Global Agribusiness Modernizes SAP Without Peak Season Disruption

Bristlecone partnered with a leading U.S. agricultural cooperative to execute a RISE with SAP S/4HANA 2023 brownfield transformation, enabling large-scale modernization without disrupting critical seasonal operations.

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Overview:

Modernizing an enterprise SAP landscape is challenging under any circumstances. Doing so while supporting mission-critical planting and harvest operations — where a system outage during peak season isn't recoverable — leaves almost no room for error.

Through an automation-led approach and a dual-maintenance landscape that kept the business fully operational throughout, Bristlecone delivered one of the largest SAP brownfield conversions in the agribusiness sector — on schedule, within scope, and without a single disruption to seasonal operations.


Key Challenges:

  • Distributed operations spanning 51 company codes and 1,500 plants
  • 400+ integrations creating migration risk across the program
  • Fragmented EWM and TM landscapes driving operational complexity and maintenance overhead
  • Over 1,800 RICEFW objects requiring remediation across a complex, distributed landscape
  • Growing need for an AI-ready data foundation to support future planning and analytics initiatives

Business Impact:

  • 75% faster project execution through automation-led remediation
  • Zero business downtime during critical seasonal operations
  • Eliminated logistics system sprawl — reduced TCO and operational complexity
  • Embedded EWM and TM improving real-time operational visibility from day one
  • AI-ready clean data foundation enabling future planning and analytics initiatives

What You'll Learn

Download the full case study to learn how Bristlecone successfully modernized a complex SAP landscape while maintaining uninterrupted support for critical business operations. 

Discover how an automation-led transformation approach accelerated delivery, minimized migration risk, modernized logistics and integrations, and established a future-ready digital foundation for long-term business growth. 

 

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