SAP honors companies with the "SAP Quality Awards

Every year since 2008, SAP Switzerland has presented the Quality Award to customers who stand out with outstanding performance in the planning and execution of implementation projects. Successful SAP implementations demonstrate not only project planning at a high level of quality, but also a focus on fast and cost-effective implementations close to the SAP standard.

Quality Awards recognize exceptional performance

The projects are evaluated by a jury with the help of ten quality principles recommended by SAP, the observance of which promises better results in the implementation of standard software. The aim is to achieve project results that generate measurable added value and meet the demand for short implementation cycles and rapid value creation. The Quality Awards recognize SAP customers who demonstrate exceptional performance. At the same time, the Awards foster the emergence of a community of "thought leaders" in which collaboration with customers and partners is strengthened.

Quality Awards for 13 projects in 3 categories

To determine the best projects of the past year for the SAP Quality Awards 2023, the SAP Quality Management Switzerland team again evaluated a large number of successfully completed SAP projects. This year, SAP Switzerland presented awards in three categories, including the "Sustainability" category for the first time.

• The category "Business Transformation" includes large projects with more than 500 users, a project duration of more than 6 months and an effort of more than 900 person-days.
• In the category "Cloud Transformation" large-scale projects are evaluated with the same requirements as the business transformation projects, but the focus is on the transformation of cloud solutions.
• In the category "Sustainability" awards are given to projects that use one or more solutions from the SAP sustainability portfolio. In addition, measurable impacts on at least one of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals must be demonstrated.

In each category, one main winner and other winners were honored with an award. A total of 13 projects from companies operating in Switzerland were honored this year, whose projects met the award requirements to a particularly high degree.

Award winner in the "Business Transformation" category

As the main winner, the jury has chosen the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen chosen. His SAP S/4HANA business transformation project, one of the largest hospital projects in Switzerland, had the goal of consolidating five independent companies from the hospital network on a new system environment. An important factor in the project was the harmonization and standardization of processes and master data. The jury was impressed by the handling of the complex technical and organizational dependencies as well as the necessary safeguarding of the availability requirements of an acute hospital operation. The Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen was supported in this major project by implementation partner Swisscom.

Through an outstanding SAP S/4HANA on-premise implementation, also earned an award:

• Buhler, an internationally active Swiss technology group, implemented a comprehensive SAP S/4HANA project that was additionally integrated with other SAP solutions. The implementation partner was Swisscom.
• The Coop Cooperative converted its two SAP Retail core systems to SAP S/4HANA. Project partners were SAP Switzerland, SNP and retailsolutions.
• The Helsana Insurances realized a migration of the existing SAP landscape to the new SAP S/4HANA environment on Azure. The project was supported by NTT Data Business Solutions.
• The internationally active tobacco group JT International created the prerequisite for end-to-end cash flow hedging with the SAP application Trade Platform Integration in order to hedge payment flows against the risk of (currency) fluctuations. The implementation partner was PwC Switzerland.
• The Canton Basel-Country realized a comprehensive renewal of the system landscape. This includes a transformation to SAP S/4HANA as well as the commissioning of further SAP solutions. The consulting firm NOVO Business Consultants supported this project.
• The University Hospital Basel migrated its existing SAP solution to SAP S/4HANA together with Swisscom to lay the foundation for future digitization projects.
• Another customer project, which must not be named, also received an award.

Award winner in the "Cloud Transformation" category

The main winner in this category is the Swiss Kistler Instrumente Group, pioneer and global market leader in dynamic measurement technology. This cloud transformation project involved the implementation of SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Variant Configuration and Pricing. With the associated renewal of all relevant technical platforms, Kistler is fundamentally realigning the digital customer journey. The jury was particularly impressed by the change management approach chosen. The measurable business improvements achieved after just a few months of operation also impressed. Sybit supported and accompanied this project as an implementation partner.

Other winners in the "Cloud Transformation" category are:

• The railroad company BLS together with SAP Switzerland, has implemented several components of SAP SuccessFactors to standardize, simplify and optimize HR processes.
• Roche Diagnostics intends to break new ground in the healthcare sector by offering digital products and services with the implementation of the SAP Subscription Billing and SAP Entitlement Management solutions. This project was supported by implementation partners Accenture and SAP Switzerland.

Award winner in the "Sustainability" category

The main winner in the sustainability segment is called Clariant International. The global specialty chemicals company has implemented a project to automatically calculate the CO2 footprint of products as well as to simulate and predict them in a supportive manner. This enables the Swiss global corporation to identify CO2 reduction potential and forecast future CO2 emissions, as well as using the predictions to calculate its own CO2 reduction obligations. The jury was convinced by the great innovative strength in the field of sustainability and the lighthouse character of this project for other companies. The NDC Group advised Clariant on this project.

Also receiving a "Sustainability" award were JT International: With the implementation of the SAP Business Integrity Screening solution, the tobacco group has created the possibility to screen and monitor business partners using economic and trade-related sanction information. SAP Switzerland supported the project during implementation.

Source: SAP Switzerland