BW on HANA @ Bridgestone

Thierry Renaer
Bridgestone
Koen Vanderwegen
Flexso

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Agenda
Bridgestone

Flexso

Project Overview, Business Case and Roadmap

Project Approach

Business Benefits

Lessons Learned

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Bridgestone
Bridgestone Europe is a key subsidiary of the Tokyo-based
Bridgestone Corporation. They are the world’ s largest
manufacturer of tyres and rubber products.
Bridgestone EMEA operates in more than 60 countries
18200 employees
3,3 Billion EUR

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Agenda
Bridgestone

Flexso

Project Overview, Business Case and Roadmap

Project Approach

Business Benefits

Lessons Learned

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Flexso
200 consultants
32 million euro
20% growth per year
5% attrition
120 active customers
Top in Belgium
25 countries
4500 Cronos consultants

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Agenda
Bridgestone

Flexso

Project Overview, Business Case and Roadmap

Project Approach

Business Benefits

Lessons Learned

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Project Overview
Project scope: SAP BW on HANA

Process coverage: Reporting, analytics and planning

Rollout scope: 25 countries

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Message presented at the Steerco
To enable the digital business transformation we prepare
an innovative platform that will provide: Customer
Orientation

High performance
=> High speed and instant reaction times Flexibility and
Simplification
Simplification
=> Simplified processes and high
Data driven
flexibility to adapt Digital strategy
Analytics
=> Real-time and Self-Service

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Roadmap of SAP systems
ECC landscape BW landscape

ECC 7.0 BW 7.0 BPC 7.5

Oracle Oracle Oracle
Linux Windows Windows

ECC 7.4 Dual

Oracle Stack
Linux Split

ECC 7.4 BW 7.5 BPC 10.1

HANA HANA HANA
Linux Linux Linux

S4 HANA BW/4 HANA BPC 11

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Agenda
Bridgestone

Flexso

Project Overview, Business Case and Roadmap

Project Approach

Business Benefits

Lessons Learned

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BW on HANA
Prestudy
AUG/SEP- Testing MAR
2016 2017

Project Post Go-Live

Execution APR 2017
NOV 2016 –
FEB 2017

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Pre-study
Choose the right approach
• Greenfield vs Upgrade and migration
• Pro’s and Con’s of each scenario

Sizing exercise
• Used the SAP tool :
/SDF/HANA_BW_SIZING
• Used dictionary tables

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Pre-study
Identify optimizations
• 3.x master data flows - 119 transfer/update rules identified
• 3.x transaction flows for SD and Stock (DS, Update
rules, transfer rules)
• Not in all flows a LSA (Layered Scaled Architecture)
approach was implemented

Identify enhancements
• All cubes are HANA optimized
• Migrate the Stock Overview cube (3.x) to the latest
version
• Reduce end-year procedures by moving the data into
one cube

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Pre-study
Clean up possibilities 1% 10% 13%
11%
InfoCubes

• Clean up of PSA 4%
Std. DSO
Change logs
• House keeping activities
51%
w/o DSO
10%
PSA

Key reports and Key Users - 600 different queries used in 2016
- 500 unique users
• Used the BW query statistic to
identify the most used report and
users

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Prestudy – Final Conclusion

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Project execution
Mandatory HANA migration activities:
• 3.x to 7.x (Datasources, Transfer structures, Updates rules, workbooks)
Before After
Before After

CASE CASE
1 2

Quick wins and optimizations:

• Harmonization of existing PSA
• PSA & Changelog cleanup
• Process chains optimization

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Project execution
Around 130 Infocubes HANA Optimized

Non-cumulative infocubes

RSMIGRHANADB

Model optimization
Current Year

Previous Year Current Year

History

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Project execution
Activating Near Line Storage

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Project execution - OS Migration
Path directories had to be adapted in
• Programs
• Tables
• Variants
• Infopackages
• ...
One single path directory for all environments
Can be accessed via SAMBA
Divided in subdirectories

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Post Go Live
Project Team organized for post-go live
• Central mailbox
• Hotline
Knowledge transfer to BI support team
Small number of issues logged

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Agenda
Bridgestone

Flexso

Project Overview, Business Case and Roadmap

Project Approach

Business Benefits

Lessons Learned

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Business benefits – User waiting time

10x less
waiting time
after the
upgrade!!!

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Business benefits – Reporting Performance

7x faster
after
upgrade!!!

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Business benefits – Loading performance

Reduced
loading
times!

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And the business?
“After HANA implementation, the speed is impressive!” Nicolas (Forecast)
“From my side I can confirm that BIP goes faster” Olga (LSCM)
“I spent one full day on the closing reporting, now only a few hours” Katia (Sales)
“I have been using some BW reports and I must say, it is going faster now. I can drill
down information at a much faster pace” Inigo (LSCM)
“The speed to run the sales reports is so high that the sales men could run
the reports in front of the customers” William (France)
“The team is so pleased with the responsiveness of BI reports. We can now
share reports directly from BI with Management” Stéphane (Finance)

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Bridgestone

Flexso

Project Overview, Business Case and Roadmap

Project Approach

Business Benefits

Lessons Learned

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Lessons Learned
Housekeeping activities (10TB  5TB before HANA migration)

Test procedures

End-to-end performance vs. BW system performance

Must to have the same upgrade process everywhere (consider sandbox)

Close communication to SAP for upgrade issues

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Lessons Learned
Other technical challenges

• GUI 7.2 and 7.4 issues (Bex Analyzer 3.x not supported anymore)
• Moving to different OS
• Stock cube
• InfoObjects
• HANA studio (version)
• Consistency checks (e.g. time)
• Migration of variants

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Thank you!

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