Case Studies
Our library of customer case studies focuses on insights, advice, and best practices. The featured case studies highlight how customers are using SAP solutions to streamline business processes, reduce errors, increase ROI, automate workflows, and more.
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Capital Expenditure Management with SAP Fiori
An integrated suite of SAP Fiori Apps to manage your Capital Expenditure from annual budget through expenditure requests, project execution and final asset capitalization. This ebook dives into common CAPEX challenges faced by companies and how SAP Fiori is a perfect platform for digitalization. Read the entire ebook. Find more insightful content from on their… -
Sale of Unit Spurs CCPR’s Move to SAP S/4HANA
Founded in 1948, Cooperativa Central dos Produtores Rurais (CCPR) is the largest Brazilian milk-producing cooperative. It processes and transports more than 90 million liters of milk per month in the provinces of Minas Gerais and Goiás. As part of a restructuring effort, CCPR decided to sell one of its subsidiaries. The main company and subsidiary… -
Genix Pharma Modernizes ERP for Future Growth
Pakistan-based pharmaceutical firm Genix Pharma needed to modernize its ERP system to handle strong business growth, an increase in the number of customers, an expanded base of operations, and regulatory requirements. The company wanted a state-of-the-art platform that would streamline its business processes, get more visibility into its manufacturing processes, handle the increased production volume,… -
Cloud-based Indirect Tax Saves Ingram Micro Time and Money
As international trade grows, so too does the weight of indirect taxation on the business landscape. There is also a growing urgency for tax departments to enhance business value through digital transformation. Changes in indirect tax can come frequently, according to Calvin Lai, Senior Manager at Ingram Micro Tax. This means that ensuring indirect tax… -
Brüggen Leverages Old with New for Forecast Optimization
H. & J. Brüggen KG (Brüggen), a family-owned, privately held company in Lübeck, Germany, that produces private label cereals and muesli bars, underwent a supply chain management transformation that began in 2008 and continues to evolve as the company expands its product offerings and global reach. Martin Gries, Head of Supply Chain for Brüggen, says… -
NNS Implements SAP S/4HANA to Enable Digital Shipbuilding
Newport News Shipbuilding Implements SAP S/4HANA to Enable Digital Shipbuilding Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) builds the ships at the heart of the U.S. Navy’s strategic force: aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines. With $5 billion in revenues and more than 25,000 employees, Va.-based NNS is the largest military shipbuilding company in the United States. As it… -
Randstad Looks to the Cloud to Improve Employee Experiences
As the pandemic disrupts the business world, employee experience remains a top priority for organizations. According to SAPinsider’s State of Human Experience in the Workplace Benchmark Report, creating modern employee experiences is taking on a new level of strategic and business urgency thanks to the shift to remote work. Earlier this year, to maintain its… -
Jabil Deploys UI Masking
The proliferation of data privacy regulations and laws, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), has prompted organizations to beef up their data privacy and protection. One way to protect data without the inconvenience of encryption is data masking or user interface (UI) masking. One… -
Centralizing User Access Management
A global tools and storage company that generates $14.5B in annual revenue and employs more than 10,000 workers worldwide had more than 100 enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems to handle. To get a grip on this sprawl, the company decided to optimize its IT environment with a plan that included a migration of its financial… -
Re-Imagining the Sales Approach
During the COVID-19 pandemic that forced many companies to re-imagine how they did business, Dallas-based GDT, a provider of IT infrastructure — upon which applications serve healthcare, retail, state government, and other industries — redesigned its sales approach to accommodate customer Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) needs. This changed GDT’s billing model to a subscription-based model where it… -
Sanofi Leverages SAP Access Control to Help Secure SAP S/4HANA Migration During COVID-19 Vaccine Response
At the same time that Sanofi was working on COVID-19 vaccines, it was also working with Accenture and KPMG to migrate from SAP ERP Central Component System to SAP S/4HANA and consolidate and optimize its IT environment. This was an ambitious undertaking considering the unique economic environment, the firm’s multinational reach, and the heavily regulated… -
Enterprise-Class Demand Planning at Agilent Technologies
For Agilent Technologies, a manufacturer of analytical instruments for the life science and laboratories sector, growth has been dramatic over recent years, including a number of acquisitions. Such growth has caused the company’s pathology division to experience a rapid expansion of sales, but also revealed that the division had outgrown its demand planning practices, which… -
How a Specialty Chemical Company Handles Integration in a Hybrid SAP Landscape Amidst a Move to SAP S/4HANA
Twenty-five acquisitions, 11 new national subsidiaries, and 44 new plants. These are the accomplishments of one Swiss-based specialty chemical company made over a six-year span. In fact the company’s Head of the SAP Development Cloud and Integration (DCI) team says that the organization has been growing at almost double-digit figures for the last several years.… -
Enabling SAP S/4HANA Central Finance and Group Reporting
Perrigo is a global, leading provider of over-the-counter (OTC) self-care products across various OTC categories. Headquartered in Ireland, Perrigo’s international presence has grown dramatically over the years, accelerated particularly in the last decade or so by acquisitions that enhanced its product portfolio and geographic reach. Layering in additional tools and technologies from each new acquisition… -
Increasing Transparency & Efficiency
Sprawling multinational drug company Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) needed a way to centrally monitor its core enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The company had been using a manual method to track its financial and operational activities and related controls. But to increase transparency and efficiency, Lilly decided to implement SAP Process Control to automate… -
Photonics Manufacturer Transformed Its Financial Operations
On a mission of “enabling the future through light,” Excelitas Technologies Corp. is a global technology leader focused on manufacturing photonics components. To support the company’s heavy acquisition strategy, Excelitas needed to embrace the 21st century, says Vice President for Global Business Services Robert Ersoni, by addressing the organization’s greatest challenge — integration. Excelitas needed… -
Reducing Closing Time and Increasing Data Quality at KMD
Newly acquired companies often face roadblocks in consolidating their financial and accounting operations with their new parent company’s systems. Streamlining financial closing processes, addressing inefficiencies, and automating time-intensive activities with cloud technology can help acquired companies plan for an orderly, smooth transition. One of the largest IT firms in Denmark, KMD, an NEC Company, proved… -
New Security Platform at Lundbeck Helps Ensure Business Continuity and Eliminate Risk of Fraud
As one of the most highly regulated industries, the pharmaceutical industry takes an aggressive approach to supply chain risk management. Employing a global security system that supports access governance and authorization areas is critical in preventing fraud and maintaining business continuity. A case study on Lundbeck, a biopharmaceutical company based in Copenhagen, details how it… -
Automating Closing Processes at The Comfort Group
The financial closing process at many companies can be manual, inconsistent, and inefficient, which leads to lagging financial data and the inability to be a forward-thinking business. There are ways through technology and process improvements to create more effective financial closing. A leader in the Australasian bedding market, The Comfort Group, proved that possibility with… -
An International Beverage Company’s Roadmap to a Solid Foundation Using SAP Solution Extensions by BlackLine
A large global beverage company needed to ensure its software systems were depend¬able, automated, and properly integrated to support its plans for sustained growth. With a focus on business transformation, the company decided to hone in on its record-to-report process, which included journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, financial reporting and analytics, forecasting, and budgeting. The… -
Delivering New Savings in Robin Hood Country
Local government plays a vital community role at all times, but especially in times like the pandemic. The United Kingdom’s Nottinghamshire county council serves over 70,000 citizens and uses technology to help meet the community’s shifting needs. Since 2011 SAP has served as the core platform for Nottinghamshire County Council’s finance management, an essential piece… -
Thames Water: Platform Approach Ensures Innovation Flows
As the supplier of 2.6 billion liters of water per day to the United Kingdom’s capital and the counties that surround London, Thames Water not only has to sate the thirst of one of Europe’s largest conurbations; the business is also dealing with the challenges of water scarcity. With major population growth and now climate… -
How Endress+Hauser Is Creating a Simpler Business by Making Integration a Strategic Imperative
As SAP customers today begin to look more strategically at integration, some are creating centers of excellence dedicated to integration priorities. This case study reveals how one such organization, Endress+Hauser, formed a competency center that focused all the company’s resources and skills around applications integration in one place. Learn how the business moved its integration… -
Data Warehouse Overhaul Helps Helvetia Simplify Reporting and Analytics for HR — to Start
Data warehouses serve as a central repository for information coming from multiple internal and external sources, enabling businesses to perform reporting and analytics and turn data into insights. For a company like Helvetia Group, which has been insuring products ranging from private and occupational pensions to liability, motor vehicle, transport, and property insurance for more… -
How a Cloud-First Integration Strategy Helps Eneco Offer Innovative Energy Services and Cut Costs
