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Packaging Giant EPL migrates to SAP S/4HANA on HPE GreenLake

Key Takeaways

• EPL Limited transformed its global operations by migrating to SAP S/4HANA within an HPE GreenLake environment, drastically improving reporting speed and system reliability.

• The company’s commitment to sustainability and zero-defect manufacturing is supported by enhanced traceability and data analytics capabilities.

• Strategic standardization and infrastructure modernization enabled EPL to scale efficiently while preparing for future innovations like AI and IoT integration.

SAP S/4HANA really helps us to analyze the data in a much more meaningful manner,” says Prakash Dharmani, Global CIO. “These are really complex scenarios and unless data can be converted into meaningful information, it’s practically useless.

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From remote customer engagement to automating its value chain and seamlessly integrating functions, EPL Limited is digitizing every aspect of its business. To enable digital transformation, the global business needs an IT platform capable of maximizing operational efficiency, quality, and business intelligence to inform continuous improvement.

A key supplier to global household brands

Whether it contains toothpaste, facewash, food, or a pharmaceutical product, on average, everyone in the world buys at least one product packaged in an EPL tube every year. The India-based multinational produces around eight billion tubes annually for global giants in the healthcare and cosmetics sectors including numerous household names. It’s little surprise that EPL is the largest business of its type in the world.

EPL specializes in laminated and flexible plastic tube packaging that is a mainstay of the oral care, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics sectors. The global business operates plants in 10 countries and practically every continent, with manufacturing locations ranging from Colombia, Mexico, and the U.S. to Germany, Poland, Egypt, India, China, and the Philippines.

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Building and operating a business of this scale takes vision, ambition, and smart management.

“Our main goal is to become the most sustainable company in the packaging world,” explains Prakash Dharmani, Global CIO at EPL. “Our creativity and innovation department is working to develop sustainable tubes that are recyclable and reusable. They’re putting in huge amounts of effort to ultimately make the world a better place.”

The other driver is product quality. “We don’t work on percentage targets like 99.9% anymore,” Mr. Dharmani continues. “We want every EPL tube that goes to a customer to be ‘zero defect’. It’s a big statement, but that’s what our quality control processes are working to deliver.”

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