Givaudan, a global leader in the fragrance and flavors industry, focuses on innovation and operational efficiency to provide superior customer experience. By leveraging SAP SCM and SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management within Enterprise Labeling, Givaudan maintains its competitive advantage, achieves supply chain efficiency goals, and enables compliance with global regulations. Discover how Givaudan is planning its SAP S/4HANA® implementation and addressing complex labeling requirements across the extended supply chain. Attend to learn key considerations to define the output management strategy for SAP S/4HANA.

Key Business Benefits:

• Best practices for piloting RFID and integrating enterprise labeling to streamline global logistics and product compliance
• Design thinking approach for an innovative RFID solution for metal packaging and liquids
• Lessons learned for integrating complementary solutions to optimize efficiency

Our previous process of contract routing and lifecycle management was manual with many bottlenecks. SAP® Ariba® acted as the finished contract repository, with one contract administrator creating the contract request, gathering the documents, and walking the paperwork through the approvals before final signoff and upload. This method was slow and open to errors and missing paperwork.

Approval workflows for new procurement contracts and amendments are now automated in SAP Ariba. Contracts are also routed to all approvers simultaneously, not being delayed by the upstream approver’s signature, and ad hoc approvers can be added during the approval workflow. We are using DocuSign, an e-signature system that integrates with SAP Ariba, to allow digital signatures on the final contract, and via their mobile app for those approvers that travel frequently.

Contract lifecycle time was reduced, and marked improvement was seen in early results after go-live.

Many forklift operators continue to waste time and resources during picking, put-away, and internal transfers because they lack adequate and real-time information on bin capacities and product locations. These users primarily rely on the RF scanners as the source for retrieving data. However, given the size and technology in these devices, it’s easy to misread or misinterpret the data, thus leading to inefficiencies and frustrations.

To overcome this challenge, we have built a custom SAP Fiori® application to assist users to see, plan, and optimize work processes in the warehouse all in real time and using the convenience of a mobile device such as tablets, PCs, or smartphones.

This tool provides:

• An easy-to-use user interface
• Capacity and product information at a warehouse, storage type, and storage bin level
• Relevant bin information such as put-away/pick block and name of the picker
• Easy monitoring of warehousing processes

This application has significantly reduced inventory adjustments and pick/put-away time. This application has significantly improved user engagement and overall productivity.

The integrity of data assets can be complicated when an organization undergoes even a very successful merger or acquisition. When Olin, an American manufacturer of ammunition, chlorine, and sodium hydroxide, needed to quickly integrate systems and assets from Dow’s chemical chlorine division, significant considerations had to be taken to address EHS risks associated with the chlor-alkali business. Understanding its asset management footprint and driving safety best practices were critical, especially as it embarked on a digital journey to SAP S/4HANA®. Olin turned to Utopia’s solutions, SAP Master Data Governance, enterprise asset management extension by Utopia and SAP Asset Information Workbench by Utopia to address a lack of formal data standards (functional location, equipment, rules, and hierarchies) within its existing SAP Plant Maintenance environment and the alignment of the standards that were being leveraged by the acquired chlor-alkali assets. Connecting multiple systems of record and creating a network of well-designed digital twins of its assets, Olin has the potential to significantly improve enterprise decision-making and enable a more agile, efficient, and effective digital supply chain.

Key Business Benefits:

• Standardized data
• Increased supply chain efficiency
• Connected multiple systems of record