Organized by the SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, and SAP S/4HANA teams, the virtual event series, titled ‘Procurement Reimagined’ will be held on October 6 for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region and on October 13 for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

SAP customers and partners will share how they have navigated the challenges brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic this year and how they driving agile procurement, managing spend, and reinventing for the future to become more resilient. Organizations joining include:

• ANZ Bank New Zealand – New Zealand’s largest financial services group that operates as a subsidiary of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited of Australia.
• Applied Materials – a global leader in materials engineering solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic (PV) industries will share its four-year transformation journey which delivered security, efficiency and visibility to its external workforce management initiative.
• BHP– an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum dual-listed public company.
• Medtronic – an American Irish-domiciled medical device company will talk about the importance of external talent in fueling the company’s business operations and supply chain.
• MMG – an Australian mining company headquartered in Melbourne.
• Philips – a Dutch multinational conglomeration and of the biggest global health technology companies.
• Prism Johnson – one of India’s largest building materials companies, with a wide range of products from cement, ready-mixed concrete, tiles, bath products.
• Sterlite Power – a leading global integrated power transmission developer and solutions provider, based in India.
• TAFE NSW – a provider of vocational education and training in Australia who will share their journey from business case to deployment of their Procure to Pay Transformation.
• Tata Power Ltd. – India’s largest integrated electric utility company.
• Valvoline Cummins – one of India’s fastest growing lubricant companies who will share how their organization embraced digital innovations from SAP Ariba to transform their source to contract processes.
• VELUX – a Danish roof window and skylight manufacturer
• WesTrac – one of the largest authorized Caterpillar equipment dealers owned by Australian Capital Equity. The company will discuss how they used the Ariba Network to digitize supplier collaboration to drive efficiency and transparency in invoicing and supply chain.
• Woolworths – Australia’s largest supermarket chain.

SAP Procurement Solutions President Chris Haydon who will be kicking off the event will share SAP’s vision for the SAP community of customers and partners on how they can reimagine procurement. He said:

“Businesses around the globe are facing extraordinary challenges with economic uncertainty and an unparalleled pace of change. Those who rethink processes and redefine the strategic role procurement plays within their organization may well come out even stronger than before. Procurement Reimagined is where this diverse community will come together and address the future of our industry, and how we work together to achieve resiliency, sustainability, and profitability.”

SAP Procurement Solutions Chief Customer Officer Tamara Braun will also be interviewing top product and strategy executives on how they are using SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass and SAP S/4HANA–based operational procurement solutions to respond to unprecedented disruption and face new opportunities and threats.

Head of SAP Customer Success Adaire Fox-Martin will also be leading the interactive sessions to highlight social impact procurement and the power of joining together as a community in these uncertain times.

APAC Sessions

SAP’s Procurement Reimagined sessions in the APAC region will include:

• Focus on the Future: Procurement’s Role in the New Normal (Southeast Asia) – will showcase how procurement professionals can respond to new demands, and how SAP helps organizations optimize spend while staying agile and resilient.
• Being Game-Ready for the Next Decade: Procurement’s New Horizon (Australia and New Zealand) – a session with SAP customers on how procurement has benefited from digitalization and technology
• Procurement’s Next Challenge: Balancing Agility and Efficiency (India) – a regional update in India featuring Sterlite Power and partner KPMG who will discuss reimagining procurement for today, and how procurement leaders are at the forefront of this change

Interested participants can register to the virtual event through this link.

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Burger King Brazil and Guatemala’s Banco G&T Continental joined the growing number of global companies that utilize SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass intelligent spend management solutions in digitally transforming procurement and integrating the entire buying process across their organizations.

Two of the leading organizations that continue to choose SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass solutions are Uniper SE, an experienced international energy company from Germany, and Follett Corporation, a U.S. educational product and services provider for over 140 years.

This year, thousands of new companies have chosen SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass solutions to help digitalize goods and services procurement, manage direct and indirect spend, and source and manage external workers. Below are some of the companies that have started utilizing SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass solutions during the second quarter:

•  Banco G&T Continental selected SAP Ariba solutions to help simplify its procurement processes, establish better governance and improve its relationship with suppliers. As one of the largest banks in Guatemala and Central America, Banco G&T Continental expects that its digital transformation will help improve operational efficiency and transparency and elevate its brand.
• Burger King, one of the largest fast-food operators in Brazil, relied on SAP to support its fast growth. SAP Fieldglass solutions will be utilized in managing the growing company’s interactions with services vendors. Also, Burger King Brazil leverages SAP Concur solutions to support expense management and SAP SuccessFactors solutions to help attract, retain and develop its workforce. SAP Customer Experience solutions will soon be adopted as well by the company to support its massive customer data growth from all customer touchpoints. In 2018, Burger King in Korea has also deployed the cloud-based procurement applications and business network of SAP Ariba and S/4HANA to create an efficient digital process for managing its spend from end to end in an integrated way to fuel savings, efficiencies and business growth.
• Hospital Sirio-Libanes, a Brazilian philanthropic healthcare institution, is relying on SAP offerings to support its digital transformation road map. It has two general hospitals, five ambulatory centers and over 4,400 registered physicians in São Paulo and Brasilia. The institution has selected SAP Ariba solutions, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP SuccessFactors solutions to transform procurement, improve strategic sourcing and optimize financial closing and operational processes. The SAP solutions will create a data-driven healthcare company and provide multi-dimensional analytics to support business decisions intended to generate better results for the institution and its patients.

SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass Senior Vice President and General Manager Pat McCarthy said:

“Managing spend has never been more critical. And what better way to drive excellence into spend management than bringing spend data together across all sources and categories. From energy and education to banking, food, and healthcare, these new clients joining our community highlight just how critical smarter decision-making and better collaboration are across industries and geographies. With SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass solutions enabling an integrated source-to-pay process for managing every category of spend, coupled with SAP Concur solutions for travel and expense management, SAP delivers an Intelligent Spend Management platform unrivaled in the market.”

SAP Fieldglass helps companies manage their external workforce and services procurement spend, including nearly 170,000 statements of work in the second quarter of 2019.

SAP Ariba, the leader in spend management, connects trading partners from more than 3.6 million businesses, operating in more than 190 countries with nearly 3 trillion dollars worth of transactions each year through Ariba Network. SAP hosts customers, partners and influencers in SAP Ariba Live, bringing together a diverse community of buyers, suppliers, and partners to experience the value of Ariba Network and discuss technology, innovation, and market trends. Here are the upcoming event schedules of SAP Ariba Live:

SAP Ariba Live Singapore, August 20-22,2019

SAP Ariba Live Sydney, September 11-12,2019

SAP Ariba NOW Brazil, September 11-12,2019

SAP Ariba Live Singapore is a FREE event to be held at the Raffles City Convention Centre. Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, known as the father of social business and microcredit, will deliver an inspiring closing keynote, sharing his story of how he embraced the term “spend better” by using the power of investment to help change the world.

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