Case Studies

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 its resources away from the primary focus of producing great shoes. To do so, it elected to simplify its ERP processes with SAP Fashion Management while investing in a cloud solution to host its SAP and non-SAP applications. Discover how The Rockport Group stood up its new infrastructure in IBM Cloud and instituted an IT organization focused primarily on business support. 

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 ― a network of systems with manual, paper-based processes that could no longer keep pace with growth and an increasingly digital economy. Learn how Carter’s modernized its financial processes with SAP S/4HANA Finance and adopted best practices to improve efficiency and gain greater visibility into its financial operations.

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 needed to upgrade its SAP BW instance. Learn how the organization migrated to SAP BW powered by SAP HANA, leveraging in-memory technology and obtaining fast, accurate, and predictive analytics for its business.

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 IT department from scratch. Discover how PeroxyChem partnered with IBM Cloud to deploy an agile, cloud-based IT landscape on time and without business disruption.  

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. This global IT landscape had to be scalable, efficient, and standardized – and delivered within a strict timeline. Learn how Indivior PLC selected SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, and other SAP solutions, and not only established a comprehensive SAP landscape from scratch, but did so within its deadline, under budget, and without business disruption. 

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 or thumbing through files for documentation. The company knew it needed greater visibility throughout the organization and that automation was the key. To achieve this, Tate & Lyle consolidated its regional SAP systems and implemented the Account Reconciliations and Task Management applications by BlackLine. Hear details on how the company:

• Eliminated manual processes, spreadsheets, and paper-based storage for account reconciliations
• Enhanced visibility and oversight of month-end close processes
• Enabled the finance department to focus on value-added activities 

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 a more consistent user experience (UX), MIT made the decision to “lift and shift” its on-premise SAP ERP instance to a managed cloud environment. See how MIT leveraged SAP solutions to:

• Achieve seamless integration with core SAP, custom-built, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications
• Design a more consistent user experience with SAP Fiori
• Provide ability to build custom functionality on top of core code
• Create a foundation for a predictive analytics framework with real-time SAP data

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 ATB Financial selected a suite of SAP SuccessFactors solutions to replace its legacy system, enabling it to achieve greater transparency, increase the ease of employee self-service, and provide optimal support for its employees.  

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 meet the demands of a modern employee by offering features like self-service booking, electronic receipt capture, and mobile capabilities. Discover how Bentley Systems met the needs of its on-the-go workforce by integrating Concur with its existing SAP landscape.  

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 via a desktop connected to the office’s system, which limited the ability to speed Accounts Payable (AP) processes. Learn how Great-West implemented the company’s first mobile app for invoice approval to bring greater speed, efficiency, and controls to its AP process.