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MAHLE is one of the world’s top 25 suppliers and the fourth largest automotive supplier in its home market of Germany. Every second car contains MAHLE components, which are manufactured at around 160 production locations in more than 30 countries. In 12 research and development centres worldwide, the Group is working on new products and processes for the mobility of the future.
MAHLE’s procurement transformation is part of the MORE programme (MAHLE OPTIMIZED REAL-TIME ENTERPRISE), the most far-reaching IT transformation in the history of the company. Within the scope of the programme, existing processes and systems are being migrated across all business units into a uniform SAP S/4HANA on-premise solution. A key part of this new architecture is SAP S/4HANA Central Procurement, or S/4HANA CP for short. In S/4HANA CP, the procurement processes of all SAP ERP and non-SAP ERP systems of a company converge. MAHLE is therefore one of the first companies in the world to use S/4HANA CP productively with the support of apsolut.
Within the MORE programme, the NPM Ariba sub-project plays a special role, as its roll-out in indirect purchasing was brought forward. This early roll-out was made possible by the use of S/4HANA CP, which serves as the integration layer between the existing legacy systems and the new MORE system architecture. The new processes within S/4HANA CP could therefore be mapped in indirect purchasing independently of the connected systems. Since only a few master data are stored directly in the system and the majority are read from the respective target system at runtime, no complex master data harmonisations were necessary.
The first immediate advantage for MAHLE is the simplified user guidance by means of Ariba Guided Buying. In addition, SAP Ariba Commerce automation has created an electronic exchange of documents from the connected backend systems, and SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration creates complete transparency along the supply chain. Due to the short deployment phase and the very early roll-out, MAHLE can also dismantle most of its existing legacy architecture in indirect purchasing at an early stage. This applies in particular to the SAP SRM and the catalogue system of a third-party supplier. The resulting savings in licensing and operating costs mean that part of the project expenditure for the NPM Ariba sub-project is already amortised during the
project phase.
The roll-out in Europe, North America and Asia was completed at the end of 2021. At the same time, integration with the overall MORE project will take place to achieve a seamless system world.
"Together with apsolut, we started as a pioneer in Central Procurement and we are very pleased that we were able to reap the first fruits of this pioneering work so early on.”
says Stefan Ehrhardt, Head of SAP Governance Purchasing.
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Roll-out countries in Europe, Asia and North America.
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Suppliers were initially connected.
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The apsolut Procurement Convention 2025 will take place at the Pyramide Mainz, Germany – an exciting location whose shape is symbolic of a perfectly structured organisation. Under the motto ‘Let’s build it to the top’, we want to work out with you how you can move your procurement towards such a structure. You can expect a customer keynote, a panel discussion, a dynamic combination of elevator pitches and breakout sessions, an exhibitor area with solutions from our ecosystem and plenty of time and space for networking!
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