Global manufacturer and provider of hybrid packaging solutions for beauty brands Quadpack embarked on a digital transformation journey to stay abreast of the company’s rapid growth in terms of size and the impending need to unify various IT systems. The modernisation project dubbed Quadpack Connect is centred on migrating its SAP Business One ERP that is on-premise to SAP S/4HANA Cloud as well as adopting other cloud solutions SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

“The market changes very fast, and we need to change too. We are in a very old version [of SAP Business One], and to move to a current version of that system, the investment in terms of money and time would be the same as moving to a cloud system,” said Jordi Ambros, Quadpack’s Head of Business Intelligence.

Keeping Pace with Company Growth

Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, Quadpack has offices and production facilities in Europe, the US, and the Asia Pacific region and a global strategic network of manufacturing partners. The company has been expanding its global footprint in recent years through acquisitions and partnerships. Just last week, Quadpack has appointed Korean packaging manufacturer LM as ‘Quadpack Official Partner’, a few months after sealing an agreement with Yuga in China in February– further bolstering Quadpack’s presence in the Asian market.

The company’s acquisition of two premier global beauty-packaging suppliers East Hill Industries and Louvrette in 2018 and 2019, respectively, accelerated the need for Quadpack’s ERP system upgrade to ensure that the company’s IT system can manage the changing business requirements and customer specifications. 

Migrating SAP Business One On-Premise to Cloud

Initiated in early 2019, the project Quadpack Connect designed in a phased rollout officially began in February 2020. The project aims to harmonise Quadpack, Louvrette, and East Hill Industries’ ERP systems and sets of processes and standardise Quadpack’s manufacturing facilities.

According to Ambros, the company selected SAP S/4HANA Cloud to provide Quadpack the foundation and agility to manage the company’s accelerated growth and rapidly changing business conditions. The intelligent ERP system SAP S/4HANA Cloud has built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics. The solution has the capabilities to support new business models, manage business change at speed, orchestrate internal and external resources, and use the predictive power of AI.

The project also focused on finding an analytics system to help Quadpack manage data and enable better data analytics such as migrating historical data and managing clean data from each acquired company’s data management system. The global manufacturer selected SAP Data Warehouse Cloud for data management and SAP Analytics Cloud on the reporting side to replace Microsoft’s SQL Server Integration Services for data warehousing and Microsoft Power BI for data analytics. The new system’s capability to automatically replicate data and synchronize access to data is expected to enhance internal and external customer experiences.

Explaining the objective of consolidating data from different facilities and companies into SAP Data Warehouse, Ambros said:

“We want to harmonise the metadata and our KPIs. Because it’s very important for us that, for example, sales processes will have to be the same sales processes for every company. If a manufacturing facility is specialised in wood and another in plastic, it has to be the same process.”

The SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud implementations are scheduled this summer while the consolidated SAP S/4HANA system will be rolled out to Quadpack’s various locations by the end of 2022.

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President of SAP HANA and Analytics, Gerrit Kazmaier, explains how SAP partners play an important role in ensuring customer demands are met by the company:

“To ensure customers quickly gain insights from SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, we offer prebuilt business content packages comprised of end-to-end business scenarios that answer key business and technical questions. Our partner ecosystem plays a critical role in creating these business content packages to meet growing customer demand in all industries and for all lines of business.”

Prebuilt Content and Connectors on the SAP App Center

SAP customers can now leverage expertise from SAP partners to support them in creating the right content for their business with prebuilt content and connectors for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

Below we list down a few of these latest business content packages from SAP partners for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

EWM Insights on Data Warehouse Cloud

This business application from Westernacher Business Management Consulting AG is a central warehouse monitoring solution to guide business operations. It enables companies using several multiple warehouse locations with different IT systems to view KPIs of all warehouses on one screen. The Data Warehouse Cloud connects to the SAP Extended Warehouse Management application and to any data warehousing solution to reduce product distribution costs.

HR Cockpit – Automatic Attendance Analysis

The Automatic Attendance Tracker from Key Performance Consulting enables HR managers to see a detailed view of employees’ attendance at work, to help maintain optimum attendance and avoid work and production delays. The solution is made to be completely customizable, allowing customers to choose how data is represented.

Lyra ICP by Rizing

Lyra ICP is an integrated capacity planning solution with pre-packaged Rizing SAP Data Warehouse content for enterprise asset management and human capital management. It integrates with the SAP Enterprise Asset Management and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central solutions to help businesses track real-time labor capacity and predict skills gaps.

Life Sciences For Data Warehouse Cloud 

The solution from SnapLogic simplifies the exchange of information across the healthcare ecosystem. It provides a single workflow designer and a full-lifecycle API management for integrations and out-of-the-box support for data prep and other data engineering activities.

Optimizing Order Fulfillment with Machine Learning

Created by Inspired Intellect, this solution aims to reduce the number of delays in orders/shipments. It enables customers to better plan around unavoidable delivery delays through the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence that pre-empt the risks associated with delays. It also optimizes logistics, distribution planning, and proactive customer communications.

What is SAP Data Warehouse Cloud?

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is an enterprise-ready, data warehouse in the cloud that runs in a multicloud environment and unites all business data sources in one solution. The solution is designed to:

• empower business users and IT teams to deliver faster results with in-memory technology
• pave the way for improved decision-making with insightful analytics that are simple to set up, use, and share
• help companies allocate IT budget based on existing needs

At the SAPPHIRE NOW Reimagined digital program, SAP announced updates on the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud solution. The updates include:

• dedicated hybrid scenarios for the SAP BW/4HANA solution and SAP HANA for SQL data warehousing (to be released in early Q3/2020)
• built-in and deeply integrated data flow functionality 
• business content for the retail industry that connects to the SAP Consumer Sales Intelligence solution, and analyzes point-of-sale transactions
• additional industry content for finance to be released in the second half of the year
• early Q3/2020 release of the first version of the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud business layer to enable business users and analysts to create their own models in line with their specific business requirements using top-down modeling

Discover more of the latest business application solutions for SAP Data Warehouse Cloud at the SAP App Center.

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