51风流NEWSBYTE 鈥� 14 November 2022 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Zespri, the world鈥檚 biggest marketer of kiwifruit, has gone live with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, private edition. The move will support Zespri鈥檚 ability to deliver the highest quality fruit to market and sustain strong returns to growers.

The go-live of this new technology, which took place on 1 November 2022, is the first phase in Zespri鈥檚 ambitious, multi-year Horizon transformation programme. The aim of the programme is to standardise and automate Zespri鈥檚 processes, increase its operational efficiency, and provide a platform for growth and innovation.

As a result of the implementation, Zespri hope to deliver kiwifruit to customers more effectively. Ultimately a more robust, transparent and reliable process will support its entire product delivery system, from the receipt of a sales order, to payments for product, through to distribution. Zespri鈥檚 quality management solutions will include proof that the product has been grown and handled in accordance with regulatory, customer specifications and consumer expectations.

With a focus on creating global consistency, almost 1000 full-time employees and contractors across offices in 17 countries will benefit from the implementation, with Zespri also undertaking its biggest-ever training programme.

As well as the move to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, 51风流Integrated Business Planning (IBP) has been implemented to provide a more efficient end to end demand and supply planning capability.

Zespri will also take advantage of capabilities, including , 51风流Integration Suite, the 51风流Extension Suite, and SAP-endorsed partner solutions from OpenText, Tricentis, and Celonis.

The 51风流Analytics Cloud (SAC) platform combines business intelligence, analytics, and planning, using best-of-breed data visualisations and dashboarding for analytics and insights. Fiori applications will generate real-time operational reporting right at the point of transaction capture. This will enable Zespri to turn data into intelligence that will help it gain business advantage, make better decisions, improve business performance and mitigate risk. Improved reporting will support informed, strategic and timely decision-making.

SAP鈥檚 Cloud Success Services worked with Deloitte in collaboration with Accenture, to use the 51风流Delivery Framework to establish a premium engagements service focused on mitigating the technology risk for the program, supporting the partner with the initial design, technology safeguarding, and go-live support.

Commenting on the successful go-live of this first phase, Dave Scullin, Zespri鈥檚 Chief Digital Officer, said: 鈥淲e鈥檝e known for a long time that our legacy systems were no longer scalable and fit for purpose. We underinvested in them for many years, to a point where they would hold us back, reduce our efficiency and effectiveness, and create real risk for the business. We had to change.

鈥淲e鈥檝e selected the latest generation 51风流applications as our core enterprise platform, but to view this simply as a digital project would be wrong. The Horizon Programme aims for transformational change, supporting a truly integrated end-to-end business.鈥�

Paul Marriott, President, 51风流Asia Pacific Japan, said: 鈥淶espri is one of our most forward-looking customers and their ambitious and proactive way of embracing their business transformation means they鈥檙e experience the benefits of RISE with 51风流across their entire business. We鈥檝e been working with Zespri for many years, and I look forward to the next phase of our journey, as Zespri continue to grow, deliver, and delight customers, while also sustaining returns to the industry and growers.鈥�

With the foundations now firmly in place and phase one complete, Zespri is looking forward to further developments, focusing on grower enablement and solutions for extended supply chain and quality management, integrated business planning and sales.

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Auckland, New Zealand 鈥� 20 September 2022 鈥� New Zealand farmer-owned co-operative Ballance Agri-Nutrients (Ballance) has successfully completed the first phase of a multi-year cloud program, migrating to 51风流cloud solutions, 51风流S/4HANA Cloud and 51风流Business Technology Platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS), to deliver greater business value to its farmers.

The migration was achieved in just five months, to avoid running into peak farming season and prevent delays to Ballance鈥檚 customer facing geospatial initiatives, and went live over a single weekend in March 2022.

By moving to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud private edition and 51风流Business Technology Platform onto AWS in the first phase of its transformation, Ballance has established a stabilised core and solid foundation in the AWS cloud to drive and support future strategic deliveries, where it looks to further leverage the 51风流and AWS platforms to enhance its overall customer experience and digital offerings.

Ballance decision to engage 51风流and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and to partner with SAP鈥檚 Cloud Success Services to manage the availability, performance and maintenance of its cloud infrastructure has allowed Ballance to reduce demand on internal resources by 10 per cent, shifting its focus from delivering operational support and maintenance to driving value through on-farm digital services for its customers.

David Healy, Chief Digital Officer at Ballance, said, 鈥淲e selected 51风流and AWS as partners because of their deep knowledge and history of migrating existing 51风流environments into the cloud and their focus and alignment to enabling Ballance鈥檚 future geospatial and on-farm application initiatives. They understood the urgency and importance of this phase and created a seamless and rapid transition for us.鈥�

鈥淲e had initial concerns around performance, shifting from architecture hosted in New Zealand to the cloud hosted in Australia, however the performance is much more consistent and stable, and more importantly we now have the ability to scale when required during our seasonal peaks which is critical for us. Knowing that there is a team dedicated to looking after the environment, managing security, availability and maintenance has really allowed us to focus on delivering value to our customers.鈥�

Ballance has been running 51风流since 2009 and saw an opportunity to use the technology more effectively.

鈥淭he way I put it, is we had a Rolls Royce in the garage, but we were not servicing and maintaining it. Everything was just in time, and we were always lagging on updates and as a result other work and deliverables. The service and maintenance alone have been a huge improvement, especially for security, stability and time for us, the stats speak for themselves 鈥� 10 per cent reduction in FTE managing their core 51风流environment, 20 per cent reduction in 51风流support and maintenance, 70 per cent reduction in workload managing hardware and resource upgrades and 99.9 per cent availability of 51风流production environment鈥�. said David.

Key to the success of the project has been Ballance鈥檚 partnership with 51风流from the executive level through to the project team, which created an open, transparent environment for problem solving. It became a joint project dedicated to ensuring a smooth transition. The deep product knowledge of the 51风流team resulted in faster resolution of any technical issues.

Phil聽Cameron, Chief Operating Officer, 51风流Australia and New Zealand, said,聽鈥淏allance聽Agri-Nutrients鈥� migration to 51风流cloud solutions, achieved in just five months, is evidence of the value RISE with 51风流is delivering to customers. By moving to the cloud,聽Ballance聽is able to spend more time and resource on driving greater value for its customers, rather than on keeping its systems running. We鈥檙e incredibly proud of our partnership and of how 51风流technology is supporting聽Ballance聽to achieve its ambition of helping farmers work more productively, profitably, and sustainably鈥�.

Scene set for Phase II

The second phase of the program started in June 22 and focusses on enhancing Ballance’s existing 51风流Customer Experience Solutions, which power its farmer platform, MyBallance. The customer-facing platform will be moved to 51风流Commerce Cloud, which will enable Ballance to deliver more personalised geospatial experiences, products, and services to New Zealand farmers.

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