In an increasingly fast-paced world driven by financial and productivity metrics, how realistic is it to create a psychologically safe work environment for everyone while remaining focused on maintaining high standards and accountability? Could empathetic leadership be the answer for improved team dynamics and loyalty while simultaneously sustainably driving performance? To help us maneuver the delicate balance between empathy and accountability, we have with us John Massey – the Head of Leadership & Professional Development at SAP Digital. With 30 years of sales and sales management experience, he believes in the power of connection, competition, and self-improvement. John is an avid learner with a Master’s in Transformation and ICF Coaching qualifications. He values giving back to the community, having raised over €100K for charities and leading various diversity initiatives at SAP. Together, we'll explore the role emotional intelligence plays in leadership and how it impacts team morale and productivity. John will share fascinating stories from his career, illustrating how empathetic leadership can solve complex problems. It's going to be a thought-provoking conversation! So, let’s jump in, and don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe. I am your host Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast

Guest: Chandralika Hazarika – MD & Co-Founder, Bigthinx Host: Akshi Mohla – Global Head, Branding and Communications, SAP Digital, Customer Success When I speak of avatars, what comes to your mind? Perhaps your social media cartoon mini-me or something you use in gaming? Or maybe even a popular animated series or one of the highest-grossing movie franchises of all time! But what if I were to tell you that with Artificial Intelligence, avatars can be leveraged to make fashion more sustainable, personalized, and inclusive, while simultaneously providing a compelling customer experience, thus, boosting profitability and brand engagement? Bigthinx makes this a reality with a digital shopping experience, complete with mobile body scanning, immersive showrooms, and virtual try-ons. And to tell us all about this SAP.io startup, joining us today is Chandralika Hazarika, the MD, and Co-Founder of Bigthinx. A seasoned branding and marketing professional with over 15 years of experience, she redirected her focus toward digital entrepreneurship, aiming to establish digitally empowered brands. At Bigthinx, she's revolutionizing consumer engagement in the metaverse, creating intuitive high-tech products for various sectors such as fashion, retail, gaming, and wellness. Additionally, she expresses her passion for fashion through her label, Velvet Piano. An advocate for women in tech, Chandralika earned the Accenture "Women in Tech" 2021 award. So, let’s jump in, and don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe. I am your host Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast. Follow SAP Digital: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sap-digital-customer-success/ Learn more about Bigthinx: https://bigthinx.com/ Follow Chandralika: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandralika-hazarika/ Follow Akshi: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshimohla/ Polywork: https://www.polywork.com/akshi Please like, share, and subscribe! Send feedback and questions to akshi.mohla@sap.com.

In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins emphasized the importance of “who” over “what” – by stating that “those who build great organizations make sure they have the right people on the bus and the right people in the key seats before they figure out where to drive the bus”. But in today’s rapidly evolving corporate culture, underscored by gig economy, great resignation, hybrid workplaces, how do organizations go about navigating the selective talent pool, in order to bring the right people to the right seats? To shed a light on this very topic, I am joined by Frank Sofia. He is the Head of Executive Talent Attraction for the Americas, across all markets and lines of business. Prior to his current role, Frank served as the VP of Strategic Workforce Planning for North America Sales. Throughout his 16-year career at SAP Frank has challenged himself to take on new opportunities across HR functions to gain deep expertise in HR Strategy, Workforce planning, Recruiting, Change management and Organizational development. He is incredibly passionate about HR transformation and enabling others to achieve their goals. Frank holds a Masters in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from West Chester University and a BA in Psychology from Temple University. As always, my name is Akshi Mohla and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast. Please be sure to like, share and subscribe!

Having the right mindset and principles at the beginning of a digital transformation initiative is vital to its success. Five years after the first release it has become obvious, that there are certain patterns of common principles that will determine the ease, speed and success of your Digital Core initiative. Or in other words: There are Best Practices that all those who implement SAP S/4HANA fast and with great success have in common: They Prioritize Core over Edge They separate Differentiating and Commodity Processes They Concentrate on Tangible Innovation They Focus on Capabilities like Insight to Action They have the right Mindset (Forward looking, treat it as a business topic, keep it simple) So if you are a Adopter, SAP Partner, SAP consultant, Account Executive or Preseller you better listen to the TOP5 Best Practices of Best in Class S/4HANA Adopters. Cause that’s what I am going talk about on this anniversary episode of the SAP Experts Podcast! Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Please like, share and subscribe! Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

In case you are working in a tech corporate environment and you have not founded the company you are working in, chances are that you have an almost romantic view about the life and work of entrepreneurs. I met with one of those at the office of his company in Munich who pass on safe and frequent salary checks for the sake of freedom and being able to do their own thing. It is Stephan Odoerfer, who is founder and managing director of 4tiitoo a tech company that is leading in enabling computer operation via eye control and also a keynote speaker at this week ‘s virtual edition of the SAPNOW Switzerland. We talk about what it means to be an entrepreneur the qualities, habits and Best practices of successful ones and of course about eye control a technology that is about to revolutionize the way we humans interact fast efficient and in comfort with computers. Because this is what’s going to happen here, in episode 24 of the SAP Experts Podcast. Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Stephan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanodoerfer/ Please like, share and subscribe! Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

