Agria Embraces Innovation with SAP S/4HANA Single Tenant Edition

As part of their global plan for digitalization and process optimization, Agria needed a technology partner who would help craft the company’s digital roadmap for years ahead. The first step involved migrating their heavily customized SAP ECC 6.0 solution to SAP S/4HANA to allow seamless management convergence of all company subsidiaries in Bulgaria, Russia, Ecuador and Indonesia. The main objectives of the project were standardizing processes across Agria’s global business entities, increasing visibility over KPIs as well as the entire business and reducing overhead.

Agria executed an extensive RFP procedure to find the best vendor for their digitalization journey and Scalefocus was among the shortlisted companies. They tasked us with executing their ERP migration strategy due to our extensive experience in delivering complex enterprise projects for business transformation and solid track-record of successful SAP S/4HANA implementations within the manufacturing industry. We guided Agria in unpicking the SAP ECC 6.0 customization that was not driving satisfactory results and provided the complete picture of the value they would get moving forward with SAP S/4HANA. In this way we were going to fulfill step one of the global plan to move all of Agria’s subsidiaries to SAP and resolve the long-standing issue of production and resource planning optimization.

SAP S/4HANA is a future-ready enterprise resource planning (ERP) system with built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning and advanced analytics. It transforms business processes with smart automation and runs on SAP HANA—a market-leading in-memory database that offers real-time processing speed and a dramatically simplified data model. After careful evaluation with the active participation of Scalefocus’ consultants, Agria decided to go with S/4HANA Single Tennant Edition, which provides next generation ERP capabilities packaged as Platform as a Service (PaaS) for maximum flexibility and scalability. The decision allowed the company to take advantage of all benefits this comprehensive cloud-focused approach offers, specifically a flexible licensing model and compliance with regulations in the countries of all subsidiaries. Having carried out the first Greenfield SAP S/4HANA migration in Bulgaria the year before, Scalefocus had the confidence and full expertise to rise to the occasion and turn Agria into a trailblazer on yet another front.

The modules in the implementation scope were Sales and Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Finance (FI), Controlling (CO), Plant Maintenance (PM) and Quality Management (QM) and we configured them in a single integrated system. The Scalefocus SAP team utilized PP/DS (Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling) with characteristic dependent planning, which we had to modify in a way that would enable extremely precise resource planning and configuration. It was a necessary step to ensure compliance with varying sets of international regulations and quality standards. We conducted walkthrough tests, key user trainings and provided dedicated hyper care to secure seamless integration.