Honda regains mastery over its SAP environment and depends less on external partners
Overview
Driving peak agility
Honda suffered from inertia trying to manage and evolve its SAP landscape against business demand. ActiveControl’s automation helped break siloes, transfer control from vendors and make strides in operational efficiency to serve Honda’s business needs.
Efficiency
A high-level ‘single source of truth’ transparency helps teams run processes smoother
Ownership
Automation gave control from outsourced providers back to Honda’s internal teams
Futureproofing
Flexibility to facilitate future evolutions, such as the transition to SAP S/4HANA
Agility is crucial to Honda Motor Europe and only Basis Technologies could provide us with the tools to manage change with confidence.
Andreas Schaum
Manager SAP System Services
Challenge
Efficiency as strategy
Honda Motor Europe relies on SAP to keep operations smooth in the face of competitor and consumer pressure. But to deliver sustainably at the high pace that business demands, it recognized that its methods were too labor-intensive and opaque.
BAU support teams were overloaded and key processes like auditing lacked transparency and control. External teams helped support core IT functions, compounding visibility issues. Systemic change had been put off for fear of compromising core business processes and disrupting Honda’s entire network.
Solution
Ownership reclaimed
Honda worked with Basis Technologies to address these challenges using ActiveControl. Its automation capabilities gave teams better control, flexibility and visibility over processes and approvals. Honda regained control from third parties to more effectively monitor and manage projects, making development and release planning faster and easier with fewer failures.
ActiveControl reduced production issues and manual work, giving teams more control, increased efficiency and time to focus on business-value activities. ActiveControl’s Transport of Copies (ToC) became essential to Honda’s workflow, automating transport movements and cleaning up QA systems – a task that typically requires up to 30 cycles between development and QA teams when done manually.
Outcome
Futureproofing secured
ActiveControl’s flexibility gave Honda the platform to manage change and anticipate future transitions, such as migrating to SAP S/4HANA. Basis Technologies has since supported Honda in integrating SAP2Jira to help business users identify and approve SAP changes easily.
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