Around Christmas I sat together with Hans Thalbauer the SAP Senior Vice President responsible for Digital Supply Chain Management and Internet of Things and we had a conversation about what can we can expect logistically out of 2020 and what requirements possible events in 2020 could have on setup, performance and flexibility. We talked about how political events, natural disasters and pandemies are affecting the global supply chains and the business of enterprises. And what is happening now: Dow Jones crashed last Thursday down 1.200 points, as much as never before as the Corona Virus Outbreak interrupts business, global sourcing, selling and travel. It shows us, how vulnerable our global supply chains have become and how flexible, transparent and agile companies have to be in the 21st centuries to act and react on these kinds of distruptive events. Listen to Hans Thalbauer outlining what capabilities modern Supply Chains need and how performance levels can be achieved that enable you to cope with todays turmoils. Because this is whats going to happen here, in this shockingly relevant episode of the SAP Experts Podcast Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Hans: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-thalbauer-78a3691/ Please like, share and subscribe! Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

Today’s guest is promising fun for several reasons: “Radio Personality become Customer Experience Expert" Steven Spears, who is Global Program Manager for SAP CX and also uses his skill from his former being as a radio star to create and host the "Future of Customer Engagement & Experience Podcast”. So what we did was to do something new. You can surely find a lot of interesting podcast resources covering the topic of experience management in a very competent way. But Steve and I dialed up once late evening, opened a beer and talked about the sometimes very abstract topic of Experience Management being two guys with flesh and blood, a language that you surely will understand and will help you to demystify the world of Experience Management. Buckle up for a “bit different” episode full of personal insights, storytelling, information and lot of laughs, because that’s what’s going to happen on Episode 22 of the SAP Experts Podcast. Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Steven: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-spears-57895388/ Please like, share and subscribe! Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

Today we are talking about Logistics and Manufacturing also known in a wider sense as Supply Chain Management. For this it is great to have somebody here who knows his discipline from actually having had laid his hands on from a practical point because he started his professional life constructing huge diesel engines. Today he is the Solution Hub lead for Digital Supply Chain at SAP and a prominent face in meeting rooms and big stages of Supply Chain conferences alike. Since he is also an aspiring pilot we will make a 360 degree fly-over about the core disciplines like planning and execution and discuss about how Supply Chain Management has evolved in the 21st century. A Conversation that is especially fun, if you do it with Mr Peter Bickenbach here, at the SAP Experts Podcast. Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-bickenbach-5a17831a/ Please like, share and subscribe! Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

Ten years ago, the highest valued companies had names like ExxonMobil, PetroChina, Petrobras and Royal Dutch Shell, 2020, things look bit different with names taking a prominent spot on the list that nobody thought about in 2010: Alphabet/Google, Facebook, Tencent, Amazon and Alibaba. Companies that don’t see their economic purpose in digging for oil. They are digging for data, which is the oil of the 21st century. I am pleased to welcome Dirk Häussermann, who is Senior Vice President and Head of Platform and Technologies at SAP. We had a very interesting conversation about opportunities, strategies and implications in the age of data! Enjoy another interesting episode here, at the SAP Experts Podcast Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Dirk: https://bit.ly/38Gw5EN Please like, share and subscribe! Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

Second part of my conversation with Ivo Bauermann about the principles and success factors of modern analytics solutions and specifically SAPs next gen solutions in that area which are the SAP Analytics Cloud and the Data Warehouse Cloud. Also we talk about the economic implications and success factors to bring all horsepower of these capabilities to the street to enable 100% insight to action. Part two of a two-part conversation. Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Ivo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivo-bauermann-b24919/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

“… Be open, bring new and creative ideas and help us build the next version of SAP. Bring a new mindset and don’t comply … I would hope that everyone of us still has this young kid inside that says: Brake the rules!” Interesting records about “making the difference”, awesome messages and great storytelling at the SAP Experts Podcast Episode #18 by this week’s guest Ivo Bauermann, Senior Vice President and Head of Product Strategy - Database & Analytics, about what type of people and personalities are needed to be successful in the tech industry in the 21st century. Part one of a two-part conversation. Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Ivo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivo-bauermann-b24919/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com

2020 is going to be a very exciting year as many digitalization initiatives across all industries are full steam ahead. Early January is generally the time of the year when often questions are asked if there will be something like a determining topic for the next 12 months that will produce a lot of new capabilities and will have a big effect how enterprises do their business. If you ask Sven Denecken, who is kicking of this year at the SAP Experts Podcast and is Senior Vice President and Head of Product Success & Co-Innovation S/4HANA he has a very clear opinion about that topic. 2020 will be the year of artificial intelligence. In this episode Sven will give you a 360 degree overview about the actual status, developments and usability of AI, Machine learning and Robotic process automation and also will tackle the social implications of these new technologies. And if you want to know what Sven advises his sons to pay attention to in their personal development to be on the top of the game in the 21st century, you are perfectly right here, at the SAP Experts Podcast. Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Sven: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdenecken/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

