Case Study: Global Manufacturer Producing Industrial Company achieves faster, simpler, safer SAP roll-out and $100M savings with Software AG

Rolling Out Sap Faster, Simpler & Safer Saving $100 Million

A long-established, multi‑billion‑dollar multinational manufacturer with thousands of employees faced a stalled global SAP rollout across dozens of plants, each running unique legacy MES and supply‑chain systems. After four years the program was only 10% complete, with high consultant costs, fragmented integrations, delayed visibility, and slow decision‑making caused by disparate systems and non‑standard automation.

The company deployed Software AG’s Digital Business Platform—centered on webMethods—to create a template‑driven Manufacturing Integration Layer (MIL) that reused services to integrate legacy MES, warehouse and ERP systems without disrupting shop‑floor operations. The MIL sped SAP deployment, improved operational agility and enterprise visibility (cutting projected inventory‑visibility time from six years to three), guaranteed timely data delivery, enabled governance and reuse, and is projected to save about $100 million in deployment costs while providing a foundation for Industry 4.0 innovation.