Case Studies

• SAP Cloud Strategy

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…

• SAP Access Control

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…

• SAP HRIS

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…

• SAP Analytics

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,…

• SAP S/4HANA Finance

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…

• SAP Finance Automation

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,…

• SAP Analytics Cloud

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…

• SAP Supply Chain Planning

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…