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Category: ERP systems

An integration of SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems will bring considerable financial benefits for one world-renowned company, it has been suggested.

Writing for Computerworld UK, Leo King noted Unilever - which makes products such as Dove soap - is facing a large SAP integration after buying TRESemme shampoo maker Alberto Culver.

The firm is standardising globally on its SAP ERP software and Alberto Culver began a similar SAP rollout two years ago, the reporter observed.

It claimed the acquisition will result in significant operational savings and help make the organisation the world's second largest shampoo manufacturer.

Of its SAP implementation, the firm said its operational execution had been significantly improved and its process complexity dramatically cut.

Western Europe has proven the most effective cost-cutting ground as a result, it added.

SAP recently announced it will speed up its ERP implementations after it developed Rapid Development software to help businesses set up their systems in as little as 12 weeks.

Posted by Shannon Wells