SAP recently announced the winners of its inaugural SAP Best Run Awards 2021 for Southeast Asia. The SAP Best Run Awards recognizes and celebrates leading organizations in the region which have harnessed innovations from across SAP’s ecosystem of products and services, turning insights into action to usher in successful transformation for their businesses.
Awarded to customers that deployed SAP technologies, participants were assessed on their ability to think out of the box and how they implemented technology to innovate and disrupt industries to drive better business outcomes in a distributed and uncertain economic environment.
Judging the competition are no less than esteemed business leaders from all over Southeast Asia, including Cathy Ward, APJ Head, Customer and Engagement, SAP Asia Pacific & Japan.
Covering six categories which include Best Innovation Award, Best Customer Experience Management, Emerging Enterprise Award (SMEs*), Most Transformational Award and amongst others, winners of the SAP Best Run Awards include TrickleStar, Changi Airport Group, Zuellig, Pharma, PXL Marketing Sdn Bhd and more. Winners were announced in a virtual event hosted by Verena Siow, President & Managing Director, SAP Southeast Asia. Click here to watch the awards ceremony on-demand.
Moreover, a total of USD 30,000 donation will also be made by SAP to the ASEAN Foundation, on behalf of the organizations that win. For a full list of finalists, click here.
Here are some of the SAP Best Run Awards 2021 Winners
Best Innovation Award – The Disruptor
Recognizes businesses that seek creative solutions to persisting problems during unprecedented times, innovate to carve out new markets for themselves, or embrace technology to transform their businesses.
| Winner | Changi Airport Group (Singapore) |
| Runner Up | Golden Gate Trade & Service JSC (Vietnam) and Loc Troi Group Joint Stock Company (Vietnam) |
Click here for more about the collaboration between Changi Airport Group and SAP.
Best Customer Experience Management – The X Factor
Recognizes businesses that have seamlessly created a customer experience through digital transformation.​
| Winner | Zuellig Pharma (Philippines) |
| Runner Up | PT Link Net, Tbk (Indonesia) |
Please click here for more about the collaboration between Zuellig Pharma and SAP.
Emerging Enterprise Award (SMEs) – The Small but Mighty
Recognizes emerging enterprises that drive consistent, significant and sustainable growth, resulting in excellent business performance; and display the ability to scale and expand overseas.​
| Winner | PXL Marketing Sdn Bhd (Malaysia) |
| Runner Up | Hung Tri (Vietnam) and PT Adelphi Trans Asia (Mamaroz Juice) (Indonesia) |
Please click here to find out more.
Most Promising Startup or Entrepreneurship Award – The Rising Star
Recognizes emerging enterprises that have developed a unique and commercially viable idea, which has the potential to be sustained in the long run, have worked with SAP to provide value-added services to their customers.​
| Winner | Winner: TrickleStar (M) Sdn Bhd (Malaysia) |
| Runner Up | Runner up: Great Deals E-commerce Corp. (Philippines) and Tessa Therapeutics (Singapore) |
Please click here to find out more.
Check out the full list of finalists here: https://www.sap.com/idea-place/best-run-awards-sea/entries.html. For more details, you may visit the SAP News Center or follow SAP (@SAPNews) on Twitter.
Emman has been writing technical and feature articles since 2010. Prior to this, he became one of the instructors at Asia Pacific College in 2008, and eventually landed a job as Business Analyst and Technical Writer at Integrated Open Source Solutions for almost 3 years.
