In April 1972, five entrepreneurs – Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira, and Hans-Werner Hector – started an amazing innovation journey, which culminated in SAP’s 50th anniversary celebration in 2022.
Together with the customers and partners, SAP are happy to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the SAP Innovation Awards. The awards extend the cofounders’ vision to create positive economic, environmental, and social impact, help the world run better, and improve people’s lives.
Recognizing achievements
From the very beginning, the awards have recognized the achievements of future-minded organizations and individuals with fresh perspectives that have harnessed the power of the latest SAP products and technologies to achieve:
- Sustainability and purpose by creating opportunities to accelerate climate action, regenerative economies, and prosperous communities
- Optimization by reinventing how resources are managed, including people, products, raw materials, and capital
- Data-driven decision-making by enabling effective business processes and real-time information flows across business networks, supply chains, and value chains
Celebrating customers and partners
The SAP Innovation Awards celebrate customers and partners that are exploring new ideas and business models to deliver real-world innovation:
- Empowering women-owned businesses – WEConnect International helps women-owned organizations gain access to over US$3 billion in global purchasing power.
- Digital transformation scales equitable opportunities – MOD Pizza automates and enables its new hire processes to efficiently onboard 1,000 new hires each month.
- Scientific predictions to increase sustainability – Jumbo Supermarkten is committed to forecasting the hourly customer demand of products and rolling it out to hundreds of stores.
This year, they received and published over 220 submissions that were filled with inspiring and innovative use cases. And now, the judges selected 30 outstanding submissions as winners across 10 categories from among the 70 finalists that were announced last month.
With immense pleasure and pride, SAP is excited to announce the 30 winners of the 10th Anniversary SAP Innovation Awards for 2023!
Thanking participants
SAP thanks all the individuals and teams who participated in the 2023 SAP Innovation Awards, along with the judges. Innovation, digital transformation, and agility continue to play a big role to help manage successful outcomes for their customers.
