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Transforming retail and wholesale: Fast, secure, and proven solutions

The retail and wholesale industry moves fast, with high customer expectations and complex logistics. Businesses need to balance efficiency with sustainability while keeping up with changing demand and market trends. SNP’s solutions help retail and wholesale companies modernize IT systems, simplify processes, and embrace innovation.

Solutions designed for retail and wholesale

Whether it’s integrating new acquisitions, supporting sustainability goals with data insights, or transforming IT systems with near zero downtime, SNP offers tailored solutions for retail and wholesale businesses. Our platform ensures quick, secure SAP transformations, helping your business stay competitive in a constantly evolving market.

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S/4HANA transformations: Greenfield, brownfield and BLUEFIELDTM

Embark on the S/4HANA journey with confidence. SNP has extensive expertise in greenfield, brownfield, and BLUEFIELD S/4HANA transformations. Whether you’re building from scratch, optimizing existing systems, or seeking a hybrid approach, our solutions align with your unique business requirements.

  • Benefit from our experience: We have delivered over 600 S/4HANA migration projects, including successful transformations for major players in the consumer goods sector.

  • Comprehensive data management: For every project, we offer our solution CrystalBridge for analyzing, archiving, restructuring, and migrating data securely and quickly to new systems or cloud environments.

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Near zero downtime approach: Minimize business disruption during complex SAP migrations

Minimizing downtime is one of the biggest challenges for businesses undergoing SAP transformations, especially if they are operating in a 24/7 environment. SNP’s Near Zero Downtime (NZD) approach ensures minimal impact on both source and target systems by reducing technical downtime to anywhere from just a few hours to an entire weekend, depending on the system’s size. With advanced data slicing, delta migrations, and robust validation tools, SNP delivers an efficient and reliable migration experience tailored to your needs.

  • Minimal business disruption: Data is transferred in phases, keeping your systems mostly online. A final brief downtime window is used to make final adjustments before going live.

  • Enhanced accuracy: Tracks changes with database triggers and verifies data integrity using SNP Validate.

  • Flexible approach: Supports various transformation scenarios, including big bang and wave-based migrations.

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Mergers and acquisitions: Streamlining complexity

At SNP, we specialize in managing complex M&A projects. From seamless system carve-outs to company code merges, we ensure that your SAP systems evolve as swiftly as your business does.

  • Proven expertise: Our solution CrystalBridge together with our seasoned consultants and strong partner network really makes the difference. We have proven multiple times that we can find solutions for your “mission impossible.”

  • Accelerated validation: Our software SNP Validate speeds up data validation test cycles by 80%.

  • Minimal disruption: We know how to migrate data in near-zero downtime, with minimal disruption to your business.

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Success stories – see what we have done for the retail and wholesale industry

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  • Harmonization
  • Migration
  • SAP S/4HANA
  • DACH
  • Europe
  • Consumer goods
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  • Harmonization
  • Migration
  • SAP S/4HANA
  • DACH
  • Europe
  • Consumer goods

MYKITA moves from non-SAP system to S/4HANA in a single step

The goal of the project was to replace the outdated ERP system (proAlpha) including some smaller third-party systems and the S/4 financial solution used at the time. MYKITA requested a simultaneous full implementation of SAP S/4HANA for ist headquarters in Germany as well as all 12 subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, APAC and North America. The aim was to keep the costs and effort involved to a minimum while ensuring a high degree of automation. Among the significant challenges were the migration from non-SAP systems to S/4HANA, connecting third-party systems (online shops, checkout systems and scanner solutions), the coronavirus pandemic (project was carried out fully remotely), and the individual project approaches required due to the highly complex legacy systems that had grown over time.

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  • Partner stories
  • IBM
  • Latin America
  • Consumer goods
  • SAP S/4HANA
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  • Partner stories
  • IBM
  • Latin America
  • Consumer goods
  • SAP S/4HANA

Migration of 20 years of history with SNP and IBM

The switch to S/4HANA is part of Colombina's strategy as part of its digital transformation process. The company intends to use it to accelerate initiatives in the areas of marketing, sales, trade and procurement that require the introduction of new technologies. Colombina's S/4HANA project - originally led by SNP partner IBM - initially started as a classic brownfield migration. Performance tests were carried out to determine the approximate downtime. However, the result was unacceptable to Colombina because of the associated economic losses. Finally, IBM proposed the SNP service and BLUEFIELD™ approach, but with a specific requirement: to preserve all source information (20 TB at that time) and complete the project with less than 48 hours of downtime.

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  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • North America
  • Consumer goods
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  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • North America
  • Consumer goods

Mondelēz International optimally prepares IT systems for merger with SNP software

Mondelēz had agreed to acquire Greek snacking company Chipita as part of the strategy to expand its snacking portfolio and geographical reach into the fast-growing markets of Central and Eastern Europe.Mondelēz were keen to gain an early view of Chipita’s systems to understand what they were set to inherit and plan how to incorporate the systems.Chipita needed to prepare a view of its systems for Mondelēz that would facilitate a speedy merger of the two companies’ systems. As the deal was not yet complete and under review by anti-trust authorities, it was vital for Chipita not to give away any sensitive information prior to the acquisition, as well as to follow masking requirements provided by anti-trust specialists.

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  • Partner
  • Fujitsu
  • Partner stories
  • SNP Test Data Organizer
  • United Kingdom
  • Consumer goods

PZ Cussons: selectively and rapidly reducing the size of SAP non-production systems

PZ Cussons main objective was to reduce the data footprint of its ECC and BW development systems by approximately 70%. This was important, not only, in order to save on infrastructure and run costs, but also to ensure that the system contained data representative of production.It was stipulated that the data within the systems should be based on a point in time, removing all data prior to June 2019 along with plants that were no longer in use. Additionally, material masters with a change date before June 2019 were also to be removed.The reduction was to take place directly in the target system. They did not want to delete the target system and transfer the reduced data from the productive system to the target system. In the BW System, a list of system tables would need to be evaluated to determine which tables could be reduced in addition to those considered in the standard.The company expects to save an average of USD 8 million annually in years to come due to the upgrade and future technology implementations that will build upon this foundation.

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Ready to navigate the challenges of your SAP transformation together? Contact us today to discuss how SNP can tailor SAP solutions to meet your business needs and goals.