Case Study: Vestel Elektronik accelerates expansion into emerging markets with IBM Cloud SAP ERP

Preparing for growth in emerging markets with SAP systems in the IBM Cloud

Vestel Elektronik, a major Turkish consumer electronics producer, wanted to expand quickly and cost-effectively into new Central European markets but was hindered by the high cost and complexity of provisioning separate systems for each new business unit. To overcome this challenge, the company partnered with vendor IBM to implement a standardized solution.

The solution involved migrating the company's disparate European operations onto a single, centralized SAP ERP platform hosted and managed as a service in the IBM Cloud. For vendor IBM, this resulted in a six-month implementation that integrated business units, reduced IT administration by one full-time employee, cut operational costs, and provided a 99.9% service availability rate, creating a reusable template for future market expansion.

Vestel Elektronik

Coşkun Sürgevil

IT Manager