The announcement also shows that the business solutions provider continues to gain momentum with its cloud-first business model. Led by CEO Christian Klein, the company has been working to accelerate efforts to move customers from license-based software to its newer cloud products.

The preliminary financial results show SAP’s cloud revenues rose 7{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} (non-IFRS basis) to 2.04 billion euros. 

Klein comments:

“The world’s leading companies are turning to SAP to become intelligent enterprises. We are reinventing how businesses run by accelerating our customers’ transformation in the cloud. Our strong finish to the year and the upcoming launch of our new holistic business transformation offering position us well to meet our new outlook targets.”

Q4 and Full-Year SAP Business Performance

The German multinational company merits its cloud business’ strong finish for the fourth quarter to:

• continued high demand for e-commerce, Business Technology Platform, and Qualtrics XM (experience management) solutions
• several competitive wins for SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management
• strong early take-up of its new holistic business transformation offering among pilot customers (SAP will hold a virtual event to launch the new offering on January 27)
• better-than-expected business performance at SAP North America and SAP Europe in cloud order entry and software licenses revenue
• significant competitive wins in SAP ERP

In addition, SAP’s operating profit rose 3{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} in constant currency and operating margin increased by 1.5 percentage points—leading to a full-year operating profit that hit the high end of the company’s revised outlook range.

SAP expects its operating cash flow for the full year to be at around 7.0 billion euros (8.4 billion USD), approximately doubling year-over-year. SAP’s free cash flow is also expected to land around 5.9 billion euros (7.1 billion USD)—significantly above the raised outlook of above 4.5 billion euros (5.4 billion USD). Per SAP’s report, cash flow was positively impacted by lower tax and restructuring payments and a successful working capital management.

SAP CFO, Luka Mucic, said:

“Our better-than-anticipated top-line performance combined with our quick response on the cost side drove strong operating profit. SAP’s expedited shift to the cloud will drive long-term, sustainable growth while significantly increasing the resiliency and predictability of our business.”

2021 Outlook

The SAP business outlook for 2021 assumes that the current COVID-19 global crisis will begin to recede as global vaccine programs roll out, which is presumed to improve business demand in the second half of the year. 

According to the company’s business outlook statement, the company is guiding to 9.1 to 9.5 billion euros (10.9 to 11.4 billion USD) in cloud revenue (up 13-18{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} in constant currency). Meanwhile, 2021 total cloud and software revenue is expected to be as much as 23.8 billion euros (28.7 billion USD) at constant currencies. 

Hours following SAP’s pre-announcement of its fourth quarter and full-year financial results on Thursday, January 14, SAP has risen 2.7{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} in early trading.

According to SAP, the company’s Q4 2020 financial statement will be published on January 29, 2021.

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SAP 1BL Ventures—launched in 2018 in parallel with SAP’s business strategy—was first developed at SAP APJ under Adaire Fox-Martin’s leadership. The SAP Executive Board Member (who is reportedly departing the company at the end of the month) explains SAP 1BL’s purpose:

“Despite the challenges in today’s world, I believe humans are inherently good. This program gives SAP employees an opportunity to live large, and demonstrate that faith in humanity.”

The SAP 1BL Ventures program cultivates social intrapreneurs by offering the stability of an established business and the speed and innovative thinking of a startup. 

A look at SAP Global 1BL Ventures

According to Deb Kaplan, head of SAP 1BL, the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has provided greater motivation for SAP global teams to develop social and environmental solutions. Kaplan comments:

“This year’s teams have been put to the test to solve social and environmental problems focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and COVID-19 in a fully virtual environment. With a global pandemic displacing many teams from one another due to lockdowns and quarantines, these teams continued to push themselves to find new ways to work together, solve problems, communicate more effectively, and complete the journey that they started and refused to give up on.”

Over 2,000 SAP global employees participated in the 2020 SAP 1BL program. In this article, we’ll look at teams that presented the most developed and impactful social innovation ideas focused on addressing the growing issue of unemployment.

