Case Study: Macmahon Holdings achieves real-time insights and increased business agility with SAP SuccessFactors

Harnessing Real-Time Insights to Increase Business Agility

Macmahon Holdings, a mining and construction services contractor, needed greater visibility and agility across its global operations to respond faster to changing customer requirements. With multiple disparate ERP and HR systems, the company aimed to standardize finance and HR processes, streamline reporting, and scale IT via the cloud; it chose a unified platform built on SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors solutions, with SAP SuccessFactors providing the HR suite.

The implementation—combining SAP SuccessFactors with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform—consolidated multiple finance and HR systems into a single cloud instance and digitalized processes to deliver real-time, enterprise-wide insights. As a result, Macmahon cut period-end closing effort by 85%, reduced working capital by A$5 million, saved $2 million by eliminating duplicate purchase orders, removed 25,000 paper forms, reduced on-premise infrastructure by 17% and IT maintenance time by 15%, and gained faster, data-driven decision-making—outcomes driven in part by SAP SuccessFactors’ HR capabilities.

Macmahon Holdings

David Van Den Berg

Chief Technical Officer