{"id":43862,"date":"2021-06-16T11:25:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T03:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=43862"},"modified":"2021-06-16T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T03:25:21","slug":"winners-for-inaugural-sap-best-run-awards-2021-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2021\/06\/16\/winners-for-inaugural-sap-best-run-awards-2021-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners for inaugural SAP Best Run Awards 2021 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAP announced the winners of the SAP Best Run Awards 2021 for Southeast Asia (SEA). The\u00a0SAP Best Run Awards, the first of its kind in the region, recognizes and celebrates leading organizations in Southeast Asia that have harnessed innovations from across SAP\u2019s ecosystem of products and services, turning insights into action to drive successful transformation for their businesses.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awarded to customers that deployed SAP technologies, participants were assessed on their ability to think out of the box and how technology has been implemented to innovate and disrupt industries to drive greater business outcomes in a distributed and uncertain economic environment. The judging panel is consist of esteemed business leaders from all over Southeast Asia, including Cathy Ward, APJ Head, Customer Engagement and Experience, SAP Asia Pacific & Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Covering six categories including Best Innovation Award, Best Customer Experience Management, Emerging Enterprise Award (SMEs*), Most Transformational Award and amongst others, winners of the SAP Best Run Awards include Changi Airport Group, Zuelling Pharma, TrickleStar, PXL Marketing Sdn Bhd and more. Winners were announced in a virtual event hosted by Verena Siow, President & Managing Director, SAP Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, a total of USD 30,000 donation will be made by SAP, on behalf of the winning organizations to the\u00a0ASEAN Foundation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe SAP Best Run Awards is a significant milestone not just for our customers and partners, but also to SAP as well. Following a year of uncertainties, it has been an absolute honour for us to recognise and celebrate the grit, resiliency and creativity of Southeast Asian organisations as they pivoted swiftly to respond, adapt and accelerate their growth in a challenging business environment,\u201d said Verena Siow, President & Managing Director, SAP Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have seen how technology has emerged as a game changer for our customers, enabling organisations to embed intelligence across end-to-end business process, empowering them with agility and resilience to navigate the uncertain business environment. I look forward to working closely with the business community in Southeast Asia to harness technology to drive greater business outcomes as we set our sights on a new decade of growth ahead.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAP Best Run Awards 2021 Winners:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Innovation Award \u2013 The Disruptor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognises<\/em> <\/em>businesses that seek creative solutions to persistent problems during unprecedented times, innovate to carve out new markets for themselves, or embrace technology to transform their businesses.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner: Changi Airport Group (Singapore)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Group successfully pivoted and scaled beyond pre-pandemic levels \u2013 despite launching the platform in mid-2020. With SAP Commerce Cloud as the engine, the company has achieved an expansion of merchants and acquired over 70,000 customers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Runner up: Golden Gate Trade & Service JSC (Vietnam) and Loc Troi Group Joint Stock Company (Vietnam)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Customer Experience Management \u2013 The X Factor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognises<\/em> <\/em>businesses that have seamlessly created a customer experience through digital transformation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner: Zuellig Pharma (Philippines)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With SAP\u2019s support, Zuellig Pharma was supported to maximize its cloud capabilities, eliminated all manual processes and tailored a seamless experience for customers, all in real-time while saving up to 80% in collection costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Runner up: PT Link Net, Tbk (Indonesia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emerging Enterprise Award (SMEs*) \u2013 The Small but Mighty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognises emerging enterprises* that drive consistent, significant and sustainable growth, resulting in excellent business performance; and display the ability to scale and expand overseas.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner: PXL Marketing Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company enabled digital transformation to revolutionize its approach to change management, streamline user experiences and boost productivity resulting in an improvement of inventory management by 40% and productivity of supply chain by 30%\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0supported\u00a0 by SAP\u2019s solutions.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Runner up: Hung Tri (Vietnam) and PT Adelphi Trans Asia (Mamaroz Juice) (Indonesia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Transformational Award \u2013 The Game Changer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognises mid-to-large enterprises* that drive a change management within the complexities of large corporates from different lines of businesses, achieving sustainable growth and business performance.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner: Globe Telecom, Inc. (Philippines)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With SAP HANA DB and SAP S\/4HANA, the company successfully engineered new ways of staying agile, scalable and sustainable \u2013 and uphold business continuity, resulting in savings of up to 14,200 hours \u2013 as well as a 99.99% uptime.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Runner up: National University of Singapore and Singapore Power Ltd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Promising Startup or Entrepreneurship Award \u2013 The Rising Star<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognises emerging enterprises that have developed a unique and commercially viable idea, which has the potential to be sustained in the long run, have worked with SAP to provide value-added services to their customers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner: TrickleStar (M) Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAP supported the company\u2019s ability to drive digital transformation, deliver value to customers and achieve over 65% in cost, personnel and accounting reductions while being able to grow fourfold since implementation with minimal increase in headcount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Runner up: Great Deals E-commerce Corp. (Philippines) and Tessa Therapeutics (Singapore)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Promising Next Generation Leaders \u2013 The Trailblazer (Individual)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognises the next generation leaders in their capacity who have overcome challenges or is a pioneer in its field, creating an impact on leading their organizations, businesses to scale greater heights.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner: Zuellig Pharma (Philippines)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zuellig Pharma implemented SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation to deploy and scale robots across the enterprise. The company\u2019s automation journey has set new standards for innovation excellence. Please click here<\/a> to find out more about the collaboration between Zuellig Pharma and SAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Runner up: Phu Nhuan Jewelry Joint Stock Company (Vietnam)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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