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Food and Beverage is a diverse industry that touches on many other verticals. From agribusiness, to manufacturing, to wholesale distribution, to retail and services, food and beverage encompasses many functions. That means the technology needed to keep food and beverage companies varies greatly depending on where along the chain a company lands. Of course, there are also some companies that operate along all potential lines of business within food and beverage.
SAP and Partner Solutions for Food and Beverage
There are many solutions in the SAP ecosystem that are relevant to the Financial Services sector:
Food and Beverage is a diverse industry that touches on many other verticals. From agribusiness, to manufacturing, to wholesale distribution, to retail and services, food and beverage encompasses many functions. That means the technology needed to keep food and beverage companies varies greatly depending on where along the chain a company lands. Of course, there are also some companies that operate along all potential lines of business within food and beverage.
SAP and Partner Solutions for Food and Beverage
There are many solutions in the SAP ecosystem that are relevant to the Financial Services sector:
- Digital Customer Engagement is about modernizing the way companies reach consumers, which can include omnichannel commerce, customer experience management, digital banking, customer analytics, and marketing offerings.
- Finance and Risk solutions help companies stay compliant and avoid risk by touching on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) functionality, financial planning and analysis, data services, reporting, and accounting for financial instruments.
- Banking Operations tools aim to help those in the banking industry with key functions including card management, retail services, payments, cash and liquidity management, and commercial lending.
- Total Spend Management is about helping companies get a centralized view of spend by combining multiple cloud offerings around procurement, vendor management, sourcing and contracting, invoicing and payables, travel reimbursement, and analytics.
- HCM and HXM solutions help organizations with recruiting, onboarding, talent management, and more.
- Core ERP systems act as a system of record for key transactional information.
The financial services sector is turning to technology to assist with becoming more digital and more relevant to consumers. At the same time, they are looking to build processes and systems that can provide centralized views of data around customers, compliance, risk, finance, and employees.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
Financial services companies are utilizing SAP and partner solutions as part of their transformation programs within a variety of focus areas, including security, automation, and digitization.
- How Zurich North America used BlackLine to move to SAP S/4HANA. Read this case study to hear about Zurich North America’s SAP S/4HANA migration, including how it utilized Blackline Solutions for Automation & Control during the project.
- Swiss Federal Administration planned its SAP S/4HANA move with security design in mind. Read this case study to learn how the Swiss Federal Administration managed SAP Security within its SAP S/4HANA migration.
- Deutsche Börse Group’s approach to digitization, process redesign, and defining sustainable user journeys. Read this Q&A to learn about Deutsch Börse Group is transforming its SAP landscape while also transforming its business overall.
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Redesigning Business Processes with SAP Signavio at Asahi AustraliaJun 14, 2023 — Asahi Australia, after multiple acquisitions and inheriting legacy systems and processes, recognized the need for business process management (BPM) to mitigate risks and expedite their transformation journey. They chose SAP Signavio as their technology partner due to its unique ability to provide process modeling, process mining, and drive organizational change management, enabling them to redesign and optimize their business processes. Join Audra as she shares the insights and experiences from their transformative journey over the past 12 months.
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Integrating Ingham’s Complex SAP Landscape with SAP BTP Integration PlatformJun 14, 2023 — Inghams, an ANZ-based food manufacturer, embarked on a business transformation journey enabled by RISE with SAP S/4HANA to overcome the challenges of a legacy ERP system and fragmented data sources. Integration played a crucial role in connecting their SAP S/4HANA instance with over 45 bespoke and cloud applications, including SAP MSG, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Analytics Cloud, with options ranging from optimizing Informatica to leveraging SAP Process Integration and Orchestration (PI/PO) or the full cloud offering of SAP BTP.
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Case Study: How Moet Hennessy Leverages Enterprise Architecture as a Key Enabler for its SAP S/4HANA TransformationMay 23, 2023 — To stay ahead of the competition in an ever-changing environment, a modernized IT foundation is key. Go inside Moet Hennessy’s SAP S/4HANA Transformation Journey as they show you how they built a high-performing, secure, available IT backbone that supports all its core operations and serves as a foundation for their modernization journey. Learn from Moet Hennessy and LeanIX how Enterprise Architecture served as the linchpin to help secure the migration to SAP S/4HANA and was the key enabler for a successful large-scale rollout.
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Case Study: SunRice – B2B ExperienceMay 21, 2023 — SunRice, one of Australia's largest rice food companies, implemented a Growers' Portal using SAP BTP to enhance the B2B experience for its rice-growing community. The portal provided quick and easy access to key functions, improved data visibility, and enabled growers to manage their business tasks securely in real-time from any device. With features such as harvest data visualization, payment tracking, and instant notifications, the portal empowered growers to make informed decisions and increased their control over the rice-growing process. The successful implementation resulted in improved grower satisfaction, increased engagement, and streamlined administrative processes.
