ASUG Best Practices: SAP for Utilities

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Overview

When: 10/9/2023, 02:00 PM - 10/11/2023, 03:00 PM

Location: Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk

98% of utilities have a desire to turn data into actionable and predictive insights – but 20% of all customer data is believed to be inaccurate. There are fundamental issues of data quality, IT cost control, and technical debt that need to be addressed before power flow monitoring, outage prediction, and mobile workforce management can become realities. With the help of SNP, utilities can quickly, inexpensively, and safely modernize their SAP systems in preparation for future process improvement and customer engagement projects.

To date, SNP has served 117 customers and 336 projects worldwide. Our automation-driven solutions reduce the delivery risks, business disruptions, and technical downtimes commonly associated with the old way of modernizing SAP and moving large data volumes. Selective SAP S/4HANA migrations, moves to any cloud, data harmonization, archiving, carve-outs, system consolidations and decommissions – SNP’s CrystalBridge platform is the solution designed for smart, safe change.

Click here to register for the SAP for Utilities conference.

Cloud Data Integration
S/4HANA
Reorganization

Cloud Data Integration
S/4HANA
Reorganization

9/5/2023 | 4 min

How the utilities industry can stay competitive in the digitalized market

Utility companies are facing new competitors from the technology industry. Tech giants such as Amazon or Google are already tapping into the energy market with their smart home devices, delivering insights on the energy usage and trends to the consumers. And yes – utilities have some homework to do.

Whether it's a product demo or some guidance on how to proceed with you digital infrastructure changes, we can help.

Customer Success Stories in the Utilities Industry

SAP S/4HANA
Migration
North America

Migration to SAP S/4HANA® – Paving the Way for Future Expansion

Utilities are facing unprecedented market changes, demands to become more efficient, and requests to meet increased consumer expectations while preserving dependability and enhancing safety. Technology has advanced swiftly to assist enterprises in their digital transformation. SAP S/4HANA may help them compete and win in a rapidly changing environment, but it requires deliberate planning and execution to achieve operational agility and customer focus.NPPD came to SNP and IBM for help with their SAP S/4HANA project – an upgrade that includes system integration, cloud services, and software and cloud maintenance. This platform was the innovation foundation NPPD needed to enhance future technology, systems, and processes. NPPD had to migrate data from their old ECC platform while simplifying and standardizing processes, cleansing and removing legacy data, and eliminating unused SAP transactions.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.

Partner stories
SAP S/4HANA

NorthWestern Energy Powers Digital Transformation with SAP S/4HANA®

By converting its existing SAP R/3 system PJA to SAP S/4HANA, Jenoptik aimed to harmonize processes, master data and reporting. The goal of the project was to provide optimal support for the global business and facilitate future leaps in innovation. The R/3 system, which had grown over the years and contained 30 plants, 40 company codes, and around 20 sales and 10 purchasing organizations, needed to be completely migrated and then archived. Among other things, this involved a plant split and merge within a company code across all applications and including the full history. To implement the organizational changes and planned innovations as quickly as possible, the first step was to securely switch to an SAP S/4 system with the most important functions. This is to be followed by an innovation phase in which further useful S/4 functions will be introduced.

Distrocuyo, its journey towards S/4 HANA and its best practices

Distrocuyo needed to improve the integration of the different areas of the company by unifying business processes. Within these areas, its resources had to be made more efficient and redundant and repetitive tasks had to beredundant and repetitive tasks to be reduced in order to increase operational and management efficiency. In order to benefit the decision-making process, the client wanted the company's information to be unique, homogeneous and online for the use of all its employees. With this objective in mind,Distrocuyo needed to have information analysis tools that incorporate data from various sources to obtain a global view of its management. Finally, Distrocuyo needed to improve its communication and interaction with its customers and suppliers.

Aare Energie AG: Carve-out in a Single Step Thanks to SNP Methodology

During the carve-out project at Aare Energie AG, the master and transaction data had to be copied from the existing SAP system into a new SAP system, including all historical data for the business unit to be carved out. The data transformation also involved the migration of archive documents. The plan was to create the new SAP landscape by copying the existing production system. Deleting the copied data in the source system was not planned in the first step.

SAP S/4HANA
Migration
North America

Migration to SAP S/4HANA® – Paving the Way for Future Expansion

Partner stories
SAP S/4HANA

NorthWestern Energy Powers Digital Transformation with SAP S/4HANA®

Distrocuyo, its journey towards S/4 HANA and its best practices

Aare Energie AG: Carve-out in a Single Step Thanks to SNP Methodology

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ASUG Best Practices: SAP for Utilities

Click here to register for the SAP for Utilities conference.

How the utilities industry can stay competitive in the digitalized market

Meet with the SNP Team

Whether it's a product demo or some guidance on how to proceed with you digital infrastructure changes, we can help.

Customer Success Stories in the Utilities Industry

Migration to SAP S/4HANA® – Paving the Way for Future Expansion

NorthWestern Energy Powers Digital Transformation with SAP S/4HANA®

Distrocuyo, its journey towards S/4 HANA and its best practices

Aare Energie AG: Carve-out in a Single Step Thanks to SNP Methodology

Migration to SAP S/4HANA® – Paving the Way for Future Expansion

NorthWestern Energy Powers Digital Transformation with SAP S/4HANA®

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Integrate to Innovate – with SNP Glue

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