Christian Klein just told Fortune magezine at Davos interview that keyboards are nearly done in SAP.

If you’re hiring SAP talent right now, this changes everything.

Klein isn’t talking about some distant future.
He’s talking 3–5 years.

Voice commands. Natural language queries. AI agents that traverse financials, supply chain, and sales to surface insights and trigger workflows.

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗔𝗣 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆:

Transaction codes become less valuable than the ability to frame business questions.

“Show me plants where inventory is misaligned with demand and recommend fixes” replaces `/nVA01`.

The next generation of SAP power users won’t say “I can build any ALV report.”

They’ll say “I can orchestrate AI agents across finance, supply chain, and sales to change how this business runs.”

Horizontal AI wins.

The companies that succeed won’t just add copilots to one module. They’ll let agents work across PowerPoints, spreadsheets, and SAP tables to connect the dots.

Geopolitics enters your architecture decisions.

Data sovereignty, geo-lock, local clouds, and portability move from CIO slide decks into daily conversations.

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗔𝗣 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄:

• Hire for end-to-end process knowledge (order-to-cash, plan-to-produce) over single-module expertise

• Look for people who can design prompts like they’d design Fiori apps: clear intent, business context, measurable outcomes

• Add “data residency and cloud portability” to your must-have vocabulary for architects

The uncomfortable reality?

If your team still defines their value by “knowing where to click,” an AI agent will eventually out-click them.

How ready is your SAP landscape – and your hiring strategy – for a world where people talk to the system instead of type into it?