What does the future hold for businesses striving for success? This episode explores the convergence of Cloud ERP, Artificial Intelligence, and sustainability, and how these elements are reshaping the business landscape. Peter Pluim discusses how businesses can harness data for sustainability insights, AI-driven automation, and process optimization. Discover how a connected enterprise can make informed choices within its supply chain, balancing price, delivery speed, and environmental impact. Learn how AI is transforming the user experience and driving the need for integrated suites that break down traditional application silos. Gain insights on navigating complex trade-offs, making better decisions through enhanced visibility, and empowering stakeholders with informed choices.

Peter Pluim is the President of SAP’s Enterprise Cloud Services & SAP Sovereign Cloud Services businesses, which include private managed cloud deployment options for RISE with SAP and full SAP ERP value-adding SAP Cloud Application Services as well as Sovereign Cloud Services. He is responsible for the end-to-end delivery, revenue and margin of these business and leads a global team that ensures SAP delivers to its contractual commitments. 

Peter is part of the Global Product Engineering Group and reports directly to its President and Executive Board Member. In his first 24 months at SAP, Peter and his team have delivered an 99,99+% system availability and tripled the number of customers. Peter joined SAP in June 2019 and prior to his role at SAP, Peter was the Executive Vice-President and CEO of Atos’ Infrastructure & Data Management Division, leading a €7.1B (2017), 50.000+ people organization to become a globally recognized industry leader in Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud, Digital Workplace and Managed Services. Peter was also part of the Executive Committee of Atos, a global leader in digital transformation with over 110,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of over € 11 billion. 

Before joining Atos, Peter spent sixteen years at IBM in a multitude of roles and countries, spanning Sales Leadership, Operations, Delivery and Finance. Throughout Peter’s tenure, he has proven to be a high paced, results oriented strategic leader of Digital Transformation with a track record of driving growth with relentless focus on Customer Satisfaction. Next to this, he partners strongly at C-level to personally support and sponsor strategic engagements. His additional background in Finance & Planning as well as Resource Management of a professional organization is a great asset.

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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, podcaster, and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability.

Richard Howells: LinkedIn, X (Twitter)

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.

Oyku Ilgar: SAP Community, LinkedIn

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