ERP Strategy and Planning

Why Digital Transformation is a Yet Unfulfilled Promise in Public Services
ERP Strategy and Planning
Why Digital Transformation is a Yet Unfulfilled Promise in Public Services
Unit4's 2025 State of Digital report reveals that despite high aspirations for digital transformation in the public sector, significant hurdles like IT frustrations, budget concerns, and organizational resistance have hindered full implementation, with only 16% of UK organizations achieving operational integration, though there remains optimism for future improvements.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Cross3: When D’Ieteren Reinvents the Belgian Automotive Experience
D'Ieteren Automotive is revolutionizing customer relationships and dealership management in Belgium through the Cross3 digital transformation project involving Inetum, fostering a paperless, fully digital system across 160 locations.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Inetum Supports the Start-up Aledia in its Exponential Growth with Dynamics 365
Inetum partners with Aledia to support its rapid expansion by implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP, enabling the start-up's transition from R&D to industrial production while ensuring flexibility and scalability to meet ambitious growth targets.
ERP Strategy and Planning
IT migration: the precisely orchestrated migration that empowers Ontex to innovate
Ontex, a Belgian leader in personal hygiene, has transformed its outdated IT infrastructure into an agile cloud solution through a strategic partnership with Inetum, enabling improved flexibility and scalability while focusing on growth and innovation.
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ERP Strategy and Planning
Fresh Produce Companies Find Value in Upgraded, Industry-Specialized ERPs
We examine case studies to see how a specialized ERP for fresh produce companies is helping them scale and achieve their goals.
Lift-and-Shift ERP Strategies NTT DATA and Microsoft
ERP Strategy and Planning
Why Lift-and-Shift ERP Strategies Are Inadequate for Modern Revenue Models
Lift-and-shift migration of legacy ERP systems to the cloud often fails to accommodate the demands of modern, subscription-based business models, necessitating a decoupled approach with specialized platforms like Zuora to effectively manage complex billing and revenue recognition processes.
How Smart ERP Connectivity Optimizes Your Working Capital
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How Smart ERP Connectivity Optimizes Your Working Capital
Working capital optimization is essential for businesses amid economic volatility, with strategies such as supply chain finance and dynamic discounting, enhanced by ERP systems, enabling financial professionals to improve cash flow and make proactive, data-driven decisions.
ERP Strategy and Planning
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.
ERP Strategy and Planning
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.
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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.
ERP Strategy and Planning
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.
ERP Strategy and Planning
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.
ERP Strategy and Planning
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.
ERP Strategy and Planning
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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
ERP Strategy and Planning
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.
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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".
ERP Strategy and Planning
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.
ERP Strategy and Planning
How Real-Time SAP Integration with Aico Outperforms File-Based Integration
In the current financial landscape, Aico’s real-time SAP integration enhances data accuracy, compliance, and decision-making speed, offering significant advantages over traditional file-based methods for finance leaders.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Aico to SAP integration
Aico has created a unique real-time integration for SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC. This means data between these ERPs and Aico is streamed in real-time instead of transferred via periodic file downloads and uploads. This allows you to refresh the latest financial data from your ERP in seconds, not hours or days. Aico's real-time ERP integration stands out as both unique among financial close solutions and best-in-class.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Manufacturing’s AI-First ERP Evolution: Rootstock’s Strategic Bet on Salesforce
Rootstock Software, leveraging its all-in strategy on the Salesforce platform, is transforming mid-market manufacturing ERP expectations by embedding AI solutions that enhance efficiency and user interaction, while positioning itself uniquely to serve a lucrative market amid a significant shift towards technological adoption in the industry.
Modular Cloud Transformation and Composable ERP
ERP Strategy and Planning
Yes, Agile Works for ERP Implementations
Agile methodologies are transforming ERP implementations by enhancing flexibility, accelerating delivery, and aligning closely with business outcomes, leading to significantly higher success rates and productivity compared to traditional waterfall approaches.
ERP Strategy and Planning
The Zero-Failure Formula: How Sage X3 Partner Inixion Achieves 100% ERP Success
Inixion, a Sage X3 partner with an impeccable record of zero ERP project failures over nearly two decades, attributes its success to deep-rooted customer relationships and staff stability, focusing on flexible deployment options and a comprehensive understanding of complex ERP integrations to meet unique client needs.
ERP Strategy and Planning
When Universities Merge, Legacy ERP Systems Don’t: The Higher Education Consolidation Conundrum
The article discusses the challenges faced by universities during mergers due to outdated ERP systems that lead to financial instability and operational inefficiencies, while advocating for composable ERP solutions like Unit4 ERPx that facilitate faster integration and preserve institutional identities.
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