Social Recruitment

The SAP 1BL Japan team found a solution that proposes to solve Japan’s poverty issues by helping disadvantaged citizens find work through a customizable digital job-matching platform.

Led by SAP Value Advisor Expert Satoru Ota, the team worked with SAP Fieldglass and came up with ‘Social Recruitment Platform.’ The team is also working with Grameen Nippon to further develop the solution.

According to Ota, in the future, their team hopes to roll out the solution globally to poverty-stricken areas. Moreover, Ota aspires to use the venture to also help professionals whose industries may offer poorer visibility into open positions (such as artists and independent contractors).

Athena

Team Athena from SAP China hopes to create ways to improve differently-abled people’ lives through meaningful employment. The team collaborated with Taicang Inclusion Factory to build and deploy an intelligent production planning application. They are also working to develop more intelligent tools to help recruiters effectively find differently-abled individuals and also support individuals in overcoming personal barriers.

Jason Sun, a principal support engineer with SAP China, explained:

“We hope to really help these people improve their lives in every way.”

Sebenza

The Sebenza team decided to create a mobile-first job search approach to help blue-collar workers who still struggle to find available employment opportunities, especially with the challenges created by the current global pandemic. Through its partnership with the Southern Caribbean Islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the team was able to engage IT students on the islands and identify ministries within the country with which they could further partner with.

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PEPPOL, which stands for Pan-European Public Procurement On-Line, is an electronic data interchange (EDI) protocol, designed to simplify the purchase-to-pay process. IMDA is the PEPPOL Authority in Singapore and is responsible for approving and certifying Access Point (AP) providers in the country.

The PEPPOL-certified xSuite e-invoicing system provides SAP users in Singapore two key benefits. First, it allows companies using xSuite to send, receive and correctly display electronic invoices in accordance with IMDA standards. Second, the accounts payable solution now supports sending and receiving electronic invoices in InvoiceNow format.

According to a report, the xSuite solution ensures SAP-integrated, automated processing of incoming invoices and is geared toward Singaporean enterprises that use SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA.

E-Invoicing System in Singapore

In Singapore, using an e-invoicing system for payments processing is encouraged. IMDA is promoting the use of e-invoices by working with industries to implement the nationwide e-invoicing system with InvoiceNow—the leading format in Singapore for EDI based on the PEPPOL standards.

InvoiceNow allows the direct transmission of invoices in structured digital format from one finance system to another using the Nationwide E-delivery network based on XML-based syntaxes that are used in e-invoices. 

According to IMDA, unlike PDF invoices sent by email, an e-invoice in InvoiceNow format is completely generated, transmitted and processed digitally with little to no manual processing, enabling businesses to:

• enhance digital efficiencies
• reduce costs
• enjoy faster payment cycles and better cash flow for suppliers
• access new financing options
• build a strong foundation for digitalization

PEPPOL Access Point

Using InvoiceNow requires a PEPPOL Access Point, which xSuite Asia operates together with leading telecommunications company, Starhub.

According to xSuite, the company together with Starhub and IMDA are offering free webinars to provide information about InvoiceNow and its transmission. A recording of the latest webinar can be viewed at xSuite Asia’s website.

About xSuite Asia Pte. Ltd.

xSuite Asia Pte. Ltd. supports xSuite installations in most Asian countries—in India, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. 

xSuite Asia has supported several global rollouts of well-known, globally active customers. The company is a recognized player, particularly in the area of process optimization and “virtual workforce” for financial shared services centers in India, Malaysia, the Philippines and China.

The company is part of xSuite Group, an SAP Silver Partner headquartered in Ahrensburg, Germany.

The xSuite Group offers software applications for document-based processes and provides standardized, digital solutions to enterprises across the globe, making work simple, secure and fast. xSuite’s products provide digital document management, automation of important work processes, and efficiency in the use of e-files. 

xSuite’s core competence is AP automation in SAP, for mid-sized to large corporations, as well as for public clients. xSuite’s Managed Services team supports customers using SAP-integrated xSuite solutions. 

