Innovabee installs new SAP S/4Hana programme at Sonnentracht

Das SAP-Systemhaus Innovabee hat beim Bremer Honig- und Süßstoff-Spezialisten Sonnentracht in sehr kurzer Zeit SAP S/4Hana installiert und zum Laufen gebracht.

For over 100 years, Walter-Lang group has been producing and ­importing honey from every continent on earth, with a special focus on ­organic quality honey specialities. In 2001, Gerrit Lang founded the Sonnentracht GmbH in the city of Bremen, and the company has always cooperated closely with the companies owned by Gerrit‘s father, Walter Lang. In addition to the company‘s own beekeeping operation, it also specializes in the production and bottling of honey, alternative sweeteners and cocoa products, all with the highest varietal purity and sustainability standards. German SAP specialist Innovabee ­recently installed SAP S/4Hana at Sonnentracht and managed to go live with the whole system after only four months.
With organic products subject to very strict quality guidelines, batch tracing is a particularly important ­issue. Gerrit Lang explains, “As a food production company, the issue of traceability is very important. Transparency is called for in every process, from purchasing to production to sale. We are also required to code each individual received good with a batch”.  
Up to now, these kinds of special requirements were only possible with extensive IT programming. Now, industry-specific functions such as batch management are standard ­features in the SAP S/4Hana Innovafood food industry solution. This also applies for the barrel management to be used in the subsequent Walter Lang project.
Sonnentracht additionally benefits in its universal business processes such as accounting and sales from the extensive functions and high performance provided by this system. For example, an operation can control its business processes in real-time and call up current analyses at the push of a button. And the ­extremely fast installation of SAP S/4Hana was yet another advantage. Gerrit Lang adds, “Innovabee’s concept ‘SAP flink eingeführt‘ (engl.: SAP installed quickly) is an ­installation method that unites a number of advantages, particularly for mid-sized companies. You receive a high-performance SAP industry-specific solution at a fixed price, streamlined introduction and the fact that you are able to begin working with it productively very quickly”.
Christian Schweizer, the Project Manager at Innovabee, explains, “‘SAP flink eingeführt’ functions ­according to the prototype approach. First, the customer’s specifics are ­recorded. Then, Innovabee carries out the basic settings and provides the agreed structures, functions, processes and forms”. Afterwards, the key users are trained. If adjustments still need to be made, the requirements are fed into the system before the real go-live and conceptualized, realized and tested. This is then ­followed by integration testing, ­acceptance and ensuring the productive workability of the system. All of these steps were completed within only four months. •