Procurement and Supply Chain Insights

Thought leadership, trending reports, news, and conversation about the things that matter to procurement and supply chain professionals.

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Latest News

January 17

Twinings, Asda Pick RISE with SAP for Digital Transformation in the Cloud

January 14

Cloud services come good for SAP in 2021

January 13

Twinings selects Rise with SAP to simplify its business brew

January 13

Procurement Pivotal to Managing Disruptions Says SAP Research

January 13

SAP brews up solution for Twinings Ovaltine

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Future of Systems Thinking

Read how executives are sharing data and expertise with their peers and partners while expanding their influence and visibility.

Procurement Reimagined Insights

Review six key insights into how organizations can address the challenges of today’s evolving procurement landscape.

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SAP Podcasts

Listen in as SAP leaders, subject matter experts, and guests discuss procurement and supply chain solutions and trends.

Better Together

Though procurement and AP usually have different priorities and goals, aligning these two functions can deliver huge gains for your business.

Agile Procurement Insights Research

Disruption is happening across industries. SAP and Oxford Economics asked 1,000 executives in 14 industries, including these six, how procurement, supply chain, and external labor management are helping out. Choose a report to see how you compare with your peers.

Automotive

Develop more agile and resilient supply chains, diversify your supplier base, and better collaborate with suppliers.

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Banking

Tackle challenges like non-traditional competition, evolving consumer demand, and the digital banking explosion to position your organization for future success.

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Consumer Products

Prepare for and manage disruption, mitigate delays and shortages, and meet the demand in both retail and direct-to-consumer businesses.

Read consumer products report

Oil and Gas

Develop innovations that extend beyond the barrel, streamline traditional business models, and digitally transform procurement and supply chain processes.

Get oil and gas report

Professional Services

Gain full visibility of your external workforce to help you drive better business outcomes.

Professional services report

Public Sector

Strive for transparency, efficiency, and agility in support of your mission and to ensure public trust.

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Blogs, Articles, and More

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A Passion for Cross-Generational Inclusion

Annice Joseph shares the backstory about a new thought leadership paper from SAP, written to share the journey of cross-generational inclusion at the workplace. Start here to explore how a cross-functional team helped surface biases and clear up assumptions about older and younger coworkers.

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Integrated Business Networks Increasingly a Counterweight to Disruption

By connecting all trading partners via digital business networks, all participants benefit from enhanced intelligence, greater efficiencies and improved resilience.

Read on SDC Executive

SAP Business Network Webinar Series

Watch this four-part series webinars on demand to learn how SAP Business Network – of which Ariba Network is a part – is being developed to unify all points of integration across your trading partners to improve collaboration and help you achieve reliable supply chains.

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Why Adaptive Supply Chains Are Vital for Future-Proofing

A year unlike any other taught tough lessons and exposed the necessity for end-to-end supply chain digitalization to succeed in an ever-changing world.

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Vacant supply receiving platforms representing disruption exposure risk and how SAP business networks help companies respond

Location Visibility Is Key to Mending Supply Chains Frayed by Pandemic Disruption

Unified business networks, strengthened by the unique value and capabilities provided by its ecosystem partners, positions digital supply chains for resilience and agility long into the future.

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Competitive Advantage Increasingly Shaped by Trading Partners

Integrated business networks, powered by the cloud, lend substantial capabilities in service of trading partners, the ecosystem that nourishes them and the competitive advantage that accrues collectively.

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When Value Chains Become Value Networks, Business Becomes Sustainable

A unified business network enables all trading partners to access combined intelligence in near-real time and apply it to complex problems together. When a network reaches across functions, across industries, across the world, companies have the power and flexibility to solve some of today’s toughest social, economic, and environmental issues.

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Solution Demos and Resources

Demos

Check out our set of 30-minute demos, starring our market-leading solutions and capabilities: Supplier risk, guided buying, guided sourcing, supply chain collaboration, and more.

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Library

To better understand the impact of SAP Ariba solutions, explore the insights and success stories presented in our extensive collection of white papers, analyst reports, webinar replays, and case studies.

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