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In this session, attendees will learn how to quickly deploy line-of-business apps using SAP Build Work Zone. For example, you have a field sales and service team. We want to build a launchpad that is accessible on laptops and mobile devices, utilizes a corporate identity, and provides access to the SAP and non-SAP business apps those target users require. It is simple with SAP Build Work Zone! 

You will:

• Hear about the required SAP BTP components and connectivity to your SAP S/4HANA landscape to utilize SAP Build Work Zone.  Once your IT team has established connectivity, you, the SAP Business User, are in the driver's seat.   Learn how to use this no-code solution to build your own launchpad for business teams. 
• See how to connect SAP Fiori Apps, SAP Analytics Cloud Reports, non-SAP applications and more.   Provide that central location to enable easy access from any device and securely. 
• Discuss and test your own ideas in this hands-on lab.  Choose from the Fiori app catalog to deploy specific apps.   Add analytics from SAP Analytics Cloud.   And then see what's required to add non-SAP applications to the workspace.

Despite decades of widespread digitalization and advances in enterprise software, today worldwide productivity growth has stalled. This is hurting broad-based business growth and holding too many companies back. The culprit is increased complexity, more silos, and disconnected data semantics. Technology alone doesn't create value. But when all software is in the cloud and data is accessible and connected, the value is massive. 

Today, through ERP data and our unique view of industries and business processes, SAP is leading a data and AI strategy that is extending the power of software. We are helping our customers manage and control their data by having it provide semantically rich insights and a holistic view of end-to-end business processes supercharged by the most actionable AI. This includes the SAP Business Suite, BDC, Joule for Developers, and many other data and business AI innovations. And we're just getting started.     

In this keynote, Jan Gilg, SAP's CRO for the Americas and the Business Suite organization, will explain how only SAP, with its holistic view of processes and industries can bring all critical elements together. He will show how SAP is making processes more efficient with AI agents and giving businesses the connected data and AI ecosystem they need to extract value, drive growth, and fuel a return to worldwide productivity gains for everyone.

In this highly interactive talk, Gib shares how Netflix moved beyond customer focus to delight its customers in hard-to-copy, margin-enhancing ways. You’ll learn how Netflix employs consumer science to put the customer at the center of everything they do through four sources of consumer insight: qualitative, survey, existing data, and AB tests. Using five “What would you do?” mini cases, Gib demonstrates how Netflix developed its personalization technology to connect members with movies they’ll love. The results will surprise you.

Join us for an in-depth exploration and hands-on demo of SAP's Asset and Service Management portfolio, featuring scheduling and mobility solutions. This session will showcase how SAP S/4HANA integrates advanced functionalities to streamline operations, optimize resources and empower field technicians. Ideal for professionals seeking to optimize their service and asset management strategies with SAP’s powerful tools. 

You will:

• Gain insights into SAP S/4HANA end-to-end solutions for managing assets and delivering exceptional service.
• Enhance technician productivity with SAP Field Service Management real-time scheduling and explore the role of SAP Service and Asset Manager mobile in enabling technicians to perform tasks on the go.
• Understand the roadmap for SAP's service and asset management and how they deliver business value to customers.

In recent years, global supply chains have evolved from linear, efficiency-focused models to more dynamic, networked systems. This shift is driven by disruptions, trade policy changes, geopolitical tensions, and environmental pressures. Modern supply chains require digitalization to enhance resilience, adaptability, and sustainability. SAP supports this transformation by centralizing Supply Chain Data Governance and connecting processes across the value chain in real time. This approach enables informed, network-aware decisions supported by AI, fostering autonomous supply chain operations.

SAP's Supply Chain Orchestration integrates decision-making across all functions, using data as a strategic asset. This integration accelerates event recognition, impact analysis, and resolution with embedded AI agents. Key areas of transformation include product design, supply chain planning, procurement execution, manufacturing excellence, logistics, and service management. SAP's core capabilities, such as data governance, supply chain network enrichment, and decision intelligence, empower businesses to achieve connected, optimized operations. This results in improved innovation, efficiency, and customer satisfaction while reducing environmental impact.

