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Efficienza potenziata: leader automotive in America Centrale riduce lo spazio di archiviazione del database SAP del 50%
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 To evolve their enterprise, the sports giant decided to replace their outdated planning software with SAP Analytics Cloud for planning.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.
Il nostro cliente è un punto di riferimento nel settore automobilistico in tutta l'America Centrale, noto per il suo impegno verso l'eccellenza e la massima soddisfazione del cliente. Fornisce un'ampia gamma di soluzioni che spaziano dalla vendita di veicoli alla manutenzione e al finanziamento, rappresentando i marchi automobilistici più prestigiosi in paesi come El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras e Costa Rica.
La sfida
Con l'obiettivo di migliorare l'efficienza, ridurre i costi e migliorare le performance del sistema, il nostro cliente ha affrontato sfide significative dovute all'alto volume di dati generati dal suo sistema ERP SAP. Le complessità legate alla gestione di questi dati hanno ostacolato le loro operazioni e frenato la loro capacità di innovare e crescere.
L'approccio
Avvale ha ideato una strategia completa di archiviazione dati SAP mirata a risolvere efficacemente le sfide specifiche del cliente. Implementando misure strategiche di archiviazione, Avvale ha puntato a controllare la crescita dei dati, ottimizzare le risorse, migliorare la capacità di memoria, potenziare le performance del sistema, ridurre i requisiti di archiviazione e preparare il terreno per una transizione senza soluzione di continuità a SAP S/4HANA in futuro.
Avvale ha aiutato il cliente a ridurre i costi associati alle risorse tecnologiche, migliorare i tempi di risposta del sistema e semplificare i processi di gestione dei backup.
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
L'impatto
Il nostro cliente ha ottenuto il pieno controllo sulla crescita del database, recuperando quasi 1 TB di spazio di archiviazione e 600 GB di memoria. L'implementazione dell'archiviazione dati SAP ha portato a una riduzione del 50% nei requisiti di archiviazione del database del cliente, con significativi risparmi economici e un miglioramento della reattività del sistema. Con il supporto di Avvale, il cliente non solo ha superato le sfide contingenti, ma ha anche posto solide basi per una crescita sostenibile e per l'innovazione continua nelle sue operazioni.
