SAP Japan Co., Ltd. recently announced the recipients of its highly-anticipated “SAP Japan Customer Award 2022”. The awards recognize customers who have made outstanding contributions in utilizing SAP technology to drive innovation and business transformation.
The German tech giant strives to be an invaluable asset for its customers’ triumph in order to actualize its mid- and long-term ambitions for 2032, which is to bring the ‘future of Japan’ to fruition. This objective will be achieved by providing innovative solutions that enable companies to stay ahead of the competition and remain competitive. As part of this mission, SAP Japan collaborates with its partners and clients to develop cutting-edge technologies applicable across various industries.
SAP Japan Customer Award is dedicated to honoring customers who are actively taking strides towards digital transformation (DX) in order to achieve their own success. With the intention of raising awareness of DX efforts both domestically and internationally, this award strives to encourage further promotion and growth in this field. (InsideSAP Asia often references articles from websites in other languages to bring you as much information as possible.)
Winners of the SAP Japan Customer Award 2022
This year’s awards had a slight alteration from last year in that the previous Innovation Category has been changed to the Innovation/Sustainability Category. The award ceremony for this year once again saw eight categories, and companies and organizations were selected as winners of these awards. This change was made to recognize those who strive for sustainable development through innovation, rather than simply striving for innovation itself.
Japan Society Category
Winner: The Nippon Foundation
Since May 17, 2022, when planning for the “Platform for Supporting Ukrainian Refugees” began, a month has passed since its launch. Its goal is to continually grasp the exact status of Ukrainian refugees and lead to the required support. a paddy of rice. As a future strategy, SAP Japan is attempting to broaden use cases like deployment to local governments around Japan, which has impacted over 2,000 refugees.
Innovation / Sustainability Category
Winner: Asahi Kasei Corporation
Asahi Kasei is investigating the present state of CO2 emissions from facilities producing synthetic rubber and elastomer goods as part of its efforts to contribute to a sustainable society and increase the value of the firm. Together, the two companies are mapping out ways to lessen their impact. The goal is to put this knowledge to use in ways that benefit customers, communities, and the world at large.
Japan Industry 4.0 Category
Winner: Hitachi High-Tech Co., Ltd.
With SAP S/4HANA Cloud and the SAP Business Technology Platform, they built a DX platform to streamline and digitally transform the business’s end-to-end operations, from marketing and sales to product development and supply chain management. In addition, they want to implement a BOM thread that connects different BOMs in an effort to speed up digital production (Bills of Materials). In conjunction with SAP Labs, the company will be marketing it.
SAP Concur Division
Winner: Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd.
In order to achieve the company’s medium- to the long-term objective of “3,000 shops and 3 trillion yen in sales in 2032,” they have selected SAP Concur as an expenditure operation platform that can be used at domestic and international group organizations. They optimized the change by unifying and streamlining internal procedures; for example, they reduced 2,800 different daily wage patterns to just 19. Finished a task that would have taken one person a lot of time.
Cloud Adoption Category
Winner: NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
In order to implement the “Nippon Express Group Management Plan 2023,” the Accounting Department has been promoting Project ITS as a foundational policy of F2S. (Fit to Standard). The company will try to enhance business management by standardizing SAP solutions, and they will do so even when strategic M&A has performed thanks to the deployment of the newly designed SAP, which will produce an environment that may generate synergistic benefits at an early stage. The use of group SSC and BPO centers, as well as line functions, is intended to facilitate standardized operations and efficient administration.
Experience Management (XM) Division
Winner: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Employee engagement, employee sentiment, and company/workplace issues may all be better understood using SAP Qualtrics Employee Engagement, an add-on for Employee Pulse, used for both immediate and intermediate goals. They have developed a cycle that encourages actions by feeding back on follow-ups, offering assistance with career design, and implementing steps to better the workplace and its employees based on the data they collect about expectations and other such things.
Mid-Market Division
Winner: Bitkey Co., Ltd.
Establishing business processes at an early stage, avoiding the occurrence of inefficient business processes, and considering the realization of real-time data-driven management through standardization are all crucial to the future growth and expansion of the firm. By optimizing and aligning company operations with global standards, they want to lay the groundwork for future development and expansion. Also, if you follow the Fit to Standard approach, you may start using internal resources right away (Self Implementation), which will be a great paradigm for introducing DX to many SMBs in the future.
Transformation Division
Winner: Lion Corporation
Lion Corporation’s award was based on the success of its efforts to modernize its planning system and core system, creating a streamlined process and system for carrying out both. They formed the “BPR Promotion Department” as the overseeing department, reframed the project’s goal as business reform rather than a simple technology introduction, and moved on with the system rollout while simultaneously reworking the business process.
Additionally, they set up a special department to handle one-number operations across all of their business units right around the time the system went live, and they’re actively encouraging the rollout and refinement of reforms like production planning and inventory optimization across the board in tandem with their partners.
