Case Study: Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG achieves enterprise-wide planning transparency and accuracy with SAP HANA

Kärcher - Customer Case Study

Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG, a global industrial machinery company (13,500 employees, €2.578 billion revenue) known for cleaning systems, faced fragmented planning across its organization. The company needed greater transparency and alignment of strategic, financial, and operational plans, while reducing manual effort and improving forecasting accuracy.

Kärcher implemented SAP Analytics Cloud for planning, backed by SAP Business Warehouse on HANA, Customer First support, and PwC coaching to prototype and integrate large volumes of historical data into a single planning solution. The rollout automated workflows and delivered user-friendly visualizations and integrated models, improving accuracy and decision-making across more than 80 subsidiaries and up to 200 planning users.

Kärcher

Andreas Kerkau

Director of Controlling Systems and Tools