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.

321 results

  1. Verso Corporation Reduces Costs & Improves Quote Creation Processes with enosix

    Reading time: 1 mins

    The paper manufacturing industry is facing substantial transformation and challenges: consolidation, collapse of suppliers, and increasing pressure to prove the value of printing on paper in the midst of disruption from digital media. For the IT department at Verso Corporation, a leading North American producer of printing papers, specialty papers, and pulp, this means implementing…

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    Breakthru Beverage Group Increases SAP Systems Usage Through Change Management

    Reading time: 6 mins

    Change management emerged as the top challenge for SAP deployments in previous SAPinsider research. For Breakthru Beverage Group — a North American alcoholic beverage wholesaler headquartered in Cicero, Illinois — the successful implementation of SAP HANA 2.0-based business intelligence products required an evolution in its change management strategy. SAPinsider recently interviewed Desmond Foley, Solutions Architect…

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    Lessons Learned by Lam Research After an Employee Central Org. Structure Redesign

    Reading time: 6 mins

    When a producer of wafer fabrication equipment and services for the global semiconductor industry migrated from on-premise to Employee Central in 2015, much of the organizational structure and related data from its SAP HCM instance were moved across to the new platform during the implementation. This meant that the organizational structure followed the manager relationship…

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    Hershey’s Minimizes Management Adjustments to Financial Close

    Reading time: 5 mins

    About 31% of the SAPinsider Community chose the “need to reduce time required to generate data and reporting at period close” as a key driver for their SAP S/4HANA Finance strategy, according to SAPinsider’s upcoming research on the “SAP S/4HANA Finance: State of the Market.” Additionally, 58% of the same survey’s respondents chose financial close…

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    Hunter Douglas Gets Illumination from SAP S/4HANA Consolidation

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Window treatment company Hunter Douglas, like many SAP customers, has grown through a continuing series of acquisitions. As business owners come into the family, they benefit from the organization’s minimum interference approach, however, the decentralized model presented challenges over time, particularly in supply chain management and purchasing. Learn how Hunter Douglas consolidated its business processes…

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    Pfizer Standardizes Process Controls and Moves to Continuous Remote Audits

    Reading time: 4 mins

    This case study explains how the Manual Control Performance (MCP) capability in SAP Process Control empowered Pfizer, an American multinational pharmaceuticals company headquartered in New York City with approximately 88,300 employees worldwide, to standardize controls across all sites, centralize, control performance, and perform continuous control monitoring (CCM). This content is for SAPinsider Monthly Subscription, SAPinsider…

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    Brighthouse Financial Accelerates User Provisioning Cycles

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Before integrating Saviynt’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution and SAP Access Control, Brighthouse Financial ran an entirely manual user provisioning process using an access request feature in SharePoint. This case study explains how the Fortune 500 company improved their user provisioning processes for SAP products with SAP Access Control and then implemented Saviynt’s IGA…

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    Launching Platforms for Personalized, Behavioral, Customer-Centric Engagement in Banking and Insurance

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Learn how Discovery Group recently partnered with SAP to extend its offerings to provide personalized, behavioral, customer-centric engagement, journeys, and outcomes for its members. On the insurance side of the business, Discovery Health created a unique program to incentivize healthy behavior through its Vitality brand, rewarding members for their healthy living choices. On the banking…

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    Medical Equipment Manufacturer Prevents Equipment Shortages During COVID-19 Outbreak

    Reading time: 5 mins

    This SAPinsider case study shares how a large global diagnostic medical equipment manufacturer implemented business contingency plans to prepare for the increased demand and disrupted supply chains caused by the COVID-19 crisis. This content is for SAPinsider Monthly Subscription, SAPinsider Annual Subscription, and SAPinsider Premium Annual Subscription members only.Log In Join Now

  10. Sun Chemical Significantly Reduces Errors in Cash Application Processes

    Reading time: 4 mins

    SAPinsider interviewed Erin Carter, Manager Global Treasury Operations at Sun Chemical. The company is the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, has more than $7.5 billion in annual sales, and over 20,000 employees in sixty-three countries. About a quarter (26%) of SAP customers currently use an intelligent cash application solution, according to SAPinsider’s…