The xSuite Group employs around 200 employees globally. In 2019, the company generated total sales of € 35.5 million.

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According to Mindset Consulting, the addition of the Indian subsidiary is part of its ongoing vision of becoming the industry leader in SAP design and development. The firm expects the new offices in Bengaluru and Hyderabad to further build strong SAP capabilities in the region.

Former SAP Director to Lead Mindset Consulting in India

The Bengaluru and Hyderabad teams will be led by Parvathy Sankar, who joined Mindset Consulting as the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region’s Managing Director and Vice President of Product Strategy last August 2020.

Sankar is the former Senior Director for Strategic Projects in SAP S/4HANA Product Management and Co-innovation, where she drove adoption and led strategic projects for SAP’s flagship ERP (enterprise resource planning) product. She also led several other projects in various roles at SAP in research and development, human resources, and industry solution and product management.

Sankar holds an MBA degree from IMD International Switzerland and is an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy. According to a press release, these, combined with her 21+ years of experience with SAP, will ensure the successful growth of Mindset Consulting’s portfolio with the new Indian subsidiary as one of its key players.

Sankar comments:

“After months of laying the groundwork, it is very exciting to finally welcome our teams and share the news of the start of Mindset operations in India. We start with a strong team that we plan to quadruple over the midterm. It’s a testimony to Mindset’s culture that all employees from our long term partner, Quality Ideas CyberTech Private Limited will join us as we start our journey in India. The Mindset team in India will be a seamless part of the US Headquarters, focusing on driving the value-added products of Mindset. We will, from India, bring Mindset’s state-of-art philosophy of design-centric and experience-based solutions to SAP customers around the world.”

Mindset CEO, Gavin Quinn also explains how the expansion to India will help boost the firm’s success as an SAP partner of choice for global customers:

“Our expansion to India will help Mindset in achieving three key objectives. First, it will provide greater global scale to our growing SAP S/4HANA practice. Next, it allows us to build a comprehensive world-class team in India that will provide end-to-end capabilities rather than simply being an offshore implementation and delivery wing. Finally, it will position us to better expand our business capabilities for our Asia Pacific customers.”

About Mindset Consulting

Since 2010, Mindset has helped leading global organizations to leverage exceptional user experience (UX) and advanced development to meet today’s emerging business demands and to plan and take their next strategic leaps. Mindset’s team includes many recognized SAP thought leaders.

Mindset’s client successes are frequently featured at enterprise software conferences around the globe, including SAP TechEd and Sapphire NOW.

Mindset is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with additional locations in Denver and India.

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The SAP for Healthcare project was initiated in November 2020 and is expected to be completed in 2023. The digital transformation strategy aims to enable THKD to enhance patient experience and patient safety with innovative healthcare solutions. 

Furthermore, according to TMC Life Sciences CEO Nadiah Wan, the implementation of the new SAP ERP system will support the company’s expansion program, which includes increasing THKD’s physical capacity to 600 beds, 12 operating theatres, 154 outpatient specialist clinics, and an integrated cancer and nuclear medicine center.

 Wan explains,

“When we embarked on this expansion program to add 400 beds, we decided to future-proof our offerings and embark on a digital transformation that would support our vision to provide patient-centered services and integrated, value-based healthcare.”

The healthcare company has chosen T-Systems Singapore for the SAP systems deployment. According to Wan, the company chose the digital services provider for its proven track record of implementing SAP for Healthcare solutions in Southeast Asia.

Arkadiusz Czopor, managing director at T-Systems Asia South, says that the SAP-based patient care management system provides the scalability THKD needs to expand its footprint in the future.

SAP for Healthcare Solutions

T-Systems Singapore will implement SAP for Healthcare solutions SAP Patient Management and the SAP Cerner i.s.h.med.

