In partnership with SAP, Powertrain by BCG integrates SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX into BCG’s NextGen ERP approach to help organizations accelerate ERP transformation, enable data-driven decision-making, identify AI opportunities, and realize measurable value across the full program life cycle.
As AI reshapes how work gets done, with AI agents handling routine tasks and people focusing on higher-value decisions, ERP becomes a driver of growth and innovation. BCG and SAP enable the world’s leading companies to transform platform modernization into a catalyst for business transformation. By combining business strategy with technology execution, BCG and SAP position organizations to adapt quickly and compete with confidence in today’s fast-changing environment.
Our research and experience show that GenAI can already reduce the effort for an organization-wide ERP implementation by 20% to 40%. With BCG’s expertise in global transformations and SAP’s AI-driven tools that integrate seamlessly across the enterprise, we help teams improve efficiency and make confident, data-backed decisions. Together, we connect technology with the commercial, innovation, and operational objectives specific to each company to transform ERP investments into a growth lever that drives enduring strategic advantage and measurable, sustainable business value.
BCG and SAP also have specialized expertise in sustainability. Through our unique partnership for true transformation in sustainability, we are helping companies in many industries accelerate their journey to zero waste and zero emissions, generate competitive advantage, and achieve 10% market premiums
Key Impact Areas
Unified Strategy and Technology
BCG and SAP connect technology and strategy to each organization’s specific objectives, building a custom roadmap for success from the start. As a strategic advisor and business integrator, BCG contributes to our people, process, and change management expertise, while SAP provides tools such as S/4HANA, Business Data Cloud, Signavio, Joule AI agents, and Generative AI Hub. With the execution strength of BCG Platinion and BCG X’s tech expertise, we create a streamlined, customized core that gives organizations the agility to adapt in a fast-changing business landscape.
Flexible, Practical Progress
Together, BCG and SAP orchestrate transformation journeys that are tailored to each organization’s goals, prioritizing business value and seamless execution over unnecessary complexity. Leaders gain the clarity to make decisions rooted in practical needs and measurable outcomes that generate value along the journey, not just at the finish line. With proven methodologies, data-driven diagnostics, and solutions such as Powertrain by BCG—an AI-enabled toolset that integrates the expertise of BCG and SAP Signavio—organizations can track benefits throughout the process to ensure that their ERP modernization decreases complexity and increases overall impact.
Value through Trust and Transparency
BCG and SAP use an outcome-focused approach rather than an implementation-focused one, enabling clients to capture the full value of modern, AI-powered infrastructure. Guided by transparency, accountability, and trust, BCG, SAP, and partner experts work together to ensure that ERP investments generate results that are both reliable and lasting.
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BCG and SAP's Impact with Clients
Facing stiff competition from low-priced competitors and an ongoing integration of a previous merger, a nutrition, health, and beauty company needed to modernize and consolidate its ERP system in a cost-effective manner. Working with BCG and SAP, the company defined the strategy to drive a complex, value-focused ERP transformation, enabling leaders to access the data they needed to create value while lowering costs and simplifying the whole enterprise architecture.
While transitioning from a chemical business to a life science company, a global organization faced several integration challenges resulting from its various acquisitions and spinoffs. BCG and SAP worked with the company to develop a flexible, scalable, and state-of-the-art digital IT backbone that enabled end-to-end connected business processes.
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Leading the Way on Circularity
Caroline Stern, head of Circular Economy at Hilti Group, discuss the benefits of Circelligence, a solution developed in partnership with BCG and BCG X to measure circular economy performance and help companies make better informed decisions on sustainability initiatives.
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A Partnership for True Transformation in Sustainability
Sustainability is one of the defining issues of our lifetime, but nine out of ten organizations have not cut their emissions in line with their own ambitions over the past five years. A partnership between BCG and SAP will bridge that gap and help accelerate our clients’ net-zero journeys, allowing them to transform at an unprecedented pace.
BCG and SAP’s Partnership in Action
BCG and SAP experts collaborate at events to engage with global leaders on the future of enterprise resource planning, digital transformation, and tech-enabled sustainability.
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Implementing a system that will help companies more precisely measure, allocate, and request carbon data from their suppliers is a massive task. SAP’s Daniel Schmid and BCG’s Nicolas Hunke discuss the role transactional carbon accounting can play in helping clients navigate this journey at COP28.
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