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Southwire migra cargas de trabalho SAP com o Google Cloud
Olhe para os prédios de qualquer grande cidade dos Estados Unidos e é bem provável que essas estruturas sejam construídas com produtos da Southwire. A Southwire Company é uma das maiores produtoras de fios e cabos da América do Norte. A Southwire e suas subsidiárias fabricam fios e cabos para construção, cabos revestidos de metal, produtos de cabos portáteis e eletrônicos, produtos de utilidade pública, produtos de fios OEM e produtos de engenharia.
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 To evolve their enterprise, the sports giant decided to replace their outdated planning software with SAP Analytics Cloud for planning.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.
O Desafio
O rápido crescimento que a Southwire estava experimentando superou a necessidade de um data center, suportado por um software que impossibilite a transformação. Para continuar a ser competitiva e otimizar seus processos de negócios, a Southwire precisava migrar suas cargas de trabalho SAP para um ambiente de nuvem fácil de usar que oferecesse a mais recente segurança, análise e funcionalidade geral.
A Abordagem
Juntas, a Avvale e a Southwire identificaram o Google Cloud como o cenário ideal para a migração. A infraestrutura do Google Cloud é a maior rede global de propriedade privada. O tempo de inatividade quase nulo da plataforma e as cinco camadas de proteção de dados foram fatores motivadores para a Southwire fazer a mudança.
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
O Impacto
By moving to Google Cloud, Southwire experienced an immediate technology refresh and an overall performance boost in their SAP systems. With updated systems running on the Google Cloud Platform, Southwire has jumpstarted their digital journey with SAP and other technology initiatives that will further the company’s overall strategic plan. As such, they can now leverage faster and insightful reporting, stability and a scalable operating platform to meet the needs of their customers; all in the same secure environment that Google uses themselves.
Ao migrar para o Google Cloud, a Southwire experimentou uma atualização tecnológica imediata e um aumento geral no desempenho de seus sistemas SAP. Com sistemas atualizados e executados no Google Cloud Platform, a Southwire deu início à sua jornada digital com o SAP e outras iniciativas tecnológicas que promoverão o plano estratégico geral da empresa. Dessa forma, a empresa agora pode aproveitar relatórios mais rápidos e perspicazes, estabilidade e uma plataforma operacional dimensionável para atender às necessidades de seus clientes, tudo no mesmo ambiente seguro que o próprio Google utiliza.
