SAP: The world’s largest business network

At its global SAPPHIRE NOW conference, SAP SE announced a bold vision to create new business communities able to improve business outcomes, better navigate changing economic and geopolitical conditions and enhance sustainability contributions.

SAP unveiled the first step toward creating the world’s largest business network with SAP Business Network, which will bring together Ariba NetworkSAP Logistics Business Network and SAP Asset Intelligence Network. Over 5.5 million organisations will benefit from being members of this connected community.

To support this central announcement, SAP is also announcing new innovations designed to help companies modernise and digitalise their business processes to become intelligent enterprises. In addition, customers can benefit from a new portfolio of sustainability-specific business applications that deliver exceptional transparency and measurement capability across the supply chain.

“During this unprecedented year, the importance of the communities we’re part of has never been clearer,” said Christian Klein, CEO and Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. “Our new vision will build the world’s largest business community, enabling customers to easily connect with companies across supply chains and creating networked economies across industries.”

While we have all seen the power of networks in our personal lives, this networked ecosystem for businesses doing business together is unique. Members of the new SAP Business Network will be able to access a single, unified portal to gain a holistic view into their supply chain ecosystem, logistics and traceability, and equipment management and maintenance. To learn more, read “SAP Introduces SAP Business Network.”

During the pandemic, the most resilient companies were those who embraced technology to transform their business processes. Those who leveraged cloud infrastructure and didn’t actually digitalise core business processes did not fare as well. SAP announced the RISE with SAP transformation packages for specific industries to enable every enterprise to become an intelligent enterprise. Building on the successful introduction of the RISE with SAP offering in January, the RISE with SAP packages for specific industries provides business transformation as a service with five initial industry-tailored cloud solutions for retail, consumer products, automotive, utilities and industrial machinery and components. To learn more, read “Start Your Digital Transformation Journey: RISE with SAP for Industries.”

Despite a brief drop in carbon emissions over the past year, this year is on track for the second-biggest increase in emissions in history. Sustainability is as important to business success as revenue and profits. This is the decade in which companies must act. SAP’s stated goal is to make climate protection measurable, diversity and inclusion visible and ethical responsibilities transparent.

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To enable this goal and operationalise sustainability as a core business process, SAP announced a portfolio of new sustainability-specific products. This includes the SAP Responsible Design and Production solution to ensure product designers can make sustainable choices from initial product concepts to production; the SAP Product Footprint Management solution to track sustainability through a product lifecycle, and the SAP Sustainability Control Tower solution to provide end-to-end visibility. To learn more, read “Sustainability Management by SAP: Enabling Tomorrow Starts Today.”

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