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Grupo Lar Builds a Digital Foundation for Further International Growth

Grupo Lar is a prestigious family-owned Spanish real estate company, with more than 40 years of international experience. They are dedicated to the promotion, investment, and management of real estate assets. Their staff consists of more than 300 people across 7 countries: Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Romania, and Poland.

The Challenge

Grupo Lar has a long history of using SAP workloads; however, they approached Avvale to take their system to the next level as they looked towards international expansion. SAP HANA was selected to be incorporated into their financial systems in order to facilitate the consolidation of all countries’ and subsidiaries activity. Above all, the reliability, accessibility, and simplicity of HANA motivated Grupo Lar to undergo this project.
 

Additionally, standardizing platforms in each market through migration would allow an agile and systematic flow of information to and from headquarters for clear communication. 

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The Approach

Avvale started by performing an in-depth analysis of the pre-existing ERP system and business processes. Equipped with a deep understanding of the business, Avvale created a plan for Grupo Lar to adapt their financial business processes to the best SAP practices, which would allow them to improve their control model while reducing the need for platform customization. The best practices also allow Grupo Lar to reduce the total cost of implementation and simultaneously improve the governance, control, and efficiency of its financial operations.

In addition to the migration, Grupo Lar required upgrades to digital mobility and explored the SAP Fiori platform. This mobilizes processes in a simple way and unifies the user experience without adding complexity to the technical infrastructure.
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The Impact

With the implementation of SAP HANA, Grupo Lar can digitally transform their infrastructure and modernize their management model. They are also equipped to improve their ability to adapt to changing circumstances since migrating from an on-premise model to the cloud. This also allows them to spend less time working on the infrastructure layer and the technical operation to focus solely on what the business needs.

The new business processes launched with the implementation of HANA, empowering the company to have total control over their data. Together, Avvale and Grupo Lar completed this transformation in just three months by using accelerators that reduced any potential roadblocks.  

The first phase was completed with minimal impact, without interruptions to financial processes, and kept a safe record of the entire database. Some of the immediate benefits experienced was the improvement in performance, robustness of the application, and agile infrastructure. With a strong digital core, the customer service process was optimized as employees were able to enhance their communication platform for customers.
 
Always wanting to improve their processes, Grupo Lar set three future objectives to meet: implement these same solutions to the Colombia and Peru offices, simplify their information systems, and improve and optimize the commercial management that allows them to monitor the sale from the signing of the contract to the delivery of the homes. Avvale plans to support Grupo Lar every step of the way in the journey towards digital transformation. 
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