LeverX

Description:

JBS, a global food processing giant, faced inefficiencies in material request processes, leading to errors, delays, and manual labor burdens. With operations spanning 150+ countries, streamlining workflows was imperative.

Challenge:

Disconnected material request processes in SAP caused delays, errors, and inefficiencies. Manual data entry from SharePoint to SAP compounded the problem, risking data integrity.

Solution:

LeverX IPS and BMAX solutions revolutionized JBS's workflow automation. BMAX rules streamlined material master creation and extension, ensuring data accuracy and adherence to governance guidelines. IPS facilitated flexible, transparent, and efficient ticket workflows.

Result:

Implementation of IPS/BMAX slashed processing time from 2 days to under 30 minutes, saving 90% of the time. Enhanced transparency, scalability, and data integrity improved engagement and efficiency.

Challenges:

Enable Injections, a developer of discreet self-administration devices for therapeutic substances, grappled with manual processes and the pharmaceutical industry's demand for drug security assurance.

Solution:

LeverX helped deploy SAP solutions, prevalent among 80% of pharmaceutical firms. The approach was centered around phased implementation, flexible module scheduling, fiscal prudence, Life Science best practices, and seamless integration without additional modules.

Results:

• Automated processes

• Streamlined approval workflows

• Centralized document management system

• Compliance adherence

• Enhanced training procedures

• Remote accessibility benefits

Challenge:

A large automotive spare parts manufacturer with over 10,000 employees faced challenges in streamlining extensive production volumes, optimizing complex business processes, integrating fragmented IT infrastructure, and modernizing manual planning processes reliant on Excel spreadsheets.

Solution:

LeverX implemented a comprehensive solution with SAP S/4HANA, streamlining processes across manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, distribution, finance, tax, marketing, and customer service. The project involved SAP PP/DS, SAP MM, SAP BPC, and SAP EWM implementations and addressed production planning, procurement, warehouse management, and warehouse resource efficiency. Process automation, financial analytics, and sales/marketing solutions were also integrated.

Results:

• Reduced inventory holding time by 3%, which led to optimized working capital and minimized storage costs.

• Reduced production cycle time by 4%, resulting in facilitated adaptation to market demands.

• Mitigated profit losses from component shortages by 10%, leading to adequate inventory levels.

• Reduced total production costs from 0.1% to 0.5%, boosting profitability and competitiveness.

• Improved delivery accuracy by 5%, enhancing customer satisfaction.

• Regulated financial period closing process, accelerated financial reporting, and decision-making.

• Automated registration of bank statements surged by 96%, streamlining financial reporting processes.

• Centralized data management eradicated outdated and duplicate data, ensuring precise data management.

• Increased employee engagement by 10-20%, thanks to a user-friendly interface and automated processes.

• SAP Yard Logistics

• SAP Implementation

• Transportation and Logistics

Challenge

A large European port faced challenges in managing the increasing number of port units, including load planning for berths and routes and human resource allocation. The existing IT solution was insufficient to address these needs.

Solution

The LeverX team customized the SAP Yard Logistics solution by introducing new functionalities to enhance load planning for berths, routes, and human resources. With our solution, the client optimized resource planning, automated processes, and improved the overall efficiency of port operations.

Challenge:

Girteka, Europe's leading transportation giant, faced difficulties managing its expansive workforce of over 23,000 employees. The key challenges included:

• Rapid growth, diverse operational practices, and the need for efficient personnel management.

• Lack of streamlined automation that resulted in inefficiencies and heightened complexities, underscoring the essential requirement for an integrated personnel management system. 

• Urgent need for modern HR tools in the face of a competitive talent landscape and evolving employee expectations.

Solution:

LeverX provided Girteka with a transformative solution centered around SAP SuccessFactors. The comprehensive roadmap, starting with meticulous business analysis, laid the foundation for Girteka's HR digital transformation. LeverX's expertise ensured seamless integration of SAP SuccessFactors modules, including:

• SF Employee Central Core

• SF Recruiting Management

• SF Onboarding 2.0, and more

This strategic partnership addressed Girteka's multifaceted challenges, offering a clear path to operational excellence, including:

• Streamlined personnel management and enhanced operational efficiency.

