From footwear to jeans to high fashion, the industry is making positive environmental changes due to pressure from passionate consumers who are demanding change. With profiles of companies such as Allbirds, Adidas, Levi’s, and Gucci, plus interviews with supermodel Karlie Kloss and CEO Natasha Franck, the show takes an in-depth look at how the fashion business is changing.
🥳 SAP.iO Foundry Paris is celebrating its two-year anniversary. Experience the journey with us in this look back at the last two exhilarating years. 🥳
Recently the Asia Berlin Summit hosted a panel discussion called Exploring the impact of family, restrictions, support systems and gender bias on women founders. Panelists included: Aimie-Sarah Carstensen (Founder, ArtNight), Dr. Alexander Hirschfeld (Female Founders Monitor), Chanyu Xu (Founder & CEO, her.one), Alexa Gorman (SVP and Head of SAP.iO EMEA Foundries), Caecilia Chu (Founder, YouTrip), with Moderator: Elain Tse (COO, Passion.io).
In a bid to modernise their recruiting process, BOK Financial needed to find a solution that could easily integrate with its existing SAP SuccessFactors tech stack. According to Maciel, the company needed an intelligent solution that could automate administrative work so that its recruiters—what BOK Financial refers to as talent advisors—can focus their time and efforts on more strategic, value-adding work.
The financial institution was experiencing several challenges within its recruitment process, namely:
More importantly, BOK Financial needed a flexible solution. Maciel said it was important for them that the solution can be customised to the way they do business and the way they acquire talent. The company wanted a solution that aligned with its relationship-based business model. Maciel explained,
“We were focused on shifting our time from transactional recruiting to what we call talent advisory. So with the increased traffic on our career site, as well as in our recruiter inboxes, we needed a seamless candidate experience that really aligned with the rest of our business model. The focus for us was engagement through real-time communications.”
Through the SAP App Center, the company found the solution they required. With Olivia by Paradox, Maciel said that BOK Financial was able to transform candidate experience and engagement. She said that the SAP-validated solution enabled them to mirror the positive experience BOK Financial’s customers had with the experiences of its candidates:
“Olivia really helped us transform the way talent explored our jobs, the way they engage with us—providing the same experience that our consumers have come to expect.”
Another positive outcome the company was able to achieve was the increase in the completion rates of candidates who come into BOK Financial’s career site and converse with Olivia—up to 10% according to Maciel.
Jan Gilg is not the only person struggling to explain to his children what we are doing to our planet, but he is one person who can make a real difference and lead others to do the same. As president of SAP S/4HANA, Gilg is responsible for SAP’s flagship products in industry solutions, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and digital supply chain.
“My role empowers me to make things happen,” the executive, who views himself as a change agent in a powerful position, says. If you consider that 70 percent of world transactions touch an SAP system in some way, it is clear that SAP software has a huge influence on the global economy. With that power comes responsibility.
“We need to have ambitious goals, because the challenges we face are immense,” Gilg says. “There is a huge demand to rethink how we live and work. We must become sustainable to survive.”
This mindset is critical for Gilg, who is also a member of SAP’s Sustainability Council. Members are nominated by the SAP Executive Board and are responsible for integrating sustainability into their core business area. Gilg’s role is to weave sustainability into the product portfolio.
One of Gilg’s favorite success stories is Queen of Raw, a textile marketplace startup in New York using a textile sustainability application based on SAP S/4HANA. “Waste is a significant problem for the textile industry,” says Gilg, “making it a perfect target for sustainability efforts.”
Each year around $120 billion worth of textiles from across the supply chain goes to waste, causing huge environmental issues and economic loss. For some companies, it swallows up to 15 percent of their bottom line annually. Queen of Raw matches suppliers with unused textiles to potential buyers. The company worked with SAP to develop an easy-to-use automated process on a powerful back-end system.
This sustainability app uses tools like blockchain and machine learning to identify products, confirm the integrity of the suppliers, and match them to Queen of Raw’s 175,000 global users. The system also provides an environmental cost-benefit analysis when a successful match is made.
“Queen of Raw isn’t just doing good for the sake of good. It makes economic sense,” Gilg says. “With tools like this we can show people the return on investment and the value of the circular economics.”
Gilg says it’s not enough to tell our children we must protect the sea we swim in and the trees around us. We must show them that we are making a difference. “It’s up to us to decide what kind of a difference we make. That’s why I’m proud to tell them that I am a part of a company that looks out for the world they will live in.”
SAP.iO partners with Les Déterminés to Support Entrepreneurship in Working-Class Neighborhoods and Rural Areas. SAP France announces that its SAP.iO Foundry Paris accelerator is supporting the 12th promotion of the association Les Déterminés, whose mission is to develop entrepreneurship in working-class neighborhoods and rural areas. As part of this partnership, SAP.iO Foundry Paris is committed to making its premises and the expertise of its employees available to support the 20 entrepreneurs in its new promotion, selected from more than 470 candidates.
The SAP.iO Foundry Tel Aviv is looking for B2B startups developing solutions in the utilities industry to join its 12-week startup program beginning in October 2020!
Forum Choose France et attractivité de la France, investissement de SAP en France, stratégie de développement de la filiale française : Gérald Karsenti, Président-Directeur Général de SAP France, revient sur l’actualité du groupe. Ecorama du 22 janvier 2020, présenté par David Jacquot sur Boursorama.com.
Meet Erez Raanan & Guy Ernest, the Co-Founders of 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. Aiola participated in the SAP.iO Foundry Tel Aviv’s Consumer Products Spring 2020 cohort, and is integrating into SAP’s Sales Cloud.
Check out our how our Consumer Products cohort helps companies create and engage with consumers in moments of opportunity! Hear how our amazing 7 startups bring value to SAP & our customers at our concluding event.
Marketers, check out these nuggets of wisdom as Foundry Tel Aviv mentor and founder of Unicorn Communications Caroline Cohen fires out 10 questions for Avishai Sharon, CEO and Co-Founder of TrenDemon, who is participating in our Consumer Products cohort.
Erik Davis, Chief Product Officer of Sampler, a Foundry TLV startup, shares how Sampler found new opportunity in the recent crisis, and provides tips on how other startups can do the same.
Watch interview with Sébastien Gibier on BFM Business (French TV Channel) as they discuss how HR Technology supports working from home.
Meet the SAP.iO HR Tech startups! Join us as we celebrate an incredible journey with the HR Tech startups from the SAP.iO Foundry Paris Spring 2020 cohort and a panel of thought leaders who are blazing new paths in the Future of Work.
When we couldn’t have the usual festivities to mark the end of the 3-month Industry 4.0 program at #FoundryBerlin, we brought all the teams together virtually and used some archival footage to recreate the full Demo Day experience. This playful and ‘cinematic’ take on a typical Demo Day showcases the startup teams’ solutions as well as their charming personalities and vision for the future. It’s a behind-the-scene look at the visionaries who are making a difference in the world, as well as the power of relentless optimism in the face of a global pandemic.
The 2020 Industry 4.0 Graduates are: Agranimo, Soley, LiveEO, Wandelbots, 3DQR, and Fretlink.
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