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Endura looks to the Future with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud for Integrated and Standardized Management

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For over 50 years, Endura S.p.A. has been involved in the development, production, and sale of active ingredients and synergists for insecticides. The company, headquartered in Italy, is a leader in the chemical sector and the world's primary producer of the well-known synergist Piperonyl Butoxide (PBO). Continuously seeking innovation that embraces circularity, Endura bases its activities on three fundamental pillars: experience, know-how, and specialized human resources.

The Challenge

The exponential growth of Endura, coupled with a marked development trend, posed a crucial challenge for the company: the renewal of its current ERP system. The legacy system, based on a highly customized on-premise solution, entailed significant constraints. Relying heavily on the previous vendor and a small circle of consultants for maintenance restricted its operational flexibility and ability to adapt to changing business needs. Therefore, the company chose to embark on an ambitious digital transformation journey with a dual objective: modernize and innovate the entire group's IT systems and ensure seamless and integrated management across all affiliate companies.

In keeping with its innovative spirit, Endura seized this opportunity to improve its business processes, engaging all business departments from the outset, not just the IT department.

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The Approach

In response to the emerging challenges, Endura Group decided to migrate to a new ERP, approaching this transformation by designing a global model and implementing it at Endura S.p.A. Subsequent roll-outs will then follow for other companies within the group.

After a thorough analysis of the company's specific needs, a greenfield implementation of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud proved to be the optimal choice. As a leader among ERP systems and the most widely utilized in the chemical industry, SAP represents a well-known and reliable system capable of supporting sustainable growth with solidity and continuity over time.

With numerous references on SAP and extensive experience in greenfield projects, Avvale emerged as the ideal partner to guide Endura through this ambitious journey, completed in just nine months. What set us apart from the beginning was a strongly collaborative and results-oriented approach, characteristic of Avvale Pro-Activate's project mode. Throughout the project phases (Pre-sale, Explore, and Realize), various demos were presented to the client, offering real-time insight into the solution and allowing for prompt adjustments if expectations deviated. Additionally, we ensured data migration security with the use of two mock-ups, minimizing the risk of errors.

Previous system customizations were replaced with the appropriate use of SAP best practices, ensuring lower implementation costs, reduced margin of error, and a smoother post-go-live phase in terms of maintenance.

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The Impact

With the adoption of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, Endura has undergone a substantial transformation, achieving an innovative and future-oriented ERP system, fully cloud-based. The globally defined model is intended to become the standard reference, enabling Plug & Play implementation for future initiatives. The application of SAP best practices has allowed for the definition of business process modeling, ensuring flexibility and adequate technological support to optimize business performance. The new ERP has indeed reduced process execution times, contributing to an overall increase in operational efficiency and promoting more sustainable management.

SAP Public Cloud, characterized by recurrent and non-impactful upgrades, will help maintain an updated system, enriching it with new features and ensuring lasting competitiveness in the industry. Thanks to the successful collaboration with Avvale, Endura plans to expand its scope with plant maintenance management on SAP and the implementation of SAP Analytics Cloud for reporting.

The overall goal is to have a single transactional system for the entire group, optimizing intercompany flows and preparing for future market challenges with a strategic and integrated approach.

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