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• 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

• Fixed and tight schedule: Prioritisation for time and budget savings
• Limited resources: Efficient resource allocation management
• Evolving business model: Efficient communication, quick reaction time

• 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

• 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:
  • InCloud Solutions, UK
  • Acloudear, China
  • All for One Steeb, Germany
  • Seidor, USA

"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