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SABIC is a leading manufacturer of chemicals, fertilisers, plastic and metals. In January 2007, the company took over Huntsman UK Petrochemicals, which is based in Teesside, UK.

„As we left Huntsman we needed to quickly build a clone of the Huntsman SAP system. The Huntsman system was built to serve several businesses, so we knew that there was going to be a lot of surplus in there that was tailored for other Huntsman businesses. For example, there was custom code for calculating VAT in Italy, and we don't have anything in Italy. I wanted to find a tool that would highlight how effective our cloned system was, and what our priorities should be for improvement. In particular, what the company was using frequently and what was not being touched. West Trax provided an extremely detailed analysis down to every item of code. Around 70% of our custom code wasn’t being used. It has been money well spent. We have already made significant reductions in our unused code. Any system that reduces our support costs and allows us to focus on business value would have to be a good thing. I’m not sure why more people don’t do this“.

Paul Ettridge, ICT Manager SABIC UK Petrochemicals Redcar UK

„While we have always been confident that our system is run efficiently, the KPI SCAN® methodology offered by West Trax has now provided evidence to prove this“.

Kurt Trillsam, IT Direktor Modine Europe GmbH

"Effective Migrations can only be achieved by reducing overhead. Failure to optimise systems prior to migrating impacts business success. This can result in the familiar story of projects that costs companies several 'unnecessary' man years. Benchmark Express® removes overhead and so reduces costs."

Helmuth Gümbel, Senior Research Director und Managing Partner of Strategy Partners International

 

"For many organisations SAP is not just a strategic platform supporting their business processes. The scale of their investments is enormous. In some cases it is already more than 50% of their entire IT budget. In order to reduce long-term TCO, IT organizations need to concentrate on improving their management of SAP release changes, upgrades, system standardisation and optimisation of operations costs. Possible reductions in TCO of 30% are not unusual."

Luis Praxmarer, CEO Experton Group LLC in USA und Dubai

"Your solutions impressed us a lot. The benchmarking and process optimization are great solutions for companies to get more mileage out of their heavy SAP ERP investment. These solutions are very attractive in view of the current poor economic situation and reduce IT spending."

Mang-Teck Tan, Hewlett Packard Singapore, Global Lead-ERP/Supply Chain Optimization Manufacturing Industry Practice HPS Consulting & Integration