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SAP Business Network Material traceability is the process of ensuring that the raw materials or components of a product have a record of origin, production, and destination or consumption to support traceback or recall analysis after receipt, production, or distribution. Material traceability is part of supply chain analytics and plays a critical role in quality, manufacturing, and planning, legal and compliance, brand management, and sustainability functions, among others.
Material traceability enables the transparency needed for supply chain accountability to support safety, quality, compliance, and brand integrity. Accurate and efficient material or product traceability is essential in food and beverage, agriculture, consumer packaged goods, life sciences, and regulated industries, among others.
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References and getting started:
- Product details - https://www.sap.com/products/business-network/material-traceability.html
- Learn more - https://www.sap.com/assetdetail/2022/12/d6df7744-557e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html
Extended Planning and Analysis powered by SAP Analytics Cloud
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Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) is the process of linking strategic, financial, and operational plans for greater visibility into not only individual plans and forecasts but all plans across the organization to be more aligned and agile.
The world is moving faster than ever before and siloed planning in spreadsheets and disconnected tools simply doesn't work anymore. xP&A brings finance and the entire business into alignment with strategic goals, allowing everyone to respond quicker to changing market conditions with connected plans.
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SAP Datasphere + SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Datasphere running in SAP BTP is THE foundation for a business data fabric architecture. Together with SAP Analytics Cloud it offers data modeling, analytics, and planning in One Platform integrating both SAP and Non-SAP systems. Live data is federated with no redundant data storage and without losing mission-critical business context.
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References and getting started:
- Product details and getting trial account on SAP Datasphere - https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/datasphere.html
- Getting trial account on SAP Analytics Cloud - https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/cloud-analytics.html
Askdata - "just ask feature"
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SAP announces innovations in SAP Analytics Cloud, an integrated solution that offers analytics and planning capabilities, that simplify analytics for customers and enable more data-driven decision-making throughout the entire organization. These innovations are available today.
AI-driven analytics now use natural language processing technology from Askdata, which SAP acquired in 2022 and has now integrated into SAP Analytics Cloud. The AI technology behind the search experience provides better natural multi-lingual processing than previous technology based only on English-language keywords. Users can access the new feature enabling natural-language queries from their home page and will be able to visualize their query results in tables. The use of large language models (LLM) improves the accuracy and consistency of answers compared to existing search-driven offerings. SAP plans to unveil more conversational, chatbot-like interaction capabilities in the third quarter of 2023, allowing users to receive query results from traditional databases augmented by certified knowledge material.
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References and getting started:
- Learn more - https://www.sap.com/events/sapphire/news-guide/business-technology-platform.html#article6
Traditionally, dashboards are checked periodically to monitor the most relevant KPIs and manually explore data along pre-defined paths. However, considering only pre-defined indicators and performance metrics leads to a limited perspective and misses information about unknown signals and trends in other parts of the data or at lower granularity. Keeping track of what is relevant in this very moment is therefore a challenge for businesses across industries. Enter continuous intelligence.
With continuous intelligence, we aim to take a step towards a new generation of always-on analytical services that learn and pro-actively inform you about what matters right now.
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References and getting started:
- Product details - https://news.sap.com/2022/07/continuous-intelligence-definition-benefits-examples/
- Learn more - https://www.sap.com/documents/2022/02/6494e809-287e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html
Get inspired with this visionary
prototype which massively improves developer productivity. In an attempt to bring GPT capabilities within SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, we have built this prototype that can be prompted with Natural language text to build a working application in just a couple of minutes. Instead of coding, simply describe what you want and with generative AI we make the application ready for testing in just a few moments.Demo
Stay tuned to learn more on this direction. You can follow Juergen Mueller and Thomas Saueressig to keep track of our future updates.
SAP Start
SAP Mobile Start
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Today’s workforce is highly mobile already, spanning across industries and generations. Professionals use mobile devices to stay up to date, on top of business activities, and ahead of the competition by being able to take actions immediately — anywhere and anytime. All business content needs to be easily accessible and intuitively positioned. Just as with the apps you use daily to communicate and connect, the user experience for business applications needs to be as smooth, personal, and relevant.
