Digital transformation solutions specialist UST has joined the roster of SAP partners that have designed solutions to support their customers’ adoption of RISE with SAP, a subscription-based Business Transformation as a Service offering from the German tech multinational. SAP’s long-standing partners IBM and EY has earlier launched solution portfolios BREAKTHROUGH with IBM and EY Intelligent Delivery Platform for SAP that complement the RISE offering. 

Now a qualified partner to deliver the RISE with SAP, UST is bolstering its position as a trusted ally that designs disruptive solutions to help companies worldwide realise a successful transformation, scale growth, and achieve agility.

Sharing about UST’s capabilities to deliver solutions that support RISE with SAP, Chris Botha, Senior Vice President and Global SAP Leader at UST, stated:

“At UST, we focus on helping our customers adopt standard best practices and reduce technical debt while leveraging the latest digital technologies.UST is well-positioned to support its clients accelerate their digital business transformation and take their business-critical elements into the cloud with flexibility and innovation with RISE with SAP.”

With digitalisation at its core, UST leverages next-gen technologies and deep domain expertise to drive innovation and agility in its customers’ digital transformation journey. The IT company is known to deliver excellent transformative engineering through architecture, semiconductor engineering, AI as well a cloud and SaaS. In February, UST further strengthened its position in the product engineering space with the acquisition of Accrete Hitech Solutions, a consulting and outsourcing company services spanning in Hitech, Semiconductor and Networking focussed in information technology and engineering services.

Crafting Solutions to Back SAP RISE Offering 

As a partner in the SAP PartnerEdge programme, UST has access to enablement tools and support for the creation of industry-leading solutions at speed and at a much lesser cost. To support the increasing numbers of customers adopting RISE with SAP and help them embark on a holistic business transformation journey, UST has co-innovated with SAP to create a portfolio of cutting-edge tools, platforms, apps, and accelerators.

UST Rapid Readiness

This offering is a pre-preparation framework for SAP S/4HANA to support SAP Activate methodology and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Designed in eight stages, the solution harnesses UST’s human-centric digital development and harmonises landscape and cloud strategy to deliver a distinct standardisation and innovation roadmap as well as help build a business case for transformation.

UST Fast Start

Focussed on reducing risks of SAP S/4HANA Cloud migration, this cloud migration trial offering accelerates customers’ move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud by enabling UST to upgrade and migrate workloads to the cloud on a trial basis.

UST Evolve

This offering supports seamless and rapid migration of SAP ERP Central Component environments to SAP S/4HANA Cloud by providing a hybrid migration framework that utilises UST accelerators and IP.

The SAP RISE offering has further reinforced the German software multinational’s pivot to becoming a cloud company since its launch in January 2021 and has supported over 1,000 organisations worldwide across industries. Some of the companies that have adopted the BTaaS offering recently are Nippon Gases Europe, Subaru Corporation, and Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

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Nippon Gases Europe, one of the leading providers of industrial and medical gases in Europe, has recently embarked on an enterprise resource planning (ERP) transformation leveraging RISE with SAP, a concierge, subscription-based offering that allows customers access to a comprehensive bundle of software, tools and cloud services. 

The industrial gas company is an affiliate of Tokyo-headquartered multinational Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation (NSHC), which has been operating for over a century with a strong market presence in Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia, the United States, and Canada. As NSHC’s European Gas segment, Nippon Gases is a key player in industrial gases manufacturing and distribution across 13 countries in the region including France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Italy. The manufacturer also plays an essential role in the supply chain and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines providing liquid nitrogen and dry ice to maintain the vaccines’ required cooling temperature. 

Along with the gas manufacturer’s massive operation in Europe plus its intensifying contribution during the pandemic comes the pressing challenge of having disparate ERP systems. The tedious upkeep of large interfaces to ensure seamless data exchange between several business groups within the organisation impelled Nippon Gases to partner with SAP to design a strategy that would unify various ERP solutions in Northern Europe. 

Driving Innovation with SAP RISE Offering

Nippon Gases Europe designed a modernisation strategy in 2020 to scale business and achieve a unified ERP platform powered by SAP S/4HANA across multiple subsidiaries. The holistic digitalisation project is centred on accelerating business processes, deepening collaboration, and driving business innovation.

The SAP ERP consolidation project kicked off in 2021 in the UK leveraging RISE with SAP, which provided Nippon Gases with several software components that helped the industrial gas company achieve the following:

• Standardised, transparent ERP processes
• Enhanced visibility on gas deliveries, enabling better compliance with requirements
• Delivered cost-efficiency 
• Improved productivity, allowing the IT team to focus on more significant tasks and less on administrative  

Commenting on the successful ERP implementation, Cesar Callejo, Chief Information Officer, Nippon Gases Europe, said:

“We work much more efficiently with RISE with SAP and can tackle future issues. The standardisation in the new SAP S/4HANA suite will allow us to optimise capacity, focusing on other innovation initiatives as part of our ongoing digital transformation strategy.”

“This gives us great scope. Even away from the core ERP system, we can try out a lot of new things. For example, we can use SAP Ariba solutions to optimise procurement processes or robotic process automation to automate our business processes intelligently,” added Jens Wiechmann, SAP IT Manager Europe, Nippon Gases Europe.

Since RISE with SAP’s launch in 2021, the BTaaS offering has supported over 1,000 organisations worldwide across industries– from sports to automative and energy companies– to drive industry innovation and propel business process improvements. The comprehensive solution that harnesses the cloud ERP also offers analytics, business process intelligence and SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) to help businesses transform holistically into intelligent enterprises with a fast time to value and in the way that best suits them. 

Nippon Gases Europe will be implementing RISE with SAP to six more markets this year.

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