According to T-Systems Singapore, the new SAP ERP system will feature a real-time dashboard that will equip THKD employees to:

• access medical records remotely
• effectively manage patient experience
• facilitate billing processes
• efficiently manage schedules, hospital equipment needs, and supplies

Andy David, healthcare director at T-Systems, said:

“Once the migration is completed, patients can receive their hospital bills within minutes instead of hours, which is a huge bonus to enhancing patient experience with THKD. Moreover, hospital staff can easily manage schedules, hospital equipment needs and supplies without consulting multiple sources, which results in bolstering the quality-of-care THKD can deliver for patients.”

About THKD

Established in 2008, Thomson Hospital Kota Damansara (THKD) is the flagship hospital of TMC Life Sciences Berhad (TMCLS) with a wide array of specialties. 

THKD offers comprehensive medical care to the highest international standards through world-class facilities, with 205 beds, fully equipped with innovative technology and excellent customer services.

THKD is a trusted brand among medical health providers—the healthcare company has received accreditation from the Malaysian Society for Quality in Health (MSQH) and the Reproductive Technology Accreditation Committee (RTAC).

About T-Systems

T-Systems supports more than 1,000 clients, including all DAX 30 companies in Germany and 100 of the Fortune 500 companies globally. It caters to the automotive, retail trade, logistics and transport sector, and healthcare industries.

As a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, T-Systems provides all important building blocks for innovative information technology and digitalization. This includes development, implementation, integration, and sale of private and public IT infrastructures and applications, including strategic digitalization and the transformation solutions that accompany this. T-Systems provides consultancy services, drawing from its deep knowledge of the industry and with the help of over 4,000 SAP experts around the world. 

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Ramanan Ramanathan, Mission Director of the AIM and Additional Secretary at NITI Aayog comments:

“The collaboration between AIM and SAP Labs India is of great value addition for the ATLs and the youth-led startups with the AICs. The students, teachers, and startups will hugely benefit from this partnership.”

Sindhu Gangadharan, SVP and Managing Director at SAP Labs India also said:

“We are pleased to strengthen our partnership with Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATL). Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), education, and digital skills among school children will enable inclusive and equitable growth in the society.”

Gangadharan adds:

“With the adoption of 100 ATL’s in the next three years, SAP will equip young talent with advanced digital skills, experiential STEM education, and expertise to drive socio-economically relevant innovation at a young age. We aim to strengthen and catalyze the incubator and startup ecosystem significantly.”

NITI Aayog—Promoting a Culture of Innovation with SAP

Under the NITI Aayog and SAP partnership, employee volunteers from SAP coach and mentor students through Atal Tinkering Laboratories. Atal Tinkering Laboraties is a program of India’s Central Government that aims to develop students’ modern digital skills through hands-on teaching methods. According to SAP, its goal is to educate 30,000 students from different states, including Northeast, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka by adopting 100 Atal Tinkering Laboratories.

Following the SOI renewal, SAP employee volunteers will additionally guide and train around 500 teachers under AIM’s Unbox Tinkering Workshop, “Training of Trainers” (ToT) program—which will run in the next three years.

The partnership also renders mentoring support to startups through incubation centers. Currently, there are 68 Atal Incubation Centers (AICs) across India. Together with AIM, SAP will be developing a new platform for these AICs to help participating incubators expand their network connections. 

About NITI Aayog

The National Institution for Transforming India, also called NITI Aayog, was formed via a resolution of the Union Cabinet on January 1, 2015. NITI Aayog is the premier policy ‘Think Tank’ of the Government of India, providing both directional and policy inputs. 

NITI Aayog designs strategic and long term policies and programs for the Government of India. It also provides relevant technical advice to the Centre and States.

About AIM

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is the Government of India’s flagship initiative to create and promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across the country. AIM’s objective is to develop new programs and policies for fostering innovation in different sectors of the economy, provide platforms and collaboration opportunities for different stakeholders, and create an umbrella structure to oversee the innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystem of the country. AIM’s initiatives have played an important contributory role in the advancement of India from a position of 81 in the Global Innovation Index in 2015 to a position of 48 in 2020.

