Case Studies
SAP transformations, told through their architecture.
Six representative scenarios showing how we scope, architect and deliver SAP transformations — from Clean Core to Business AI.
The engagements below are illustrative, anonymized composites based on patterns we see across SAP transformations. They represent typical context, architecture and outcomes — not the disclosure of any named client or contract.
Automotive
Clean Core migration for a Tier-1 automotive supplier
- Context
- A multi-plant automotive supplier running a heavily customized ECC landscape across multiple countries, with SAP TM and SAP EWM integrated through point-to-point interfaces.
- Challenge
- Fifteen years of custom code had entangled core logistics and transportation processes, blocking a path to S/4HANA and making any AI use case a governance risk.
- Architecture
- A brownfield S/4HANA conversion sequenced with a Clean Core program: custom code disposition, RAP-based side-by-side extensions on BTP, and a redesigned integration layer through SAP Integration Suite.
- Business value
- A digital core the client's own team can now extend safely, a materially reduced custom code footprint, and an extension layer ready for future Business AI use cases without renegotiating the core.
Manufacturing
Shop-floor to SAP integration for a discrete manufacturer
- Context
- A discrete manufacturer with MES and automation systems disconnected from SAP, relying on manual data entry between shop floor and ERP.
- Challenge
- Production data reached SAP hours after the fact, making real-time planning and quality decisions impossible.
- Architecture
- An event-driven integration built on SAP BTP — Kyma-hosted services subscribing to shop-floor events via Event Mesh, feeding S/4HANA production orders and quality processes in near real time.
- Business value
- Production visibility moved from next-day to near real-time, with a reusable integration pattern extended to two additional plants.
Retail
Order-to-Cash modernization for a multi-channel retailer
- Context
- A retailer running SAP SD-based order management across store, e-commerce and wholesale channels, with fragmented pricing and availability logic.
- Challenge
- Channel-specific customizations had made a single Order-to-Cash process nearly impossible to reason about or extend safely.
- Architecture
- A capability-based redesign of Order-to-Cash on S/4HANA, with channel-specific logic pushed to governed BTP extensions and a unified pricing and availability service.
- Business value
- One coherent Order-to-Cash process across channels, and a stable foundation for the retailer's own team to add new channels without new core customization.
Healthcare
SAP Business AI proof of value for a healthcare group
- Context
- A healthcare group evaluating Business AI for procurement and finance operations, with strict data governance and auditability requirements.
- Challenge
- Leadership needed evidence that an AI agent could operate inside SAP safely — with full traceability of every action — before committing budget.
- Architecture
- A scoped MCP-based proof of value connecting a governed AI agent to specific SAP finance and procurement processes, deployed on Cloud Foundry with full authorization inheritance and audit logging.
- Business value
- A working, auditable reference deployment that gave the client's governance and security teams the evidence they needed to approve a broader Business AI roadmap.
Energy
Enterprise architecture reset for an energy utility
- Context
- An energy utility with a fragmented SAP landscape across multiple legal entities following a series of mergers.
- Challenge
- Overlapping ERP instances, duplicated master data and inconsistent processes were driving up integration and maintenance cost year over year.
- Architecture
- A target enterprise architecture covering process harmonization, a single S/4HANA instance strategy, and a phased consolidation roadmap sequenced against business risk, not IT convenience.
- Business value
- A board-approved architecture roadmap and a first consolidation wave delivered on schedule, reducing the entity's integration footprint materially.
Public Sector
SAP BTP platform engineering for a public sector agency
- Context
- A public sector agency needing to extend SAP without compromising a strict, audited core, under public procurement and data residency constraints.
- Challenge
- Existing extensions lived outside governed BTP practice, with no consistent authorization or deployment model across teams.
- Architecture
- A governed SAP BTP platform engineering foundation — landscape design, authorization model, CI/CD pipeline and Kyma-based extension standard — built once and adopted across the agency's SAP teams.
- Business value
- A repeatable, audited extension pattern that let multiple internal teams build safely without each one re-solving governance from scratch.
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