Barco: Making value analysis part of its high-performing, future-ready, and visionary culture in a large-scale transformation
Innovation on a foundation of operational excellence
In a transformational move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, digital projection and visualization leader Barco N.V. took the RISE with SAP journey to propel the company’s momentum. With business process optimization and harmonization critical to bringing its ambitious goals to life, Barco is using SAP Signavio solutions, including predefined accelerators, to chart the next steps.
| Industry | Region | Company Size |
| High tech | Kortrijk, Belgium | >3,000 employees |
of value realized by implementing over 40 recommendations.
in value identified by analyzing more than 16 use cases.
Transformation Lead, SAP S/4HANA Program Lead, Barco N.V.
Taking steps to solidify its innovative and high-performing status
Barco N.V. is a global technology company known for visualization, networking, and collaboration solutions. Offering innovative technologies that drive advancements in the healthcare, enterprise, and entertainment markets, the company is recognized as a global leader that’s dedicated to investing in a bright tomorrow through sustainable growth.
Fostering a culture of originality and innovation, Barco sought to improve operational efficiency and enable faster, more data-driven decision-making to underpin ongoing high performance and growth by grounding its business on a future-ready technology foundation. To get there, the company opted to take the RISE with SAP journey to migrate to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. This would not only help inspire its internal team with access to advanced technology but also act as a drawcard for attracting top IT talent.
But this accelerated brownfield migration was just the start of its transformation. As David Peirs, transformation lead and SAP S/4HANA program lead at Barco, puts it, “Our transformation wasn’t just about running our business on a powerful new engine, it was focused on transformational change and maximizing use of the new technology to the fullest.”
Transformation Lead, SAP S/4HANA Program Lead, Barco N.V.
Extracting maximum value from migrating to advanced ERP
Barco’s brownfield migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition through RISE with SAP represented a catalyst for change and a foundational step toward realizing its strategic ambitions. Focusing on achieving a significant improvement in operational efficiency and faster, more data-driven decision-making, the nub of the transformation was to enable the company to respond more agilely to dynamic market conditions. Direct access to the SAP Signavio portfolio enabled improvements in data quality ahead of the migration and established a strong foundation for continuous process optimization.
The implementation was carried out over a three-month period and supported by the accelerated process discovery service with SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite. In addition a business process management (BPM) center of enablement strategy and design service was delivered by the professional services team from SAP Signavio solutions. The project entailed extensive training for the key stakeholders, as well as developing the capability for process analysis and modeling as a service through the Barco BPM center of enablement.
Seeking to make significant productivity gains through SAP Cloud ERP Private capabilities, the company understood that taking a fit-to-standard approach would be essential to maximizing the value of the solution. Leveraging quick insights into critical business processes, Barco was able to prioritize and steer its transformation journey. The accelerated process discovery service with SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite served as a key accelerator, enabling smooth integration with the SAP system and delivering immediate visibility in the process landscape. It also uncovered inefficiencies, root causes, and automation opportunities through process-level best-run scores and targeted deep dives into individual process flows.
By combining these data-driven insights with collaborative modeling features and reference content from SAP Signavio solutions, Barco successfully designed and aligned stakeholders around harmonized future-state processes. This lays the groundwork for increased standardization, greater agility, and a scalable global rollout.
Peirs comments, “The accelerated process discovery service from SAP Services and Support was instrumental in getting us started. It’s a powerful service that supported our learning on the SAP Signavio Process Intelligence solution, allowing us to identify process gaps and improvement potential using Business Process Modeling Notation references.”
Achieving and sustaining operational excellence with SAP Signavio
Access to modern and fast-evolving technologies is vital to Barco’s future growth and leadership. Its clean core strategy is promoting a more mindful approach to customizations, which is critical for maintaining a sustainable technology foundation and adopting fast-emerging innovations.
By migrating to advanced ERP, Barco has created huge momentum for change on a modern technology foundation that sits well with its IT team and certainly helps when attracting new recruits. Since its go-live on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, there’s consistent and reliable performance and global accessibility. And being on the RISE with SAP journey compels the company to continuously evolve with the latest upgrades, positively impacting the team’s focus. Use of SAP Signavio is helping enhance overall performance by reshaping business processes for efficiency, innovation, resilience, and reduced costs.
Concentrating on achieving and sustaining operational excellence, insights from SAP Signavio help Barco identify the right priorities and next steps. Peirs comments, “The speed of insight, continuous updates, and process harmonization have delivered a clear return on investment for Barco. Through SAP Signavio, we can make business process optimization decisions based on data.”
A key factor influencing the success of this large-scale project was getting all of its more than 3,000 employees aligned and moving in the same direction. Through robust change management, business process experts, process owners, and IT professional worked together and engaged in the right discussions.
Transformation Lead, SAP S/4HANA Program Lead, Barco N.V.
Accelerating organizational readiness and productivity
In adopting a process mindset and culture of value analysis, Barco is focusing on a fit-to-standard approach for business processes, based on analyses from SAP Signavio. This allows for faster adoption and helps it prioritize the right processes. Transparency into process variants and compliance across countries and systems helps the company eliminate process variants and align with best practices, laying a solid foundation for a successful global rollout.
In addition, Barco is exploring creating contextual guidance and automated workflows through WalkMe solutions and looking to use SAP Business AI to build process automations.
Barco is also getting ready to migrate 18 countries from their legacy solutions to its new business environment on SAP Cloud ERP Private and plans to use SAP Signavio solutions to drive process harmonization and conformance.
The direction of new developments, such as the accelerated process discovery service with SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite, will help further simplify and accelerate Barco’s transformation process. The company is actively involved in shaping these innovations, helping ensure they align closely with real-world business needs.