By Freya Purnell
One of New Zealand’s oldest and most established flour millers, Champion Flour, has successfully migrated its SAP software environment from a Sydney-based data centre to a facility in Auckland.
REALTECH was the implementation partner on the project.
The project covered more than just a simple platform migration. Due to a change in ownership, Champion Flour had to undertake a complete “company code deletion”, using system landscape optimisation services from SAP, to extract its intellectual property and transactional data.
In addition, Champion needed to update both SAP Process Integration technology and the SAP Business Warehouse application, transition the database from Oracle to Microsoft SQL and migrated the hosted infrastructure trans-Tasman.
Paul Manning, general manager – finance and IT of Champion Flour, said the project entailed a high degree of risk and many variables to be addressed, but the project ran very successfully.
“We kept downtime to a minimum to reduce disruption to customers, suppliers and our own internal operations. And when the rebuilt and totally SAP system went live in July of 2014, the transition was virtually transparent to users,” Manning said.
Andrew Spicer, managing director of REALTECH, said the project was incredibly complex.
“But we had the resources in place so that Champion Flour could successfully replicate its SAP software-based business processes in New Zealand and take advantage of all of the benefits of the latest SAP releases without missing a beat,” Spicer said.
Champion Flour has awarded REALTECH the contract for ongoing SAP software support and development.
