Six Plants Across Three Countries. One System. Real-time Leadership Visibility.
A heavy engineering group with manufacturing sites across three countries unified operations onto a single SAP HANA instance, eliminating data silos and cutting operating costs by 31%.
Six plants running six separate systems. Leadership flying blind on cost and capacity.
This heavy engineering group had grown through a series of acquisitions over eight years. Each plant that joined the group brought its own systems, its own data formats, and its own reporting rhythms. By the time the group had six production facilities across three countries, there was no single version of the truth at any level of the business.
Monthly management reporting required a dedicated team to extract, clean, and consolidate data from six different sources. The process took ten working days every month and still produced figures that did not always reconcile. Leadership decisions were made on data that was already a month old by the time it reached the boardroom.
The group needed an enterprise platform that could handle the complexity of multi-country operations — different currencies, different tax regimes, different regulatory requirements — while giving leadership a single, live view of the entire business.
Enterprise Architecture Built for Scale Across Borders
- Six incompatible legacy systems requiring manual extraction and reconciliation every reporting cycle
- Multi-currency operations with no automated consolidation, leading to FX errors in monthly reports
- Plant-level procurement with no group-wide supplier visibility, missing bulk discount opportunities
- Production capacity data locked at plant level, preventing group-wide order allocation decisions
- Three different regulatory environments requiring separate compliance tracking with no shared infrastructure
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🏭SAP Production PlanningGroup-wide capacity view enabling order allocation across plants in real time
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💰SAP Financial ConsolidationMulti-currency consolidation automated, with live FX conversion and intercompany elimination
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🛒Central ProcurementGroup purchasing contracts with vendor master shared across all six sites
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📊SAP Analytics CloudExecutive dashboards updated in real time, replacing the 10-day monthly report cycle
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✅Compliance and AuditCountry-specific tax and regulatory configurations built in for all three operating jurisdictions
Six Plants on One Instance in 28 Weeks.
The complexity of a multi-country SAP HANA deployment required a structured program approach. Each country went through a dedicated configuration and testing cycle before joining the shared instance.
We conducted a detailed process blueprint across all six plants, mapped group-wide data requirements, and designed the SAP HANA architecture including country-specific configuration requirements for tax, currency, and regulatory compliance.
Core financial and procurement modules were built on the shared instance. Country-specific configuration was layered for each operating jurisdiction. Master data — vendors, customers, materials — was cleansed and migrated.
Each plant connected to the central instance in sequence. Integration testing verified that production, inventory, and financial data flowed correctly between each site and the consolidated group layer.
All sites moved to SAP HANA as the primary system. Analytics Cloud dashboards were configured for the leadership team. A 60-day hypercare program provided dedicated support during the stabilisation period with on-call consultants in each time zone.
Group-wide Impact Measured in the First Six Months After Go-live
For the first time in ten years I can see the whole group on one screen. Cost, capacity, procurement — everything live. The decisions we can now make in an hour used to take a month to even prepare the data for.
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