SAP announces that submission of entries for the inaugural SAP Best Run Awards SEA is now open for SAP customers across Southeast Asia. The SAP award program will commemorate, celebrate, and publicly recognize the achievements of top SEA companies and business leaders who used SAP solutions to transform their businesses, drive innovation, and find success—all while facing challenges from today’s disruptive and volatile economy.
SAP encourages participants to emphasize new ways of thinking to set new and improved benchmarks for their industries and “make the world run better.”
According to SAP, submission of entries runs from 15th September 2020 midnight SGT to 15th December 2020 midnight SGT. Selection of finalists by SAP Best Run Awards panelists will take place from 15 December 2020 to 1 February 2021—three finalists per category will be announced.
The finalists’ entries will be assessed from 1 February 2021 to 26 February 2021. Winners will be announced March 2021.
Celebrating Business Transformation with SAP Solutions
SAP says that customers across Southeast Asia that have successfully deployed a business application that utilizes SAP solutions (software products, cloud-based service, or other technologies) can submit entries for any two out of the six award categories.
The six SAP Best Run Awards categories include:
- Best Innovation Award – The Disruptor: Recognizes emerging enterprises with a strong culture of innovation and have utilized one or more SAP solutions to seek creative solutions, innovate, and embrace technology to transform their businesses.
- Best Customer Experience Management – The X Factor: Recognizes organizations that demonstrate a Customer-First approach & mindset and have seamlessly created a customer experience through digital transformation.
- Emerging Enterprise Award (SMEs) – The Small but Mighty: Recognizes small and mid-size enterprises with 50 employees and below that drive consistent, significant, and sustainable growth; and display the ability to scale and expand overseas.
- Most Transformational Award – The Game Changer: Recognizes mid-to-large enterprises with over 50 employees that drive a change management within the complexities of large corporates from different lines of businesses.
- Most Promising Startup or Entrepreneurship Award (SAP.iO) – The Rising Star: Recognizes startups that have worked with SAP to provide value-added services to our customers and built a unique and commercially viable and sustainable idea.
- Most Promising Next Generation Leaders – The Trailblazer (Individual Award): Recognizes the next generation leaders in their capacity who have overcome challenges or is a pioneer in its field, creating an impact on leading their organizations, businesses to scale greater heights.
The SAP Best Run Awards SEA presents an opportunity for participants to extend their organization’s publicity and marketing mileage. Winners’ business success stories will be shared by SAP with its partner ecosystem and various SAP platforms.
The winners, as well as finalists, will receive trophies and certificates. Furthermore, the six category winners will receive a total donation of USD30,000 collectively made in their name to the ASEAN Foundation.
SAP South East Asia’s President & Managing Director, Verena Siow said,
“Peer to peer learning from the best in the industry is essential to innovating for the future. We are pleased to launch the inaugural SAP Best Run Awards for Southeast Asia to recognize the achievements and innovations by organizations across the region and capture their transformative stories so that cross-industry peers can learn from one another.”
