Join the podcast to discuss how Cloud ERP empowers CFOs to make smarter and better decisions at the speed of business. Richard is joined by CFOs, Sonja Simon and Carl-Christian von Weyhe, who discuss how Cloud ERP has helped them, and other CFOs, to adapt to new business realities and evolving expectations, such as steering the business to help make their companies more resilient. 

Sonja Simon is the Chief Financial Officer for SAP Latin America and the Caribbean region owning the responsibility for financial activities, including driving finance efficiency and profitable revenue growth. She is an experienced global and regional finance executive with a proven track record of driving sustainable growth and leading through business transformations. Focus areas include all aspects of P&L management, business process innovation, business governance and strategy execution. Passionate about people development and driving for continuous change.

During Sonja’s 15 year career with SAP, she was also responsible for the group’s statutory accounting functions worldwide as well as owning the role of  SAP’s Head of External Reporting where she was responsible for SAP’s annual and quarterly reporting requirements under IFRS, German GAAP and SEC law, including SAP’s Integrated Report, Form 20F, quarterly statements, etc.

Before joining SAP, Sonja was an auditor for Ernst & Young, Germany. Sonja holds an Executive MBA from Mannheim Business School, Germany as well as a BS in Accounting from University of Maryland.

Carl-Christian von Weyhe is the Chief Financial Officer for the region Middle and Eastern Europe spanning from Cologne in Germany to Vladivostok in Russia. For MEE he owns the full responsibility for all financial activities, including management of the P &L as well as profitable revenue growth. He is an experienced global and regional finance executive with a proven track record of driving sustainable growth and leading through business transformations. He did hold many positions in Finance & Controlling in his 23 years at SAP.

Carl-Christian holds an MBA and PhD from the University for Marburg, Germany.

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.

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Generative AI is in the news, for good and bad reasons. Listen to SAP Board Member Julia White discuss how to unleash the power of Generative AI in Cloud ERP systems with Richard Howells. They discuss some of the best use cases, and the importance of implementing accurate, relevant, and responsible AI throughout a business without disrupting operations.

Julia is one of the 7 leaders who make up the senior leadership team at SAP, called the Executive Board. SAP is the global technology leader in enterprise applications and the most valuable company headquartered in Germany. In her role, White leads the product value propositions and go-to-market approach, global marketing, communications, and government affairs. She is also the executive sponsor for Pride@SAP, Black Employee Network, and Business Women’s Network groups at SAP.

Julia joined SAP after spending 20 years at Microsoft. Most recently she led product marketing for Microsoft Azure, helping grow the business to become the world’s second largest public cloud. Prior to this, she spent 8 years within the Office division where she was instrumental in leading the shift from an on-premises technology to establishing Office 365 as the leader in cloud productivity services. Julia has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s in business administration from Harvard Business School.

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.

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Sustainability meets finance in the cloudwith a Green Ledger that brings carbon emissions and finance transactions together beyond reporting, uniquely enabling decisions to drive sustainable business transformation. Starting with managing carbon emissions and making reliable decisions to reduce carbon footprint.

Come join us as we discuss the Future of ERP.

Sebastian Steinhaeuser is SAP’s Chief Strategy Officer. Sebastian helps turn SAP’s vision into reality: Enabling our customers to increase business agility, supply chain resilience and sustainability outcomes.

Sebastian is also responsible for leading SAP’s next generation of growth businesses including SAP Signavio, SAP Business Network and SAP Sustainability.

Prior to joining SAP, Sebastian worked at BCG, where he helped companies define and implement their corporate, digital and sustainability strategies. He has published several thought leadership articles on artificial intelligence and digital strategy. Sebastian holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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.

Learn more about the power of carbon accounting & how SAP can help you future-proof your business.

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As many companies are confronted with changing market demands, they understand they need more agility and react faster to the changing market conditions. To get to that agility, they need to take their current way of working and how they operate to a different level. Come and join us to explore the benefits of business process transformation and the significance of SAP Signavio together.

Rouven Morato is the General Manager of the Business Unit SAP Signavio. As Member of the Senior Leadership Team of SAP, he is responsible to help our customers master their digital transformation by understanding and improving their business processes in a data driven and intelligent way. In his former roles Rouven was SAP’s Chief Data and Analytics Officer and built up our internal Analytics and Data Management function.

Prior to that, Rouven was the CFO and member of the management board of SAP Deutschland AG und Co KG, as well as Regional CFO for Middle and Eastern Europe. In this role he was overseeing a P&L of more than 4bn EUR in revenue and an organization with more than 5.000 employees in 15 different countries and was the Executive Sponsor for several DAX and MDAX customers of 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/

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/

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With over 20 years of experience in marketing, SAP’s Jeanney Kim discusses the main differences between the Best of Breed and the Best of Suite approaches and their pros and cons for business users. Come join us and let’s explore these two areas together.

