Most companies have a clear view of the possibilities that AI brings with it – but they find it difficult to convert these into measurable, company-wide results. Due to fragmented processes, insufficient AI knowledge and varying suitability of data for AI use, it is often difficult to go beyond individual test runs.
This is where SAP and the SAP partner network can make significant progress for companies.
Together, we help customers achieve tangible results with their AI strategies. By combining our partners’ industry knowledge with SAP Business AI, customers have access to hundreds of features integrated into SAP applications and supporting a variety of areas. These features enable process automation, better decision-making, and increased employee productivity across the organization.
This foundation is strengthened by the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). It allows customers to develop, integrate and extend AI-powered solutions in a scalable and secure environment.
Together with its partners, SAP helps customers in all industries leverage the full potential of AI. The following examples show how companies are already achieving measurable results.
More efficiency thanks to AI-supported process automation
Manual, repetitive processes remain one of the biggest obstacles to efficient operations. SAP’s partner network helps customers identify inefficient processes and optimize them with AI-driven automation.
At the food manufacturer FRoSTA, SAP partners sovanta AG and Amista have identified invoice processing as a key bottleneck. By coordinating the workflow with SAP Build Process Automation and extracting, interpreting and validating data with SAP Document AI, the partners were able to automate the entire process. While manually processing an invoice previously took several minutes, the system now takes less than a minute. Around 60 percent of the steps were completely automated. This leaves employees more time for value-adding tasks such as clarifying deviations and working with suppliers.
Because that’s exactly the power of combining partner knowledge with SAP Business AI and SAP BTP solutions: Instead of just automating individual tasks, companies can quickly move to networked, intelligent workflows that can be expanded to additional departments and regions. In this way, a single use case becomes the basis for a broader automation strategy aimed at accelerating processes, reducing manual effort and making data, people and decisions more connected.
Innovate faster with AI accessible to all teams
Due to the increasing demand for AI, many companies are confronted with a challenge that they already know: the shortage of skilled workers. SAP partners help you close this gap. Combining their industry knowledge with SAP Business AI and SAP BTP tools makes it easier for teams across the company to quickly test, prototype and deploy AI solutions.
An example of this is the pump manufacturer Aspen Pumps. In collaboration with NTT DATA, the company operational routine tasks modernized. Using low-code functions from SAP Build for the conception and coordination of workflows and from SAP AI Core to support AI models, the team developed a total of twelve automation bots within a short period of time. These bots now enable faster quoting by streamlining activities such as invoice validation, order routing, and even CAD drawing analysis. Aspen Pumps took less than a week to complete many proof-of-concept initiatives. This is a testament to how innovation becomes accessible to all when intelligence is built right into the tools teams already use.
By removing barriers to experimenting with AI, SAP and its partners help companies innovate faster and more confidently. Teams can explore new ideas, test them safely and expand them across the entire company if they produce good results – without being slowed down by a lack of technical resources or long development cycles. This allows innovations to be driven forward in day-to-day business and is not just reserved for a few specialists.
Creating a future-ready foundation with a scalable, extensible architecture
As AI becomes increasingly integrated into business processes, leading companies are turning their attention to platforms that can grow with them and not limit them. SAP partners can help customers develop architectures that adapt to new market requirements while maintaining stable core systems.
The steel manufacturer Al Ghurair Iron and Steel (AGIS) shows how this works. In collaboration with Deloitte, the company has its Production planning process transformed. The basis for this was SAP Business AI, which is integrated into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and combined with the integration and expansion functions of SAP BTP. A planning cycle that previously took 15 minutes to coordinate manually now takes less than five minutes. The solution has been replicated across multiple locations and more than 400 calculations are now performed automatically. This means teams have fewer spreadsheets to manage and more time to analyze results and optimize operations.
If SAP Business AI and SAP BTP are combined with the know-how of partners, companies can create a reliable foundation to specifically drive forward future AI initiatives. You can extend new capabilities to additional production sites, regions or business units, extend processes without disrupting business-critical systems, and seamlessly merge SAP and third-party environments into a unified, intelligent landscape.
Harnessing the power of AI for business transformation
These success stories show the possibilities when customers, SAP and SAP partners work together: faster processing, smarter decisions, supporting employees with tools and architectures designed for long-term agility and growth.
The combined forces of the SAP partner network, the intelligent functions of SAP Business AI to support a variety of areas and the extensibility of SAP BTP enable companies to integrate AI into the operations that are critical to success, beyond individual pilot projects: the daily processes and decisions that move the company forward.
For more information about the opportunities your company can benefit from with SAP Business AI, see sap.com/ai.
