Cloud ERP: 5 Reasons to Attend Sapphire 2024

Future-proof your business, be innovation ready, and secure your path to cloud

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, leaders must be confident they can adopt a cloud-first strategy that drives?tangible business outcomes while?effectively managing cloud transformation?costs.??

Cloud ERP is a catalyst for transformation, promising to accelerate processes, amplify productivity,?and offer real-time insights into your business operations. It's the solution to meeting and exceeding customer expectations, from swifter deliveries to?continuous improvements and enhanced reliability—all while increasing operational efficiency.?It enables you to collaborate with partners worldwide?and navigate global markets with ease.??

But how do you navigate this transformation with certainty? How do you ensure your business thrives in the ever-changing digital landscape? It's a journey, one that SAP believes requires a well-defined path and harnesses the latest innovations like generative AI and sustainability to help you secure your success?and bring out?your best in the digital age.??

Join us this June for SAP Sapphire 2024?in Orlando, Barcelona, or virtually to discover how adopting a modern Cloud ERP solution will empower you to sharpen your competitive edge so?you can evolve from running your business to?innovating your business.??

Here are the top 5 reasons you should attend Sapphire:?

(1) Learn why and how to migrate to a modern cloud ERP

Every company needs a cloud-first business strategy. Only in the cloud can you harness the potential of the latest innovations, including AI and sustainability solutions. Only in the cloud can you keep up with the pace of business and the changing demands and challenges you face. And only in the cloud can you predict and identify risks and opportunities and respond at the speed of business.?

SAP?recently announced?the?RISE with SAP Migration and Modernization program?to help companies build a cloud-first business strategy and address the two primary issues that companies face when moving to the cloud—driving tangible business outcomes and cost. The program gives leaders confidence to take even the most complex ERP systems to the cloud by helping to eliminate custom code, data silos, and process complexity.??

You will learn how to migrate and modernize your ERP and benefit?from continuous innovation in the cloud with all the security, scale, and compliance you?need.?

(2) Unleash the power of AI across your ERP and business environment?

It’s safe to say that AI is everywhere. It’s often a case of: “The answer is AI, what’s the question?”?

This underscores the necessity for businesses to thoroughly assess and comprehend various related aspects to craft a robust AI Business Strategy.?The key is to identify your business challenges you need to address, the use cases that will improve your business, and then determine how best to address them.?The possible applications for AI in the business context seem endless, but how do you turn this potential into tangible value? What scenarios will work best for your business? How do you build an AI strategy? ?And how will AI align with your specific operational requirements??

At Sapphire you can discover the power of AI for ERP that’s reliable, relevant to your business, and responsible by?design.?

(3) Understand, improve, and transform your business processes

Digitally transforming your business systems is often a complex yet valuable endeavor. By leveraging a company-wide, standardized software solution to streamline your processes, reduce human error, and optimize resource allocation, you can build and maintain a sustainable and resilient business.??

At Sapphire you will see how companies have understood, improved, and transformed their business processes and IT to drive operational change and business?transformation.

(4) Understand the value and interrelationship between profitability and sustainability.?

Businesses are under tremendous pressure from customers, investors, employees, and regulators to reduce the negative impact of their greenhouse gas emissions. Increasingly, the C-suite is expected to deliver a profitable, sustainable, and low carbon business transformation that complies with the ever-increasing number of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) rules and regulations.?

Companies must start treating carbon like money and managing sustainability data with the same rigor as financial data. Only with such a system in place is it possible to accelerate decarbonization while recovering costs associated with high-carbon output.?

Transactional carbon accounting brings carbon emissions and finance transactions together beyond reporting, uniquely enabling decisions to drive sustainable business transformation.?

We will be showing you how to enable growth by connecting sustainability and finance?transactions together beyond reporting, uniquely enabling decisions to drive sustainable?business?transformation.?

(5) Transform finance to deliver new business models.?

The path toward revenue growth, cost control, minimized risk, and sustainability begins with financial management software you can trust to drive top line growth, maximize the bottom line, and raise the green line.??

Forward thinking companies look to drive top line growth by enabling new digital business models that reimagine new billing models and payment experiences. They safeguard and maximize the bottom line by reducing the cost of finance, and with continuous controls and compliance in core processes. And they raise the green line by understanding that every transaction has a financial and sustainability cost and embed sustainability across all business processes.?

At Sapphire you will learn how to transform finance to deliver new business models, optimize working capital, increase efficiency, and reduce?risk.?

Hopefully I’ve gotten you?interested to learn more and join me on June 4th and 5th in Orlando. Click here to learn how you can get there.?

SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP Jan Gilg David Robinson Bernd Brandl