SAP Digital Supply Chain solutions play a crucial role in helping businesses transform their supply chains to meet evolving business demands.
In a recent address at the SAP Go Global Summit in Shenzhen, China, Chenhong Huang, Global Executive Vice President of SAP SE and President of SAP Greater China, highlighted the uncertainties and challenges that Chinese enterprises face as they accelerate growth in overseas markets. However, he also shared successful customer stories, including Roborock, Hisense, BYD, Xiaomi, and Lenovo.
SAP Sapphire Virtual in 2022 saw the German tech giant’s Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer and Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Julia White, discuss the power of becoming an intelligent, sustainable enterprise with Yang Yuanqing, Chairman and CEO of Lenovo. Yuanqing expressed his delight with the continuous enhancements to Lenovo’s supply chain solutions and emphasized SAP’s role in achieving a world-class supply chain.
Lenovo, a leading global technology company, delivers over 150 million products a year with an on-time delivery rate of 96%. To keep up with customer demands, Lenovo has invested in its digital supply chain to achieve efficiency and accuracy at scale. SAP has also played a crucial role in this transformation, powering Lenovo’s journey toward becoming an intelligent, sustainable enterprise.
“Together with SAP, Lenovo is building new, state-of-the-art smart factories globally. These new smart factories are running SAP S/4HANA on Lenovo infrastructure with end-to-end, order-to-delivery solutions connecting over 2,000 suppliers to billions of customers. That will definitely take Lenovo manufacturing to a whole new level,” said Yuanquing further shared.
Arthur Hu, Senior Vice President, and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Lenovo and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Solutions and Services Group at Lenovo Group Ltd., stressed the importance of incorporating the latest technology into Lenovo’s operations. He stated that digitalization and smart technology allow Lenovo to achieve efficiency and accuracy at scale, with the intelligent enterprise resource planning (ERP) system SAP S/4HANA being a cornerstone investment in Lenovo’s digital core.
Driving Sustainability
Sustainability is a key aspect of Lenovo’s services-led transformation, with device-as-a-service (DaaS) being an example. Lenovo designs sustainability into every step of the offering, from deployment to maximizing utilization during the asset lifecycle and utilizing recovery services for secure and responsible handling at the end of the useful device life.
Additionally, Hu outlined Lenovo’s efforts to discover SAP innovation opportunities, including anticipating the needs of other businesses and translating those expectations into code and functionality that can be used as building blocks in SAP solutions. He believes this increases the value of the whole community and ecosystem.
Lenovo’s transformation is driven by a new services-led business model supported by modern digital infrastructure. SAP has been on this journey with Lenovo, with the company utilizing cloud services from SAP, SAP Ariba solutions, and SAP Concur solutions. Lenovo TruScale, the company’s umbrella for offering everything on its portfolio as a service, is at the forefront of Lenovo’s transformation.
Implementing SAP Digital Supply Chain
Moreover, the company is using SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management on RISE with SAP powered by Lenovo TruScale to rapidly bring new business offerings to the market in a scalable way. Hu further shared:
“All this comes together to make an excellent case where we are using the combined power of our technologies to advance our transformation at speed and lead the way with new, compelling value propositions for our customers.”
Meanwhile, SAP Digital Supply Chain is a comprehensive suite of solutions that helps businesses streamline and optimize their end-to-end supply chain operations. It provides real-time visibility into supply chain processes, enables collaboration between stakeholders, and leverages advanced technologies such as AI, machine learning, and IoT to drive efficiency and agility.
SAP Digital Supply Chain has been instrumental in Lenovo’s smart and sustainable transformation towards becoming an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. With the latest technology and digital infrastructure powered by SAP, Lenovo is well-equipped to deliver world-class products and services to customers around the globe.
