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Southwire Migra sus Cargas de Trabajo SAP con Google Cloud

Levante la mirada hacia los edificios de cualquier gran ciudad de los Estados Unidos y lo más probable es que esas estructuras estén construidas con productos Southwire. Southwire Company es uno de los mayores productores de alambre y cable de Norteamérica. Southwire y sus filiales fabrican alambres y cables para la construcción, cables con revestimiento metálico, productos de cable portátiles y electrónicos, productos para servicios públicos, productos de cable OEM y productos de ingeniería.

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 To evolve their enterprise, the sports giant decided to replace their outdated planning software with SAP Analytics Cloud for planning.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.

El Desafío

El rápido crecimiento que estaba experimentando Southwire superaba la necesidad de un centro de datos respaldado por software que impidiera la transformación. Para seguir siendo competitivos y optimizar sus procesos empresariales, Southwire necesitaba migrar sus cargas de trabajo SAP a un entorno en la nube fácil de usar que ofreciera lo último en seguridad, análisis y funcionalidad general.

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El Enfoque

Juntos, Avvale y Southwire identificaron Google Cloud como el entorno ideal para la migración. La infraestructura de Google Cloud es la mayor red global privada. El tiempo de inactividad casi nulo de la plataforma y las cinco capas de protección de datos fueron factores que motivaron a Southwire a realizar el cambio.

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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

El Impacto

Al pasarse a Google Cloud, Southwire experimentó una actualización tecnológica inmediata y un aumento general del rendimiento de sus sistemas SAP. Con los sistemas actualizados que se ejecutan en Google Cloud Platform, Southwire ha puesto en marcha su viaje digital con SAP y otras iniciativas tecnológicas que impulsarán el plan estratégico general de la empresa. Como tal, ahora pueden aprovechar informes más rápidos y perspicaces, estabilidad y una plataforma operativa escalable para satisfacer las necesidades de sus clientes; todo ello en el mismo entorno seguro que utiliza Google.

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