Vestas Wind Systems Customer Story
Vestas: Revolutionizing Supplier Quality Management Through Digital Innovation Preuzmite dokumentINTERNAL – SAP Only (de le te if public)
Vestas: Revolutionizing Supplier Quality
Management Through Digital Innovation
Vestas is a global leader in sustainable energy solutions, designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind
turbines worldwide. Headquartered in Denmark with operations across multiple continents, Vestas has installed
+200 GW of wind energy in over 88 countries and maintains a workforce of 35,000+ employees dedicated to
advancing renewable energy technology.
As the world’s leading wind energy company, Vestas faced significant operational challenges in managing
supplier quality processes across its complex global supply chain. The company needed to modernize its
Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) to efficiently qualify materials from external suppliers while maintaining
the stringent quality standards essential for wind energy applications. Manual processes created bottlenecks in
supplier collaboration and quality approvals, limiting the company’s ability to scale operations while ensuring
excellence in renewable energy component manufacturing.
To address these challenges and support continued growth in the expanding renewable energy sector, Vestas
urgently needed a robust, integrated digital solution to streamline supplier quality management, enhance
collaboration capabilities, and maintain its position as the global leader in sustainable wind power technology.
Vestas: Revolutionizing Supplier Quality
Management Through Digital Innovation
Vestas is a global leader in sustainable energy solutions, designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind
turbines worldwide. Headquartered in Denmark with operations across multiple continents, Vestas has installed
+200 GW of wind energy in over 88 countries and maintains a workforce of 35,000+ employees dedicated to
advancing renewable energy technology.
As the world’s leading wind energy company, Vestas faced significant operational challenges in managing
supplier quality processes across its complex global supply chain. The company needed to modernize its
Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) to efficiently qualify materials from external suppliers while maintaining
the stringent quality standards essential for wind energy applications. Manual processes created bottlenecks in
supplier collaboration and quality approvals, limiting the company’s ability to scale operations while ensuring
excellence in renewable energy component manufacturing.
To address these challenges and support continued growth in the expanding renewable energy sector, Vestas
urgently needed a robust, integrated digital solution to streamline supplier quality management, enhance
collaboration capabilities, and maintain its position as the global leader in sustainable wind power technology.
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“Thanks to SAP IPD, we established collaboration between cross-functional
teams that assure advanced quality planning in one database and one
system to approve the purchased items. We reduced the time required for
reporting the approval status in the projects significantly.”
Karol Wąsik, Head of SQ&D, Supplier Quality & Development NCE
Vestas
Denmark
https://www.vestas.com/e
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Industry
Industrial Manufacturing
Employees
35,000+
Revenue
EUR 18.8bn
Products and services
Sustainable energy
solutions, designing,
manufacturing, installing,
and servicing wind turbines
worldwide
Featured solutions
SAP Cloud ERP Private, SAP
Integrated Product
Development (IPD)
~70%
Improved overall
efficiency in PAPP
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Manual Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) created bottlenecks in qualifying materials from external
suppliers
• Limited visibility into supplier performance with delays in collaboration and quality approvals
• Inability to scale operations while maintaining excellence in renewable energy component manufacturing
Why SAP
• Enhanced supplier collaboration with integrated digital workflows using SAP IPD and SAP S/4HANA
• Enabled comprehensive automation of supplier qualification processes for global scale operations
• Provided scalable foundation for growing supplier network in the wind energy market
After: Value-driven results
• Enhanced supplier collaboration through integrated SAP IPD workflows with shared tasks and documentation
• Established unified stakeholder visibility with consistent PPAP case monitoring across all teams
• Achieved automatic SAP S/4HANA integration, eliminating manual data entry and reducing errors
• Provided real-time transparency from PPAP initiation to approval with instant status updates
• Successfully simplified the Production Part Approval Process while maintaining quality standards
Transforming Global Supplier Quality Management with SAP Integrated
Product Development (IPD)
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121 Days
Average reduction in end-
to-end cycle time
“The system driven workflow helps to standardizes our approach to do
advanced quality assurance across modules and regions.
In combination with the SAP analytical cloud dashboard it creates
transparency on where we are during NPI projects and enables automatic
reporting”
Holger Lutz, Director Supplier Quality & Development, Nacelle & Hub
“Thanks to SAP IPD, we established collaboration between cross-functional
teams that assure advanced quality planning in one database and one
system to approve the purchased items. We reduced the time required for
reporting the approval status in the projects significantly.”
Karol Wąsik, Head of SQ&D, Supplier Quality & Development NCE
Vestas
Denmark
https://www.vestas.com/e
n
Industry
Industrial Manufacturing
Employees
35,000+
Revenue
EUR 18.8bn
Products and services
Sustainable energy
solutions, designing,
manufacturing, installing,
and servicing wind turbines
worldwide
Featured solutions
SAP Cloud ERP Private, SAP
Integrated Product
Development (IPD)
~70%
Improved overall
efficiency in PAPP
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Manual Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) created bottlenecks in qualifying materials from external
suppliers
• Limited visibility into supplier performance with delays in collaboration and quality approvals
• Inability to scale operations while maintaining excellence in renewable energy component manufacturing
Why SAP
• Enhanced supplier collaboration with integrated digital workflows using SAP IPD and SAP S/4HANA
• Enabled comprehensive automation of supplier qualification processes for global scale operations
• Provided scalable foundation for growing supplier network in the wind energy market
After: Value-driven results
• Enhanced supplier collaboration through integrated SAP IPD workflows with shared tasks and documentation
• Established unified stakeholder visibility with consistent PPAP case monitoring across all teams
• Achieved automatic SAP S/4HANA integration, eliminating manual data entry and reducing errors
• Provided real-time transparency from PPAP initiation to approval with instant status updates
• Successfully simplified the Production Part Approval Process while maintaining quality standards
Transforming Global Supplier Quality Management with SAP Integrated
Product Development (IPD)
xxxxxen US (26/02 ) © 20xx SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-us e
121 Days
Average reduction in end-
to-end cycle time
“The system driven workflow helps to standardizes our approach to do
advanced quality assurance across modules and regions.
In combination with the SAP analytical cloud dashboard it creates
transparency on where we are during NPI projects and enables automatic
reporting”
Holger Lutz, Director Supplier Quality & Development, Nacelle & Hub