Cloud Addresses Manufacturers’ Most Pressing Business Challenges
It is no surprise that manufacturing functions were not the first workloads to move to cloud. The equation for cloud adoption to accelerate comes down to the three Bs: barriers, benefits and business impact. It may have taken longer for those three elements to fall into place for manufacturing applications, but now that they have, … Continue reading “Cloud Addresses Manufacturers’ Most Pressing Business Challenges”
The Transformation Imperative for Consumer Products Firms
Technology is transforming the way small and midsize organizations do business, and consumer products (CP) companies are no exception. Emerging digital tools—particularly the Internet of Things, digital experience analytics, and mobile—give CP firms the opportunity to offer increasingly personalized experiences for customers, improve their visibility and response time to supply and demand challenges, and address … Continue reading “The Transformation Imperative for Consumer Products Firms”
Digital Supply Chain of One
Understanding and targeting customers is more important than ever before given the demand for individualized products,same-day or even one-hour delivery,and renting a service rather than buying a product.
Ways Discrete Manufacturers Deploy Industry Processes In The Cloud
Evolving digital transformation demands are shaping the future of discrete manufacturers’ strategic priorities to generate new revenues and services, transform customer experiences, and automate processes. These digital transformation initiatives increasingly include mission-critical, end-to-end business processes and operations such as smart factories, new business models, digital supply chain, connected products, and customer experience. Forrester found that … Continue reading “Ways Discrete Manufacturers Deploy Industry Processes In The Cloud”
How to win in a digital world where tech is rewriting the rules of Retail
Technologies for digital business transformation are already a reality and they are constantly improving. The key for retailers now is to use these technologies to reimagine their business or face disruption.Technology has become so interwoven with business strategies that the two cannot be separated anymore. This means technology trends are influencing retail business strategy much … Continue reading “How to win in a digital world where tech is rewriting the rules of Retail”
The Consumer Driven Digital – Economy
In the age of the digital consumer, we can no longer refer to the “consumer products” industry – it is now the “consumer outcomes” industry. By 2020, the world’s population will grow to 7.7 billion people,1 and everyone on earth will have one thing in common – they will all be digital consumers.Billions of new … Continue reading “The Consumer Driven Digital – Economy”
Collaborative Enterprise Planning Enabling Profitable Business Decisions with SAP® Analytics Cloud and SAP Integrated Business Planning
This document articulates SAP’s vision of and solution for collaborative enterprise planning for manufacturing and distribution organizations, including strategic, financial, and operational planning processes. This is enabled by using SAP® Analytics Cloud and SAP Integrated Business Planning solutions. A Brief Summary of the Document’s Sections Connect Planning Processes to Optimize Business Outcomes – This first … Continue reading “Collaborative Enterprise Planning Enabling Profitable Business Decisions with SAP® Analytics Cloud and SAP Integrated Business Planning”
Read MoreHow Critical is the Digital Platform for Midsize Organizations?
The digital age has created a new level of complexity for every established business around the globe: accelerated change, new business models, consumerization of the workplace, and the explosion of available data are creating unprecedented business opportunities — but also huge competitive and operating challenges. Midsize firms are typically more resource-limited than large firms, but … Continue reading “How Critical is the Digital Platform for Midsize Organizations?”
How To Become An Insights Driven Business
Most companies today realize that they can’t build a sustainable business strategy based on intuition alone. Data is needed to help guide decisions based on facts rather than guesswork. Most mid-sized companies have vast pools of data available to them, but the trick is learning how to use that data effectively. However, just using more … Continue reading “How To Become An Insights Driven Business”
Read MoreDIGITAL ECONOMY In-the-Moment
To meet these demands, businesses of all types— not just digital giants and deep-pocketed competitors—certainly need instantaneous access to relevant data. They also, however, need the ability to respond immediately to the insights that data reveals. In other words, organizations need to do business “in the moment.” This is as true for small to midsize … Continue reading “DIGITAL ECONOMY In-the-Moment”