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There can only be a few in China who are unfamiliar

with the “Nongfu Spring Has a Little Sweetness”

slogan. As a national consumer brand, Nongfu Spring

has annual sales approaching RMB10 billion. It owns

seven production bases, dozens of factories, more

than 300 oces, and claims more than one million

customers. Its scope of operation involves production,

sales, planning, dispatching, logistics and marketing.

Understandably, the requirements for integrated

management and the overall operational ability of the

company are very high.

HP customer

case study

Nongfu Spring

works with HP to

set up new SAP

HANA 1.0 database

Industry

Fast-moving

Consumer Goods

(FMCG)

Nongfu Spring has a positive rst

experience with SAP HANA 1.0

“By cooperating with HP on SAP HANA 1.0, we’ve proved that a

high-speed in-memory computing column-storage database product is

reliable and practical. It has fundamentally solved the problem of slow

computing and presentation of data. It also built a solid foundation for

our IT department to provide strong support for the company’s rapid

future business development.”

—Patrick Hoo, CIO, Nongfu Spring

Objective

Improve the overall IT system service level, allocate

resources exibly, and perform real-time sales analysis

Approach

Compared and tested the Oracle database and SAP

HANA 1.0, before opting for the latter

IT improvements

• Increased computing speeds means data is now

analysed 200-300 times faster than previous

database platform; nancial reporting times have

reduced from seven to three days

• Enhanced system performance removes

maintenance and data lag problems, meaning the

entire manufacturing environment now runs more

smoothly with more accurate data

Business benets

• Improved visibility of real-time data, allowing the

business to make decisions in a timelier and more

rational manner

Summary of content (4 pages)

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Nongfu Spring has a positive first experience with SAP HANA 1.0 “By cooperating with HP on SAP HANA 1.0, we’ve proved that a high-speed in-memory computing column-storage database product is reliable and practical. It has fundamentally solved the problem of slow computing and presentation of data. It also built a solid foundation for our IT department to provide strong support for the company’s rapid future business development.
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At the same time, the company’s senior management needs real-time, accurate data to make accurate judgements of the ever-changing marketplace. In 2004, Nongfu Spring began using the SAP ERP system for customer relationship and sales management. In 2008, with data volumes increasing, it separated the online analytical processing (OLAP) system from the original system, and ran it independently.
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Nongfu Spring’s IT department spent less than two months between 27 June and 20 August 2011 completing the switchover and getting the database online. In the first phase, it removed only the links from the Oracle data mart to the Business Objects (BO) and, through data service, extracted the data in the data mart and sent it to SAP HANA 1.0 to be displayed on the portal through B04. This process solved two problems: (1) data is presented quickly, and (2) some logic calculations are done in SAP HANA 1.
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Faster operations, strong support for corporate decision-making By getting rid of the traditional IT operation, maintenance and data lag problems, the entire manufacturing environment now runs more smoothly. Based on Nongfu Spring testing, the same report returns 200-300 times faster with SAP HANA 1.0, as compared to a traditional database platform. As the following examples highlight: SQL takes only 2.113 seconds to write to the SAP HANA 1.0 platform, but it needs 215.