Case Study: CLAAS Achieves a Big Bang S/4HANA Go-Live with Panaya

CLAAS achieves one big bang S/4HANA go-live across 30 global units with Panaya in 12 hours

CLAAS, a global leader in agricultural machinery manufacturing, faced the immense challenge of executing a "Big Bang" SAP S/4HANA go-live across its 30+ global units. The scale was daunting, involving 17 million lines of custom code requiring remediation and the need to synchronize over 1,000 colleagues. They urgently needed a unified methodology to navigate this complexity and ensure a high-quality, risk-free transition without halting mission-critical operations. To meet this need, CLAAS turned to the vendor Panaya and its platform for agentic change impact analysis and automated testing.

Using Panaya’s solution, CLAAS unified its IT and business teams under a single, synchronized methodology. Panaya’s agentic capabilities scoped the entire system in 12 hours and delivered a prioritized execution plan. The platform automated workflows, bridged communication gaps, and provided AI-powered defect resolution. The results were highly successful: CLAAS resolved 41,000+ code tasks and 3,000+ defects before production, executed 20,000+ test cases with automated documentation, and achieved a high-quality, zero-downtime go-live. Panaya’s impact established a permanent "Data Vault" for future releases and transformed a high-stakes transition into a manageable, unified global effort.

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