Coway: Taking a Two-Step Approach to Transition Legacy ERP to Next-Generation ERP in the Cloud
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Learn how the transition to SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA and collaboration with the SAP Enterprise Cloud Services team have helped lay the foundation for achieving Coway's digitalization goal. PUBLIC
Picture Credit | Coway Co. Ltd., Seoul, South Korea. Used with permission.
Making people’s lives healthy and comfortable, Coway Co. Ltd. is a leading environmental
home appliances company, offering water purifiers, air purifiers, bidets, and mattresses.
With a commitment to innovation, award-winning products, and home health expertise,
the company is continuing to diversify product lines and accelerate overseas business
expansion. Coway has operations in Malaysia, the United States, Thailand, China,
Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, and Europe, based on its business success in South Korea.
On a transformation journey to digitalize various business operations, Coway’s aging and
highly customized legacy ERP application was limiting its success. Needing the proven
reliability and robust next-generation functionality offered by advanced ERP in the cloud,
Coway chose to minimize business disruption from the transition by first moving its legacy
ERP landscape to a private cloud.
Coway: Taking a Two-Step Approach
to Transition Legacy ERP to
Next-Generation ERP in the Cloud
Picture Credit | Coway Co. Ltd., Seoul, South Korea. Used with permission.
Making people’s lives healthy and comfortable, Coway Co. Ltd. is a leading environmental
home appliances company, offering water purifiers, air purifiers, bidets, and mattresses.
With a commitment to innovation, award-winning products, and home health expertise,
the company is continuing to diversify product lines and accelerate overseas business
expansion. Coway has operations in Malaysia, the United States, Thailand, China,
Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, and Europe, based on its business success in South Korea.
On a transformation journey to digitalize various business operations, Coway’s aging and
highly customized legacy ERP application was limiting its success. Needing the proven
reliability and robust next-generation functionality offered by advanced ERP in the cloud,
Coway chose to minimize business disruption from the transition by first moving its legacy
ERP landscape to a private cloud.
Coway: Taking a Two-Step Approach
to Transition Legacy ERP to
Next-Generation ERP in the Cloud
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Featured Solutions and Services
RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud,
private edition; SAP Business
Suite powered by SAP HANA; and
Cloud Success Services
Revenue
US$3 billion
Employees
7,000
Products and Services
Manufacture, distribution,
and rental of water purifiers
and air purifiers
Industry
Consumer
products
Coway Co. Ltd.
Seoul, South Korea
www.coway.com
(Korean)
Improvement in response
time during peak time
>2x
Improvement in performance
for batch jobs
6.88x
“The transition to SAP Business Suite powered by
SAP HANA and collaboration with the Cloud Success
Services team have laid the foundation for achieving
our digitalization goal. We have empowered our
employees to focus on their core roles, and we can
quickly adapt to the rapid changes in our industry.”
Kim JaeKyung, ERP/Financial Supply Chain Management Team
Manager, Coway Co. Ltd.
Before: Challenges and Opportunities
• Stabilization of its legacy ERP application needed to boost performance
• Future planned move to advanced ERP in the cloud to counter continuously growing data volume,
non-Unicode systems, and outdated software impacting the legacy ERP’s performance
• Inefficiency of maintaining legacy systems with heavy custom developments
• Minimization of customer service disruption throughout the digital transformation journey
Why SAP and SBT Global
• Adoption of a cloud-first strategy for scalability, cost-efficiency, and service innovation potential
• Improved flexibility and reliability from investing in RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition
• Support to minimize business impact with a two-step approach to advanced ERP in the cloud, by first
converting to SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA in a private cloud and then moving to
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition
• Guidance from the Cloud Success Services team to lead the conversion project and manage SBT
Global’s team
After: Value-Driven Results
• Completed data migration and validation for 80 TB of legacy data in 18 hours, following the legacy ERP
server ramp-down, using the near-zero downtime framework
• Successfully achieved project goals, with minimum go-live issues and stabilizing the new system within
two weeks
• Realized an average performance improvement ratio of 27.2 times for optimized programs
Minimizing Business Disruption on the Path to Advanced ERP in
the Cloud with RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition
sap.com/terms-of-use
Featured Solutions and Services
RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud,
private edition; SAP Business
Suite powered by SAP HANA; and
Cloud Success Services
Revenue
US$3 billion
Employees
7,000
Products and Services
Manufacture, distribution,
and rental of water purifiers
and air purifiers
Industry
Consumer
products
Coway Co. Ltd.
Seoul, South Korea
www.coway.com
(Korean)
Improvement in response
time during peak time
>2x
Improvement in performance
for batch jobs
6.88x
“The transition to SAP Business Suite powered by
SAP HANA and collaboration with the Cloud Success
Services team have laid the foundation for achieving
our digitalization goal. We have empowered our
employees to focus on their core roles, and we can
quickly adapt to the rapid changes in our industry.”
Kim JaeKyung, ERP/Financial Supply Chain Management Team
Manager, Coway Co. Ltd.
Before: Challenges and Opportunities
• Stabilization of its legacy ERP application needed to boost performance
• Future planned move to advanced ERP in the cloud to counter continuously growing data volume,
non-Unicode systems, and outdated software impacting the legacy ERP’s performance
• Inefficiency of maintaining legacy systems with heavy custom developments
• Minimization of customer service disruption throughout the digital transformation journey
Why SAP and SBT Global
• Adoption of a cloud-first strategy for scalability, cost-efficiency, and service innovation potential
• Improved flexibility and reliability from investing in RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition
• Support to minimize business impact with a two-step approach to advanced ERP in the cloud, by first
converting to SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA in a private cloud and then moving to
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition
• Guidance from the Cloud Success Services team to lead the conversion project and manage SBT
Global’s team
After: Value-Driven Results
• Completed data migration and validation for 80 TB of legacy data in 18 hours, following the legacy ERP
server ramp-down, using the near-zero downtime framework
• Successfully achieved project goals, with minimum go-live issues and stabilizing the new system within
two weeks
• Realized an average performance improvement ratio of 27.2 times for optimized programs
Minimizing Business Disruption on the Path to Advanced ERP in
the Cloud with RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition