Case Study: Philips Lighting achieves 1,600 hours saved and streamlines SAP material master data creation with Precisely Automate Studio

Philips Lighting streamlines SAP® material master data creation with Automate Studio

Philips Lighting, a global leader in lighting and LED technologies managing over 25,000 products in SAP, faced slow, error-prone material master updates that relied heavily on IT support and manual processes. To solve this, Philips engaged Precisely and its Automate Studio solution to streamline mass creation and maintenance of finished products in SAP.

Precisely implemented Automate Studio and Automate Studio Manager, enabling business users to create and update data en masse, run real‑time SAP queries into Excel, and synchronize documents securely. The rollout across European sites automated daily data extraction (millions of lines), cut the manual material-creation workflow (previously 13 transactions), improved error management, and delivered a measurable savings of 1,600 hours in 10 months (about one FTE per year).

Philips Lighting

Sylvain Darve

Data Manager