Transform Consumer Products with SAP Powered by Approyo

The retail and consumer goods industries will change more in the next 10 years than they have over the past 40. One primary force is responsible—digitalization—and it has already begun.

• Consumers demand more than just a product – they expect an outcome.
• Consumers change buying decisions in the moment based on newly received information.
• Only real-time, collaborative networks have the ability to deliver meaningful consumer experiences.

These trends have one major thing common: They pose a threat and open new opportunity. The decisive movers will take advantage of these opportunities and turn them into competitive advantage.

SAP Solutions powered by Approyo
SAP HANA powered by Approyo is at the center of what makes digital transformation possible, and let’s you thrive in this unprecedented era of digital transformation. It is by far the best enterprise platform-as-a-service option for SAP customers.

SAP HANA can help consumer products companies’ knowledge about consumers and aids in creating a 360 degree picture of what motivates consumers, and what will help them on the buying journey. It helps extend the user experience to multiple devices and easier interfaces. SAP HANA extends your existing analytics into something more powerful and meaningful on a one-to-one level. It can help you extend your existing business into the exciting new world of Internet-of-things and leveraging new technology like beacon and sensor data. And SAP HANA extends the collaboration possible at every link of the value chain.

SAP HANA intigrates your cosnumer products and related systems into one cohesive system allowing you to leverage the resulting synergies.  With SuccessFactors and Fieldglass you can staff up contingent workforce as needed for that busy holiday season. Directly tie your existing inventory management solutions with SAP Ariba and so on.

Finally, with the velocity of change now possible in the digital era, you can build new solutions and business models in a rapid manner.  You can quickly build solutions and efficiently combine them such that they will not impact existing business models.  And this can be done in weeks and days instead of years or months.

Once you understand how you customers want to be treated,  make sure your systems and process allow exactly that: Extending your Cloud and On-Premises Apps let you tailor your current applications to differentiate your customer engagement.

• Extend your current cloud apps to add new features and personalization unique to your brand, its people and goals
• Easily modernize your current on-premises applications into beautiful, mobile-ready assets your team and customers can use right now
• Deploy pre-built app extensions created by SAP and our partners to quickly and easily achieve results in new outlets, markets and geographies

REIMAGINE CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT 
Nowhere is the impact of digital more profound than in processes and technologies that directly touch consumers. A great omnicommerce consumer engagement must include:

• Knowledgeable store associates armed with as much or more information than consumers 
• Social engagement involving brand, employees, and consumers 
• In-store technologies to augment shopping experience 
• “Segment of one” merchandising, marketing, and loyalty 

REIMAGINE BUSINESS MODELS
If technology was not a limitation, how would you fundamentally change business models based on real-time and complete consumer and business data? Many possibilities exist, such as:

• Automated, dynamic, and contextual pricing based on a consumer’s digital footprint 
• Flexible supply networks enabling short lead times and “make-to-order” assortments 
• Tracking and tracing along the supply chain with connected warehouses 

REIMAGINE PROCESSES
With digital playing a larger role in commerce, it’s easy to envision new processes that help create and capture new sources of value. Examples include:

• Data and insights help not only in growing the core business but also in creating new businesses that directly monetize data 
• Business networks and marketplaces are enabling agile fulfillment
• The ability to activate hyper-local execution 

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Your Business Powered by Approyo

Digital business is built on new computing infrastructure – the pillars of mobile, cloud, Big Data, and analytics – accelerated by the Internet of Things (IoT), advances in machine learning, and innovations like blockchain. These disruptive technologies are giving companies the ability to radically change business models and create new products and services.

At Approyo, we see enormous potential for you to simplify your own businesses and seize new opportunities through the SAP HANA platform, with SAP S/4HANA as your new enterprise suite. Plus, SAP Leonardo, built on SAP HANA, works seamlessly with every SAP application making them more powerful, intelligent, and capable.

