Cosmoproject: Realizing the beauty of integrated systems and centralized data for cosmetics development and production
Explore Cosmoproject’s journey with SAP
For health and beauty product manufacturer Cosmoproject S.p.A., quality is everything. This is why it needed a modern ERP system to manage every aspect of its business. RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition offers the system integration and centralized data needed to support growth while maintaining the quality and value that customers expect.
| Industry | Region | Company Size |
| Consumer products | Parma, Italy | 260 employees |
improvement in manufacturing productivity.
decrease in revenue loss due to stock-outs.
increase in revenue.
Director of Operations, Cosmoproject S.p.A.
Moving away from spreadsheets to a modern ERP system
As the designer and manufacturer behind a number of global health and beauty brands, Cosmoproject S.p.A. prides itself on offering the very best in Italian-made cosmetics and toiletries.
Cosmoproject develops its formulas using innovative raw materials from around the world while also ensuring environmental, ethical, and safety standards that customers can trust. All of this coupled with fluctuating markets and supply chain costs makes for complex operations across the product lifecycle. But Cosmoproject’s legacy ERP system could not keep pace – forcing a reliance on error-prone spreadsheets for basic forecasts and budgeting. Also, there was no connection between the ERP system and plant machinery, limiting insight into manufacturing cycle times.
Cosmoproject needed a modern, cloud-based ERP system that could scale to support expansion into international markets and enable more-precise customer quotes and cost analysis – all while enabling team members to work from anywhere.
Director of Operations, Cosmoproject S.p.A.
Connecting operations to a cloud-based core that can scale with growth
To meet the requirements of its growing international business, Cosmoproject chose RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition.
The implementation journey took approximately eight months, including integration with third-party systems for creating chemical formulas and with the plant’s manufacturing equipment. All the data from these systems is now pulled into SAP S/4HANA Cloud. This means better materials management and planning as well as the immediate routing of information from the shop floor to management.
A key success factor in the implementation was strong support from executive leadership at Cosmoproject. This support helped convince key users that process automation and integration, as well as real-time data and information management, were critical to achieving operational efficiency and the insight to make the best in-the-moment business decisions.
Director of Operations, Cosmoproject S.p.A.
Increasing insight, lowering costs, and tightening quality controls
With SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition at its core, Cosmoproject is seeing notable improvements in everything from supply chain management to manufacturing to IT.
Overall, the new system has been exceptionally reliable, with zero unexpected downtime.
The connection between shop floor machinery and the central ERP provides production data that can be used to run gap analyses and identify areas for improvement. Plus, management can act quickly to resolve production line issues fast. The result has been a 5% cut to manufacturing cycle times as well as a reduction in backlogs – leading to a 20% increase in capacity utilization and productivity.
Automated budgeting and forecasting have helped eliminate spreadsheets, resulting in fast reporting and more-precise cost calculations and planning. This has led to a 15% decrease in revenue loss due to stock-outs as well as a 10% increase in on-time delivery performance. Plus, it’s easier than ever to account for the impact of market fluctuations – allowing better decision-making around customer price lists.
The end result has been an overall increase in revenue of an astonishing 25%.
Plus, with everything managed as a service by SAP, IT costs are lower than ever. And having a scalable, cloud-based system means that Cosmoproject can manage its growing business while giving its employees the option to work from anywhere in the world.
Director of Operations, Cosmoproject S.p.A.