SAP customers can learn a great deal from their peers, and energy company Eneco has many learnings from its cloud-first strategy that other businesses can benefit from. This Q&A with Cloud Integration Consultant Marco Verhoef offers insights from Eneco’s experiences as an early adopter of SAP Integration Suite. In this article, he shares: – How… -
Mahindra CIE Automotive Ltd. Reduces Risk and Hours of Manual Effort by Automating Its SAP User Provisioning Processes
Mahindra CIE Automotive Ltd. (MCIE), as a growing, publicly traded, international company, must follow a variety of regulations and compliance standards and undergo various statutory audits. In the first quarter of 2019, the company’s board of directors stressed the importance of putting in place stronger security and compliance controls to provide better assurance to investors… -
Materials case study on SAPinsider
Applied Materials, which is currently completing a company-wide initiative to consolidate on one instance of SAP ERP, is seeing more requests for customizations coming into IT as more business users are rolling onto the new platform – and consequently, testing and change management issues are also increasing – so company’s Test Support Office (TSO) has… -
Ascend Performance Materials Achieves 99.9% Data Accuracy and Massive Time Savings with Supply Chain Automation
Manufacturing organizations today are under increasing pressure to move faster, reduce errors and risk, and be more efficient. For a company such as Ascend Performance Materials — which produces chemicals, fibers, and plastics for the automotive, electronics, textile, and consumer industries — reducing risk is paramount. The business impact of having bad data could be… -
Strategic Workforce Management Drives Agile Decision Making at Northwest Pipe
In today’s age of commonplace distributed workforces, every SAP customer should spend some time reviewing its workforce management strategy. Those companies with growth strategies that include acquisitions and heavy contingent workforces should take an even closer look. One organization, Northwest Pipe, manufacturer of engineered steel water pipe systems and SAP customer for two decades, scrutinized… -
Breakthru Beverage Group Reaches New Horizon on Journey to Become a Fully Integrated, Data-Driven Business
Modern consumers expect their unique needs to be met at the push of a button, and this expectation includes the food and beverage industry, as evidenced by the rapid increase in grocery pickup and delivery services, for example. Breakthru Beverage Group — which offers restaurants and retailers a portfolio of established and emerging beer, wine,… -
Penn State University Re-Imagines Business Processes and Financial System with SAP S/4HANA
Relying on decades-old technology can cost institutions time, money, and valuable manpower. The importance of a digital transformation strategy is expected to accelerate as universities look to adapt to the ongoing pandemic. In this case study, Penn State University serves as an example of how important digital transformation projects can be to an institution of… -
Timken’s Accounting Automation Enables a Virtual Close and Streamlined Audits
For companies with growth strategies that rely heavily on acquisitions, there are multiple complexities involved with integrating the systems, data, processes, and people. In addition, the challenge of maintaining a remote workforce due to recent global events comes with its own set of complications. However, somehow through all this complexity, products are still being made,… -
Case Study: Financial reporting and planning with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and SimpleFi’s prepackaged FP&A content
Read the case study to discover how to overcome reporting and analytical challenges and gain insights for success. The Company had just completed an implementation of SAP S/4HANA, which also included a reporting model in SAC. They quickly discovered that the dimension structures their previous consultants had used in the design and build of their… -
Enabling SAP enterprises and mission critical workloads on Google Cloud
In this blog, learn how Google Cloud’s Mission Critical Support and high availability capabilities will help to ensure business continuity for your SAP cloud deployment. Find more insightful content from Google Cloud on their Vendor Showcase. -
Migrating SAP to Google Cloud transforms Sara Assicurazioni
This case study describes how Sara Assicuranzioni, an Italian based insurance company, drove agility and innovation all while reducing risk by deploying SAP on Google Cloud. Find more insightful content from Google Cloud on their Vendor Showcase. -
Multipharma meets customers needs with agility of SAP on Google Cloud
In this customer case study, learn why Mulitpharma, Belgium’s largest pharmaceutical retailer plans to drive agility and innovation with SAP on Google Cloud. Find more insightful content from Google Cloud on their Vendor Showcase. -
Kaeser Kompressoren improves innovation and cuts costs with SAP on Google Cloud
In this case study, learn how German manufacturer Kaeser Kompressoren improves quality and innovation all while reducing costs by deploying SAP on Google Cloud Find more insightful content from Google Cloud on their Vendor Showcase. -
How an apparel company applied 8 years of SAP support packs with zero defects
How one organization pulled off a massive catch-up with change impact analysis guiding development, testing, training and security. Find other insightful content from Tricentis on their Vendor Showcase -
Vodafone dials up test automation for SAP S/4HANA speed and innovation
How Vodafone increased the speed and efficiency of testing for one of the world’s 5 largest SAP S/4HANA implementations. Find other insightful content from Tricentis on their Vendor Showcase. -
Mastering master data maintenance in SAP Landscapes
Case Study Kimball Office is a US company headquartered in Jasper, Indiana. Kimball Office is a design driven, technologically savvy brand, tailoring solutions that provide better workplace, learning & healing environment for over 50 years With Kimball’s organic growth and acquisitions such as Nash, Their product mix has increased dramatically in recent years. In 2003,…...… -
How McKesson Ensures Business Continuity While Accelerating Innovation
McKesson runs one of the largest SAP platforms in healthcare, with 24 SAP instances (running both SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA systems) in their SAP stack alone. The company’s complex distributed IT environment makes it possible for them to deliver medicines, medical products, and healthcare services to patients in several facets of healthcare. To accelerate… -
How Zurich used BlackLine to move to SAP S/4HANA
Zurich North America Uses BlackLine Solutions for Automation & Control During Transformation Find other insightful content from BlackLine on their Vendor Showcase -
Lessons Learned from Delivering an SAP Omnichannel Point-of-Sale by GK
To keep up with customer expectations, retail stores must offer a tailored and optimized experience. To achieve this, one US-based apparel company set out to build an integrated point-of-sale (POS) system that, once completed, will help the company gain a competitive edge by offering customers highly flexible promotions, unlimited loyalty campaigns, and a mobile solution.… -
Case Study: Swarovski Group
Discover the many benefits that the Swarovski Group discovered when they implemented CCH Tagetik’s software solution for Consolidation and Planning on SAP HANA. Find other insightful content from Wolters Kluwer | CCH Tagetik on their Vendor Showcase -
Riddell Adopts SaaS-Based Automation to Run Its Programs with Ease
Keeping up with demand is essential to any business. For Riddell — which designs, develops, and markets innovative sports equipment, smart helmet technology, team apparel, and accessories — it is a massive undertaking to manufacture and distribute equipment to its customers, which include the National Football League (NFL)in the U.S. In this article, you will… -
Case Study: Automating financial processes for weekly payroll uploads
Learn how utilizing an Excel-based solution for payroll uploads delivered great time savings and eliminated errors at Fender. Find other insightful content from Magnitude on their Vendor Showcase. -
Vodafone Sets New Benchmark on Its Intelligent Enterprise Journey with SAP S/4HANA Migration and Strategic Business Model
Before going live with one of the largest SAP S/4HANA systems in the world in just 18 months, Vodafone operated a multinational technology communications company supported by a core business model in a single instance of SAP ECC. To better support the company’s 93,000 employees, it needed to increase process automation and standardization, achieve a… -
Mohawk Industries Harness The Power of Data with SAP HANA and Red Hat
Carpeting and flooring company Mohawk Industries sought to expand its SAP HANA environment to deliver greater business value and support critical operations. To achieve this expansion, Mohawk sought a scalable, cost-effective, and supported platform. Download the Case Study to discover how to harness the power of data with SAP HANA and Red Hat. See how… -
Solenis to Shorten Customer Order Fulfillment from Weeks to Days with CAPEX App
Solenis ran CAPEX requests and approvals primarily through a legacy HCL Notes (formerly Lotus Notes) system, but the process crosses into several different systems, including Microsoft Excel, SAP ERP, and Salesforce. Unfortunately, this highly customized system ran a very loosely defined and documented process with no automated financial authority validations and limited visibility into the… -
Carhartt Accelerates Integration Implementation & Powers the Customer-centric Experience with enosix
More than 130 years after its founding, Carhartt remains a family-owned business that began in 1889 with the production of overalls via two sewing machines in a Detroit loft. Today, the company has grown into a well-known, trusted, and global brand that manufactures and sells durable workwear in stores and online. Carhartt’s success can be… -
Verso Corporation Reduces Costs & Improves Quote Creation Processes with enosix
The paper manufacturing industry is facing substantial transformation and challenges: consolidation, collapse of suppliers, and increasing pressure to prove the value of printing on paper in the midst of disruption from digital media. For the IT department at Verso Corporation, a leading North American producer of printing papers, specialty papers, and pulp, this means implementing… -
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Breakthru Beverage Group Increases SAP Systems Usage Through Change Management
Change management emerged as the top challenge for SAP deployments in previous SAPinsider research. For Breakthru Beverage Group — a North American alcoholic beverage wholesaler headquartered in Cicero, Illinois — the successful implementation of SAP HANA 2.0-based business intelligence products required an evolution in its change management strategy. SAPinsider recently interviewed Desmond Foley, Solutions Architect… -
