The two new SAP products launched this month in Japan are intended to support automation in warehouse operations management and enhance compliance with customer ID management.
SAP Japan has been at the helm of many Japanese enterprises’ digitization, providing cutting-edge business software to help them navigate the journey to becoming intelligent, sustainable enterprises. Most recently, the local subsidiary of the German software enterprise has introduced new cloud-based products to help customers in the country innovate and drive business transformation amid the ever-changing customer profile and business operations needs.
Latest SAP Products to Back Digitization of Japanese Enterprises
SAP Warehouse Robotics
SAP Warehouse Robotics, which enables SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) application users to integrate almost any warehouse robot, has now been made available in Japan. (InsideSAP Asia often references articles from websites in other languages to bring you as much information as possible.) The solution addresses manufacturers’ challenge in operating multiple heterogenous robots by utilizing one software stack. SAP Warehouse Robotics centralizes management and instruction coordination of each robot that has different roles and capabilities.
Here are some of the features and benefits of SAP Warehouse Robotics:
- Drives cost-effective and simple warehouse automation by integrating a new generation of collaborative robots with SAP EWM, a modern, flexible warehouse management system (WMS) that allows enterprises to manage a high volume of goods while running agile operations made possible by digitalized and accelerated warehouse processes
- Faster collaborative development with robots, cutting months to weeks, and expanding robot connections easier
- Supports the changing robotics needs in Japan by driving automation in managing complex material handling and kitting tasks, significantly reducing on-site labor support and allowing rapid on-site work scale expansion
SAP Japan mentioned the company’s plan to utilize SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud, a manufacturing execution system (MES) based on near real-time data and analytics, to help businesses maximize the number of robots from the warehouse site to the manufacturing site.
“We support the realization of next-generation distribution warehouses and smart factories that have been utilized in Japan,” stated the company.
New “Group Management Function” for Customer IDs
Starting in June, a new feature in the SAP Customer Data Cloud focused on enhancing the group management function for customer IDs can be utilized by Japanese companies. (InsideSAP Asia often references articles from websites in other languages to bring you as much information as possible.) SAP Customer Data Cloud, comprised of Customer Identity, Customer Consent, and CIAM (Customer Identity and Access Management) for B2B solutions, allows enterprises to identify their consumers, securely, across channels and devices. The solution enhancement is designed to enable enterprises to improve corporate marketing activities and protect customers’ personal information.
Here are some of the key features of the added “Group Management Function” in SAP Customer Data Cloud:
- Enables businesses to manage multiple IDs in groups
- Allows service contractors and users to add end-users, which supports data sharing to enable companies to create specific marketing activities
- Manages consent necessary for conducting marketing activities for individuals
- Enhances security with the capability of individual authentication
- Recognizes the person of authority within the group such as obtaining proxy consent from parents to market to minors
- Unique ID provides important data such as payment information
