Analytics and Data Services

Migrating SAP to AWS for Manufacturing Agility

Establishing a digital foundation for business continuity, modern operations, and enhanced insights.

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Challenge

The "On-Premises" Ceiling

A leading California-based health food manufacturer was struggling with the physical limitations of its on-premises data center. In an industry defined by rapid consumer shifts and seasonal supply chain fluctuations, their legacy infrastructure had become a bottleneck.
The primary challenges included:

Lack of Scalability: Inability to quickly spin up new environments for testing or market expansion.
High Operational Overhead: Excessive time and capital spent maintaining aging hardware instead of innovating.
Security Risks: Difficulty in maintaining modern compliance and disaster recovery standards in a physical environment.
Slow Response Times: A rigid infrastructure that hindered the business’s ability to act on real-time market data.

Impact

Customer's targets to meet their business goals

Infrastructure TCO: 30% Reduction in total cost of ownership over 3 years

System Availability: 99.99% Uptime (Up from ~98% on-premises)

Provisioning Speed: 70% Faster time-to-market for new SAP environments

Disaster Recovery: RTO/RPO improved by 80% via automated cloud backups Reporting Speed: 40% Improvement in data processing for complex inventory report

Solution

A Zero-Disruption Cloud Migration

Apolis orchestrated a strategic migration of the client’s mission-critical SAP production workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The Approach:

SAP Cloud Assessment & Transformation Framework: Used a proprietary methodology to map dependencies and ensure a “lift-and-shift” with minimal downtime.
Cross-Functional Governance: Acted as the central “command center,” coordinating between IT architects, infrastructure teams, and OS support to ensure data integrity throughout the transition.
Infrastructure Modernization: Replaced manual on-prem provisioning with AWS’s automated, scalable cloud services.

Results

Delivering Impact, Driving Excellence

By moving to a “Digital Core” on AWS, the manufacturer successfully standardized its IT operations, shifting from a reactive maintenance model to a proactive, innovation-focused strategy.

Business Continuity: The migration was completed with zero unplanned downtime, preserving critical manufacturing and distribution schedules.
Operational Modernization: The client gained a resilient, standardized environment that supports future integrations like AI-driven demand forecasting and IoT-enabled supply chain tracking.
Enhanced Insight: The new cloud foundation provides the compute power necessary to process deep business analytics, unlocking new business models and revenue streams.