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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  1. Enterprise-Class Demand Planning at Agilent Technologies

    Published: 30/July/2021

    Reading time: 6 mins

    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…

  2. How a Specialty Chemical Company Handles Integration in a Hybrid SAP Landscape Amidst a Move to SAP S/4HANA

    Published: 30/July/2021

    Reading time: 8 mins

    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.…

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    Enabling SAP S/4HANA Central Finance and Group Reporting

    Published: 30/June/2021

    Reading time: 4 mins

    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…

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    Increasing Transparency & Efficiency

    Published: 30/June/2021

    Reading time: 5 mins

    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…

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    New Security Platform at Lundbeck Helps Ensure Business Continuity and Eliminate Risk of Fraud

    Published: 03/May/2021

    Reading time: 10 mins

    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…

  6. An International Beverage Company’s Roadmap to a Solid Foundation Using SAP Solution Extensions by BlackLine

    Published: 12/April/2021

    Reading time: 2 mins

    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…

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    How Endress+Hauser Is Creating a Simpler Business by Making Integration a Strategic Imperative

    Published: 11/January/2021

    Reading time: 6 mins

    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…

  8. Data Warehouse Overhaul Helps Helvetia Simplify Reporting and Analytics for HR — to Start

    Published: 08/January/2021

    Reading time: 6 mins

    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…

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    How a Cloud-First Integration Strategy Helps Eneco Offer Innovative Energy Services and Cut Costs

    Published: 08/January/2021

    Reading time: 9 mins

    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…

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    Mahindra CIE Automotive Ltd. Reduces Risk and Hours of Manual Effort by Automating Its SAP User Provisioning Processes

    Published: 05/November/2020

    Reading time: 6 mins

    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…