Petrol station retailer EG Group opts for Rise with SAP to fuel growth

EG Group, a petroleum station and meals retailer based in Blackburn, is trying to enhance its operations with a transfer to Rise with SAP on an SAP non-public cloud, alongside an implementation of the SuccessFactors HR system from the identical provider.

EG was co-founded as Euro Garages by brothers Mohsin Issa and Zuber Issa in 2001. It owns and operates greater than 6,200 forecourt websites in 10 worldwide markets in Europe, the US and Australia, with round 50,000 workers. It has 62 retailer manufacturers lively on its websites, together with grocery and meals shops.

In a joint assertion, the brothers stated: “We have engaged SAP to deliver a powerful, cloud-based platform, which will help drive transformation, automate business processes, enable our teams to succeed and, more importantly, further enhance decision-making.”

SAP launched the Rise “business transformation as a service” bundle in January 2021. It is a subscription service that packages managed cloud infrastructure and managed companies into one contract, and relies on the provider’s flagship S/4 Hana enterprise useful resource planning (ERP) system, based mostly on its high-speed database Hana.

According to an announcement from SAP, the transfer to Rise will give the retailer an “agile and single digital core platform” to assist it scale its dynamic enterprise and “a universal ERP template to onboard acquisitions onto”, permitting EG Group to stay agile and responsive to enterprise and client wants.

“This new core platform will provide financial reporting insights into all its businesses utilising SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Group Reporting,” it added.

EG has, by way of acquisition, acquired many various ERP techniques throughout international locations on totally different variations and templates. Its acquisitions checklist is lengthy, together with Asda and the Leon quick meals chain within the UK, and Esso in Germany. It additionally purchased the largest KFC franchisee in March 2020.

This, in accordance to the assertion, has created “challenges in sourcing real-time data and visibility to make business decisions” however “SAP will help to remove this complexity and provide EG Group with real-time consistent data”.

In an interview with Computer Weekly, Scott Russell, the SAP govt board member who heads its buyer success actions globally, stated, of the EG Group deal: “They are remodeling with Rise, but additionally supported with SuccessFactors in supporting their forecourt websites all over the world.

“It’s been about transforming siloed finance and HR systems with a global platform that is then able to give them reach, efficiency and agility. There’s a lot of emphasis on the data that enables them to make fast decisions.”

Graham Billsborough, CIO of EG Group, stated: “Partnering with SAP has already allowed EG Group to realise advantages throughout capabilities comparable to finance, IT, HR, studying and improvement. By extending the strategic partnership and dealing much more intently with SAP, the intent is to design and construct a extra complete know-how resolution that will likely be used as a unified world platform.

“Our ambition is to simplify the current SAP system landscape, through Rise, realising new business capabilities through digital innovation.”

For the provider, Rohit Nagarajan, president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa North at SAP, added: “We are extremely happy with the established relationship now we have with EG Group and this subsequent part of the corporate’s growth and transformation is a very thrilling step.

“Not only for our partnership and what we want to achieve together, but for the way in which EG Group’s move to the cloud with Rise with SAP and S/4Hana will create the necessary foundations to accelerate growth.”

In the assertion, each events stated they’d collaborate “to make a difference to [EG’s] wider communities, via learning and development and establishing a centre of excellence which will look to employ and train talent from the local community and certify with SAP accreditation at the end of the training”.