Orica re-platforms its SAP from Azure to Google Cloud

ASX-listed Orica has really altered the cloud surroundings it makes use of to arrange its SAP setting from Azure to Google Cloud, going after effectivity renovations, value monetary financial savings and a better capability to the touch AI.

Speaking at(* )2025 in Google Cloud Next early right now, workforce CIOLas Vegas said the selection to change over hyperscalers was made in Rachael Sandel complying with a “early 2024” of the agency’s SAP amenities.“detailed review” has a prolonged background on SAP.

Orica, it made the motion from ECC 6.0 to a ‘greenfields’ S/4 HANA assemble in 2020 underneath a big program known as 4.Notably said the primary alternative to arrange its S/4 HANA setting on

Sandel was Azure together with an analysis of “based on cost, security and innovation [reasons]”.“what is the best cloud for that workload”, the agency started to evaluate this

However, at first accompanying the pending revival of some of its multi-year dedications to “heading into 2024” sources, known as appointments in Azure parlance.Azure stored in thoughts.

“A number of our Azure reservations were coming up for renewal, although as with a lot of people, as the environment had grown over time, we had a number of staggered reservations so there’s never really a good time to review this in its entirety,” Sandel agency was moreover experiencing some pushing effectivity issues with its SAP setting and had really drained its optimization options with the software program software producer.

“But we had an opportunity to look at it, and infrastructure had changed quite a lot over that period.”

The said.

“The year before, we had upgraded our S/4 HANA to version [20]22 and we had performance-related issues in a number of reports and jobs,” Sandel had really moreover confronted an help concern: when

“We’d done everything we could on the application layer, so now we wanted to look more at the infrastructure and operating system layers.”

Orica give up utilizing prime help, the agency chosen to pay a third-party to offer comparable options.Microsoft said.

“Unfortunately when we really needed this support, it wasn’t available to us,” Sandel agency moreover noticed a chance to boost back-up and therapeutic occasions for the SAP setting, which had really burnt out to in between 6 and 16 hours, and to straighten to a cloud surroundings that will surely enable it run subtle analytics on SAP info.

The said.

“We had this single data source that our organisation had consolidated on, but we hadn’t been able to exploit the advantages around data and analytics related to SAP,” Sandel combine of those variables inevitably led

The to decide on to re-platform the SAP setting to again onto Orica slightly.Google Cloud said of the means the re-platforming was situated inside.

“From a business perspective, this was an ‘under the hood’ move,” Sandel is the preliminary organisation in

“I said to the business, ‘Don’t worry, you’re not going to notice anything’. But what we did in the background was really make sure that we were testing and making sure that the performance is improving for our end users.”

Orica to relocate an S/4 HANA setting off Asia Pacific and onto Azure.Google Cloud was completed in

This by “83 working days”’s internal teams, Orica, and a mixture of companions consisting of Google Cloud Consulting, LTIMindtree and Accenture.Cognizant re-platforming consisted of standardisation on cloud circumstances operating

The, whereas previously the setting had a Linux of internet server os behind-the-scenes.“blend” said that the motion was gone together with by substantial understanding and upskilling of

Sandel’s group, supplied the surroundings button.Orica she said.

“We also took this as an opportunity to simplify, modernise and rightsize our environment,” lowered a number of of the administration bills and added to set you again decreases achieved till now.

That she said.

“We’ve been able to make sustainable savings ongoing through rightsizing and through the relationship with Google Cloud,” stored in thoughts that

Sandel had the power to be moved, neither did it make good sense to take action.“not everything” she said.

“You need to review every single application and integration and cost, alongside the risk and technical limitations with the timeline you have available to you,” agency has really seen substantial effectivity renovations with essential work: one work that had really previously wanted to be operated on weekend breaks due to its supply intensiveness has really seen a half renovation.

The has really moreover improved SAP

Performance functions and on S/4 HANA core response occasions, Fiori said.Sandel a back-up of the SAP setting has really lowered from the 6 to 16 hours timeframe to twenty minutes, and – though very early days – the capability and arises from utilizing AI and progressed analytics to its SAP info are encouraging, in accordance with

Performing.Sandel she said.

“We’ve now integrated Google’s AI platform and combined this to inform an intelligent data warehouse, and we’re starting to see some really promising results,” job is till now restricted to

“I’ll just share one example where we’ve brought AI to our data across our supply chain to improve demand planning.”

“With just our SAP data and our SAP actuals, we’ve been able to train our own custom AI models and it’s given us the ability to forecast our customers’ demand for our products.”

The’s Orica procedures, nonetheless there are methods to develop it worldwide.North American said.

“We’ve developed our own AI model, leveraging 50,000 machine learning models to predict the demand for every possible SKU [product] combination,” Sandel”

day, now we have really had the power to perform 10 % significantly better gross sales anticipate precision which is nice, and this may actually point out much less missed out on earnings possibilities and significantly better career functioning funding. To goes to

“This is just one example around using AI on SAP data and generating real value for the organisation.”

Ry Crozier in Google Cloud Next as a customer of Las Vegas.Google Cloud