Case Studies

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 challenges, however, and Dalmia faced security and compliance challenges as it sought to rapidly onboard new users onto its IT systems. Learn how Dalmia discovered an approach to user access and role assignment that was flexible and robust enough to keep up with continued growth.

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 the utmost importance. NEB knew it needed to experiment with new technology for a better production planning process. Hear how NEB implemented SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA on a hosted cloud environment — followed by a full SAP S/4HANA implementation — and gained real-time visibility into inventory management, created efficient digital processes for procurement and production planning and execution, improved product costing, and enhanced customer service through accurate order fulfillment.

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 to manage both the front and back office for its ecommerce initiative was lacking in the areas of visibility, reporting, and segregation of duties. Microbattery needed a new solution that separated the front office from the back office and gave the company more control over how it managed the customer experience. Learn how Microbattery obtained all this and more with its SAP Anywhere implementation.

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 screen them for cancer was a challenge. Learn how Heidelberg University Hospital, in conjunction with SAP’s Design and Co-Innovation Center, built a mobile app on SAP Cloud Platform that enabled the research group to test underprivileged women for cancer and, ultimately, save lives.  

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 to help other organizations take those complexities out of the equation. Learn how AdminaHealth deployed SAP Business All-in-One to help its customers transition to a self-funded healthcare plan and opened lines of communication among all parties, generated automated reports for better visibility, lessened the administrative burden, and reduced healthcare costs for the companies and their employees.

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 workforce to enhance employee learning and extend cross-generational conversations to provide staff with the resources they need to succeed in the industry. Hear how Sargent & Lundy implemented SAP SuccessFactors Learning and SAP Jam to achieve more targeted employee training, distribute expert knowledge, and create a sense of community for on- and off-site workers.

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 by the desire to add value for the customer and put their needs first, needed a technology change to support it. Discover how SAP Hybris Commerce and SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer provided a foundation for optimized customer service and helped Sealed Air deliver greater value to their customers. 

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 disparate solutions and non-standardized processes for handling tour operator and airport sales settlements. Learn how Thomas Cook Group Airlines sped up and streamlined these processes with the help of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.  

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 S/4HANA implementation. Learn how SCHOTT KAISHA navigated this implementation successfully and significantly streamlined its business processes. 

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 SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) instance from a third-party database to SAP BW powered by SAP HANA in order to improve performance by 98% while cutting its data footprint in half. And see how the supercharged environment is helping the analytics needs of the combined company by providing improved performance and self-service capabilities.