Americanas Group picks Rimini Street for initiative involving SAP landscape and new SAP Center of Excellence

Americanas Group has selected Rimini Street and its Rimini Manage for SAP service to take over governance, management, control and operation of the 95-year-old retailer's SAP system landscape that spans corporate, e-commerce and logistic platforms, and more than 1,600 stores across Brazil.

“Choosing Rimini Street’s premium services is part of our strategy to seek partners who can strengthen our environments and allow us to increase operational efficiency and robustness, with continuous improvements,” says Sérgio Barros, CTO at Americanas.

“We count on it to undertake relevant activities and contribute to our strategic vision and long-term planning. This aligns with Americanas’ execution discipline, which is part of our DNA: with clear guidelines, we have the capacity to implement quickly.”

“Partnering with Rimini Street, we can shift the focus of our internal IT team from day-to-day governance, management and operation of our SAP systems to developing ways to engage our customers through new and innovative shopping experiences.”

Americanas leverages an omnichannel sales model that includes an extensive network of physical stores spread across more than 800 cities across the country to the retailer’s app.

“One of the key reasons we sought out Rimini Street was to strengthen our IT processes, and ensure we are not only following best practices, but creating long lasting solutions that help us achieve our goals of improved operational, competitive and financial results,” says Barros.

“For example, instead of wasting labour, time and cost addressing recurring issues again and again, the expert engineers of Rimini Street help us identify the root cause of recurring issues and fix them once - permanently and efficiently.”

The Americanas IT infrastructure is powered by a SAP ERP, digital commerce, advertising and financial services platform.

To support its current and future operational needs, Americanas will require extreme agility and robustness across its entire mission critical SAP landscape that cover SAP ECC 6, S/4HANA and RISE platforms.

Rimini Street is helping Americanas meet these needs and ensure high availability of SAP system functionality with a team who is implementing and executing new governance across the SAP landscape with the building and operation of a new SAP Center of Excellence (SAP CoE).

This implements new oversight governance procedures, clearer operating strategies, optimised processes, more efficient support tools, tightened security, process monitoring, improved quality control and a more aggressive focus on operating cost reduction.

“Today, more than ever, retailers and other organisations are under pressure to rethink how their current IT infrastructure meets their current and future needs for operational flexibility and IT labour, time and cost optimisation that will enable improved competitive and operational results,” says Edenize Maron, Group Vice President, Rimini Street, Latin America.

"We are proud to partner with the iconic Americanas and, as with all our clients, Rimini Street's mission at Americanas is to be the specialised and vendor agnostic IT partner focused on improved system operation and labor, time and cost optimisation.”

“We are achieving this mission by building and operating a new SAP CoE to oversee the operation, optimisation and changes needed to help Americanas focus on its customers current and future desires and achieve its competitive and business improvement goals.”