The World’s Fifth Largest Coca Cola İçecek Bottler Migrates SAP to AWS
“By using AWS, we’re saving up to 60% on our SAP infrastructure costs.”
Levent Yildirmak, Technology Manager, Coca-Cola İçecek
Coca Cola İçecek’s SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) is used by close to 5,000 CCI staff across nine countries for key business functions such as financial reporting, supply chain management, and human resources.
Coca Cola İçecek had been hosting its SAP ECC platform on data centers run by a provider in Istanbul. But as the business grew, the infrastructure was reaching the limits of its capacity, which was compromising the performance of the SAP applications. This hindered productivity, delayed reporting, and slowed the delivery of key information to senior managers.
Any migration would have to create minimal disruptions for users, and reporting cycles would need to remain unaffected to maintain business continuity. Coca Cola İçecek (CCI) also had to ensure that a new environment would integrate seamlessly with its 400-plus systems across the business—including an in-house data warehouse and transactional systems.
Evaluating various on-premises and Cloud options, CCI engaged with Lemongrass to move its mission-critical SAP platform to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Lemongrass drew up a cost model and identified savings areas including a significantly decreased storage size.
By using AWS, Coca Cola İçecek (CCI) is saving 50-60% on SAP infrastructure costs. The company is also optimizing architecture, looking at the workloads running, and scheduling capacity only when it’s required. Additionally, CCI’s storage is now 50% more effective, which is creating further savings.
The end-user experience has also improved across the business. Staff uses SAP for financial reporting to generate information that senior managers use to make decisions. In addition to speeding up the delivery of information to business leaders, it also means other departments can be more productive. HR teams, for example, can now process payroll three times faster.
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