Spon­sored by Microsoft

Inter­state Bat­ter­ies is a mar­ket leader in mar­ket­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion of Auto­mo­tive Bat­ter­ies in the North Amer­i­ca Mar­ket. Built to top indus­try stan­dards, Inter­state Bat­ter­ies® has been technician’s choice for over a decade. Its busi­ness is pow­ered by a Dis­trib­u­tor net­work of 300+ whole­sale ware­hous­es and backed up by more than 200,000+ Deal­ers around the world as well as 200+ All Bat­tery Cen­ter fran­chise stores. 

In light of increased mar­ket com­pe­ti­tion, Inter­state Bat­ter­ies is look­ing to trans­form its inter­nal ERP sys­tems includ­ing order to cash, inte­grat­ed busi­ness, trans­porta­tion sys­tem, ware­house Man­age­ment; to con­tin­ue deliv­er­ing their stel­lar bat­tery solu­tions to cus­tomers. In response to these needs, Inter­state made the deci­sion to move to SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure with the help of its con­sult­ing part­ner Cognizant. 

Please join ASUG as we host an inter­ac­tive event with lead­ers from Inter­state and Cog­nizant to explore key learn­ings on the busi­ness dri­vers that Inter­state faced, how they made the deci­sions around mov­ing to SAP on Azure, and the impor­tant busi­ness & tech­ni­cal con­sid­er­a­tions dur­ing their jour­ney.  Learn how Inter­state is look­ing to opti­mize its ERP by lever­ag­ing enter­prise-ready inno­va­tion, reli­a­bil­i­ty, and agili­ty in the cloud. 

Don’t miss this oppor­tu­ni­ty to take part in the dis­cus­sion and hear insights from your indus­try peers, regard­ing the key fac­tors that you may also face as you make the own move to run­ning busi­ness-crit­i­cal work­loads on the cloud.

As an attendee, you will have oppor­tu­ni­ties to pro­vide feed­back and ask ques­tions through­out the event. Please take advan­tage of this chance to engage with us dur­ing this dialogue.

If you have a suc­cess sto­ry to share, a non­mem­ber who would like to reg­is­ter, or are inter­est­ed in spon­sor­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties, please email us at asugexpress@​asug.​com.  

Speak­ers:

Mike McCranie, CIO, Inter­state Batteries

Mike McCranie is Chief Infor­ma­tion Offi­cer (CIO) of Inter­state Bat­ter­ies deliv­er­ing on a tech­nol­o­gy trans­for­ma­tion and cham­pi­oning a busi­ness-led, tech­nol­o­gy-pow­ered ERP imple­men­ta­tion. He is a well-respect­ed trans­for­ma­tion­al leader who devel­ops a vision for the future, estab­lish­es a strate­gic frame­work for sig­nif­i­cant suc­cess, and unites teams to a com­mon pur­pose. For 20 years, he has led tech­nol­o­gy teams through major trans­for­ma­tions for busi­ness­es from mid-size to multi­na­tion­al.

P. Nick Berg, Glob­al Head of SAP on Azure, Cognizant 

P. Nick Berg, Head of SAP Retail, Con­sumer Prod­ucts, Trav­el & Hos­pi­tal­i­ty for Cog­nizant as well as Glob­al lead for SAP on Azure, is a trans­for­ma­tion­al change agent whose 20+ years of busi­ness and tech­nol­o­gy expe­ri­ence add val­ue to client engage­ments. Nick is respon­si­ble for busi­ness and solu­tion devel­op­ment, pro­gram deliv­ery, P&L man­age­ment and team build­ing, over­see­ing near­ly 400 resources glob­al­ly. His deep knowl­edge of SAP sys­tems and broad indus­try back­ground has led to the devel­op­ment of Cognizant’s Farm-to-Fork, Dig­i­tal Air­line and Dig­i­tal Cow SAP solu­tions. He is a Green Beret, author, hus­band, father, com­pet­i­tive ball­room dancer and vol­un­teer for Car­oli­na Breast Friends, Lin­ux Foun­da­tion and var­i­ous ani­mal shelters.

David Was­com, SVP, Exec­u­tive Pro­grams, ASUG

David is known as a savvy busi­ness and tech­nol­o­gy leader with deep knowl­edge of enter­prise tech­nolo­gies as well as proven expe­ri­ence deliv­er­ing high-val­ue tech­nol­o­gy solu­tions that help trans­form busi­ness­es. In his role at ASUG, he direct­ly empow­ers our mem­bers by pro­vid­ing time­ly, rel­e­vant edu­ca­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties and con­nect­ing mem­bers with experts and thought lead­ers from SAP, our part­ners, and ASUG itself. He focus­es not only on pro­vid­ing out­comes-focused edu­ca­tion and resources, but also on grow­ing the pro­fes­sion­al skills of each individual.