Lessons Learned by Lam Research After an Employee Central Org. Structure Redesign
When a producer of wafer fabrication equipment and services for the global semiconductor industry migrated from on-premise to Employee Central in 2015, much of the organizational structure and related data from its SAP HCM instance were moved across to the new platform during the implementation. This meant that the organizational structure followed the manager relationship… -
Hershey’s Minimizes Management Adjustments to Financial Close
About 31% of the SAPinsider Community chose the “need to reduce time required to generate data and reporting at period close” as a key driver for their SAP S/4HANA Finance strategy, according to SAPinsider’s upcoming research on the “SAP S/4HANA Finance: State of the Market.” Additionally, 58% of the same survey’s respondents chose financial close… -
Hunter Douglas Gets Illumination from SAP S/4HANA Consolidation
Window treatment company Hunter Douglas, like many SAP customers, has grown through a continuing series of acquisitions. As business owners come into the family, they benefit from the organization’s minimum interference approach, however, the decentralized model presented challenges over time, particularly in supply chain management and purchasing. Learn how Hunter Douglas consolidated its business processes… -
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Pfizer Standardizes Process Controls and Moves to Continuous Remote Audits
This case study explains how the Manual Control Performance (MCP) capability in SAP Process Control empowered Pfizer, an American multinational pharmaceuticals company headquartered in New York City with approximately 88,300 employees worldwide, to standardize controls across all sites, centralize, control performance, and perform continuous control monitoring (CCM). This content is available to Premium Members. Sign… -
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Brighthouse Financial Accelerates User Provisioning Cycles
Before integrating Saviynt’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution and SAP Access Control, Brighthouse Financial ran an entirely manual user provisioning process using an access request feature in SharePoint. This case study explains how the Fortune 500 company improved their user provisioning processes for SAP products with SAP Access Control and then implemented Saviynt’s IGA… -
Launching Platforms for Personalized, Behavioral, Customer-Centric Engagement in Banking and Insurance
Learn how Discovery Group recently partnered with SAP to extend its offerings to provide personalized, behavioral, customer-centric engagement, journeys, and outcomes for its members. On the insurance side of the business, Discovery Health created a unique program to incentivize healthy behavior through its Vitality brand, rewarding members for their healthy living choices. On the banking… -
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Medical Equipment Manufacturer Prevents Equipment Shortages During COVID-19 Outbreak
This SAPinsider case study shares how a large global diagnostic medical equipment manufacturer implemented business contingency plans to prepare for the increased demand and disrupted supply chains caused by the COVID-19 crisis. This content is available to Premium Members. Sign In Learn more about Premium Access -
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Albany International Expects to Save 800 Hours of Work Annually by Automating Capital Expenditure Requests
Streamlining financial workflows emerged as the top strategic action and the theme of SAPinsider's Streamlining Financial Processes in the Cloud research. One SAP customer, Albany International, has found some success with this strategy by automating its capital expenditure request (CER) process. This content is available to Premium Members. Sign In Learn more about Premium Access -
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Sun Chemical Significantly Reduces Errors in Cash Application Processes
SAPinsider interviewed Erin Carter, Manager Global Treasury Operations at Sun Chemical. The company is the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, has more than $7.5 billion in annual sales, and over 20,000 employees in sixty-three countries. About a quarter (26%) of SAP customers currently use an intelligent cash application solution, according to SAPinsider’s… -
AGL Energy Tracks and Traces Tens of Thousands of Serialized Rotable Parts
Most (70%) SAP customers have integrated product or asset requirements to product models to support traceability of parts, according to SAPinsider's "Intelligent PLM Benchmark Report." One of those customers, AGL Energy, uses this integrated data to trace rotable parts through an SAP Fiori app implemented at the same time as SAP S/4HANA. SAPinsider recently interviewed… -
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Inside a Multi-Phased SAP Digitization Journey II
Mobile service provider Vodafone Group has grown tremendously since its creation 27 years ago. And in today’s booming mobile market, there is no foreseeable end in sight. But to continue to grow as a company, Vodafone needed to function more like a single entity, with common practices, centralized operations, and data sharing between operating companies.… -
American Snack Company Saves Millions by Improving SAP TM User Experience
Approximately 23% of SAP customers currently use SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) according to SAPinsider's "Transforming the Intelligent Supply Chain" research. This makes it the second most popular SAP supply chain product after SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO). SAP customers that use SAP TM are 83% more likely to focus on digital transformation… -
How Bunge Overcame the Global Challenge of Centralizing HR Processes
In an environment of increasingly distributed workforces, SAP customers need to scrutinize their human resources (HR) practices more closely than ever. This case study takes a look at how agribusiness and food company Bunge — which supplies some of the biggest food processors and foodservice brands in the world with agricultural commodities, such as grains… -
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Lion Improves Levels of Integration and Automation with SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII)
This research brief examines how Lion improved automation and IT/OT integration in its manufacturing plants. In Lion’s case, the company digitized and automated a manufacturing plant in New Zealand, but a best of-breed strategy for all their enterprise solutions had left them with dozens of different IT solutions and a complicated organic IT architecture that… -
Delivery Hero Drives Automation and Scale with SAP Software
In the competitive global food-delivery industry, a new business needs to be nimble and fast to establish itself and thrive. Delivery Hero is one such company, which came on the scene in 2011 and grew to process more than three times the orders of all its competitors combined. SAP customers can learn a great deal… -
PanAust Saves 500+ People Hours/Week with Digital Supply Chain Apps
SAP users across supply chain operations leverage SAP Fiori to track goods and parts by Pierce Owen, VP of Research and Publishing More than half (57%) of leading SAP supply chain customers — companies achieving significantly better supply chain business results than the competition — currently use supply chain mobile applications integrated with their core…...… -
Belimo Increases Warehouse Productivity and Order Fulfillment by More Than 30%
Warehouse pickers leverage ASRS, machine learning, and shipping solutions integrated with SAP ERP by Pierce Owen, VP of Research and Publishing According to research conducted by SAPinsider, only 14% of SAP customers currently use machine learning (ML) applications in their supply chains or manufacturing operations. Using these technologies can have significant benefits, however. For example,…...… -
Coca-Cola Amatil Automates Distribution Center Operations and Vehicle Load Planning
Logistics planners leverage SAP EWM and SAP TM to optimize order fulfillment by Pierce Owen, VP of Research and Publishing, SAPinsider Only 7% of SAP supply chain customers currently use both SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and SAP Transportation Management (TM), according to SAPinsider’s Transforming the Intelligent Supply Chain research; however, one of those customers,…...… -
Bob’s Discount Furniture Grows from 40 to 120+ Stores with Improved Warehouse Management
Warehouse managers leverage SAP Extended Warehouse Management to integrate with SAP ECC and scale with the business by Pierce Owen, VP of Research and Publishing, SAPinsider Most (59%) leading SAP supply chain customers — companies achieving significantly better supply chain business results than the competition — currently use a warehouse management system (WMS) to manage…...… -
Manufacturers Use Agile and Intelligent PLM to Reduce Time to Market
This research brief examines how companies in the manufacturing sector align their business strategies to meet pressures and goals such as reduced time to market through the use of intelligent technologies such as generative design, topology optimization, additive manufacturing, and a combination of edge and cloud computing. The most recent SAPinsider survey shows that more…...… -
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New Product Introduction Solution Significantly Reduces Cycle Times
Among leading SAP supply chain customers — companies achieving significantly better supply chain business results than the competition — 29% chose shorter product lifecycles as one of the top drivers impacting their supply chain, according to SAPinsider research. To achieve shorter product life cycles, organizations must introduce new products faster than ever. This content is… -
Cooper Standard Accelerates Cross-Platform Access Management
When Cooper Standard — systems and components provider for the automotive and industrial industries — saw the need to automate access management, the company undertook a project would affect over 11,000 desktop users, require defining common processes to meet compliance requirements, and improve control over its heterogenous SAP and non-SAP application landscape. Learn how the company came… -
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Ericsson Delights Customers with DevOps SAP Integration
After 140 years in business, global technology giant Ericsson knows a thing or two about staying at the forefront of a changing industry. Learn how the company has modernized its IT delivery approach, and increased customer satisfaction, by adopting a continuous delivery model for its digital business support systems portfolio, and how it used the… -
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McAfee Saves 2,500 Hours of Manual Effort with Test and Business Process Automation on Its Journey to SAP S/4HANA
