In the span of a few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from an emerging technology to taking center stage in companies of all sizes. This has been a consistent trend across industries, and adoption will continue to accelerate.
According to
IDC[1], “
60% of Forbes’ Global 2000 companies will expand the use of artificial intelligence across all business-critical horizontal functions like marketing, legal, HR, procurement and supply chain logistics by 2024”.
AI is at the heart of SAP’s strategy to help customers become intelligent, sustainable enterprises. With SAP AI, customers can realize their full potential by:
- Bringing transformative intelligence to every aspect of their business through ready-to-use AI capabilities in SAP’s business applications for all business processes, such as lead-to-cash, design-to-operate, recruit-to-retire, and source-to-pay. SAP has the most comprehensive set of business AI capabilities designed to transform all these processes.
- Leveraging adaptable innovation to easily extend the AI capabilities to meet their specific needs using the SAP Business Technology Platform.
- Ensuring trust and reliability by using AI capabilities that are built on stringent ethics policy and data privacy standards that enable responsible use of AI, with full transparency and compliance.
Let’s take a look at some of the recent AI innovations that help customers optimize every aspect of their business, with capabilities to streamline finance, workforce management, supply chain, sales, and marketing.
Turn sourcing into market-leading advantage
Finding, negotiating, and contracting suppliers can be complex. Rather than tasking employees to tackle this all by themselves, organizations can use SAP’s AI powered
source-to-pay process to optimize sourcing, drive cost savings and create value.
Let's take the example of the accounts payable department. Finance teams often have to retrieve a large number of invoices, typically received as PDFs in e-mail, and manually enter that data into relevant systems. The process is both error-prone and labor-intensive.
New AI capabilities in
SAP Central Invoice Management simplify the management of high-touch invoices through multi-channel inbound handling, automatic data extraction and centralized monitoring. These enhancements streamline invoice processing by reducing costs, eliminating manual invoice entry, and improving accuracy and employee productivity.
AI-powered invoice processing with SAP Central Invoice Management
Turn potential into performance
A company’s greatest asset is its workforce. Understanding, managing, and aligning employees to business objectives is a challenge faced by organizations of all sizes.
By infusing AI throughout the
recruit-to-retire process, organizations can identify top talent in less time with intelligent resume screening, help their workforce reach their potential with personalized development recommendations, and align tasks and priorities with intelligent workforce management.
To take employee productivity to the next-level, we are introducing a new digital assistant in
SAP SuccessFactors (available through SAP Early Adopter Care for now) that enables employee to quickly locate the right web pages when looking to perform specific tasks and access pertinent information. For instance, instead of shifting through various pieces of documentation about compensation and rewards, an SAP SuccessFactors user can now ask the Digital Assistant to view their compensation statement and create a spot award for a colleague in a heartbeat.
SAP SuccessFactors Digital Assistant
Turn concepts into competitive advantage
In times of disruption, companies require a high degree of resilience in their supply chains and manufacturing operations to survive and thrive. To ensure resilient supply chains, organizations need to connect and optimize their design-to-operate processes such as designing, planning, manufacturing, and delivery.
SAP’s AI-powered design-to-operate processes enable organizations to reliably predict sales with real-time demand sensing, improve quality management with anomaly detection and visual inspections, and streamline operations with predictive maintenance.
New AI capabilities for
SAP Returnable Packaging Management in SAP S/4HANA enable organizations to forecast the number of containers their customers and suppliers will need in the coming months based on past delivery patterns. Companies can leverage these AI-powered forecasts to optimize circular logistic flows for returnable and reusable packaging material.
Furthermore, new AI capabilities in
SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain help customers optimize demand planning by building custom forecast models tailored to their specific use cases.
Turn prospects into lifelong customers
When trying to deliver exceptional customer experiences, organizations often struggle to fully connect and act on the signals acquired throughout the
lead-to-cash process from initial contact, to order fulfillment, to service and support delivery.
SAP’s AI-powered lead-to-cash capabilities enable companies to strengthen sales pipelines with better lead scoring, clear accounts receivables faster with intelligent payment processing, and personalize the entire customer journey with relevant recommendations.
SAP Industry Cloud users in the consumer products industry will soon be able to take advantage of AI-powered
SAP Revenue Growth Optimization to maximize ROI for trade-spend, the amount a company needs to spend to increase demand of its products. The solution provides highly accurate recommendations to enhance sales promotion plans and help sales teams grow revenue more profitably. This improves the overall effectiveness of promotions with better insights, root cause analysis of poor performance, and optimization of trade spend budget.
Promotion plans monitoring in SAP Revenue Growth Optimization
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[1] "IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Artificial Intelligence and Automation 2022 Predictions, Doc # US48298421, October 2021"