AIM has adopted a holistic approach encompassing schools, universities, research institutions, industry, MSME, NGOs, Ministries, at district, state, and national levels.

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At the press conference between NTT and SAP that was held last week to announce the two firms’ expanded alliance, SAP CEO Christian Klein said:

“SAP and NTT are both driving their own transformation based on each other’s technology. NTT Data [Services] serves as the company’s largest division outside Japan and has adopted the full suite of intelligent management solutions from SAP—including SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, and SAP Concur.”

According to Klein, SAP Ariba helps NTT Data Services manage over 1 billion in spend and over 3,700 suppliers across more than 50 countries. While SAP Fieldglass solutions support NTT Data in effectively managing over 1300 US-based contingent workers.

He also adds:

“NTT uses SuccessFactors Essential Talent management platform—one of the largest implementations of the world. NTT uses SuccessFactors for more efficiency, stronger employee engagement, and to support employees during the digital transformation of the company.”

Becoming an ‘Intelligent Enterprise’ with SAP Software Solutions

NTT Data Services uses SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass and SAP Concur solutions to help drive the company’s intelligent enterprise transformation and effectively manage spend.

Jeffrey R. Tramel, NTT Data Services vice president of Global Procurement, explains how SAP’s support is helping the company achieve automation and cost-savings in procurement:

“We knew that utilizing world-class tools to create a modern procurement function with the help of SAP was going to enable our business to move forward and deliver clear value. SAP’s support has been instrumental in helping us build and deploy a standardized set of processes and tools that enables us to reduce cost, enable revenue, and mitigate supplier risk now and into the future.”

NTT Data Services leverages SAP software solutions to centralize its procurement management system from sourcing and supplier management, buying and payment, and supplier compliance and risk management. Additionally, the solutions have enabled NTT Data Services to:

• standardize purchasing processes and supplier management
• enhance visibility into stakeholder priorities and supplier spend and performance
• maximize cost-saving opportunities through competitions and volume discounts
• gain flexibility for regional and functional groups to manage daily operations while leveraging enterprise-wide best practices

Chad Crook, SAP Procurement Solutions senior vice president and global head of Customer Engagement and Adoption, adds:

“The outcomes to date have been impressive, and I anticipate even more positive momentum to come given the increased efficiency, cost reduction and risk mitigation already achieved.”

In the future, NTT Data Services plans to further utilize SAP software solutions and technologies to achieve the following:

• enable its remote workforce to procure goods and services
• enhance user experience and adoption
• innovate around machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotics

About NTT Data Services

NTT Data Services is headquartered in Texas, U.S.A. The NTT Data Services team consists of more than 50,000 professionals worldwide who work to address today’s challenges, and tomorrow’s—whether it’s to help jump-start cloud migration, reinvent the customer experience, streamline business processes or upgrade aging infrastructure.

NTT Data Services is a division of NTT Corporation, a top 10 global IT services provider with 130,000+ employees in more than 50 countries. NTT Corporation offers one of the industry’s most comprehensive services portfolios, designed to modernize business and technology to deliver the outcomes that matter most to our clients.

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SAP ACE Awards is SAP India’s industry benchmark that recognizes and honors India’s best-run businesses that demonstrate notable business impact through technology-led innovation with SAP solutions.

This year is the 14th year of SAP ACE Awards, and with the COVID-19 pandemic still at large—like so many other events—the ceremony was held virtually for the very first time.

