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supply chain signal chain
Signal Chains Bring Resiliency and Predictability for Manufacturers and Distributors
We examine the concept of Signal Chains and how they provide resiliency and predictability for manufacturers.
Simplify Smart: How Centralized SaaS and AI Accelerate Growth
Is your technology stack working for you, or against you? Many mid-sized manufacturers and distributors find themselves trapped in a maze of disconnected systems, scattered data, and decision-making that is more reactive than strategic. Managing multiple point solutions across departments create data silos, slows innovation, and clouds visibility into performance. Leadership is often left wondering whether they are investing in the right tools, are aligned across teams, and how to move from operational chaos to coordinated execution. The solution is to simplify SaaS access and visibility across business-critical applications. This will allow you to centralize application benchmark decisions and unlock new operational efficiencies without adding to existing IT burdens. The right solution will allow leaders to take full advantage of AI capabilities to make smarter decisions, reduce risk, and validate investment choices, turning data overload into competitive insight. By watching this session, you will be able to: - Identify gaps in your current application landscape and opportunities for consolidation. - Explain how centralized access improves efficiency and team alignment. - Apply peer benchmarking insights to validate operational decisions and guide strategy. - List key criteria for evaluating business applications with a modern technology stack.
Simplify Smart: How Centralized SaaS and AI Accelerate Growth
Is your technology stack working for you, or against you? Many mid-sized manufacturers and distributors find themselves trapped in a maze of disconnected systems, scattered data, and decision-making that is more reactive than strategic. Managing multiple point solutions across departments create data silos, slows innovation, and clouds visibility into performance. Leadership is often left wondering whether they are investing in the right tools, are aligned across teams, and how to move from operational chaos to coordinated execution. The solution is to simplify SaaS access and visibility across business-critical applications. This will allow you to centralize application benchmark decisions and unlock new operational efficiencies without adding to existing IT burdens. The right solution will allow leaders to take full advantage of AI capabilities to make smarter decisions, reduce risk, and validate investment choices, turning data overload into competitive insight. By watching this session, you will be able to: - Identify gaps in your current application landscape and opportunities for consolidation. - Explain how centralized access improves efficiency and team alignment. - Apply peer benchmarking insights to validate operational decisions and guide strategy. - List key criteria for evaluating business applications with a modern technology stack.
Cutting Through the Hype – Pragmatic AI for People-Centric Industries
Watch this Webinar on-demand for an insightful webinar that dives beyond the buzz of artificial intelligence and focuses on delivering meaningful, actionable strategies tailored for people-centric industries. This engaging session will unravel how businesses can implement AI effectively, aligning it with operational goals to enhance both organizational efficiency and employee satisfaction. What You’ll Learn: - Pragmatic AI in Action: Discover how a practical approach to AI adoption can free up resources, streamline workflows, and deliver measurable results. - Human-Centric AI Strategies: Hear about our approach to empowering teams with AI, supporting their efforts, and aligning technology with human-driven business goals. - The Data Foundation: Understand why clean, accessible data is critical and how it lays the groundwork for successful AI implementation. - Governance and Guide Rails: Learn about our approach to governance—how we ensure AI systems remain ethical, auditable, and closely aligned with organizational vision. Why View? - Gain practical insights from leading industry experts who cut through the AI hype. - Learn actionable techniques that you can immediately apply to your unique business needs. - Explore real-world examples tailored to the challenges faced by people-centric industries. Who Should Watch? This webinar is crafted for professionals in people-centric industries, including technology providers, decision-makers, and business leaders who are seeking to integrate AI in a way that drives tangible business value while supporting their teams. Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to learn how to adopt AI the right way.
Cutting Through the Hype – Pragmatic AI for People-Centric Industries
Watch this Webinar on-demand for an insightful webinar that dives beyond the buzz of artificial intelligence and focuses on delivering meaningful, actionable strategies tailored for people-centric industries. This engaging session will unravel how businesses can implement AI effectively, aligning it with operational goals to enhance both organizational efficiency and employee satisfaction. What You’ll Learn: - Pragmatic AI in Action: Discover how a practical approach to AI adoption can free up resources, streamline workflows, and deliver measurable results. - Human-Centric AI Strategies: Hear about our approach to empowering teams with AI, supporting their efforts, and aligning technology with human-driven business goals. - The Data Foundation: Understand why clean, accessible data is critical and how it lays the groundwork for successful AI implementation. - Governance and Guide Rails: Learn about our approach to governance—how we ensure AI systems remain ethical, auditable, and closely aligned with organizational vision. Why View? - Gain practical insights from leading industry experts who cut through the AI hype. - Learn actionable techniques that you can immediately apply to your unique business needs. - Explore real-world examples tailored to the challenges faced by people-centric industries. Who Should Watch? This webinar is crafted for professionals in people-centric industries, including technology providers, decision-makers, and business leaders who are seeking to integrate AI in a way that drives tangible business value while supporting their teams. Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to learn how to adopt AI the right way.
