In this episode, SAP’s Paul Saunders discusses the Harvard Business Review research on how cloud ERP transforms manufacturing and how companies can innovate and innovate differently, even within the same industry. Why resiliency and responsiveness to change are essential and how ERP enables companies to focus on their core processes and drive innovation.
Join us on the eights episode of The Future of ERP podcast to discover the future cloud ERP.
Guest Speaker: Paul Saunders, Head of Product Strategy and Chief Evangelist Cloud ERP at SAP
With over 25 years of experience as a CTO, CIO and industry analyst Paul has extensive knowledge of ERP. Prior to joining SAP, he was Vice President, Research for Gartner, providing advice to the world’s largest and most influential technology providers. He was also lead author for Gartner’s ERP strategic roadmap and the lead analyst covering SAP.
He has lived half of his life in the UK and half in the United States.
He is a frustrated, failed musician who spent several years working in NYC and Hollywood, CA in the music industry working with major label recording artists and film studios. He has a double platinum disk for his work with a megastar to prove he used to be cool once.
Paul lives in a very remote location in Scotland. Fortunately, he has good internet.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sapstrategysaunders/
SAP Community: https://people.sap.com/strategy_guy
Host: Richard Howells, VP Thought Leadership and Awareness at SAP
Richard Howells has been working in the supply chain management and manufacturing space for over 30 years. He is responsible for driving the thought leadership and awareness of SAP’s ERP, Finance, and Supply Chain solutions and is an active writer and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.
SAP Community: https://people.sap.com/richard.howells#overview
Twitter: https://twitter.com/howellsrichard
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardjhowells/
Host: Oyku Ilgar, DSC Solution Marketing Specialist at SAP
Oyku Ilgar has been working in the digital supply chain area at SAP since 2017. As a marketer and blogger, she creates written and visual marketing content about ERP and Supply Chain solutions and focuses on the topics of business trends, IoT, Industry 4.0, and sustainability.
SAP Community: https://people.sap.com/oyku
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oykuilgar/
Useful Links:
- Download transcript
- www.sap.com/ERP
- https://www.sap.com/cmp/dg/digital-manufacturing-with-cloud-erp/index.html?campaigncode=CRM-YI23-SFH-1954672_01&source=RHpodcast
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