Case Studies

Our library of customer case studies focuses on insights, advice, and best practices. The featured case studies highlight how customers are using SAP solutions to streamline business processes, reduce errors, increase ROI, automate workflows, and more.

307 results

  1. Ascend

    Ascend Performance Materials Achieves 99.9% Data Accuracy and Massive Time Savings with Supply Chain Automation

    Reading time: 12 mins

    Manufacturing organizations today are under increasing pressure to move faster, reduce errors and risk, and be more efficient. For a company such as Ascend Performance Materials — which produces chemicals, fibers, and plastics for the automotive, electronics, textile, and consumer industries — reducing risk is paramount. The business impact of having bad data could be…
  2. Strategic Workforce Management Drives Agile Decision Making at Northwest Pipe

    Reading time: 8 mins

    In today’s age of commonplace distributed workforces, every SAP customer should spend some time reviewing its workforce management strategy. Those companies with growth strategies that include acquisitions and heavy contingent workforces should take an even closer look. One organization, Northwest Pipe, manufacturer of engineered steel water pipe systems and SAP customer for two decades, scrutinized…
  3. Breakthru Beverage Group Reaches New Horizon on Journey to Become a Fully Integrated, Data-Driven Business

    Reading time: 15 mins

    Modern consumers expect their unique needs to be met at the push of a button, and this expectation includes the food and beverage industry, as evidenced by the rapid increase in grocery pickup and delivery services, for example. Breakthru Beverage Group — which offers restaurants and retailers a portfolio of established and emerging beer, wine,…
  4. Penn State University Re-Imagines Business Processes and Financial System with SAP S/4HANA

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Relying on decades-old technology can cost institutions time, money, and valuable manpower. The importance of a digital transformation strategy is expected to accelerate as universities look to adapt to the ongoing pandemic. In this case study, Penn State University serves as an example of how important digital transformation projects can be to an institution of…
  5. Timken

    Timken’s Accounting Automation Enables a Virtual Close and Streamlined Audits

    Reading time: 8 mins

    For companies with growth strategies that rely heavily on acquisitions, there are multiple complexities involved with integrating the systems, data, processes, and people. In addition, the challenge of maintaining a remote workforce due to recent global events comes with its own set of complications. However, somehow through all this complexity, products are still being made,…
  6. Case Study: Financial reporting and planning with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and SimpleFi’s prepackaged FP&A content

    Reading time: 1 mins

    Read the case study to discover how to overcome reporting and analytical challenges and gain insights for success. The Company had just completed an implementation of SAP S/4HANA, which also included a reporting model in SAC. They quickly discovered that the dimension structures their previous consultants had used in the design and build of their…
  7. How McKesson Ensures Business Continuity While Accelerating Innovation

    Reading time: 9 mins

    McKesson runs one of the largest SAP platforms in healthcare, with 24 SAP instances (running both SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA systems) in their SAP stack alone. The company’s complex distributed IT environment makes it possible for them to deliver medicines, medical products, and healthcare services to patients in several facets of healthcare. To accelerate…
  8. How Zurich used BlackLine to move to SAP S/4HANA

    Reading time: 1 min

    Zurich North America Uses BlackLine Solutions for Automation & Control During Transformation Find other insightful content from BlackLine on their Vendor Showcase
  9. Lessons Learned from Delivering an SAP Omnichannel Point-of-Sale by GK

    Reading time: 6 mins

    To keep up with customer expectations, retail stores must offer a tailored and optimized experience. To achieve this, one US-based apparel company set out to build an integrated point-of-sale (POS) system that, once completed, will help the company gain a competitive edge by offering customers highly flexible promotions, unlimited loyalty campaigns, and a mobile solution.…
  10. Case Study: Swarovski Group

    Reading time: 1 min

    Discover the many benefits that the Swarovski Group discovered when they implemented CCH Tagetik’s software solution for Consolidation and Planning on SAP HANA. Find other insightful content from Wolters Kluwer | CCH Tagetik on their Vendor Showcase