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Fonterra’s Experience with SF SAC StoriesApr 12, 2023 — SuccessFactors SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is a foundational reporting requirement for many People & Culture functions across organisations globally. For Fonterra, SAC means they can produce real time, cross module reporting at the fingertips for HR, leaders, and managers in Fonterra. With their new job and career architecture in SAP SuccessFactors, the SAC visualisation dashboards filtering means they can drill deep into the information, spotlighting key capabilities and ensure they have the right people, in the right places.
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Twinings implements PreBilt™ for SAP WMApr 11, 2023 — Twinings famously known for producing high quality tea, faced challenges with stock accuracy and time-consuming tasks due to outdated software, which hindered their warehousing operations. However, after deploying PreBilt, a suite of mobile applications, the company experienced significant benefits such as increased employee engagement, improved ease of use, greater stock accuracy, and elimination of paperwork. The app was easily configured to work with their pre-existing SAP Warehouse Management system and was configured to simplify app navigation. The flexibility of PreBilt also allows for its usage in wider areas of the supply chain such as Plant Maintenance and Quality Management. Overall, PreBilt helped Twinings streamline their warehousing operations, saving time and improving accuracy.
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Ensuring Uptime And Lowering TCO For Pizza Hut And Wendy’sDec 22, 2022 — NPC International operates over 1,610 Pizza Hut and Wendy’s locations in 27 states. They depend on routing, preventative and emergency maintenance for its restaurant equipment to ensure 100% uptime at every location. After doubling their retail locations within a seven-year period, NPC’s maintenance and repair costs per location were extremely high and growing exponentially due to there being no stream-lined visibility across retail locations for existing equipment warranties and corporate contracts.
Read this case study to learn how NPC now leverages a centralized system to view relevant work order and maintenance contracts that resulted in lower MTTR (Mean-Time-to-Repair) and MCTR (Mean-Cost-to-Repair).
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Wine Wharehouse: Digitizing SAP Warehouse and Logistics OperationsDec 22, 2022 — At Wine Warehouse, commitment to marketing and distribution of premium beverages has always been at the forefront of what the company aims to achieve daily. However, when operating their warehouse and logistics on an SAP ERP platform, they ran into instances where they had to accomplish tasks manually because of a lack of connectivity. Additionally, because of the rapidly growing nature of the beverage distribution industry, they knew they needed a solution for connectivity issues and lack of visibility into inventory and delivery processes as this was slowing down productivity.
Click here to download this blog article that details Wine Warehouse’s initial investment in SAP, the challenges they faced with connectivity issues and insight into delivery, and how a customized application remedied their pain points.
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How to Eat an Elephant: Learn How Bega Integrated their M&A Divestment End-to-EndJul 22, 2022 — Bega, after acquiring Lion Drinks and Dairy division, needed to carve out a relevant IT ecosystem which included over 200 systems and their entire SAP landscape – whilst ensuring operations for both organizations never missed a beat. This meant that the supply chain had to stay entirely unaffected: every order needed to be processed seamlessly, every milk truck needed to pick up milk deliveries on time, and there could be no interruption of service to customers or consumers. This 9-month program ensured the seamless divestment of over 200+ critical systems from Lion, including a 16 terabyte SAP system, 18 terabyte BW system, two CRM platforms, the implementation of new SAP applications, such as Integrated Business planning and SAPM CRM for Field Sales all on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.
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SAP S/4HANA Migration Project Hits Some BumpsMar 7, 2022 — Migrations to SAP S/4HANA are challenging and difficult when the overall organization must adjust to new technologies, new architectures, constant training, and more. For a corporation to transition to a new and better way of doing business with innovative and flexible tools not only requires investments, but the right personnel, not only capable of performing the test but also adaptable and able to adjust to changes. However, many times the so called “technology experts” that you rely on might not work for your benefit, and many times their skill sets, and ethics are something to be worried about. The current article is about a true story and mostly directed to project managers; it shows that the success of your project not only depends on your Gantt chart, but also on the evidence that justifies the decision making behind the weekly update meetings.
This document explores an extreme case of unprofessional behavior supported by two of the Big 4 auditing and consulting firms, contractors, full-time employees, and top management; however, the latter failed to realize that expectations and reality do not always match. The events described in this article will shed light on some of the challenges companies face when performing massive financial and software transformation projects without the correct “checks and balances.”
In this article we will review the following:
- Why it is important to verify the activities identified in your SAP S/4HANA upgrade project plan to be feasible.
- Why it is important to follow SAP OSS notes to uncover any major issues in your project.
- How successful projects depend on teams and people you can trust; if you do not trust, them replace them.
- Expectations vs. reality: it is a hard truth that you must be prepared to adjust quickly.
- And don’t forget to buy the software that you are supposed to implement.
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