In today’s digital world, companies’ need to:

• Reduce complexity in business processes and simplify technology
• Deliver end-to-end outcome-based business solutions
• Ensure that the best business results are delivered

SAP Powered by Approyo
Approyo provides full SAP service technology with extensive capabilities in consulting, solutions architecture, and product procurement, in order to develop the right solution for our customers. Our extensive partnerships in the industry allow us to offer top-tier SAP procurement and logistics to meet all our customers’ SAP technology needs.

TRANSFORM SALES WITH SAP powered by Approyo 
SAP solutions powered by Approyo enable companies to substantially enhance, simplify, and visualize the entire sales process.

TRANSFORM PROCUREMENT WITH SAP powered by Approyo
SAP solutions powered by Approyo enable companies to substantially enhance, simplify, and visualize the entire procurement process from sourcing to purchasing to settlement.

TRANSFORM HR WITH SAP powered by Approyo
SAP solutions powered by Approyo enable companies to drive a Digital HR
Transformation and deliver new and innovative solutions to meet the rapidly evolving business needs, turning promise into purpose.

TRANSFORM MANUFACTURING WITH SAP powered by Approyo
SAP solutions powered by Approyo enable companies to integrate and embed intelligence in manufacturing processes facilitating Industry 4.0 principles with one source of live information.

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Powered by Approyo

Approyo provides full SAP service technology with extensive capabilities in consulting, solutions architecture, and product procurement, in order to develop the right solution for our customers. Our extensive partnerships in the industry allow us to offer top-tier SAP procurement and logistics to meet all our customers’ SAP technology needs.

Approyo will help you to avoid the expense and complexity of buying and managing software licenses, the underlying application infrastructure and middleware or the development tools and other resources. Our solutions take the enterprise system of record and supercharges it with the tools of digital transformation – coupled with a design thinking process specifically created for business modernization and agility.

SAP HANA powered by Approyo
SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that lets you accelerate business processes, deliver more business intelligence, and simplify your IT environment. By providing the foundation for all your data needs, SAP HANA removes the burden of maintaining separate legacy systems and siloed data, so you can run live and make better business decisions in the new digital economy. With Approyo, you can deploy the latest version, SAP HANA 2.

SAP Hybris powered by Approyo
SAP Hybris focuses on rapid transformation and agility across all channels, getting you close to your customers and delivering a consistently great experience at every touch point. SAP Hybris makes products that cut cost, time and complexity, freeing you up to focus on innovation and strategy. SAP Hybris covers five main areas – commerce, marketing, revenue, sales and service – and offer you the insights and flexibility you need to lead.

SAP Leonardo powered by Approyo
SAP Leonardo is a holistic digital innovation system that seamlessly integrates future-facing technologies and capabilities into the SAP Platform. This powerful portfolio enables you to rapidly innovate, scale new models, and continually redefine your business.

SAP Leonardo delivers new capabilities in future-forward technologies, which add tremendous value along your company’s digital journey. But it’s made even more valuable because it’s built on SAP HANA, to support real-time business. Plus, SAP Leonardo works seamlessly with every SAP application from SAP Ariba to SAP S/4HANA, making them more powerful, intelligent, and capable.

SAP S/4HANA powered by Approyo
Written natively for the SAP HANA platform, SAP S/4HANA is an entirely new generation of SAP Business Suite that is characterized by simplifications, massively increased efficiency, and compelling features such as planning and simulation options in many conventional transactions.

SAP S/4HANA signals a move away from the transactional system that merely records data toward giving end users active decision support in real time that is based on data from both internal and external sources.

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Transform HR with SAP Solutions powered by Approyo

HR has been transforming for many years, focused traditionally on topics like automation, efficiency, and direct access to HR data and services for individual employees. Technologies and strategies that have supported these initiatives include human resource management systems (HRMS), talent management, employee self-service, and manager self-service. However, a new and expanded HR transformation is underway, led by cloud capabilities including mobile and continuous upgrades, as well as the availability of new digital technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence. These capabilities are enabling HR to reimagine new ways of delivering HR services and strategies throughout the organization. Whereas the traditional view of HR transformation was all about doing existing things better, the next generation of HR transformation is focused on doing completely new things.

