The Kurlon S/4HANA Case Study

ByShaun Snapp

Executive Summary

  • This is the Kurlon S/4HANA, which is part of our research study.
  • We evaluate the accuracy of this case study.

Introduction

The India mattress manufacturer Kurlon was said to have gone live on S/4HANA.

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Notice of Lack of Financial Bias: We have no financial ties to SAP or any other entity mentioned in this article.

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The Lack of Information on Kurlon’s S/4HANA implementation

There is very little information available on this implementation.

One peculiar item is that India has extremely few ECC implementations. India is a low-cost country, and it is difficult to justify the expense of unproven SAP items unless it can be used to justify building skills to resell. Furthermore, it is infrequent to hear about an Indian company implementing a very new SAP application with all of its associated risks. Another unusual item about Kurlon is how little is published about the go-live.

We would not have included them in the study except to notice the curious feature of implementing such an expensive solution in a low-cost nation and the project’s lack of information. We consider the lack of information published about this case study to undermine its credibility.

This S/4HANA implementation went live on July 27th, 2016.

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Conclusion

There is so little information available regarding the Kurlon S/4HANA implementation. There is a question as to why this implementation was announced.

This article is part of The S/4HANA Implementation Study. Please see that study for the overall conclusions.