Episode 40: The SAP Products Moved, The Method Didn't! Louis Schmidlin On AI-Powered SAP Delivery.

Guest:
• Louis Schmidlin - Co-Founder and CEO, Qorelo
Host:
• Alexander Greb - Senior Vice President, All for One Group
The product moved. The method didn’t.
SAP software has changed dramatically. The way we implement it has barely changed in 20 years. Consultants still map scope items in Excel, workshop notes get lost in SharePoint, and implementation costs often run seven times higher than the software itself. Sometimes ten.
Louis Schmidlin knows this pain firsthand. He was an SAP consultant before founding Qorelo, a Berlin-based startup that uses AI to speed up SAP transformations from discovery to cutover.
In this episode, Alex and Louis talk about:
• What TechEd 2026 revealed about the gap between agentic AI on stage and customer reality on ECC
• Why so many “brownfield” decisions are really scar tissue from old R/3 projects
• How AI can take over the manual groundwork while consultants focus on leading the customer
• Why every new Qorelo hire reads 450 pages of SAP Activate
• SAP’s API policy, and what happens when SAP builds these capabilities natively
• Christian Klein’s message to partners: the technology is there, now it’s your problem
• What junior consultants should do now to stay relevant
A conversation for everyone who has ever asked: why are we still doing it like this?

Follow Louis here: linkedin.com/in/louisschmidlin
Follow Alexander: linkedin.com/in/alexandergreb
Follow Johannes: linkedin.com/in/johanneslangguth

Thanks to Steven Spears for lending his voice for our podcast intro.
Theme music by Luis Álvarez a.k.a. Fourth Dogma