EQS-News: Food manufacturer Sauels commissions q.beyond to launch SAP S/4HANA

Food manufacturer Sauels commissions q.beyond to launch SAP S/4HANA

• Mix of greenfield and brownfield: established processes and fresh data pool
• Consulting, launch, and hosting to be performed by q.beyond
• Sovereign IT environment with highly stable private cloud

Cologne, 2 September 2025 – Food manufacturer Sauels has chosen IT service provider q.beyond to support it in launching the latest S/4HANA SAP generation. Following a successful preliminary study, the family-run company commissioned the IT service provider with the project, which is already in implementation. Sauels aims to obtain a state-of-the-art SAP landscape capable of better supporting its proprietary business processes.

Expertise in food industry called for

“Having extensively tested q.beyond’s SAP expertise in smaller projects in recent months and also successfully performed a joint preliminary study, we have now awarded the contract to introduce SAP S/4HANA to q.beyond”, comments Johannes Hummel, Managing Director at Sauels AG. “As well as the communications between equals – just like us, q.beyond is a medium-sized company – what particularly convinced us was q.beyond’s sector expertise. Its consultants and IT experts have great competence in the food industry”.

According to q.beyond, launching a new ERP system while maintaining ongoing operations, particularly in the food industry, involves numerous specific challenges. These include individually portraying different customer requirements when it comes to supplying wholesale and retail customers and consistent compliance with tracing requirements for different suppliers.

Smart mix of greenfield and brownfield

In the preceding consulting stage, the two companies opted for a mix of greenfield and brownfield approaches. This ensures that established company processes that in some cases have matured over decades and include extensive operations expertise, can continue to run smoothly in the new system as well. At the same time, the transition will enable Sauels to rid itself of old data stocks that are no longer required.

Not only that: Thanks to the new system properties of SAP S/4HANA and the HANA real-time database, Sauels will in future be able to reach procurement or sales decisions, for example, based on real-time analyses.

Highly stable IT infrastructure for food production

Furthermore, Sauels has decided to replace its existing proprietary SAP server infrastructure within the project and to have its systems hosted in future in the private cloud at q.beyond’s certified, high-security data centres. “Manufacturing fresh produce requires the IT infrastructure to be permanently available and highly reliable”, adds Johannes Hummel.

“Our specialist sector expertise for applications, our ability to provide a sovereign and stable IT environment, and the way we address our SME customers as equals: our combination of these three factors is very much our USP. It is what we stand for at q.beyond and on behalf of our customers”, remarks Thies Rixen, CEO of q.beyond AG. “We are therefore delighted to gain a further customer in Sauels and look forward to supporting it in future in all aspects from consulting through to the launch and ongoing operations of the new system.”
About q.beyond AG
q.beyond AG is the key to successful digitalisation. We help our customers find, implement, and operate the best digital solutions for their businesses. Upholding IT sovereignty is our core ambition. Our strong team of 1,100 specialists accompanies SMEs reliably as they tackle their digital transformation. Customers benefit here from our all-round expertise in cloud, applications, AI, and security. With locations across Germany and in Latvia, Spain, India, and the USA, its own certified data centres, and experience built up over more than 25 years, q.beyond is one of Germany’s leading IT service providers.

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