• Centralized employee data, providing real-time insights and efficient benefits administration.

• Transformed recruitment strategies, boosting employer branding.

• Engaging onboarding journey for new team members.

• Aligned personal and company goals, fostering productivity and collective growth.

• Innovative solutions, like mass input for shift employees and revolutionized time management for 13,000 drivers.

Challenge:

Eurasia Group, a leading national dealer for John Deere in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, faced the challenge of an outdated SAP ECC system that hindered business growth. With a dedication to providing advanced agricultural solutions, the need for agility, scalability, and innovation became imperative for sustained success.

Solution:

In collaboration with LeverX, Eurasia Group embarked on a meticulous SAP S/4HANA migration. The project was focused on transferring business processes, ensuring system upgradeability, and leveraging new SAP functionalities. The adoption of SAP Activate Methodology, Best Practices, and Model Company facilitated a modular, agile approach.

The successful migration resulted in:

• 10% reduction in system maintenance costs

• 15% improved data consistency

• Establishment of a robust data backup system.

Real-time analytics, cloud computing power, and integrations with SAP Cloud for Customer enhanced business transparency. The transition to SAP S/4HANA increased system performance and introduced state-of-the-art Fiori interfaces for improved user experience.

The LeverX team participated in the implementation of a multi-dimensional sustainability SAP EHS solution for a chemical company that needed to manage and keep safety on different levels of its big factories worldwide. 

Challenge

The client needed a solution that would improve the monitoring and analysis of hazardous chemicals data and provide instant access to up-to-date information. Additionally, they were using an old SAP ERP with an EHSM system that needed to be upgraded to an SAP S/4HANA that could manage a complicated integration with the 3rd party apps. Also, they needed to be able to comply with government regulations and report everything related to EHS.

Solution

The SAP EHS (SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management) sustainability solutions covered all the client’s needs regarding environmental and employee health safety, data tracking and management. This also included Fiori applications development for EHS-specific reports.

Four solutions were developed and implemented for the customer:

1. EHS Health and Safety implementation

2. EHS Environment Management implementation 

3. Implementation of hazardous chemical inventory reports with Fiori 

4. EHS data migration reports to SAP S/4HANA

The LeverX team implemented several SAP EHSM modules as Sustainability Solutions to ensure safety on different levels and a Fiori application for employee medical management.

Challenge

The client needed to ensure a thorough health and safety environment for employees. The old technologies employing employees' medical appointment scheduling in the Occupation Health area needed to be upgraded. Also, improvements are needed in the risk assessment processes and chemical and safety management to prevent hazardous situations.

Solution

The LeverX team performed several standalone developments for the customer and managed certain extensions and improvements for existing functionalities within SAP EHS solutions.

• Implement a new Fiori application to schedule medical appointments for employees.

• Implement a new analysis method to evaluate workplace risk levels within the standard risk assessment process. 

• Implement a solution for hazardous and safety data management that allows uploading chemical data and safety data sheets from external resources to the customer's database. 

• Develop new features for existing custom applications solutions and adapt standard applications to meet customer needs in different subareas of an SAP EHS like Hazardous Substance Management, Incident Management, Risk Management and Occupational Health.

Architecture and development of a complex cloud-based system for Cipher BSC.

Challenge

Among the key challenges our team faced were:

• The absence of BTP CF environment in UAE/KSA regions.

• The multi-cloud deployment strategy for such customers.

• There is no SAP-provided ORM for the HANA database for NodeJS.

• Integration with customers' systems, e.g., Active Directory and different databases.

Solution

LeverX Group developed a strategy management solution to assist Cipher BSC with improving its operations.

• The project covered the entire development lifecycle: from planning and architecture design to development and support.

• The development process itself involved close collaboration with Cipher BSC's team in the areas of Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, and Customer Support.

• In addition to developing the core strategy management solution, the LeverX team also helped the client onboard new customers worldwide. 

