CIO OPINION
CIO
opinion
CIO OPINION
“
A LOT OF
COMPANIES HAVE A
ZOO OF SOLUTIONS
IMPLEMENTED AND FROM
A CIO PERSPECTIVE, IT’S
A NIGHTMARE.
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Marcell Vollmer, Chief Digital Officer, SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass
Maximising the
potential of Digital
Transformation
With digitisation at
the top of every CIO’s
agenda there is still a
lot of potential to be
realised. Intelligent CIO
asked Marcell Vollmer,
Chief Digital Officer, SAP
Ariba and SAP Fieldglass,
how CIOs can be more
successful on their Digital
Transformation journey.
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AP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass
help companies connect to get
business done and spend better.
With SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass,
businesses can manage the buying
process across all categories of spend
– from direct and indirect goods and
services to external workforce.
With SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass,
companies are transforming how they
manage all categories of spend with
improved operational efficiency and
compliance, increased agility and
accelerated business outcomes.
We spoke to Marcell Vollmer, Chief
Digital Officer, SAP Ariba and SAP
Fieldglass, to ask for advice about how
CIOs can best tackle the challenges of
Digital Transformation and maximise
its potential.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
How can SAP Ariba help CIOs with
their Digital Transformation?
I think the number one factor is what we
now call Intelligent Spend Management.
The individual companies that make
up the SAP Group are now part of an
integrated approach to manage all your
spend. But what does it do for the CIO?
Basically, they can see their landscape
get simplified and streamlined by having
a fully integrated source-to-pay-suite
integrated in S/4 HANA or in a related
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
backend system.
That’s really what I see as a big
benefit. This was a key message on the
intelligent enterprise: How we connect the
applications to run everything related to
the spend of a company.
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