Before we go into Christmas break, we have not one guest but two guests for you. First, we welcome back for her second visit Ms. Saskia Fontanive of innovabee, who became prominent because of her successful high-speed S/4HANA Cloud implementations. And second, it’s great to have Mr. Jan Gilg who was responsible for the other extreme: The internal S/4HANA implementation at SAP. Additionally, Jan is now as Senior Vice President directly responsible for any S/4HANA related development, and reports directly to the board, so we will get very interesting insights about our Cloud and future S/4HANA strategy. Furthermore, this episode is where we end for 2019, because I will go now into the Christmas break. So I want to say thank you very much to all my listeners and guests of the episodes of 2019 and I want to give a special thank you very much to Yulia Molokova, Axel Vetter, Richard Strattner Jr. Melanie Machold and all the others supporting me to make this edgy little podcast possible. When I had the idea to start something like this podcast, I was pretty confident that it would find some interested listeners, but I did not expect it to become a global TOP20 tech podcast within such a short time. I am still amazed and humbled and feel deep dedication to continue and improve this format for you even further. I will be back in early January 2020 with new episodes the backlog is full, and I am really looking forward to welcome you back as listeners, but now let’s start with this Christmas edition, featuring Saskia Fontanive and Jan Gilg here, at the SAP Experts Podcast Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Jan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-gilg-426b873/ Follow Saskia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saskia-fontanive-589308139/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

Hello and welcome to the SAP Experts Podcast, my name is Jonathan Fogarty and it is an absolute privilege to be hosting another episode of SAP Experts. My guest today is Dr. Martin Kotula: Global Vice President of Value Content & Thought Leadership for the Global Industry and Value Advisory team @ SAP Martin is going to take us through some of the bigger trends in technology and how enterprises will be impacted in the near, medium and long term by these trends. It’s a complex and rapidly changing world at the moment and for the CIO they have never been challenged with the velocity and size of change that is facing them today. You’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

Lately there was some interesting story in tech news. For the third year in a row, the board of a Californian giant in the world of enterprise applications rejected a shareholder proposal for the company to release data about how much women are paid at the company relative to men. While many tech companies incl. SAP have provided disclosures around gender pay equity issues and committed to closing pay gaps, this one tech company has continued to refuse to do so because, as they stated, it would be “costly and time consuming!”. That is quite astonishing because, if this company misses the data transparence to dig this information quickly and cost-effective, they need the capabilities of SAP’s analytics portfolio and today’s guest definitely could help. Mr. Mohamed Abdel Hadi, Vice President for Product Management Analytics at SAP will give us his personal spin and his insights into the world of analytics. Here at the SAP Experts Podcast Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Mo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-abdel-hadi-1676b419/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

Today’s episode is all about the tool you hopefully use most in your life. Your brain. My guest in this episode is Mark Raben, the CTO MEE at SAP who is heavily involved in Neuroscience to research how unartificial intelligence influences the way innovation is adopted and Mark and me will discuss how this Connection between a brain and innovation works and what is the recipe for excellence. We will tell you who will be the winner in an experience economy, how your job can get you busted at the airport security check and also interesting cases how rainforest can be saved, joy can be given to people suffering from dementia and immersive experience is one new thrilling way to make technology tangible. Again, lots of interesting and entertaining content. Here at the SAP Experts Podcast. Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Mark: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markraben/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

SAP Experts Podcast #13 - A day in the life of a CFO Guest: Dr. Carl-Christian von Weyhe Host: Alexander Greb Today I am humbled to welcome a man who is a master of his craft: Dr. Carl Christian von Weyhe who is Chief Financial Officer of SAP in Middle and Eastern Europe and a sought-after lecturer and speaker in matters of financial and strategic management. We talked about the rapidly changing role of a CFO and Corporate Finance Management, Finance Transformation from the view of a CFO and the role of Technology. Since normally tech podcasts consists of Tech people having a conversation with other tech people, it is quite refreshing to listen to the experience of a proven expert from the business side. Join me and welcome Dr. Carl Christian von Weyhe here, at the SAP Experts Podcast. So please like, share and subscribe! Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

Basically, turning people’s heads by talking about innovation is easy. Invent some fancy title for yourself which should ideally contain the words “Innovation”, “Digitalisation” or in the best case “Alchemist” and, very important, dress up like a hipster. That adds credibility. Then you look up youtube for the latest TED Talks and you will be able to reel off the fancy inventions and cloud castle and hope the whole linkedin community will cheer for you. Well, unfortunately at times it happens to be like that and that’s not good because it takes the substance out of the topic since you forget the most important aspect how true innovation at the customer can be ignited. It should be individual, approachable and tangible. If your inno cases do not touch the individual situation and strategy of the customer, you failed. And you are doing more harm than help. So lets bring the substance back and put an emphasis on the aspect of tangibility. That’s why I invited somebody who does not only talk about innovation, but also takes care that it is sparked, realized and implemented at awesome customers like Porsche Motorsport. He makes his hands dirty he is Mr. Timo Deiner, the “Innovation Guy”. Here, at the SAP Experts Podcast So please like, share and subscribe! Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Timo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timo-deiner-194435173/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

If you have not yet gotten the message that SAP has now something with an X, or Experience Data, you probably live behind the moon. So it is quite obvious that the experience topic has a big strategic relevance for SAP, and that’s not because we want it to be like that, but because winning in the 21st century means adapting to an experience economy where customer centric processes and the emotional connection of your customer to your products should not only be of utter importance for you, it should guide your strategic decisions. But this topic is not only about customers attitude towards you and your products, but also how your employees think about you. So if your best horse quits its job you should not be caught surprised anymore. But we do not want to do an X+O pitch here, we want to tackle the topic a level deeper so I met with Christine Fischer, whose job as Vice President and Head of Business Development is to run that topic and the integration of X+0 in Europe, so she is the right person to give us a 360 degree overview. We will talk not only about the strategic implications of X Data, but also where we are as SAP in that respect and what the SAP community can expect in the coming months. Here on the SAP Experts Podcast. So please like, share and subscribe! Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Christine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christineandreafischer/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

