Large Global Manufacturing Leader Leverages SAP on AWS
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large and leading global manufacturer of flexible packaging films produces a diverse range of products including metallised and coated films. They have a strong presence in India and France where they have market leadership in production of metallised and coated films, tear tape, stamping foil, security thread and other high-value products.
The manufacturing leader has multiple plants, various distribution points and numerous customer services points. They were looking to align order processing with manufacturing, procurement systems, quality control and delivery for better planning and management.
Manufacturing Industry
Published Date : 28-June-2023
Manufacturing leader looks for cost savings & scalability
The manufacturing giant wanted to deploy SAP S/4HANA on AWS Cloud with the following goals:
- • Build a highly secure environment to host business-critical data
- • Leverage on-demand, elastic infrastructure to deploy SAP S/4HANA in a cost-effective manner
- • Streamline operations with high visibility and a data-based strategy
Elasticity, Cost Efficiency & High Availability with SAP on AWS
The prominent manufacturing company selected AWS because of its established reputation and easy to use model, along with Umbrella Infocare for our past experience and expertise in SAP on AWS.
To help the Polyfilms manufacturer achieve the desired goals, Umbrella designed and configured Managed VPN services that enabled robust and secure connectivity from multiple client locations to AWS Mumbai region. Local users connect using site to site VPN while other users connect with remote access VPN using Cisco Any Connect VPN client and Cisco Services Router (CSR) that starts up VPN service on AWS. User authentication on SAP server is done using corporate Active Directory (AD). All the SAP S/4 HANA instances are hardened for the client’s security policy requirements. Memory optimized SUSE Linux instances are certified by SAP. These steps ensure a highly secure environment for hosting sensitive and critical data.
The Umbrella Infocare team has setup three separate instances for the Dev, test and production environments and Dev and test servers are stopped during off hours and weekends enabling cost savings. AWS S3 is used for auto backup of applications ensuring data redundancy.
Apart from this, the following AWS services on SAP ensure continuous monitoring and security:
- • CloudWatch for monitoring
- • CloudTrail for tracing user activity on AWS account
- • IAM based access
- • AWS Config to audit and keep track of resource configurations
SAP S/4 HANA on AWS enhances performance and security
Umbrella Infocare’s SAP S/4 HANA on AWS deployment has helped the large, global manufacturing leader achieve the following:
- Analyse and improve equipment performance with real time analytics
- Ensure continuous compliance and governance
- Automate essential and critical processes to scale faster and meet higher demand
- Scale a critical SAP environment on demand with Dev and test servers stopping during off hours
- Facilitate growth with rapid development of applications
- Enable robust network security with user authentication and certified instances on AWS
- Leverage high redundancy with several options to setup Disaster Recovery in multiple Availability Zones
- Ensure continuous monitoring and visibility of user activity
- Increase operational efficiency, resilience and high availability with minimum downtime
- Reduce operational costs
Post deployment, Umbrella has been the Managed Service provider ensuring deployment is highly performant, secure and always available with a range of services including monitoring server performance, network connectivity, backup testing and management.
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