WALLDORF, Germany, Feb. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE:
SAP) today announced that hundreds of companies worldwide,
including HP Inc. and Unilever, have chosen SAP® Ariba® and SAP
Fieldglass® solutions in the fourth quarter of 2021 to help
digitalize procurement and external workforce management. Hundreds
went live and hundreds more renewed licenses for SAP's spend
management solutions to help accelerate efforts to instill supply
chain resilience.
"A full two years into the pandemic, business leaders understand
from experience that collaborative, agile procurement operations
are needed to keep up with customer demands," said Etosha Thurman, Chief Marketing and Solutions
Officer, Intelligent Spend and Business Network, SAP. "No one can
escape supply chain disruption and the cascading consequences
across industries and regions, so having visibility is crucial in
managing supply shortages. Our customers continue to adopt our
spend management solutions to help gain a competitive advantage by
managing complexity, improving supplier relationships and ensuring
supply chain reliability."
Highlights from the fourth quarter of 2021 include Al Ghandi
Group, Arca Continental, Austrian Power Grid AG, Banco Sabadell,
Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund, Philippine Airlines, Siemens AG,
Unilever PLC and the following:
Chobani, a food maker with a mission of making
high-quality and nutritious food accessible to more people,
selected SAP Ariba solutions for sourcing and supply chain
collaboration. As the company continues to grow and expand its
contract manufacturing footprint, the adoption of the solutions
will help Chobani automate highly manual and complex processes
around collaboration with its direct and indirect materials
suppliers. It expects to reduce risk and non-value-added work,
accelerate savings with robust e-sourcing and improve the user
experience for staff and trading partners.
HP Inc., a global technology leader with an innovative
portfolio of personal systems, printers and 3D printing solutions,
expanded its existing investment in SAP's business process
intelligence solutions. With support from SAP Signavio® solutions,
HP can innovate through advanced process analysis and modeling, and
quickly identify and act on opportunities for process
transformation to drive competitive differentiation. HP also
extended its investments in SAP Integrated Business Planning for
Supply Chain applications, SAP Ariba solutions for supply chain
collaboration and SAP Fieldglass solutions for external workforce
management.
Hunya Foods, looking to stay ahead in a highly
competitive chocolate market, invested in SAP Ariba solutions to
help digitalize procurement and simplify decision-making and
overall planning. With SAP Ariba solutions, the Chinese company
will create a new procurement platform to record supplier
information and transactions, which will help improve operational
efficiency.
Grupo IDESA, a leader in the production and distribution
of chemical products in Mexico,
advances its innovation strategy with SAP. In addition to the RISE
with SAP offering and SAP Customer Experience solutions, the
company selected SAP Ariba and SAP Concur® solutions to help
achieve operational excellence in its financial and procurement
processes and supplier management and collaboration.
R. Twining & Co., one of the world's most iconic tea
brands, selected SAP to lead its transformation program as it
looks to better engage with customers while also ensuring supply
chain reliability and operational efficiency. At the heart of the
solution is RISE with SAP running on Microsoft Azure,
supported by SAP Business Technology
Platform and SAP Ariba solutions for digital
procurement. With the SAP solutions, Twinings Ovaltine looks to
modernize its core capabilities across finance, manufacturing and
logistics in order to run its global business in a real-time,
intelligent and agile manner.
Shining Investment, focused on clean energy and
environmental protection, adopted RISE with SAP to help establish a
scalable digital core in the cloud. The Chinese company also chose
SAP Ariba solutions and the SAP Analytics Cloud solution for
transparent and intelligent spend management and real-time
data-driven decision-making.
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