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Hyperautomation Community Series
Season 04

Hyperautomation for Procurement

Learn how SAP helps you adapt, improve and innovate your business processes beyond what’s available in your procurement solutions.
Discover tangible automation scenarios enhancing your enterprise applications
in Procurement

Overview

New technologies are innovating procurement. Innovations such as process automation, artificial intelligence, and business process intelligence enable organizations to drive strategic transformation that help CPOs to further automate manual processes, better manage supplier risks, advance data-driven decision making and significantly contribute toward the bottom line.

 

This virtual series will provide you with

  • 1 LinkedIn keynote
  • 5 Guided demos
  • 4 Innovative process solutions
    • SAP Process Automation
    • SAP Signavio Suite
    • SAP Signavio Process Insights
    • SAP Signavio Process Intelligence

Session Format

Each guided demo will dive directly into one specific scenario, focusing on how process automation technologies by SAP help solve this particular business challenge by increasing the level of automation in enterprise applications such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP ECC 6.0 and SAP Ariba.

 

The sessions are pre-recorded and edited for easier consumption.


LinkedIn Live Keynote

Join us on October 20 on LinkedIn Live while we break down how you can start your hyperautomation journey. Identify improvement potential in your procurement processes. Increase your automation rate with incremental projects. Gain experiences with intelligent automation technologies on which to build your strategy. All while leveraging your existing investments in SAP procurement solutions.

 

Date: Thursday, October 20

Time: 5 pm CEST | 11 am EDT

Guided Demo 01

Automate the extraction of purchase order information from SAP Ariba using SAP Process Automation

To efficiently manage procurement, we must minimize the amount of manual work that is required and automate repetitive steps. Fortunately, SAP has created a solution which allows us to automate these manual processes while improving the efficiency. In this session we will see how SAP Process Automation can automate the extraction of purchase orders based on their status. 

 

Featured services and solutions:

SAP Process Automation

SAP Ariba

 

Additional resources:

SAP Process Automation | Get hands-on with SAP BTP free tier

SAP Process Automation | Request a demo

SAP Process Automation | Buy at SAP Store

SAP Process Automation | Product page

SAP Process Automation | Community page

SAP Process Automation | Browse Learning Content 

Spend Management | Topic page


Topic Expert

Max McPhee

Product Manager – SAP Process Automation

SAP Labs, LLC. (Palo Alto)

 

Max joined SAP as a solution manager in 2020 after working as a process automation developer with a focus on finance and procurement processes. Max currently supports SAP Process Automation as a product manager and assists customers who are looking to transform their manual business processes.

 

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Guided Demo 02

Automating the creation of purchase requisitions from structured data in SAP S/4HANA using SAP Process Automation

Learn how a procurement manager can take action to improve procurement KPIs and automate a purchase requisition approval process, using pre-delivered automation bot packages and SAP workflow elements. SAP Process Automation provides business users a low-code development environment, that can reduce the time-to-value for an automation solution to be built.

 

Featured services and solutions:

SAP Process Automation

SAP Signavio Process Insights

SAP S/4HANA – Situation Handling

 

Additional resources:

SAP Process Automation | Get hands-on with SAP BTP free tier

SAP Process Automation | Request a demo

SAP Process Automation | Buy at SAP Store

SAP Process Automation| Product page

SAP Process Automation | Community page

SAP Process Automation | Browse Learning Content 

SAP Signavio Process Insights | Request a demo

SAP Signavio Process Insights | Product page

SAP Signavio | Community page

SAP Signavio | Browse Learning Content 

SAP S/4HANA Cloud | Product page


Topic Expert

Yongkang Ng

SAP S/4HANA Product Management Senior Specialist

SAP SE

 

As part of the Frontrunner team, Yong focuses on customer engagement and enablement on intelligent technologies, such as process automation and process intelligence, in their relation to use cases on SAP S/4HANA. Yong has been with SAP for the past eight years and worked across various technology divisions ranging from infrastructure, database platforms and now in his current focus on intelligent technologies. 

 

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Guided Demo 03

Automate paper-based invoice posting in SAP Ariba using SAP Process Automation

Learn how to automate paper-based invoice postings in SAP Ariba using embedded AI capabilities of SAP Process Automation. You will learn how AI-based intelligent document information extraction enables you to fully automate a manual, error-prone data entry processes. Understand how OCR capabilities with embedded AI improve efficiency by reducing invoice processing time by 80%. 

 

Featured services and solutions:

SAP Process Automation

 

Additional resources:

SAP Process Automation | Implement your use case with step-by-step-guidance

SAP Process Automation | Get hands-on with SAP BTP free tier

SAP Process Automation | Request a demo

SAP Process Automation | Buy at SAP Store

SAP Process Automation| Product page

SAP Process Automation | Community page

SAP Process Automation | Browse Learning Content 

Spend Management | Topic page

 


Topic Expert

Raghav Uppal

Senior Process Automation Specialist

SAP INDIA PVT. LTD.