Take Aways:

1. Importance of Supply Chain Orchestration : integrating decision-making across all functions, using data as a strategic asset

2. The importance of establishing a network- aware supply chain

3. What is needed to transform an organization to autonomous supply chain operations

I will be conducting an interactive session on Key Performance Measures and their role in driving supply chain improvements. In this simulation, participants will explore how effective data analysis can help proactively find better solutions, reduce costs and shorten lead times. Throughout the exercise, participants will encounter various scenarios mimicking real-world challenges in demand, supply, and production planning. As they navigate these obstacles, teams will demonstrate their ability to adapt, interpret data and identify core issues they need to address. Following the simulation, we will analyse the strategies employed and discuss best practices for addressing common roadblocks in supply chain management. 

You will: 

• Demand forecasting accuracy and its impact on inventory management and financial budgets.

• Learn Waterfall Analysis to understand demand evolution vs sales actuals.

• Excess and Obsolete Inventory to identify overstocked products and financial impact.

• Understand Inventory Projection to assess if inventory can meet demand requirements and long term out of stocks. 

• Hear about Stock Health: Days of Supply and Inventory Turns. 

• Gain insights on Fill Rate: to track and optimize orders fulfilled on time.

• Understand Lead Times: to evaluate opportunity to improve reactivity.

• Learn Profit Margins: provide insight on where to reduce costs to improve profitability.

Nitto Avecia is a contract-based pharmaceutical drug development and manufacturing company. Based on client requirements, they execute entire development processes from pre-clinical and commercial process development to analytical development, manufacturing and quality control. Pharma GMP compliance requires them to monitor & record whole processes at each step. Nitto Avecia had manual as-is processes for procurement, production and manufacturing scheduling and they wanted to transform to a digital platform without compromising on GMP compliance.

Each project is unique and different yet showing some commonality of components and capacity that need early planning to line up schedules. The business case calls for a MTO segment yet warrants a MTS segment based mid to long term procurement & capacity planning.

YASH took on this dauting task and created a unique SAP process combining SAP PS AND e-PP/Ds as a unique offering deriving a dotted line between MTO and MTS segments and successfully helped Nitto Avecia mitigate this pain area with a digital SAP footprint in planning and procurement areas.

You will:

• Gain the details of business pain areas with manual processes.
• Explore the details of solutions designed to resolve business specific pain areas.
• Learn about the integration of SAP Project System with Digital Planning & Scheduling (ePPDS).
• Consider business gains possible with digital transformation.

In this interactive session, we’ll explore how asset-intensive organizations can harness AI today and strategically prepare for its growing impact.

 Key takeaways include:

AI in Action Today

• Smarter Meeting Prep – A hands-on example of AI streamlining maintenance planning.
• Building a Business Case – A real-world success story of AI helping a cement industry customer secure investment approval.
• Six Steps to AI-Ready Maintenance – Practical actions to future-proof your maintenance operations.

Data: The Backbone of AI in Maintenance

• Why AI is only as good as your data—and how to get your data in shape for AI-driven insights.

W.R. Grace embarked on a Supply Chain initiative to drive increased business performance.  At that time, they faced significant challenges in their supply chain, such as dealing with functional silos, lack of a standardized global design model, and inefficiencies in SAP utilization. To address these issues, Grace implemented a comprehensive supply chain transformation. By focusing on increasing the SAP utilization, educating the user teams, and optimizing the processes, they gained improvements in inventory projections, capacity utilization, optimized production planning, and improved data quality. As a result, Grace achieved significant improvements in service levels, inventory turnover, and operational efficiency. This presentation will detail the transformation process, the results achieved, and how these successes serve as a strong foundation for the company's move toward SAP S/4HANA.

You will:

• Hear the challenges they faced and how they overcame it.
• Learn the 3 most critical items to focus on when doing a Supply Chain transformation.
• Learn what metrics were used to drive behavior change and drive increased performance.

With multiple steps in the almond supply chain - from growers to hullers to processors to production facilities - agricultural cooperative Blue Diamond Growers uses the SAP Transportation Management application and SAP Business Network for Logistics to solve complex transportation challenges. Examine how the specialty food company uses the solutions to plan and execute multi-modal transportation movements domestically and across the world.

You will:

• Find out about the Blue Diamond Growers project management approach and important lessons learned.
• Learn about the integration points with third party systems and partners, such as Project44 and Descartes, enabling real time visibility of containers and electronic bookings with carriers. 
• Discover how Blue Diamond Growers tackles the challenges of volatile international logistics by utilizing the SAP’s seamless integration between SAP S/4HANA ERP, Transportation Management, and Business Network for Logistics.

