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Southwire migriert SAP Workloads mit der Google Cloud

Wenn Sie einen Blick auf die Gebäude einer beliebigen Großstadt in den Vereinigten Staaten werfen, stehen die Chancen gut, dass diese Gebäude mit Southwire-Produkten gebaut wurden.Die Southwire Company ist einer der größten Draht- und Kabelhersteller Nordamerikas. Southwire und seine Tochtergesellschaften stellen Baudraht und -kabel, metallummantelte Kabel, tragbare und elektronische Kabelprodukte, Versorgungsprodukte, OEM-Drahtprodukte und technische Produkte her.

While they expertly deliver innovation and quality to their customers, Callaway Golf’s previous planning and reporting tool wasn’t making the cut. To evolve their enterprise, the sports giant decided to replace their outdated planning software with SAP Analytics Cloud for planning.

Together with Avvale, Callaway Golf successfully implemented SAP Analytics Cloud across their global enterprise in just 6 months. Now, Callaway Golf has a single, consolidated planning solution that has enabled streamlined expense and asset plans so they can focus on what they do best– revolutionizing the sporting world with cutting edge equipment.

Die Herausforderung

Das rasante Wachstum von Southwire überstieg den Bedarf an einem Rechenzentrum, das von einer Software unterstützt wurde, die eine Transformation verhinderte. Um weiterhin wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben und die Geschäftsprozesse zu optimieren, musste Southwire seine SAP-Workloads in eine benutzerfreundliche Cloud-Umgebung migrieren, die die neueste Sicherheit, Analytik und allgemeine Funktionalität bietet.

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Die Lösung

Gemeinsam identifizierten Avvale und Southwire Google Cloud als ideale Umgebung für die Migration. Die Infrastruktur von Google Cloud ist das größte globale Netzwerk in Privatbesitz. Die Tatsache, dass es nahezu keine Ausfallzeiten der Plattform gibt und die fünf Ebenen des Datenschutzes waren für Southwire ausschlaggebend für den Wechsel.

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The Challenge

Before integrating SAP Analytics Cloud, Callaway Golf's planning landscape centered around SAP's legacy planning solution, Business Planning and Simulation (BPS). While BPS met Callaway Golf's planning needs for many years, the enterprise began to experience limitations with their old solution:

  • Disconnected plans across the board: As Callaway Golf expanded and acquired new brands, planning processes greatly differed across the enterprise with some business units using Excel spreadsheets and others using legacy solutions for planning.
  • Outdated planning functionalities: The existing legacy planning solution lacked many modern functionalities. Among them, salary calculations and asset depreciation automation needed improvement. As a result, it became difficult to create detailed and accurate forecasts across the globe.
  • Significant IT support: The legacy solution required continuous management from IT to maintain runtime. IT had to carve out a full day every week to manually maintain the solution.
  • No single source of truth: Various departments and brands used different data sources, which led to data silos across the organization, making it difficult to gain a clear picture of the enterprise's planned expenses.
  • Rigid user interface: Legacy forecasting system was difficult to navigate and lacked working functions and calculations across the board, such as planning on depreciation and existing assets, adding vendors or members on the fly, and breaking down their cost center expense planning forecasts.

The Approach

With Avvale experts on their side, Callaway Golf laid out the following goals for their new planning landscape with SAP Analytics Cloud:

  • Crowdsource and consolidate plans across the enterprise to gain a global overview of their planned expenses and expand the input capabilities to each responsible owner.
  • Leverage elevated planning functionalities to create faster and more accurate forecast cost center expense and asset reports. The ability to customize calculations enhances and automates the reporting metrics.
  • Harness the power of self-service analytics to alleviate IT from the burden of simple maintenance and data entry requests, so they can focus on high-ROI tasks.
  • Maximize user-driven admin capabilities to control the management of calculations and forms.
  • Create new KPls driven by the business needs.

When SEM-BPS was the center of Callaway Golf's planning landscape, flexibility was a huge factor that was missing. SAP Analytics Cloud contains powerful scenario planning capabilities that help organizations quickly uncover actionable insights to make data-driven decisions. For Callaway Golf, SAP Analytics Cloud's modern planning functionalities provided users with the ability to:

  • Add members on the fly
  • Plan on existing as well as planned assets and automatically calculate the depreciation of values
  • Test "what-if" scenarios for deeper analysis by creating private versions of plans
  • Customize the solution based on their current business process
  • Perform driver-based calculations
  • Empower users to execute end-to-end planning scenarios, without the help of IT

Wie die Lösung hilft

Durch die Umstellung auf Google Cloud konnte Southwire eine sofortige technologische Auffrischung und eine allgemeine Leistungssteigerung seiner SAP-Systeme erzielen. Mit den aktualisierten Systemen, die auf der Google Cloud Platform laufen, hat Southwire seine digitale Reise mit SAP und anderen Technologieinitiativen, die den strategischen Gesamtplan des Unternehmens vorantreiben, in Gang gesetzt. So kann das Unternehmen nun schnellere und aufschlussreiche Berichte, Stabilität und eine skalierbare Betriebsplattform nutzen, um die Anforderungen seiner Kunden zu erfüllen - und das alles in derselben sicheren Umgebung, die Google selbst nutzt.

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