Case Study: Hallstar Growth with SAP S/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud

⇨ Digital Transformation: Hallstar significantly enhanced its operational efficiency and data visibility by transitioning from an 18-year-old ERP system to SAP S/4HANA, followed by SAP Analytics Cloud.

⇨ Global Expansion Support: The implementation of these modern systems facilitated Hallstar's global expansion and integration, allowing seamless management of finances, materials, production, sales, and distribution.

⇨ Partnership with Navisite: Navisite played a crucial role in Hallstar's digital transformation, providing continuous support and high-level expertise to ensure the successful deployment and utilization of SAP technologies.

Following the deployment of S/4HANA, the company set its sights even higher—Hallstar wanted to find a better solution to connect and analyze reams of disparate business data. To make this happen, Hallstar once again partnered with Navisite to build on its S/4HANA foundation by implementing SAP Analytics Cloud. This would ultimately give the company an intuitive and modern mobile component (which was previously nonexistent) that could facilitate real-time data and up-to-date dashboard replication, bringing its massive amounts of financial and manufacturing data into alignment. “We had all this data, but we couldn’t get to it in the cloud,” said Redpath. “The idea of having business intelligence in the cloud became incredibly compelling, and the capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud were tremendous.”

The benefits of implementing SAP Analytics Cloud on top of S/4HANA throughout Hallstar’s business are myriad. Within its personal care business unit, for example, Hallstar had recently opened a new facility with a new customer service team. Early in its
operation, the team hit a low point regarding its on-time rates. However, using SAP Analytics Cloud, they put a plan in place to monitor real-time data, identify problems and take decisive action. This ultimately led to a rapid increase of its on-time percentage, which is now maintained above the 95% industry standard.

Some other benefits Hallstar realized include:

• Greater insight into on-time rates, open customer orders, shipments, freight spending and inventory levels for supply chain teams

• Improved reporting on daily, monthly and yearly production rates, cycle time variances, production pace and equipment utilization

• Real-time sales numbers showing daily business unit performance against budget broken down by finished goods and regional
categories

• Clearer visibility into revenue, gross profit performance and trends, SGA reporting, operating cashflow and capital expense
spending in all business units

Learn more by downloading the case study provided by Navisite.