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SAP Customer Success Story | Life Sciences | Sidus

Sidus: Realizing a Complex DivestitureScenario with Expertise from the SystemLandscape Optimization Group

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Executive overview

Company

Vision

Why SAP

Implementation

Solution

Benets

How does a company with multiple business units ensure operational continuity

while divesting a subsidiary as quickly and reliably as possible? Argentinian pharma

enterprise Grupo de Empresas Farmacuticas Sidus decided to engage the expertise

of the System Landscape Optimization group from SAP Consulting to guide the

subsequent IT project through its key phases. The SAP experts helped Sidus cleanly

split its SAP software system by developing a road map and helping to execute the

technical realization.

Company

Grupo de Empresas Farmacuticas Sidus

Industry

Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals

Products and Services

Over-the-counter health products as well asbiotechnological and plant-based bioproducts

Web Site

www.sidus.com.ar

SAP Solutions

System Landscape Optimization groupof SAP Consulting
http://www.sidus.com.ar/http://www.sidus.com.ar/


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Company

Vision

Why SAP

Implementation

Solution

Benets


Expanding from traditionalpharmaceuticals into biotech

For almost seven decades, Sidus has worked in the

eld of human health, in close relationship with phy-

sicians, biologists, scientists, and pharmacists. The

company has endeavored to reach its goal of helping

to optimize the quality of life of its countrys population

a journey of innovative research and development

in Argentina.

With its group of companies all operating in the health-care industry, Sidus which employs over 900 sta

is one of the most important Argentinian pharma-

ceutical enterprises. Although the groups companies

are all based in Argentina, their business extends also

to international markets.

Originally, Sidus only manufactured prescription-

based pharmaceutical products. However, the com-

pany has since expanded its product range to include

over-the-counter health products, raw materials, and

biotechnological products. The diversication at Sidus

began in the early 1980s with the creation of a special-

ized biotechnology company, Bio Sidus. The goal was

to encourage development of innovative products and

support the work of Argentinian scientists in the emerg-

ing new eld. In 1992 Bio Sidus, in turn, created the

Tecnoplant division, which has become a pioneer in the

development of bioproducts based on plants.

70 yearsDeveloping a

customer-oriented,

family-owned pharma

business


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Why SAP

Implementation

Solution

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Growing success leads to criticalIT reorganization

The goal of Bio Sidus and Tecnoplant is to follow their

distinct business path within the Sidus Group. This

focus is intended to create leadership in the eld of

biotechnology and bioproducts. In fact, one of the

rst achievements of Bio Sidus was to be the rst

enterprise in Argentina to clone a cow. As a result of

this and other scientic innovations, the company

has already become a leading exporter of animal-

related biotechnology.

As a result of a new enterprise-wide business strategy,

in 2010 the four family-owned branches decided

to divest Bio Sidus. The result of this decision was

a large-scale internal reorganization of the whole

corporate structure, which also had to be reected

at the IT level. Prior to this point, all companies in the

group shared a single system environment. Once the

decision was made to move forward with the previewed

business divestment, Sidus turned to SAP for exper-

tise to realize this complex IT transformation initiative.

1stBiotech company in

Argentina to clone a cow


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Why SAP

Implementation

Solution

Benets


A close-knit team leads to a successfulproject

Horacio Colombo, head of IT at Sidus Group, describes

the origin of the project: The database and hardware

were physically located in the sold company, Bio Sidus.

Within the context of the divestiture, Bio Sidus had

to give us both its IT hardware and database but, due

to legal requirements, without any of the divested

companys proprietary data. We had the option to

perform this deletion activity exclusively with IBM

or with SAP, and we chose SAP.

Sidus was condent that the System Landscape

Optimization group of SAP Consulting oered high-

quality services thanks to the groups specialized

experts with the necessary knowledge to perform

complex transformation projects. Sidus valued the

fast and protable solution oered by the System

Landscape Optimization group, a solution based

on proven methodologies and SAP Landscape

Transformation software.

The role of the System Landscape Optimization

group was fundamental to completing this project

in time. The SAP experts gave us support every time

we had doubts or issues. In some cases, they went

beyond the projects scope and helped us under-

stand some processes that had caused us trouble

for the past three years. One example related to our

costing processes, says Colombo.

Another key factor was the ability of the teams of

SAP consultants and Sidus sta to communicate in

a common language Spanish. The physical proximity

of the oces of both teams resulted in a closeness

that enabled the kind of close-knit, family-style rela-

tionships that reected Siduss corporate culture.

This helped promote a relaxed atmosphere during

the project.


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Vision

Why SAP

Implementation

Solution

Benets


Realizing the production conversionin only three hours

After an in-depth evaluation of how to reliably sepa-

rate data of the divested company from Sidus

while ensuring business continuity the decision

was made to apply the proven company code dele-

tion approach. Because hardware and the groups

database were shared by both companies, the proj-

ect team had to guarantee that both organizational

structures could exist in the dierent SAP software

system instances and retain consistent and undis-rupted data after the split.

This transformation project was one of the groups

largest IT projects. Due to its strategic importance,

it was essential for all involved parties to commit to

the communicated tight project timeline.

The whole project was completed in only three months,

from the rst scoping meetings to going live. The

road map elaborated by the SAP experts consistedof two test-cycle conversions for both the productive

and development systems. The team comprised ve

part-time Sidus sta, four SAP consultants, and about

15 of Siduss IT users responsible for testing. The nal

cutover was performed over a weekend, minimizing

the impact on Siduss daily business operations.

Colombo explains, We started preparing for going

live on a Friday so we could execute the deletion activi-

ties at night and verify the results by Saturday after-noon the time at which we could decide if restoring a

backup was necessary. The deletion activities nished

at 3:00 a.m. on Saturday, the users began testing at

7:00 a.m., and we gave our go decision at midday.

The speed of executing the split in the productive

system surprised the Sidus team: Based on the rst

two test conversions, we were estimating that the

whole process would take around eight hours. In fact,

the conversion for the productive system took lessthan three hours.


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Company

Vision

Why SAP

Implementation

Solution

Benets


A smooth cutover and positive userreaction

After successfully going live over the weekend, Sidus

was able to continue with its normal business activities

on the following Monday without facing any obstacles.

What were the users reactions? The users were very

active and reacted very well to the systems moment-

by-moment needs, Colombo says.

What were the main challenges for the project? There

was nothing very critical that could not be solved withinthe rst 24 hours after the deletion activities, says

Colombo. Basically, there were issues with jobs that

were running after hours, and we had to turn them o

for the deletion activities. We turned them back on after

the conversion without any issues. The few technical

issues we had were solved very fast with support from

the System Landscape Optimization group.


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Company

Vision

Why SAP

Implementation

Solution

Benefts


Successful split of data and added valuefor end users

We achieved the benets we expected the cleansing

of the database of our productive and test systems. We

accomplished this on time and according to the initial

project plan and road map that the System Landscape

Optimization group provided, says Colombo.

Sidus also took advantage of the required deletion of

the divested companys data to cleanse the companys

system of no-longer-required data. The reduced size

of the database added still more value for Siduss end

users. Colombo summarizes, We did not even have

any lessons learned, and I can conrm that the proj-

ect approach and methodologies applied by the System

Landscape Optimization group were impeccable.

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