SAP announces the conclusion of a successful partnership with the local representative office of HABAU S.R.L. a top supplier for the oil and gas industry. By adopting RISE with SAP S/4HANA, Private Cloud Edition, the company will benefit from an integrated and solid IT system, which will increase process efficiency, capacity reporting and ensure legal compliance.

HABAU S.R.L., the Romanian representative of the Austrian group Habau Group, expressed the need to start a collaboration that can quickly accommodate all localization requirements. Thus, the company decided to adopt the most modern technology in the field, starting discussions with one of SAP and its local partner, Architected Business Solutions, part of TotalSoft group.

„It’s an important project for the entire business community in Romania that faces the acute need to transform and digitalize business processes. Therefore, we are proud to be part of the team that will implement, for the first time, a Rise with SAP project within a Romanian company. The fact that we’ve been SAP Certified Application Management & Hosting Services Partner since 2007, gave us a natural competitive advantage, and our experience in technology and business consulting will certainly bring added value to the project”, said Ramona Petre, SAP Team Lead, Architected Business Solutions.

HABAU S.R.L. is an Austrian company, present in Romania since 2000. The company performs installation and setup works: pipelines for distribution and transport of gas and petroleum products, compressing stations, design and general contracting. HABAU S.R.L.’s main customers are OMV Petrom, Transgaz, Romgaz.

After the integration of RISE with SAP, including the SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud solution, the company will gain high resiliency and agility that helps navigating in a rapidly changing market, focus more on core business, simplify their IT landscape with a single vendor accountable for the ERP license, the hyperscaler infrastructure and the operations as well. In the meantime, the new solution will lower the total cost of ownership (TCO), compared to a traditional on-premises implementation system.

“After 12 years of activity in the oil and gas industry and a stable growth of the turnover, together with Habau Group we have decided to take the advantage of the opportunities offered by Romania. On the medium and long term strategy we take into consideration the diversification of the activity by carrying out civil works, roads and environmental works. In order to achieve the objective and to better manage the activity, we were looking forward for a flexible and modern ERP solution and we chose SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud “, said Karl Leidenfrost, CEO of Habau S.R.L.

RISE with SAP S/4HANA, Private Cloud Edition, is the new milestone offering of SAP aiming to propel customers’ holistic transformation into intelligent enterprises, offering customers at all stages of digital transformation a completely new way to redesign processes for better business outcomes. Offered on a subscription basis, it features one responsible party for service-level agreement, operations and support. The holistic approach will help companies truly transform their business, going beyond a technical migration to the cloud to enable continual transformation.

“HABAU S.R.L. is a leader in its field, so the adoption of the latest technologies will help the company not only to strengthen its position, but also to innovate in order to adapt quickly to changes in the market. By simplifying daily activities of employees and providing excellent customer experience, SAP solutions aim to increase brand loyalty, which translates into increased financial results at the business level. On their way to digital transformation, SAP is a real partner and support for the companies of the future,” said Josephin Galla, Managing Director of SAP South East Europe.

After implementing SAP’s solutions, the HABAU S.R.L. employees will have better capacity to manage projects and contracts with a consolidated and viable source to obtain the data they need. Thus, deals can be made faster and more accurately, all stages of implementation of a contract can be managed easily, including contractual changes without losing track of the customer satisfaction. The company will also have increased reporting, planning and forecasting capacities, and a clearer picture of their employees’ work through the visibility of the workload, productivity and efficiency processes.

On the other hand, HABAU S.R.L. customers will benefit from multiple enhanced benefits. They will be able to receive even faster responses to requests, either for offers or requests for changes to existing projects, obtain superior offers in terms of details, accuracy, and a more predictable planning. The company will also optimize its supply chain from sourcing to service delivery, which also translates into even better customer service. Finally, they can enjoy a high degree of trust in contract management and service delivery, thanks to HABAU S.R.L.’s accurate reporting, detailed and timely analysis, as well as improved overall information exchange. 

About SAP

SAP is the market leader in the business software solutions segment. Currently, the company has over 4 40,000 customers in 180 countries, which it supports in the successful management of all disruptive factors brought by the digital economy, contributing to the simplification of business processes and providing the necessary platform for developing a sustainable digital strategy. 77% of all global transactions go through an SAP system.

About SAP Romania

SAP Romania, the local subsidiary of SAP SE, started its activity in 2002, being among the first top local IT providers. In the last 19 years, the company has significantly contributed to the development of the local business environment and to the digital transformation of organizations. Today, about 600 companies in Romania use SAP solutions, from industries such as utilities, transportation, banking, insurance, retail or manufacturing. Also, 95% of the top 300 companies locally are SAP customers.

In 2011, SAP started an investment project in Romania, by opening the most important consulting center for SAP technologies in Europe, which serves customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with the help of over 714 employees. For more information, visit www.sap.ro .

About Architected Business Solutions

Architected Business Solutions started its activity in 2004, as a Business Management Consulting group with projects in Europe and Asia. Its activity is structured on three business lines – retail business consulting, provided as member of Ebeltoft International Retail Consulting, technology solutions, provided as SAP Business Partner, and financial outsourcing services. In 2018, Architected Business Solutions merged with TotalSoft in order to provide added value to existing and future clients. For more information, visit www.abs-europe.com.