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El tejido como expresión integral del mundo de la mujer acchahuata en la región de Cusco, Perú
El tejido como expresión integral del mundo de la mujer acchahuata en la región de Cusco, Perú Autores: Paola Palomino Flores, Andrés Napurí, Andreas Heckmann Localización: Diálogo andino, ISSN-e 0719-2681, ISSN 0716-2278, Nº. 75, 2024, págs.
How to Adjust the Speed and Scale of Your Financial Close
Financial close is nothing short of chaotic whether done at the end of the month, end of the year, or somewhere in between. From long e-mail chains and daily updates to endless hours sorting through data, regulatory updates, and paperwork, the growing risk of inaccurate reporting, incomplete information, and noncompliance is compelling businesses to reconsider the process.
A Year of Support Experience Transformation
While the year started out optimistic with much of the world getting a handle on the pandemic and many countries starting to get back to business as usual, dark clouds appeared on the horizon in the form of resource scarcity and economic unease. Worst of all, the world bore witness to a war in Europe.
Driving Continuous Innovation with Cloud Application Services
A new study from the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy found that transitioning to the cloud is paying off. Revenue growth for public firms adopting cloud technology was 2.3% to 6.9% higher than for non-adopters in the last decade, according to research results. In addition to increased revenues, companies benefit from improved productivity. Operating in a cloud environment enables organizations to use intelligent technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).
A Trio for Support Innovation
In my article a few weeks ago, I touched on how small, innovative improvements can add up to massive transformations and huge gains down the line. For us within the Customer Solution Support & Innovation team at SAP, many of these incremental changes are derived by listening to you, anticipating your needs, and delivering on them within our SAP solutions.
The Take: Mississippi Water Levels Disrupt Grain Shipments
What’s News The Mississippi river is a vital transport route for U.S. agricultural commodities, carrying 92% of U.S. agricultural exports and 78% of the global exports of feed grains and soybeans. But water levels in some parts of the river are now so low that commercial traffic has been halted and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been called in to begin emergency dredging.
Three Trends Grocery Retailers Should Have on Their Radar
Following a whirlwind of dramatic changes in recent years, grocery retailers continue to evolve. Rising food costs, changing customer behaviors, and growing competition from traditional and nontraditional players – all these challenges bring substantial pressure to operations. But how can you help ensure customer expectations are met at the same time? The answer comes down to having the right enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
Industry Innovation: Turning Supply Chains into Hot Spots for Meaningful Change
When companies talk about innovation, they look at new ways to make their products, services, processes, and operations more competitive. But every once in a while, an idea transforms how an entire industry runs, opens up a new business sector, and makes people’s lives safer, healthier, and happier. Industry innovation has been a fascinating topic over the last few years.
Why the Future of Innovation Depends on Cloud Application Services
The stakes for innovation have never been higher and the urgency to move to the cloud has never been more immediate – but the skilled talent necessary to fill those needs is in short supply. With the SAP Cloud Application Services offerings, organizations are breaking through this gap and thriving. Standing out in the current competitive landscape is a challenging balancing act.
Procurement’s Impact Rises with the Expanded Edition of SAP Preferred Success
With supply chain delays and economic turbulence expected to continue for the next year or so, buying decisions and vendor choices remain highly critical to overall business health. Yet, many procurement functions still operate with technology lacking basic capabilities such as visibility across the organization and supply chain and predictive analytics for business planning, forecasting, and investing.
How Business Journeys from SAP Smooth the Path to Sustainable Business
You know full well the benefits of sustainability for your business – and our world. Customers, partners, stakeholders, and regulators are prioritizing sustainability, too, and increasing the pressure on businesses. Today and into the future, the growing importance of sustainability will continue to introduce significant new challenges across industries. SAP Business Journeys for two key sustainability solutions can help.
The Take: Know Before You Go Can Make Bleisure Trips Fun – and Reimbursable
What’s News Business travel has returned in 2022, as more people hit the road after two years of work-from-home arrangements due to the pandemic.
Clarifying the True Meaning of Innovation Drives Meaningful Business Value
With so many challenges to solve and little time to wait, innovation is usually prioritized above any other business growth initiative. But if you compare a handful of these strategic projects side-by-side, it’s clear that organizations are aspiring to deliver groundbreaking innovations. They want to create that really big splash. Breakthroughs happen less often than most people are inclined to believe. Instead, I often find that most innovations are incremental in nature.
Scaling the Heights of Business-to-Business Commerce with Digital Networks
Between climate change, viral contagion, and military conflict, the past few years have presented unending complexity for businesses spanning the globe. But can you imagine how much greater the challenge when humans someday settle worlds beyond our own and organizations race to meet demand for interplanetary commerce and logistics? Supply chain professionals, of course, have yet to set foot on Mars.
SAP Ariba Procurement Solutions Help Ease Humanitarian Crisis
For more than five months now, Ukraine has been the victim of the invasion of the Russian army, which continues to spread and intensify across many regions. According to the German Red Cross (GRC), the resulting humanitarian crisis in the country is worsening dramatically. “There is no end to the hardship and suffering of the people on the ground, where the confrontations with violence, loss, and destruction increase daily.
Digital Networks Help to Inoculate Businesses
When businesses sneeze or even succumb to the sniffles, they render trading partners vulnerable to catching a cold. Just ask procurement professionals about the congestion that has ailed business-to-business commerce ever since the onset of the pandemic and its viral variants.
