Mumbai: With the world continuing to navigate itself through the new normal, SAP India celebrated Indian organizations for their pathbreaking innovations, channelling their business through this pandemic and adopting a digital first approach. 16 Indian enterprises were announced as winners of the 14th edition of SAP ACE Awards for their unwavering wit to staying relevant and striving for business continuity.
As nominations, the awards received over 150 projects competing across 15 major categories, with a distinct focus on line of businesses, industry excellence and digital adoption. Majority of winners this year are from power and utilities industry followed by mining & steel, manufacturing along with others. SAP ACE Awards winners this year have truly been the exemplars of digital adoption during uncertain times which helped them in solving problems and thinking technology for tackling business disruption.
“The winners of SAP Ace Awards 2020 have yet again set a benchmark for digital innovation with their ingenious thinking and agile decision making. We would like to congratulate them for their technological transformations that sets them apart, making them a truly intelligent enterprise,” said Kulmeet Bawa, President and Managing Director, SAP India Subcontinent.
As part of the methodical process, all the front running nominees were assessed by an eminent jury nominated by management board of SAP India User Group (INDUS).
SAP ACE Award Winners 2020
| Award Categories | Winner |
| Line of Business Awards | |
| Award in Strategic HR & Talent Management | Cipla |
| Award in Customer Excellence – Sales, Marketing and Service | Hindustan Zinc |
| Special Jury Recognition in Customer Excellence – Sales, Marketing and Service | Noida Power Corporation |
| Award in Financial Excellence | Nayara Energy |
| Award in Intelligent Spend Management – Large Enterprise | L&T Technology Services |
| Award in Sourcing Excellence – Large Enterprise | Hindustan Zinc |
| Award in Sourcing Excellence – Mid Size Enterprise | Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company, Bangladesh |
| Technology Awards | |
| Award for Leveraging Analytics in Big Data | JSW Steel Ltd. |
| Award for Adoption of Transformative Technologies | TATA Power Company Ltd |
| Award for Leveraging SAP Cloud Infrastructure | Ashok Leyland |
| Award for Running Real Time, Live Enterprise – Mid-Size Enterprise | Jivraj Tea Limited |
| Award for Running Real Time, Live Enterprise – Mid-Size Enterprise | Roop Polymers |
| Special Jury Recognition for Running Real Time, Live Enterprise – Mid-Size Enterprise | Lion Brewery (Ceylon) PLC |
| Special SAP Recognition – Group-Wide S/4HANA Transformation | Vedanta Group |
| Award for Running Real Time, Live Enterprise – Large Enterprise | Larsen and Toubro |
| Industry Awards | |
| Award for Digital Initiatives in Public Services | Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Ltd |
| Award for Breakthrough Innovation – Business-Re-model-Disruption-Step-growth | Mahindra & Mahindra |
