miduca Office

SAP S/4HANA migration

Miduca

S/4HANA migration in record time – fast, cost-effective, efficient

Thanks to adesso’s SME approach, Miduca's legacy system was fully migrated to S/4HANA, ensuringa seamless transition for approximately 650 users. The go-live was achieved in just six months, twomonths ahead of schedule. As a result, the project was completed under budget while meeting allobjectives.

Challenge

Miduca faced the challenge of migrating ahistorically grown core system with numeroususers, in-house developments, and interfacesunder significant time and budget constraints,as well as organizational complexity:

  • Approximately 650 users
  • Over 35 interfaces and numerous connectedsubsystems
  • FI/CO with 12 company codes, FI-CA, FI-AA,CO, HCM including payroll
  • Tight schedule and budget restrictions
  • Organizational complexity due to multiplestakeholders
  • Extensive in-house developments

Benefits for the client

  • Experienced project management enabled arealistic timeline and budget plan, whichwas significantly undercut (by two months)
  • Excellent communication amongparticipating teams facilitated theresolution of critical issues
  • Collaboration on equal footing throughoutthe project
  • Timely resolution of 'simplification items'by experienced consultants
  • High autonomy of internal teams, whoindependently and punctually delivered inhousedevelopments
  • Close cooperation with the SAP RISE team

Solution

  • adesso successfully addressed thesechallenges with a focus on efficiency:
  • Lean methodologies minimized projectcosts
  • Expert teams were efficiently coordinatedacross stakeholders (Miduca, Migros IT, SAP,adesso)
  • The go-live was achieved after just threetest iterations, thanks to a highlycoordinated team of experts
  • Targeted support for critical issues behindthe scenes
  • Implementation of expert training sessions
  • Assistance with data cleansing prior tomigration
  • Support for retrofitting and interfaceadjustments

Customer testimonial

We look back on a highly successful S/4 conversion that required significantly less time and budget thanoriginally planned. adesso played a key role with their expertise in system operations and project coordination. Thanks to their experience and excellent collaboration, they quickly and accurately understood our priorities.
Guido Benz, Lead SAP Campus Team, Miduca AG

Methods and applied technologies

adesso applied its proven SME approach to this project, aiming toimplement S/4HANA as leanly and "minimally invasively" as possible forthe customer. The focus was on limiting the scope to essentialrequirements, strategically deploying business resources, andprioritizing operational security at all times. For this brownfieldmigration, adesso's "active transformation" methodology was employed,which has been successfully applied in over 100 S/4 transformationsand is continuously refined.

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