The Grand Winner in the brand new Digital Pioneer award category goes to Hungrana from Hungary!
The company, which operates in the food and chemical industry, has convinced our jury members with their SAP Plant Maintenance 4.0 project, which was aimed at modernizing their existing SAP Plant Maintenance system, increasing the transparency of workflows and processes and introducing paperless business processes.
The project team followed a set of quality principles that ensured a successful implementation. These included active cooperation with regularly held meetings, organizational change management that introduced a new maintenance team, business agility with a supportive management attitude, SAP Active Methodology for delivering system features in small parts, and the establishment of new communication channels.
Aside from the set objectives, most of which were achieved successfully, the major benefits of the project include a newly introduced SAP Asset Manager in combination with an easy-to-use RFID system, which has greatly improved the efficiency and productivity of the Hungrana plant.
Nevertheless, this was only a pilot project for Hungrana, which only pertained to one part of the factory. In the future, Hungrana plans to expand the plant maintenance project to all of their factory operations.
In parallel with Maintenance 4.0, Hungrana implemented another SAP project – Integrated Health, Safety and Environment Management that was also awarded with the title Winner of the Digital Pioneer category. Aside from ensuring full compliance with the Hungarian legislation in the environmental protection, the project also provides a financial edge to company since it allows them to avoid fines and access loans with considerably lower interest rates.