KUALA LUMPUR: SAP Malaysia is gunning on its flexible digital innovation system, SAP Leonardo, to help local businesses scale and adapt to fast-moving changes in a digitised world.
“SAP Leonardo combines our digital business framework to integrate procurement raw materials or services to deliver better customer experiences alongside human capital management.
“When change happens, you need a platform that is flexible to changes from B2B (business-to-business) to B2C (business-to-consumer) and vice versa or both models in tandem, in addition to expansion and scale,” SAP Malaysia Sdn Bhd managing director Terrence Yong told NST Business in an interview.
SAP Leonardo is implemented in conversation with customers because proportions of blockchain, artificial intelligence, or robotics differ from company to company, and industry to industry if conglomerates are involved, he added.
“The permutations of that is endless,” Yong remarked, adding that SAP has been in Malaysia for the past 25 years.
“What SAP brings to the table is the cloud computing platform to empower local companies to realise their fullest potential.
"We are at the forefront of 25 various industries, and we can help local companies learn from global mutinationals such as making their supply chain process shorter and more effective,” said Yong.
He cited DKSH Holdings Bhd and Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd as two listed companies that had benefited from SAP’s "global best practices".
"As companies themselves grow, they would need to ‘institutionalise’ their systems so that business models are sustainable to run in today’s digital economy. These means companies need to become ‘leaner and meaner’. They need to automate their processes for greater productivity and accuracy,” said Yong.
“Done correctly, margins should increase and the extra profit could then be passed on to customers, making our local companies much more competitive in the process as the world becomes 'flatter' and trade becomes more 'borderless' by the day,” he added.