Kyano Datafridge
Legacy systems hinder innovation and increase costs, but decommissioning them with solutions like Kyano Datafridge can reduce total cost of ownership by up to 80%, ensuring accessible data for compliance while minimizing operational expenses.
SNP at 30 Transforming Tomorrow
SNP’s unique Bluefield™ approach combines the best of greenfield and brownfield strategies, offering a faster, more flexible route to S/4HANA. With SNP Kyano, companies can visualize their SAP landscape, simulate outcomes, and execute complex changes in a fraction of the usual time.
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Unit4 ERPx Lands on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Unit4's ERPx solution is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, allowing organizations in people-centric industries to efficiently deploy a modular, AI-powered ERP platform that enhances operational agility and streamlines procurement.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Rami Amkieh
ERP Today’s Robert Holland sat down with Rami Amkieh, Senior Vice President Middle East and Africa at SNP, to discuss the challenges faced by customers in the Middle East and Africa, how SNP is working with those customers to support their transformation goals, and the technologies that SNP is using to facilitate those transformations.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Don Mahoney
Robert Holland from ERP Today sat down with Don Mahoney, Chief Customer Officer at SNP, to talk about the challenges that customers face in finding the right approach to transformation, the preparations they can make regardless of a final transformation decision, and what makes successful transformation projects different.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Richard & Daniela Bühler
Richard Bühler, Head of Global IT at Cerdia, and Daniela Bühler, Head of IT Applications at Cerdia, sat down with Robert Holland of ERP Today to talk about their move to SAP S/4HANA. Having a long history with SAP, beginning with SAP R/2 and SAP R/3, and following a launch as a standalone company in 2019, Cerdia needed to move their SAP landscape from their SAP ECC 6 system. They have now completed their move to SAP S/4HANA, going live in April on RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Saleha F. Al-Kuaisi
Robert Holland from ERP Today talked with Saleha Al-Kubasi, Head of SAP at Qatar Chemicals, and Ravi Mahalingam, Managing Director of SNP Middle East, about Qatar Chemicals’ recent move to SAP S/4HANA on RISE with SAP. With over 20 years of history with SAP, Qatar Chemicals needed to update their systems, user experience, and transition to the cloud.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – SNP Japan & Accenture Japan
Robert Holland from ERP Today sits down with Shuhei Hotosanhi, Managing Director of SNP Japan, Mitsuhiro Wake, Managing Director of Accenture Japan, and Hiroki Irisawa, Associate Director of Accenture Japan, to talk about the unique challenges faced by Japanese customers, how SNP and Accenture are collaborating to support digital transformation journeys, and what considerations will be most important for customers over the coming year.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – SNP ANZ & IBM Australia
Robert Holland of ERP Today sat down with Richard Checketts, Managing Director ANZ at SNP, and Marcus Scott, SAP Practice Lead at IBM Australia, to talk about how the unique factors impacting customers in Australia and New Zealand and how SNP and IBM are collaborating for success.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Adriana Bassi
ERP Today’s Robert Holland talked with Adriana Bassi, IT Executive Manager at Raizen about the company’s crucial transformation to SAP Business Suite on HANA. Coming from a situation where their existing SAP ECC 5.0 deployment has been running without mainstream maintenance for over a decade, including the associated cybersecurity and business continuity risks, the strategic move also aimed to help the organization create a path for a future deployment of SAP S/4HANA.
SAP’s Post-Award Momentum: How 2024 ERP Today Recognition Has Translated to Real-World Impact
SAP's 2024 ERP Vendor of the Year award has catalyzed its cloud transformation mission, solidifying its position as a leader in AI-driven enterprise solutions and driving significant innovation and market expansion, evidenced by major customer wins and the development of tools like the Business Data Cloud and the AI assistant Joule.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Stronger Together
ERP Today’s Robert Holland sat down with SNP CEO Jens Amail at SNP Transformation World in Heidelberg, held from June 25-26, to understand what SNP is doing to support customer transformation and understand how the company is building on their...
