Monday, September 16, 2019

How can the Intelligent Enterprise Impact the Mining Industry?

The digital economy is disruptive. Mining companies need strategic priorities that drive transformation. SAP supports a reimagined set of E2E business scenarios to support the strategic priorities of working in a digital environment.

  • Make the business more predictable, sustainable, and safer - Advanced predictive analytics and machine learning integrated with real-time information help make vast operational data more actionable. Predict outcomes or exceptions to support the right decision-making, making mining more predictable, sustainable, and safer for the workforce
  • Collaborate with customers, suppliers, and workers - Transform interactions with all stakeholders into an interactive, collaborative, and responsive network to strengthen relationships, digitalize data exchanges, make the business more agile, increase profitability, and digitalize the worker.
  • Enhance operational and commercial agility - Achieve real-time visibility into operations and run a mine like a factory based on advanced planning and execution to increase agility by combining IT and operational technology (OT) along the entire pit-to-customer process.
  • Increase productivity through automation - Digitalize and automate manual processes and focus on value-added processes for employees while automating operations to keep workers out of hazardous environments.

Supporting next practices in mining with intelligent ERP
Transformation in the mining industry is occurring at a rapid pace. Changes in technologies, business environment standards, and the need for agility require constant adaptation. Mining companies must be able to respond to rapidly changing conditions yet still comply with all standards. How does a digital core with a true single source of truth help?

Mining companies must respond to rapid change
A digital core is an IT architecture that offers stability and long-term reliability for core enterprise processes yet also provides the flexibility to adapt quickly to new opportunities, challenges, and regulations. In today’s environment, mining companies cannot continue with old ways of working, so they need to change how they operate. This impacts the industry and its IT –the backbone of modern business –which has to be agile to ensure compliance. Support for mergers and acquisitions is also required to ensure swift adaptation to changing markets.

Mine smarter, not harder
The ability to respond quickly is an essential part of managing a mining business. To do this, simulation, prediction, and analytical capabilities are important components. For example, this can be the simulation of profitability scenarios to identify the best method of mining or to determine the best time to sell a mine.

Generate additional value from data
While overall processes in mining do not change much, the speed of business is disruptive. Mining companies need the computing capability to carry out complex algorithms with large data sets to support timely, real-time analysis. The base data comes from sensors that enable precise digital twins of equipment and processes. In a mine, data sets will be available that can be used by machine learning to improve equipment efficiency and availability. This provides more-reliable information for all related processes. For example, mine production output can be planned and executed more reliably.

Addressing innovative opportunities
In the commodity business, you have to differentiate yourself. Mining companies must improve customer interactions as well as increase operational efficiencies to gain a competitive edge. This impacts every facet of business, including end-to-end (E2E) processes across departments and even company borders. Collaboration and sharing of resources will be part of the new operating models –from customers to mine operations.

The Intelligent ERP
Bringing SAP S/4HANA and SAP Leonardo technologies together as a digital core will result in a more flexible and intelligent enterprise. To achieve next-generation business processes, mining companies need an intelligent ERP solution. For example, machine learning can help in daily business by helping ensure the correct spare part is ordered by using image recognition to identify the correct version. Early adopters have already begun this journey to gain the competitive edge for a top seat in the next-generation mining business.

Start your path to the Intelligent Enterprise with Approyo
Approyo provides full SAP service technology with extensive capabilities in consulting, solutions architecture, hosting and managed services, in order to develop the right solution for our customers. Get started today... 

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Top Reasons to attend SAP TechEd Las Vegas

SAP TechEd is the single best technical training program of the year offered by SAP. The experiences and content offered at this event are in alignment with both my personal development needs AND the interests of our organization’s development, growth, and success.

Network
Your SAP Community, your peers, innovative customers,  and the technology experts you trust. All in one place for you to make purposeful connections. A unique opportunity in a great community.

Further your SAP Career
Attend for the information, training, and education you need today. Then future-proof your career with essential skills for your role in your organization’s intelligent enterprise.

SAP Knowledge
Seven tracks. 32 Learning Journeys. Over 600 sessions.  SAP experts and customers delivering best practices,  how-to tips, and advice. Get insight into the innovation and new technologies that will put you at the front of the pack.  Collaborate with SAP technology gurus to get the answers you need. One-on-one engagement, demos, sessions, and hands-on experiences foster brain-storming,  problem-solving, and actionable solutions.

