WALLDORF, Germany, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- At its global
SAPPHIRE NOW® conference, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP)
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® Network, SAP Logistics Business
Network and SAP Asset Intelligence Network. Over 5.5 million
organizations will benefit from being members of this connected
community.
To support this central announcement, SAP is also announcing new
innovations designed to help companies modernize and digitalize
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 simply leveraged cloud infrastructure and didn't actually
digitalize core business processes did not fare as well. To enable
every enterprise to become an intelligent enterprise, SAP announced
the RISE with SAP transformation packages for specific
industries. 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.
To enable this goal and operationalize 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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as an intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise
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