SAP discontinued equipment software. Leonhard Weiss, with 8,200 employees, made its own replacement.
SAP announced the end of ETM, its Equipment and Tools Management module, CIO.de reported.
German construction firm Leonhard Weiss had used it to manage about 150,000 machines, devices and tools a year across more than 6,000 building sites.
CIO.de wrote that standard products on the market would only have replaced the old functions. The company wanted one system for every step, from ordering a machine to its return and billing.
With SAP partner cbs Consulting, it built its own software, called smART. It runs on BTP, SAP's cloud platform, and connects to the company's S/4HANA system and other software. CIO.de calls the link clean-core compliant, SAP's term for keeping the core system standard.
The team worked in three-week sprints. At launch it moved about 55,000 inventory lines and linked around 6,000 sites. The system also connected more than 600 cost centres and 24 warehouses.
According to the article, returns can now be started digitally and bills prepared faster. It gives no measured savings, project cost, duration or go-live date.
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