SAP Strategy
Look to the future with product road maps to get answers to your questions about what comes next.  Discuss – and even influence – future product functionality through direct contact with strategists.

Attend our session
Approyo CEO Christopher Carter will be speaking at SAP TechEd in Las Vegas on Wednesday, September 25 from 9:30am - 10:15am PST. His session, A Real-Life Journey on the Upgrade to SAP S/4HANA 1809, will look at what it takes for a company to migrate or upgrade to SAP S/4HANA 1809.

Friday, September 6, 2019

Industry Capabilities with SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA is an intelligent, integrated ERP system that runs on the in-memory database, SAP HANA. It can help you:

  • Address industry-specific requirements with proven best practices for 26 verticals and enable new business models as your marketplace evolves
  • Revolutionize business processes with intelligent automation — supported by artificial intelligence and robotic process automation
  • Make better decisions faster with embedded analytics, a conversational interface, and digital assistants
  • Meet your IT landscape goals with hybrid, cloud, and on-premise scenarios that share a consistent data model, code line, and user experience

Here are just a few capabilities that SAP S/4HANA provides across multiple industries:

  • Simplify asset operations and maintenance - Maximize asset value, control risks, and help ensure safety with a holistic view of asset status to plan maintenance activities with the right person, tools, resources, and integrated documentation. 
  • Manage environmental, health, and safety risks - Execute tasks in critical environments with a complete view of compliance and safety measures, so you can identify risks and regulations, define priorities, implement controls, and track incidents.
  • Maintain service agreements - Provide a single contract for all outcome-based services and reduce administrative burden by consolidating and maintaining task lists, catalogues, maintenance plans, and warranty information.
  • Provide customer-oriented services - Engage with customers across a multitude of channels to offer packaged service offerings; manage complaints, claims, returns, and refunds; and schedule and dispatch field services to fulfill service orders.
  • Streamline service parts management - Optimize parts logistics and inventory processes with real-time visibility across all supply locations to source service parts globally and ensure their availability.
  • Streamline Core HR and payroll processes - Integrate employee master data, organizational data, and cost-center-related information from the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central solution to speed reorganizations and other end-to-end processes.

Start your path to the Intelligent Enterprise with Approyo
Approyo provides full SAP service technology with extensive capabilities in consulting, solutions architecture, hosting and managed services, in order to develop the right solution for our customers. Get started today...

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Approyo CEO Christopher Carter to present at SAP TechEd Las Vegas

We are excited to announce that our CEO Christopher Carter will be speaking at SAP TechEd in Las Vegas on Wednesday, September 25 from 9:30am - 10:15am PST. His session, A Real-Life Journey on the Upgrade to SAP S/4HANA 1809, will look at what it takes for a company to migrate or upgrade to SAP S/4HANA 1809.

This session will look into the process used to migrate to SAP S/4HANA 1809. We will discuss the pitfalls, the success, and the overall project. We will not dig into the details on failed activities but will give everyone a sense of the timing and skill set needed to be able to accomplish such a herculean task.

Make sure you add this to your agenda at SAP TechEd.

SAP TechEd is the single best technical training program of the year offered by SAP. The experiences and content offered at this event are in alignment with both my personal development needs AND the interests of our organization’s development, growth, and success.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Top Reasons to Attend TC Sessions: Enterprise

The Approyo team is very excited to be a part of TechCrunch TC Sessions: Enterprise on September 5 in San Francisco! We are a Featured Startup at the event and will be showcasing SAP S/4HANA migrations at our table. This is a packed one day event, so we wanted to highlight a few of the major reasons why you should attend!

Visit the Approyo Table
This one is pretty obvious! Our CEO, Christopher Carter, as well at our CTO Sean Gilmour and our Sr. Director of SAP, Tim Reiss will be on hand talking about S/4HANA upgrades and migrations and why Approyo > Bacon! If you are attending make sure to stop by the table and say Hi to the team!

