CASE STUDY
• Limited ability to enhance process efficiency and agility .
• Strategic imperative to adopt advancements in system security and data cryptography practices , and ease compliance with data privacy and protection regulations .
• Potential offered by the cloud for innovation , automation and mobility .
Why SAP ?
• Significant references and benchmarking of SAP solutions in the agribusiness industry .
• Proven reliability and robust next-generation functionality offered by RISE with SAP S / 4HANA Cloud , private edition and SAP Business Technology Platform ( SAP BTP ).
• Faster process transformation using a brownfield migration approach , minimizing business disruption .
After : Value-driven results
• Increased process efficiency , agility and data security .
• Reduced the overtime required for accounting close by 50 %.
• Minimized batch processing time , down from between eight and nine hours to between 40 and 50 minutes .
• Decreased the time needed for monthly report extraction , down from 36 hours to four hours .
• Improved IT security and data governance .
• Scaled back the estimated effort for outsourced industrialization by 10 times using SAP BTP instead of the SAP ERP application .
Gaining the flexibility and scalability for future-ready operations and sustainable growth
Active for more than a decade in the development of pesticides , Ourofino Quimica S . A . produces fertilizers , herbicides and fungicides for the Brazilian market ’ s main agricultural crops , including sugarcane , soybean , corn and cotton . Its sister company Ourofino Saúde Animal Participações S . A . is a leader in animal health , offering medicines , vaccines and other products for ruminants , poultry , pigs and horses , as well as pets .
Applying a brownfield approach , the two Ourofino companies took advantage of RISE with SAP S / 4HANA Cloud , private edition , with each company using a separate instance of the cloud ERP . This approach allowed the companies to migrate to the new environment without losing critical historical data .
The new architecture gives both businesses greater autonomy and system governance , helping them comply with Brazil ’ s data privacy and protection law . The new setup also provides the flexibility and scalability to serve future needs while also reducing server maintenance costs and easing the introduction of innovative technologies .
The companies are also making use of SAP BTP for the Cloud Foundry environment in microservice development , using modern programming languages such as Python and Node . js for posting data in APIs . “ Thanks to RISE with SAP S / 4HANA Cloud , private edition , our two Ourofino companies are now operating separately on a future-ready technology foundation with all historical data from our legacy environment in place ,” said Bruno Maniglia , CIO , Ourofino Quimica S . A . and Ouro Saúde Animal Participações S . A .
“ We successfully completed the move to RISE with SAP S / 4HANA Cloud , private edition and separated the systems of the two companies in just eight months . And all without disrupting business operations .”
We asked Bruno Maniglia , CIO , Ourofino Quimica S . A . and Ouro Saúde Animal Participações S . A , further questions to find out more .
What was the driving factor that led your company to migrate from your legacy ERP system to SAP ?
In reality , we had a set of factors for migration . Among them we can highlight :
• Servers where we had SAP ECC installed were obsolete .
• Security flaws and lack of data encryption .
• End of SAP ECC support scheduled for 2026 .
• Complexity to integrate with new technologies such as AI , RPA and other development languages .
• Separation of the ERPs of Ourofino Saúde Animal and Ourofino Química .
You mentioned that the migration was completed in just eight months without disrupting business operations . Can you elaborate on the planning and implementation process that enabled this smooth transition ?
The eight months of projects were basically divided into three stages , with four months of preparing the infrastructure environment , considering all the necessary prerequisites , both for SAP S / 4HANA and
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