Driving Growth with Cloud-Based SAP Migration

Discover how ITW India Pvt. Ltd. (Automotive Division) overcame critical challenges in maintaining their in-house setup for SAP through Yotta’s SAP Cloud Hosting Services. By migrating their SAP environment, ITW achieved enhanced efficiency, and optimized operations, showcasing the transformative power of Yotta’s cloud solutions.

Products:

Multi-Industrial Manufacturing Leader

Market:

B2B

Innovative Solutions Driving Industry Growth

Founded in the early 2000s in Pune, ITW India Pvt. Ltd. (Automotive Division) is part of ITW Inc. a fortune 300 global multi-industrial manufacturing leader.  They leverage their unique business model to drive solid growth with innovation and customer-focused solutions. Their colleagues around India and SEA locations thrive in the companies decentralized and entrepreneurial culture. They are committed to operating sustainably in every aspect of their business.

Their teams, technology, tools and processes deliver products and solutions with unmatched speed, scale and quality. With over 3,500 patents granted and pending, ITW thinks big to identify the right solutions for their customers’ most complex engineering challenges. ITW’s solutions and components are designed with the entire automotive ecosystem in mind – giving their customers the products they need to create efficiencies and maximize performance. At ITW Automotive, innovation begins with trust and collaboration.

 

Challenges, Solutions & Achievements

Challenges

ITW was facing challenges with their on-premise SAP ERP footprint. Maintaining 24x7 uptime and compliance of in-house systems and support were key challenges.

Solutions

Yotta’s managed cloud platform and 24x7 services supports the automotive division’s SAP/ERP workloads with scalability and optimized infrastructure.

Savings

Yotta’s cloud platform ensures 24x7 uninterrupted ERP operations for ITW, enhancing performance and optimizing operations with compliance.

The Challenge: Migrating from On-premise Systems

Centralized Infrastructure: Streamlining Operations for Efficiency

ITW India’s existing SAP/ ERP workloads were hosted on on-premise infrastructure, which also served local IT needs. However, they needed dedicated centralised IT infrastructure for hosting their mission-critical ERP workloads for enhanced performance.

Business Growth: Scalability on a Budge

Owing to expanding business, ITW India needed to scale their IT infrastructure for SAP/ERP workloads, ensuring high availability and compliance.

Business Continuity: Uninterrupted Operations

SAP/ERP workloads being critical to their core operations, ITW India needed dedicated high-performance scalable infrastructure to ensure business continuity.

ITW India’s seamless migration of SAP/ERP to Yotta’s cloud platform marked a transformative milestone. Yotta’s expert team ensured enhanced performance, uptime, security, and scalability, boosting operational efficiency. The robust, pay per use cloud infrastructure now supports business continuity and growth, allowing ITW’s IT team to focus on strategic initiatives, driving further innovation and success.

Dattatreya Mandke

Head IT ITW India Pvt. Ltd (Automotive division India and SEA)

A Digital Shift Powered by Yotta

Yotta, along with ITW India Automotive Division’s ERP partner, helped ITW India with their SAP/ERP migration for their Development, Quality Assurance and Production servers. The process started with the mock, followed by the complete final migration. Key activities like impact assessment, system backups, checking prerequisites, data export/import, post-migration checks, and performance validation were undertaken. Functional testing and business validation were also performed to ensure system stability and consistency post-migration, supporting seamless operations with minimal downtime.

Holistic Transformation Journey with Yotta’s Expertise

Yotta, along with ITW India Automotive Division’s ERP partner, helped ITW India with their SAP/ERP migration for their Development, Quality Assurance and Production servers. The process started with the mock, followed by the complete final migration. Key activities like impact assessment, system backups, checking prerequisites, data export/import, post-migration checks, and performance validation were undertaken. Functional testing and business validation were also performed to ensure system stability and consistency post-migration, supporting seamless operations with minimal downtime.

 

 

Conclusion

ITW India’s successful migration of SAP/ERP workloads to Yotta’s cloud infrastructure serves as a good case study for why and how auto-ancillary / components units’ manufacturers should modernize their SAP/ERP workloads to unlock significant improvements in overall IT and business operations efficiency.