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SAP consultants developed a strong relationship with employees Providing a Global Connection to NVIDIA
at NVIDIA. As they discussed challenges and sought support, NVIDIA has 400 SAP users across the world. It is unique in that
SAP consultants took a personal interest because they knew how it outsources almost all of its supply chain. As a result, many
important it was to get everything right. “They dropped every- system users are actually third-party partners that log in directly
thing and were on it immediately,” adds Weiss. to NVIDIA’s system through a virtual private network (VPN).
To mitigate risks in global trade, NVIDIA implemented the Currently, 16 sites are up and running on SAP software,
SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS) packaged solution. SAP including Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Britain,
GTS enabled NVIDIA to proactively meet regulatory trade and four locations across the United States. Other locations –
compliance requirements while streamlining and securing their Shanghai, Moscow, and Tokyo – will come onstream in about
supply chain across the enterprise. “As issues arose during im- a year, and NVIDIA plans to convert its European locations to
plementation and the last phases SAP software. NVIDIA has gained
of testing, we really relied on SAP significant visibility into its
Consulting to provide a lot of solu- “As the overall project manager, business and is managing its
tions because we were really push- I recognized that SAP was the force supply chain in real time.
ing the envelope, pushing hard,” that made the project the major success
notes Weiss. “We got support out of Knowing What to Promise
that it is. It took a real partnership
Germany, Ireland, Philadelphia, Customers
and Palo Alto to meet our tight between NVIDIA and SAP to really get The goal of the latest SAP imple-
deadlines.” the project live.” mentation at NVIDIA was to
Brian Weiss, Director of Information Technology, NVIDIA take the SAP software to the next
Supporting Employee Skills level – to use it to manage its
As NVIDIA employees identified virtual manufacturing system.
their in-house skill sets, they looked to SAP Education to provide The implementation has helped NVIDIA pinpoint inventory in
training on an as-needed basis. While about half the in-house vendors’ warehouses and manufacturing facilities.
team had a significant SAP background already (including some
with 8 to 12 years of experience), complementing and updating SAP Consulting provided consultants for all areas of NVIDIA’s
that skill set was a requirement. For example, two NVIDIA em- system implementation and rebuilt 400 business processes.
ployees had skill sets with the SAP APO component, but they “We know that without SAP Consulting, we would never be able
needed transitional skills for the implementation. For the to grow from $1.8 billion to our projected revenue growth of
SAP BI component, employees did not have much experience, $5 billion over the next couple of years,” says Weiss. “You need
so SAP Education offered extensive training that was specific to systems that can support that kind of growth, and with major
the target audience. economic growth comes the need to evolve your systems.”
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Looking Ahead
The next phases of the project will improve operations, refine
engineering productivity, and further extend NVIDIA’s reach to
its partners. In addition, company executives want to make the
system more interactive and collaborative.