Your CFO wants SAP AI results next quarter – here’s where to start

The challenge Last month, I sat down with a CIO for a manufacturing company in Johannesburg. He stopped me mid-sentence: “Please don’t say ‘AI transformation’, I’ve heard it forty times this quarter. Just tell me one thing I can actually implement before my board meeting in six weeks.” He’s not alone. Every SAP leader I talk to says the same thing: “I know AI is supposed to transform my operations. But where do I actually start, and how do I show value before I’m asked to justify the investment?” Their CFO wants measurable ROI. Their team is drowning in overnight backlogs of blocked purchase orders, customs declarations stuck in queues, and vendor inquiries piling up across time zones. They don’t need a strategy deck. They need one use case they can implement in weeks and present at their next board meeting. That’s exactly what this series delivers… Each use case includes the business context, measurable value, architecture, and implementation steps. No theory, just working patterns you can adapt to your SAP environment on AWS. Pick the use case closest to your pain point, share it with your team, and tell us what you’d build first. What this series covers Over the coming posts, we...