SEEKING THE SINGLE TRUTH

Every decision is taking longer than it should.

Data is generated and recorded differently all across Scandinavian Tobacco Group. It’s a result of how the company has grown. Now is the logical moment to unite these systems to simplify processes and improve the quality of data used for business decisions.

We need to make an investment into our IT landscape, to simplify and to really be able to support global processes, standardise and use best practices.

Scandinavian Tobacco Group has inherited IT systems from previous acquisitions which leaves a fragmented landscape where different parts of the company operate on different systems.

One global way of working

ONEProcess is the largest IT investment in the history of Scandinavian Tobacco Group. It is a significant business transformation and a new global ERP platform, provided by SAP, will be a key enabler for the execution of the Rolling Towards 2025 strategy. The programme will unite the current 12 ERP systems and will harmonise and simplify core business processes, improve quality of global master data and create a robust compliance and control environment.

SAP is the best fit with regards to functionality and best-practice processes, has a proven footprint and provides the strongest implementation partners.

Once implemented, this will simplify and standardise critical business processes and data, particularly in commercial, production, supply chain and finance departments – essentially reducing time spent on determining quality of data and providing a better and faster basis for taking informed business decisions, supporting growth, simplification and integration of future acquisitions.

“It has been a natural evolution that as Scandinavian Tobacco Group has expanded, we have ended up with multiple IT systems that harmonised across our company” says Rasmus Vienberg.

“It’s always daunting for a business to look at this journey, but everyone knows that the result – creating one global way of doing core aspects of your work – is a huge benefit and will leave us with huge benefits in our hands for better decision making. A pre-requisite for being a success is that we focus on the business aspect and improving the processes and data that people depend on.”

Real time data

An ERP application is the IT backbone in supporting an organisation’s processes, and any change to such application will impact the entire organisation. Work on ONEProcess has been underway since March 2020 to ensure business preparation.

As a cross-functional and cross-divisional project, ONEProcess will involve employees and resources from almost all areas of the organisation. Adopting the newest technologies in the market and best-in-class standards will create opportunities for employees to learn new skills and increase their competencies.