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Queen of Raw’s S/4HANA-based textile marketplace app is helping suppliers of the fashion industry reduce waste by keeping unused inventory out of landfills.
SAP put a stake in the ground for sustainability when it debuted its Climate 21 initiative.
The initiative, which was unveiled at Sapphire Now Reimagined in May, provides businesses with resources to build applications on SAP S/4HANA, a next-gen ERP, and SAP C/4HANA, a customer experience and e-commerce platform, that can capture and use data to further global sustainability goals.
One of Climate 21’s target areas is the retail industry. Retailers can use SAP technology to not only become more environmentally responsible, but to also derive some of the economic benefits that go along with sustainable practices, such as waste reduction and supply chain improvements.
Queen of Raw, a textile marketplace in New York, was one of the first businesses to take advantage of the program, launching the Unused Inventory Onboarding and Sales Integration app, a global textile sustainability application based on SAP S/4HANA, in August.
Waste, inefficiency in textile supply chain
Waste is a significant problem for the textile industry, making it a perfect target for sustainability efforts, said Stephanie Benedetto, co-founder and CEO of Queen of Raw.
In 2014, Benedetto, an attorney who came from a family with deep roots in the textile industry, teamed up with Phil Derasmo, a technologist in the financial industry, to find solutions to the textile sustainability and waste problem.
Your favorite direct mail experts are now available on the SAP App Center!
If there’s anything we love more than direct mail, its partnerships with great people.
Outgage recently became available on the SAP App Center, the enterprise marketplace where customers and partners are brought together on one simple, global online platform. Through the App Center, customers can discover and utilize SAP-validated partner applications that are built on or extend their existing SAP technology and solutions.
Outgage for SAP Marketing Cloud enables you to optimize Direct Mail experiences and gets your audience to engage more than ever before. You can now link SAP marketing campaigns with Outgage campaigns, synchronize contacts and leads, and track your campaign results in one seamless, easy-to-use platform.
Thank you to our fabulous partners at SAP and, of course, everyone on our hardworking team who made this happen.
SAP invests in a lot of startups, and it’s sometimes hard to keep track of all of them. E-3 Magazine has selected the most interesting startups to showcase in our SAP Startup Spotlight Series. In this article, we will take a look at AiVidens.
Edouard Beauvois is co-founder and CEO of AiVidens. For more than 20 years, Edouard had gained international experience in building, implementing, selling and marketing software dedicated to finance. Passionate about artificial intelligence, he decided to put his experience to good use to help companies seeking optimization and innovation. That is why together with two friends, he recently co-founded AiVidens, a startup helping companies maximizing the use of their data in order to optimize their working capital. In this interview, he talks about what AiVidens has to offer and what comes next for the company.
The air travel industry is waking up to a post-pandemic world filled with people who have a heightened awareness of climate change and sustainability. The entrepreneurs behind Jet-Set Offset are turning these concerns into action for both consumers and businesses. Using the startup’s carbon-based offsetting tool, companies can donate one cent for every air mile flown by employees to environmental non-profit organizations.
SAP’s Global Marketing department runs digital campaigns in regions around the world. One of the campaigns they’re driving is Paid Search. To improve the performance and lower spending, the team works to optimize SAP landing pages for search keywords.
To get all the information in a user-friendly and visual dashboard, SAP partnered with Adverity, an expert in data-driven marketing. Adverity used their app to blend live data sources and historical data before connecting to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and creating a dashboard in SAP Analytics Cloud.
Verusen, an innovator in artificial intelligence, materials inventory and data management technology, announced today the results of its State of Supply Chain Inventory Management survey. The results from this inaugural research come at a pivotal time for enterprise supply chains, as they continue to act in response to the global coronavirus pandemic and the completely unforeseen impacts it has caused―for which the large majority of organizations were unprepared.
The survey showed that while a majority of organizations rated their supply chains’ maturity levels at “high” or “highest,” only 10 percent of them felt fully prepared for the coronavirus impacts. For most organizations, the impact from the pandemic has resulted in massive revenue losses along with employee layoffs and has now put the spotlight squarely on budgets along with the preservation of cash and working capital.
TVPage creates a touchless & engaging retail experience online through shoppable videos with savvy sellers.
As more and more brands have shifted to the E-commerce world as their primary sales channel, they seem to have forgotten one crucial player along the way: the seller. Especially today, as people are less frequently walking into stores and avoiding physical engagements altogether, the role of the online seller is critical; people buy from people, not ads. These sellers operate as brand ambassadors who represent the brand online, much like a salesperson would in a physical store.