One of the big winners of SAP ACE Awards 2020 is Hindustan Zinc Limited. The Udaipur-based zinc and lead producer’s ‘Evolve Project’ and ‘Project Confluence’ acquired the following awards:

• Customer Excellence – Sales, Marketing & Service for ‘Evolve Project’
• Sourcing Excellence – Large Enterprise for ‘Project Confluence’

Hindustan Zinc Limited’s CEO, Arun Misra, expressed the company’s increased ambition to further cultivate technology-led innovation in the organization. He said:

“Our digital platforms, Evolve and Confluence are both trendsetting innovations by the young minds at Hindustan Zinc and have made ease of business a reality for our customers and vendors. It is a reflection of our belief that smart operations enabled by cutting-edge technology is [sic] the key to sustainable business. The recognitions by SAP Ace Awards motivate us to further drive a culture of digital transformation.” 

Hindustan Zinc Limited’s Evolve Platform

Evolve is Hindustan Zinc Limited’s online buying platform for non-ferrous metals; the platform is the first of its kind in India and is powered by SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) and SAP’s Business technology Platform. The digital network connects communities and buyers on single platform and offers a hassle-free experience with a “three-click buying option for zinc, lead, silver, and acid.”

During the launch of the project, Misra explained how the new online platform aims to revolutionize non-ferrous metal buying experience for customers:

“Evolve stands for our vision to offer to our customers—especially MSMEs—a hassle-free experience of buying our product online with the convenience of smaller [sic] size of buy and dynamic pricing. In the sphere of online shopping experience, Evolve will enable us to contribute immensely to the ecosystem of Aatmanirbhar Bharat.”

Project Confluence

Project Confluence is Hindustan Zinc Limited’s SAP Ariba implementation project that began in 2018. The project is one of the first such initiatives in India covering the entire process on the SAP Ariba platform. 

Project Confluence covered the implementation of the following SAP Ariba solutions:

• Commerce Automation
• Supply Chain Automation
• Auction Platform
• Catalogue Management
• Contracts Management
• Pre-Purchase Order and Post-Purchase Order Collaboration
• B2B Integration
• Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

Since going live with SAP Ariba solutions, Hindustan Zinc Limited has successfully digitalized the entire Procure-to-Pay process of the company.

About Hindustan Zinc Limited

Hindustan Zinc Limited is one of the world’s largest and India’s only integrated producer of zinc-lead and silver. The company has its headquarters at Udaipur in the State of Rajasthan where it has its zinc-Lead mines and smelting complexes.

Hindustan Zinc is self-sufficient in power with captive thermal power plants and also has ventured into green energy by setting up wind power plants. The company is ranked 1st in Asia-Pacific and globally 8th in Dow Jones Sustainability Index in 2020 amongst Mining & Metal companies. Hindustan Zinc is also a certified Water Positive Company.

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The deepened relationship between the two global business solutions providers aims to create a new era of digitally connected global value chains and deliver automated business solutions to support a remote and connected world.

The unprecedented emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted societies all over the world to transform digitally in a short period of time. With the massive challenges the pandemic has created, businesses, governments, and communities have had to adapt and utilize technologies in new ways to ensure continuity and keep economies running smoothly. 

NTT Corporation and SAP have been supporting the needs of business enterprises and driving customer success for over 30 years. The two companies share a common vision around solving not only business problems but also social challenges and improving people’s lives. According to the two companies, their newly expanded alliance will bring innovative value chain solutions to help support a wholly digitalized society and increase business resiliency and agility, especially during this time. 

President and CEO of NTT Corporation, Jun Sawada said:

“Together, we will drive more innovation by combining NTT’s full stacks of capabilities, including consulting [services], industry solutions, IoT, and global infrastructure with SAP to provide a connected value chain. I believe this collaboration is necessary to create reliable, connected value chains that will benefit our clients. I expect our collaboration will make both companies and clients substantially stronger than ever before.”

Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, shared his vision for the deepened relationship between SAP and NTT:

“By combining both our companies’ global reach and scale, we truly can turn some of the world’s biggest challenges into our greatest opportunities. Both we at SAP and NTT are deeply committed to supporting companies with their digital transformation, which is more relevant today than ever before.”

Klein also expressed his thoughts about the new collaboration with NTT. He said:

“We want to go with the best, and NTT is one of the best partners in our ecosystem. We have many projects together at a global scale in over 80 countries worldwide, and this is the reach that SAP needs. Together, we can make the holistic transformation work.”

