WMS Newsletter September 2023!!

Hello, WMS Middle East LLC Community! Welcome to the September edition of our newsletter, where we bring you the latest updates, exciting news, and valuable insights to kick off the fall season on the right foot.

Event Summary: SAP Spend Connect Summit 2023

Date: 21st September, 2023

Location: Jumeira Beach Hotel, Dubai, UAE

The SAP Spend Connect Summit 2023, held at the breathtaking Jumeira Beach Hotel in Dubai, was an unforgettable experience for procurement professionals and industry leaders from around the world. This event, which took place on 21st September brought together experts, innovators, and practitioners to explore the latest trends and strategies in procurement and spend management.

The event commenced with a warm welcome reception where attendees had the opportunity to register, connect with fellow participants, and enjoy refreshing welcome drinks. As the sun set over the picturesque Dubai coastline, attendees were treated to a sumptuous welcome dinner right on the beach, setting the tone for an engaging and enjoyable summit.

Throughout the event, attendees also had the opportunity to explore the SAP Ariba Innovation Lab, which showcased cutting-edge technologies and solutions in the world of procurement.

Attendees were also encouraged to relax and enjoy the beautiful beach and leisure facilities at Jumeira Beach Hotel, making this summit not only educational but also a memorable experience.

Thank you to all our participants, sponsors, and partners for making the SAP Spend Connect Summit 2023 a resounding success. We look forward to continued collaboration and innovation in the world of procurement and spending management.

For any post-event inquiries or to access event materials, please contact [email protected]

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SAP BTP is the technology foundation to accelerate your RISE with SAP transformation and keep you moving faster than your competition. SAP recently, launched a new premium plus package for RISE with SAP, which includes additional SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) capabilities that enable customers to maximize their SAP S/4HANA Cloud transformation and accelerate their innovation.

Generative AI for Business sets SAP apart

Generative AI, short for Generative Artificial Intelligence, refers to a class of artificial intelligence models and systems designed to generate content, such as text, images, or other data, that is often indistinguishable from content created by humans. These models are capable of learning patterns and structures from large datasets and then using that knowledge to generate new content.

SAP Business AI is deeply embedded into applications and process flows that rely on?a veritable treasure trove of decades of relevant business data?curated from huge customer data sets. SAP formed an agreement with more than 25,000 customers to use their data to train our own models. Using this data to contextualize generative AI models results in very task-specific outcomes for business users.

Without this customer data, generative AI users get results that are more like dinner-table conversations than business-altering insights and responses. The data we use for context for our tenants are protected and used only for that tenant — they are not reused elsewhere.

For more than 50 years, customers have trusted SAP with their most mission-critical business processes and now that trust is crucial as SAP delivers business AI with the highest levels of concern for security, privacy, compliance, and ethics, which our customers have come to expect.

?SAP announced that we will embed the new generative AI assistant Joule?throughout the SAP cloud enterprise portfolio. Joule will help our customers achieve business results faster by enabling them to access insights that are relevant to their business through natural conversation.

By simply asking a question in plain language, the customers can get smart answers tapped from a pool of data from across the SAP portfolio and third-party sources. Joule will continuously deliver new insights that get even more intelligent over time. Imagine, for example, asking Joule to prioritize suppliers based on their average margins and carbon footprint. Joule will handle some tasks completely, like writing job descriptions that are unbiased and compliant, helping to develop relevant interview questions, and more.

Read the white paper about how SAP Business AI is helping businesses reinvent

Story-a-month: Ice cream for losing!

"When my son Sean was twelve, he played on a Little League baseball team. A week before the season started, I got an idea about how to show him - and his teammates - acceptance. I bought twelve coupons good for ice cream sundaes at a local restaurant and took them to his coach. "Coach, these are for the kids," I said.

"Good," the coach said with a big smile. "This is great. I wish more dads took an interest like this. I'll take them for sundaes after our first win."

"No, Coach," I said quickly. "I want you to take them for sundaes after their first loss." Sean's coach looked at me strangely. What I was saying wasn't computing with his concept of winning, losing, and rewards for good play.

This is what I shared with him: "Coach, I don't know about you, but as I raise my kids I don't want to acknowledge their efforts as much as their being created in the image of God. I believe my son is created in the image of God and that he has infinite value, dignity, and worth which all have nothing to do with playing baseball. If he never played baseball an inning in his life, I would love and accept him just as much."

Sean's coach looked at me for a long moment. Finally, all he could muster was, "Well that's novel." The season started and Sean's team won their first few games. But they lost their fourth game, and the coach was true to his word. He gave each player an ice cream sundae coupon and they all went out to "celebrate" their loss.

Sean must have thanked me at least five times for the sundaes. In addition, over the next two weeks, three of the kids on his team came up and thanked me for the special treat. I recall especially a boy named Jessie, who said, "Thanks a lot for the ice cream sundaes, Mr. McDowell. Wow!! it doesn't matter to you if we win or not - you love us anyway."

Nothing could have made me happier than to hear that. What I wanted to communicate is that their worth is not based on their ability to play baseball. It's based upon the fact that they are each created in the image of God with infinite value and infinite dignity."

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