For over 50 years, has been constantly innovating to fulfill its mission to become one of the most technologically advanced manufacturing solutions providers in the world.
As a manufacturer supporting hundreds of leading brands in just about every industry, Jabil is adept at helping companies bring products to market with speed and agility, including smart home appliances and electronics, industrial machinery, cloud computing solutions, energy storage systems, and telecommunications infrastructure.
Customers depend on Jabil for everything from product design and engineering through volume manufacturing, assembly, quality testing, procurement, and logistics, which is why the company has undergone a massive digital transformation moving to .
鈥淲e鈥檝e seen marked improvements in speed because we鈥檙e on an database,鈥� said Cynthia Kendall, IT director at Jabil. 鈥淚n addition, bringing our ERP applications into the cloud has given us significant improvements in scalability from business transparency. For example, we now have visibility into all open sales orders by facility in just seconds, versus what historically took over an hour.鈥�
Jabil is a longtime 麻豆原创 customer, and the two companies share numerous business objectives, notably a commitment to innovation and sustainability. At this year鈥檚 , Kendall showcased how the company working with 麻豆原创 was inherent to its cloud-first strategy.
Connected Data Speeds Up Operations
It鈥檚 no understatement to say that Jabil is complex. The multi-billion dollar, Florida-based company employs over 250,000 employees who serve customers from more than 100 sites, totaling over 500 million square feet of manufacturing space 鈥� the equivalent of 868 football fields. Digitalization that connects accurate data across these vast operations has boosted accurate planning and forecasting. As a result, Jabil can react faster to customer demands.
鈥淲e鈥檝e increased efficiencies with inventory management, capturing real-time data on materials in stock as products are finished,鈥� said Kendall. 鈥淲e have exact numbers on the components and materials available for each product as they鈥檙e produced. This data speeds up our ability to build, ship, and invoice products.鈥�
Cloud-First Business Results
Staying on top of fast-moving innovations that continuously redefine customer markets is core to Jabil鈥檚 growth strategy. Kendall said that the company鈥檚 move to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA has provided the entire organization with critical flexibility.
鈥淪ince moving to the cloud, we鈥檝e resized our app servers; what once took days is now completed in hours,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e鈥檝e collapsed a number of servers into a larger one, requiring less time to manage. This has allowed our business to explore how to transform and innovate in this new 麻豆原创 S/4HANA landscape in ways that we could never do before.鈥�
Future-Proof Strength Amidst a Sea of Change
Jabil鈥檚 customers are selling products worldwide, facing increasingly stringent and rapidly changing global regulations. This reality was behind one of the company鈥檚 decisions to migrate to the cloud with 麻豆原创.
鈥淚t didn鈥檛 make sense to keep customizing our legacy 麻豆原创 solutions,鈥� said Kendall. 鈥溌槎乖� S/4HANA provides the platform we need to build advanced capabilities aligned to the evolving compliance mandates and market demands facing our customers.鈥�
Supply Chain Resiliency Despite Disruptions
Having gone live with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA during the pandemic, Jabil鈥檚 innovation is well underway with pilots designed to help achieve business goals in a dramatically different environment of supply chain and other disruptions.
鈥淲e鈥檙e showing the business many opportunities that weren鈥檛 available before,鈥� said Kendall. 鈥淓specially in production planning, we are able to make faster, better-informed decisions. Even in the face of supply chain shortages, this will help us make educated and nimble decisions moving forward with what we can actually manufacture and when we can manufacture it.鈥�
Start Now to Forge a Path to Innovation
More than anything, Jabil鈥檚 journey with 麻豆原创 is a tremendous opportunity for the company to transform and innovate. Kendall鈥檚 advice to other organizations was clear.
鈥淓mbrace the fact that you鈥檒l need to migrate to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, and start planning now,鈥� she said. 鈥淓ven if your project isn鈥檛 kicking off for another six months or later, there are things you can do today to prepare for the journey so you鈥檒l be future-ready for tomorrow.鈥�
This pragmatic advice and expert insight into 麻豆原创 S/4HANA migration planning is at the heart of , the company鈥檚 new 麻豆原创 S4-as-a-Service offering developed by practitioners for practitioners to help streamline and simplify 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud migrations.
To hear more from customers on their digital transformation journey with 麻豆原创, .
Susan Galer is communications director at 麻豆原创. Follow me @smgaler.
