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.

507 results

  1. whiskey and natural ice on old wooden table

    Breakthru Beverage Group Increases SAP Systems Usage Through Change Management

    Reading time: 6 mins

    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…

  2. organization and team structure symbolized with cubes on wooden background

    Lessons Learned by Lam Research After an Employee Central Org. Structure Redesign

    Reading time: 6 mins

    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…

  3. chocolate

    Hershey’s Minimizes Management Adjustments to Financial Close

    Reading time: 5 mins

    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…

  4. illuminate light

    Hunter Douglas Gets Illumination from SAP S/4HANA Consolidation

    Reading time: 7 mins

    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…

  5. Life Sciences Compliance: A Strategic Imperative for Profitability and Innovation

    Pfizer Standardizes Process Controls and Moves to Continuous Remote Audits

    Reading time: 4 mins

    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). Membership Required You must be a member to…

  6. firefighter

    Brighthouse Financial Accelerates User Provisioning Cycles

    Reading time: 4 mins

    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…

  7. professional mobile cell

    Launching Platforms for Personalized, Behavioral, Customer-Centric Engagement in Banking and Insurance

    Reading time: 9 mins

    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…

  8. Diagnostic equipment

    Medical Equipment Manufacturer Prevents Equipment Shortages During COVID-19 Outbreak

    Reading time: 5 mins

    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. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here

  9. Sun Chemical Significantly Reduces Errors in Cash Application Processes

    Reading time: 4 mins

    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…

  10. Mastering Warehouse Management with Titan Consulting and Mendix

    AGL Energy Tracks and Traces Tens of Thousands of Serialized Rotable Parts

    Reading time: 5 mins

    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…