Lighting Experts Manufacturer Go-Live on SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Across Four Countries

One operating model, four markets

The group now runs one chart of accounts, one product master and one set of processes. A question about margin in Egypt is answered the same way as a question about margin in the UK.

Compliance inside the system

E-invoicing and statutory reporting run through standard SAP functionality in each country. Local finance teams have stopped maintaining the workarounds that used to sit alongside the old systems.

A faster close

Consolidation across four currencies now happens inside one system. The close finishes in time to be useful, which was the point.

Live stock visibility

Planners can see inventory across all four markets in real time. Stock that used to sit unnoticed in one country now gets allocated where the demand actually is.

Room to add the next market

Adding a fifth country is now a configuration exercise on an existing instance. It no longer means another system and another integration project.

A platform that can take AI

With a clean core and consistent data across the group, the AI capabilities embedded in S/4HANA have something reliable to work with. That was not possible when every market held its own version of the truth.