Telecommunications

Grow revenue, drive innovation, and enhance customer value with telecommunications solutions.
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Boost resilience and profitability with engaging customer experiences

Reimagine your telecommunications operations while accelerating innovation, driving growth, and lowering operational costs with unified solutions.

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Our telecommunication solutions help you:

  • Remain profitable and competitive by adopting new revenue streams.

  • Improve efficiency, savings, and customer satisfaction with a fully integrated supply chain.

  • Scale your business, grow revenue, and maximise customer loyalty with personalised experiences.

  • Lower service costs and improve uptime with optimised field service operations.

  • Drive predictable growth by enabling intelligent, effective sales behaviours.

Support profitable growth

Increase revenue with faster, more agile decisions powered by detailed profit and cost insights.

Achieve supply chain resilience

Help ensure resilient operations by minimising disruptions, maintaining continuity, and adapting quickly to evolving environmental, regulatory, and market changes.

Grow beyond connectivity

Build customer loyalty and increase recurring revenue with personalised subscriptions, a pay per use model, and bundled products and services tailored to customer needs.

Modernise and expand infrastructure

Achieve a lower cost to serve and higher network uptime using AI-enabled advanced scheduling and optimised workforce management for efficient and sustainable field service.

AI for telecommunications

Improve asset performance, grow margins, automate operations, and personalise customer engagement with telecom-focused AI assistants and agents.

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Autonomous asset management

Increase asset reliability and uptime while ensuring regulatory compliance, safety, and sustainability.

Autonomous project delivery

Automate the entire Professional Services project lifecycle—from opportunity and scoping, through project setup and staffing, to financial management, billing, and performance insights.

Explore telecommunications solutions from SAP and partners that can help your business run better

Drive innovation with real-time visibility enabled by unified service operations.

Enterprise asset management

Manage network asset ROI from investment planning to retirement to:

  • Ensure consistent views of network assets with an integrated data approach.

  • Improve network asset health and performance with connected asset management.

  • Increase field productivity with optimised scheduling and mobile apps.​

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Capital project management

Optimise resources and accelerate time to market for new products and services with centralised processes and information.

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Supply chain planning for network assets

Reduce equipment shortages and delays by synchronising supply plans with network expansion through collaborative partner planning.

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Field service management

Reduce service costs and cycle times from query to invoice with optimised workforce scheduling and mobile apps.

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LG CNS Space-N

Reduce equipment failure rates and manage the equipment lifecycle using a map-based approach integrated with SAP S/4HANA.

AI-enabled customer engagement

Deliver personalised experiences across all channels along the entire customer journey to:

  • Increase customer satisfaction with consistent omnichannel experiences.

  • Improve margins by making data-driven decisions with marketing analytics.

  • Boost customer loyalty with personalised interactions and chatbots.

  • Drive sales by empowering a mobile sales force with automated solutions.

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Omnichannel customer experience

Exceed customers’ expectations by delivering smooth service continuity across digital, voice, and AI-assisted channels.

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Omnichannel commerce

Improve margins and modernise your business with telecommunications-specific commerce solutions that grow sales across channels.

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Clintworld Clintview Precision Pricing and Usage Behaviour Analysis Software

Make faster, more profitable pricing decisions using predictive analytics across customer, product, and usage data.

Demand-driven telecommunications supply chain

Deliver next-generation customer, employee, and partner experiences with capabilities that help you:

  • Reduce equipment lifecycles and costs with extended business networks.

  • Increase time and cost savings with an IoT-enabled, transparent supply chain.

  • Lower inventory costs with inventory and warehouse management.

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Customer device management

Reduce service costs through efficient order fulfilment and an optimised sourcing strategy.

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Device lifecycle management

Improve customer experience and lower costs by tracking the lifecycle of devices across procurement, distribution, and maintenance.

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Warehouse, inventory, and logistics management

Improve inventory cost savings and availability by managing inbound warehousing, inventory, and logistics with integrated business planning.

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Deltek Replicon Time Tracking for Service Organisations

Enable organisations to capture, validate, and transform project time data with a modern user experience across desktop and mobile.

Billing and revenue management

A robust and flexible billing engine helps you to:

  • Launch innovative offerings by using a variety of bundling options.

  • Create customised offers and options through automated customer profiling.

  • Reduce costs with automated processing of billing, invoicing, and financial posting.

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Subscription billing

Grow recurring revenue, maximise lifetime value, and scale with innovative subscription, usage, and bundle monetisation.

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Configure, price, and quote

Generate quotes faster, simplify approvals, and cut sales cycles by establishing intelligent, integrated sales processes.

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Sales performance management

Maximise sales, boost cross‑ and up‑selling, and optimise pricing while protecting margins with business insights.

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Entitlement management

Reduce revenue leakage and service effort by streamlining and automating entitlement management and operations.

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SAP Convergent Mediation by DigitalRoute

Grow profits by preventing margin erosion and speeding billing accuracy with automated mediation and billing processes.

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Mirakl Marketplace Management

Drive growth by operating your own online marketplace and building and expanding offerings through channel partners.

Strategic compensation management

Improve sales team effectiveness with comprehensive incentive plans to:

  • Increase revenue and support business growth with prescriptive AI recommendations.

  • Improve sales target plan performance with rich analytics and prescriptive AI recommendations.

  • Reduce risk, payment errors, and compensation disputes with one-click traceability.

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Contingent workforce management

Reduce labour costs and find, manage, and deploy top talent faster with AI assistance and centralised processes.

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Human capital management

Increase productivity and skills readiness with integrated talent, learning, and workforce management.

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SAP Time and Attendance Management by WorkForce Software

Gain visibility into workforce costs, reduce administrative effort, comply with local laws with time and attendance management.

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Resources

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Financial strategies for future telecom growth

Learn how improved financial planning, close and consolidation, and reporting can become a powerful engine for business growth and resilience.

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Telco Business AI

See how SAP Business AI can help your telecommunications organisation constantly improve and innovate your business.

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Navigating growth in tower and fiber businesses

Learn about the growth opportunities telecom infrastructure companies (towercos and fibercos) find amid rising digital connectivity demands.

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FAQ

SAP Business Suite for telecommunications is a fully integrated, modular set of solutions that helps companies in telecommunications industry—such as broadband and multi-play telecom service providers telecom professional service providers, and construction service providers—connect and optimise every function across their business. Key business areas include sales and marketing, planning, operations, finance, and logistics. The suite integrates AI, data, and applications into one unified system, creating a continuous cycle of value that drives business transformation.

The telecommunications industry includes broadband-focused service providers, multi-play telecom service providers, telecom professional services, and telecom construction services.

SAP Cloud ERP integrates supply chain, operations, financials, customer service, human resources, and other data to streamline operations, enhance data visibility, improve supply chain efficiency, and support compliance and innovation.

Yes. Our robust partner ecosystem includes a wide range of business process extensions, such as enhanced price optimisation and order management. Our services partners support distributors of all sizes with planning, implementation services, and post-go-live support. Explore the full catalogue of extensions on SAP Store or search for service partners on SAP Partner Finder.