If you remember Episode 8 of our podcast series featuring the right approach to S/4HANA, Uwe Grigoleit told about the Viessmann case. Viessmann, an international manufacturer heating, industrial and refrigeration systems, had a quite clear case to move to S/4HANA. Inventory savings in two-digit millions as a result of an ERP transformation to S/4HANA made the path for a fast decision to do the Move. But of course, not in all cases, it is easy as that. Imagine a typical approach to S/4HANA. While pitches mostly cover the general benefits, which is ok for a first approach, you have to second that with an individual option. The customer wants to know what’s in for him individually and that’s where an answer within modern process architectures of the 21st century is not so easily given when manually approached. It’s all about questions on which you could spent months. That’s why SAP offers you intelligent tools that do that work for you. And today I am very pleased to have the man here in Walldorf whose team is behind those great tools like the Business Scenario Recommendations Report and the Pathfinder, Mr. Wassilios Lolas who is as Vice President and Global Head of Customer Value Experience responsible for smoothening your path to become an intelligent enterprise. Let’s welcome him here at the SAP Experts Podcast So please like, share and subscribe! Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Wassilios: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wassilios-lolas-b13788/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

Today we are talking Finance! Being a logistics guy, I want to know anything about Corporate Finance, its changing role, challenges, and strategic aspects. Especially financial transformation and which role digital technologies play in all of that. And to do exactely that I have one of the best people as guest for these questions: Christian Straub, Head of Customer Solution Advisory Finance in Middle & Eastern Europe. He is a trusted advisor and frequent guest in the CFO offices throughout Europe in which he is structuring complex transformation initiatives. I am running with him the Expert Sessions each year at the Swiss SAP Now in Basel, and I am already looking forward to making the event with him again in 2020. So please like, share and subscribe! Follow Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Christian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-straub-b6812113/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

Welcome to the SAP Experts Podcast -Spinoff. With this episode I want to introduce and add an new label and a little bit different piece and format to the SAP Experts Podcast which will co- exist with the future episodes of the classic format that you already and hopefully love by now. The reason: We at SAP have many different Podcasts which differ a lot in format, style, content and length. Many of them are purely internal podcasts, that are not available to the public. But from time to time, those internal podcasts generate episodes where it would be a shame to keep them internal because they would be certainly also interesting for public audiences. One of those internal Podcasts that generate such episodes is “The Cast” by Mike Fecek. Mike is Global Director for Presales Solutions at SAP and his Supply Chain Solution Hub consists of product and industry experts that develop cutting edge solutions for any SAP customer that earns his or her money by actually producing or moving things. So with this I want to give Mike and his colleagues a platform to publish interesting content from their pool, while the Experts Podcast episodes you are used to will of course continue to be released as usual. Since the cast consists of episodes which are a bit shorter in duration than what you are used from me, we packed two Cast episodes back to back into this format, starting with “Project Intelligence Network” before Mike will talk about “Predicting Asset Health and avoiding failure”. Great stuff you don’t want to miss. So I will hand the stage of this episode over to Mike Fecek and “The Cast”. Here at the SAP Experts Podcast “Spinoff”. Please like, share and subscribe! Follow Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-fecek-0574242/

For this episode, I deliberately chose the same title as my linkedin-blog. Because if you are working in sales, presales, services or consulting no matter if here at SAP, one of our great partners or you are a customer, this episode is a must for you in which meet Uwe Grigoleit. As Senior Vice President he has the global responsibility for the Go-to-Market of S/4HANA, and Uwe has quite some messages for all of us. We talk about S/4HANA, strategy, readiness, value, the role of cloud, what are the best practices concerning that – simply: S/4HANA and how it’s approached the right way! Here, at the SAP Experts Podcast. Please like, share and subscribe! Follow Alex on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Uwe on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/uwe-grigoleit/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

In highly disruptive times, Digitalization is the area where the main decisive actions concerning your business model, processes and infrastructure are taken. It is the main business battlefield of the 21st century in which your actions and decisions result in either being the disruptor of your industry or being out-disrupted into marginalization. But what does this mean for SAP, its partners and its customers? For this episode I have met with one of SAP’s key players in the area of product strategy to discuss the state and future of digitalization. I am humbled to welcome Mr. Sven Denecken who is in his role as Senior Vice president of Product Success and Co-Innovation the one you want to hear talking about his personal insights in topics like the actual state of Digitalization of the market, the emerging technologies that will matter most to you, what is the role of Cloud technologies and Experience data in all of that and which innovation strategy you should follow to be successful in the 21st century. So please like, share and subscribe us and listen now to the vision and thoughts of Mr. Sven Denecken here at the SAP Experts Podcast. Please like, share and subscribe! Follow Alex on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Sven on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdenecken/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com

Hello and welcome to the SAP Experts Podcast, my name is Jonathan Fogarty and I am absolutely delighted to be hosting another episode! Today we are going to talk about the pressure on Utilities companies to respond to an incredible list of challenges that are being thrown at them. From de-carbonisation and the increased demand for green energy, to how they maintain and modernise their massive infrastructure networks all with the backdrop of increasing turbulence in Europe, and maybe just as importantly, how SAP is developing their strategy to support this Industry. Joining me to help make sense of it all is Markus Bechmann: Global VP -Innovation and New Business Models for the Utilities industry at SAP. You’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

