Case Study: Kimball International achieves rapid SAP master-data updates and faster time-to-market with Innowera Process Runner

Office furniture leader, Kimball International, Accelerates SAP data management and Delivers Efficiencies and Time to Market

Kimball International, a US office furniture leader, was struggling with growing SAP master data complexity after organic growth and acquisitions. Business teams were maintaining extensive spreadsheets and using CATT and custom transactions, which made updating material masters, bills of material and classifications slow, error-prone and a bottleneck to time-to-market. To solve this, Kimball engaged Innowera and adopted its Process Runner solution for SAP data automation.

Innowera implemented Process Runner to automate spreadsheet-driven SAP updates, enable pre-load testing and debugging, chain multiple processes and schedule overnight jobs. The result: tens of thousands of updates completed in minutes, a single chained job of over 130,000 updates running in 9 hours overnight, the ability to generate very large worksheets in 15–20 minutes, and the consolidation of up to 12 processes into one—delivering faster time-to-market, fewer errors and substantial reductions in manual effort.

Kimball International

Don Neu

Director Of IT