SAP NOW AI TOUR
That’ s why we are here. All of the sessions we’ re running are focused on that – it’ s the people as well as the technology.
With risk being a major concern, particularly around tariffs, how can AI help solve procurement challenges? The word that comes to mind is agility. We’ re talking about tariffs now, but before that there were other macroeconomic situations that were causing those problems. Supply chains had massive problems. And it’ s not just about AI – it’ s also data. Without the data, AI is meaningless. So, it’ s about marrying applications and data, and then leveraging AI to allow you to be agile and make decisions quickly that affect your business.
How important is it to bring the SAP community together in one place? I think it’ s important for everybody to get together on this. It reminds me of ESG, because it’ s not only about what you do yourself, but what everybody else is doing. It’ s not about doing it in silos, but doing it together. AI is the same, multiplied by 100. How can we all learn from each other, from technology companies, from businesses in our sector or another sector, to really harness it? I’ m an Arsenal fan and there was an interview with [ Arsenal manager ] Mikel Arteta recently where he said he works with other sports to learn and see how that can impact the way that he runs Arsenal. It’ s the same thing – it’ s about community, which means everyone working together. procurementmag. com 91