Case Study: Axia Value Chain (Leading Business Transformation Consulting Firm) achieves rapid, accurate BOM updates and faster S&OP with Innowera Process Runner

Process Runner helps Axia Value Chain deploy rapid and reliable repeatable data for Samarco to guarantee feasible process execution

Leading Business Transformation Consulting Firm was implementing SAP APO processes for a large mining client and struggled with time-dependent Bills of Materials (BOM) that required monthly updates of 24+ rows each. Their complex APO optimizer couldn’t be used operationally because manual data maintenance was slow, error-prone and prevented running multiple S&OP scenarios. In searching for an Excel-to-SAP automation solution they selected Innowera’s Process Runner.

Using Innowera’s Process Runner BAPI functionality, the firm automated Excel-to-SAP transformations (BoM, Routings, Resource and Downtimes) with simple VB macros, cutting a day of manual updates to about an hour and routinely processing ~7,400 BOM rows monthly via ~50-row BAPI calls. The Innowera implementation improved data quality, reduced manual input and errors, enabled multiple S&OP scenarios per day, and delivered rapid ROI and robust, repeatable data updates.