With a commanding market share in MENA's petrochemical industry, Advanced Petrochemical Company, with current market capitalization around SAR 11 billion, recognizes the importance of uninterrupted availability. Since its establishment in 2005, the company has been a driving force in the region, producing propylene and polypropylene annually with nameplate capacities of 455,000 tons and 450,000 tons, respectively.

These essential materials are the foundation for many everyday goods, enabling manufacturers to create safer, stronger, and more affordable products. Advanced Petrochemical Company sought a transformation from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, a critical step in their digital journey to support their continued growth and address operational challenges.

Advanced Petrochemical Company: Embodying the Spirit of Taqadum

In 2022, Advanced Petrochemical Company embarked on a mission-critical SAP S4/HANA transformation initiative dubbed Taqadum, which means 'Progress' in Arabic. Advanced Petrochemical Company aimed to optimize its core operations and deliver an exceptional end-user experience by leveraging the power of analytics.

The transformation has been aimed at enhancing production visibility and seamlessly managing documentation and invoicing. Adding to this transformation's criticality is that Advanced Petrochemical Company wants to ensure compliance with Saudi Arabia's data sovereignty laws, which requires data to be housed in-country.

SAP S4/HANA

Cloud4C Partnership: Maximizing Operational Efficiency Through Next-gen Sap Transformation

Cloud4C conducted a thorough assessment of Advanced Petrochem’s existing landscape before blueprinting a disruption-free migration. Critical SAP assets such as Meridium APM, LIMS, SAP SF, DMS required priority reconfigurations. For highest availability, Windows, OS, and DB clusters were needed too. Cloud4C experts worked in close cooperation with Advanced Petrochem’s cross-functional teams to address these critical tasks, preparing a Sandbox environment for testing all updates before moving data to the new environment. This set the stage for a frictionless transformation.

The mission-critical conversion of the SAP system from ECC on the MSSQL database to the latest SAP ERP on SAP HANA involves two phases. The first comprises migrating the existing SAP system to the cloud, and the latter deals with converting the newly migrated system to S/4HANA.

Both phases have been meticulously planned and are being executed by Cloud4C, ensuring a seamless transition to a more scalable and analytics-driven platform at zero risk of business stoppage. In addition, Cloud4C also implemented Azure Active Directory.

Cloud4C provides end-to-end managed services, ensuring high availability of applications and databases critical to Advanced Petrochemical Company's operations till the last mile in a single SLA. We also helped the client streamline all cloud management challenges with SHOP. It delivered predictive and preventive insights, a 360-degree view of data, situational awareness, and information on remedial action suited to a situation.

The digital transformation enabled by Cloud4C will extend to various business functions within the Advanced Petrochemical Company. The SAP system enhancements facilitates automated processes, streamlined inventory management, and empowered customer-facing operations from sales to finance and supply chain to manufacturing.

Advanced Petrochemical Company’s processes will be compliant with Saudi Arabia's data sovereignty mandates by leveraging Cloud4C's SAP-certified cloud platform hosted within the country.

Cloud4C is implementing robust security measures, including SIEM, penetration testing, and host protection, to safeguard Advanced Petrochemical Company's data and systems. In addition, Cloud4C will also deploy a PIM (Privileged Identity Management) system that is capable of giving the client the ability to control, manage, and monitor the access privileges people have to crucial resources. The enhanced focus on security compliance meets the industry's stringent requirements and reinforces trust for Advanced Petrochemical Company's customers.

Cloud4C is facilitating a comprehensive in-country hosted backup and disaster recovery plan for Advanced Petrochemical Company, for ensuring uninterrupted business continuity. The seamless integration of backup and recovery systems will give the company peace of mind and the ability to scale its operations without interruptions.

Impact at a Glance

Impact at a Glance:

The project involves meticulous migration and extensive testing, requiring a seamless transition without disrupting business operations. This remarkable achievement has earned Cloud4C a recognition from Advanced Petrochemical Company for ‘outstanding contribution to the project’s success’, solidifying its position as a trusted partner in delivering in-country compliant, risk-proofed mission-critical transformations in a single SLA.

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