Streamlined interaction between businesses, employees, and service providers

Challenge

Our customer’s intention was to bring more value to companies by providing their employees with easy access to corporate benefit programs, fitness and wellness activities, reimbursement programs, events, affinity groups, and internal communities.

They planned to introduce a comprehensive platform for uniting businesses, employees, and third-party service providers. The solution’s mission was to let companies offer their employees different kinds of onsite services, including car wash, dry cleaning, or beauty procedures to visa support.

One of our critical challenges during the solution’s development was to find a business model perfectly crafted for the adoption of a wide range of services the platform would need to support.

Solution

The delivered platform is comprised of 6 modules:

• Events management enables users to create virtual employee meetings, meetups, office hour slots, multi-track events, and gym schedules while monitoring attendance and participation with exceptional on-demand analytics.

• Wellbeing + Fitness ensures simplified access to off-site classes, including those offered by top-tier partners.

• Reimbursements + Allowances allows employees to take advantage of reimbursement programs globally and in any currency.

• Challenges + Achievements supports gamified and mobile challenges for individuals and teams with the ability to reward employees for participating. 

• Rewards + Recognition leverages a culture of gratitude in the organization, recognizing and sharing employees' achievements in a meaningful and timely way.

• Employee Resource Groups connect people in the organization and support formal and informal interest groups to strengthen the corporate culture.

Services: Web and Mobile development/ SAP integration services

Solutions: Sales analytics platform

Expertise: Retail

The development of an extensive sales analytics platform with a variety of modules aimed at facilitating the work of distributors and maximizing their performance.  

Challenge

In 2003, a company working with distributors of drinks and beverages contacted Emerline to create a platform and mobile application that would facilitate their work by allowing them to upload pictures directly into the system. This would make it easier to recognize where certain products would be displayed, and in what quantities. The development didn’t end there, because the customer wanted to extend the product’s capabilities with more possibilities for analytics, new modules, features, and UI elements. Today, the sales analytics platform still realizes constant enhancements and has already gained the status as an industry-leading application. 

Approach

For 17 years of the product’s existence, the backend, frontend, and DevOps technologies used to create the application have been changing. This keeps the portal up-to-date, robust, secure, and easy-to-use. 

Backend development

Initially, the portal’s backend was developed with Python 2.7, Django 1.6, and MySQL database. Later, these technologies were replaced with more modern ones: Python 3.8, Django 3.0, and the PostgreSQL database. 

Other backend highlights included the use of Celery for scheduled jobs and task concurrency, and Websockets for updates of the progressbar.

Frontend development

The frontend of the application was initially based on a JavaScript library - Jquery, that was later replaced with ReactJS. 

Integration Services

The portal was integrated with multiple data providers, including SAP (HTTP API), SFTP servers, and Rest API.

DevOps

In terms of DevOps, initially used EC2 machines were replaced with the following mixture: Kubernetes cluster + Gitlab CI/CD process + Grafana monitoring visualization.

Product Description

The client was provided with a solution with a variety of modern features that make a sound sales analytics platform capable of reducing supplier data analysis time from several hours to just 22 seconds.

Key features of the developed sales analytics platform 

• Centralized sales data management

• Mobile accessibility

• Real-time updates and monitoring

• Online data sharing

• Intuitive UI and interactive dashboards

• Data Visualization

• Pipeline Management

• Tracker execution

• Historical execution analytics

• Advanced exporting features

• Identification of mutually supporting brands

Result

As a result of complex development, the delivered sales analytics platform features everything needed for efficient, convenient, and well-organized performance. The platform created by the Emerline team has gained the status as an industry-leading application, allowing the client to get a sharp competitive edge and stand out from other companies working with drink and beverage distributors. Furthermore, meeting the growing needs of the industry, the platform is developed continually and enriched with new innovative features.

Emerline developed a user-friendly and eye-catching marketplace focusing on selling NFT packages. 

Challenge

Our customer, an NFT seller, wanted to develop a marketplace where users can buy NFT packages and then resell NFT tokens on a secondary marketplace within the platform. There were several challenges to address:

• The need to prove the website's and sellers' trustworthiness through UI/UX and the demand for an optimized user journey with excellent customer service. 

