Implementation Countries
China, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Implementation Year
2021
Technologies
SAP Business by Design
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HMD Global Oy

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Project Description
  • HMD Global Oy business modelshould be transformed fromin-house manufacturing to an outsourced model
  • Set up businessin multiple countries quickly and performtransformation, establish business model, and deploy underlying cloud solution simultaneously
  • Project started in October 2016, and lasted for 9 months
  • Fast delivery for a global start-up business
    • Project started in October 2016, phased deployment for over 33 countries only in 9 months
  • Innovative change management plan including training, communication and virtual teams
  • Trust and shared vision between IT and Business
  • Stakeholder impact analysis, targeted actions, designed and detailed Cutover plan
  • Committed and enthusiastic resources, start-up spirit!
  • Following qualitative and quantitative business objectives were achieved:
    • No business disruption during implementation
    • Legal entities set up in time and migrations from legacy systems completed, enabling ramp down of legacy systems
    • 70% of IT run cost reduction
    • Reduced complexity by moving to Cloud environment
Challenges
  • Fixed and tight schedule: Prioritisation for time and budget savings
  • Limited resources: Efficient resource allocation management
  • Evolving business model: Efficient communication, quick reaction time
Customer Benefits
  • Business Transformation from on-premise manufacturing to outsourced production and cloud best practices business processes
  • Entire business - in approximately 40 countries - running on SAP Business ByDesign
  • 33 companies live with SAP Business ByDesign within 9 months
  • Ability to implement unique industry capabilities, for example, managing what is released to which sales channel, thanks to add-ons
  • Global solution enabling future business growth
Why United Vars
  • Modern, lean IT solution with built-in support for business best practices that can be leveraged right away
  • Option to expand scope to support growth, with easy rollout to bring additional locations on board
  • Local Finnish partner Sofigate was the main solution provider for the SAP Business ByDesign deployment, with regional proximity to the customer and still having its global presence through an associated global network of United VARs and experienced partners in the core project team:
Customer Testimony

"We set up a global business to work with world-class manufacturing and distribution providers. Despite the tight time frame, SAP Business ByDesign moved as fast as we did." Florian Seiche, Presiddent and Acting CEO, HMD Global Oy

Customer data

hmd global

Name

HMD GLOBAL

Country

Finland

Sector

Telecommunications

Number of employees

501-1000

HMD GLOBAL OY is the new home of Nokia mobile devices. Nokia is known around the world for its history of innovation, including mobile phones.

Partner data

Name

Seidor

Partner Email

seidor@seidor.com

Year founded

1982

Country

Spain

Description

This is the description for our partner Seidor. Main headquarters in Barcelona, Spain.

 

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Name

Acloudear

Partner Email

info@acloudear.com

Year founded

2016

Country

China

Description

IT consulting and implementation service provider based on SAP

Name

All For One Group SE

Year founded

1996

Country

Germany

Description

The perfect interplay of people, strategies, processes, data and systems is a deciding factor for your competitive advantage. Let our expertise and efficiency in these fields of action profit your competitiveness.

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Name

Sofigate

Country

Finland

Description

Founded in 2003, Sofigate is the leader of IT Management in the Nordics and pioneer of Business Technology management in Northern Europe. It is a privately owned company with almost 200 shareholders.

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