British American Tobacco uses Transport Express to improve SAP environment change management

Customer Case Study - Using Automatic Conflict Detection

Customer Comments

"Transport Express also has very good tools for producing reports over what transports have been transported to what systems during a time period."

Ann-Marie Lidzén

Transport & System Landscape Management Manager

Vattenfall

"Transport Express completely changed the way we approach change management of our SAP systems. It enabled us to put more changes through in a more controlled manner. And it also gave us the visibility and compliance we required along with significantly reducing our merge overhead."

David Crook

Consultant

Vattenfall

"Additional benefits include the productivity enhancements that Transport Express provides when processing large blocks of transports, streamlined administration tools that cope with extensive changes to the SAP landscape, and a single interface for resolution of transport issues and queries."

Trevor Harvey

Transport Express Project Manager

Xerox

"I´m rather new in the SAP world so I think this is a very good tool, when you are a "rookie", but for some time we also had an experienced SAP consultant who said that this is the best Tool for Transports that he has ever experienced, and he is a very skilled SAP technician with experience from many companies."

Ann-Marie Lidzén

Transport & System Landscape Management Manager

Vattenfall

"We have moved over 1600 transports across our system landscapes using Transport Express. It has reduced our costs and risk and we are now in the process of switching all of our systems over to Transport Express. Everyone here is happy with the tool - it’s easy to use and reliable. Transport Express is by far the simplest interface for users and also the most robust of the products we looked at for managing changes to our SAP systems."

Hasbro

"Before Transport Express we were in a quagmire of emails and red-tape. To get anything through to Production involved at least 10 emails to various people plus filling out Excel spreadsheets which were attached to each email. We had little control and no visibility. Auditing was a nightmare because everything was email based "

Parag Shah

Head of Basis Administration

Genentech

"The overtaking warnings we get from Transport Express help prevent us moving European changes through to production before EU go-live."

Hasbro

"Transport Express saves me lots of time as I can see all SAP systems in one tool and I don’t need to keep logging into different SAP systems to manage transports"

Matt Ling

Xerox ESAP Environments Manager

Xerox

"We decided to use Transport Express due to its conflict and over and under take detection. The ability to merge multiple requests from previous development systems into single requests further helped us to significantly reduce the overall volume of change."

Matt Ling

Xerox ESAP Environments Manager

Xerox

"It´s an excellent tool for transport management, it would be too complex to handle this with the standard SAP Transport Management System."

Ann-Marie Lidzén

Transport & System Landscape Management Manager

Vattenfall

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British American Tobacco (BAT)

British American Tobacco (BAT) is the worlds most international tobacco group with brands sold in more than 180 markets. BAT has a large global complex SAP environment with multiple or parallel tracks to its SAP production systems. BAT saw they had a significant SAP Change Management problem focused on a complex Mulit-track environment that required an SAP changement management tool.

A tool like Transport Express to support better SAP object synchonisation, SAP Merge, governance, transport traceability and an ability to backout an SAP object to prevent prolonged SAP production outages. BAT investigated the SAP Change and Transport market against its detail requirements to understand what products could support its SAP Change Management needs. BAT chose Basis Technologies Transport Express to manage it complex SAP landscape and Change Management process.

BAT is now entering its third phase of deployment of Basis Technologies Transport Express and is achieving the beneifts of improved SAP environment change management.

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