17 April 2025
The fourth Commercial Directors' Meeting took place this year from February 2nd to 5th at NHM in Brazil. The financial directors from all subsidiaries worldwide were invited.
The participants arrived the day before the meeting. This day was dedicated to the team building event, an escape room. After everyone managed to escape, the meeting was able to start with all participants on Monday.
Diretor Geral Alexandre Medeiros presented the subsidiary NHM, then it was down to business with embedded analytics in SAP, illustrated using the example of "product cost calculation". Embedded Analytics is a new SAP analytics tool that provides users with dynamic analyses and visualizations on a web-based platform.
Close integration with the high-performance in-memory database of SAP S/4 HANA enables real-time big data analytics.
The second day began with a keynote speech on "Sustainability as a strategic topic". Workshops then identified sustainability-related positive and negative influences as well as risks and opportunities for each location. This is part of the materiality analysis, which is carried out in preparation for the EU sustainability reporting. The results are being evaluated and will be presented to the L-Kreis at a final presentation at the end of May.
On Wednesday, the focus was on budget planning for all locations for the coming 2025/26 financial year. Both the concrete planning itself and the functions of how to plan were discussed.
After three days of intensive work, everyone had earned a nice conclusion: There was a barbecue evening with all NHM employees and a soccer game. The soccer players gave it their all, but the international colleagues were able to keep up with the Brazilians! Thomas Landmann alone scored 3 goals and for Anders Arnell, a dream came true: "I always wanted to play soccer in Brazil with Brazilians!"