Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are vital for integrating and managing a company’s core business processes, from finance and procurement to human resources and manufacturing. As companies transition from SAP ECC, an older ERP system, to the more advanced SAP S/4HANA, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the new system is paramount. This is where LG CNS’s PerfecTwin ERP Edition steps in.

PerfecTwin ERP Edition builds on the success of the original PerfecTwin, a solution that leverages real transaction data to detect and rectify system defects. The new edition is tailored specifically for SAP ERP environments, utilizing actual data from SAP ECC systems rather than sampled data. This approach significantly enhances the precision of defect identification and remediation, which is crucial for a smooth transition to SAP S/4HANA.

Enhancing System Quality with Real Transaction Data

The PerfecTwin ERP Edition stands out by automatically collecting millions of real transaction records and replicating them in the SAP S/4HANA environment. This massive data replication allows for comprehensive testing and verification, highlighting discrepancies and potential issues that might be overlooked by traditional methods that rely on smaller data samples.

By continuously comparing the outcomes between the old and new systems, PerfecTwin ERP Edition ensures that any defects are promptly identified and addressed. This thorough verification process not only facilitates a successful initial launch but also supports ongoing upgrades and maintenance of the SAP S/4HANA system.

According to Min Bae, Head of the Security & Solution Business division at LG CNS, the PerfecTwin ERP Edition provides unparalleled value by significantly enhancing transaction accuracy and system reliability for corporate clients across various industries. This solution reduces the time and effort required for manual defect detection, which can be both time-consuming and limited in scope, especially when repetitive testing is essential for ERP systems that serve as the backbone of corporate operations.

Global Expansion and Strategic Partnerships

In a strategic move to expand its global footprint, LG CNS is set to launch PerfecTwin ERP Edition in the U.S. market by the end of this month. This follows a series of collaborative efforts with SAP, including a memorandum of understanding signed at SAP’s headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. The partnership aims to develop next-generation ERP systems and has involved joint technical meetings, workshops, and proof-of-concept projects to fine-tune the solution.

In addition to PerfecTwin ERP Edition, LG CNS also showcased its SINGLEX platform at SAP Sapphire 2024. SINGLEX is a global SaaS (Software as a Service) integrated platform that consolidates essential business services such as procurement management, human capital management, marketing, sales, manufacturing, R&D, and quality control. By offering a unified platform, SINGLEX allows companies to customize their SaaS subscriptions according to their specific needs, paying only for the services they use.

The SINGLEX platform demonstrates LG CNS’s commitment to enhancing business efficiency through digital transformation. For instance, in procurement management, SINGLEX extends SAP Ariba’s capabilities with manufacturing-specific features, while in human capital management, it combines LG CNS’s expertise in AI and big data with SAP SuccessFactors to optimize employee experiences through AI-driven job and competency analysis and continuous feedback mechanisms.

The Future of ERP Migration from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA

As companies navigate the complex process of migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, solutions like PerfecTwin ERP Edition are becoming increasingly crucial. By leveraging real transaction data, LG CNS’s latest offering provides a robust and reliable method for ensuring system quality and performance. This innovation not only supports initial system launches but also facilitates ongoing upgrades and maintenance, helping companies maintain the integrity and efficiency of their ERP systems over time.

The introduction of PerfecTwin ERP Edition and SINGLEX at SAP Sapphire 2024 underscores LG CNS’s dedication to leading the digital transformation landscape. With these advanced solutions, LG CNS aims to support global corporate clients in their quest for seamless and effective ERP system migrations, ensuring that businesses can continue to operate smoothly and efficiently in an ever-evolving digital world.

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AI Designed for Business Success

SAP is strengthening its commitment to embedding powerful AI capabilities throughout its portfolio, empowering customers to tackle critical business challenges seamlessly within their workflow. With the latest advancements in SAP Business AI, customers can engage with personalized customer experiences, enhance procurement productivity, and effectively identify and develop key talent across their entire workforce. SAP’s responsible approach to AI ensures that customers can leverage SAP Business AI with confidence, knowing that ethical considerations are at the forefront of these innovative solutions.

SAP also leverages its robust ecosystem to benefit customers. A notable collaboration was announced with Microsoft, expanding their longstanding partnership. This integration involves the integration of SAP SuccessFactors solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Viva Learning, along with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. By accessing powerful language models for natural language analysis and generation, organizations can expect new and improved experiences that optimize talent management processes, including attracting, retaining, and upskilling employees.

Advancing Sustainability with the Green Ledger

Building upon its revolutionary enterprise resource planning (ERP) software from half a century ago, SAP is expanding the concept of resources to encompass carbon in the reinvented “R” in ERP. Addressing evolving regulatory requirements and growing stakeholder pressure for sustainable operations, SAP’s green ledger initiative offers an auditable, transparent, and reliable accounting system for carbon emissions. This enables companies to manage their environmental impact with the same precision and confidence as their financial data.

As part of the initiative, the German tech giant is updating its SAP Sustainability Footprint Management solution, enabling comprehensive calculation and management of corporate, value chain, and product-level emissions. Additionally, the company introduced the SAP Sustainability Data Exchange application, facilitating a secure and standardized exchange of sustainability data between enterprises and their partners and suppliers. By integrating the green ledger initiative into the RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP solutions, SAP further underscores its commitment to sustainable business practices.

