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DE-VAU-GE

smartShift delivers SAP S/4HANA transformation within an incredibly tight deadline for DE-VAU-GE Gesundkostwerk Deutschland GmbH.

About the Company

Since founded in 1899, DE-VAU-GE has been producing delicious and varied food. Today they are one of the largest manufacturers of crispy breakfast cereals, delicious muesli, a diverse range of bars as well as plant based drinks in Europe. In particular, they are a partner to the European food trade for exclusive brands (private labels).

DE-VAU-GE

 

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Company Name:

DE-VAU-GE Gesundkostwerk Deutschland GmbH
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Company Industry:

Food, Nutrition
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Company Size:

Revenue 320Mio EUR (2023)
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smartShift Solutions applied:

Challenges

  • Transforming the existing ECC System to S/4HANA with minimal business disruption.
  • Executing, as DE-VAU-GE called it “lean conversion” approach to S/4HANA, with focus on speed, minimal risk and minimal business disruption, followed by a planned “optimization phase” after the project.
  • Keeping the project overhead as small as possible to allow the DE-VAU-GE IT-Team to focus on tasks where internal Know-How is crucial.

Solution

Company contracted smartShift to:

  • Provide comprehensive analyses of its ECC systems.
  • Use automation to assure compliance of all custom objects with new S/4HANA standards and optimize legacy code to work stable, secure and performant in S/4HANA.
  • Free DE-VAU-GE internal IT team from custom code remediation tasks.
  • Delivering digital transformation within incredibly tight deadline.

Results

  • Ambitious S/4HANA transformation delivered on time, in quality and on budget.
  • smartShift provided a ready to use outcome with high quality results that can be directly consumed by the departments in their test.
  • A grand total of 24.756 custom code objects of various types in scope.
  • Custom Code Transformation of the Development system done within 3.5 weeks (17 working days).
  • Minimal customer involvement.
  • 0 Errors reported post go-live disruption

What our customer is saying

"Our S/4HANA implementation was a big success and people across the business were astonished with the amount we achieved in such a short timeframe. smartShift provided exceptional results with minimal internal efforts for us – utilizing them is a strong recommendation and “no-brainer” for all complex S/4HANA transformation programs!"

Hartmut Schroeder Head of IT, DE-VAU-GE Gesundkostwerk Deutschland GmbH