• Internal SAP Corporate Restructuring:
  • This refers to changes within the SAP company itself, such as organizational changes, workforce adjustments, and strategic shifts in focus.
  • Recently, SAP has announced a company-wide transformation program. This involves restructuring efforts aimed at:
    • Increasing focus on key strategic growth areas, particularly business AI.
    • Transforming operational setups to capture organizational synergies and AI-driven efficiencies.
    • Preparing the company for highly scalable future revenue growth.
    • This restructuring program has involved workforce adjustments, with the aim of re-skilling employees, and focusing on the skills that are needed for the future.

 

• SAP System Restructuring (for SAP Customers):
  • This refers to how companies that use SAP products might restructure their SAP systems. This often occurs due to:
    • Mergers and acquisitions (M&A): Combining or separating SAP systems.
    • Internal reorganizations: Redefining responsibilities, data structures, and processes.
    • System consolidation: Reducing complexity and costs by bringing together data, processes, and systems.
    • This can involve things like:
      • Data harmonization.
      • Process standardization.
      • System consolidation.
      • These kinds of SAP system restructurings are often done to make the company using SAP’s systems more agile, and more efficient.