With SAP Business Suite, we’re enabling HR leaders to achieve their top objectives with a connected portfolio of business applications that can drive end-to-end processes, holistic insights, and seamless experiences. With HCM as a critical component of our vision, we’re further elevating the role of HR to be a strategic driver of business growth and success.
Top objectives:
- Align workforce decisions with business goals amid changing market dynamics and skills shortages
- Ensure an engaged and productive workforce as competition intensifies and expectations evolve
- Enable agile and compliant HR in an increasingly complex legal and regulatory landscape

- Workforce Analytics and Planning: Align Workforce Decisions
To align workforce decision with business goals, it’s critical that you have a complete picture of your workforce. With SAP Business Suite, you can establish a single source of truth for people and skills data to drive more informed business decisions. By aligning skills and roles with key business objectives, you can ensure you have the right people with the right skills in place.
Today, we provide holistic visibility into the total workforce, including employees and contractors, with pre-built dashboards and insights from across the business. Looking ahead, AI agents will help further streamline workforce planning by autonomously analyzing SAP and third-party data, ultimately bridging the insight to action gap.
- Learning and Talent Management: Ensure Engaged and Productive Workforce
A positive employee experience is key to ensuring an engaged and productive workforce. That’s why we’re focused on enhancing everyday employee interactions with seamless AI-enabled experiences that boost productivity and support growth and development.
By bringing AI to HR, you can empower your workforce with the information and tools they need to get their job done faster and more effectively than ever before. With personalized learning paths and AI-driven career insights, you can build a culture of continuous growth.
Today, we provide the tools needed to help employees achieve their goals with career status insights and personalized role recommendations based on aspirations, skills, and career paths. Tomorrow, AI agents will take career growth and development to the next level by autonomously handling complex multistep processes across the employee lifecycle, such as recruiting, career coaching, and succession planning.
- HR Compliance: Enable Agile and Compliant HR
Enabling an agile and compliant HR is critical to ensuring a strong foundation for business growth and expansion.
To help adapt to increasingly complex legal and regulatory requirements, we provide localized solutions with built-in updates managed by in-region experts. By taking the guesswork out of compliance, you can spend less time tracking down the latest changes and more time scaling your business.
Today, we offer automated regulatory updates and alerts so you can stay ahead of the curve and never miss a critical change. Tomorrow, AI agents will help you further optimize your operations by autonomously monitoring, building, and deploying compliant HR processes.
Let's summarize what you've learned:
- SAP Business Suite supports a CHRO's objectives through Human Capital Management tools such as Workforce Analytics and Planning, Learning and Talent Management, and HR Compliance.
- In SAP Business Suite, AI agents will be used to streamline workforce planning, enhance employee interactions, and optimize HR processes.
- SAP Business Suite helps to align workforce decisions with business goals to drive informed business decisions.