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The Land and Expand

The Situation

A global food manufacturing company was divesting from a parent corporation under strict contractual deadlines, with substantial financial penalties for missing the system decoupling date. The newly independent organization had no internal SAP talent, no established recruiting capability, and an HR team with no experience hiring in the ERP space. The clock was running.

Tags

  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Data & Analytics
  • Global Manufacturing
  • Multi-Phase Partnership
  • Project & Program Management
  • SAP

The Complication

This wasn’t just a talent gap — it was a talent crisis against a hard financial deadline. Every week of delay carried real dollar consequences. The company needed a partner who could understand the technical complexity, move with urgency, and deliver a full team fast.

Phase 1

The Carve Out

Local World mobilized immediately. Over six months, we assembled and placed a 29-person team covering every critical workstream:

  • Program Manager
  • FICO
  • MM/PP
  • BPC
  • Enterprise Architects
  • Technical Architects
  • Trainers

Outcome: Carve-out completed within the deadline, avoiding millions in contractual fines and establishing the company’s independent SAP foundation.

Phase 2

S/4HANA Release 1 (June 2019 – September 2020)

The client returned to Local World for their full S/4HANA transformation to AWS cloud. We placed a 21-person team alongside the SI:

  • Data Migration
  • Data Governance
  • SAP GRC
  • SAP ABAP Development
  • OTC
  • Project/Program Management
  • Trainers

Outcome: Successful S/4HANA Release 1 go-live, September 2020.

Phase 3

S/4HANA Release 2 (June 2021 – December 2023)

For the global rollout — unifying manufacturing, supply chain, and acquired businesses under a single SAP instance — Local World placed a 37-person team alongside a Big 4 SI: Project/Program Management

  • Data Migration
  • Data Governance
  • Data Modelers
  • PLM, BPC, IBP, EWM
  • Development
  • Solution Architects
  • Reporting Leads
  • Trainers

Outcome: Successful S/4HANA Release 2 go-live, December 2023.

The Expand Moment

What began as an emergency engagement grew into a four-year, three-phase partnership — 87 total placements across every dimension of a global SAP transformation. The client didn’t just come back. They expanded Local World’s scope with every phase, entrusting us with progressively larger and more complex teams as the stakes grew.

The Outcome

What began as an emergency engagement grew into a four-year, three-phase partnership — 87 total placements across every dimension of a global SAP transformation. The client didn’t just come back. They expanded Local World’s scope with every phase, entrusting us with progressively larger and more complex teams as the stakes grew.