Taking the individual path to SAP S/4HANA
DATAGROUP has been a strategic partner of the Tyczka Group in the areas of IT and SAP hosting and consulting for many years. The development of a transformation roadmap as part of the value check was the start of the journey towards SAP S/4HANA, which the two partners are currently mastering together at Tyczka.
Meeting customer-specific challenges professionally and agilely
DATAGROUP always starts with a good plan: as several SAP system landscapes in the Tyczka Group have to be converted on the way to SAP S/4HANA, the DATAGROUP experts have created an individual roadmap for the customer. This extends over several years and divides the overall program into a sensible project sequence from a technical, resource and economic point of view.
The project program was complex and included several go-lives. For this reason, the Tyczka Group and DATAGROUP held workshops on migration and cut-over for each individual SAP landscape as part of the roadmap. During these workshops, it became clear that in one of the SAP landscapes, selected historical data was essential for day-to-day business and therefore needed to be retrieved and used online even after the changeover. The brownfield approach would be a typical procedure here. However, this would have meant adapting all in-house developments that were already prepared for the transformation.
In order to minimize risk, the customer decided to change strategy based on DATAGROUP's advice. The changeover now involves selective data migration; the SAP system landscapes are not consolidated with one another. This strategic approach is a middle way between the two well-known approaches "greenfield" and "brownfield". In this specific case, the previous system is copied without data and converted to SAP S/4HANA. This "empty" system is then filled with selected historical data via data migration. In order to minimize the impact of the migration on Tyczka's employees in their day-to-day business, it will be spread out over a longer period of time and can be scheduled flexibly.
Mastering the next steps together
The developments for the selective data migration are currently being finalized and further test migrations are being carried out. Functional and process tests are then carried out with the customer's specialist departments. This will be followed by the "dress rehearsal" and the final go-live.
The project in figures
 4 locations |
 over 600 employees |
 450 SAP users |
"With DATAGROUP, we have a competent IT partner at our side. Above all, we appreciate the constant, open exchange at eye level during the entire project. This enabled us to flexibly adapt the migration strategy to our structures together - the SAP transformation is now individually and optimally tailored to the Tyczka Group and our system landscapes."
About the Tyczka Group
The Tyczka Group, founded in 1924 and headquartered in Geretsried, Bavaria, employs around 600 people. It includes several medium-sized companies and holdings in Germany, Austria and Poland. The core business areas are the nationwide energy supply with liquid gas (propane and butane) as well as the marketing and production of industrial gases. The Tyczka Group is also investing in the field of hydrogen, thereby increasing its contribution to the decarbonization of the economy and the transition to a sustainable energy supply. Tyczka is one of Germany's market leaders in the sale of liquefied gas in cylinders and supply in tanks. It also has a Europe-wide trading business with liquid gas.
