SAP Rollout for One of the Largest Cement Manufacturers in Europe

Client

Europe-based, one of the world’s largest cement manufacturers, with global presence

Challenges

• Regional IT integration to a common regional template (SAP).
• Legacy Application replacement with the SAP MEA Business Model Template to facilitate integration of the new group into a standard set of processes and solution.
• Agile Solution capable of integrating with legacy systems and addressing local legal requirements.
• Scalable Support Model for countries live on SAP. 

LTM Solution

• Reverse Business Engineering Tool (MOSAIC Profiler).
• Early Buy-in of Solution using “See-Believe-Accept” – CRP Lab and Prototyping.
• Template Governance using SolMan.
• Industrialized approach for common activities across rollouts (Factories for RICEFW, Config, Data, testing).
• Lean onsite team at Hub Locations.
• Wave-based rollouts.
• Systematic release plan

Business Benefits

• Successful migration from JDE to SAP for SA and Egypt. Nigeria and Algeria in progress.
• Business transformation enabled by harmonized ERP for the entire organization.
• Seamless user acceptance with organization change management from mobilization phase to stabilization.
• Execution of business intervention plans and mobilization of the entire organization.
• Optimized resource utilization and synergies of execution.
• Focused Change Management and Data Management at each country for easy adoption.