Unilever Digital Transformation

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 “Unilever Digital Transformation”

Introduction: 

Each day, over 25% of the earth’s people uses at most one Unilever products from a portfolio of 400 brands, including some of the most well-known in the world, such as Ben & Jerry's, Becel/Flora, Lux/Knorr, Lipton, Radox, Magnum, Surf, and Dove, Axe/Lynx. Unilever is dedicated to promoting sustainable and giving customers all over the world with commodities people have to feel good, look good, and to do more thanks to its global reach. Sixteen companies, each with a revenue of over one billion euros. Every Day, We Serve Customers Unilever's business model is a critical competitive capability that allows people to experience their favorite Unilever products. Unilever products are used by two billion people every day in almost each region on the planet. Ten million outlets and 2.5 million Unilever consumers serve the customers. Over 10,000 vehicles distribute 60,000 goods every day from 450 distributing locations and 260 Unilever facilities. In return, 1.5 million vendors provide 1 million high-quality materials.



Unilever Transform Strategy:

 Unilever believes in simplicity as it is a phrase “make it simple” so adopting this phrase ,Unilever is already pursuing transformational change and simplifying over many years in order to implement the business plan, involving integrating corporate divisions and developing company functions and solutions. Unilever has integrated over 200 local Enterprise applications into the present 4 international SAP systems architectures during an eight period to facilitate this business transformation. In fact, to accelerate innovation, the 4 national ecosystems are administered as a single unified level. Faster, more productive global innovation arises from an industrialized “develop once, deploy everywhere” approach.

In 7 years, Unilever had merged over than 200+ regional ERP systems in five national SAP landscape. To drive efficiency administration and development, assist the financial policy of enhanced collaboration with the business. To serve the € 50B business, various enterprise solution based on modern inmemory software HANA were integrated internationally in 4 months. 

These small improvements will help to realize the benefits of the fundamental Enterprise system, which has already been heavily invested in. New inmemory technologies will be used to meet the requirement for handling increasing data volumes generated by company expansion, and also social networking sites, smartphones, and connected devices. Unilever has established and is executing a Sap S/4 hana plan as a result of this. It is a movement toward becoming a more dynamic, adaptive, and real time demand driven electronic corporation, with customers' digital and physical worlds properly blended into value stream. Unilever evaluated HANA technical expertise in 2012 at the SAP laboratories in Walldorf with a prototype in the financial domain. 

The Regulating and Financial Analysis acceleration was installed in 2013 throughout all four largest ERP landscape, allowing periods finished on first day, soon after the successful initial tests. This was accomplished in a risk managed manner and in a record-breaking time of 4 month. The findings, which have boosted the timeliness and information quality, have indeed been praised by corporate customers. Significant economic accelerator and integration of information systems are deployed as a result of this achievement.


By Kahkshan Asif ☺

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