{"id":4123,"date":"2018-08-24T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.organisator.ch\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2018-08-24T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:00:59","slug":"how-gia-informatik-mueller-martini-leads-into-the-future-with-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organisator.ch\/en\/management\/it\/2018-08-24\/wie-gia-informatik-mueller-martini-mit-sap-in-die-zukunft-fuehrt\/","title":{"rendered":"How GIA Informatik Leads Muller Martini into the Future with SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Muller Martini company building in Bad Mergentheim. (Image: zVg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"The people, not the houses, make the town.\" This is how a novella about Bad Mergentheim could begin. In this town of around 24,000 inhabitants in the northeast of the German state of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Muller Martini runs a competence center for the hardcover sector. The group, which is internationally known for print finishing systems, wanted to renew its structures, build a new SAP<\/a>system and associated processes in order to optimally coordinate and standardize the Group-wide interaction of all sites. The project goal for the production plant in Bad Mergentheim was to transfer the adjusted structures to the new system landscape as of January 1, 2018.<\/p>\n

SAP project from a single source<\/h2>\n

\"We're talking about a rollout here, which means we're adapting the logic and definition of a template to all the other plants in the group. Everything has to be from a single source,\" says Roger Wiederkehr, SAP project manager at GIA Informatik AG in Oftringen. \"We deployed the template live at two companies at the headquarters in Zofingen in September 2015 after around 18 months of intensive preparation. This formed the starting signal for the further rollouts we are working on - such as in Bad Mergentheim. With our project team, we are adapting one plant per year to the new structure.\"<\/p>\n

What are the reasons for choosing GIA Informatik AG?<\/h2>\n

During the restructuring, GIA covered the SAP area, firstly because it has a lot of experience and good results as a Gold Partner of SAP - both in outsourcing and in application consulting and system implementation - and secondly because it is a subsidiary of the Muller Martini Group. Beat Tanner, ERP specialist at Muller Martini AG in Zofingen, who pulled the strings between the sites and GIA during the project: \"GIA is the group's internal competence center for SAP. It has a great deal of knowledge, also has an overall understanding of the structures, and has a strong project team. Some long-standing team members started their professional careers at Muller Martini and therefore know the business and its characteristics particularly well.\"<\/p>\n

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Beat Tanner, ERP specialist Muller Martini AG: \"GIA has great knowledge, also has the overall understanding of the structures and convinces with a strong project team.\" (Image: zVg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The milestones<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The project partners attended a workshop at the end of January 2017 to discuss the next steps. \"In February and March, we developed the Delta functional concepts, and in April we carried out the implementation,\" Beat Tanner explains. The first migration took place in May and the second migration at the end of September. The go live took place on time for the planned date of January 1, 2018. Just one month later, aftercare was discontinued and the system went into normal operating mode.<\/p>\n

Hurdle successfully overcome<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As expertly as GIA handled the project, there were also individual difficulties to overcome. \"The defined processes were to be followed and the organizational changes were to be made as planned, so that the standard would remain guaranteed,\" explains Roger Wiederkehr. \"However, the system and process-related changes posed a major challenge for the on-site organization. With clarification work and a lot of understanding, we created a sensible solution.\"<\/p>\n

Synchronized structures bring great advantages<\/strong><\/h2>\n

By synchronizing the structures, the efficiency gain from this project is great. With the SAP migration - a cleanup back to a standard - many legacy issues were thrown off that had accumulated over some 20 years in the previous SAP system. \"Now the Bad Mergentheim site can work with the new conditions, is fully integrated into the Group and can use its structures at any time,\" says Roger Wiederkehr. Thanks to these clean SAP processes and master data, the foundation has also been laid for the subsequent migration to SAP S\/4HANA.<\/p>\n

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Roger Wiederkehr, SAP Project Manager GIA Informatik AG: \"Due to the clean SAP processes and master data, the basis for the subsequent migration to SAP S\/4HANA is given.\" (Image: zVg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tips to other companies<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Do you run a large company or an SME, do you want to clean up your structures and also introduce or renew SAP? Roger Wiederkehr and Beat Tanner give you the following advice:<\/p>\n