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SAP and IBM Value Generation Partnership Initiative
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Overview 
Overview

 

The IBM and SAP Value Generation Partnership initiative will enable clients to accelerate their RISE enabled cloud journeys, their paths to innovation, their competitive advantage to become next generation enterprises.  This initiative will focus on 4 key areas Next Generation Business Process, Next Generation Industry Innovation, Next Generation Architecture and Approach and Next Generation Ecosystem Expansion.

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Benefits
Benefits >21,000 Global IBM Data and AI consultants. 100 IBM Developed SAP Business AI solutions cross LOB, Industry and project delivery. 30+ IBM Innovation Studios and SAP Experience Centers.
Focus areas
Focus areas
Next generation business processes

Through an IBM client adoption program, the initiative will use Signavio to understand current processes and define next generation LOB processes for Office of the CFO, Digital Supply Chain, Human Capital Management, Customer Experience and Intelligent Spend Management and will also define an AI- prescriptive roadmap of SAP embedded functionality and IBM-SAP co-innovation solutions. We will work with our clients to activate SAP Joule capabilities to support their transformation journeys.

Next generation industry innovation

IBM will collaborate with the SAP Industry business units and clients to co-innovate and deliver next generation industry processes.  The initiative will also develop an AI prescriptive roadmap of high value add industry areas and proposed solution approach. IBM will build 100 SAP Business AI solutions and will showcase these solutions in the IBM Innovation Studios and the SAP Experience Centers around the globe.  The initiative will start with industrial manufacturing, consumer product goods (CPG), retail, defense, automotive and utilities and add additional industries over time.

Next generation architecture and approach

The initiative will provide a prescriptive approach to Clean Core, using SAP Build and prebuilt extensibility accelerators within SAP BTP and modern architecture with LeanIX.  IBM will also deliver a comprehensive and strategic Data strategy supporting optimized AI outcomes.  IBM will infuse Gen AI into our project delivery and application management approach leveraging the IBM Consulting Advantage Platform which allows for easy access to IBM Consulting’s SAP proprietary methods, purpose-built SAP Industry and LOB AI assets and AI trained models and role-based generative AI assistants for SAP implementation.

Ecosystem expansion

IBM and SAP will combine the power of our organizations around collaboration with University Alliance, Women’s Business Network, and Veterans to Work programs to increase the SAP-experienced consulting workforce and to develop the next generation of talent.  The partnership initiative will also collaborate on social impact programs to create job programs for at risk populations. IBM will expand their ecosystem relationships and continue to build unique offerings with the SAP ecosystem partners to ensure the best fit expertise for world class delivery and solution needs.

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Industry solutions
Industry solutions IBM Intelligent Direct Distribution to Stores 

AI-powered capabilities designed to provide efficiency in transportation planning, assortment optimization, and order settlement processes for Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) and Retail companies.

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IBM Intelligent Asset Maintenance Solution for SAP Industrial Manufacturing

Uses AI to analyze data for faster issue detection and resolution recommendations. It combines SAP's Digital Manufacturing analytics, machine/equipment modeling, and data collection with IBM's AI-augmented data retrieval approach.

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IBM Intelligent Equipment Configuration for SAP Industrial Manufacturing

Accelerates inquiry/lead-to-order processes for configurable equipment.

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IBM Intelligent Defense Operations Solution for SAP Defense

Uses machine learning, natural language processing and other facets of AI to deliver advanced predictive maintenance capabilities for high value assets.

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IBM Intelligent Warranty Processing for SAP Automotive

Transforms the user experience with AI-powered Warranty Claim Assistant, streamlining complex processes, reducing query resolution time and empowering businesses to operate with agility and effectiveness.

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IBM Intelligent Production Engineering Operations for SAP Solutions

Enables seamless communication and collaboration between engineering and production teams by integrating IBM's PLM with SAP S/4HANA for manufacturing

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IBM Intelligent Sustainability Metrics Predictor for SAP Solutions

Provides accurate forecasting models which facilitate setting specific emission reduction targets and leveraging insights from past and current data.

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IBM Intelligent Process Exception Handling for SAP Utilities

Designed to help improve process exception handling with speed and accuracy, reduces manual effort, and helps increase exception management compliance with regulatory rules

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IBM Intelligent Integrated Business Planning for Industrial Manufacturing

Addresses the complexity in forecasting configurable products and uses AI to optimize forecast accuracy using SAP Intelligent Product Recommendation.

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IBM Intelligent Asset Health Solution for SAP Defense

Acts as a Digital Intelligence Agent that uses the SAP platform data to monitor and maintain the health and operational readiness of military assets.

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Line of business solutions
Line of business solutions IBM Intelligent Finance Planning & Analysis for SAP Finance

Combines traditional and generative AI to create real-time chat agents and automate commentary generation, streamlining analytics and decision-making.

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IBM Intelligent Supply Chain Planner Optimizer for SAP IBP 

Helps business planners with prompt, natural language responses to queries, leveraging insights from SAP IBP and other sources to support decision making and facilitate prompt actions.

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IBM Intelligent Invoice Match & Verification for SAP Solutions 

Optimizes the invoice matching and verification process, reduces contract leakage, integrates workflows and provides a more seamless user experience with a significant reduction in processing time. 

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IBM Intelligent Vendor Onboarding for SAP Solutions

AI-driven offering tailored to streamline vendor onboarding and validation processes.

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IBM Intelligent Demand Planning and Forecasting for SAP IBP

Enables users to perform effective demand planning with accurate identification and classification of business drivers with gen AI Video.

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 IBM Intelligent Tax Logic Automation for SAP Solutions

Automate the extraction and validation of tax information from incoming quotes and unstructured contracts using AI integrated with SAP solutions.

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IBM Intelligent Supply Chain Execution for SAP Solutions

Provides a conversational interface to capture feedback and initiate actions in SAP Transportation Management without manual intervention.

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IBM Intelligent Contract Leakage for SAP Solutions

Incorporates generative AI capabilities into the SAP contract management processes helping organizations reduce the risk of contract leakage.

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IBM Intelligent Sentiment Driven Vendor Forecasting for SAP Solutions

Streamline quote and contract processing by automating the extraction and validation of tax information for better financial control and compliance

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Implementation solutions
Implementation solutions IBM Intelligent Test Script Generation for SAP Implementations

Generative AI tool revolutionizes test script creation, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and speed.

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IBM Intelligent User Story Generation for SAP Implementations

Leverages Gen AI to turn company-specific data into clear, actionable user stories to help SAP projects align perfectly with business needs.

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IBM Intelligent Process Enhancement for SAP Solutions

Solution can understand natural language questions and provide answers based on the corpus and industry-standard BPMN files to model the process.

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IBM Intelligent Process Design Document Generation for SAP Implementations

Reduce time spent on manual documentation and ensure that your SAP processes are documented with complete standardization across your organization.

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IBM Intelligent Technical Specification Generation for SAP Implementations

Faster project execution by automating the technical specification documentation process. Helps ensure accuracy, providing structured, compliant documents.

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Case studies
Case studies
Japan Airlines

Japan Airlines partners with IBM Consulting to overcome market disruption and accelerate digital transformation.

Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corporation

By embracing automation and enabling data-driven decision-making with help from IBM, MMPC is building a lean, agile and future-proof business ready for the next era of innovation.

Neste Oyj

Neste builds a global ERP platform using SAP S/4HANA® solution, in its drive to become the world’s leading renewable fuels and circular solutions producer.

Water Corporation

Water Corporation modernizes and migrates its mission-critical SAP architecture to the cloud with help from IBM Consulting.

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