Want to stay ahead of supply chain risk and disruptions?Join Boomi and Ceres AI to discover how an advanced SAP Supply Chain AI Agent—analyzing 25,000 global indicators, from geopolitical risks to economic trends—can predict disruptions months in advance. Paired with Boomi’s unique SAP-certified native integration to the application layer, businesses can seamlessly connect SAP and non-SAP supply chain data, ensuring predictive insights translate directly into operational workflows for proactive decision-making. Come watch a live demo of the AI Agent in action and see how Boomi for SAP can reduce manual integration time and effort by 40%.

Asset management and supply chain are often two worlds that rarely work together, yet they need each other in order to work. When companies are able to integrate asset management and supply chain in a seamless and integrated way, they see world-class results, such as inventories being the right size, mean time to repair (MTTR) improvements, spare parts availability improvements, and maintenance service level increases. We will focus on how to standardize, simplify, and stabilize the SAP processes and data flow to ensure alignment between the teams.  Learn how to make MRP work effectively for both worlds while minimizing manual intervention, capacity planning, and scheduling and utilizing the SAP best practices.

You will:

• Understand how the Supply Chain and Plant Maintenance worlds can co-exist and thrive.
• Understand the analytics capabilities available to help drive MTTR and MTBF improvements.
• Review t-codes and SAP capabilities.

Pembina Pipelines have been working to improve the quality of asset data collected by their Operators and Technicians, along with improving data collection efficiencies. They have been determining a mobility approach for the organisation that will ensure data at site can be both inputted and available real time. This has required a culture change for end users as they are accustomed to accessing data and inputting data back at the office. The new mobility approach is empowering Operators and Technicians to become more efficient with their daily work activities. Having access to data at their fingertips, and the ability to capture data electronically and in real time is reducing the amount of back-end work required by Operator and Technicians. This session will share Pembina Pipeline's mobility journey and how they are navigating user adoption to support this journey. We will be providing real time results, such as devices tested (Ipads, Surfaces and Panasonic Toughbooks), end user experiences, findings and outcomes that help us navigate to being fully mobility deployed. 

You will:

• Navigate user adoption and how Pembina Pipelines are making progress. 
• Learn how mobility is supporting work management process efficiency gains.
• Understand how mobility data accuracy improvements have been reflected.

There are misconceptions that you need to wait for a completed system design before initiating preparations for a go-live, when in reality, proactive planning is crucial. Initial preparations include master data migration, cleansing and creation, change management strategies, organizational structure adjustments, workflow optimization, defining key performance indicators (KPIs), and comprehensive user training. Preparedness post go live is just as critical and should include contingency planning (including excel-based solutions), and preserving institutional knowledge is crucial to mitigate turnover risks during system implementation. Additionally, providing internal support during the go-live phase is essential for addressing any issues, leveraging the expertise of individuals involved in the project. 

You will: 

• Understand that every user will have different priorities but it’s important for leadership to endorse and promote project decisions. 

• Shift the organizational mindset is important before implementing a new system. 

• Learn how a system is only as effective as the quality of data it receives. Garbage in, garbage out. 

• Hear how data-related challenges can mask system flaws, making it difficult to gauge its functionality. Therefore, prioritizing data governance should be a top investment.

How do you streamline logistics processes to balance shipment costs with the service levels customers expect?  It’s all about managing the storage, movement and tracking of your products.   Understand how your organization can digitalize and accelerate warehouse operations, reduce transportation complexity by integrating fleet and logistics management, and enable collaboration with your organization’s internal and external business partners.  In this session, you’ll learn how TM, EWM, YL, and Business Network for Logistics interoperate to move products and materials quickly and efficiently with software for supply chain logistics and order fulfillment from SAP! 

You will:

• Learn how to optimize warehouse operations and reduce transportation complexities.
• Discover how to integrate fleet management and streamline logistics with SAP tools.
• Understand how to enhance collaboration across business partners for faster product movement.

With SAP's recent release of the Universal Parallel Accounting (UPA) solution, SAP has finally delivered a true end-to-end solution for parallel accounting within the SAP Finance area. This solution has been in development for cloud customers but now in SAP S/4HANA 2022 has been released for On-Premise as well. As a feeder system to the GL, Asset Accounting has had to make significant changes around how values are tracked in parallel to support the new UPA requirements. Delivered alongside UPA, the new Intelligent Asset Accounting (IAA) solution represents the biggest re-write of fixed asset functionality in SAP ERP and will be the go-forward solution for all SAP customers.