Industry Speakers
The line-up of guest speakers highlights the SAP ecosystem! Here are some of our top speakers this year:

  • DJ Paoni - President, North America (SAP)
  • Sanjay Poonen - Chief Operating Officer, Customer Operations, (VMware)
  • Max Wessel - Chief Innovation Officer, (SAP)
  • Aaron Levie, Co-Founder & CEO (Box)
  • Aparna Sinha, Director, Product Management for Kubernetes & Anthos (Google).
  • George Brady, CTO (Capital One)
  • Jim Clarke, Director of Quantum Hardware (Intel)
  • Scott Farquhar, Co-founder & Co-CEO (Atlassian)
  • Bill McDermott, CEO, (SAP)

Check out the complete line up: https://techcrunch.com/events/tc-sessions-enterprise-2019/#963f1ce6-ebcf-4e44-a6c2-bd3495420543

Network
There will be two Q&A breakout sessions with top enterprise investors and one with top enterprise founders; this is for founders (and anyone else) to query our speakers directly. Plus, TechCrunch’s unbeatable CrunchMatch app makes it really easy to set up meetings with the other attendees, an incredible array of folks, plus the 20 early-stage startups exhibiting on the expo floor.

We can' wait to see everyone at the TC Sessions: Enterprise!

Monday, August 26, 2019

Stay Connected with Intelligent Business Processes

An intelligent enterprise starts with a digital core. It is the foundation for flexible, connected, and intelligent business processes that enable your organization to keep the customer experience at the center of everything you do.

SAP S/4HANA is SAP's flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. It is built on the power of SAP HANA – SAP's in-memory database management system that provides real-time analytics – to unite transactional systems, overcoming limitations imposed by legacy technologies.

With that, SAP S/4HANA allows you to connect across all your lines of business and, externally, across your ecosystem so you have seamless visibility and insights across your entire business.

Capabilities of an Intelligent Business

Simplify asset operations and maintenance - Maximize asset value, control risks, and help ensure safety with a holistic view of asset status to plan maintenance activities with the right person, tools, resources, and integrated documentation.

Manage environmental, health, and safety risks - Execute tasks in critical environments with a complete view of compliance and safety measures, so you can identify risks and regulations, define priorities, implement controls, and track incidents.

Maintain service agreements - Provide a single contract for all outcome-based services and reduce administrative burden by consolidating and maintaining task lists, catalogues, maintenance plans, and warranty information.

Provide customer-oriented services - Engage with customers across a multitude of channels to offer packaged service offerings; manage complaints, claims, returns, and refunds; and schedule and dispatch field services to fulfill service orders.

Streamline service parts management - Optimize parts logistics and inventory processes with real-time visibility across all supply locations to source service parts globally and ensure their availability.

Streamline Core HR and payroll processes - Integrate employee master data, organizational data, and cost-center-related information from the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central solution to speed reorganizations and other end-to-end processes.

Start your path to the Intelligent Enterprise with Approyo
Approyo provides full SAP service technology with extensive capabilities in consulting, solutions architecture, hosting and managed services, in order to develop the right solution for our customers. Get started today...

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Approyo to showcase SAP S/4HANA Migrations and Upgrades at TC Sessions: Enterprise

The Approyo team is proud to announce that we will be attending this years Tech Crunch TC Sessions: Enterprise as a Featured Startup on September 5 in San Francisco, CA. Our team will be on-hand at the event talking about migrations and upgrades to SAP S/4HANA. We invite all attendees to stop by our table and speak with one of our experts. We also want to send out a personal invitation to SAP CEO Bill McDermott to stop by our table while he is at the event!

The Session is a full day of interviews with enterprise software leaders, rising founders, and VCs that are ahead of the game as well as breakout sessions, exhibiting startups, and networking opportunities.

Speakers Include:

Aaron Levie, Co-Founder & CEO (Box)
Aparna Sinha, Director, Product Management for Kubernetes & Anthos (Google)
Bill McDermott, CEO, (SAP)
George Brady, CTO (Capital One)
Jim Clarke, Director of Quantum Hardware (Intel)
Sanjay PoonenChief Operating Officer, Customer Operations, (VMware)
Scott Farquhar, Co-founder & Co-CEO (Atlassian)

About TC Sessions: Enterprise
No category in tech is bigger or more ferociously competitive than enterprise software. The race to deliver productivity tools to the business world produces hundreds of new startups and a steady stream of multi-billion dollar acquisitions every year. Silicon Valley is the epic-center of all that and TechCrunch's editors can't wait to dig in on the top enterprise trends and companies at TC Sessions: Enterprise.