SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) are two solutions that global energy and services company ENGIE leveraged to increase efficiency by automating many of its processes and facilitate maintenance by providing tools that help maximize its renewable energy sources.
Today’s business environment is more complex and competitive than ever before. In order to stay ahead of the curve, companies must continuously adapt and evolve. This can be a challenge, especially for large organizations with legacy systems and processes. However, it also presents an opportunity for those companies to transform and digitize their operations.
French multinational utility group ENGIE recognized this opportunity and set out to create a more agile organization that could easily adapt to changing conditions. To do this, the company knew that it needed the right technology and service support. SAP was deemed the perfect partner to help ENGIE accelerate its growth roadmap. With the German tech giant’s innovative solutions, the company has been able to streamline their processes, improve their data management, and become a more nimble company overall.
Devoted to lessening energy utilization and executing eco-friendly solutions to quicken the transformation toward carbon neutrality, ENGIE believes reducing energy consumption is pivotal to environmental protection and its commitment to this intends to secure a more sustainable future. The company has made it clear that digital innovation is a key part of its strategy. The company is combining growth in renewables with improved asset efficiency, which sets the standard for asset management innovation in the industry.
Recently, ENGIE has also been recognized as a winner of the 2022 SAP Innovation Awards for its use of cutting-edge SAP products to drive digital transformation. This annual award ceremony celebrates the efforts of forward-looking organizations that are leading the way in using technology to create new opportunities and drive business success.
How S/4HANA Cloud and SAP BTP Accelerated ENGIE’s Digital Innovation
Because of the challenges faced by the company, ENGIE has been forced to reevaluate how it collects, stores, and analyzes data in an effort to improve the efficiency of its corrective, preventative, and predictive maintenance operations. The organization has implemented SAP S/4HANA Cloud, which is built on SAP’s scalable technology and is used as the basis for integrating the enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems utilized by ENGIE subsidiaries around the world.
ENGIE’s commitment to sustainability is made possible by key integration tools like SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Integration Suite. With these tools, ENGIE is able to pursue strong growth in renewable energy while simultaneously improving asset efficiency.
Aside from SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the company also leveraged SAP BTP, SAP Intelligent Asset Management, SAP Predictive Asset Insight (SAP PAI), and SAP Analytics Cloud to achieve the following results:
- Establish an architecture that is both strong and sustainable, and also capable of integrating SAP Internet of Things (SAP IoT) by linking sensors to solar panels.
- Achieve integration of intelligent cloud services and reporting for end users should be accomplished.
- Construct an engineering model of a photovoltaic (PV) plant, and then include it into EPD (Enterprise Product Development).
- Analyze the difference between the theoretical and real performance, and look for any anomalies utilizing the collected sensor data.
- Predict and optimize maintenance in a digital instance by simulating the impact of a modification before it is actually put into action.
Through its revolutionary approach to optimizing resource efficiency and energy production, the digital twin concept offers a powerful new way for companies to lead the way to sustainability and climate change. As ENGIE’s story illustrates, this approach can help companies save resources, reduce emissions, and improve their overall performance.
Matthieu Pestel, Director of ENGIE IT at ENGIE, stated that the company is very satisfied with the high level of engagement with SAP, which has assisted them in positioning ENGIE IT as a business partner for other business units. Meanwhile, Luca Ammassari, Deputy Group Chief Information Officer at ENGIE, also said in a statement that the ENGIE’s partnership with SAP “goes far beyond” a traditional vendor-supplier relationship. He shared:
“The Business Transformation Services group fully supports our strategic objectives by playing a key role in helping accelerate our digital transformation.”
