How we empower our customers to accelerate their supply chain innovation agenda? Listen to our customers - April events

Over the past weeks and months, we at SAP together with our business partners and customers prepared for a large series of events. From the Hannover Messe, to SAP NOW, down to the SAP-Infotag SCM-Planung, we offered our customers a compelling agenda on how market-leading companies together with SAP and our ecosystem drive tangible business value and innovation in the area of supply chain. In this article I quickly want to summarize my personal takeaways and give you some navigation towards the content available on-demand in case you're interested in certain business transformations.

SAP @Hannover Messe 2021

Volatility Calls for Agility and Resilience: Thinking digitally means thinking differently – in the supply chain too. Last year, many companies in the manufacturing and process industries saw just how vulnerable their supply chains are: at times, supply bottlenecks, operational disruptions, and staff shortages brought production to a grinding halt. What where some of the highlights?

• Resilient Supply Chains – Elopak: with Johannes Platen, Mechanical Design Engineer, Elopak GmbH, Julia M?ller, Senior Product Specialist – Operational Technology, SAP SE & Andreas J. Wagner, SVP & GM Digital Supply Chain MEE, SAP ?sterreich GmbH
• RISE with SAP DSC: with Susanne Diehm, Chief Operating Officer & Head of Cloud, Member of the Management Board, SAP Germany & Jan Gilg, President SAP S/4HANA, SAP SE
• Innovative Cloud Transformation at K?rcher with: Hartmut Jenner, Chairman of the Board, Alfred K?rcher SE & Co. KG, Alexander Kl?ger, Managing Director, SAP Germany, Peter Maier, President SAP Industries and Customer Advisory, SAP SE
• Panel: Successfully Moving From the New Normal to the Next Normal - Ecosystems as Catalysts (Egosystems vs. Ecosystems) with: Dr. Marianne Janik, Chairwoman of the Management Board, Microsoft Germany, Peter Mohnen, Chief Executive Officer, KUKA AG, Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO Digital Industries & Thomas Saueressig, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, SAP Product Engineering
• Open Integrated Factory, Industry 4.NOW
• SAP MES at Siemens Healthineers driving manufacturing excellence with Waltraud Winter, Head of Smart Factory, Siemens Healthcare GmbH & Andreas J. Wagner, SVP & GM Digital Supply Chain MEE , SAP Austria
• Smart Press Shop – joint venture of Porsche and Schuler – running Digital Manufacturing Cloud with: Hendrik Rothe, Managing Director, Smart Press Shop GmbH & Co. KG, Dr.-Ing. Timo B?hm, Project Manager, Smart Press Shop GmbH & Co. KG & J?rg Minge, Chief Operating Officer Digital Manufacturing and Industrial IoT Engineering, SAP SE
• Innovative and resilient maintenance processes at Bosch Rexroth and Linde with Susanne Simon, Director Business Services, Linde GmbH, Wolfgang Ziehe, Senior Manager Customer Engineering & Services EMEA, Linde GmbH, Christopher Thiesen, Project Lead CRM, Robert Bosch GmbH, Kai-Harald Solmitz, Senior Vice President, Member of the Management Board, SAP Germany & Andreas Thon, Head of Business Unit Manufacturing & Automotive, Member of the Management Board, SAP Germany
• How is RHI Magnesita driving responsible manufacturing to boost their sustainability agenda with: Thomas Drnek, Director Environmental & Energy, RHI Magnesita GmbH, Hagen Wetzel, Manager Software Development - Idea to Product, RHI Magnesita GmbH and Gunther Rothermel, Head of S/4HANA Sustainability, SAP SE

What an amazing agenda - if you missed out, click on the picture above or simply the following link to watch the recording: LINK

SAP NOW Switzerland - Digital Weeks: Supply Chain

We continued our journey with the SAP NOW Switzerland event with a dedicated day for supply chain only! A short summary video of the highlights you can find here:

Why you should have joined this event? Well, amazing customer and partner sessions around several highly interesting topics across the entire supply chain. Summarized below:

