Expanding Section: The Average Number of Employees Per Case Study

Posted by Shaun Snapp on May 29, 2019

Overall

The overall average number of employees of the companies in the data set is 26,120. This is a bit overstated as some of the companies were so small, we could not verify their number of employees. And one company, Wal Mart, has 2.3M employees but falls into the category of Indeterminate as to the Likelihood the Case Study Worked as Stated.

The High And Medium Category

Of the 19% of the case studies that fell into the High to Medium category for the Likelihood the Case Study Worked as Stated, the average number of employees per company (for this group) was 9,982 employees.

The only companies over 25,000 employees in this category were the following:

Erste Group Bank AG
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Japan Tobacco International
Thai Union Group
JFE Steel
ENEL

The countries being (one implementation for each listed country):

Austria
US
Switzerland
Thailand
Japan
Italy

That is a very small number of large companies implementing S/4HANA that we consider high to medium likelihood implementations. These are the most credible large company implementations that SAP has for S/4HANA. ECC has 45,000 implementations, with many companies over 25,000 employees running the system in production. S/4HANA was introduced in Feb of 2015. This is getting close to 4.5 years since its introduction as a product.