• Compliance with governmental and state regulations concerning cryptocurrency operations.

• Creation of a secondary marketplace where users can resell NFT tokens. 

Solution

We provided a dedicated team of Python and React developers to create the desired solution.

Emerline met all the requirements set by the customer and developed a marketplace platform with a simple eye-catching UI and excellent UX that included the following features:

• Advanced UI/UX with animated drops unpacking

• Clubhouse-like registration system

• Know Your Customer (KYC) verification process

• User-friendly admin panel and user account 

• A secondary marketplace for users

• Prevention of simultaneous buys

• In-app payment and money withdrawal systems 

• Legal compliance with government and state regulations.

Challenge

IPS is a workflow add-on to SAP developed by LeverX. To improve our customer experience and address business needs, we added a new feature to solution functionality and integrated IPS Workflow into SAP S/4HANA Change Record. 

Solution

This project was divided into two phases — developing IPS Ticket Dashboard and integrating LeverX Workflow into SAP S/4HANA Change Record.

LeverX IPS helps our customers monitor their processes and efficiency. We added a new functionality — IPS Ticket Dashboard — to provide them with insights into their business processes and pinpoint where the bottlenecks are occurring.

Due to the integration of IPS Workflow into  SAP S/4HANA Change Record, we provided our customers with a better user experience. Now, they don't have to switch between multiple solutions, helping users work more efficiently and save time on operation execution.

Challenge

Our customer was a multinational energy corporation that initiated a massive program to modernize its software and migrate to a single provider for all processes: SAP. LeverX Group, SAP’s long-term partner with outstanding experience in the field, was responsible for seamless software integration and Fiorization of the risk assessment process.

The project aimed to create a robust system to help risk analysts work with future price forecasts based on available market data. Our main challenge was to make it clear to the client that Fiori applications could perform all their business tasks on an entirely different efficiency level and simultaneously provide the best user experience.

Solution

LeverX Group’s experts applied the Fiori design concept to existing business processes. As a part of the risk analyst routine processes’ Fiorization, LeverX Group’s team developed several Fiori applications to identify and proactively respond to risks and opportunities. Newly developed software simplified business workflows with streamlined screens and interactions, delivering a better user experience with a consumer-grade UI.

Moreover, design thinking sessions allowed us to uncover hidden inefficiencies in the existing business processes, which helped us develop precise user experience metrics.

The users were also satisfied with the clear, convenient, and intuitive interface.

Challenge

The customer, an international corporation with over 90,000 employees worldwide, needed a solution that provided multi-step transactions where traceability and visibility were required. The customer was wasting a lot of resources due to legacy HR software. New employees’ onboarding and training were taking an unacceptable amount of time. Moreover, it wasn’t mobile-friendly, severely restricting business growth and hiring opportunities.

Solution

The LeverX Group's dedicated team of experts gathered the requirements for the different user groups in design workshop rounds to ensure smooth Fiorization across all new interfaces. The testing group comprised 1200 users; the number of involved users was 80.000.

LeverX Group successfully implemented new role-based HR software with a device-independent interface, thus saving internal resources and reducing the time required for onboarding and new employees’ adaptation. The newly developed Fiori apps fulfilled all the requirements from the original plan, as well as additional functionality. Thus the client was satisfied with the results. Thanks to Fiori’s easy-to-understand interface and advanced functionality, the company’s HR department is now more capable of reducing manual transactions and improving administration efforts. Instead, HR team members are liberated from most routine tasks and manual data entry, giving them more time to focus on value-generating tasks.

Challenge

Our customer, a leading developer and manufacturer of vehicles, needed a solution that would allow them to manage manufacturing logistics between the warehouse and production line according to the production sequence and schedule. 

Solution

The S/4HANA Manufacturing Logistics implementation included adapting Fiori applications for defining Routes, Route Groups, Stops, Loading lanes, Resources, and other master data objects. With the help of EWM technical and functional architects, backend and Fiori frontend developers' team contribution, the customer extended the existing functionality and discovered new opportunities. 