The solution that seamlessly helps brands provide expertise and guidance to consumers through digital ambassadors? TVPage.
TVPage provides every brand the ability to turn on ambassador digital storefronts on their websites, empowering subject matter experts, in-store sales associates, influencers, and savvy customers to promote and sell their products online. With TVPage, brands transform their sales team into ambassadors who sell on their digital storefronts on the brand’s site, with an intuitive platform that measures results and commissions ambassadors on their actual sales. Today’s consumers depend more and more on recommendations to help dictate their purchasing decisions, and TVPage allows brands to seamlessly engage with their consumers through digital ambassadors.
Today, business users are primarily responsible for a company’s core operational and commercial decision processes. However, these individuals are often disconnected from the advanced analytics and data teams in their organizations. Simply put, CPGs’ decision makers aren’t making enough data-driven decisions, and ultimately missing out on the opportunity to maximize sales and boost ROI.
Enter Aiola.
Aiola developed a super powerful virtual analyst that helps CPG managers in the sales, marketing, trade, and planning departments make better data-driven decisions. While an analyst’s mother tongue is “data science” and a sales manager speaks “business language,” Aiola‘s virtual analyst bridges the communication gap between teams.
SAP.iO is collaborating with E.ON Innovation, the strategic innovation entity of one of Europe’s largest energy companies E.ON, and IEC (Israel Electric Corporation), both SAP clients, for its upcoming startup acceleration program in Tel Aviv.
The 12-week SAP.iO Foundry Tel Aviv program is designed to accelerate innovation and drive new business models for SAP’s customers. The next program in Tel Aviv will focus on new solutions for the Utilities sector.The zero-equity-ask program provides startups with curated support from within and outside of SAP, exposure to SAP technologies, and opportunities to collaborate with SAP customers globally.
“Today, SAP’s solutions serve 45 out of 50 of the largest energy producers in the world, supporting them in becoming intelligent enterprises. This program will allow us to explore, embrace and share new market insights and solutions with our clients.” says Lior Weizman, Director of SAP.iO Foundry Tel Aviv in Israel.
ClearMetal, a leader in Continuous Delivery Experience (CDX) for supply chain and logistics solutions, today announced the addition of Ed Feitzinger to its Board along with two new Executive Advisors, Tom Linton and Walter Charles III.
Feitzinger was most recently VP of Global Logistics for Amazon, with prior roles as CEO of UTi Worldwide and VP Global Logistics at HP. At Amazon, Feitzinger was responsible for international inbound and outbound international logistics, as well as customer fulfillment in Amazon’s emerging countries. Linton most recently served as Chief Supply Chain Officer at Flex and was Chief Procurement Officer at both LG and Freescale (News – Alert). Charles served as Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer at Allergan and held similar roles prior at Biogen, Kellogg, Kraft and Johnson & Johnson.
ClearMetal’s software platform helps companies dramatically reduce freight variability and improve customer experience. “E-commerce has made every shipper acutely aware of the impact of the supply chain on customer experience,” said Feitzinger. “I was captivated by how ClearMetal enables dynamic, door to door freight management, increasing on-time delivery over 50%, improving cash-flow, reducing inventory, and enhancing ClearMetal client’s customer experience.”
SAP.iO has announced a collaboration with E.ON Innovation and Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) for its upcoming startup acceleration program in Tel Aviv. E.ON Innovation is the strategic innovation entity of E.ON, one of Europe’s largest energy companies, and both collaborators are clients of SAP.
The 12-week program provides startups with curated support from within and outside SAP, access to its technologies, and opportunities to work with SAP customers from around the world. The next program is designed to specifically focus on solutions for the utilities sector.
For companies to survive, having the ability to make data-driven decisions is a non-negotiable. However, as companies accumulate exponentially more data, taking advantage of all this data becomes more complex. More data allows for more advanced, more actionable insights — but companies often face a shortage of data scientists to build data models and decipher them.
Meet Pecan.
Mercaux Customer Experience Application Now Available for Free Trial and Purchase on SAP® App Center
Mercaux announced that its In-store Clienteling, Omnichannel & Data Platform solution is now available for free trial and purchase on SAP® App Center, the digital marketplace for SAP partner offerings. Mercaux’s solutions integrate with SAP Commerce Cloud, to deliver omnichannel capabilities and personalized shopping experiences to retail businesses using SAP solutions.
Software company SAP has announced that its acceleration program, SAP.iO, will work in collaboration with the innovation division of European energy giant E.ON and the Israel Electric Company to focus on solutions for the energy industry.
