The SAP Business as Unusual book by Thomas Saueressig and Peter Maier was released on December 20. (click on badge on left to link to the Amazon page). The book relies heavily on conversations with SAP, customer, partner, research firm and SAP.iO Foundries startup executives in over 25 countries and on visits to Industry 4.0 and Customer Experience Centers at key SAP global locations.
We ended up with hundreds of hours of videos and 2,500 pages in transcripts, slides and research papers. We plan to showcase a selection of video excerpts for each chapter so readers can get to know the contributors a bit better and get a glimpse at some of the SAP assets described in the book. These are bite sixed excerpts – in most cases less than 5% of the conversations we recorded.
Leading off for Ch. 9 and Megatrend 8 of 8 – Resilient Supply Networks - is Martin Barkman, senior vice president of solution management for SAP’s digital solution management team. The chapter includes plenty of his commentary and that from execs at Evonik, Beckhoff and others and discusses SAP Industry 4.0 showcases and its growing ecosystem of new supply networks.
Thomas Meinel of Evonik, one of the largest chemical companies in the world, presents on how their thinking has evolved around supplier networks.
Anja Strothkaemper of SAP presents on disruption in agribusiness due to the Ukraine war, climate change and lingering COVID impact and how SAP is helping a wide range of sectors in the farm to fork value chain navigate these cross-currents
Hari Ashvini of SAP presents on new supply chain players they are partnering which are particularly important in micro-fulfilment scenarios
SAP has Industry 4.0 showcases set up around the world. The video below has excerpts from an hour -long tour of the showcase set up in Newtown Square, PA. It walks through robotic, machine vision and other sensor technologies for use cases in discrete and process industry settings.
The twin of this post with text and graph excerpts is here
