Discover how Hupac improved efficiency and gained greater process visibility through its migration to SAP S/4HANA.
The Challenge
Hupac, a leading company in the intermodal transport sector across Europe, aimed to enhance system performance and efficiency, making its infrastructure more agile and ready for future integrations.
The company entrusted Fincons with:
- SAP S/4HANA migration
- keeping all connections with external systems active and operational;
- implementation of a solution based on the New General Ledger in the Financial Accounting area;
- customers and suppliers data migration to the new Business Partners concept;
- a comprehensive data cleansing process to ensure information’s quality and accuracy.
The Solution
Fincons executed Hupac’s migration to SAP S4/HANA in two phases:
- Assessment Phase:
Assessed the system’s current structure and determined the best conversion strategy. The phase included analysis of FI documents, customers and suppliers data, data cleansing and ATC checks within a brownfield approach, i.e. upgrading the existing system rather than starting from scratch, ensuring smoother integration and minimizing disruption.
This phase is crucial for defining timelines, identifying potential issues, and developing a tailored conversion plan to optimise performance and mitigate risks.
- Conversion Phase:
The team prepared the new infrastructure with HANA DB and reviewed the code to ensure HANA compliance, performing extensive data cleansing to ensure accuracy and consistency.
This phase involved migrating Business Partners and adapting all accounting documents to the New General Ledger model while maintaining integrations with third-party systems and smooth data flows across platforms.
This enabled to achieve full compatibility with SAP S/4HANA functionalities while ensuring no disruptions to the existing processes.
The Benefits
- Enhanced Integration with both SAP and third-party (non-SAP) systems, improving data exchange and flexibility.
- Performance Improvement thanks to S/4HANA’s in-memory DB enabling faster data retrieval and processing, reduced latency plus real-time data processing (132 seconds compared with the previous 10,000).
- Future-ready System: modern technologies, continuous improvements and implementation of advanced business processes as the organization evolves.
The migration to SAP S/4HANA is a pivotal step in enhancing our operational efficiency and unlocking new opportunities for growth and innovation.
Partnering with Fincons has allowed us to step into the future, ensuring a more agile and connected infrastructure for years to come!
Benedetta Masciari, CFO HUPAC
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