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S/4HANA Greenfield Step by Step

Redesign of the systems and simultaneous return to the SAP standard

Challenge

  • Europe-wide production and supply network for commercial vehicles with a high level of vertical integration from parts production to final assembly of buses
  • Integrated system landscape with separate SAP systems for finance, logistics, HR and service/spare parts as well as a large number of external systems
  • Complex ERP template with very extensive enhancements and modifications to the SAP standard

Project Goals

  • Replacement of enhancements and modifications and return to SAP standard
  • Redesign of the production systems, efficiency project
  • S/4HANA implementation with greenfield approach for a plant: side-by-side, ERP-S/4 connection

Main benefit for the Customer

  • Better just-in-time processing
  • Greater flexibility for customer orders, better utilization of capacities in plants
  • S/4HANA greenfield experience
  • Harmonization of basic data maintenance, reduced effort for product and sales order relocations
  • Reduction in inventories and planning effort thanks to lead planning concept

As a subsidiary, our client is responsible for the Group's European bus activities. Today, the company is a leading full-line provider both in Europe and worldwide.