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In the coming years, the Swiss technology group Bühler AG will be renewing the core systems of its corporate management and migrating its existing R/3 applications to the latest SAP technology SAP S/4HANA. "We are deliberately investing in an anticyclical manner during the pandemic to keep us fit for the future," said Stefan Scheiber, CEO of Bühler, in a virtual meeting held in mid-November with Christian Klein, CEO of SAP. The drastically simplified data architecture and the inherent intelligence of SAP S/4HANA promises a new level of efficiency and transparency in the use of the systems. "As a company, we want to significantly improve our processes worldwide and thus increase the performance of our company," says Scheiber. Bühler has been an SAP user from the very beginning. The company introduced the first applications of the Walldorf-based market leader for business software as early as the late 1970s, that is, more than 40 years ago. In 1998, the company changed to R/3, and since then, Bühler has used SAP software to build a uniform, global management system with a focus on the core processes of finance and controlling, purchasing, manufacturing, customer services, project execution, and single machine business. A total of 33 Bühler affiliates around the globe are integrated on a single SAP client. More than 13 million financial transactions, 2.5 million purchasing processes, 65,000 production orders, 140,000 deliveries, and 2,500 customer projects are handled annually via this digital nervous system.