SAP & Your Startup
Accelerate with Ease

Build the company behind your product

Why does a Startup like yours need SAP?

You reached product-market? Then it´s time to start building the company behind your product. Structure your operations with best-practice processes and build your organization. Bring transparency in everything you do. Enable your Startup to scale with lean & scalable SaaS-Solutions and #GROWwithSAP.​

You might have already experienced similar challenges:

Lack of Transparency

Missing up-to-date insights on your cash-burn-rate, business processes and your financials

Heterogeneous IT-System

Disconnected IT-Systems eat up your time and focus. Your flexible niche solutions become your biggest road-blockers on your growth journey.

Focus

Pay attention on what makes you successful. Your focus on your product, entering new markets or explore new revenue streams. Partner with SAP to build your business backbone.

SaaS Cloud ERP​ is the right enabler for your Startup.

Hear first-hand why startups and well-established champions around the globe just love SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Do you also want to lift your startup to the next maturity level with SAP´s powerful & affordable ERP solution?

Our Customers trust in Us: Hear their Story

Take a look how other Startups mastered their journey!

Isar Aerospace and SAP Journey to Space.

​ Discover how the power of collaboration between Isar Aerospace and SAP helped support Isar’s vision, their rapid growth, and their path to become a self-sustainable business.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, GetYourGuide implemented SAP S/4HANA, transforming its finance operations. This digital shift improved efficiency and supported the company’s global growth, all while adapting to the challenges of remote work.

Finn, a startup, accelerated its growth trajectory by adopting SAP solutions, which streamlined its operations and supported its rapid expansion. The integration enabled Finn to scale efficiently and focus on delivering exceptional customer experiences.

SPS enhanced its SAP Digital Manufacturing solution by integrating an AI-powered camera with Syntax and Cogniac, enabling one-click visual inspections and significantly improving defect detection and efficiency.

Dive in: Your Future Core Processes

Explore how our solutions in action are streamlining your Line of Business processes across your entire startup.

Overview

Lead To Cash

Plan To Fulfill

Design & Produce

Finance & Risk

Procure to Pay

Sustainability

Industry Cloud & Integration

Overview

Gain operational efficiency, by working smarter not harder while leveraging technology to remove manual work.

Explore SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition in a Product Tour and learn about features and functions that come with our Cloud ERP solution.

Embedded Analytics

See how SAP S/4HANA can help you bring transparency in cash-burn-rate, cost optimization and improve productivity through real-time insights.

 

Lead To Cash

Automated Order to Cash

Support your end-to-end business process with low-to-no-touch customer order management and automated billing capabilities. ​ Make better decisions with actionable insights that make solving problems seamless.

Solution Order Management

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Solution Order Management is a single centralized capability for selling bundled solutions, field services, maintenance contracts, subscriptions, and projects.

Solution Orders in SAP S/4HANA Cloud help your startup along the path towards greater scalability by combining sales of products, services, and service contracts, subscriptions, and projects under one order.

Plan To Fulfill

Produce and Sell Standard Products

Enables smart factories to do production planning and logistic execution for standard products, as well as prompt reactions to incoming sales orders

Create outstanding products with in SAP S/4HANA Cloud in an Make-to-Stock scenario. Optimize your production, effortlessly collaborate with suppliers and subcontractors, and deliver your goods to the right place at the right time. Learn how you can continue to deliver high-quality products and keep customers satisfied even in turbulent times.

Lot Size of One

Serving the need for variability by selling and producing configurable products efficiently. Meet customer requirements as specified in the sales order.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud allows your organization to deliver high-quality personalized products at scale. With an integrated variant configuration, your startup is ​ able to fulfill individual customer needs while also reducing lead times - all possible with a fully integrated system.

 

Integrate your logistics end-to-end

SAP S/4HANA Cloud streamlines the planning and execution of your logistics by reacting to demand signals, planning effectively, and ensuring on-time deliveries. This video showcases SAP S/4HANA Cloud and how an organization can leverage it's end-to-end Logistics for seamless operations, while breaking down information silos to help you exceed your customer's expectations.

SAP Integrated Business Planning

Plan for a sustainable, risk-resilient future with the SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain (SAP IBP) solution. Speed responsiveness and stay ahead of change with supply chain analytics, what-if simulations, alerts, and more.

Design & Produce

Product Lifecycle Management

Define, develop, and deliver innovative and sustainable products faster by connecting insights, processes, and people with our SaaS PLM – the best buddy for S/4HANA Public Cloud and our way of democratizing advanced PLM capabilities for SMEs and Startups. Reduce time to market by digitalizing your product development from design to operate for discrete and design to consume for process industry Startups.

