SAP Consulting provided expertise in industry best practices acquired through its previous successful projects with Coca-Cola in Brazil. This was crucial for finishing our project on time and within budget. We very much appreciated SAP Consulting’s commitment to a top-quality solution and to fulfilling our needs
Claudio Rodrigues, Supervising Director, Sorocaba Refrescos

QUICK FACTS

Company:
• Name: Sorocaba Refrescos
• Location: Sorocaba, Brazil
• Industry: Consumer products
• Products and services: Beverages
• Revenue: BRL 251.5 million (€97 million)
• Employees: 600
• Web site: www.sorocabarefrescos.com.br
• Implementation partners: SAP Consulting and Sonda/Procwork

Project Objectives
• Create a solid technological platform to sustain current operations while guaranteeing the company’s long-term growth strategy
• Improve and integrate business processes by adopting best practices embedded in the SAP Business All-in-One solution

Key Challenges
• Integrate business processes throughout the organization to eliminate significant redundancies in tasks and information
• Provide easily accessible, reliable information to support decision making by top management
• Reduce total cost of ownership and IT expenditures

Solutions and Services

• SAP Business All-in-One
• SAP Best Practices Baseline package
• ASAP Focus methodology

Why SAP Solutions and Services
• Complete solution that is globally recognized, tested, and aligned with the most recent technologies
• Proven success in a similar implementation within the Brazilian beverages industry

Implementation Highlights
• Completed project implementation within schedule and budget in 13 weeks plus 3 weeks of post–go-live support
• Minimized project risks and disruption to the business – especially billing processes – during the cutover period
• Minimized customization by performing effective delta requirements sessions

Key Benefits
• More effective decision making
• Reduced operational risk
• 40% lower cost of implementation over traditional approach