• Franz Hero (SVP Global Head DSC Development) speaking on SAP’s strategy
• Sustainability leaders on how to drive circular economy (PwC & WWF)
• Vifor Pharma embarking on a strategic business transformation in supply chain with S/4HANA, IBP and S/4HANA EWM
• Red Bull on their global transportation logistics transformation with SAP TM
• Siemens Healthineers with Smart Factory based on SAP MES 
• Smart Press Shop running manufacturing execution in the cloud with DMCe
• Alloga (Galenica) running high-performance pharmaceutical warehouse operations with SAP S/4HANA Extended Warehouse Management
• Basel Public Transport (BVB) embarking on a strategic asset management journey by digitizing mobile maintenance processes
• ABB, Reichle & De-Massari & Co. etc.

If you missed this amazing event, then feel free to register for free and watch the recordings available on-demand by clicking the following LINK

SAP-Infotag SCM-Planung

Let's continue with the next event around next-generation supply chain planning business transformations, supported by amazing customer stories and expertise business partners.

What were some of the customer use cases? Check out below!

• Red Bull on their global SAP IBP for S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) transformation
• Falken Tyre driving demand excellence by considering seasonal effects, automation towards product lifecycle management (phase-in/phase-out) and harmonization of top-down and bottom-up sales planning
• Viessmann on their global IBP transformation together with S/4HANA
• Capri Sun on their integrated business planning transformation aligning budget planning, sales, demand and operations planning
• Walter AG driving cross-functional demand and capacity planning with inventory projections with IBP
• Lion responding to changing demand patterns and running deployment planning across complex supply chain networks
• Bayer integrating demand and financial planning across the globe with SAP IBP
• Hewlett-Packard (HP) driving a global supply chain transformation to gain capacity and inventory optimization across all product lines and regions while responding in real-time to changes with SAP IBP and SAP S/4HANA
• ...and many expert panels with SAP experts, but as well external experts like Knut Alicke from McKinsey!

If you missed this amazing event, then feel free to check out the recordings on-demand by clicking on the following link: LINK

What's next?

...but that's not all, there is more to come! Let's have a look!

SAP PLM Infodays

How do you prepare your organization for next-generation R&D and PLM processes? To delight your customers, you need to always be ahead of competition and build bridges internally!

What can you expect?

• Next generation PLM of the future with SAP & Siemens
• Mayer & Cie. speaking on their global PLM transformation in mechanical engineering
• Kaeser Compressors enabling a collaborative design environment for their solutions closely linked to authoring tools providing all relevant documents across all solutions
• Schüco on their digital evolution strategy from PDM to an integrated digital backbone
• BRAND International GmbH maximizing process efficiency and preparing for Industry 4.0 in the SME segment
• Heller Maschinenfabrik on variant configurations and product lifecycle costing based on their digital twin
• STIHL on managing APQP projects with SAP PPM
• Mosca GmbH speaking about their model-centric PLM through company-wide data consistency coupling PTC Windchill and SAP S/4HANA to manage workflows and change processes
• Festo managing portfolios and projects globally on best practices of “Scoring”
• Wedag Int. speaking on efficient engineering with SAP ECTR
• Aker Solutions speaking about variant configuration and product lifecycle costing in a highly complex manufacturing environment

Don't miss out this amazing opportunity and register here: LINK

...do we have other smaller events planned? YES!

• Bru Textiles CEO explaining the value of SAP IBP from an exec perspective May 6 2021, LINK
• SBB Asset Management and Reliability Journey in the Digital age, May 6, 2021, LINK
• IMI Norgren, a world leader in fluid and motion control technologies, were looking for a supply chain planning solution that would help them manage their vast portfolio of 150,000+ finished goods, while increasing transparency in the supply chain. Check the link and register: LINK
• ...and more!

I really hope you enjoyed these sessions and webinars - and if you did not have the possibility to join us, simply register and watch the on-demand sessions! There's amazing content available on how to make your supply chain more resilient, agile and sustainable - from design-to-operate!

Best wishes

Arsim