An industrial gas supplier boosted efficiency with an analytics platform
Transforming Industrial Operations through Analytics
With shifting consumer trends altering the marketplace, investing in the right technology has become more important than ever for organizations.
With shifting consumer trends altering the marketplace, investing in the right technology has become more important than ever for organizations. This is where SAP’s latest ERP system S/4HANA has been instrumental in empowering organizations in their digital transformation journey. S/4HANA enables you to stay relevant in a competitive market by enabling you to reengineer your business processes and adapt to shifting business models.
Key benefits of S/4HANA migration
- Streamline your business processes and IT landscape with S/4HANA as the digital core.
- Experience a highly intuitive and personalized user experience with Fiori 3 for your S/4HANA platform.
- Enable instant decision-making with near-to-real-time analytics, leveraging S/4HANA’s powerful in-memory database.
- Reduce the total cost of ownership with S/4HANA’s simplified technology landscape.
- Innovate by seamlessly integrating S/4HANA with advanced technologies such as IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Client
Industrial Gases Company
Solution
SAP Datasphere and SAC
At a Glance
After COVID-19, the client aimed to create an analytics-driven culture with self-service data access. Applexus modernized their analytics by centralizing data, improving supply chain efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Challenges
COVID-19 forced organizations to cut costs, but the industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.2% from 2021 to 2026. Our client needed a turnaround strategy to adapt to changing market demands.
Lack of Unified Data View
The organization had abundant data, but it was fragmented and lacked a unified view. This resulted in delays as the right data often failed to reach the right stakeholders at the right time for analysis and insight generation.
Operational and Cost Efficiencies
To handle continuous cost pressures, the client faced the challenge of optimizing plant operations and improving supply chain effectiveness to drive operational efficiency.
Limitations of Static Reporting
Pre-defined static reports restricted the ability to consume analytics dynamically, leading to delays and reliance on guesswork in the decision-making process.
Urgency for a Data-Driven Culture
The client needed to establish a robust analytics community to foster a culture of data-driven decision-making across the organization, ensuring insights could be effectively leveraged for better outcomes.
Challenges
COVID-19 forced organizations to cut costs, but the industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.2% from 2021 to 2026. Our client needed a turnaround strategy to adapt to changing market demands.
Unified Analytics Platform
A unified technology platform was built on SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud to integrate data from both SAP and non-SAP sources, ensuring seamless data unification and accessibility.
Modern Data Architecture and Empowerment
Modern data architecture and analytics processes were developed to enable self-service analytics, empowering users with actionable insights. Adoption boot camps were conducted to facilitate change management and ensure smooth transition.
Industry-Specific Analytics Use Cases
High-impact analytics use cases tailored to the manufacturing and chemicals industry, such as spend analytics, customer satisfaction analytics, and plant maintenance/operations analytics, were designed and implemented to address critical business needs.
Collaborative Analytics Community
A collaborative analytics community was established to encourage smarter sharing of insights and foster a data-led decision-making culture. This highlighted the potential of analytics in transforming business operations.
Strategic Collaboration with SAP
Applexus collaborated with SAP Product Management and SAP COE through an early adopter program to deliver an optimal solution, ensuring cutting-edge technology alignment and success.
Results
The solutions enabled a transition from the on-premise data warehouse to the SAP Business Technology Platform. With an integrated view of the data and self-service consumption of analytics, our client could deliver insight-driven business outcomes. Several high ROI business use cases were built in an agile fashion within 6-8 weeks, ensuring the faster realization of value. The business cases improved the efficiency of supply chain & plant operations and enhanced customer satisfaction. Moreover, with optimized and streamlined operations, overall costs were also reduced.