During his keynote on Tuesday, SAP Germany CEO Daniel Holz will present the winners of this year‘s SAP Quality Award. One of the winners will be an S/4HANA customer project that shows how fast and smooth you can make the move to SAPs next generation ERP system. DEE I a fast-growing German manufacturer of clothing wanted to go to S/4HANa Cloud and with the help of SAP Partner innovabee they did just that. In 16 weeks. Yeah, not months, weeks! So let this be your new benchmark for your S/4HANA Initiative and Lets meet now the project manager of this ERP implementation Miss Saskia Fontanive and learn from her, what her Best Practices are that made this implementation so fast and efficient. Here on the SAP Experts Podcast. Please like, share and subscribe! Follow Alex on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Saskia on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saskia-fontanive-589308139/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

In Episode 4, I have the pleasure to meet Glenn Gonzalez who is Chief Technical Officer of SAP Germany and the „Central Point of Contact“ and „Trusted Advisor“ for topics like „Digital Transformation“ and “Innovation” for our customers. When you have watched one of his inspiring key notes like those at SAP NOW in Berlin you know, many claim to be Innovation Leads, he is it and as such the perfect conversation partner for innovation topics. Whenever you have the possibility to see him talk, you will find out that he has a rare superpower: He draws people to him and they listen to him because they are mesmerized by his brilliance and pure energy. I am sure you will enjoy this discussion the same way I did during the recording of this session.Please like, share and subscribe! Follow Alex on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/Follow Glenn on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenn-gonzalez-36596527/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Music by Dan Phillipson

In this episode, Alexander Greb meets Axel Vetter (Head of S/4HANA MOVE program) in Walldorf, where he is giving us not only interesting insights of the status of the S/4HANA adoption, but also on the S/4HANA MOVE program and what it does to support customers, partners and SAP employees. Follow Alex on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Axel on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/axel-vetter-16a26b1a/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Please like, share and subscribe! Music by Dan Phillipson

Stefan Batzdorf (Senior Practice Engagement Manager at Infosys Europe and former Head of S/4HANA Program at SAP) is returning for Episode 2 of the SAP Experts Podcast where we answer questions that were provided to us by YOU via our contact email SAPExpertspodcast@sap.com Follow Alex on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Stefan on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-batzdorf-6b4348ba/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Please like, share and subscribe! Music by Dan Phillipson

Stefan Batzdorf is Senior Practice Engagement Manager at Infosys Europe and former Head of S/4HANA Program at SAP. With that and his shining personality he is not only able to discuss any subject with you at any level, he is the ideal guest for our first episode in which we will discuss the TOP 5 Reasons to go on SAP S/4HANA which are (in our opinion): #5: Future proven and cloud-ready architecture #4: Intelligent instead of transactional ERP #3: Best way for a complete IT-landscape modernization #2: Provides for the first time one wholistic integrated finance solution #1: Absolute Insight to Action Do you agree with us? Follow Alex on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-greb-b3a836155/ Follow Stefan on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-batzdorf-6b4348ba/ Give us feedback or provide us your questions at Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com Please like, share and subscribe! Music by Dan Phillipson

“Getting the message, how things are done right, to a wide audience, through a new channel, by the right people.” Strategic SAP S/4HANA advisor, Speaker and Thought Leader Alexander Greb has sat down with heavyweights from inside and outside the SAP ecosystem like product management SVPs, CTOs, Customer CIOs, and LoB Evangelists to bring you interviews, insights and discussions about all relevant Best Practices, topics and trends from the SAP universe that are relevant like Digitalization, Intelligent Enterprise, S/4HANA, Cloud, Xperience Data, etc. as well as industry strategies and implementation Dos and Don’ts . This podcast is for all SAP customers from all industries and LoBs, as well as partners and SAP employees, and all further members of the SAP ecosystem who are looking for answers on the question “how things are done right“ in the SAP world. Please follow, share and subscribe! Questions/input can be sent to the email address Sapexpertspodcast@sap.com and will be answered in the Q/A episodes.

While pursuing your digital transformation, strategizing, and prioritizing your next steps in order to cross the innovation chasm is a daunting task. However, you are not alone on your transformation journey… SAP user groups and communities are here to enable SAP and SAP users, as well as partners to form strategic partnerships, exchange best practices and share experiences, while providing technical and functional feedback to SAP. Which is why, today’s podcast features a panel of three distinguished leaders of SAP user communities. We have Achim Voermanek, the Global Vice President of SAP Intelligent Spend Community Strategy; Dawn Tiura, the CEO and President of Sourcing Industry Group (SIG) and Geoff Scott, the CEO and Chief Community Champion at Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG). We will talk about the role of communities, the value they bring to their members, how they ensure engagement in a hybrid world, and so much more! As always, my name Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast. And since, today’s episode is all about community, don’t forget to subscribe and be a part of the SAP Experts Podcast community.

