Siberian giant passed to the digital platform of management SAP S/4 HANA

2019: SAP implementation of S/4HANA

On August 2, 2019 became izestno that Novosibirsk retailer "Siberian Giant" passed to the digital platform of enterprise management SAP S/4HANA. It helped the company to increase performance and to be prepared for further expansion of business. As the partner in implementation the company "IT-Center Siberia" acted.

As the main premises for the choice of a system plans of the company for scaling of business and opening of several distribution centers with the maximum extent of automation served to optimize commodity warehouse stocks, an inventory control, etc.

Transition to SAP S/4HANA which due to support of the partner and participation in the SAP Customer Care program was made in only 8 months a team of 7 experts helped to create to Siberian giant the effective IT platform for further development and scaling of network. Besides, due to reduction of the size of the database, change of the equipment during the project it was succeeded to reduce the cost of ownership of a system by 40%, and performance of transactions grew from 2 to 100 times depending on transaction.

Thanks to start of SAP S/4HANA we can do now things which just could not earlier. In particular, very quickly to collect information on a remaining balance for any day on any volume of goods, about the last arrival or an expense and in principle any necessary information, most quickly to do selections on the large volume of data. For example, earlier ABC analysis took 4 days, and now at all complexity of calculations it becomes in 10 hours. And further this digit can quite be reduced till 2 o'clock. These and many other things show at what big speeds SAP S/4HANA can work if it is correct to use it. Thus, if to speak about business effect, then it is still difficult to estimate it as passed not so many time from the moment of full start of a system, but from the point of view of IT it unambiguously already is, noted Stolyarov Vasily, the Chief information officer of Siberian giant

SAP S/4HANA is a digital core which allows the company to develop and expand the business dynamically. Besides, in addition to the solution of momentary tasks and calls for business, the single digital platform will give to the retailer the chance to implement in the future any innovation ideas using such technologies as machine learning, artificial intelligence and others. And it, in turn, will allow to get essential competitive advantage that it is especially important for such business as retail where the competition very high, emphasized Alexey Petunin, the deputy CEO of SAP CIS sibirskij gigant pereshel na tsifrovuyu platformu "Siberian Giant"[1]

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