You will:

• Hear about the full feature release of UPA's impacts and changes on Asset Accounting.
• Understand the integration related topics cover APIs, equipment integration and cFIN.
• Review the flexibility changes regarding depreciation.

At 4flow, we frequently hear from organizations asking us to reevaluate their SAP S/4HANA implementation strategies. Their main concern is that the anticipated business value is at risk due to issues with their current approaches. SAP S/4HANA has the power to unlock significant value for businesses, especially in supply chain management. However, reaching this potential requires an expert implementation. We will explore 10 key considerations and best practices for any SAP S/4HANA implementation. Keep these in mind to ensure the maximum benefits for your business.

You will learn:

• Key considerations and best practices for any SAP S/4HANA implementation.

As industries evolve, the need for advanced operational planning tools becomes imperative. This session explores the paradigm shift from Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) to Production Planning and Scheduling in SAP S/4HANA (ePPDS) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP). By delving into the roadmap, migration strategies, and system landscape, you will learn about the strategic considerations for organizations embarking on this transformative journey. The focus is placed on the migration strategies, emphasizing best practices and potential challenges to ensure a smooth transition. You will review an outline for the evolving system landscape and its implications for operational planning, offering organizations a comprehensive guide to navigate this transition effectively. Central to this shift is the synchronized production planning facilitated by IBP and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (ePPDS).

You will:

• Learn more roadmap, migration strategies, system landscape.
• Explore synchronized production planning with IBP and PPDS.

This presentation will highlight SAP's strategy and solution portfolio for maximizing efficiency in asset and service management scheduling. Attendees will gain insights into work center and person-centric scheduling and dispatch, as well as AI-driven automated scheduling and route optimization for maintenance and service technicians. The presentation will also feature an end-user case study showcasing the successful implementation of SAP's latest scheduling solutions and the value unlocked through the ability to design and deploy complex scheduling rules. Additionally, the session will feature a hands-on demo, showcasing both SAP S/4HANA Asset Management for resource scheduling, and SAP Field Service Management. 

You will:

• Receive a deep understanding of SAP’s scheduling functionality strategy. 

• Have a look into actual implementations and benefits. 

• Gain a better understanding of interoperability of SAP ERP / SAP S/4HANA and SAP’s scheduling solutions.

No waste left uncovered!  In this session, we will explore five tools or techniques to discover hidden waste in the supply chain. So often we know that there is a problem, yet yet identification is elusive. We see some symptoms but not the root cause, and in treating those symptoms, we often introduce additional waste into the system. Let's identify, triage and bust some waste!

You will:

• Gain an appreciation for our waste identification, triage and busting toolkit.
• Learn how to take a practical approach to waste removal. 
• Discover how to measure the success of waste removal efforts. 
• Discover how to prevent recurrence through practical cadence of review and adjustment.

In this inspiring keynote, Hein Wagner, a blind adventurer and visionary, shares his extraordinary journey of overcoming challenges and defying the odds. As a passionate advocate for inclusivity, Wagner demonstrates how the power of vision—beyond just sight—can transform obstacles into opportunities.

Drawing from his personal experiences of traveling the world, completing extreme sports challenges, and building a career that defies expectations, Wagner emphasizes the importance of resilience, innovation, and a clear sense of purpose. Through his unique perspective, he challenges audiences to rethink what it means to "see" and how to approach their own personal and professional goals with a visionary mindset.

Key takeaways:

- Turning challenges into stepping stones for growth

- Redefining the concept of "vision" and leadership

- The power of mindset in achieving the impossible

- Practical lessons in building resilience and adapting to change

This keynote is a must-see for anyone looking to unlock their own potential, push boundaries, and develop a new way of thinking about leadership and success.

SAP customers must take full advantage of their enterprise data to stay ahead. In this hands-on workshop, use SAP, generative AI, and both structured and unstructured data to optimize multiple manufacturing processes. Build a secure generative AI assistant to engage with SAP supply chain data using a conversational interface to identify top-performing suppliers, dependencies, and risk factors. Next, employ a generative AI agent to promptly address machinery issues on the shop floor leveraging unstructured data to advise users on immediate solutions and triggering processes in SAP to deploy additional resources when necessary.

You will:

• Create a secure AI assistant to analyze SAP supply chain data Identify top suppliers, dependencies, and risks through conversational interfaces Develop an AI agent for rapid machinery troubleshooting on the shop floor Leverage unstructured data for immediate problem-solving Automate resource deployment in SAP for efficient issue resolution.