Guest: Alexander Greb – Vice President – Digital Transformation Consulting, Westernacher Consulting Host: Akshi Mohla – Business Development Director, SAP Global Industry & Value Advisory On August 21, 2019, Alexander Greb launched the very first episode of SAP Experts Podcast. And today marks the episode 111 of the podcast. We had to bring the original founder back for this special number episode! Today, Alexander will share what it was like to launch a technology podcast, with a relatable, coffee-chat format back when it was still something niche in the SaaS world. We also discuss the three-legged-stool that SAP, our partners and our customers form while crossing the transformation chasm. As Customer Advisory Lead and renowned Tech Evangelist, Alexander has collected vast experience in customer centric strategy implementation, processes, and technology at SAP and several leading business consulting companies for the past two decades. Having implemented digital transformation programs with strategic customers from the shop floor up to C-Level has helped him to gain in-depth knowledge of Best Practices that help customers gain “the unfair competitive advantage”. Being the author of several publications in Digitalist Magazine and Forbes as well as keynote speaker at global conferences and events such as SAPPHIRE, have made him a sought after Thought Leader and Trusted Advisor for many of SAP’s customers. At Westernacher Consulting he is responsible for sharpening Westernacher’s profile as value-driven “To-Go SAP-Consulting and Implementation Partner” for customers that are not satisfied by approaching their Digitalization Initiative as a Lean Migration but want to put the horsepower of Digitalization and SAPs next-gen ERP fully to the street to become Digital Champions. As always, my name Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast. Follow Alexander: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandergreb/ Follow Akshi: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshimohla/ Polywork: https://www.polywork.com/akshi Please like, share and subscribe! Give us feedback or provide us your questions at akshi.mohla@sap.com

In a constantly changing world – which is simultaneously afflicted by a global pandemic and geopolitical uncertainties – supply chain resiliency becomes indispensable. The urgency for a diversified supplier base and increased automation is further underscored by exponentially shifting consumer demands. How can a one-stop-shop, integrated business network help alleviate these challenges, while also digitizing procurement workflows and connecting all your trading partners and suppliers, in a flexible and scalable manner? Which is why, today, I am joined by Tony Harris, the Senior Vice President and & Head of Marketing & Solutions at SAP Business Network. With over 25 years of experience across both Finance and IT, Tony has spent the last 15 years focused on the Procurement solutions sector and is currently Head of Market Strategy for SAP Business Network. In this role, he leads solution management and marketing teams that form a bridge between SAP solutions and its customers. The team captures market trends, customer challenges, and insights from the field teams to create an outside-in view of the market that helps to drive innovation within SAP Business Network. As always, my name Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

What does the future of customer engagements look like? Customers today, more than ever, expect sales ready experiences. They form a perception of your brand, before even interacting in person. So, in a such a world, how do brands differentiate themselves and tell their story? How do they create an interactive digital and virtual experience, that is simultaneously relatable to their customers? To answer these questions, I am joined by the dynamic Ana-Maria Manda. Ana-Maria is SAP’s Global Business Technology Platform Digital Experience Hub Lead. Originally from Romania, she is now based in Switzerland and joined the SAP family in 2020. With an educational background in Law, she has a broad expertise in sales and digital transformation. In her role as a Digital Hub Lead, she is responsible for global and regional initiatives focused on creation and consumption of new digital assets for more engaging and impactful customer interactions. In addition to her Digital Hub Lead role Ana-Maria is a founder and a start-up mentor. As always, my name Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

Internacional de Inversiones SA de CV (IDEI) is an innovative real-estate developer known for creating some of the most iconic buildings in Mexico. This includes the the Torre KOI skyscraper which is one of Mexico’s largest buildings. To continue to offer best-in-class solutions and enable efficient vendor processes, they chose SAP S/4HANA as their digital transformation solution. How did IDEI digitize their operations to aid business continuity and agile decision making with SAP? Furthermore, how did they unlock 60% reduction in paper use, while simultaneously achieving revenue growth via dynamic pricing models. And why did the choose to partner with SAP? My guest today, Jorge Martinez, the Vice President of Operations at IDEI, is joining us to answer the above and so much more! As always, my name Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

“SAP S/4HANA is the biggest transformation project in our 110 years company history” – a quote that describes the significance of the change in the company of my today’s guest. Michael Hilzinger joined me and gave insights on his approach to transform to SAP S/4 HANA. Michael is CIO at the German manufacturer Knorr-Bremse. 110 years ago, they drastically improved the safety of trains by providing brakes and removing the so called “brake vans”, a manually operated braking system. We spoke about the analogy from back then with a modern SAP S/4HANA system, the role and factors of change management in such a huge transformation and why it’s helpful to improve incrementally instead of a big bang move. So, if you are interested in firsthand customer insights and perspectives, this episode is made for you. Grab your coffee and tune in. My name is Timo Deiner, welcome to the SAP Experts Podcast.

From our very first memories, stories surround us, inspire us and enthrall us. The stories that we hear and the stories that we tell, define us. But can storytelling be a tool in Value Selling, packaging the customer’s desired goals, the art of the possible, and the value of digital transformation – all with a neat little bow? To answer this, I am joined by Eric Carino, the Chief Storyteller at SAP Executive Advisory & Architecture. In his 18 years at SAP, Eric has been a strategic leader supporting sales pursuits across every Industry. During this time, he has seen the evolution of business and the demands for reinvention that companies are facing today. As Chief Storyteller, Film Producer, and Director – Eric's focus is helping others create the most compelling story possible while showing you how to deliver stories that make a difference. Some of his most recent projects include Levi Strauss, Disney, Amgen, Warner Media, T-Mobile, Zoom, Starbucks and U.S. Department of Defense to name a few. This past month Eric was a featured speaker at 2022 NA Customer Success Summit and has also shared his methods with Global teams, including HXM and Concur Sales, Presales and Solution Architects. Outside of SAP, Eric was recently an invited guest speaker at BYU University Law School and just concluded an interview for a national podcast: “Storytelling for Executives”. As always, my name Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

