Driving Sustainable Growth with GROW with SAP: Hodias’ Path to Global Supply Chain Efficiency
Hodias Flavor, a leading food seasoning manufacturer, collaborated with SAP and Acloudear to deploy GROW with SAP.
The project focused on unifying multi-organizational operations, strengthening channel sales visibility, and optimizing supply chain efficiency for rapid market expansion.
- System fragmentation: Parallel systems caused data silos and operational inefficiencies.
- Complex multi-organizational governance: Difficulty in centralized control across regions.
- Weak supply chain scalability: Low volume per SKU and diverse raw materials strained logistics.
- Sales visibility gaps: Inability to close the loop from sales to consumer demand.
- Build a unified business-finance platform for end-to-end process visibility.
- Strengthen dealer management and sales analytics across e-commerce and traditional channels.
- Optimize demand planning, production, and distribution for resource efficiency.
- Enable granular cost tracking and deep financial insights.
- Achieved integrated business-finance management , enabling end-to-end closed-loop operations across the entire business chain.
- Enhanced distributor management by improving transparency and ensuring higher data accuracy in operations.
- Enabled rapid collection of multi-channel sales data (e.g., distributors, e-commerce), streamlining sales reconciliation and delivering more efficient, accurate data analytics.
- Achieved seamless collaboration between sales, logistics, and production through integrated demand planning, distribution strategies, sales orders, production schedules, and transportation resources, optimizing resource utilization while boosting customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.
- Enabled granular cost tracking and deeper financial insights for improved cash flow management and strategic decision-making.
- SAP, as a globally recognized leader in enterprise management software, offers comprehensive industry solutions and best practices tailored to the food packaging industry.
- GROW with SAP provides a flexible, end-to-end integrated solution that simplifies implementation while addressing Ecolean’s sustainability requirements.
- Acloudear has extensive experience in delivering successful projects for the food industry, with proven implementation expertise.
- Acloudear’s expert consultants offer robust global service capabilities and a proven track record in cross-border projects, earning strong recognition.
“GROW with SAP marked a critical step in Hodias’ growth. It refined our operations, built a ‘grow machine’ for expansion, and empowered us to run modern, efficient digital management.”
— Zhang Fuchai, Chairman, Qingdao Hodias Flavor Co., Ltd.
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Sector
Food Industry
Hodias has been dedicated to the R&D, production, and sales of flavorings & fragrances, blended seasonings, and customized sauces since its establishment in 1994, providing comprehensive flavor solutions to domestic and international food manufacturers as well as restaurant chains.
Partner data
Name
Acloudear
Partner Email
Year founded
2016
Country
China