This presentation explores the critical path to value creation in enterprise asset management (EAM), outlining the transformative "Data to Dollars" journey. Through a Business Process-Centered (BPC) approach, we illustrate how to convert raw data into verified value by progressing through the key stages: data standardization, meaningful information generation, actionable insights, informed decisions, and targeted actions. By aligning technology, hybrid systems, and human expertise, this framework delivers measurable improvements in safety, profitability, environmental sustainability, and reputation. Attendees will discover why traditional "lift-and-shift" approaches fail to optimize business value and how to leverage actionable KPIs, proven methodologies, and case studies to achieve sustainable asset management excellence.

Medtronic is a global medical device manufacturer operating in 150 countries leveraging SAP to manufacture and ensure delivery of critical life-saving devices to patients on time as part of their global supply chain processes. Utilizing proactive monitoring tools and interactive real-time dashboards on digital displays in their distribution centers, Medtronic enables their distribution center supervisors to redeploy floor workers in real-time to eliminate bottlenecks in core business transactions spanning worldwide supply chain operations. Learn how Medtronic has operationalized business process observability to proactively monitor and dramatically improve distribution center performance all over the world with SAP.  

You will:  

• Learn how Medtronic automated the management of their global SAP supply chain processes to improve overall distribution center operations. 
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• Explore how Medtronic leverages real-time monitoring tools for comprehensive visibility into SAP business process across logistics, supply chain and CRM/customer care to ensure on-time deliveries and improve user experience. 
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• Discover how Medtronic reduces mean time to detect and resolve issues in their supply chain processes by correlating SAP and non-SAP data, breaking down data silos between teams for more efficient operations.

As part of the global SAP end-user community with sister brand, SAPinsider, Mark Vigoroso, SAP Insider’s Chief Content Officer, dives into the latest research and trends shaping the future of supply chain management. As global supply chain challenges become increasingly complex, this in-depth data analysis reveals how leading organizations are utilizing visibility, analytics, and automation to enhance resilience and agility. Drawing from SAP Insider's recent industry research, Mark will showcase data-driven insights that illuminate how companies are rethinking their technology portfolios to adapt to disruptions. The session will highlight how businesses are leveraging robust data management platforms, low-code/no-code automation tools, and advanced analytics to create a single source of truth for supply chain operations. 

You will: 

• Hear exclusive insights from SAP Insider’s latest supply chain research.

• Learn strategies for selecting the right data and automation tools to enhance visibility.

• Discover best practices for building agile, resilient supply chains amid disruption.

Getting workers job-ready in high risk industries often involves time-consuming, paper-based assessment processes. To address this, we co-developed the Infield Assessment App, an innovative training assessment tool designed to streamline the process. Fully functional offline, the app enables assessors to perform evaluations in any environment, eliminating paperwork and reducing administrative tasks. Seamlessly integrated with SAP SuccessFactors, it accelerates assessments, enhances data accuracy, and supports operational agility.

In this session, we’ll showcase how the Infield Assessment App is transforming training operations by enabling efficient offline assessments, reducing administrative overhead, and getting workers on tools faster—all while contributing to sustainability by eliminating thousands of paper records.

You will:

• Learn how the Infield Assessment App streamlines job readiness evaluations with offline functionality and eliminates paperwork.
• Discover how the app integrates with SAP SuccessFactors to improve data accuracy and accelerate the assessment process.
• Understand how the app reduces administrative overhead and supports faster worker deployment in high-risk industries.

SAP data is at the core of your business, but unlocking its full potential for analytics can be complex. In this session, learn how to efficiently extract, transform, and load SAP ERP or SAP BW data into your cloud data warehouse of choice including SAP Datasphere, Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift and more—without heavy IT lift. Discover Boomi’s unique SAP-certified native integration to the application layer and how it seamlessly connects SAP data with the rest of your enterprise ecosystem to drive real-time insights and AI-powered decision-making. Key Takeaways:

• How to unify SAP data with the rest of your data ecosystem to power enterprise analytics
• Best practices for optimizing SAP data movement with minimal disruption
• Live demo showcasing seamless SAP-to-cloud data integration in action

Pembina Pipeline Corporation, a leading energy transportation and midstream provider, operates pipelines that transport hydrocarbon liquids and natural gas products in North America. It also manages gas gathering and processing facilities, along with oil and natural gas liquids infrastructure and logistics, requiring extensive maintenance across various asset classes. Initially focused on extracting data to support improved decision-making, Pembina implemented SAP Plant Maintenance and ISO14224 standards 10 years ago to structure master data. The initial goal was broad data integration, which has since evolved to deepen asset data collection. This shift has reduced equipment failures, enhanced nameplate data capture, improved BOM creation, and optimized work schedules through better data management. With the implementation of SAP Analytics Cloud two years ago, Pembina transitioned from standard SAP reports and Power BI to more advanced analytics, refining their master data standards and driving strategic decisions. This has transformed Pembina’s culture from reactive to proactive, unlocking efficiencies. It continues to grow its data depth, further enhancing asset management.  