NTT Corporation and SAP: Connecting Global Value Chains

NTT and SAP’s joint value chain solutions will bring together the best of SAP’s intelligent technologies—such as IoT, edge computing, and machine learning—with NTT’s industry-leading suite of information and communications technology (ICT) and hybrid cloud capabilities worldwide.

According to Klein, they have already developed solutions for five use-cases in the supply chain management space. He points out that NTT and SAP’s co-innovated value chain solutions will help support:

• connected sites to track value and equipment assets
• enhancement of workforce safety
• streamline business operations
• connected mobility to track moving assets for reliable logistics and secure transportation delivery
• connected product solutions for better traceability based on end-to-end visibility

In addition, Klein notes that these new solutions will ensure exceptional customer experiences. He said,

“The customer experience doesn’t stop at the frontline, it doesn’t stop at the shop. You have to make the distribution—the logistics—work and we can manage that end-to-end with NTT.”

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The SAP project was supported by systems integrator and software solutions provider eGeneration in partnership with NTT Data, a global implementor from Japan.

The new business operating system—dubbed UniBOS—went live on December 01, 2020. The go-live event was held at the Westin Hotel and was attended by several executives from the Unitex Group, eGeneration, and NTT Data.

Emran Abdullah, Director, eGeneration said:

“Such SAP implementations were only done by global implementors in Bangladesh, but now eGeneration is successfully accomplishing this by connecting local Bangladeshi and global resources. We appreciate the UNIgas Management who really took the brave and right decision which is eventually now becomes [sic] a success. We appreciate the cooperation of the core team at UNIgas who relentlessly worked hard to make us complete the implementation.” 

Kuhanesh Arul, NTT Data’s regional manager for South East Asia also said:

“NTT Data is delighted to have a capable partner such as eGeneration in Bangladesh. We look forward to working with them in the future on improving business processes with technological innovation.”

Empowering business growth with SAP Oil and Gas HPM solution

Project UniBOS is based on SAP’s industry-specific solution, SAP S/4HANA IS Oil and Gas HPM.

Morshed Ahsan, CTO of UNIgas, expressed his confidence in the SAP Oil and Gas solution:

“We believe that the solution will help us achieve simplification and standardization of core organizational processes and operations across the organization.”

According to UNIgas, the implementation of the SAP Oil and Gas HPM solution is a first in the LPG Industry vertical in Bangladesh.

The LPG distributor is confident that with the deployment of UniBOS, it will be able to fully-leverage the power of SAP technologies for sustainable business growth—maximizing profitability and improving operational excellence.

A press release by the Unitex Group said:

“We have begun our ‘digital’ journey and there will be many more prestigious milestones yet to come in upfront. Through this technological integration, UNIgas has been enabled to digital transformation for the business. And as such the UNIgas [company] achieved a magnificent milestone in the history of the organization!”

According to SAP, the SAP Oil and Gas solution benefits include:

• providing a holistic view of assets and performance by integrating production, maintenance, engineering, and planning
• improving and speeding up operational decision making, increase deferment understanding, and reduce production loss
• enabling oil and gas companies to maximize asset utilization and enhance production planning

About UNIgas

UNIgas (Unitex LP Gas Ltd.) is one of the leading distributors of LP gas in Bangladesh. The Unitex company has one of the largest distribution networks in the country.

UNIgas’ LPG products and solutions are used in various capacities throughout a wide range of industries. The company provides turnkey solutions for high-volume commercial usage by restaurants, hotels and other hospitality industries. 

About eGeneration

eGeneration is one of the leading system integration and software solutions company in Bangladesh with a vision to transform Bangladesh into an innovative high-tech nation.

About NTT Data Japan

NTT DATA has built up a dominant position in the public administration field in Japan, building large-scale systems for government ministries and agencies and taking part in numerous other national projects. 

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