Case Study: Brüder Schlau GmbH & Co. achieves 200x faster order analysis and faster innovation rollout with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Innovating in the Interior Design Market with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Brüder Schlau is a German home-interior retailer and wholesaler (Hometrend, Schlau, and 180+ Hammer stores) serving consumers and tradespeople with textiles, flooring, paint and related products. Facing an expiring server lease, the company needed greater scalability, availability, and faster IT innovation to support expansion and customer services while reducing administrative overhead.

With SAP Consulting, Brüder Schlau migrated 15 SAP systems to SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud in 10 months (after a three‑month trial), including a 9 TB ERP database moved within a 48‑hour downtime window. The migration cut order‑data upload time from three days to 15 minutes, improved dialog response by 25%, delivered ~200× faster order analysis, reduced system administration time, and enabled plans for e‑commerce, disaster recovery, and HR modernization.

Brüder Schlau GmbH & Co.

Patrick Langkau

Head of SAP Technology