Carve-outs & Tochtergesellschaften

Carve-outs & connections

with the 2-tier strategy

For companies that already use SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition is the ideal addition for the fast and cost-efficient spin-off or connection of new units - whether for carve-outs, roll-outs, start-ups or subsidiaries. This allows operational structures to be set up quickly and strategic, legal and technical challenges to be mastered in a future-proof manner.

Whether carve-in, carve-out, start-up, scale-up, joint venture, the integration of subsidiaries or the merger of companies - the new unit must be operationally capable of acting quickly. With the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, strategic, operational, legal and technical challenges can be mastered efficiently and future-proof.

The entire company benefits from standardized processes, better planning, integrated control and smooth collaboration. At the same time, the local unit remains flexible and sufficiently independent. Implementation takes place quickly - without the need for in-house IT resources or hardware investments. Thanks to the flexible subscription model, IT costs are reduced while SAP takes care of maintenance, updates and security.

"Smaller companies often don't need the functional depth of the systems of corporate headquarters."

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Head of Cloud ERP Implementation, All for One Group SE

Challenges with carve-outs

1. strategic challenges

  • Clear demarcation: Which units, contracts and assets belong to the carve-out?
  • Value maximization through attractive market positioning.
  • Sustainable, independent structure (e.g. IT, organization, finance).

2. operational challenges

  • Central processes such as HR or finance must be restructured.
  • Employee retention and communication are crucial to success.
  • Contracts need to be reviewed, transferred or redrafted.

3. technological/IT challenges

  • ERP, CRM & Co. must be cleanly separated or duplicated.
  • Data migration must be correct and GDPR-compliant.
  • No transitional solutions are necessary due to the rapid introduction.

4 Financial and legal challenges

  • Own balance sheet, accounting and possibly banking structure required.
  • Tax implications must be taken into account.
  • Clarify regulatory requirements depending on the industry.

5 Time and resource management

  • High project complexity with many dependencies.
  • Day-to-day business continues parallel to the separation.

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Challenges in connecting subsidiaries

  • Company growth is outpacing the speed at which the existing system landscape can be adapted.
  • The administrative effort for the ERP system is becoming increasingly cost-intensive and tying up valuable resources.
  • Subsidiaries need to be efficiently integrated into the existing SAP landscape.
  • There is a lack of infrastructure, personnel resources and time for implementation and integration.

Typical use cases for the connection of subsidiaries

Local sales organization

  • manages customer relationships
  • sells products that are delivered to customers from the company's central warehouse or factory (drop shipment)

Sales and logistics organization

  • manages customer relationships
  • sells and delivers products from the branch's warehouse to customers

Local customer service

  • manages customer relationships
  • provides customer service on behalf of the company, e.g. maintenance, repair, advice

Shared service unit

provides standardized, knowledge-based services for the company headquarters or other branches in the company network, e.g. procurement, personnel services, IT support/help desk

Services, consulting, engineering

  • manages customer relationships
  • provides project-related services to the company headquarters, branches or customers
  • Members of the project teams come from the company headquarters, service unit or other branches

2-tier strategy explained simply

The company headquarters (Tier 1) uses a fully comprehensive ERP system, e.g. SAP S/4HANA. Subsidiaries or business units (Tier 2) are connected with a lean, cloud-based ERP solution such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition - quickly, cost-effectively and integrated into the existing system landscape.

Why a 2-tier strategy?

Typically, a company's headquarters will have a more powerful, robust and complex ERP system than its subsidiaries, which can often lead to ERP systems and strategies from different vendors in different areas of the business.

What may seem like a more cost-effective option at first glance can actually become very expensive over a longer period of time. This is because the different interfaces have divergent data and complex programming, and the timelines for upgrading products from different vendors need to be adjusted, increasing both cost and complexity.

In addition to the costly implications, this also means that the company loses its ability to implement changes quickly and at a time when they are urgently needed. Furthermore, developments show that the general trend to date of consolidating different ERP systems has resulted in companies being unable to streamline their business objectives and processes. Although this has been done with the aim of reducing costs, it is proving to be anything but an economical strategy in the long term. The answer to this is therefore SAP's 2-tier strategy (subsidiary integration)!

What does 2-tier strategy with cloud ERP actually mean?

SAP's Cloud ERP 2-Tier strategy is a solution that allows headquarters to retain its traditional core SAP ERP system while implementing a more flexible, streamlined and powerful alternative for its subsidiaries and business units.

With the Cloud ERP solution integrated into the head office, the head office is able to support the subsidiaries, meet their specific needs, offer them more variability in management and provide them with unparalleled proximity to the central data and semantic processes.

Essentially, this proximity helps to reduce complexity, as everything is synchronized and integrated, allowing the company to adopt new business processes and innovations more quickly. Basically, the two-tier ERP solution is extremely economical and uses half of the platforms on site to connect the child systems to the head office.

In short, two ERP solutions are operated simultaneously and integrated with each other. As a result, the robust, comprehensive ERP solution of the company headquarters (Tier 1) can be used, while the flexible, agile and, above all, cost-effective cloud ERP solution is available at the subsidiary level (Tier 2).

What are the advantages of a 2-tier strategy integration?

Overall, the 2-tier strategy has developed a two-tier ERP solution that provides a more powerful, transparent global communication process with the benefits of a comprehensive operations management system - without the cost and need for extensive IT infrastructure.

By using SAP's solutions, corporate headquarters are working with the perfect system to connect sales, service or logistics companies with corporate IT.

As the system is also cloud-based, it allows local companies to maintain sufficient independence and flexibility - all of which is possible with the two-tier strategy.

Find out more about the advantages of using Cloud ERP, such as simple and quick to implement solution, international solution taking local requirements into account, quick to learn thanks to user-friendly interface, very good price-performance ratio, no in-house IT required, saves time and money thanks to optimized and economical implementation and, and, and. See for yourself in our 33-minute video.

Advantages for the company headquarters

  • Standardized database for improved strategic planning and control
  • Standardized and uniform processes
  • Increased cost control
  • Better collaboration throughout the company

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Simply connect the company headquarters to the entire corporate network with SAP's public cloud ERP solutions. Depending on your requirements, this can be done with SAP Business ByDesign or S/4HANA Cloud.

Advantages for the new unit

  • Adaptability to corporate requirements and business processes
  • Greater global reach while meeting local requirements
  • Ability to adopt best practices
  • Reduction of complexity resulting from ERP usage
  • Fast and cost-effective implementation
  • No local IT infrastructure required
  • Fixed monthly rental price
  • User-based costs
  • Mobile use - always and everywhere

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