Muhammad Alam

Lead Product Engineering & Member of Executive Board, SAP

Search every verified Muhammad Alam interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At the SAP Spend Connect 2023 event, Muhammad Alam, President and Chief Product Officer of SAP Intelligent Spend & Business Network, discussed the launch of SAP's "spend control tower." He described it as a platform that unifies data from travel, expense, indirect and direct spend, and contingent services into a single data model, applying AI to provide dashboards and insights. Alam stated that the tool is designed to give customers visibility into their spending, which he said is necessary for supply chain resiliency. He also noted that the platform can help organizations track scope three emissions, which he said can account for up to 90% of a company's emissions footprint, and that AI can fill data gaps to help set sustainability strategies. Alam mentioned that the architecture has been in development for a long time and that SAP is already working with early customers. He explained that the same platform powers analytics in other SAP applications like Ariba and Fieldglass. He indicated that SAP plans to add more internal and external data sources through partners to drive real-time insights, and that the company's vision for the product extends beyond its current capabilities.