What is ESG and why are we talking about it now? In this episode we discuss the ESG Trilemma and how CFOs must now balance cost pressures, commercial constraints, and compliance regulations. PwC UK’s Ganesh Ram joins us to discuss what are the responsibilities of CFOs in order to navigate these three elements; and how CFOs’ role is changing.

Ganesh has over 15 years of advising clients on business transformation programmes, enabled by SAP, across Consumer sector clients. He also has experience of working with clients on integrating or disentangling technology landscape as part of M&A and divestment initiatives.

Ganesh is PwC UK’s SAP ESG leader, supporting senior client leaders to accelerate their ESG initiatives via technology and data.

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ganesh-ram-2935b24

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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Quantum physics is the foundation of many modern technologies. Even though we are not realising it, quantum physics is a big part of our daily lives. Laure Le Bars, the president of the European Quantum Industry Consortium discusses quantum computing and its potential impact on business systems. Join us on the fourth episode of The Future of ERP podcast to discover the future of quantum computing!

Laure Le Bars coordinates a Quantum Computing initiative at SAP. She is member of the Governing Board and President of the European Quantum Industry Consortium, since February 2021 (QuIC). She works on several projects like Big Data Value Association (BDVA/DAIRO Board of Directors and Vice-President www.bdva.eu ), Smart Data Innovation Lab (deputy coordinator www.sdil.de), EIT Digital or Academy Cube. She was also involved in the French-German cooperation on Digital Economy.

Before that, she was SAP Labs Canada Managing Director since its inception in 1997 until 2008. In parallel, she conducted an analysis for a lab in Central & East Europe in 2004, established the lab in Budapest and was the Managing Director of SAP Labs Hungary until 2007. She joined SAP as a development consultant in Canada and in the US in 1995 and was responsible for establishing the Montreal Labs.

She won in 2007 the Stevie Award for Women in Business in category “Best executive–non-services-under 2500 employees”.

She was on the Industrial Advisory Board of SWEBOK (Software Engineering Body of Knowledge www.swebok.org), a joint initiative of IEEE Computer Society and UQAM to achieve international consensus on the body of knowledge in software engineering.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laure-le-bars-6aa596b/

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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In this episode, SAP’s Isabelle Roussin discusses the increasingly popular subscription-based business model and recurring revenues. What are the best practices, show stoppers? How subscription-based economy transforms consumer behavior? Join us on the third episode of The Future of ERP podcast to discover the future of the service economy and subscription economy predictions.

Isabelle is a high-level professional with more than 30 years of complementary experiences in the creation, launch and development of new businesses in the high-tech and telecom industries, mainly in software and mostly in transnational environments. She has been surfing successfully for 20 years over the monetization issues of companies going digital on their content, applications and products. Certified as a professional coach, Isabelle is also using Design Thinking and Business Model Innovation to help individuals, teams and start-ups to nail-down their business model transformation. She currently supports the Strategy and Go-to-Market efforts for SAP Solutions for Quote-to-Cash.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/isabelleroussin

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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In this episode, Paul Saunders discusses today’s buzzword du jour ‘composable’ and composable business, composable thinking, composable architecture, and composable ERP. Are today’s ERP systems designed to be composable? What are the common challenges that companies face when deploying composable business systems, and where do they start? Listen to the second episode of The Future of ERP podcast to discover answers to these questions and much more.

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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ERP Predictions with Simo Said, Richard Howells & Öykü Ilgar

In this episode, Simo Said discusses the evolution of ERP and the outlook to trends and business drivers in 2023. Listen to our very first The Future of ERP podcast to discover why ERP is the backbone of the organization to run mission-critical operations.

Simo has +20 years of marketing experience at world-class business software and technology companies. Over the last two decades, his professional journey has taken him across the globe to introduce new ERP products to market. With a proven track record of successfully launching business applications at global scale: SAP ERP, SAP Business Suite and SAP S/4HANA, he and his teams have proudly delivered historical results in the information technology industry. Simo is currently the Head of Cloud ERP and Finance in Product Marketing at SAP.

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

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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