Kärcher cleans up its SAP environment with AWS migration

⇨ Kärcher has chosen to migrate its entire SAP environment to AWS, including ERP, human capital management and supply chain management.

⇨ The company will apply AWS’s portfolio of cloud technologies, including IoT, analytics and ML.

⇨ Kärcher has so far migrated 70 percent of its business to AWS in just seven months.

Kärcher, a cleaning technology company, has chosen to migrate its entire SAP environment to AWS, including ERP, human capital management and supply chain management.

The migration is the final step in moving Kärcher’s IT infrastructure to the cloud. The company will apply AWS’s portfolio of cloud technologies, including IoT, analytics and ML to develop new business models, deliver innovations in software services, like real-time billing and operations of smart cleaning devices and drive efficiencies across its manufacturing and operations in 80 countries around the globe.

Working with Zoi cloud consultancy, an AWS premier consulting partner, Kärcher has so far migrated 70 percent of its business to AWS in just seven months. Kärcher and Zoi worked with AWS Managed Services which offers guidance and operational best practices with specialized automations, skills and experience to migrate nearly 100 applications, 140 servers, 70 on-premises databases and 170 terabytes of data, saving the company around 20 percent in operating costs.

The full SAP migration will help Kärcher advance its cleaning as a service strategy, with the new business model for the cleaning industry incorporating equipment rental with round-the-clock remote customer support, enabled through AWS.

Leonhard Kerscher, vice president IT and Digital Transformation at Kärcher, said: “Migrating our entire SAP infrastructure to AWS is the final piece in the puzzle that will make Kärcher a fully cloud-native business and open the door to exciting new business models for our industry.

“I’m proud of our team’s hard work and dedication, and our commitment to continuing to innovate for our customers.”

Tanuja Randery, managing director of AWS Europe, Middle East, and Africa, said: “AWS and Kärcher are working together to digitally transform the business, and the series of successful innovations that we have launched is only the beginning.

“The full migration of Kärcher’s SAP environments to AWS will enable the company to use new capabilities like generative artificial intelligence that will open the door to increasingly customer-centric business models in cleaning.”