McAfee was amidst sweeping change – shifting its accounting standards and financial reporting in SAP ERP, separating its IT systems from its parent company in a spinoff, and moving from a waterfall method to an agile methodology. In response, the business wanted to increase the velocity of its application delivery and testing. Learn how the… -
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Sabre Turns an Architecture Challenge into a Success Story for Billing
Processing $2 billion through its billing system and $120 billion of global travel spend annually, travel technology company Sabre needed a sophisticated and failure-proof software system. The business turned to SAP HANA Enterprise Edition to handle its complex requirements. The Sabre team worked with SAP to implement this solution, and as a result, has since… -
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VINCI Energies Becomes “Future Ready” with 10-Month Program to Innovate with SAP S/4HANA
Due to its aggressive acquisition strategy, professional services company VINCI Energies – which has already grown to 77,500 employees spread throughout more than 1,000 global companies – needed an updated ERP program and IT strategy to integrate its new companies into the fold as quickly and easily as possible. To accomplish this, the business decided… -
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VINCI Energies Simplifies Employees’ Lives with New Timesheet-Entry Application
On the heels of its migration to SAP S/4HANA, professional services company VINCI Energies wanted to extend the new functionality with a new application for employee timesheet entry that would replace former manual, paper-based processes. Learn how the business designed and developed the online app using SAP Cloud Platform, and how this application is creating… -
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Lessons Learned from Versum Materials’ 15-Month Greenfield SAP S/4HANA Implementation
When Versum Materials was divested in 2016, it took the opportunity not only to make a fresh IT start with a greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation, but also to do it with a big-bang approach. The newly independent business accomplished the massive change in 15 months with a painless go-live. Along the way, it discovered some… -
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Discovery, Inc. Debuts New Financial Processes
Three billion people across 230 countries currently consume lifestyle entertainment from Discovery, Inc. — a company that creates more than 8,000 hours of original programming in 50 languages each year and distributes television and digital content globally. After experiencing fast domestic and international growth, and with day-to-day accounting functions spread across offices in more than 20… -
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How HarrisLogic Is Breaking Down Barriers to Mental Health Care with SAP HANA
During the digitization of the medical world, the mental health field was virtually passed over. To fill this gap, HarrisLogic develops technology platforms for the behavioral healthcare field to help its users identify the workflow of mentally ill individuals moving through the system and ensure no one gets lost in the cracks. Through a combination… -
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Digital Transformation Leads the State of Illinois to Build a Smarter IT Infrastructure in the Cloud
The disruptive nature of technology innovation is not limited to business: The public sector must also consider the impact of digital transformation. The State of Illinois recognized a need for improved technology and functionality across its growing responsibilities, and in 2016 began a digital transformation that aimed to replace 420 systems across 58 agencies in… -
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Goodyear Keeps the Wheels Rolling with SAP Solution Manager
For the past 120 years, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has been at the forefront of a continuously changing mobility industry. It has achieved this by leading with innovation in its products and services for customers, as well as in its internal systems and processes. Following this commitment, the company recently updated its system… -
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Sanofi Performs a Self-Diagnosis
Sanofi, a major multinational pharmaceutical company, has plans for expansion. To facilitate that growth, Sanofi decided it needed to automate its financial close, account reconciliation, and journal entry processes as many of them were manual and disparate across its business units. Discover how even partway through a global implementation of a record-to-report solution to transform… -
Southwire Powers Up with Analytics to Redesign User Roles
Preventing access risk and ensuring regulatory compliance are top priorities for any business, and cable and wire manufacturer Southwire Company, LLC, understands how analytics are required to successfully achieve these goals. Concerned that access-related risks were unacceptably high, Southwire embarked on a multi-phased project that aimed to remove, reduce, and mitigate these risks and to… -
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Rainforest Connection to Use Predictive Analysis to Fight Deforestation and Protect the Global Environment
Deforestation is devastating to Earth’s rainforests, and to the planet as a whole — it creates more of an impact on climate change than the emissions of planes, trains, cars, trucks, and ships combined, according to a study. With 90% of rainforest logging being done illegally, a massive opportunity opened up for Rainforest Connection, a… -
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SAP Leonardo + Location-Based Intelligence = Insights into Customer Traffic and Engagement
Offering personalized services can improve the customer experience for nearly any type of business. Companies leading in this digital age are establishing a competitive advantage by deploying technology that leverages data generated by customer behavior to improve their customers’ experience across different channels. Learn how lighting manufacturer Acuity Brands — which provides lighting, lighting controls,… -
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Cardinal Health Enhances Trust in Products, Services, and Processes with Automated Regression Testing and Robotic Process Automation
With millions of patients, pharmacies, and hospitals relying on its healthcare services and products, Cardinal Health employs an IT landscape consisting of thousands of SAP and non-SAP applications running countless business processes to conduct its business. To uphold stringent quality standards, improve operations, and provide necessary maintenance and business process testing, the company sought a test automation… -
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CorpFlex Takes Its Customers Beyond the Server
Gone are the days when retailers could forecast inventory based on previous actuals and manufacturers could absorb unplanned production downtime by artificially inflating stock levels. In today's digital age, the abillity of companies to provide exemplary customer service in a digital environment is now tied to the performance and availability of their ERP systems. SAP… -
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Benjamin Moore Mixes Up Its Product Pricing
In 2014 Benjamin Moore & Co. found itself limited by an aging legacy pricing system that stymied its ability to scale its paint and stain manufacturing business. It turned to Vistex for a new automated pricing system that transformed the pricing process, leading to more accuracy, better analytics, and increased customer satisfaction. Now it is… -
Dolby Laboratories Amplifies Regression Testing
Audio pioneer Dolby Laboratories, which has been delivering audiophiles a superior sound and sight experience since the 1970s, decided in 2016 that it wanted an equally stringent level of quality assurance for its business process testing. The business sought a risk-based automated testing solution to reduce or eliminate regression test coverage gaps and lengthy testing… -
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Blue Diamond Growers Cultivates Quality
With a rapidly growing business that had reached the limits of its mostly manual, paper-based product development processes, Blue Diamond Growers — the world’s leading almond marketer and processor — needed a reliable, efficient way to ensure the accuracy of data throughout the organization. Most of the information used by different groups within the company… -
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Nexeo Solutions’ Data Archiving Strategy Ensures Security and Improves Performance
Nexeo Solutions – worldwide distributor of chemicals, plastics, and environmental services – needed to ensure reliable and timely same-day or next-day deliveries to roughly 28,000 customers worldwide after divesting from its parent company in 2011. To continue creating and tracking purchase orders in the most efficient and effective manner, Nexeo Solutions underwent a phased data… -
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The Sweet Taste of Success
The Hershey Company, known for its chocolates, sweets, mints, and snacks, is a household name for many families around the world. Founded in 1894, Hershey continues to expand its business across 70 locations and 80 brands. With 4,104 accounts and growing, the reconciliation process soon became too unwieldly for the finance department to maintain as-is.… -
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Natura Seeks Sustainable Sales Order Tracking
Natura, a leading manufacturer of cosmetics, hygiene, and beauty products in Brazil, is passionate about sustainability. With ingredients that are 83% renewable in recyclable packaging, the company stays true to its roots and puts an emphasis on positively affecting the environment. But as the company continued to grow and sales orders came in at an… -
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Honda R&D Americas Accelerates SAP HANA Migration with Automated Business Process Testing
Honda R&D Americas, Inc. (HRA) knows that in the automotive industry, testing is crucial. Whether it’s the safety features of its vehicles or internal end-to-end business process testing across its enterprise application landscape, HRA needs to be sure that everything runs smoothly. But manual SAP system testing proved to be time consuming and costly, often… -
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Clemens Food Group Corrals the Power of the Digital Core
Clemens Food Group, a pork production company that raises and processes roughly five million hogs each year, knows the challenges of operating in the perishable foods industry. With profitability directly dependent on timeliness and accuracy of orders, it is imperative for the company to have clear insight into its products and warehouse activities. However, Clemens… -
