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Changeover to SAP S/4HANA SONEPAR GETS READY FOR THE FUTUREElectrical wholesaler Sonepar successfully changes its accounting and controlling systems processing a volume of more than 500 million documents to SAP S/4HANA

Changeover to SAP S/4HANA SONEPAR GETS READY FOR THE FUTUREElectrical wholesaler Sonepar successfully changes its accounting and controlling systems processing a volume of more than 500 million documents to SAP S/4HANA

Sonepar Deutschland GmbH SUCCESS STORY OF A CUSTOMER PROJECT

With regard to document volumes, FIS implemented one of the largest SAP S/4HANA changeovers in Germany so far for electrical wholesaler Sonepar Deutschland GmbH (Sonepar). Since 2012 already, Sonepar has relied on SAP in accounting and controlling. Ever since, the SAP system has been able to keep pace with the enormous company growth of Sonepar, comply with the high demands on enterprise management reporting and, consequently, make an important contribution to Sonepar’s success story. Sonepar decided in favor of a changeover to the SAP ERP S/4HANA software as a sustainable and advanced IT basis. This software solution is to ensure digitized and optimized processes to keep pace with the future company growth. 

INDUSTRY

Electrical wholesale

ENTERPRISE

Approximately 6,000 employees
Location: Düsseldorf

TARGET

Faster processes within financial accounting, optimization of IT landscape

TECHNOLOGY

SAP S/4HANA

CHALLENGES 

  • SAP S/4HANA brownfield transition of the FI/CO area incl. transition to the business partner 
  • Trading company with very high transaction volume of 2.4 billion document lines 
  • High dataset had to be migrated completely during a long weekend 

SOLUTION AND CUSTOMER BENEFITS 

  • Faster processes within financial accounting 
  • Ideally connected interfaces 
  • Simplification of structures and processes 
  • Digitized and optimized processes to keep pace with the future company growth 
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About the company 

Sonepar Deutschland GmbH 

Sonepar Deutschland GmbH distributes electrical appliances of leading national and international vendors to customers from craft, commerce and industry. With annual sales of over three billion euros, approx. 6,000 employees and 300 branch offices, Sonepar is the market leader in the German electrical wholesale trade. The company is part of the Paris-based family-run Sonepar Group with more than 2,800 locations in 44 countries worldwide and over 43,000 employees. 

SAP S/4HANA transition WITH THE BROWNFIELD APPROACH

Prior to the transition and together with FIS, the Sonepar IT and user departments worked out a detailed concept for the changeover to the new SAP S/4HANA finance software replacing the ECC 6.0 FI/CO modules. The brownfield approach was selected as implementation strategy: stepwise proceeding and go-live of each step – always assisted by the user departments – with final changeover as a “big bang”. For this purpose, FIS had prepared a detailed guideline (cutover plan) including all points to be observed which needed to be worked through by the day of the go-live. 

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FIS was chosen due to “its market orientation towards wholesale, its high level of expertise in the industry-specific implementation of SAP and due to the long-standing mutual partnership.” 

Mark Michaelis, Managing Director of Sonepar Information Services Deutschland 

FIS was chosen due to “its market orientation towards wholesale, its high level of expertise in the industry-specific implementation of SAP and due to the long-standing mutual partnership.” 

Mark Michaelis, Managing Director of Sonepar Information Services Deutschland 

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