Olam International (Olam) is a leading food and agri-business organization with more than 81,000 employees, operating in 60 countries. Olam grows, processes, trades, and distributes crops to a worldwide clientele of close to 20,000, ranging from small family-run businesses to multinational corporations. In addition to their own farming activities, they run a sustainable program of sourcing produce from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Through their Packaged Foods Business, they market their own brands directly to consumers in Africa. One of Olam’s aims is to help feed a growing global population while making a positive impact on stakeholders, farmers, and the environment.
Download Success StoryEPI-USE, best known as the world’s largest and most experienced independent SAP® HR/Payroll specialist, designing, building, and implementing cloud-based, hybrid and on-premises HR/Payroll systems for large, complex multinational corporations, is a leader in deploying SAP’s S/4HANA Finance applications across several industries.
AWS introduced us to Olam to deploy SAP systems for Texas-based Liberty Agricultural Marketing Association (Liberty), one of Olam’s subsidiaries, given our expertise in this area.
Olam engaged EPI-USE to deploy an AWS virtual machine infrastructure running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP for a 2-tier development and production SAP S/4HANA environment. Olam wanted to implement SAP S/4HANA Finance to a very tight schedule.
Liberty needed a site-to-site VPN, with the SAP systems to be accessed via this or via SSL VPN, and didn’t want their SAP systems exposed to the public internet. They wanted end-users to access the SAP systems via the VPN using SAPGUI.
We successfully achieved the requirement for a 2-tier development and production SAP S/4HANA environment. The deployment took just four weeks and was implemented under budget with no interruptions to services. EPI-USE successfully completed the project as per the Statement of Work, defined by the following technical requirements:
The following AWS services were used for the Liberty SAP project:
With our expertise in providing solutions based on AWS, we were able to create an SAP-compliant environment quickly and efficiently on AWS for Liberty. Benefits included:
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