SAP Mobile Start is a native app that serves as the mobile entry point to SAP’s business applications and content, providing users with a consumer-grade experience.
Teaser - https://dam.sap.com/mac/app/e/video/embed/p31vtEP?ltr=a&rc=10&includeRelatedAssets=true
References and getting started:
- Product details - https://www.sap.com/products/mobile.html
- Engage with the community - https://community.sap.com/topics/mobile-experience/start
SAP and Microsoft announced that we have teamed up to take collaboration in SAP S/4HANA Cloud to the next level — easier, faster, more effective — with the integration of Microsoft Teams. The shift to a hybrid working model in most companies makes collaboration tools and business process efficiency more critical than ever before. Tools that support communication and remote work help build a clear process around collaboration. We help our business users to manage their daily activities in the work environment that is most convenient to them, supported by collaborative enterprise resource planning (ERP) features in SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
With the last SAP S/4HANA Cloud update, we released the preview of a collaborative ERP feature that allows business users in SAP S/4HANA Cloud to share links to live business data in Microsoft Teams chats.
Our customers in the Early Adopter Care program are using a preview of the feature and are already leveraging efficiency gains in their productive environments. In the meanwhile, MS Team Integration is already GA and documented here.
Teaser - https://www.sap.com/assetdetail/2022/05/0a23a742-297e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html
References and getting started:
- Learn more - https://news.sap.com/2022/10/next-level-erp-collaboration-sap-s-4hana-cloud-microsoft/
- Register here to take part in our Early Adopter Program - https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/3051
SAP Signavio
The SAP Signavio portfolio offers a powerful, integrated platform that helps you quickly analyze and realign your organization to bring changes at an accelerated rate. SAP Signavio Process Intelligence is a collaborative process mining solution that helps you unleash the power in your process and experience data to transform your business. From data acquisition and management to detailed process insights, the solution helps you achieve improvements across departments, system landscapes, and data sources.
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References and getting started:
- Product details (Process Intelligence) - https://www.signavio.com/products/process-intelligence/
- Getting trial account on SAP Signavio - https://editor.signavio.com/p/register
Enterprise Automation
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SAP Build is a low-code solution that helps accelerate development and automation. Using SAP Build create apps, automate processes, and design business sites with drag-and-drop simplicity. It bridges the gap between IT Operators and Business users / Citizen developers to deliver the solutions with prebuilt content that is specifically designed to extend and automate your standard processes.
SAP Integration Suite is an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) that helps you quickly integrate on-premises and cloud-based processes, services, applications, events, and data. Accelerate innovation, automate more processes, and realize a faster time to value. SAP Integration suite offers prebuilt integrations and APIs that are managed and updated by SAP.
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References and getting started:
- Product details (SAP Build) - https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/low-code.html
- Product details (SAP Integration Suite) - https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/integration-suite.html
- Learn SAP Build - https://learning.sap.com/products/sap-build
- Getting Trial account and exploring Integration Suite - https://blogs.sap.com/2022/12/06/exploring-sap-integration-capabilities-zero-to-one/
SAP S/4HANA Extension with SAP Build Apps
SAP introduced its clean core strategy designed for those running legacy ERP systems and envisioning a move to a next-generation ERP like S/4HANA or for those ready to adopt S/4HANA natively.
The strategy implies keeping the ERP system as close as possible to the standard, decoupling customizations, adopting inner extension methods and being aware of the customization footprint.
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References and getting started:
- Learn more - https://blogs.sap.com/2023/02/14/how-does-sap-build-support-the-sap-s-4hana-journey-some-practical-e...
- Getting free-tier access to SAP Build Apps in SAP BTP - https://blogs.sap.com/2022/11/16/sap-build-is-now-available-in-sap-btp-free-tier/