These new digital aspects of HR transformation do not replace the existing focus of automation and efficiency. They work hand inhand and, in many cases, digital technologies can further augment automation. Digital approaches are becoming increasingly important, and a digital HR strategy must be a key component of HR’s overall strategy. Not only do they hold the promise of new capabilities that can help HR build a workforce for the future and improve decision-making and effectiveness, they are, simply put, expected. Every person interacts with digital technologies daily, and every person in the organization is a potential user of HR systems. HR system experiences that are basedon consumer grade digital experiences will help engage every worker, inspiring them to do their best and helping them turn every organization’s purpose into performance.

HR in a Digital Economy

• Predict Workforce Outcomes - Analyze data patterns and identify future challenges and risks like employee flight risk and ability to source critical skills.
• Suggest and Recommend - Transform data and metrics into personalized suggestions and recommendations that improve decisionmaking.
• Network and Collaborate - Facilitate knowledge sharing and improve teamwork across distributed working environment.
• Interact using Natural Language  - Encourage ongoing and continuous use of HR systems and processes with voice recognition, messenger apps, and chat bots.
• Multi-channel Workforce Management - Streamline processes for finding, engaging and managing external workers and services providers for access to critical skills and greater business agility.

Reimagine - Pay for Performance with SAP Solutions powered by Approyo

The concept of pay for performance is central to the compensation philosophy found in most companies. When done well, pay for performance drives employee engagement,  development, and productivity. But traditional performance management processes have failed to achieve this goal and are widely viewed as demotivating, inefficient, and  ineffective. By leveraging the power of social and mobile cloud technology, SAP solutions enable customers to create more engaging and continuous performance management processes that replace forms and ratings with meaningful conversations and fair and effective decisions.

Reimagine - Manage the Workforce with SAP Solutions powered by Approyo

The new HR mandate is moving beyond automation, reducing costs, and ensuring compliance to connecting people with your company’spurpose and inspiring them to perform  at their best. SAP SuccessFactors solutions, along with SAP Fieldglass solutions, SAP Leonardo capabilities, and SAP S/4 HANA, helps HR elevate from an administrative function  to a strategic imperative driving phenomenal business results. 

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Transform Supply Chain with SAP powered by Approyo

Digitization of the economy is continuing to accelerate the pace of innovation, shortening the product lifecycle and increasing the demand volatility. At the same time supply chains are becoming global and increasingly complex. To be in a position to create and capture opportunities, companies must develop an environment in which they can manage information and processes simultaneously across the extended supply chain. This evolution of supply chains is more connected, intelligent, responsive, and predictive. Itenables companies to drive customer-centric processes and deliver personalized products uniquely built and delivered for the “segment ofone.” These demanding customers have to be serviced across a business network of global partners that are increasingly challenged by resource scarcity. This transformation will continue to impact the business processes and systems that are required to remain competitive. It will change how we design, plan, make, ship, and operate our products and assets.

SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain, and applications such as SAP Ariba solutions and SAP Integrated Business Planning, and SAP Leonardo support a digital supply chain strategy with a digital value network that acts as an enabler for business transformation. The digital value network starts with a digital core that interconnects all aspects of the value network in real time to drive business outcomes. The digital core not only connects every aspect of internal operations but also enables real-time workforce engagement, supplier collaboration, outcome-based omnichannel consumer experience, and other market dynamics with Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data scenarios.

Reduced Days in Inventory with Live Inventory Management and Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP)
Live inventory management through a redesigned data model enables unlimited simultaneous material movements and allows for true transparency on inventory and material flows. It also provides improved material planning with faster, more frequent Material Requirement Planning (MRP) runs –multiple times a day, with planning and rapid replanning in minutes instead of hours to minimize inventory. It is now possible to replenish only for real demand and introduce buffers at strategically important points (Demand Driven Material Requirement Planning DDMRP).

Reduction in Revenue Loss Due to Fulfillment Issues with Advanced Available to Promise (AATP)
The solution enables intelligent, real-time product availability check for sales, planned and production orders. It  includes scalable Available to Promise (ATP) for managing large transaction volumes and flexible allocation management capabilities. It provides back-order processing with intuitive priority classification and interactive exception handling.

