The transportation and logistics industry will be the focus of a global collaboration between IBM and SAP, to provide tailored business applications and consulting services.
The new initiative intends to combine SAP solutions, including SAP Transportation Management, SAP Event Management and SAP Customer Relationship Management, as well as SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management, with IBM’s implementation and configuration services to give a 360-degree view of individual customers. IBM’s best practice templates will enable SAP’s transportation industry solution to be tailored to each transportation company’s needs – intended to result in lower implementation costs and faster time to value.
“In moving global freight today, the associated information is as important as the physical flow of the goods. Many freight companies are thus updating their legacy IT environments and embarking on large-scale transformational projects,” said Till Dengel, vice president, Industry Business Unit Travel and Transportation, SAP AG.
IBM and SAP plan to help companies in the transportation industry answer questions such as why to transform their business through IT, how to adopt a hybrid on-premise and cloud landscape and how to keep the systems always up-to-date with future business requirements.
