News from abat
Success Story: Salzgitter AG
In 2018, the Salzgitter Group started to migrate its entire ERP infrastructure to SAP S/4HANA. In the course of this group-wide transformation project, a separate project was to standardize, optimize and automate the merchandise management processes for the procurement of input materials from an affiliated company across all participating group companies. In eleven workshops, abat developed the new logistical target process for the processing of input materials step by step.
Successful premiere: abat as mentor for the 5-Euro-Business at the University of Augsburg
Start your idea! Under this motto, students from various disciplines acted as young entrepreneurs for 2 months and competed for the three best places. With a starting capital of 5 Euros, the teams put their business ideas into practice and now present their results.
Excited and curious, our colleagues Christina Seluga and Harald Lothspeich traveled to Augsburg at the beginning of May. There they met Benjamin and Willi, who with their start-up "Find me better" wanted to advise small businesses…
SAC vs. Power BI
Optimize your data analysis with the right tool
Read this whitepaper for a comparison of SAP Analytics Cloud and Microsoft Power BI reporting tools. Our analytics experts, Marcel Kuchler and Dirk Tellmann, include criteria such as data source connectivity, visualization capabilities, and advanced analytics features to help you choose an enterprise analytics tool. Discover the ideal solution to support your management decisions.
abat experts also in demand as authors
Our colleagues René Kessler, Stefan Rosenwald and Markus Fischer have contributed an exciting chapter on the subject of inventory in the newly published "Praxishandbuch digitale Automobillogistik" by Springer Fachmedien. In many companies, inventory counting is a highly visual process that requires a great deal of effort, especially due to the manual counting of physical goods.
Under the title "DroSmart inventory processes - How processes can be optimized through the use of AI and drones", the…
new@abat
At the beginning of the month, we were once again able to welcome many great people to the abat team. 👋
As part of our 5-day event "new@abat", the new colleagues got to know each other last week in our Bremen office, learned a lot about abat, got to know internal processes and procedures in a practical way, networked and were familiarized with the system and project work during a 2-day SAP hands-on training.
To our new colleagues: We are happy to have you on board! 💪
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Intralogistics professionals among themselves - abat at LogiMAT 2023
LogiMAT, the trade fair for intralogistics solutions and process management, took place in Stuttgart from 25 to 27 April. As usual, our experts were there with an inviting booth and lots of new information.
The absolute eye-catcher was our inventory solution with drones and AI, which attracted many interested visitors. Of course, the classic topics of SAP EWM, SAP TM and S/4HANA were also discussed again and again. We were especially pleased that so many customers stopped by our booth and…
What is the significance of young professionals for the future viability of a company?
On Tuesday, April 18th, the i2b meet-up Live and in Presence took place at the Zentrum für Kunst in the Tabakquartier in Bremen. The theme of the evening was "Young Professionals". Attracting skilled workers is an important challenge for every company today. HR managers have a duty to meet this challenge.
The growing shortage of skilled workers is causing problems for local companies. It is therefore imperative and worthwhile to invest in targeted employee development, especially to inspire…
SAP Sales Cloud has these advantages over SAP S/4HANA Cloud Sales
In his blog post, Thomas Prekel reports on the similar functions of both solutions and describes which advantages Sales Cloud has as a front-office solution compared to S/4HANA Cloud Sales - especially in combination with S/4HANA Cloud as a back-office solution.
abat at LogiMAT 2023
Visit us at the Stuttgart trade fair center from April 25 to 27, 2023. At our booth B61 in hall 8 you will learn everything about current SAP solutions that ensure a smart and stable supply chain. The latest trends and innovations from the world of SAP S/4HANA will help you choose between cloud and on-premise. In addition, we will show you how SAP EWM and SAP S/4HANA make warehouse management more efficient and flexible, as well as much more ...
abat receives first award as part of the new SAP Competency Framework
We have been honored by SAP with the first award under the SAP Competency Framework for the Customer Experience (CX) business area. This award reflects our ability to help companies create and deliver world-class customer experiences.
The Competency Framework is an SAP program that identifies abat as a competent partner for selected SAP solution and business areas. In doing so, the current award underscores our expertise in helping customers optimize their CX strategies and deliver innovative…
new@abat
This month our team has continued to grow! 💪
Welcome our new colleagues Ulrich, Sukhmen, Fynn, Iris, Dominik, Max, Mohamed. 😊 👋
It's a full program during our welcome event new@abat. The goal? To make our new colleagues' start at abat as pleasant as possible.
We are very happy that you are now part of #teamabat. Here's to a successful time together! 🎉
World Women's Day 2023: Accept, embrace, advocate equity!
This year's motto for International Women's Day is "Embrace Equity". The campaign aims to inspire people around the world to talk about why equal opportunities are no longer enough.
Equality is not just a nice-to-have, it's a must-have. But for that to happen, a focus on gender equity must be part of every society's DNA. The terms equity and equality are often used interchangeably, but despite their similarity, they are inherently different concepts. But what is this difference?
Equality means…
abat is Top Job Employer of the Year 2023!
Openness, honesty, respect, and teamwork: "At abat, employee satisfaction is a top priority, we see ourselves as a free space company," says our co-founder and board member Gyde Wortmann. The Center for Employer Attractiveness zeag in cooperation with the University of St. Gallen has now confirmed that these are not just empty words, but lived reality. In the Top Job 2023 ranking, we are number one in our company category...
new@abat - welcome to the team
Last week, the new@abat week took place in our Bremen office for our new colleagues. Through presentations by employees from different areas, an introduction to SAP, a joint dinner and many networking opportunities, we want to make it easier for our new colleagues to get started in our team.
Welcome to the team - Fabian, Yves, Martin, Christoph, Sinan, Ivan, Anna, Jelle and Boris!
We asked our new team members what they thought of the new@abat week:
Jelle's conclusion after this week: "With…
abat celebrates new online opening
Last weekend, the time had finally come: our new homepage went live. After months of intensive work, we designed a website in agile cooperation with the Bremen-based advertising agency artworxx, which now unites all our locations. More than 1,000 individual pages in German plus the associated translations in English had to be created, sorted, or adapted in terms of both content and design. The pages now bear our fresh corporate design, which is based on the guiding principle "Freedom for new…
abat opens new branches in China and Lithuania
We follow our customers and offer them on-site support - in the local language and with personnel continuity.
new@abat - welcome to our community
In the last few weeks, new colleagues have started working for us. During our 5-day new@abat we welcomed them warmly and gave them a lot of valuable information about our company and our services.
ISO 27001 Complete (Level 3)
With this episode of ISO 27001 Implementation Complete (Stage 3) we are on the home stretch of the implementation. Here you will learn which controls you should implement as the last step in order to establish, operate and, of course, continuously improve a fully implemented information security management system.
Note: This podcast is in German.
S/4HANA Release 2208 – Highlights & Outlook
Another SAP S/4HANA Cloud Release with exciting innovations, enhancements and features to support the intelligent enterprise has been released in August. Sebastian Kluth gives an outline of the innovations in User Experience and Developer Extensibility.
abat awarded "SAP Recognized Expertise" twice
Recently, abat received two further awards from SAP: "Recognized Expertise Sales and Service" and "Recognized Expertise Industrial Machinery and Components". As a Recognized Expertise Partner, abat shows itself to be a particularly qualified service provider and through the certificate SAP confirms abat's outstanding competence for SAP solutions in the areas mentioned.