Success Story Oettinger Davidoff

Fast, cost-effective migration from Redwood CPS to BatchMan

Oettinger Davidoff had been using Redwood’s CPS product for SAP Workload Automation. When SAP announced an end-of-life for the support of CPS and later BPA in 2020, Oettinger Davidoff looked around for an alternative.

Redwood’s CPS met the requirements satisfactorily until then, but the forced change called for a lean solution, with a good price/performance ratio, that would also be scalable and expandable.

After a thorough assessment of the market, Oettinger Davidoff decided to shortlist 3 vendors. HONICO prevailed here due to the good product and project presentation as well as the flexible price model, so that BatchMan from Oettinger Davidoff was awarded the contract.

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Branche: Tobacco industry

Use Casse: Migration from CPS by Redwood due to expired support.

Advantages: Scalable solution, low TCO for stable SAP operation.

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Among other things, we use BatchMan to control our entire process and interface framework with an external partner who ensures global logistics for our products.
Josef Huber, Project Management, Oettinger Davidoff

What convinced Oettinger Davidoff?

  • Good price-performance ratio with good entry-level model
  • Competent consulting & communication
  • Very lean project organization with minimal external costs
  • Structured migration of the predecessor tool
  • Very stable operation

Migration to HONICO BatchMan

Davidoff was particularly impressed by the simple migration through step-by-step conversion of individual jobs, the integration in SAP and HONICO’s holistic training concept.

The product and implementation fully met Oettinger Davidoff’s expectations: First jobs were migrated and implemented as part of the training blocks. The migration of the remaining jobs could be done very quickly due to the intuitive tool and the support of HONICO. The turnaround time for the training, migration and go-live of BatchMan at Oettinger Davidoff was only two months. New jobs can now be scheduled independently and with little effort.

It is a great advantage that BatchMan runs directly on the SAP ABAP stack. This allowed us to significantly reduce the complexity of our SAP landscape. The many technical functions of BatchMan combined with professional training by HONICO helped to carry out the transfer from the old solution quickly and safely.
Josef Huber, Project Management, Oettinger Davidoff

About Oettinger Davidoff

The Oettinger Davidoff Group, with sales of around 456 million Swiss francs and 3,300 employees around the world, can trace its roots back to 1875 and remains an independent family business to this day. It is dedicated to the manufacture, marketing, distribution and retail sale of premium cigars, tobacco products and accessories. Its handmade premium cigar business includes the Davidoff, AVO, Camacho, Cusano, Griffin’s, Private Stock, Zino and Zino Platinum brands. The Oettinger Davidoff Group also distributes numerous brands in several countries through general agency, including Haribo in Switzerland. The company is strongly rooted in the “crop-to-shop” philosophy, taking a vertical integration approach from its tobacco fields in the Dominican Republic and Honduras to its worldwide network of 65 Davidoff flagship stores/satellites and strong authorized distributors in 130 countries.