 

Raghav Uppal is Senior Process Automation Specialist working with product management team of SAP. He drives adoption and enablement of SAP Process Automation for customers and partners across Asia Pacific region.

 

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Guided Demo 04

Discover improvement and automation potential in Procure-to-Pay processes with SAP Signavio solutions for process analysis and mining

Process analysis and mining help companies easily identify opportunities to standardize, simplify, and redesign business processes or improve their degree of automation. Learn how process analysis and mining help companies achieve efficient operations and supply chain resilience through the efficient and early detection of process issues and automation potential for procurement, sourcing and the supply chain. Which are the benefits? 

  • Greater process efficiency and agility
  • Improved operations and customer experience
  • Reduced costs

 

Featured services and solutions:

SAP Signavio Process Insights

SAP Signavio Process Intelligence

 

Additional resources:

SAP Signavio Process Insights | Product page

SAP Signavio Process Intelligence | Product page

SAP Signavio | Request a demo

SAP Signavio | Community page

SAP Signavio | Browse Learning Content 


Topic Experts

Aida Centelles

Director Product Marketing, SAP Signavio Process Intelligence

SAP Signavio

 

Aida joined SAP as Director of Product Marketing in 2021. With a year-long background in tech product management and product marketing for business management, analytics and AI/ML solutions, she now leads product marketing for SAP Signavio Process Intelligence. Prior to this role, she worked at tech companies of different sizes, equally feeling at home driving product strategy or go-to-market plans for products and services across several industries. A firm believer in mentoring and coaching, she loves learning new things and sharing.

 

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Silvio Arcangeli

Sr. Director Product Management, SAP Signavio Process Intelligence

SAP Signavio

 

Silvio is a product manager and enterprise architect, with a deep and extensive technical background and a strong attitude towards business and people development. He drives product management for SAP Signavio Process Intelligence, defining the product strategy and aligning its development with business and go-to-market objectives and customer demand. Prior work experiences include multiple global and regional roles in product and solution management for the SAP Business Technology Paltform.

 

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Guided Demo 05

Transforming procurement-to-pay with SAP Signavio and One Process Acceleration Layer

Learn how you can benchmark your procure to pay process against industry peers, identify automation potential and take a strategic, data-based approach to your process transformation journey. The SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite and the One Process Acceleration Layer, a collection of ready to consume accelerator assets representing the collective knowledge of thousands of projects delivered, enable you to shape your innovation path towards more efficiency, resilience, and sustainability.

 

Featured services and solutions:

SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite

One Process Acceleration Layer

 

Additional resources:

One Process Acceleration Layer | Join the beta program

One Process Acceleration Layer | Topic page

SAP Signavio | Request a demo

SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite | Product page

SAP Signavio | Community page

SAP Signavio | Browse Learning Content 


Topic Experts

Patrizia Calvia

Product Marketing Manager

One Process Acceleration Layer

SAP Signavio

 

Senior technology marketer with 20 years history of working in the computer software industry, Patrizia blends her engineering background with a wide experience across sectors, business processes including procurement, supplier relationship and supply chain management as well as related technology. Patrizia serves SAP as Product Marketing Manager since February 2022.

 

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Manja Kuchel

Director Product Marketing, SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite

SAP Signavio

 

Manja joined SAP in September 2021 as Director Product Marketing Suite. Manja has built up over 15 years of experience in primarily B2B tech world. She has worked different fields from start-up to leading marketing teams to Business Development and found her passion in product marketing.

 

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Surajit Mitra

Product Owner, Performance Driven Scenarios

One Process Acceleration Layer

SAP Signavio

 

Surajit is currently working as a Product Owner for the Performance Driven Scenarios in the One Process Acceleration Layer team. Surajit has 14 years of experience in different areas of SAP, including Consulting, Advisory consulting and Product Management, mainly focusing on SAP Customer Experience products.

 

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  • 6 Guided demos 
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Explore previous seasons of the Hyperautomation Community Series

Season 03

Financial Management

Season 03 (go live date September 29, 2022) of our Hyperautomation Community Series provided you with 

  • 1 LinkedIn Live Keynote 
  • 5 Guided demos 
  • 6 Innovativ process technologies

 

To watch the replays, please explore the session overview below or visit the Season 03 webpage.

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Season 02

Season 02 (live date December 2021) of our Hyperautomation Community Series provided you with 

  • 1 Keynote 
  • 11 Guided demos 
  • 3 Tracks
  • 4 Automation technologies

 

To watch the replays, please explore the session overview below or visit the Season 02 webpage.

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Season 01

Season 01 (live date May 2021) of our Hyperautomation Community Series provided you with 

  • 1 Keynote 
  • 6 Hands-on workshops 
  • 10 Guided demos 
  • 3 Tracks
  • 3 Automation technologies

 

To watch the replays, please explore the session overview below or visit the Season 01 webpage.

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