Reduce Overall Supply Chain Planning Cost with What-If and Scenario Planning
S/4HANA  digital core in conjunction with SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations enables integrated, continuous and iterative supply chain planning. It includes whatif and scenario planning to react to market demand through the best service at lowest cost. Manufacturing costs and premium freight expenses are reduced with detailed constrained planning and scheduling, enabling agility and efficient use of capacity.

Improved Supply Chain Planning FTE Productivity with SAP Integrated Business Planning and SAP Fiori
Supply chain planning productivity is enhanced through easy-touse Microsoft Excel and analytics-based planning interfaces in conjunction with SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP). This helps production and material planners execute critical daily tasks with embedded decision support analytics and SAP Fiori role-based user interface applications.

Reduced TCO Through Landscape Simplification with Embedded Solutions in SAP S/4HANA
Faster business outcomes are achieved with reduced operational cost, thanks to simplified system landscapes. Redesigned data structure and embedded solutions in SAP S/4HANA result in fewer systems and interfaces. For example SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) and SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) applications embedded in the SAP S/4HANA core.

Digital Priorities in Supply Chain

Customer Experience - Customer expectations are changing and individualized products are becoming commonplace. It’s not about selling the product but caring about the customer from the beginning through the entire lifecycle. Ability to deliver the same day, or even the same hour to different types of locations is the key to a great customer experience.

SAP Connected Goods software captures information from smart products using IoT sensors. SAP S/4HANA supports the new consumption-based business models, leading to increased revenue for the organization.

Local Manufacturing - Companies are looking to move "closer to home" and reducing outsourced manufacturing with the preference of local manufacturing. To make manufacturing processes more efficient and affordable there is an increase in automation and robotics on the production floor. Also, the assets and products are becoming more connected and smarter.

SAP S/4HANA supports agile manufacturing with ‘lot size of one’ and 3D Printing customization capabilities, which reduces inventory carrying costs. SAP solutions provide better visibility into the performance of the shop floor equipment to increase uptime and utilization.

Networked Economy - The new economy is the networked economy. Organizations are seeking cross department and cross industry business network collaboration. Also, visibility down multiple levels of a supply chain is needed for sustainable and socially responsible networks.

SAP Integrated Business Planning and SAP Ariba solutions provide collaboration across supply chain, logistics, assets, and manufacturing. IoT solutions from SAP leverage data from smart assets to drive data and business processes. Also, improved collaboration in design results in improved compliance and sustainable products.

Changing Society - An increasing percentage of the world’s population now lives in cities and urban areas. This increases the pressure on infrastructures such as electricity, water, and power grids and thus the need to optimize space and logistics. Also, as manufacturing becomes more automated, the role of employees and the skills required are also evolving.

IoT solutions from SAP help build smart cities and optimize the rural areas to support the ever-growing population with the ever-decreasing natural resources. SAP Leonardo capabilities help data scientists analyze vast amounts of data and provide innovative solutions in this time of changing work environments and populations.

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Approyo named one of The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch 2018 by Insights Success

Approyo is honored to announce that it has been selected among The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch 2018 by Insights Success Magazine.

Insights Success is a platform that focuses distinctively on emerging as well as leading companies, their confrontational style of doing business and way of delivering effective and collaborative solutions to strengthen market share. This magazine talks about leaders and orators from the world of technology, which includes CEO’s, CIO’s, VP’s, Managers and other professionals who had set a benchmark in the revolution of the industry.

"Upon review of the 2018 nominees of The 10 Most Successful Companies to Watch 2018, and going through various factors such as technological utilization, strategic focus and global footprint, Approyo stood out with its customized cloud environment that has surged the company ahead to be recognized as a leading global SAP HANA technology solution provider.” mentions the Editor-in-Chief of Insights Success Magazine, Pooja M. Bansal.

“We are honored to be part of this great list of companies" said Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo. "This achievement continues to validate our success in the SAP marketplace.”

The magazine spotlights companies that provide leading, effective and groundbreaking technologies. For the full article, please visit Insights Success.

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