CBC Group upgraded from EHP7 in 2.5 months instead of 6 months thanks to Panaya CloudQuality™ Suite The Central Bottling Company Group is Israel’s leading producer and distributor of beverages, milk and milk products in Israel. CBC Group was founded in 1967, upon receiving the Israel franchise for Coca-Cola products from Coca-Cola International. CBC Group runs 6 large companies on SAP system - from dairy to soft drinks, including Coca-Cola Other brands sold by CBC Group include Sprite, Guinness, Carlsberg, Johnny Walker and dozens more Approximately 7,000 employees worldwide Roughly 2,500 SAP users Challenge CBC Group faced a major SAP upgrade – to EHP7: Downtime would shut down 6 companies, including Coca Cola Israel Expected project time was 6 months Solution CBC Group used Panaya CloudQuality™ Suite to reduce the risk of their SAP EHP7 upgrade: Impact Analysis for the upgrade Test Center for the testing phase Benefits CBC Group reaped huge benefits by working with Panaya: Zero downtime outside of a quick weekend SAP changeover “Panaya helped us turn a 6 month project into 2.5 months.” “The risks were huge, and the benefit was huge thanks to Panaya.” A 6 month project was transformed into a 2.5 month project CBC Group’s 6 companies were all upgraded Rami Rimartchok, Director of Applications and Development at CBC Group ROI CBC Group saved 3.5 months on their EHP7 upgrade. www.panaya.com Panaya enabled 6 companies to upgrade to EHP7 in 2.5 months Challenge CBC Group is Israel’s largest beverage consortium, owning and running 6 companies in Israel whose brands include CocaCola, Guinness, Carlsberg, Johnny Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys and over a dozen more. Rami Rimartchok is CBC Group’s Director of Applications and Development. He oversees 45 employees plus 10 subcontractors, including 6 SAP managers who report directly to him. “We are running one of Israel’s largest SAP systems and have zero tolerance for extended downtime. I had to coordinate SAP teams within our 6 companies and plan for a major upgrade. The risk was very high on this project - nothing in CBC Group moves without SAP.” “One of our companies is Coca-Cola Israel. If our SAP is not functioning, Coca-Cola Israel cannot get the bottles out of the trucks coming from the manufacturers. There is no such thing as downtime, so the risks were huge. And the results were terrific thanks to Panaya.” Solution CBC Group split their SAP project into two parts - infrastructure and testing. For the infrastructure stage, they used Panaya Impact Analysis to discover potential issues with their custom code. As soon as the infrastructure phase was completed, Rami and his teams moved to testing. “When we entered the critical testing phase, my team and our super users ran extensive tests to our SAP system with Panaya Test Center. In the end, testing for this huge project took 2 weeks instead of turning into an ongoing project. This enabled us to continue providing service to the business backbone.” ROI “Looking back, now that the project is done, it was a huge success. CBC Group runs one of the largest ERP systems in Israel and we pulled off an SAP upgrade in record time. Our total downtime was from 10:30am Friday morning to 7pm on Saturday evening.” About Panaya Panaya CloudQuality™ Suite disrupts the risk, time and costs required to deliver all types of SAP®, Oracle® EBS, JD Edwards and Salesforce changes. We are passionate about the need to make your ERP more agile and align it with your business. Powered by big data analytics and aggregating since 2008, Panaya CloudQuality™ Suite delivers insights that tell you what will break, how to fix it and what to test. It is constantly improving and finding smarter ways to perform everything from day-to-day maintenance to major projects. 1,220 companies in 62 countries, including a third of the Fortune 500, use the Panaya CloudQuality™ Suite to enhance and maintain their enterprise apps without skipping a beat. For more information, read our blog, visit our website and follow @panaya on Twitter
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