The Initial Situation

The main objective was the international harmonization and standardization of end-to-end processes to enable efficient growth and furthermore to build a foundation for existing and future digital business opportunities of ELOPAK.One important element to streamline the administrative processes was to establish the principal toller agent model. The Principal hereby owns the goods and these are sold through a central sales department. This model simplifies the administration of the flow of goods since the owner does not change when the goods are moved to a different production location.

The Solution

This SAP ERP implementation consist of a single company-wide business ad-ministration system. This set-up ensures that the internal administrative burden is reduced and that support functions can be centralized such as master data maintenance, accounts payable, forecasting and that company-wide activities such as reporting, treasury, HR can work from a single platform.

• New implementation of SAP Business Suite on HANA with S/4HANA Finance Functionalities, SAP SCM (APO) and SAP BW
• Conception and implementation of a custom MES (Manufacturing Executi-on System) solution based on SAP MII
• Integration with local applications
• New scanner solution for warehouses for using barcodes
• New process governance based on ARIS in combination with SAP Solution Manager

The Project

Scheer acted as integrator and general contractor, responsible for the template design and the build of the solution in SAP and also for the deployment of this template across the various sales and production locations in Europe. Scheer was also entrusted the project governance including resource planning, financial controlling and supplier management and overall program portfolio considering the ELOPAK group IT strategy.

Approach: Scheer was using its “Scheer Process Driven SAP Management Methodology” with

• Method: Scheer Business Transformation approach
• Tools: ARIS and SAP Solution Manager
• Content: Scheer PerformanceREADY with reference processes and SAP best practices.

The Benefits

A company-wide business administration system with consolidated harmonized processes and structures in all countries

... reduces the workload on internal control activities and corrections

... enables faster reporting at company level for better decision making

... decreases costs of the internal supply chain

... reduces efforts in supporting business functions

A group-wide template

... enables the group growth by speeding up worldwide implementations and roll outs

A vertical integration from ERP to the machine level

... increases the utilization rate of production capacity and reduces changeover times.

A faster and more reliable order communication

... causes higher customer satisfaction

A clear set and usage of master data throughout the enterprise

... leads to higher quality in all E2E processes and

... facilitates the development of smart products and services for a digital transformation