What Businesses Can Learn from Sea Ecosystems
As a boating enthusiast and scuba diver, I find peace whenever I return to the solitude of the sea. Whatever concerns occupy my mind while on land seem to dissipate into the endlessness of its calming waves. Yet experienced sailors and swimmers understand that, for all its allure, water holds just as much potential for turbulence as it does for tranquility. Consider the recent discovery by scientists of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, which sank off the Antarctic coast in 1915.
Maintenance Notification: June 11, 2022
Skip to content More in Services and Support Maintenance Notification: June 5, 2022 Support Update — There will be an outage to the Sapserv5 (Tokyo) servers on Sunday, June 5, 2022, from 2:00-10:00 UTC. During this outage, the following services are... Read more Moving Procurement to the Cloud May Not Be as Complex as You Think Feature — Services for SAP Ariba Procurement solutions demonstrate SAP’s commitment to providing every customer with what they need to succeed.
Maintenance Notification: June 5, 2022
Skip to content More in Services and Support Moving Procurement to the Cloud May Not Be as Complex as You Think Feature — Services for SAP Ariba Procurement solutions demonstrate SAP’s commitment to providing every customer with what they need to succeed. Read more Artificial Intelligence: Expanding the Future of Customer Support Experiences Feature — SAP is continuously reimagining the possibilities of the customer support experience across the entire solution life cycle.
Business Resilience in Times of Crisis
In 1969, The New York Times Magazine captured the U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger’s comment, “There can’t be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.” The ironic quip underscored the need to meet a crisis with agility. And nothing is more salient today, in our crisis-plagued world, than the wish for solutions to deal with crises. What has become clear over the past two years is that exceptions are no longer the exception, they have become the norm.
Cloud Procurement: Not as Complex as You Think
While the rest of their business benefits from the latest cloud technology, procurement teams often struggle with the belief that such a transformation is too massive, challenging, and disruptive for their operations. But comprehensive and flexible services for SAP Ariba Procurement solutions are putting that myth to rest. The procurement function has been rocking the digital transformation boat lately ‒ and it’s not necessarily good news either.
AI Expands Future of Customer Support Experiences
Most people envision the future, but only a few can challenge it, redefine it, and make it better for everyone. At SAP, opportunities to expand possibilities are everywhere, especially with one of the most misunderstood technologies and overly simplified experiences in the world today.
World Kindness Day: Share a Smile with SAP
Imagine waking up one morning three months into the pandemic and realizing you cannot remember the last time you smiled. One morning not too long ago, I woke up and had that exact realization. Living alone, working remotely, and limiting my social interaction left me feeling sad and alone, with little reason to smile. In that moment, I recognized that the emotional effects of the pandemic could potentially cause me as much harm as the physical effects.
The Successful Future of SAP Builds on the Past
There is only one constant in business – and that’s change. From the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) to blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT), new digital technologies are altering how we live and work. They are expanding the horizon of the possible in terms of new products, services, business models, and the internal processes that enable these new offerings. Success today is not just about improving your products and reacting to market demands.
Laying the Foundation for a Diverse Workplace
As someone who has lived and worked around the world, including Asia, Europe, and the U.S., I have had the opportunity to see a range of cultural differences and diverse perspectives. Early on, this convinced me of the necessity of building a diverse workplace and has since become such an elemental foundation to how I lead at SAP. At the same time, the experience of working abroad gave me a taste of what it felt like to be an outsider in some of the countries where I resided.
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Cherusci tribal chief Segimer bristles at the increasing demands of new governor Varus. Secret lovers Thusnelda and Folkwin deal Rome a symbolic blow. The theft of the standard provokes a crisis, reuniting Roman officer Ari with his father Segimer, and childhood friends Folkwin and Thusnelda. Ari commands troops ordered by Varus to hunt down and kill Folkwin, whose family and home village are put in danger for his act of defiance.
From Newbie To Best Practice: Artificial Intelligence Is Growing Up
From Newbie To Best Practice: Artificial Intelligence Is Growing Up Andreas Heckmann Part 4 of the “The Secret Behind the Intelligent Enterprise” series With great excitement in experimentation, hype, and investment, artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as the technological answer for every conceivable business problem.
How Today's Organizations Must Prepare for the Workforce of the Future
We all know how traditional organizations are structured: Employees are grouped together in departments that follow a traditional chain of command, with a designated group leader or manager. These hierarchal structures are often based on the level of experience of each individual member, placing those with more years under their belts and experiences at the top and giving them the responsibility of leading their teams to success. I can't tell you that this didn't work in the past.
5,000 SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals Customers
LAS VEGAS — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the number of SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals solution customers has surpassed 5,000. Over 300 new clients chose the solution in the first half of 2019 to help keep their workforces passionate, performing and focused on the right objectives. These customers include Arrocera Los Corrales S.A. (ALCSA), CLAAS Group, Constructora EBCO S.A., Compartamos Banco and TÜV Rheinland Group.
Alternative Electrochemical Energy Storage: Potassium-Based Dual-Graphite Batteries
In this contribution, we report for the first time a novel potassium ion-based dual-graphite battery concept (K-DGB), applying graphite as electrode material for both, the anode and cathode. The presented dual-graphite cell utilizes a potassium ion containing, ionic liquid (IL)-based electrolyte, synergetically combining the extraordinary properties of potassium, graphite and ILs in terms of cost effectiveness, sustainability and safety.
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