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A Foundation for Growth
Fast-growing Vivint Smart Home realized it needed to replace its patchwork of systems if it wanted to keep on expanding. Its checklist of required functionality for future business needs led to the selection of SAP S/4HANA as the technology foundation. An early adopter of SAP S/4HANA in a cloud deployment, Vivint Smart Home has realized… -
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Callaway Golf Finds the Green with SAP HANA
Callaway Golf, a pioneer and innovator of golfing gear, found it was spending more time waiting for reports than on the green. Its legacy system was sluggish, with key planning reports taking up to 32 hours to complete, and user productivity was significantly lowered as a result. IT leaders knew it was time for a… -
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Siemens Energizes Its Testing Landscape
Siemens sought to consolidate its sprawling IT landscape into a unified IT infrastructure. While this project produced efficiencies, manual testing remained a sticking point, requiring 1,000-person days for complex SAP upgrades. Learn how Siemens drastically reduced testing efforts by automating testing with Worksoft Certify across 20+ SAP systems, and tying in documentation to SAP Solution… -
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Vodafone Group Dials Up Process Controls
As Vodafone Group expanded globally, it required more stringent process controls to ensure the more than 100,000 users who touched their various business processes could act efficiently. The company sought SAP Process Control to automate its process controls and expand the control footprint by process, systems, and geography. Discover how the company was able to… -
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Grupo TDM Moves to the Cloud with SAP HANA and Delivers Faster and More Efficient Service to Customers
Grupo TDM wanted to replace its home-grown IT infrastructure with scalable, flexible software hosted on a cloud platform and deliver faster and more efficient service to its customers. Learn how the company implemented SAP HANA running on IBM Cloud for SAP applications to achieve fewer manual, error-prone, paper-based processes; 50% faster information access, providing more… -
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J.K. Cement Strengthens Its Controls Environment
The technology infrastructure of cement producer J.K. Cement needed to tighten up its controls. Its ten-year-old SAP system had added thousands of users and vendors, and a slew of manual, paper-based processes led to too many segregation of duties (SoD) conflicts and too much possibility for fraud. Learn how the company adopted nine Security Weaver… -
Global Law Firm Motions to Eliminate Risk
Managing risk and keeping controls in place are important concepts for companies of all shapes and sizes — not just public companies needing to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley. Linklaters, a private, global law firm, felt these challenges first-hand after spending too long cobbling together external spreadsheets and manual processes to track access among users distributed around… -
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Cameron Achieves Complete Plant-Level Visibility with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
In the midst of a business reorganization, Cameron, a Schlumberger Company and manufacturer in the oil and gas industry, embarked on a company-wide standardization project to simplify and streamline both its SAP ERP and reporting processes as well as eliminate manually intensive processes that resulted from disconnected legacy systems. This project involved consolidating to five… -
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Relaxo Footwears Takes Huge Strides to Improve SAP User Management
Relaxo Footwears Limited -- the largest footwear manufacturer in India -- produces roughly 600,000 pairs of shoes each day, which are sold through 900 distributors promoting 11 brands and 300 retail outlets in 125 cities across the country. Since implementing SAP Apparel and Footwear in 2009, Relaxo has more than doubled its SAP licenses, and… -
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Biopharmaceutical Startup AbbVie Receives Healthy Long-Term Prognosis
After being spun off in 2013, specialty biopharmaceutical maker AbbVie needed to unify technologies across more than 100 global sites. It rolled out SAP ERP and standardized global processes across these sites. Find out how the company developed a standard SAP global template that, after a few updates, allowed it to move swiftly and successfully… -
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Building Customer Success on a Global Platform
As companies continue to transition to SAP HANA, many are shying away from on-premise deployments and instead opting to move to the cloud. These organizations, which often have a global presence and a distributed infrastructure, are looking for an SAP provider that has a global footprint and can offer consistency in architecture, service delivery, and… -
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Automating Business Process Testing at Applied Materials
When tasked with moving to a single SAP instance, Applied Materials, a semiconductor and display equipment leader, knew it needed a solution to deploy more projects faster with reduced manual effort. Discover how Applied Materials implemented Worksoft Certify test automation to cut test cycles nearly in half and replace thousands of manual tests while boosting… -
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Planning Tips Scales in Stepan Company’s Favor
As a manufacturer of chemicals that must be created according to precise plans, Stepan Company understands the importance of robust planning. So when the organization underwent a financial transformation, it took a close look at how it could update its financial planning and analysis processes. Beforehand, financial planning was performed manually, with time-consuming processes and… -
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Eli Lilly and Company Continues Its Global Standardization and Automation Initiative with a Rollout of SAP Process Control
Eli Lilly and Company, a manufacturer of human pharmaceuticals and animal health products for more than 140 years, knew it needed to change with the times. With locations around the globe, manual spreadsheets to track and monitor controls were no longer feasible. The company decided to implement a central repository to store data from a… -
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American Outdoor Brands Takes Aim at a New Beginning
American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC) is experiencing the beginning of a new business direction. Originally the well-known firearms company Smith and Wesson, recent success has led AOBC to rapid acquisitions, expansion into new markets, and a rebranding that reflects its broadened focus. But in order to continue this growth, AOBC needed a new IT infrastructure… -
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McLaren Races Ahead in the Cloud
Like most industries, auto racing is increasingly defined by what kind of data a company can generate — and analyze. As an innovative, successful racing company with a storied history to honor, McLaren Group knew that it needed to find better ways to benefit from the massive amount of data it was generating — about… -
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IDEXX Laboratories Tames Troublesome Reporting
IDEXX Laboratories, an animal health diagnostics and veterinary software innovator, prides itself on the quick turnaround of diagnostic test results for its customers. Internally, the business planning team was not seeing the same fast results. With complex reports taking over 30 minutes to complete (or time out), IDEXX knew it was time to improve query… -
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CNH Industrial Cultivates Automated Account Reconciliation Landscape
CNH Industrial, a global capital goods corporation specializing in the manufacture of agricultural and construction equipment, along with commercial vehicles and powertrain solutions, takes pride in designing and producing machines that “keep agriculture and industry growing.” But with more than 63,000 employees, 64 manufacturing plants, and 50 research and development centers, managing financial tasks is… -
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Cooking Up Cost Savings with Order-to-Cash Automation
With more than 6,000 customers on six continents, JBS USA sells a staggering amount of meat products all over the world. To improve how payments were collected from all of those sales, the business wanted to do away with manual financial processes and consistently — and in the process, lower its days sales outstanding (DSO)… -
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Duke University Men’s Basketball Enhances Digital Playbook
SAP HANA powers statistical analysis for websites for the NBA and NHL — and now also runs a statistical algorithm that produces insights about Duke University’s men’s basketball team. The university developed #DukeMBBStats Insights on www.goduke.com to serve as the fans’ ultimate source for in-game comparisons and analysis to show how what they are watching… -
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ConocoPhillips Drills Down into Access Control
Photo courtesy of ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips, one of the world’s largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies, relies on proper access control and segregation of duties (SoD) to manage its governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements. As an SAP Access Control customer since 2009, ConocoPhillips understands the importance of regularly updating the application and… -
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Sloan Valve Opens Floodgate to Improved Customer Experience
As producers of motion-sensing restroom appliances and other commercial plumbing products, Sloan Valve makes life more efficient for people who visit restrooms in restaurants, airports, and other public spaces. But its own sales processes needed an improvement in efficiency. Salespeople had been performing their work manually — relying on handwritten notecards to keep track of… -
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Hillarys Blinds Opens Window into Real Time
Hillarys ― a manufacturer and retailer of made-to-order window coverings based in Nottingham, England ― has been well ahead of the customization curve, providing its customers with personalized products and service for nearly 50 years. Business and customer needs have changed significantly, however, and Hillarys recognized it needed to adapt in order to innovate, capture… -
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Automotive Component Company Nemak Drives Compliance Through Process Control Journey