You will:

• Learn the importance of consistent master data standards across an organization.
• Understand how consistent data drives efficiency in work management processes.
• Lead a proactive culture versus a reactive one from the start.

Discover how a global manufacturing leader revolutionized their supply chain operations using a simple, yet scalable low-code integration solution powered by Boomi for SAP. Learn how they seamlessly accessed data from SAP S/4HANA and connected it to a non-SAP demand planning application, unlocking real-time insights and driving measurable outcomes.

In an era where efficiency drives competitive advantage, Precision Drilling embarked on a transformative journey to revolutionize its asset management approach, starting with the implementation of SAP S/4HANA in 2018. This foundation enabled enterprise-wide integration, paving the way for data-driven decision-making and operational excellence. Through this evolution, we shifted from data collection to actionable intelligence, reshaping how we manage asset maintenance and lifecycle strategies. Join us to discover practical insights, real-world learnings, and how we:

• Established strong master data governance to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability across asset management processes.
• Implemented exception-based reporting to drive actionable insights and meaningful changes in maintenance and operations.
• Financial optimization and asset lifecycle reporting to enable fact-based decisions, improving maintenance and reliability.
• The implementation of a maintenance mobile app and interactive parts catalog to streamline workflows and improve data collection.
• Leverage Asset Performance Management (APM) to transition from reactive maintenance to condition-based and proactive methodologies based.

Join me for an enlightening session that will take you on an inspiring journey into the world of SAP PPDS, SAP aATP, and SAP IBP Order-Based Planning. Discover how synchronized planning can improve end-to-end visibility in your manufacturing processes and drive excellence in your operations. Attendees will leave this session with a comprehensive understanding of how to leverage SAP PPDS, SAP aATP, and SAP IBP to achieve seamless integration and synchronization in their manufacturing processes. Whether you are a manufacturing professional, supply chain manager, production planner, or an SAP IT professional, this session is designed to provide you with practical insights and inspiration to optimize your planning and operations.

You will:

• Gain insights into SAP PPDS, SAP aATP, and SAP IBP.
• Master synchronized planning techniques.
• Enhance your operational efficiency.

This session explores the transformative potential of AI and LLMs in warehouse operations. Discover how Agentic AI principles, powered by LLMs, can create a proactive Warehouse Employee AI that constantly monitors for exceptions. Learn how to build an AI Agent on SAP Business Technology Platform with SAP Business AI, and by integrating it with S/4HANA data, enable AI-powered exception monitoring in the warehouse.  We'll demonstrate how an AI Agent can help in Shipping & Receiving Manager plan their day.  Gain insights into real-world examples and discover tools and frameworks, both within and outside the SAP ecosystem, that you can implement today to supercharge your warehouse operations.

Global complexity and complicated regulatory demands are reshaping the way finance organizations approach intercompany financial consolidation. Finance leaders must drive long-term profitability, ensure compliance, and create efficiencies across the global value chain—all while managing increasingly intricate intercompany transactions. But how can this be achieved?

The answer lies in obtaining transparency across the entire value chain—from cradle to grave. In this case study, discover how to establish a next generation intercompany consolidation system that is based on data accuracy across all systems, provided by a single source of truth. Learn how group finance, customs, supply chain, and tax professionals can leverage this transparency to unlock operational and financial benefits. 

EXA’s Global Intercompany Management Suite on SAP provides an SAP-standard solution to streamline intercompany processes, ensuring tax compliance and strong internal controls for all stakeholders.

You will:

• Learn why adopting an end-to-end perspective on the global value chain is critical for finance leaders.
• Understand why SAP transformation projects present the perfect opportunity to optimize intercompany management.
• Gain insights on how EXA’s offerings can summarize intercompany SOX internal controls, related to change logs.
• Discover what actionable insights dashboards with cost transparency at group and local levels can deliver—featuring a product demo.