Guest: Kunal Waghmare – Practice Director, Emerging Supply Chain Solutions, Bristlecone Host: Akshi Mohla – Global Head, Branding and Communications, SAP Digital, Customer Success Welcome to SAP Experts Podcast! I am your host Akshi Mohla, and we’re back – back again to dive deep into the world of Digital Innovations and best practices that make the world run better. Together we will explore the latest trends, insights, and success stories with industry experts and thought leaders. Joining us today is Kunal Waghmare, the Practice Director at Bristlecone – an SAP partner headquartered in San Jose, California, and a part of the Mahindra group. He focuses on solving end-to-end supply chain challenges for customers via emerging SAP solutions. With extensive experience across various industry verticals, Kunal has been at the forefront of business and technology programs, enabling companies to achieve their digital transformation goals. In this episode, we'll discuss the three-legged stool companies, partners, and SAP form in a digital transformation journey. We also delve into the critical importance of an early and holistic understanding of current challenges and desired business process improvements in achieving successful outcomes. Finally, we also explore the SAP Digital Value Discovery Platform and its role in enabling an immersive and comprehensive discovery while providing tangible, value-centric, customer-specific outputs at scale and unmatched velocity. So, let’s jump in, and don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe. You’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast. Learn more about Digital Value Discovery and book your introductory session: https://sapvideoa35699dc5.hana.ondemand.com/?entry_id=1_zd5hkm2r Learn more about Bristlecone: https://www.bristlecone.com Follow Kunal: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunalwaghmare/ Follow Akshi: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshimohla/ Polywork: https://www.polywork.com/akshi Please like, share, and subscribe! Send feedback and questions to akshi.mohla@sap.com.

Imagine an endless array of three-dimensional experiences, all merged into one shared, persistent and immersive Virtual Universe - the Metaverse. Is it another fad or the next big thing? Well, either way, buckle up, because in this episode of SAP Experts Podcast, we are off to explore the Metaverse! Which is why, my guest today is Karl Doose, a speaker and thought leader in the Metaverse space: explaining what it is, exploring its impact and supporting people in understanding how they can participate. He is very enthusiastic about the potential of the Metaverse, as it is closely overlapping with his passions for the entertainment industry as well as web3. Karl has been with SAP for almost 7 years, having joined via the German Vocational Training Program in 2015. Since then, he became one of the key people to grow SAP’s Innovation Services and Solutions capability, applying intelligent technologies such as Distributed Ledgers or Artificial Intelligence to solve our customers business problems. Subsequently, he built a future-focused strategy for SAP Services to better support our customers on their journey to the cloud and was a catalyst for its execution. Currently as an executive advisor to leaders within the company, Karl is helping COOs to transform their role into a future-focused Chief Anticipation Officer. As always, my name Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

A fresh coffee and a new guest: welcome to the SAP Experts Podcast! Today I am in conversation with my manager, Johannes Langguth. He is Vice President in the Cloud Transformation and Architecture Office in the MEE region at SAP. And we discuss if bringing business onboard is always required for transformation in a company? Should enterprise IT be reactive or is it easier to be proactive? What if IT becomes an internal platform provider and turns from a cost center to a profit center? What are possible starting points for a transformation? Is an MVP which solves one specific challenge a good start to gain trust? Or is a “top down” approach by modernizing the whole IT landscape a first step to jumpstart transformation more from a strategic perspective? Lots of questions – and you will find the answers in this episode. My name is Timo Deiner and you are listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the SAP Experts Podcast. Today, we discuss the bold statement “If your muscles don’t ache, it wasn’t transformation”. The time of buzzwords is over, this episode is all about real challenges. We explore the importance of improving step by step, instead of going for the world championship when you have never even attended a tournament before. My guest today is Bernd Preuschoff, the Group CDO at Uvex, CEO at protecting people GmbH. He is a passionate keynote speaker, book author and a very successful professional dancer. We talked on sustainable innovation, analogies of dancing sports and business and about the collaboration with talents and their expectations towards “digital transformation”. My name is Timo Deiner working in the Cloud Transformation and Architecture Office at SAP, enjoying good coffee and I’m excited to have Bernd as my guest today. All of that on SAP Experts Podcast.

In this next edition of the SAP EXPERTS Podcast, Jonathan Fogarty asks the question that seems to be on everybody's mind at the moment: Is the “Great Resignation” real? Is it just a new name for an old phenomenon? What should organisations do to prepare, or have I already missed the boat? Helping him make sense of it all are his guests and experienced Podcast hosts in their own right: Michael Esau - A Global HR Advisor who has spent the last 20 years helping individuals and organisations be the best they could be every day, and Hannah Brier a Customer Engagement Executive helping drive customers success throughout their cloud transformation. Strap in, listen up and perhaps you might get the answer you are hoping for! You’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises – but only performance is reality. This quote by Harold Geneen rings especially true for sports teams as well, wherein the goal is to win. But what role does a deeper understanding and data around your own team players, as well as the competitors, help in securing the wins? And what can other industries learn from the Sports industry. Since Superbowl was only last night, it is only fair for us to dive into the agile world of Sports Analytics! My guest today, Bernhard Escherich is an SAP industry expert, with more than 20 years of experience with SAP. He was part of the SAP Sports Industry Business Unit when it began in 2015 until 2020. He is now the Chief Expert at SAP's New Business and Industry Strategy team, covering all industries, and helps implement new innovations and business models for SAP’s customers. He is passionate about bringing insights and best practices from elite sports teams and SAP sport solutions to all industries, to enable healthier working environments and lifestyles. He was a water polo player in his youth, and you can still find him at the pool every morning at 6.30am. Bernhard and I will be discussing topics from a latest SAP whitepaper on Sports Analytics, which I have included in the shownotes, so that you too can keep the Superbowl celebrations going with this deeper dive into everything Sports Analytics! As always, my name Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

