Case Study: Hochland achieves a smoother SAP S/4HANA ERP transformation and faster customer response with SAP Signavio

How Can a Focus on Processes and Users Help Teams Contribute to a Vital ERP Transformation

Hochland SE, a €1.63 billion cheese manufacturer with 5,500 employees and production sites across Europe (and group companies in the US and Australia), needed to standardize operations and replace a legacy ERP to meet ambitious goals for growth, sustainability and digitalization. The company faced disparate local market needs, no centralized process governance, and a gap between IT and business stakeholders that made an SAP S/4HANA migration risky without clearer process and organizational alignment.

Hochland deployed SAP Signavio alongside SAP S/4HANA to map and align processes with the IT landscape, building transparency and a shared understanding of the migration. The effort produced a clear status quo and road map, defined project roles, simplified and optimized core processes (notably insight-to-shelf), enabled faster customer responsiveness, and created long-term alignment between IT and business units.

Hochland

Alexander Neumaier

Project Manager BPM