How can the most challenging, manual, and inefficient warehouse in a organizations network transform in one year. We will discuss the best practices, planning, prioritization, and strategies used from being a last to a world class WM warehouse. We will explore the correct balance of WM structural usage such as storage types, storage sections, bin types, and capacities that align to the material master. We will then hear about the impact and synergy this transformation created which not only resulted in transformed  KPI's but carried on to turn around the culture.

You will:

• Understand there is no easy button or one size fits all in transforming non-existing and existing processes WM processes.
• Leverage best practices based on unique requirements and scenarios.
• Explore standard tools that can be used to assist in making analytical decisions.
• Understand how to enable and leverage WM master data for planning and automation.

Join us for an exciting presentation on "Expanding Manufacturing Equipment Condition Monitoring with a Reliability as a Service Model"! We'll be sharing practical and easy-to-implement strategies for enhancing equipment monitoring in manufacturing using SAP Intelligent Asset Management and Asset Performance Management solutions. You'll hear about our success in using standardized equipment Information Models, cutting-edge predictive maintenance (PdM) technologies, and our regional remote monitoring and diagnostic centers (RMDC). These advancements have allowed us to better predict equipment maintenance needs and boost overall efficiency. In the second part of the presentation, we'll share real-world examples of how these technologies have positively impacted our operations. You'll see how adopting these tools and models has not only streamlined our processes but also provided valuable data that drives decision-making and supports our commitment to continuous improvement and innovation in the manufacturing sector. This approach has proven to be a game-changer, offering a more proactive and cost-effective way to manage equipment reliability.

You will:

• Discover how to leverage SAP Intelligent Asset Management and Asset Performance Management solutions to enhance predictive maintenance, ensuring timely interventions and reducing unplanned downtime.
• Learn how to adopt standardized equipment information models to streamline data collection and analysis, enabling better decision-making and improved operational efficiency.
• Gain insights from real-world examples of how regional remote monitoring and diagnostic centers (RMDC) have transformed equipment reliability and maintenance practices, driving continuous improvement in manufacturing processes.

SAP Business Network is the world’s largest B2B trading partner platform, supporting nearly $6T in annual transactions. Learn how it modernizes the way procurement and supply chain processes are connected across companies to build stronger supply chains and deliver on the customer promise. Understand how you can leverage SAP Business Network to close the break point between buyers and suppliers by enabling transaction exchange, information sharing, and trading partner discovery, while leveraging AI and configurable business rules in the process. See how you can gain greater visibility into your supply chain, increase operational efficiency, and ensure compliance. Dig into Integrated Business Planning, Logistics, and Asset Management in this session and find out everything you need to know about SAP Business Network.

You will: 

• Discover how SAP Business Network enhances procurement and supply chain connections across companies.
• Learn how to leverage AI, business rules, and transaction exchange to bridge gaps between buyers and suppliers.
• Gain insights into improving supply chain visibility, efficiency, and compliance through SAP’s integrated tools.

Master data inconsistencies create inefficiencies across maintenance, MRO supply chains, and asset management. In this 20-minute demonstration, see how Prometheus Master Data-as-a-Service (MDaaS) leverages AI to automate material cleansing, standardization, and BOM enrichment, eliminating costly manual data projects. See how the AI engine assigns nouns and modifiers, and parses manufacturer details to improve data accuracy and reliability. Discover how AI-powered master data management in SAP improves maintenance productivity, reduces supply chain costs, and creates trust in enterprise asset data.

This exciting session focuses on the SAP journey at HD Supply, a large wholesale retailer proudly serving over 250,000 customers in over 100 locations. HD Supply has been live with SAP since 2009 and leverages a complex landscape of SAP systems (ECC, S4, SCM, CRM, EWM, GRC) and non-SAP solutions (eComm, Mulesoft, Snowflake, Splunk) to service their customers online. This session will cover the SAP monitoring tools and 3rd party observability applications used by HD Supply to keep a close eye on their real-time pricing calls requiring response times in the tenths of seconds.

 You will

• Learn how to optimize the management and monitoring of real-time pricing processes using standard SAP tools and external monitoring applications.

• Discover best practice techniques for streamlining business process monitoring and improving operational efficiency.

• Explore proactive cloud monitoring and alerting tools to predict and address potential issues before they arise.

