{"id":46017,"date":"2020-03-02T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=46017"},"modified":"2020-03-04T11:53:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T11:53:36","slug":"basf-partners-with-sap-consulting-leader-seidor-mena-on-business-transformation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2020\/03\/02\/basf-partners-with-sap-consulting-leader-seidor-mena-on-business-transformation-project\/","title":{"rendered":"BASF partners with SAP consulting leader Seidor MENA on business transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Global chemicals company BASF has turned to Seidor MENA, a leading systems integrator and SAP consulting partner, to support the ambitious spin-off of its construction chemicals business unit that requires a broad technology overhaul.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading regional systems integrator and Digital\nTransformation champion, Seidor, has announced that it has joined forces with\nBASF to support the global chemicals producer in a sweeping\ncorporate-restructuring project in their construction chemicals business unit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having\ndecided to operate the division as a standalone entity, BASF needed to separate\nthe unit\u2019s technology systems to prepare it to run independently. For the past\n12 years, BASF has been running SAP R3 COBALT but since SAP announced that support\nfor R3 will not extend beyond 2025, BASF decided that its restructuring project\nshould also involve migration to a futureproof system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project\nwill extend to 22 countries – across Asia Pacific, the Middle East and South\nAmerica – and affect some 280 users. Given the tight timeline to complete the\nimplementation, and the need for optimal efficiency, BASF\u2019s stakeholders\nidentified Seidor – and specifically its Dubai based entity, Seidor MENA – as\nan ideal partner, given its technology credentials and global reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seidor MENA began\nby helping BASF to classify countries by the size of operations. As an SAP\npartner, Seidor MENA was then able to advise BASF\u2019s IT team on the best business\napplication fit for the company\u2019s transformation needs, as well as the best\nimplementation approach to ensure a smooth transition from the legacy R3 system.\nBASF opted to deploy a mixture of SAP S\/4HANA and SAP Business One ERP running on\nAmazon Web Services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was\nvital for us to move our small and medium sized operations within the construction\nchemicals division to a robust system that offers high flexibility,\u201d said Jose\nVizoso Capiali, Regional IT Manager Middle\nEast, West Asia, CIS, Africa, BASF. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact\nthat Seidor MENA was also able to offer us technology advice and fast\ndeployment, with the added benefit of having a global presence, were key\ndeciding factors. We were very keen to adopt a solution that was easy to maintain.\nIn the digital age, IT decision makers are, I think,\nalways looking for ways to reduce in-house workload, so the AWS cloud model\nsuggested by Seidor MENA was a great match. And Seidor MENA\u2019s own expertise in\nthe domain of ERP in general, and SAP in particular, will also be invaluable to\nus throughout the business transformation project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Seidor\nis a global company with local presence in many of the 22 countries involved in\nBASF\u2019s deployment project, Seidor MENA will manage the entire implementation,\nfrom its Dubai offices. The implementation started last month and will take\nplace in phased rollouts throughout the year. Seidor MENA\u2019s role will extend\nbeyond technology consultant to include supporting BASF in the change-management\nprocess, as the new business entity adapts from an enterprise system with a\nhigh degree of automation, to a leaner solution built for the small and medium\nenterprise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BASF\u2019s\nproject team will work from a Seidor MENA-crafted global template for the consolidation\nof business processes. As lessons are learned from initial rollouts,\nimplementation will be standardised for subsequent waves to lower TCO for BASF.\nSeidor MENA will continue updating this template over a three-year period,\nbased on business needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seidor MENA\nwill also engage heavily with end-users in the pilot countries to ensure\nsuccessful implementations and boost users\u2019 confidence in, and acceptance of,\nthe new solution. Over the next three years, BASF will continue relying on Seidor\nMENA to enhance and support the ERP deployment, and explore options to engage\nfurther with the systems integrator in the procurement of other business\napplications and cloud services – with Seidor MENA not only serving as a\ntechnical advisor, but as a consultant in business-process standardisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSuccessful Digital\nTransformation is about much more than technology migration,\u201d said Ignacio Ruiz\nde Eguilaz, Managing Director, Seidor MENA. \u201cAt Seidor, we recognise that business\ntransformation requires organisations to evolve and make changes to company\nculture. Our global reach and technology expertise now complement a deep,\nnuanced knowledge of business-process standardisation. BASF faced a daunting transformation\nchallenge with their construction chemicals division, but recognised that Seidor\nwas their ideal partner because we take a business-first approach to everything\nwe do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Global chemicals company BASF has turned to Seidor MENA, a leading systems integrator and SAP consulting partner, to support the ambitious spin-off of its construction chemicals business unit that requires a broad technology overhaul. Leading regional systems integrator and Digital Transformation champion, Seidor, has announced that it has joined forces with BASF to support the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":46018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3624,36,1173,3629,332,13,79],"tags":[11414,11417,908,420,11418,240,11416,11415,10312],"class_list":["post-46017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-case-study-newsletter","category-intelligent-technology","category-manufacturing","category-newsletter","category-software","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-basf","tag-chemicals","tag-digital-transformation","tag-dubai","tag-jose-vizoso-capiali","tag-sap","tag-sap-r3-cobalt","tag-seidor","tag-seidor-mena"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46017"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46027,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46017\/revisions\/46027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}