 – Why SAP Digital Manufacturing
01:47 – Lighthouse project in Aguascalientes
02:10 – Template scalability and knowledge transfer
02:31 – Traceability, dashboards, and business value

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SAP cloud tech helps Salling Group support more than 2,100 of their stores across six countries.

Discover how AAF moved from a two-system landscape to a three-system landscape with SAP Cloud ERP to support ERP harmonization, governance, and future growth.

Join host Yannick from SAP Product Success with Uwe Detroy from AAF, Hans Tscherwitschke from implementation partner XEPTUM, and Calin Cernea from SAP Product Management as they explore AAF’s real-world transformation journey. AAF, also known as American Air Filter and part of Daikin Group, needed to consolidate multiple standalone ERP systems, standardize processes across Europe, and create a scalable foundation for continued rollout and innovation.

In this Expert Talk, you’ll:
✔️ Learn why AAF chose SAP Cloud ERP to harmonize ERP processes across European entities
✔️ Understand the business challenges behind fragmented systems, manual alignment, and master data complexity
✔️ Hear why the two-system landscape became difficult for transport management, governance, and rollout planning
✔️ See how AAF, XEPTUM, and SAP approached the move to a three-system landscape
✔️ Explore how test data conversion helped support continuity in the new test environment
✔️ Learn how SAP Cloud ALM, transport management, and localization capabilities can support scalability
✔️ Hear how the new landscape helps AAF prepare for faster innovation, future rollouts, and AI capabilities with Joule

Whether you’re running SAP Cloud ERP, evaluating a 2SL to 3SL migration, or supporting a multi-entity ERP rollout, this Expert Talk shows how a modern system landscape can help organizations move from technical complexity to a more flexible, governed, and innovation-ready ERP foundation.

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Chapters:
00:13 – Welcome and AAF transformation story
01:29 – Why AAF chose SAP Cloud ERP
03:23 – Standardizing processes across Europe
07:16 – Why the 2SL setup became challenging
10:52 – Moving from 2SL to 3SL
13:17 – The 3SL conversion journey with XEPTUM
20:19 – New capabilities, scalability, and AI readiness
25:28 – Key takeaways and closing

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New month, new capabilities. Get a quick tour of the July 2026 feature highlights across SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Datasphere.

In this update, Klaus-Peter Sauer covers what shipped in July, including one focused release packed with enhancements for replication flows, transformation flows, connectivity, monitoring, data governance, and command-line automation. You’ll also see new ways to replicate data from local table files, work with delta load types, connect private data sources, monitor large tables, and manage transport packages more efficiently in SAP Datasphere.

You will see what is new in:
✅ Replication Flow: Local Table Files as Source — Replicate data from local table files in SAP Datasphere directly to supported SAP and non-SAP targets without re-extracting from the original source.
✅ SAP BW and SAP ECC Delta Load Types — Use initial and delta, or delta-only, load types for SAP BW and SAP ECC sources in replication flows.
✅ Transformation Flows on File: Delta Capture Flag Handling — Insert records from delta-enabled source tables into non-delta targets, and use “delete all before loading” for initial-only loads.
✅ Cloud Connector Support for Object Stores and Azure SQL Database — Use Cloud Connector with object store connections, including Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Gen2, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft OneLake, and Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
✅ Replicate Data from REST APIs — Connect to external REST APIs as sources in replication flows and land data in your object store space. This capability is available as a restricted release on EU10 landscapes.
✅ SAP HANA Cloud Connections: DigiCert Certificate Update Required — Prepare for the SAP HANA Cloud migration to DigiCert TLS RSA 4096 Root G5 certificates by updating your SAP Datasphere Trust Store.
✅ Monitor Your Partition Details — View local table partitioning details directly in SAP Datasphere to support monitoring for large tables.
✅ Personal Data and Sensitive Personal Data Tagging — Automatically identify personal and sensitive personal data tags from SAP Business Data Cloud data products and see those tags inherited across downstream entities.
✅ Manage Packages via the Command Line — List, create, read, update, delete, and export transport packages using the SAP Datasphere command-line interface.

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Salling Group, Northern Europe’s largest retailer, shares how a modern SAP landscape is helping support more than 2,100 stores across six countries. Learn how SAP S/4HANA Cloud, RISE with SAP, and a strong supply chain foundation are helping the company improve efficiency, support employees, and better serve customers.

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00:00 – The Autonomous Enterprise
00:23 – Who is Salling Group?
00:40 – Why AI Transformation?
00:58 – SAP S/4HANA Cloud and RISE with SAP
01:31 – What’s next for Salling Group?

The Autonomous Enterprise is the future of business, where people set direction, and AI executes, with governance at every step. It brings together:

1️⃣ One unified SAP Business AI Platform
2️⃣ SAP Autonomous Suite & Industry AI
3️⃣ Joule as the engagement layer

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 brings a new Quality Management enhancement to help quality teams make faster usage decisions with critical batch information visible in one place.

In this release highlights video, Ashish Kakade from the Cloud ERP and SCM Product Success team showcases a key Quality Management innovation in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608. See how enhanced batch visibility in the Manage Usage Decisions app helps quality inspectors and quality managers review inspection results alongside batch details, reducing the need to switch between apps or navigate to separate transactions.

You’ll see how the Manage Usage Decisions app now displays Batch, Batch Status, and Best Before Date directly alongside inspection results. For quality inspectors, this provides the context needed to evaluate batch status and shelf life when making usage decisions. For quality managers, it helps create a more complete view of inspection information in one place.

By bringing batch information into the usage decision process, this enhancement helps streamline quality inspections, improve visibility, and support faster, more informed decisions across quality operations.

Highlights include:

📦 Enhanced batch visibility — View batch identifier, batch status, and best-before end date directly in the Manage Usage Decisions app.

✅ Manage Usage Decisions app enhancement — Review batch fields alongside inspection results without navigating to separate transactions.

🔍 Better inspection context — Give quality inspectors the information they need to consider batch status and shelf life during usage decisions.

⚡ Reduced app switching — Help quality teams work more efficiently by keeping critical batch information in one place.

📈 Faster, more informed decisions — Improve visibility and streamline the quality inspection process for quality managers and inspectors.

Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
00:16 – Quality Management innovation highlight for release 2608
00:24 – The challenge: accessing batch information during usage decisions
00:38 – New enhancement in the Manage Usage Decisions app
00:54 – Batch, Batch Status, and Best Before Date overview
01:06 – Benefits for quality managers and inspectors
01:14 – Faster decisions and improved visibility
01:21 – Join the SAP Community
01:25 – Share the product update

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Building an AI agent shouldn’t feel like a scavenger hunt. 🎯

With Joule Studio, teams can create AI agents in four simple steps: describe the goal, refine the idea, connect what matters, then test and deploy.

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