Carl Zeiss:
Managing a global business transformation with SAP S/4HANA

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Industrial Manufacturing
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Headquarters
Oberkochen, Germany
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Employees
44,000 worldwide

About ZEISS

ZEISS is an enterprise technology company that is an international leader in optics and optoelectronics. It operates across four segments: Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology and Consumer Markets.

With a portfolio aligned with future growth areas including digitalization, healthcare and Smart Production and a strong brand, ZEISS is shaping the future of technology and constantly advancing the world of optics and related fields with its solutions. Internally, the company has a strong focus on the operational excellence of its business and IT processes. As part of its continuous business transformation, ZEISS aims to standardize and harmonize these processes with a global template and a central ERP platform built on SAP S/4HANA.

"With SAP Signavio, we realized a process-oriented transformation model for SAP S/4HANA that enables globally harmonized process governance. This resulted in increased transparency and had a significant and measurable optimization impact on global processes."

Jochen Fortner

Partner, Deloitte

Key Highlights

  • Facilitated involvement of key stakeholders early in the relevant processes
  • Achieved a harmonized process landscape and centralized management with global templates
  • Created a robust foundation for test management
  • Identified opportunities for future cost savings in production and sales processes
  • Optimized customer journeys in the services area

Reduction
Of template processes
to about 600 processes
Faster
Rollout thanks to
optimized tool-chain and governance

The Biggest Challenge

  • Leverage SAP S/4HANA features and use global templates to drive process standardization
  • Implement harmonized and standardized ERP processes and identify different process variants
  • Ensure fast decision-making while involving all relevant stakeholders
  • Provide frameworks and tools to streamline and visualize processes early on in the transformation

Why SAP

  • Coordinated country-specific requirements using SAP Sighavio Process Governance
  • Standardized approach with well-defined modeling guidelines and global workshops
  • Workflow-based execution of process scoping and global variant management
  • Central platform for collaboration and design of processes for SAP S/4HANA
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