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2022-10-13T09:00:00.000-04:00
Where our customers, partners, and subject matter experts will share insights and best practices for driving measurable business improvement with RISE with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud.
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12:00 pm
Registration | Reception – SAP Experience centre (Woodmead)
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12:15 pm
12:30 pm
Build the future of your business with SAP S/4HANA Cloud
By transitioning to a next-generation cloud ERP, your business can unleash the power of a digital and modular cloud world. Hear how SAP S/4HANA Cloud can enable the transformation of your business with ready-to-work business processes built on proven industry best practices to become an intelligent and sustainable enterprise. Understand SAP’s strategic direction and see the latest innovations of SAP S/4HANA Cloud that can drive your business agility, delivering mission-critical operations as a service and knowing you can trust SAP to keep you current
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13:00 pm
S/4HANA Public Cloud Customers’ live stories
Through the narration of the success stories of S/4HANA Public Cloud customers we will take a journey through this innovative technology, we will show tangible reports of benefits, KPI improvements and the impact of the business transformations and the key benefits of it. In particular, we will share our customers' ROI and proven operational efficiency data using our next generation ERP, which helps reduce manual operations by 50%, thanks to artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities in all end-to-end business processes.
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14:00 pm
Break & Experience centre walk about
14:30 pm
14:45 pm
15:00 pm
30/45
By attending this event, you will hear:
Markus Rosemann works with customers, partners, and thought leaders to accelerate the transition of enterprises to become Intelligent Enterprises with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the next-generation, intelligent ERP. He is involved in many discussions with customers of all company sizes and industries with a focus on Southern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Markus is based in the SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.
Amongst other roles, he was globally responsible for SAP’s solutions in logistics and order fulfillment, covering warehouse management, transportation as well as track and trace and the logistics network. Having worked with customers from all industries from across the globe, Markus has a passion for the extended supply chain and making innovation happen. He holds a diploma of Economics of the University of Heidelberg.
Amanda Gibbs joined AFSUG in January 2020, in the capacity of General Manager of the African SAP User Group.
Amanda’s wealth of experience spans over a 15 years period in the fields of marketing management, supplier and customer relations. During her career she has held various positions at several South Africa’s prominent IT corporations. Over the years she has developed expertise in a wide range of areas including: the development of digital marketing strategies; website management; brand campaigns and, the management events and User Groups. In her most recent role prior to joining AFSUG, she was responsible for the management and activation of and international events. She also worked closely with the business development and sales teams to enable an effective return on investment as part of the company’s Pan African strategy. Amanda's focus at AFSUG will be to create a networking platform that enables SAP Customers and Partners to engage through knowledge sharing, ensuring comprehensive benefits of SAP Software accessible and understandable to all. The achievement of these goals will help shape the future of SAP’s software development through the various AFSUG Community engagements.
Pieter van der Merwe leads SAP's S/4HANA Cloud and Rise with SAP line of business for the SAP Africa Cluster
His area of responsibility covers the following Business areas - RISE with SAP, S/4 HANA public and private cloud, Office of the CFO, ERP for SME’s and industry solutions
Pieter has more than twenty years of experience in business technology with various leadership and sales roles.
Prior to joining SAP, Pieter was leading Business development for Emerging Markets (Africa, Middle East, Russia, Central Eastern Europe) at OpenText Corporation.
Nywald Rautenbach 15 years in the SAP environment and has been dedicated to help customers achieve their goals. He comes from an implementation background which gives him a unique experience into how the solutions are deployed and operate. Now he is focused on the next-generation ERP solutions focused on elevating our customers to intelligent enterprises. Focusing on finance and property management line of business.
Nywald is part of EMEA South S / 4HANA Cloud Black Belt, oCFO and Industry Presales (Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, MENA and Africa). Their team is leading the evangelization of the ecosystem and customers across the region towards the Public Cloud approach, keeping in mind the business process and the vertical requirements of the industry sector as the unique competitive value of each individual customer.
Suvel has been part of the SAP Ecosystem for the past 18 years, specialising in the Line of Business of Finance. He is part of the EMEA South Black Belt Team overlooking the Cloud Domain. Over the last 4 years he has been concentrating in the Public Cloud domain, enlightening customers and partners on SAP’s latest Got to market Model
Peter leads a team of innovative technologists focusing on helping customers to make sense of their business information by leveraging intelligent technologies. The team helps customers brings context to data and enables the discovery of hidden insights. We also consult with customers on the technical design of SAP solutions and on how to connect on-premise and cloud data sources and applications. Our goal is make the intelligent enterprise a reality for customers. Prior to joining SAP in 2014 Peter worked in a variety of IT consulting roles including spending six years at Sybase South Africa where he focused on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.
Annemarie is from the Global Service Delivery Centre, the EMEA South Cloud Services Lead for Rise with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
She works closely with the SAP Cloud Services experts, Customers and Partners to deliver, adopt and consume SAP Cloud solutions successfully across various countries.
During her career at SAP she has been involved in various strategic partnerships, transformations and implementation projects. She has 24 years of SAP Management, Services Sales and Delivery experience, with SAP Product experience since 1995.
Cathy was appointed Managing Director of SAP Africa in March 2018. She is the first female executive of an emerging markets market unit in SAP’s history, and has over 30 years’ experience in the IT industry. She started her career in the insurance industry as an application developer. She also spent three years in the UK and held executive roles for European and global markets, specialising in outsourcing services business. She joined Cisco in 2015 as Managing Director and led the sales and digital transformation strategies for sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to her tenure at Cisco, Cathy spent 23 years with IBM, where she held various leadership roles in IT service delivery, HR and sales.
https://www.sap.com/africa/about/overview/management-team.html
Evert-Jan Tromp has been in the IT Industry for over 30 years in various roles and responsibilities. I started my career in training and consulting and since then had several roles in sales and pre sales.
The last 10 years I have had several management roles at SAP. Since 2015 he is responsible for the different lines of business along the whole SAP portfolio for EMEA South. Making sure our partners and customers leverage the full potential of the overall portfolio. Helping customers to transform their businesses using the innovation coming from the portfolio in combination with the ever-changing environment.
He is has taken several management trainings including management training at IMD and INSEAD.