The Problems With the Gulftainer S/4HANA Case Study

ByPrimary Researcher

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Executive Summary

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

Introduction

Gulftainer is a port and third-party logistics provider in the United Arab Emirates. Gulftainer manages container terminals in the UAE, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Canaveral (Florida).

Our References

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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.

  • This is published by a research entity, not some lowbrow entity that is part of the SAP ecosystem. 
  • Second, no one paid for this article to be written, and it is not pretending to inform you while being rigged to sell you software or consulting services. Unlike nearly every other article you will find from Google on this topic, it has had no input from any company's marketing or sales department. As you are reading this article, consider how rare this is. The vast majority of information on the Internet on SAP is provided by SAP, which is filled with false claims and sleazy consulting companies and SAP consultants who will tell any lie for personal benefit. Furthermore, SAP pays off all IT analysts -- who have the same concern for accuracy as SAP. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-SAP financial bias to their readers. 

This implementation is the largest published claim of a functionality of an S/4HANA implementation, as the following quotation attests: 

“SAP’s market-leading suite of enterprise management applications – Simple Finance, HR and Payroll, Travel Management, Employee Self Services, Enterprise Asset Management, Materials Management and Sales and Distribution.” – Arabian Supply Chain

There is extremely little published on the Gulftainer S/4HANA implementation. All that is known is that the areas that were proposed were implemented.

This S/4HANA implementation went live on Oct 10, 2016.

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Conclusion

Gulftainer is one of the S/4HANA implementations with a strange lack of information published. Case studies with such a shortage of information make one wonder about the case study. At the time of the implementation, which would naturally be further back than the go-live date of Oct 10, 2016, S/4HANA was relatively immature in the areas stated to have been taken live. However, providing so little information prevents the company from getting caught in inconsistencies. Is that why so much of the case study has been kept non-published?

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