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Sandrine Pons
ERP Today’s Robert Holland sat down with Sandrine Pons, Managing Director of SNP France and General Manager of SNP Iberia and BeNeLux at SNP Transformation World, to talk about the unique challenges faced by the customers in the regions she...
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Tara von Metzen
SNP’s Head of Products and Innovation, Tara von Metzen, sat down with ERP Today’s Robert Holland to talk about new developments that have been launched over the last year as well as what is on the roadmap for the future. Kyano brings together the data migration capabilities that have been available for years in SNP CrystalBridge and enhances them with everything from enabling business agility to continuous assessments.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Tim Garippa
Tim Garippa, Transformation and Innovation Lead at Adobe Technology, sat down with Robert Holland of ERP Today to discuss Adobe’s recent transition to SAP S/4HANA including a migration from a very large source system and a short deadline for completion. Garippa appeared on stage during the SNP Transformation World keynote along with other SNP customers to talk about Adobe’s success and the role that SNP played in their project.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Thomas Pfiester
Following his participation in the opening keynote at SNP Transformation World, ERP Today’s Robert Holland talked with Thomas Pfiester, Head of Global Customer Engagement and Services and Member of the Extended Board of SAP, about the transformation and innovation journey to SAP Business Suite, how SAP is helping customers get to the point where they can use AI in their day-to-day operations, and SAP’s relationship with SNP.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Jens Amail
ERP Today’s Robert Holland sat down with SNP CEO Jens Amail at SNP Transformation World in Heidelberg, held from June 25-26, to understand what SNP is doing to support customer transformation and understand how the company is building on their Kyano platform to make it a fully composable platform to enable business agility and integrate data management, migration, and continuous business assessments.
From SNP Transformation World 2025 – Robert Schmaltz
DHL Group is currently undertaking a global SAP S/4HANA transformation program, with Robert Schmaltz, Global Head of Process Standards and Governance, overseeing the process model and ensuring its fit for various entities. DHL has a long history with SAP, including legacy systems from R2 to R3 migrations, and is now transforming a "very customized, very grown SAP system".
When Formula One Meets ERP: Oracle Red Bull Racing’s Strategic Move to the Cloud
Oracle Red Bull Racing is transforming its finance and HR operations through the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite to enhance efficiency and comply with Formula One's cost cap regulations, highlighting a broader trend among high-performance organizations toward integrating AI and comprehensive cloud solutions for operational excellence.
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The ERP Elephant in the Room: Why Legacy System Decommissioning is Business Critical
Modern enterprises face significant challenges with legacy ERP decommissioning, as maintaining outdated systems poses financial, security, and compliance risks, making it imperative for organizations to strategically sunset these systems to unlock the full potential of their digital transformation efforts.
IFS Advances Industrial AI Workforce with TheLoops Acquisition
IFS's acquisition of TheLoops marks a significant evolution in enterprise software towards the implementation of autonomous AI agents capable of actively participating in critical industrial operations, transforming workflows with context-aware decision-making, and signaling a robust demand for such innovative solutions in the market.
Google Cloud Deploys AI Arsenal to Transform Partner Operations
Google Cloud is transforming the enterprise software landscape by introducing three innovative AI-powered tools that streamline partner processes, including the SOW Analyzer for efficient document analysis, the Bot-Assisted Live Chat for improved support, and an enhanced Earnings Hub for predictive insights, ultimately redefining cloud partnerships and boosting implementation speed and effectiveness.
NTT DATA’s Strategic Agentforce Play: Accelerating Enterprise AI Agent Adoption
The enterprise AI revolution just got a major acceleration boost. NTT DATA’s newly announced industry-ready service for Salesforce’s Agentforce represents more than just another consulting partnership – it’s a strategic response to the explosive growth in agentic AI adoption that’s...
IBM Maximo 9.1: The AI-Powered Asset Management Revolution is Here
IBM's Maximo Application Suite 9.1 redefines enterprise asset management with its generative AI assistant and advanced investment planning features, aiming to transform maintenance practices and capital allocation, though successful implementation hinges on organizations' readiness and quality data.
The Agility Imperative: How No-Code Platforms Are Reshaping Manufacturing Operations
Manufacturers are increasingly adopting no-code platforms to enhance operational agility and responsiveness amid constant disruptions, allowing business users to create and implement solutions independently, thereby transforming technology development from a lengthy IT process into a strategic advantage that fosters innovation and real-time adaptability.