1. NORD DRIVESYSTEMS Group: Increasing the Speed of Business with SAP HANA®
Company
Getriebebau NORD GmbH &
Co. KG, member of the NORD DRIVESYSTEMS Group
Headquarters
Bargteheide, Germany
Industry
Industrial machinery and components
Products and Services
Drive-systems solutions
Employees
3,200 (2014)
Revenue
€500 million (2014)
Web Site
Partners
SAP® Consulting
OEDIV
Business challenges
Increase productivity and user experience by improving system performance across the entire value chain
Support company growth with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution prepared for the future
Lay an IT foundation for further innovations
Technical implementation
Upgraded SAP ERP and migrated SAP ERP and SAP BW from an Oracle database to SAP HANA
Worked with the SAP Consulting organization to analyze custom code using the custom code migration service for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA and to upgrade and migrate SAP ERP in one step using the database migration option
Chose OEDIV as hosting partner to provide and manage the infrastructure for SAP HANA
Future Plans
Implement country-specific requirements for its subsidiary in Brazil
Integrate an e-commerce solution with the back-end product configuration in SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA
Build a road map for an SAP S/4HANA implementation to fully utilize the potential of SAP HANA
350
Custom code transactions optimized for SAP HANA*
66%
Reduction in database size*
5%–50%
Reduction in system response times*
Higher
Employee productivity, thanks to faster throughput times*
*Resulting from the
migration to SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA
“We are impressed with the major performance improvements that our business has experienced after migrating to SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA and SAP BW on SAP HANA. This project went smoothly thanks to the collaboration with our partners at SAP and OEDIV. We are now ready for future growth.”
Jens Paulsen, Managing Director, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS Group
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2. SAP HANA® Technical Implementation for NORD DRIVESYSTEMS
Key features deployed
SAP® ERP powered by SAP HANA ®
SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) application powered by SAP HANA
Technical key performance indicators
SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA
350 custom code transactions optimized for the SAP HANA platform across all enterprise resource planning (ERP) modules
Database size reduced by a factor of 3: from 2 TB to 700 GB
System response times reduced by 5% to 50%
1,700 users globally
SAP ERP migrated with a downtime of 20 hours only
SAP BW powered by SAP HANA
Database size reduced by close to a factor of 4: from 1.9 TB to 415 GB
300 users globally
24x7 system availability
Partner involvement
Completed a proof of concept with the SAP Consulting organization
Selected the new hosting partner OEDIV
Went live, including custom code analysis, system upgrade, and database migration, in just six months with support from SAP Consulting and OEDIV
Used services from SAP, including the custom code migration service for SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA and database migration for SAP ERP
SAP HANA® platform architecture for NORD DRIVESYSTEMS
NORDIS (Legacy)
SAP BW
SAP® ERP
SAP HANA®
SAP HANA
One global instance for each application, hosted and managed by OEDIV
Three-tier system, one appliance: Production, quality, and test
Two-tier system, one appliance: Production and test