At Sapphire 2025, ArchLynk, a leading SAP Supply Chain and Global Trade consultancy, and Marlabs, a top Data and AI solutions provider and Databricks implementation partner, announced a strategic partnership to accelerate enterprise AI and analytics. Together, they will harmonize data across ecosystems using Databricks within SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), enabling faster, data-driven supply chain decision-making.

Partnership Highlights

Dave Medd, CEO of ArchLynk, emphasized the need for real-time, complete data to empower supply chain leaders:
"Supply Chain leaders can no longer succeed with slow decision making on incomplete, stale data. ArchLynk brings SAP's Business Data Cloud together with Databricks to drive faster AI-powered Supply Chain decisions."

Thomas Collins, CEO of Marlabs, added:
"This partnership removes the barrier of seamless access to high-value business data from SAP Supply Chain systems by creating a unified, AI-ready data foundation harmonizing SAP, non-SAP, and unstructured data through Databricks' open Lakehouse architecture."

Benefits for Clients

The collaboration leverages native SAP-Databricks integration, combining ArchLynk’s supply chain expertise with Marlabs’ AI and data science capabilities. Together, they will offer clients:

• Enhanced Supply Chain Visibility: Full transparency across the supply network, from sourcing to delivery.

• Optimized Planning and Forecasting: AI-driven predictive analytics for demand forecasting, inventory management, and production planning.

• Proactive Risk Management: Early identification and mitigation of supply chain disruptions.

• Operational Efficiency Gains: Insights to optimize logistics, transportation, and warehousing.

• Personalized Customer Experiences: Data insights to tailor offerings and improve satisfaction.

Technology Focus

The partnership will build a reliable, governed data foundation using SAP Business Data Cloud combined with Databricks Unity Catalog. This AI-ready infrastructure will enable clients to train and deploy advanced analytics and Agentic AI applications globally, delivering actionable insights and measurable business value.