Nemak, a manufacturer of complex automobile components, needed to drive more efficiencies in its compliance processes. These processes were primarily based on manual tasks, information was communicated in self-reporting surveys or questionnaires, and data was stored in e-mails or spreadsheets. These factors led to both inefficiencies and inaccuracies that could significantly affect Nemak’s compliance standing.… -
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Nature’s Way Reenergizes and Empowers Sales and Service to Better Serve Customers
When Nature’s Way, a global multi-branded marketer, developer, and manufacturer of premium dietary supplements and homeopathics, realized that it had outgrown its homegrown customer relationship management application, it began the search for a solution befitting a best-in-class global consumer packaged goods company that would give field sales and customer service representatives access to the data… -
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Cintas Finds a Fresh Approach in the Cloud
Learn how Cintas -- the facilities services and uniform company that services nearly one million customers throughout North America -- consolidated its segmented landscape onto SAP ERP in a private managed cloud and implemented SAP Hybris Commerce and SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer. See how the business unified its platforms for billing, service orders, and… -
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Duke University Men’s Basketball Takes Digital Game to New Heights with SAP HANA
Duke University’s men’s basketball team, the Blue Devils, has a lot of fans, and for good reason – it has the winningest coach in college basketball history and a long history of being home to the game’s all stars. With such a long and proud history, there are innumerable statistics available on the Blue Devils,… -
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Dalmia Bharat Group Mitigates Access Risks in Growing SAP Landscape
Dalmia Bharat Group – whose businesses cover products ranging from cement to sugar – was growing at an impressive rate. The company expanded from $400 million to $2 billion in the course of a decade, much of this growth stemming from acquisitions of new manufacturing facilities. Such a rapid rate of acquisitions brought its own… -
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New England Biolabs Undergoes Technology Strategy Shift
When New England Biolabs (NEB), a provider of materials for genetic research, started experiencing double-digit growth, it became apparent that manually tracking inventory in notebooks, spreadsheets, and home-grown applications would no longer support the demand of its customers. And, because of the nature of the industry, traceability of raw materials and product costing was of… -
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Microbattery Powers Up a New Customer-Facing Storefront
Online shopping has become the new normal – and it’s an important way for small businesses to make their products available to potential customers. But the technology supporting ecommerce is not always easy for a small business to run. This was something Microbattery knew well; its business depends on ecommerce, but the solution it employed… -
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Heidelberg University Hospital Partners with SAP to Improve the Health and Well-Being of Underprivileged Patients
Every year, 500,000 women worldwide are newly diagnosed with cervical cancer. To help prevent this disease, Heidelberg University Hospital developed a project using a biomarker that would help determine if a woman infected with HPV was at risk for developing cancer, enabling early, life-saving treatment for that woman. But reaching women in developing countries to… -
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How AdminaHealth Helps Companies Transition to and Manage Self-Funded Healthcare Plans with SAP Business All-in-One
For many organizations, creating a self-funded healthcare plan for employees is an attractive option for managing or even reversing rising healthcare costs and insurance premiums. With these savings come new complexities, however, as many of the administrative tasks once held by the insurance companies now fall on the organization. Enter AdminaHealth – a company primed… -
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Creating a Culture of Collaboration at Sargent & Lundy
When power project services company Sargent & Lundy was faced with the need to empower new staff with the knowledge to succeed, business leaders recognized the immediate need for capturing expert knowledge from seasoned, in-house specialists before they reached retirement age. This institutional knowledge could – and should – be shared with their increasingly global… -
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Sealed Air Packages an Improved Customer Experience
As producers of packaging materials, Sealed Air – the inventors of Bubble Wrap – helps organizations deliver products to their customers. Recently, Sealed Air has been focusing much of its energy on delivering better service to its own customers, embarking on a project to realign its customer service processes to new demands. This change, driven… -
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How Thomas Cook Group Airlines Keeps Pace with Evolving Tourism Industry
The digital economy is taking the travel and tourism industry to new destinations, and Thomas Cook Group Airlines knew it had to make the journey to digital business. As part of the airline provider’s digital business strategy, it strove for ways to automate, standardize, and streamline its processes. Previously, the airline’s IT landscape consisted of… -
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SCHOTT KAISHA Bottles a Fresh Start
SCHOTT KAISHA is a prolific provider of containers for the pharmaceutical industry, but as its business increased, the organization’s legacy system could not contain its growth. The company needed a systems upgrade if it was going to keep up with the pace of production. To do so, it partnered with Deloitte to undergo an SAP… -
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The Kraft Heinz Company Unlocks Recipe for Strategic Business Insight
When the merger between Kraft Foods and Heinz was finalized in July 2015, the resulting Kraft Heinz Company became the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world — and the volumes of data that the newly merged company had to manage were as expansive as the organization itself. Learn how Kraft Heinz migrated its… -
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The Rockport Group Walks Tall in the Cloud
The Rockport Group has long been focused on helping its customers find the right fit – and when the business was sold and subsequently set up as an independent company, it needed to find a good fit for itself. The organization began looking for a way to stand up its own IT infrastructure without pulling… -
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A Next-Generation Finance Platform at Carter’s
Carter’s, Inc., whose business includes the well-known OshKosh B’gosh brand, is the leading brand of clothing items for children in the US. With merchandise sold in more than 1,000 company-owned stores, as well as in most large retail department stores and online, Carter’s has hundreds of thousands of transactions touching its financial systems every day… -
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Merck Focuses on Data-Driven Platform Strategy
Merck & Co., one of the world’s largest healthcare companies, has seen its data explode since it first implemented SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) on a third-party database that started to struggle as Merck’s massive data volumes hit the 15TB mark. To enable deep analytics insights and real-time access to all its growing data, Merck… -
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PeroxyChem Starts a Cloud Reaction
When PeroxyChem was divested from its parent company, it had only one year before it had to get off its parent company’s IT systems and stand up its own. This meant the opportunity to create a systems landscape poised for growth – if the newly divested business could meet all the challenges of building an… -
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Indivior Becomes Independent
Indivior PLC, a specialty pharmaceutical company that manufactures products for the treatment of opioid dependence, is dedicated to helping patients transform their lives. Recently, the organization had to transform itself when it demerged with its parent company. Separated from the IT services of its parent, Indivior had to set up an entirely new IT platform.… -
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How Tate & Lyle “Makes Food Extraordinary” with Improved Finance Functions
Tate & Lyle, a global provider of specialty food ingredients and solutions, relied heavily on manual, spreadsheet-based processes to manage its account reconciliations. With locations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, regional reconciliations were an unwieldy exercise that often tied up the finance team in administrative tasks like hunting down missing signatures… -
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MIT Builds a Foundation for the Future
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a pioneer in education and technology, is no stranger to the SAP world. Having been an SAP customer since 1996, MIT observed the increasingly prominent trend of on-premise systems moving to the cloud to reduce datacenter footprints and free up resources for more value-added development. Coupled with the need for… -
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ATB Financial Banks on Team Members
ATB Financial, a financial services organization in Alberta, Canada, prides itself on being an excellent place to work. Its legacy HR system, however, did not provide the agility, efficiency, or self-service functionality necessary for maintaining this goal. With limited transparency for administrators and minimal ownership for employees, the old system needed an update. Discover how… -
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Simplified Travel and Expense Management Takes Flight at Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems, a provider of infrastructure technology and software, has a global business presence – and its employees can often be found scattered around the globe, too. Roughly 20% of the company’s workforce is routinely sent to client sites worldwide. This frequent travel requires a simple and efficient travel management system, preferably one that can… -
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Great-West Financial Establishes Its Mobile Footprint