Digital Manufacturing

One of our top industry cloud solutions is SAP Digital Manufacturing. SAP Digital Manufacturing is a manufacturing execution system (MES) that supports sustainable, risk-resilient manufacturing operations through a resource-efficient Industry 4.0 approach. It optimize production by integrating execution, visibility, and analysis.

Finance & Risk

Record-to-Report

SAP Record-to-Report process supports the business goals with intelligent automation and recommendations, machine learning, and advanced analytics capabilities, so companies can mitigate risks and reduce effort and costs spent on generating accounting postings, financial consolidation, and reporting.

How SAP S/4HANA Cloud boosts your finance processes

See how SAP S/4HANA Cloud can be a driving force for your growth: Uncover new opportunities, enhance efficiency, enforce global standard & best-practices while accelerating implementation time.

Procure to Pay

Source-to-Pay

Unlock the full potential of your procure-to-pay processes with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. ​ See how you can manage touchless invoice-to-pay processes that are transparent, efficient, and compliant. Through the utilization of a process automation bot, you can efficiently automate the extraction of invoice files from emails and seamlessly upload them into the system

 

Real-Time Reporting and Monitoring in Procurement

See the reason why you should now implement SAP S/4HANA with real-time reporting and analytics .

Sustainability

Take action on climate change with SAP’s end-to-end carbon management solutions, which integrate carbon accounting into your financial systems for precise, real-time decision-making. These tools help businesses measure, manage, and report their carbon footprint with the same rigor as financial data, ensuring compliance with sustainability regulations and supporting decarbonization goals.

 

Industry Cloud & Integration

Industry Cloud

Learn how SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides a powerful and reliable, all-in-one ERP solution that can scale at your own pace. Discover how the Cloud ERP can be easily extended and enhanced to address industry-specific challenges.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Extensibility & Integration

Unlock the full potential of your application landscape with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Extensibility & Integration capabilities. Seamlessly integrate different cloud systems and take advantage of pre-built packages and extensible APIs while empowering business users and developers to meet the ever-changing needs of your organization.

Microsoft Teams Integration

The evolving shape of the world today means it needs an interactions economy to survive and thrive. New ways of working, collaborating, and interacting completely transform how we operate and have a profound effect on business.

SAP and Microsoft are excited to announce that they have teamed up to take collaboration in SAP S/4HANA Cloud to the next level — easier, faster, more effective — with the integration of Microsoft Teams.

Google Workspace Intergration

Many of our startup customers at SAP are working with Google Workspace and have ​ struggled with exporting data in a Google format, converting of files, importing data from Google Sheets into SAP etc. To avoid all those manual steps and translation errors a seamless integration between SAP S/4HANA and Google Workspace is being implemented.

Connecting SAP software processes with the powerful collaborative capabilities of Google Workspace will innovate how work gets done across the enterprise.

What Values SAP delivers:
Transforming Your Startup into a Scaleup.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud brings the structure and agility you need entering into scale mode. Gain efficiencies, drive sustainable growth, and enable yourself to become #enkelfähig while improving transparency on business performance.

44%

faster order lead times

48%

increase in procurement efficiency

50%

reduction in billing processing time

80%

increase in employee productivity

90%

planning efficiency improvement

80%

improvement in ad-hoc reporting capabilities

Startups and SAP are a match. Choose right!

Speed

Driven by hands-on mentality SAP for Startups supports you.We know you need to act fast and unconvential. We share the experience from fast paced engagements with early stage startups, Soonicorns & Unicorns that are using SAP SaaS to expand their business globally.

Quality

SAP brings expertise in +25 industries with proven track record across the globe. Make use of this knowledge & capabilities to build the operational excellence to be able to execute your disruptive business model at scale.

Scalability

Your ambition is to become a big global player. Therefore it´s a good idea to ​ immeditaley start with a partner which enables you to scale. From very small to a global player, with a trusted technology partner at your side.

Customer Centricity

It´s about you. Our team supports you with their startup expertise in order to achieving your goals.

You are in good company.
Be part of the SAP Start-Up Community.

Meet regularly in Berlin & Munich to exchange with like-minded Startups that have chosen SAP S/4HANA Cloud as their business backbone: Shared challenges, work-hacks and best-practices. The SAP Startup Community supports you.​

Your SAP for Startups Middle & Eastern Europe Leads

Ready for your next step? Chat with our SAP experts!

Jan Gutknecht

Director SAP for Startups MEE

Tino Albrecht

Director SAP for Startups MEE