1. Bundesdruckerei: Driving Process Integration and Quality with SAP® S/4HANA
Company
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
Headquarters
Berlin
Industry
High tech
Products and Services
Secure identification solutions
Employees
2,500 (Bundesdruckerei Group)
Revenue
€475 million( Bundesdruckerei Group)
Web Site
Partner
The SAP® Consulting organization
Business challenges
Establish a “single view of the truth” with unified data platform
Integrate workflows across departments
Reengineer and automate all major business processes
Technical implementation
Worked with the SAP® Consulting organization to upgrade the SAP software landscape and migrate from Oracle to the SAP HANA® platform, including deployment of the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution
Introduced automated user provisioning using the SAP Identity Management component and SAP governance, risk, and compliance solutions
Key benefits
Significantly accelerated processes, such as financial closing, generation of profitability analysis reports, onboarding of new resources, and user administration in HR
Enabled earning of discounts through faster processing of vendor invoices
Improved transparency across supply chain by removing silos between administrative IT and plant IT
40%
Time saved on generation of financial reports
10x
Faster calculation of salaries
>3x
Faster security authorization reviews
“SAP S/4HANA is helping us to drive digitization across the company, allowing us to work in a more streamlined and integrated way.”
Wolfgang Sabelgunst, SAP Project Manager, Bundesdruckerei GmbH
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2. SAP HANA® Technical Implementation for Bundesdruckerei
Key features deployed
The SAP HANA® platform, including within 12 months:
Migration of the SAP® ERP application
Migration of the SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) solution
Deployment of the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution
Migration of the SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) application
Operation of a total of 14 systems with 120 CPUs and a 1 TB database running virtualized SAP HANA software managed by VMware ESX, including:
Two instances of the SAP Business Warehouse application, one for development and one for testing
Three tiered software systems, one for SAP ERP, one for SAP SRM, and one for SAP ERP HCM
Three sandbox systems for customer validation and migration tests
Technical key performance indicators
Saw a greater than three-fold growth in number of SAP software users – from 600 to about 2,000
Achieved average compression rate of the production databases of close to a factor of 5
Partner involvement
VMware ESX as management console for administering the virtualized SAP HANA database
Future plans
Extend SAP software functionality
Implement the SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain solution
Continue automation and integration of business processes
SAP HANA® platform architecture for Bundesdruckerei