HANA, IBM Cloud exponentially improve performance for leading home appliances manufacturer

Wipro migrates leading home appliances manufacturer from legacy mainframes to upgraded SAP landscape on IBM Cloud for cost containment, 80% improvement in supplier release SLAs

Client Background

Client: A leading manufacturer of home appliances headquartered in the US
Industry: Manufacturing
Products: Home appliances
Net sales: $21.0 billion (2018)
Geo: Global

Challenge

The client was running old mainframes that had a negative impact on costs, processes and business outcomes. This included:

High cost of running and upgrading legacy systems
Process like Material Requirement Planning (MRP), flash reporting and month-end reporting was taking too long
Delays in data analysis and reporting
Inability to respond to issues and opportunities due to data latencies
Time-intensive batch processes
Plant operations such as receiving were taking longer
Inability to meet supplier release SLAs

Solution

Wipro, as an existing partner of the client providing end-to-end infrastructure and SAP Basis operations, was able to fast-track the assessment and design a solution that included:

Suite on HANA (SoH) conversion of SAP ECC EhP4 system and migration to IBM Cloud
Migration of SAP CRM environment to HANA and IBM Cloud
IBM Cloud landscape design and architecture
Instance provisioning on IBM Cloud with end-to-end project planning
HANA Cloud Migration of Cloud Control Center(CCC)
HANA database tuning and performance optimization
Test planning, unit and integration tests

Business Impact

The solution was designed in a manner that reduced downtime to only six hours while the highly complex project was delivered in just seven months. When the transformation was delivered, the client had access to intuitive and mobile-ready Fiori-based transactions and analytics. The top benefits unlocked by the solution included:

Cost of maintaining mainframe systems eliminated
More than 90% reduction in MRP process runtime, batch processes and flash reporting
More than 80% improvement in supplier release SLAs

“Moving away from legacy and to cloud is a sure-fire way of improving performance and lowering costs. But the migration to SAP HANA and a cloud platform comes with its own set of challenges that Wipro addressed with a combination of experience, tools and automation, ensuring clients don’t have to spend unnecessary time and money.”-Srinivas Sai Nidadhavolu, Vice President & Global Practice Head – SAP at Wipro Limited.

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