In today’s fast-paced, digital world, employees are more likely to prefer the convenience of a smartphone app than the rigidity of an on-premise one. This was certainly true at Great-West Financial, a life insurance and retirement services provider that hundreds of thousands of customers rely on. Executives and managers could only access their invoice workflows… -
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doTERRA Brings the Power of Nature to the World at a Rapid Pace
Since its founding in 2008, doTERRA has grown exponentially, providing essential oils and other health products to millions of customers in more than 100 countries around the world. The company initially used third-party IT solutions for its day-to-day operations but, as it expanded, decided to build more scalable, internally-managed systems. Learn how doTERRA is using… -
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Whirlpool Corporation Achieves Ultra Clean Business Processes with Automation Software
For over a century, Whirlpool Corporation has been manufacturing home appliances. The organization has built up an abundance of different brands and offerings over the years and, in doing so, has also acquired an abundance of data – so much so that the needs for processes for inputting, extracting, and maintaining that data quickly grew.… -
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Talent Acquisition Heats Up at A.O. Smith
In competitive job markets, companies get one chance to make a good first impression on potential candidates or risk losing talent to rival organizations. The first point of contact for many job seekers is often the recruiting website, but if it proves to be a negative experience it could deter candidates. Like many organizations, global… -
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Memebox Loves Its Makeover
Korean start-up Memebox started simply but soon began growing at an exponential rate — establishing unique product lines, e-commerce platforms, and retail stores. It didn’t take long for Memebox to realize that if it wanted to keep up with customer demand, it needed new technology capabilities. But as a small, fast-growing start-up, the company needed an out-of-the box… -
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Inside a Multi-Phased SAP Digitization Journey
In 2006, the European Union passed a new regulation that heralded dramatic changes for Varian Medical Systems, a producer of medical devices for oncology, imaging, and proton therapy. Under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, Varian had to reengineer many of its products in order to make their chemical compositions environmentally compliant. This was… -
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Broad Green Pictures Produces Oscar-Worthy Financials with SAP S/4HANA
Before a movie can dazzle audiences, a lot needs to happen behind the scenes – especially when it comes to financing the creation and distribution of a feature film. This was a truth that the fast-growing independent movie studio Broad Green Pictures knew all too well. The studio started with basic accounting software, but as… -
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How Freudenberg IT Meets Hosting Needs for Growing SAP HANA Customer Base
Freudenberg IT (FIT), one of the world’s largest IT services and cloud providers for SAP applications, is no stranger to the world of SAP software. With its diverse customer base rapidly moving to SAP HANA, FIT realized it needed to evolve with the technological improvements to keep up with customer demand. This led the company… -
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Sabre’s Voyage to Becoming a Real-Time Enterprise
Since its founding in 1960, Sabre has brought new technologies and B2B travel together to provide customers with innovative travel solutions and resources. So as its customers grew to favor digital technologies – such as software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and cloud offerings – Sabre recognized that it needed advance its own capabilities. To continue with its… -
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Topco Delivers on Transformation Initiative
The last time you went to the market, there’s a good chance you purchased something distributed by Topco Associates – a cooperative that serves member grocery stores, wholesalers, and food service companies throughout the United States and other parts of North America. For Topco, success depends on optimized customer service. That’s why the organization decided… -
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Lannett Company, Inc. Prescribes Automated Business Process Testing
Lannett Company, Inc. is a growing pharmaceutical firm – in fact, Fortune named Lannett Company, Inc. the fastest-growing company of 2015. This rapid growth made the company’s manual-based testing processes untenable. With its new acquisitions and intricate business processes, Lannett could no longer afford the time and resources needed to perform regression testing the old-fashioned… -
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Automated Account Reconciliations Take Root at Scotts Miracle-Gro
Scotts Miracle-Gro, a household name for lawn and garden products, took a hard look at how to best improve its account reconciliation process. Exceptions, discrepancies, and manual, spreadsheet-based processes were cropping up across its SAP landscape, making reconciliation difficult and time consuming for preparers, approvers, and internal auditors alike. It was time for the company… -
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Dolby Delivers Emotionally Charged Experiences with Next-Generation SAP HANA Database
Dolby Laboratories, a leader in audio, video, and voice technology, has always been on the technological cutting-edge. But when it came to internal business intelligence (BI) solutions, Dolby had room for improvement. Lengthy delays, data redundancy, and lack of agility hampered the company from deriving insights as fast as it wanted. Learn about Dolby’s journey… -
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Celanese Finds a Perfect Fit in the IBM Cloud
With 40 SAP systems, 213 interfaces, and 30TB of data across development, test, and production environments, Celanese — a specialty materials company based in Texas — knew it needed a way to decrease its annual SAP operational costs. By partnering with IBM and leveraging IBM Cloud Managed Services for SAP, the company was able to… -
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National Grid Transmits Procurement to the Cloud with SAP Ariba Solutions
In keeping with its commitment to efficiency, National Grid needed to simplify its procurement process for its customers and internal users. After a move to SAP ERP and SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM), the business decided a move to the cloud would improve its system scalability as well as the supplier experience. Learn how… -
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VSP Global Realizes Its Vision for High-Speed Business Process Testing
VSP Global, a leader in the eye care, eyewear, and lens technology industries, clearly saw that its manual testing practices were too slow, costly, and unable to keep up with the pace of change. The company set its gaze on more efficient, automated business process testing to save time and minimize the risk of errors.… -
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Keeping Goods Moving at Interroll
Interroll Worldwide Group, a global core product provider, recently looked to SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to replace its legacy data center, increase the reliability and availability of its system, and set the company up for future business intelligence projects. Discover how this global manufacturer had its SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud implementation live in six months… -
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Glazer’s Distributors Celebrates Enterprise Business Intelligence
Wholesale alcohol distributor Glazer’s Distributors makes roughly 250,000 monthly deliveries of malt beverages, wines, and spirits to customers in 15 US States, the US Virgin Islands, and Canada. Entering its second century of doing business, Glazer’s mapped out a vision for a future-state IT infrastructure with a focus on supporting an influx of data, advanced… -
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Foodstuffs Turns the Art of Grocery into a Science
Find out how Foodstuffs North Island is turning the art of grocery retailing into a science in a post-merger landscape with an SAP reimplementation and working with BackOffice Associates on a national data alignment project. See how the business is bringing science to how it manages its stock for its retail, wholesale, and liquor brands.… -
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Colombian Chocolate Manufacturer Gets a Sweet Deal with SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions
Colombian chocolate manufacturer Casa Luker began to grow into international markets and thus required an updated SAP ERP system to ensure the company could meet compliance standards and modernize its business practices with access to real-time data. Discover how the company implemented SAP HANA along with SAP HANA studio and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI)… -
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Swiss Re Transforms Its Reinsurance Finance Division with SAP S/4HANA Finance
The global 2008 financial crisis presented a multitude of challenges for companies in the insurance industry, including higher pressure on margins and strict regulatory reporting requirements. Swiss Re, a global provider of leading wholesale resinsurance and insurance, was not immune to these challenges. To help overcome these hurdles, Swiss Re undertook a multi-year finance transformation… -
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David Leadbetter Golf Scores a Hole in One with SAP Business One
Among golf enthusiasts, David Leadbetter Golf is a household name in golf instruction, including personal lessons, product design, and training goods and services. This article explores how the growing company transitioned from relying on spreadsheet-based manual processes to SAP Business One in the cloud in order to achieve a 15% increase in revenue, 10% decrease… -
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Edesia Expands Its Reach with SAP Business One
Edesia Nutrition, a small nonprofit committed to treating and preventing global childhood malnutrition, manufactures ready-to-use food products that do not require water or refrigeration. Read this article to learn about Edesia’s journey to simplify its business processes with SAP Business One. The cloud solution for small and medium-size (SME) organizations gave Edesia the ability to… -
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GRAY Gallery Runs Live with SAP Anywhere
