SAP-Solution: Harmonisierung

A global and digital business platform, the One Global Corporation on SAP S/4 Hana, is the goal of many large SAP industrial customers. What is the community doing to get ready for the future? In this column, we show what matters.

The photo association Ringfoto relies on the e-commerce expert Poet for its ERP and online store. 1450 members and approx. 1900 sales outlets make use of the complex data system: The (subsequent) delivery of the 8000 articles, which are stored on an area of 4500 square meters in the central warehouse at 3300 pallet spaces, should not take more than 24 hours from Monday to Friday.

The dawn has begun, even if the time span until 2025 still seems a long way off to some existing SAP customers. Topics such as Industry 4.0, IoT, Software Defined Datacenter, DevOps and Big Data require immediate engagement with current technologies and especially open source. With Michael Jores, Suse Linux Director Central Europe, and Jens-Gero Boehm, Director Suse Partner Sales Central...

The reduction of the maintenance effort for master data and a general improvement in master data quality are the main benefits that customers hope to achieve when using master data software, according to the manufacturers of MDM software.