SAP Best Tech Awards 2025 — Industry Disruptor (Runner-Up)

Lion, one of Australasia’s largest beverage companies, needed to modernise its SAP landscape to strengthen core operations, support digital sales channels, and reduce manual effort across the business. Rather than approaching each challenge separately, Lion delivered a coordinated, multi-stream transformation that reshaped its ERP foundations and digital capability.

By moving to RISE with SAP and adopting a clean-core model, Lion simplified its ERP environment and reduced key financial reporting processes from 90 minutes to just 6. At the same time, the team migrated from SAP Hybris to SAP Commerce Cloud Version 2 with zero disruption, protecting digital channels responsible for the majority of customer orders.

To further improve frontline effectiveness, Lion rapidly built an AI-enabled mobile app on SAP BTP in just 10 days, transforming how field data is captured and used to support customer engagement.

This session shares the practical lessons from Lion’s transformation — across ERP, integration, digital commerce and AI — and highlights how a business-aligned approach enabled measurable improvements in reporting speed, system resilience, and operational efficiency.

Key Takeaways

• How Lion used a clean-core model on RISE with SAP to simplify ERP and reduce reporting times from hours to minutes.
• The integration approach and planning that enabled a zero-disruption migration to SAP Commerce Cloud.
• How an AI-powered mobile app was built in under 10 days on SAP BTP to improve field operations and customer engagement.