Challenges merging ERPs

• Our hi-tech industry client had been running a highly customized SAP ECC for over 17 years
• The litany of customizations had reached a point of suffocation preventing desired growth via acquisitions and new business model adoption
• Client had an aggressive acquisition strategy averaging 5 companies per year
• They had no ability to integrate the acquired companies into their SAP ECC system future state
• A greenfield approach for this roll out was out of reach; No business case could justify to company stakeholders that a traditional greenfield would offset the potential costs to make the change

Solution to Merging SAP S/4HANA with ECC

• Ketch worked with our client to develop a 4-year roadmap for moving their entire business to the new platform
• Implement S/4HANA, SAP Central Finance, CPQ (Configurable pricing and quoting), 3rd party field service solution with all inventory and fulfillment remaining in the ECC system

Results

• The result was a flexible, scalable business platform that will adapt to an ever-changing market allowing aggressive acquisitions and easy integration of new offerings / business models
• Ketch implemented a greenfield S/4 Hana project along with SAP Central Finance which enabled the client to retain their existing ERPs for 2 years while creating a clean instance of SAP