In a world where change is the only constant, companies are under constant pressure to quickly adapt to new realities and requirements to avoid being outperformed by their competition. By leveraging cloud ERP, companies can rethink their business processes, accelerate time-to-value through standardization and best practices, and ultimately lay the foundation for continuous innovation.
On this third and final episode of The Cloud ERP Playbook, IDC’s Bob Parker, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Applications, Data Intelligence, Services, and Industry Research is joined again by IDC’s Mickey North Rizza, Group Vice President for Enterprise Software, to sit down with Fredy Karssemakers, Global IT Business Partner DSM Finance & Procurement at DSM, headquartered in Heerlen, Netherlands.
Together, they discuss how cloud ERP helped the more than 150-year old company reimagine its processes and drive innovation to become a true leader in its industry. They also dive into the business benefits of a move to S/4 HANA cloud, to help you figure out if a similar shift could be a competitive differentiator for your organization.

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Has your company made the switch yet? According to IDC research, 70% of organizations will have transitioned to modular intelligent business suites by 2024, harnessing the business processes, data, and innovation across the enterprise. And why wouldn’t they? By moving to cloud ERP, you can run mission-critical operations in real time, introduce new business models, and expand globally. It will ultimately lay the foundation to help you take the lead in your industry.

On this episode of The Cloud ERP Playbook, IDC’s Bob Parker, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Applications, Data Intelligence, Services, and Industry Research and IDC’s Mickey North Rizza, Group Vice President for Enterprise Software, are joined by Yiannis Levantis, Group CIO at Unipart Group, to dig into the nitty-gritty of his company’s actual transition to cloud ERP. What were the decisive factors behind the move? How did the transformation project play out? And what were the key business outcomes and benefits?

Listen until the very end of the episode and you’ll also hear how a move to cloud ERP can serve as a way of future-proofing your enterprise in the face of ever-changing global business conditions.

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It’s an undeniable trend in our new distributed reality; 95% of CEOs are switching to a digital-first strategy to maintain or grow their organizations’ ability to compete. And the benefits of transforming your business processes are clear. When you move to cloud ERP, you have a unique chance to investigate business process inefficiencies and identify innovation and optimization opportunities. That’s why it’s of the utmost importance to foster transparency on the performance of your business processes with continuous insight.

On this premiere episode of The Cloud ERP Playbook, host Bob Parker moderates a conversation between Mickey North Rizza, Group Vice President for Enterprise Software at IDC, and Sandeep Seeripat, Global Business Transformation and Technology Officer at Twinings Ovaltine, to better understand how the centuries-old consumer packaged goods brand continuously understands, innovates, and transforms business processes — fast and at scale.

Over the course of the comprehensive conversation, you’ll also learn how your company can get the most out of its own digital transformation, by hearing first-hand about the successes and the stumbling blocks Sandeep encountered on his journey.

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