How to create SAP Insights with Qlik, Snowflake, and AWS

Order-to-cash is a critical business process for every organization, particularly for the retail and manufacturing enterprise. It starts with booking a sales order (often on credit) followed by fulfilling that order, billing the customer, and finally managing accounts receivable for customer payments.

Sales order fulfillment and billing can impact customer satisfaction, and receivables and payments affect working capital and cash liquidity. As a result, the order-to-cash process is the lifeblood of the business and is critical to optimize.

SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) contains valuable sales orders, distribution, and financial data, but it can be a challenge to access and integrate data in SAP systems with data from other sources to get a full view of the end-to-end process.

For instance, understanding the impact of weather conditions on supply chain logistics could have a direct impact on customer sentiment and their propensity to pay on time. Organizational silos and data fragmentation can make it even more difficult to integrate with modern analytics projects. That, in turn, limits the value you get from your SAP data.

Order-to-cash is a process that requires active intelligence—a state of continuous intelligence that supports the triggering of immediate actions from real-time, up-to-date data. Streamlining this analytics data pipeline typically requires complex data integrations and analytics that can take years to design and build—but it doesn’t have to.

• What if there was a way to combine the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) engine with the compute power of Snowflake?
• What if you could use a single Qlik software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to automate the ingestion, transformation, and analytics for some of the most common SAP centric business transformation initiatives?
• What if suppliers and retailers/manufacturers could better collaborate by enabling reciprocal access to real-time data via Snowflake’s data sharing and marketplace capabilities?

In this blog, we discuss the Qlik Cloud Data Integration accelerators for SAP in collaboration with Snowflake and AWS.