GRAY Gallery customers expect personalized attention and immediacy whether they visit the brick-and-mortar gallery in Hollywood, California, or shop for high-end art, jewelry, and craft products online. This article takes you inside the doors of the renowned gallery, looking at how with SAP Anywhere it can closely mirror the physical shopping experience with a virtual… -
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New York Life Plans Bright Future for Finance
New York Life Insurance Company, one of the largest life insurers in the world, is responding to the dramatic changes sweeping through the business world by accelerating its evolution into a more agile enterprise. In particular, the organization is speeding up analytics for real-time insight and improving process efficiencies around data access and management. Discover… -
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Under Armour Gears Up for an Automated Financial Close
As a global company tracking unprecedented growth, Under Armour needed to leave behind its manual approach to account reconciliations and journal entries. The company sought a web-based platform that would make the process more efficient and minimize risk. Delve into how software from BlackLine automated Under Armour’s financial processes and allowed employees to step away… -
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Keurig Green Mountain Brews Up Data Governance
Quench your thirst for an interesting data governance project by reading about Keurig Green Mountain’s new master data management (MDM) organization. As it migrated to SAP ERP after outgrowing a legacy ERP system, Keurig Green Mountain wanted to ensure a solid foundation of business process discipline to allow for continued growth and expansion. With the… -
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Farouk Systems Achieves Tangle-Free Spreadsheet-Based Reporting
Farouk Systems, a global high-end hair care manufacturing company based in the United States, replaced its homegrown, legacy systems with a full SAP ERP environment and simultaneously capitalized on the opportunity to upgrade its financial and operational reporting processes. Learn how Global Software’s Spreadsheet Server tool was deployed and discover the many ways Farouk Systems… -
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Generations-Old Company with a Modern Twist on Sales
The local sales team at global bitters and rum manufacturer, Angostura Limited, wanted to spend less time on the manual, paper-based process for fulfilling orders out in the field and on the road – writing out orders and traveling back and forth to the office – and more time actually selling products. Angostura wanted to… -
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Sappi Limited Gains Real-Time Visibility into Production Costs with SAP MII
Sappi Limited has grown to become a leading global producer and supplier of dissolving wood pulp, paper pulp, and paper products — with an expanded system landscape to match. Its Southern Africa division recognized an opportunity to improve efficiency by consolidating the data spread across its multiple manufacturing systems. Learn how Sappi Southern Africa used… -
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Production at Mirgor Reaches an Optimal Temperature with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
Mirgor, an Argentinian manufacturing company, was in need of new system to replace its legacy ERP environment to establish stronger production communication and tracking. Explore what factors led Mirgor to select SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, and learn how the company implemented this project across its entire business. This content is available to Premium Members. Sign… -
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Skullcandy Rocks the Cloud
With demand quickly exceeding the distribution model, headphone manufacturer Skullcandy synced up with SAP to better manage explosive growth in the niche market of lifestyle and performance. By implementing SAP Business ByDesign, Skullcandy replaced its manual spreadsheet-based system with a fully automated process to efficiently manage orders from purchase through delivery. Hear how SAP Business… -
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ConAgra Foods Fine-Tunes Recipe for Enhanced HR
With 30,000 employees, ConAgra Foods needed to evolve beyond file cabinets and into the cloud to keeptrack of crucial HR documentation. ConAgra Foods paired with PwC to implement SAP SuccessFactors solutions to integrate their fragmented HR landscape. Hear how the company kicked off its “My Recipe” project to streamline the HR system, reevaluate existing HR… -
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Crocs Climbs New Business Heights
Crocs revenue surged between 2005 to 2007, and the footwear retailer and manufacturer's highly customized legacy IT systems were not ideal to keep up with the company's growth. To sustain the expected success, Crocs realized it needed a systems landscape that could mature with the company, and it embarked on Project Sunlight, which included an… -
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Fujitsu Untangles Sales Complexities
Network Equipment Manufacturer Fujitsu Network Communications wanted to reduce complexity in its configure, price, and quote (CPQ) processes in hopes to provide more accurate proposals. Hear how the company integrated FPX CPQ with SAP ERP to decrease pricing errors by 80%, significantly reduce price quoting cycle times, and gain real-time visibility into pricing updates. This… -
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How Rich Products Delivers to Customers Faster
This article outlines how Rich Products is creating new business opportunities and enhancing its customer interaction experience by redesigning its product development processes. It examines the company’s overall strategy for the redesign, including its proof-of-concept planning, the benefits it aims to achieve, and the efforts involved in securing end-user engagement and acceptance. This content is… -
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Société de transport de Montréal (STM) Aims to Boost Ridership by 40% with a Mobile App
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adidas group Hits the Ground Running
adidas group knows that a simplified IT landscape and reduced operational costs over the next few years will be important in helping the company reach its ambitious goal of reaching €17 billion by 2015. See how adidas group consolidated its business warehouse environment onto a single SAP HANA platform; implementing SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 7.3… -
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FedEx Office Pursues “In-Center Excellence” with Quick and Easy Dashboards
See how FedEx Office fast-tracked an SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards project to harmonize reporting for center managers at the roughly 1,800 FedEx Office locations, resulting in a streamlined view of business operations, increased efficiency, and additional revenue opportunities. Learn how FedEx Office dealt with unique challenges, such as changing data warehouse fields and aggregating data to… -
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Unilever Goes Global with a Transformative SAP HANA Project
SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7), January (Issue 1) by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7),… -
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How Grupo Modelo Brews Up Process Change and Manages Risk
SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7), January (Issue 1) by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7),… -
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ARI Fleet Management Drives Real-Time Analytics to Customers
SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7), January (Issue 1) by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7),… -
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Colgate-Palmolive Combines Its Trade Promotion Planning with SAP HANA
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The Recipe for Standardized Training at General Mills
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Kraft Foods’ Recipe for Successful Business Intelligence
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LEGO Builds a Broader Product Line with SAP PLM
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Nu Skin Fights Aging Systems with New HR Software
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Improved Supply Chain Processes Bring Intel Real Savings
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Cirque du Soleil Drives Creativity and Expansion with SAP Solutions
SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7), January (Issue 1) by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7),… -
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Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Revolutionizes Its Supply Chain
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How Burton Snowboards Remains as Nimble as Its Riders
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Success with SAP Enterprise Support at Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Summit Electric Supply Finds the Right ERP Fit
SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7), January (Issue 1) by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7),… -
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Colgate-Palmolive Empowers End Users with Advanced Reporting
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ConAgra Foods Innovates Its SAP Menu
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Pick n Pay Benefits from a New Retailing Solution
SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7), January (Issue 1) by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7),… -
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Stonebridge Companies Moves Its Hotel Management to SAP ERP
SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7), January (Issue 1) by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7),… -
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Empowering Accenture Employees with Self-Service Data Management
SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7), January (Issue 1) by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7),… -
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Success with Sustainability at The Coca-Cola Company
SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7), January (Issue 1) by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7),… -
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Colgate-Palmolive Takes Control of Global IT with SAP RPM
SAP S/4HANA offers enterprises tremendous potential to go beyond performance and simplicity and deliver significant business value as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation, but this approach must be understood, considered and incorporated into by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7), January (Issue 1) by SAP and Partners SAPinsider - 2006 (Volume 7),…