SAP Innovations the Entire Solutions Portfolio

SAP unveiled a range of innovations across its entire portfolio, demonstrating its commitment to bolstering customer resilience. SAP Business Network for Industry combines the benefits of networked supply chains with SAP’s industry expertise, enabling customers in consumer products, high-tech, industrial manufacturing, and life sciences to enhance supply chain resilience swiftly.

Furthermore, advancements in the SAP Business Technology Platform accelerate business process organization and facilitate enterprise automation at scale. SAP Signavio solutions provide critical process insights in a matter of hours, SAP Integration Suite unifies holistic processes across SAP and non-SAP systems on-premise and in the cloud, and event integration capabilities in SAP Build solutions empower business experts to trigger automation throughout all business processes.

Recognizing the challenges posed by fragmented data landscapes, SAP expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to offer an extensive open-data solution. By combining the SAP Datasphere solution with Google’s data cloud, customers gain access to an end-to-end data cloud that consolidates data from across the enterprise landscape, enabling deep, actionable business insights.

SAP also reaffirmed its commitment to upskilling two million individuals worldwide by 2025 to meet the increasing demand for top-notch professional developers. The company announced new programs aimed at meeting the growing need for SAP experts within its ecosystem, ensuring ongoing business transformation for customers in the cloud.

As SAP continues to drive innovation, collaboration, and sustainability in South East Asia, businesses across the region are well-equipped to navigate the challenges of the digital economy. Through the integration of responsible AI, the green ledger initiative, and a comprehensive range of innovations, SAP empowers businesses to adapt, thrive, and lead in an ever-evolving marketplace.

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SAP Sapphire 2022 has officially kicked off in Orlando City on the 10th-12th of May 2022 with SAP CEO Christian Klein and Chief Marketing Officer Julia White opening the floor with the inspiring keynote “Realise the Power of Becoming an Intelligent, Sustainable Enterprise”.  More than ever, the conference is putting its customer and partners in more than 140 countries at the core of the global series, paying both an homage and encouragement for demonstrating agility and success amidst the pandemic disruptions. 

In his keynote, SAP CEO Klein expressed SAP’s continued commitment to support its customers’ modernisation journey to becoming intelligent, sustainable enterprises. He said:

“For 50 years we have revolutionized together the way businesses are run, and in the next 50 years, together we will continue to deliver market-making innovation. While the world around us has changed significantly, our purpose is more relevant than ever: to help the world run better in times of geopolitical tensions, disruptive industry transformation, and supply chain disruptions, and to improve people’s lives in times of war and climate change.”

Throughout the three-day hybrid conference in Florida, SAP announced multiple cloud and product innovations and collaborations across the supply chain, sustainability, business process transformation, and no-code application development domains. The event also showcased the tech giant’s contributions, achievements, and vision for the intelligent, networked, sustainable enterprise.

SAP Sapphire 2022 Highlights

Cloud and Product Innovations

Helping customers achieve a resilient supply chain and harness intelligent business networks, SAP launched a suite of new apps centred on supply chain management made available on the Apple App Store on the 10th of May. This includes mobile apps SAP Warehouse Operator and SAP Direct Distribution, making SAP apps accessible to iPad or iPhone users. Klein compared SAP Business Network, the world’s largest B2B network that connects buyers, suppliers, manufacturers, and logistics providers, as the LinkedIn of the B2B space.

Acknowledging the increasing demand for no-code/low code development platforms, enhancements on SAP AppGyver and SAP Process Automation– both part of the free tier model for SAP BTP– were also announced. In addition, SAP is also including in its pipeline free learning journeys in the SAP Learning portal designed for citizen developers to prepare them for new no-code/low-code certifications skills.

New capabilities in the SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises and SAP Product Footprint Management solutions were highlighted to help enterprises better manage their green line. The SAP CEO mentioned other solutions that help organisations measure environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors such as SAP Concur, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Sustainability Control Tower.

Driving Customer Success

RISE with SAP, the company’s concierge, Business Transformation as a Service offering, was also highlighted throughout the conference, featuring customer success stories and solution collaborations with partners. Several SAP partners including Philips, AMD, and Accenture shared how they maximised business value in their digital transformation journey by leveraging the BTaaS offering. Klein stated:

“We want to transform each and every enterprise into an intelligent enterprise. RISE with SAP takes you on a transformation journey that’s tailored exactly to your needs. Over 2,000 customers have selected RISE with SAP; more than 60{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} are new customers to SAP.”

SAP CMO White led a series of innovation demonstrations featuring SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Fieldglass that helped companies deliver excellent, digitalised employee experiences such as the success story of Vodaphone Group.

During Day 2 of SAP Sapphire, keynote speaker Scott Russell, SAP Executive Board Member and Customer Success lead, shared that customers recognise leadership and transformation as critical success factors. He invited Melissa Goldman, Vice President of Engineering at Google, to detail how SAP enabled the tech company’s digital transformation journey.

“Google is a data-driven company, and SAP is the foundation. There is a lot of complexity around change,” stated Goldman. “Google has the best engineers in the world, but SAP is the industry leader in this domain and has the best practices for bringing change to an enterprise from start to end. If you want rigor and discipline and the right data model, get SAP.”

Russell acknowledged the 2,200 partners in the SAP ecosystem that ensures customer success including his final guest Geoff Scott, CEO of ASUG, who highlighted that establishing trusted, collaborative partnerships increase the chance of a company’s success during these unprecedented times.

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