Five Key Pillars of Digital Transformation

Business leaders today are constantly asking themselves how they can transform across these five pillars:

• Assets and Internet of Things

• Customer experience

• Core business processes

• Workforce engagement

• Supplier collaboration and business network

Assets and Internet of Things - How can I better utilize my products and assets?

Analyze sensor data from products, and deliver outcome-based experiences. Monitor assets on the factory floor to predict failure and decrease downtime. Gain instant visibility into location of in-transit materials to drive new scheduling efficiencies.

Omnichannel Customer Experience - How can I deliver an omnichannel experience?

Engage customers more personally with one-to-one marketing. Personalize products and offerings by slicing and dicing customer data on the fly. Predict customer behavior, and make context-relevant product recommendations.

Core Business Processes - How can I digitize my core?

Move away from lengthy and time-consuming batch processes. React quickly to market signals happening in real-time across the value chain. Connect my enterprise to people, devices, business, and social networks.

Workforce Engagement - How can I better engage my workforce?​

Attract and retain talent by clearly communicating business impact. Enhance decision making with a cross-device, personalized user experience. Gain full visibility into critical human resource gaps to prevent business disruption.

Supplier collaboration and business networks - How can I increase supplier collaboration?

Extend business processes and deliver new value to customers. Gain the flexibility to customize to changing customer demands in shorter planning cycles. Orchestrate profitability with real-time sensing of demand-and-supply data.

SAP S/4HANA: Reimagining business for the digital economy

SAP S/4HANA is the digital core for digital business, and provides the business foundation that companies need to Run Simple in today’s digital economy. The entire value chain is digitized, including the digital core that serves as the foundation for business innovation and optimization.