Jeanney Kim is responsible for telling SAP’s unique value prop in enabling subscriptions and recurring revenues to support Everything-as-a-Service and other business model innovations. Prior to SAP, she has provided product marketing support for fintech, e-commerce, telecom billing, cloud integration, and other business applications.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanneykim/
SAP Community: https://people.sap.com/jeanney

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/

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Cybersecurity breaches are becoming increasingly common in today’s business world. During this podcast episode, we delved into the most challenging cybersecurity risks that companies encounter, explored the effects of attacks on computer systems, and discussed strategies for safeguarding businesses against cyber attacks.

In his leadership role, Julian helps clients develop their security strategy in the context of the cyber business risk that they face; he has a particular focus on advising boards on the potential business impact of cybersecurity by quantifying cybersecurity risk in financial terms.

Julian is passionate about attracting talent into the cybersecurity profession and is a member of the UK National Cyber Security Centre’s Industry Advisory Board for their CyberFirst programme. Julian is IBM’s executive sponsor for the Charter of Trust, a unique initiative by leading global companies to secure the digital world and a member of the FAIR Institute Industry Advisory Group.

Julian has been assisting governments to raise awareness of the business risk posed by the cyber security threat since 2005 and has lectured both at Oxford University’s Said Business School and Centre for Doctoral Training on Cybersecurity, and at Warwick University’s MSc Course on Cybersecurity and Management.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianmeyrick/

Mercedes Barrachina Fernandez works as SAP Security Innovation Lead at IBM Security (SAP Center of Competence in Europe). She has more than 12 years of experience working in the SAP Security space and leading projects in many different countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Japan, Russia and Peru. Mercedes has management and hands-on experience implementing multiple SAP solutions, such as SAP GRC, SAP Audit Management, SAP Fraud Management, SAP Enterprise Threat Detection, etc. Now she is getting also hands-on experience working in the SAP Business Technology Platform in the scope of developing assets that can help clients to implement and enhance their security strategy. She has lectured in different universities about the usage of technology in the decision-making process or the application of data to train machine learning models to increase the IT security in the companies.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mercedes-barrachina-14b35260/

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/

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/

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Scaleups face a wide variety of challenges such as keeping up with the speed of business, hiring and retaining top talent, and expanding into new markets. SAP’s Umar Khan discusses how the right software stack would help bring businesses operating and financial visibility, which in turn helps gain the trust of venture capitalists and accelerates success.

Umar is a transformational leader with over a decade of experience in roles across solution engineering, GTM strategy & enterprise sales. He is currently Regional Director for SAP’s new business customers across EMEA North, responsible for managing end-to-end execution with a focus on hypergrowth and scale-up organizations.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umar-khan-3a680641/

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/

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/

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There has been an increase in sustainability regulations and standards like TCFD (Taskforce for Climate-Related Financial Disclosure) and CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive). These efforts seek to change company-valuation principles and to measure sustainability efforts financially. This session covers how SAP can help manage these requirements and the transformations they demand.

Andrea is a Partner within Deloitte Finance Consulting practice.

She has over 30 years of external audit, advisory and delivery experience in the Finance domain driving the full CFO agenda with a specialization on digital finance and sustainability transformation. 

Her focus is on clients in Telecom, Media & Semiconductor as well as Consumer industry. She has led ESG reporting projects with focus on ESG processes, controls, ESG Data and ESG Technology projects for large listed companies. Besides her sustainability expertise she has relevant experience in external and internal reporting, performance management, finance analytics and GRC.

Stephan Müller is a Global Solution Owner for Finance in SAP’s S/4HANA Solution Management organization. In this role Stephan is responsible for the GTM of sustainability solutions for Offices of the CFO. Prior to that role Stephan worked as a Finance Consultant and as a project manager for SAPs sustainability engineering department.

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/

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/

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When the first modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems came to market in the early 1990s, and in the following 30+ years we have gone through quite a revolution. In this episode, 2 people that were there in the beginning, SAP’s Richard Howells and EAC’s Josh Greenbaum take a little trip in the past and a look to the future.

Josh has over 30 years of experience in the industry as a computer programmer, systems analyst, author, consultant, and industry analyst. Having helped pioneer coverage of the enterprise software market in the late 1980s, he moved to Europe in 1991 and worked as an industry analyst and as European correspondent for several tech publications. While based in Paris Josh began his coverage of the ERP space and wrote the first technical analysis of SAP’s R/3 for the US market. Josh founded Enterprise Applications Consulting in 1998 and has been a pioneering independent analyst and consultant ever since.

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/

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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.

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

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/

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/

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