How US based High Tech Manufacturer used KTern's Data Validation during S/4HANA Conversion?

A leading high-tech manufacturer and their SAP system integrator chose KTern to achieve faster data validation after migrating their data from SAP ECC 6 to SAP S/4HANA 1709.

KTern's Value

Industry Vertical

Manufacturing

Products & Services

Semiconductors, Photovoltaic cells

Country

United States of America

Source System

SAP ECC 6 EHP 7

Database

Oracle – 1995 GB

Total number of users

1892

Company codes

104

Custom Objects

3829

SAP Interfaces

7

99%

reduction in effort

100%

automated data validation

100%

use of Excel sheets

97%

faster Data Validation

A leading high-tech manufacturer and their SAP system integrator chose KTern to achieve faster data validation after migrating their data from SAP ECC 6 to SAP S/4HANA 1709.

The Situation

  1. The high tech manufacturer and their system integrator started their journey from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA based on the SAP Readiness Check and a few system checks alone
  2. They were faced with many issues and had to run multiple mock conversions
  3. The mock conversions helped to bring down the business downtime during the final conversion
  4. Finally, the ECC to S/4HANA conversion was completed along with the data migration
  5. It was estimated that manual data validation would require 60 man-days
  6. To avoid project cost and timeline overruns, there was a need for a product to automate data validation
  7. After comparing multiple products and services, they chose KTern to complete the data validation

How did KTern help?

  1. KTern was connected to the SAP systems within 5 minutes
  2. KTern executed a comprehensive data validation for the high tech manufacturer
  3. The complete data validation was completed in just 2 days instead of 60 man-days
  4. Fiori App Recommendations were provided as a value-addition

KTern-Driven Benefits

  1. “S/4HANAPEDIA” empowered project automation
  2. Data validation in 2 days instead of 60 man-days
  3. Cost savings due to reduced resource deployment
  4. Negligible effort for completing the data validation project
  5. Elimination of multiple excel sheets to complete data validation
  6. Huge time savings due to the elimination of manual work
  7. One product to control the data validation project from start to finish