An extra special welcome to the 100th episode of the SAP Experts Podcast! Thank you for being a part of this journey. As we complete our century, we at SAP Experts Podcast are compelled to ponder what the future of work would look like. The allure of entrepreneurship promises freedom, whereas a more traditional career often means safety, stability, and mentorship. SAP.io not only provides the best of both worlds, but it also bridges the gaps between customers’ niche requirements and start-up innovators. My guest today, Kange Kaneene, is the Vice President of SAP.iO Foundries North America, which is SAP’s no-equity ask external startup accelerator. SAP.iO Foundries provide technical and go-to-market support to help startups integrate with SAP and accelerate entry into a curated inclusive ecosystem whose offerings can be easily accessed and deployed by SAP customers. Kange has spent her career in enterprise software focusing on investments in startups, partnerships, acquisitions, and go-to-market strategy. She has a passion for diversity and creating equally distributed access to opportunity. She is an angel investor with Pipeline Angels group, a group of female and non-binary investors who invest in female and non-binary founders. She is a scout for GoingVC Partners, a Venture Capital syndicate and she is on the selection committee and a mentor for entrepreneurs as a volunteer for Defy Ventures, a non-profit organization that invests in founders who are currently or formerly incarcerated. Finally, Kange is on the board of KIPP NYC. Kange has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from New York University Stern School of Business. She lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and loves international travel, cooking, Michael Jackson, dance, and theater. As always, my name Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

“Put your money where your mouth is” may be an old adage. But as we Chase Zero together – a future with zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality – the finance industry is increasingly implementing this very adage. The financial industry recognizes the need for sustainable economic activities, and SAP is here to help. My guest, Michel Haesendonckx brings the best of both worlds, with 20 years of experience in the area of financial processes and analytics, as well as his focus on sustainable finance. Michel is Global Solution Owner for Financial Planning & Analysis at SAP with a broad expertise in Finance & Performance Management. He is responsible for driving the go-to-market in this area for SAP and is highly involved in key innovation topics and the overall solution strategy. Michel also co-authored “SAP S/4HANA Finance: The Reference Guide to What’s New” released in April 2019. As always, my name Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

Hello and welcome to the SAP Experts Podcast, my name is Jonathan Fogarty and it is an absolute privilege to be hosting my first, solo episode of this brilliant show! My guest today is James Veale, Co-founder of the SAP supported start up: Green Token – who’s mission is to embed sustainability, and equally importantly, traceability, into global supply chains. James is going to take us through the journey of becoming a start-up through to his mission to provide visibility into where raw materials came from and to help organisations produce products that are ethically sourced and sustainable. You’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

A new year and a new episode of the SAP Experts Podcast. I hope that you all had a great start in 2022. My name is Timo Deiner and I’m happy to be your host today. Before we start I’d like to give a very warm welcome to our newest team member: welcome on board Jonathan Fogarty! He is joining us from SAP Australia. Be sure that you don’t miss his episodes. Glad to have you on board, Jonathan! Dr. Anne Gfrerer joined me in this episode and we were talking about different dimensions of a successful digital transformation. You will hear insights on Digital Readiness, Partnership Readiness and the readiness inside an innovation eco system. Anne recently received her PhD, has an excellent practical background and a huge diverse network. That’s why you will also learn at the end of this episode some of her best practices in building good networks and relationships outside (!) of your corporate filter bubble. So enjoy todays episode with Anne and me.

A very Happy New Year to the listeners of SAP Experts Podcast! What better way to kick off the year by reflecting on the exponential rise of intelligent technologies, and how they can be leveraged with ethics at the epicenter. As companies across the globe, use Artificial Intelligence and other intelligent technologies to enable scalable solutions – they are also scaling their regulatory, legal, and ethical risks. My guest today, the dynamic Navrina Singh, saw this very need in the market, and took the entrepreneurial leap. Today we will discuss how 2022 will be the year of responsible AI in action, with new accountability structures! Navrina is the Founder & CEO of Credo AI and a technology leader with over 18 years of experience in Enterprise SaaS, AI and Mobile. She has held multiple product and business leadership roles at Microsoft and Qualcomm and is an executive board member of Mozilla focused on their trustworthy AI charter. Navrina is also a young global leader with the World economic forum and was on their future council for AI guiding policies and regulations in responsible AI. Navrina holds a Master’s in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MBA from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelors in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from India. As always, my name Akshi Mohla, and you’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast.

Retail is changing – always. New consumer habits and priorities are making supply-chain traceability, inventory optimization, and waste reduction a top priority for retailers. In conversation with Sobouh Rahimi, Julie Vargas shares her vision for incorporating RFID technologies in everyday life, and how Avery Dennison and SAP are already incorporating such innovations with retailers like Macy’s. You’re listening to SAP Experts Podcast!