WALLDORF, Germany, April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP
SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that hundreds of companies
across the globe, including Toyota Material Handling
U.S.A. and
Veolia North America, in
the first quarter chose SAP® Ariba® and SAP
Fieldglass® solutions to digitalize procurement and external
workforce management. Hundreds more renewed licenses for SAP Ariba
and SAP Fieldglass solutions and went live with the solutions to
accelerate spend management optimization. Key highlights from the
quarter include:
Grupo Empresarial Colombina, one of the leading Colombian
food conglomerates with more than 90 years of operations, selected
SAP Ariba solutions for digital procurement. The company aims to
standardize and automate its end-to-end source-to-pay processes to
help enhance visibility into its spend, increase efficiencies and
compliance, and better align its spend management strategies with
corporate goals.
Expo 2020 Dubai, a six-month World Expo set to begin in
October 2021, digitalized its
procurement operations with SAP Ariba solutions to help gain
visibility into its spend, tighten collaboration with over 25,000
global suppliers and achieve process automation, including
completely paperless invoicing. Already, in just two months, the
Expo brought some $1.4 billion in
spend under management on Ariba Network.
Grupo Ageas Portugal, a leading insurance company,
rolled out SAP Ariba solutions for sourcing, buying, contracts,
commerce automation and supplier lifecycle performance. The company
modernized its procurement processes and looks forward to
increasing efficiency and spend transparency, improving cost
controls and savings, and enhancing compliance and competitive
advantage. In setting up a world-class procurement function, Grupo
Ageas Portugal will improve the experience for staff and
suppliers.
Unisys, a global IT services company, implemented SAP
Fieldglass solutions to help modernize its external workforce
management program. The U.S.-based company now has a solution with
strong localization capabilities, self-service configurability and
flexible API support. By standardizing and automating its
end-to-end contingent worker processes, Unisys expects to increase
visibility into this important workforce segment and improve
overall efficiency.
"The pressure on companies to strengthen alignment between
corporate goals and what they spend money on and who they do
business with is only increasing," said John Wookey, president, Intelligent Spend and
Business Network, SAP. "That challenge is elevating our commitment
to helping customers navigate their journeys to intelligent spend
management in a networked economy so they can be agile in the face
of disruption."
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