Case Study: Festo eliminates manual SAP hand-offs and scales 150,000 jobs/day with Automic’s Dollar Universe

Festo Eliminates Manual Hand-ofs from SAP Processing with Automic’s Dollar Universe

Festo, a global leader in pneumatic and electric automation operating in 59 countries with 15,500 employees, standardized on SAP to support just‑in‑time manufacturing and 24‑hour order fulfillment. However, SAP’s built‑in scheduling lacked the flexibility, visibility and resilience needed to run high‑volume, time‑critical batch jobs without manual hand‑offs, creating delays that threatened production and logistics SLAs.

Festo implemented Automic’s Dollar Universe for its peer‑to‑peer, highly available architecture and tight SAP integration, giving operators a single console to control and monitor jobs. Dollar Universe now automates ~150,000 SAP jobs daily across 60 instances for 9,000 users, balanced dialog and background processing, absorbed 300% IT workload growth with no extra headcount, and ensured timely reporting and SLA compliance.

Festo

Harald Fröschle

Manager of Computer Center Operations