Find out how SAP is helping companies adopt AI across the entire design-to-operate business process. Learn how this integrated supply chain-centric process enables you to connect digitally and optimize operations across product and asset lifecycles. Gain insights into how you can transform every aspect of your supply chain management with AI-powered insights, recommendations, and automation built into SAP applications, and then scale and extend these capabilities across the entire design-to-operate business process. See how AI powered automation can save time, boost accuracy, and reveal future demand predictions hiding in your data.

You will:

• Discover how SAP integrates AI into the design-to-operate business process for seamless operations.
• Learn how AI-driven insights optimize supply chain management and asset lifecycles.
• Explore automation and demand prediction features to enhance efficiency and accuracy across operations.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, unplanned equipment downtime can be a very costly challenge.  Join us to learn how SAP Asset Performance Management (APM) uses IoT and AI technologies to enable your reliability engineers to take advantage of predictive maintenance capabilities without requiring additional data science resources or tools.

You will:

• Explore the standard SAP Asset Performance Management asset health capabilities that work seamlessly with SAP S/4HANA.
• See a showcase of AI-based anomaly detection can help predict equipment failures.
• See a show case of how AI-based computer vision can help automate visual inspection processes.

In this session, you'll discover how the world’s largest jewelry brand blends traditional craftsmanship with modern techniques, using SAP DMC to move closer to becoming a SMART FACTORY. We'll also share our current state, challenges and opportunities, and implementation highlights. Who are we? (Company profile and global footprint) Why SAP DMC Challenges and Opportunities and Implementation highlights.

You will learn:

• Why to choose SAP DMC.
• Pilot deployment learnings and implementation highlights.

In the context of a circular economy, where sustainability and resource efficiency are paramount, traceability within SAP systems plays a crucial role in achieving these goals. Traceability in SAP enables organizations to track and manage the lifecycle of products, from raw material sourcing through production, distribution, and eventual recycling or disposal. This capability is essential for companies aiming to minimize waste, optimize resource use, and ensure compliance with environmental regulations. However, implementing effective traceability in SAP for a circular economy presents significant challenges, such as integrating data across complex supply chains, managing vast amounts of information, and ensuring accurate and real-time reporting. These challenges are further compounded by the need for collaboration across multiple stakeholders, including suppliers, manufacturers, and recyclers, each with their own systems and processes. This session will explore the key aspects of traceability in SAP, focusing on the technical and strategic challenges of implementing a traceability framework that supports circular economy principles. It will also discuss best practices and innovative solutions to overcome these challenges, enabling companies to not only comply with regulations but also drive sustainability and competitive advantage through improved resource management. By the end of the session, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how SAP traceability can be leveraged to support a circular economy, reduce environmental impact, and create value through sustainable practices.

You will:

• Implement SAP Traceability: Design and configure SAP modules to track the complete lifecycle of products, from raw material sourcing to end-of-life disposal or recycling. 
• Integrate Data Streams: Seamlessly connect data across various supply chain nodes within SAP to ensure real-time visibility and traceability throughout the product lifecycle. 
• Enhance Compliance: Utilize SAP’s traceability features to meet and exceed environmental regulations, ensuring that all processes are documented and verifiable. 
• Optimize Resource Management: Leverage traceability data in SAP to identify opportunities for reducing waste, reusing materials, and improving overall resource efficiency. 
• Facilitate Cross-Stakeholder Collaboration: Develop strategies for aligning and integrating systems across suppliers, manufacturers, and recyclers to support circular economy objectives within SAP. 
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Regularly assess and refine the traceability processes within SAP to enhance sustainability efforts and drive long-term competitive advantage.

Meeting both initial and ongoing compliance requirements in a heavily regulated industry often places a significant administrative burden on teams. To address this, we co-developed the Compliance Document App, an innovative worker self-service tool that allows employees to upload compliance evidence, such as certifications or licenses, by simply taking a photo. Leveraging OCR and machine learning, the app validates documents in real-time and integrates seamlessly with SAP SuccessFactors Learning.

In this session, we’ll showcase how the app has transformed compliance management by streamlining processes, empowering workers, and reducing administrative overhead. The result is a safer, more compliant workforce equipped to meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.

You will:

• Learn how the Compliance Document App leverages OCR and machine learning to validate compliance documents in real-time.
• Discover how the app integrates with SAP SuccessFactors Learning to enhance compliance tracking and streamline administrative processes.
• Understand how the app empowers employees, reduces administrative burden, and supports ongoing regulatory compliance in a dynamic industry.