Last week, SAP Sap­phire and ASUG Accel­er­ate returned to Orlan­do – the first time the event has been host­ed in three years. Between the net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and keynotes, there was a del­uge of announce­ments from SAP across its entire port­fo­lio. These inno­va­tions and announce­ments are aimed at help­ing SAP cus­tomers become more agile, respon­sive enter­pris­es, and con­duct busi­ness in a flu­id busi­ness envi­ron­ment. Here are some of the biggest announce­ments that came out of SAP Sap­phire and ASUG Accelerate.

SAP and Apple Code­vel­op Apps For Dig­i­tal Sup­ply Chain

SAP has been work­ing with Apple to release appli­ca­tions mak­ing use of the lat­est updates and inno­va­tions to the Apple oper­at­ing sys­tem: iOS. Dur­ing the con­fer­ence, the two soft­ware com­pa­nies unveiled a new suite of mobile appli­ca­tions focused on the dig­i­tal sup­ply chain.

SAP Ware­house Oper­a­tor, an appli­ca­tion for SAP Extend­ed Ware­house Man­age­ment, is an appli­ca­tion that gives ware­house work­ers access to more intel­li­gence and infor­ma­tion as they go about their rou­tine duties. Some note­wor­thy func­tion­al­i­ties include improved loca­tion aware­ness, insights on the avail­abil­i­ty of resources (like fork­lifts), and bar scan­ning capabilities.

The com­pa­nies also release SAP Direct Dis­tri­b­u­tion, an appli­ca­tion for deliv­ery dri­vers that allows them to ​“exe­cute paper­less goods deliv­ery on their dai­ly route.” A few key capa­bil­i­ties include the abil­i­ty to dig­i­tize deliv­ery dri­er work­flow and mit­i­gat­ing order-to-cash time. These inno­va­tions not only stream­line and sim­pli­fy the deliv­ery process but also reduce human error.

Both SAP Ware­house Oper­a­tor and SAP Direct Dis­tri­b­u­tion are avail­able for iOS devices in the Apple App Store.

Extend­ed SAP Cloud for Sus­tain­able Enter­pris­es Capabilities

Ear­li­er this year, SAP released SAP Cloud for Sus­tain­able Enter­pris­es, a suite of solu­tions aimed at help­ing orga­ni­za­tions track and man­age their enterprise’s sus­tain­abil­i­ty per­for­mance – a notion known as ​“the green line.” Dur­ing SAP Sap­phire and ASUG Accel­er­ate, SAP announced two inno­va­tions to SAP Cloud for Sus­tain­able Enterprises.

SAP Prod­uct Foot­print Man­age­ment is a solu­tion that con­nects with SAP S/4HANA and allows users to track the CO2 out­put asso­ci­at­ed with a prod­uct, as giv­en extend­ed capa­bil­i­ties, includ­ing trans­porta­tion and trav­el track­ing. More­over, the solu­tion tack­les emis­sions data track­ing and imple­ment­ing API spec­i­fi­ca­tions devel­oped as part of the World Busi­ness Coun­cil Devel­op (WBCSD) Part­ner­ship for Car­bon Trans­paren­cy (PACT).

SAP also added new capa­bil­i­ties to SAP Respon­si­ble Design and Pro­duc­tion, a solu­tion aimed at help­ing SAP cus­tomers to man­age and cal­cu­late their extend­ed pro­duc­er respon­si­bil­i­ty (EPR) oblig­a­tions. These actions allow enter­pris­es to elim­i­nate waste and deliv­er on cor­po­rate com­mit­ments. The solu­tion was extend­ed to incor­po­rate plas­tic tax­es, such as those intro­duced and imple­ment­ed in the Unit­ed Kingdom.

SAP and Accen­ture Partnership

One of the key themes through­out the con­fer­ence was SAP dis­cussing new and exist­ing part­ner­ships it has with oth­er orga­ni­za­tions. Dur­ing his keynote address, SAP CEO Chris­t­ian Klein touched on one of those part­ner­ships. About a week before SAP Sap­phire and ASUG Accel­er­ate kicked off, SAP announced a new joint offering

The offer­ing com­bines RISE with SAP – the SAP offer­ing designed to sim­pli­fy its cus­tomers’ migra­tions to the cloud and SAP S/4HANA. Focused on larg­er enter­pris­es, this part­ner­ship will not only give cus­tomers a clean core on SAP S/4HANA but will also give them access to the SAP Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Plat­form (BTP), cloud infra­struc­ture man­age­ment, and cloud-native solu­tions. An inter­est­ing wrin­kle to come out of this announce­ment is that Accen­ture will actu­al­ly deploy RISE with SAP.

“SOAR with Accen­ture is a great com­ple­ment to RISE with SAP, our cloud-based solu­tion to dri­ve busi­ness inno­va­tion,” Klein said in a blog post about this offer­ing. ​“It enables enter­pris­es with large and com­plex IT land­scapes to accel­er­ate and sim­pli­fy their busi­ness trans­for­ma­tion jour­ney while ben­e­fit­ting from the full val­ue of RISE with SAP. Togeth­er, Accen­ture and SAP pro­vide a com­pre­hen­sive solu­tion to sup­port our cus­tomers in becom­ing intel­li­gent and sus­tain­able enterprises.”

ASUG will be cov­er­ing these announce­ments along with many of the oth­er ones unveiled at SAP Sap­phire and ASUG Accel­er­ate in the com­ing weeks. Stick with us for more sto­ries and information.