The project is currently in the implementation stage, and future functionalities may also support automation and extension of different devices using AR, scanning, and navigation. LeverX Group is now on course for the following activities:

• Market adoption & further expansion of the system's functionality

• Fiori and generic approaches (UI5/ Browser-based)

• Native applications development (Android/iOS/Other)

• Deployment: On-Premise/BTP

Challenge

A healthcare company needed more transparency into clinical supplies and more accurate planning and inventory management.  

Solution

LeverX Group developed Intelligent Clinical Supply Management (ICSM) to address the customer's challenges. This solution can help companies gain end-to-end visibility of clinical supplies, from planning to production to patient pickup.

ICSM consists of four modules: Study Master, Planning & Forecasting, Manufacturing, and Distribution. Our team was involved in developing Manufacturing (SAP S/4HANA add-on), Planning & Forecasting (cloud-based functionality), and Distribution (SAP S/4HANA add-on).

With Intelligent Clinical Supply Management, our customer achieved the following results:

• Reduced implementation costs by up to 50%

• Decreased lead time by 10%-15%

• Reduced running costs by 30%-40%

• Reduced inventory overages by 30%-40%

• Shortened the clinical trial cycles by up to 10%

Challenge

Our customer was a holding of five companies where one had already implemented SAP S/4HANA. The implementation project was challenging and couldn’t unlock the full potential of this ERP. In addition, another company that was part of this holding, wanted to improve inter-company cooperation based on SAP S/4HANA and required the Greenfield implementation of the ERP.

Solution

LeverX Group participated in the Greenfield implementation of the SAP S/4HANA system and its Application Management Support. We implemented various SAP S/4HANA modules, including FI, CO, MM, SD, PS, and PPDS. 

We also updated the SAP S/4HANA system implemented earlier to the newer version, SAP S/4HANA 2020, and assisted with the post-go-live support for both systems. 

The SAP solutions implemented and supported by the LeverX Group team helped the customer achieve maximum process automation, transparent value chains, and optimized financial and logistics processes. After outsourcing the system support to LeverX Group, the company reduced the costs for its own IT team.

Challenge

A group of healthcare companies faced regulatory challenges because they depended on siloed data and data access, change management, manual processes, and human factors. Lack of visibility made it difficult to track changes over time and align with regulatory submission versions.

Solution

The LeverX Group team helped develop, implement, and customize SAP Batch Release Hub. This solution offers tools for workflow automation, regulation compliance management, and data visualization.

We joined the project in the beginning and assisted our customers with a number of issues, including  analyzing their business requirements, functional consulting, and integrating SAP BRH with SAP S/4HANA and external systems.

While using SAP BHR, our clients achieved the following results:

• 10%–20% lower risk of quality non-compliance

• 5%–50% lower compliance and risk management costs

• 5%–50% shorter order fulfillment lead time

• 1%–25% lower inventory carrying costs

Challenge

A transport company turned to LeverX Group to improve various operations, including fleet safety and management and vehicle tracking, as well as to enhance overall service excellence and reduce operating costs. To do so, the team had to establish a tricky three-way integration of the SAP TM system with third-party solutions.

Solution 

Our team integrated SAP TM with PTV, a geographical service provider, on the one side and with two telematics solutions, FleetBoard and Dynafleet, on the other.

In the course of integration processes, our team conducted the following development improvements:

• Geo map component enhancements

• Refinements of transportation cockpit application

Thanks to third-party services integrated with the customer’s SAP TM and our assistance during the project, the logistics company now feels the full force of newly gained functionality, including geocoding, geo routing, toll cost calculation, estimation of time and distance, map layers, and tracking of the actual location and drivers’ activities.

Challenge

LeverX Group was contacted by a manufacturer whose employees daily transport thousands of spare parts on their forklifts to build a solution that would allow solving incidents rapidly, ensure greater transparency into processes and facilitate them.  

SAP Yard Logistics was chosen as a solution to cover all of the issues. So the team had to smoothly implement, configure and customize it to fit the client's intra-organizational processes, as well as to provide the client with the opportunity to use it on mobile. Integrations with other SAP solutions and third-party systems were also requested.

