[HARD] U1-2 Explaining the Intelligent, Sustainable Enterprise Flashcards
What is an intelligent, sustainable enterprise?
An intelligent, sustainable enterprise is one that consistently applies advanced technologies and best practices within agile, integrated business processes. It leverages solutions that integrate data and processes, build flexible value chains, innovate with industry best practices, and manage environmental impact.
How does SAP support customers in becoming intelligent enterprises?
SAP supports customers in becoming intelligent enterprises by providing solutions for integrating data and processes, building flexible value chains, innovating with industry best practices, understanding and acting on customer, partner, and employee sentiment, and managing environmental impact.
What is the role of SAP’s business technology platform in the intelligent suite?
SAP’s business technology platform serves as the foundation for the intelligent suite, applications, and industry cloud, enabling the integration of end-to-end business processes and providing a comprehensive portfolio of solutions and technology to meet customers’ business process needs.
What are the four core end-to-end processes of SAP’s intelligent enterprise?
The four core end-to-end processes of SAP’s intelligent enterprise are Lead to Cash, Design to Operate, Source to Pay, and Recruit to Retire. Each process focuses on optimizing specific aspects of the business, such as revenue generation, product development lifecycle, spend management, and workforce management.
What is the purpose of the Lead to Cash process in an enterprise?
The Lead to Cash process drives revenue, opportunities, and optimizes the customer experience from the initial contact with a prospective customer to order fulfillment and service delivery.
What does the Design to Operate process optimize in an enterprise?
The Design to Operate process optimizes the entire product development lifecycle, from design and planning to manufacturing, delivery, and operations. It enables businesses to leverage SAP’s digital supply chain solutions for running a resilient and sustainable supply chain.
What are the benefits of the Source to Pay process for customers?
The Source to Pay process allows customers to simplify, optimize, and effectively manage all spend processes and spend categories. It helps drive business outcomes, enables the transition from digital to autonomous procurement, reduces total cost of ownership, and leverages the collective intelligence and network effect of the marketplace.
What does the Recruit to Retire process cover in an enterprise?
The Recruit to Retire process ensures that customers can understand, manage, and optimize all aspects of their workforce, including both internal and external workers. It aligns workforce management with business objectives, provides a clear financial impact, and facilitates an exceptional workforce experience and business transformation.
How does the Design to Operate process support a resilient and sustainable supply chain?
The Design to Operate process allows businesses to leverage the interoperable and modular framework of SAP’s digital supply chain solutions. This framework helps optimize the product development lifecycle and enables businesses to run a resilient and sustainable supply chain, ensuring efficient planning, manufacturing, delivery, and operations.
How has SAP embedded sustainability into its end-to-end business processes?
SAP has embedded sustainability insights into its end-to-end business processes, allowing customers to make sustainability core to their business. This integration enables customers to create sustainable products, services, and solutions by leveraging a holistic view of data, processes, and industry-specific drivers, regulations, and best practices across value chains.
What can customers achieve by embedding sustainability into their core business processes?
By embedding sustainability into their core business processes, customers can assess and reduce carbon footprints, address circular business models, reduce waste, and ensure social responsibility across value chains. They can also gain real-time insights across their entire solution to support sustainable practices and make informed decisions.
How does embedding sustainability into core business processes help with compliance?
Embedding sustainability into core business processes provides deep transparency into financial and non-financial data, allowing customers to address regulations, taxation, and sanctions proactively. This helps ensure compliance with global and local regulations and promotes responsible business practices.
What benefits can customers achieve by creating sustainable products and solutions?
By creating sustainable products, services, and solutions, customers can meet the growing demand for environmentally friendly offerings. They can also enhance their brand reputation, attract environmentally conscious customers, and contribute to a more sustainable future.
What is the goal of the Seamless User Experience in the Intelligent Enterprise Suite?
The goal of the Seamless User Experience is to provide a common look and feel across all SAP solutions, based on the SAP Fiori design guidelines. This improves the daily work experience of end users by removing complexity and creating lightweight apps tailored to role-based tasks.
How does SAP Cloud Identity contribute to Consistent Security & Identity Management?
SAP Cloud Identity reduces manual administration efforts for user management and identity provisioning. It also enables a seamless login process with Single Sign-On (SSO), enhancing security and simplifying access for users.
