Build a solid foundation for continuous improvement activities
Standardize business process
Lack of intergration with other systems
Cost impact on the additional cost of extended AMC for 4.6B version. Push from the parent company to go to Oracle as the American Based Parent company already run Oracle and so is Europe and only Australia is running SAP
Objective
Upgrade from 4.6B to ECC 6 and to make sure the extensively customised WM solution is re-engineered and brought back to standard SAP solution and at the same time enabling a end-to-end
Warehouse Management solution including Sortation System
Build a stable and upgradable platform to perform all other business system enchacements along with a reduced TCO
Implementation Highlights
Overall TCO was reduced to less that the 4.6B version running cost. Close to 30%
Got rid of the risk of their WM solution not being supported by SAP as the standard programs where modified
Eliminated the need for purchasing additional third party BI Products as the BI and portals were included in the ECC 6 software
Established a foundation for startegic platform
Netweaver platform’s integration strength reduced the operational cost of running and maintaining third party products