Solution 

An automated solution delivered by LeverX Group helps the client avoid unnecessary movements of forklifts and non-optimal routes. Instead of vehicle downtime or redundancy, the client received an optimized task distribution and strict adherence to shipment plans.

The implemented solution also considers shipment incidents. The GPS feature helps to monitor shipping to a particular destination location. At the same time, an opportunity to select a forklift based on its workload and location ensures a systematic, optimized approach to task distribution.

Challenge

Our team needed to implement the SAP EWM solution into the business processes of an international pharmaceutical company with a constantly growing market share. The solution had to comply with industry standards such as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).

Before the project launch, the customer had already worked with the ERP system, but to achieve all business objectives, they needed a newer SAP WMS version — SAP EWM.

Solution 

The LeverX Group team implemented and customized SAP EWM for three warehouse divisions of the client, as well as automated intra-warehouse operations and inbound/outbound processes. 

The SAP EWM project implementation helped the client reach all the business goals, including achieving full traceability of raw materials and supplies and 100% compliance with GMP and FDA pharmaceutical standards. 

Challenge

A large group of banks needed several solutions to cover security issues, improve customer experience and service, and facilitate operations to ensure higher investment returns and revenue growth. To make it possible, LeverX group had to create solutions that would:

• Provide a unified environment of data storage.

• Ensure easy and convenient data management.

• Make it possible to use risk assessment tools.

• Automate the completion of specific tasks for better performance.

Solution 

Addressing the major challenges of our client, LeverX Group delivered three solutions. 

• KYC (Know Your Customer)

• CPP (Customer Product Portfolio)

• Corporate data warehouse system based on SAP

With the solutions received, the client can improve their work efficiency in different directions: security, data storage and management, risk mitigation, customer experience, etc. 

Challenge

The LeverX team was to improve the customer’s current SAP systems. A leading food retailer needed the SAP systems customizations to increase the marketing processes efficiency, enhance the transparency of the information on stock balance and damaged goods, and establish personnel evaluation and training processes. 

Solution

Our team delivered several customized features for the client’s SAP solutions: SAP for Retail, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Fiori, SAP HCM, etc. The modification and development done by our experts allowed the client to increase profits from product sales and marketing processes efficiency. Due to the new SAP BW reports, our client has access to all required data on stock balance and damaged goods stored in one place. 

Challenge

The customer wanted to improve logistics management and automate manual operations. More than 70 LeverX specialists were involved in the project to implement SAP TM into the customer's business processes. They were responsible for the implementation of SAP TM and all settings and improvements in the system, integration of SAP TM with other SAP solutions and third-party systems, and user training.

Solution

The solution allowed the customer to improve the company's key performance indicators: a 20% increase in the productivity of trunk delivery vehicles, a 3% increase in the cargo capacity of long-distance delivery vehicles and the productivity of direct delivery machines, a reduction of tariffs under contracts of hired carriers and tariffs for spot freight of hired carriers, and reduction of dead mileage and fuel consumption. 

Challenge

A large steel manufacturing and mining company had difficulties achieving their business goals due to the solution's poor planning results, system misconfiguration, and underperformance. Our mission was to audit the SAP MRS solution integrated with the customer IT infrastructure. 

Solution

After analyzing the already implemented SAP MRS solution, the LeverX Group team proposed to change the solution architecture and create three servers instead of one. Our team configured and implemented SAP MRS and to help the customer obtain reliable information on working hours for technical maintenance, equipment inspection, and repair by performers, configure capacity leveling, establish a repair schedule. In addition, the team integrated the developed solution with a mobile app. These modifications improved the speed and quality of work and helped reduce repair costs. 

Challenge

Having faced the challenges regarding product data acquisition, the customer needed a solution that would allow organizing data of all its products.

Solution

The LeverX team implemented an SAP solution to help the customer operating in the construction machinery field streamline document management and product lifecycle management. Our team has figured out how to manage their data properly in an SAP environment and implemented an SAP solution for product lifecycle management. We also added computer-aided design integration and engineering control center on top of the product lifecycle management. LeverX helped improve this company’s efficiency. Now, our customer has a single source of truth which simplifies the collaboration with other facilities.

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