1. Fast Facts Wholesale Distribution Industry
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2. Summary: Wholesale Distribution Industry Facts
Number of Customers
More than 27,400 wholesale distributors in 133 countries
Africa 500+, Asia 3,500+, ANZ 850+, Europe 9,600+, Latin America 3,400+, North America 9,300+
Forbes Global 2000
82% of the wholesale distributors
88% of the consumer focused companies
Fast Facts
Our customers distribute more than 78% of the world’s food
Our customers distribute more than 76% of the world’s healthcare products
Regional facts and peripheral industry facts in appendix

3. More than 27,400 wholesale distributors in 133 countries are innovating with SAP solutions.
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82% of the wholesale distributors in the Forbes Global 2000 are SAP customers.

5. Our customers distribute more than 78% of the world’s food.
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Our customers distribute more than 78% of the world’s food.

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Our customers distribute more than 76% of the world’s healthcare products.

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88% of the consumer focused companies in the Forbes Global 2000 are SAP customers.

8. Appendix
Regional Facts

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More than 500 African wholesale distributors are innovating with SAP solutions.

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More than 3,500 Asian wholesale distributors are innovating with SAP solutions.

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63% of the Asian wholesale distributors in the Forbes Global 2000 are SAP customers.

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More than 850 wholesale distributors in Australia and New Zealand are innovating with SAP solutions.

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More than 9,600 European wholesale distributors are innovating with SAP solutions.

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100% of the European wholesale distributors in the Forbes Global 2000 are SAP customers.

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More than 3,400 Latin American wholesale distributors are innovating with SAP solutions.

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More than 9,300 North American wholesale distributors are innovating with SAP solutions.

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100% of the North American wholesale distributors in the Forbes Global 2000 are SAP customers.

18. Appendix Additional Facts – Examples
Beyond the industry facts in this deck, there may be numerous other facts that could be valuable for your needs:
Peripheral industry facts
Solution and technology facts
Company facts
Regional facts
The following slides are just a few examples to highlight the potential value of peripheral facts.
You can find links to these facts and more information in the SAP JAM group SAP Fast Facts Central
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19. 74% of the world’s transaction revenue
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74% of the world’s transaction revenue
touches an SAP system.

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SAP HANA can increase analysis speed by more than 10,000x, equal to walking from California to New York in 6 minutes.

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SAP connects more than million companies in 190 countries in the Ariba Network, the world’s largest business-to-business network.

22. Our customers fly more than 1.7 billion of the world’s passengers.
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Our customers fly more than 1.7 billion of the world’s passengers.

23. 208 of the 250 top retailers in the world run SAP solutions.
Source: Deloitte, Global Powers of Retailing 2014
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24. 22 of the 25 top e-retailers in the world run SAP solutions.
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22 of the 25 top e-retailers in the world run SAP solutions.
Source: Deloitte, Global Powers of Retailing 2014

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85% of the transportation and logistics providers in the Forbes Global 2000 are SAP customers.

26. grade SAP Image ID #273902 Myth SAP software is hard to use. Fact
Cloud solutions from SAP deliver a consumer-
grade
user experience that is intuitive and easy to personalize for business users.
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Cloud solutions from SAP make it as easy to gain insights, transact, and collaborate in your business life as it is in your personal life.” (The idea is that we deliver a consumer interface to businesses, just like Amazon, eBay, Netflix, ...) Our applications have the highly intuitive user interfaces to access the information you need and initiate the processes you need to drive new levels of business performance. And our cloud-based collaboration offerings – such as SAP Jam and the Ariba Network – empower you to connect and collaborate with employees, customers, suppliers, and other partners with the ease and excitement you get when using social tools to share knowledge and engage your friends, family, and colleagues in your personal life (just like with Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.)
Everybody can experience the new user experience at
Several YouTube videos provide an impression of the new SAP:

27. security standards* in the
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Myth
Running mission-critical systems in the cloud is not secure.
Fact
Cloud solutions from SAP comply
with the toughest
security standards* in the
world. We build on 40 years experience in delivering mission-critical
business systems for our
customers.
Facts
Datacenter standards: SAS 70 Type II certification, ISO certification, 128-Bit Data Encryption
PCI compliance for secure financial and payment transactions
SAP is the leading provider for enterprise business software – in the market for more than four decades. Data security and data privacy is part of our DNA – and to earn our customer´s trust every day is our utmost mission.
The security standards provided by SAP for both on-premise and cloud software are among the highest in the industry. The company provides a wide variety of measures against attacks from the Internet and against attempted theft of customer data, as well as through physical security arrangements. SAP employs a full range of measures to protect the data of its customers safe and secure in the cloud and to provide reliable software.
Our cloud software is developed with the same care and security mindset as our on premise software. We continuously and carefully maintain our cloud software, with updates at rapid intervals. This ensures that our latest security standards are always deployed.
* SAS 70 Type II certification, ISO certification, 128-Bit Data Encryption; Web-trust and PCI-compliant