Mind The Value: Creating Sustainable Growth through Digital Transformation

Luigi Alvino, APAC Regional Manager

Mind The Value—an esteemed SAP Gold Partner—distinguishes itself as a strategic growth partner rather than a conventional consulting firm. Luigi Alvino, APAC regional manager, explains, “We treat our clients' goals and challenges as our own, underscoring the need for comprehensive change management to adapt people to new workflows.”

A recent Greenfield project for a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing firm in the APAC region showcases the company’s SAP implementation prowess. Mind The Value seamlessly transitioned several manufacturing plants from legacy systems—including SAP and non-SAP ERPs— to the advanced S/4HANA system. This project spanned technological disruptions and vital business and cultural changes resulting from the client's global merger.

Mind The Value navigates intricate challenges with a structured management approach. The company aligns stakeholders with technology and business perspectives, creating a strong foundation for success. It encourages a management mindset to support the project’s objectives, fusing business strategy with S/4HANA technical elements. Effective communication is prioritized, fostering longterm sustainability, and special onboarding tools further encourage seamless user adoption.

A Proven Integrated Methodology

“Mind The Value embodies a holistic digital transformation approach," emphasizes Luigi. "We optimize all aspects of the journey, including change, project management, process, and technology. We seamlessly optimize logistics, production, procurement, sales, accounting, and management processes.”

The company devises sustainable strategies tailored to diverse process and materials-based manufacturing industries such as cables, paper, textile, mining, and metals.

Mind The Value, an SAP Gold Partner offering complete coverage of SAP implementations, keeps change management at the heart of its consultation service, ensuring clients' long-term success in digital transformation.

The firm assists clients in surmounting challenges and unlocking maximum profitability by offering process-optimization perspectives technical expertise, and forward-thinking solutions.

Mind The Value’s proprietary methodology, Go Disrupt, blends in-depth analysis of internal barriers and organizational growth goals to identify solutions that best match the client's requirements.

Go Disrupt enables Mind The Value to gain a deep understanding of an organization’s functional units from a business perspective. In the initial step, the team carries out an assessment to prioritize short- and long-term projects. Then, in a two-step assessment, the business processes and existing technology capabilities are analyzed in parallel. With the insights gleaned from the assessments, a strategy is formulated, and solutions are selected to help clients make big strides in their digital journey. The approach adds value by identifying a tailored and company-specific roadmap for digital transformation. This roadmap assists clients successfully achieve the intended digital transformation outcomes within the estimated time and effort.

“We always focus on reviewing our clients' everyday challenges and creating solutions to help them improve," highlights Luigi. “This customer-centric approach reflects our expertise in SAP consulting and process optimization, along with integrating complementary tools and technologies. We enhance SAP’s capabilities through strategic partnerships and in-house solutions, unlocking additional features. By combining SAP’s power with other tools, we provide comprehensive solutions that address diverse business needs and drive impactful outcomes."

Innovative In-House Solutions and Technical Expertise

Mind The Value blends technical prowess with business acumen. Boasting a diverse team of functional consultants and technical experts, it possesses the perfect ingredients for success.

The company’s Tech Labs are used to create proprietary applications that complement its offerings. Its Smart Sales Package comprises three applications built using cutting-edge SAP Fiori technology integrated into SAP CC and S/4HANA ERP systems.

The first application—the Fast Order Entry tool— revolutionized SAP’s sales order entry process, reducing the required time by up to 75 per cent. It goes beyond the standard SAP ERP solution by offering advanced features like product filtering, product finder, multi-product and multi-facility stock checking, and OCR data uploading capabilities.

The second tool—Customer Cockpit—is designed for quick customer search and aims to reduce information collection time while providing reliable receivables reporting.

The final application in Mind The Value's arsenal is the Quotation tool, which ensures traceability of the negotiation process, reduces transaction time, and delivers accurate product pricing. This tool enhances the quotation process through simulations of price volumes and margins, intuitive quotation reporting, and end-to-end quotation status management.

Transforming Industries with Cutting-Edge AI Solutions

Mind The Value leverages AI to transform industries. Notable projects include computer vision algorithms that enhance quality control processes and AI algorithms that offer precise currency trading predictions.

The first project uses computer vision algorithms to enhance quality control processes. By associating a camera with an AI algorithm, the firm captures images of product samples. Computer vision algorithms possess these images, extracting geometric features relevant to the quality department. This enables assessment of production adherence to rules and regulations, as well as prediction of material efficiency based on aspects like identifying potential excess usage. The benefits include enhanced quality control, standards compliance, and cost optimization.

The solution subsequently extends to operational levels, assisting facilities reliant on manual microscopic inspections for quality assessment.

This innovative quality control solution can seamlessly integrate with SAP BTP, MES, and other management systems, ensuring an integrated approach.

Tech Labs managed another project that developed AI algorithms for currency trading predictions. Mind The Value created advanced AI algorithms to analyze financial data. By utilizing ML techniques, these algorithms generate accurate forecasts for currency trading to make informed decisions, improving traders’ trading strategies and increasing profitability. “These projects exemplify our dedication to using AI to drive transformative change,” Luigi adds.

Fusion of Partner’s Tools and Business Technology

Mind The Value integrates a Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) that guides users through software utilization. Integrated with SAP and other ERP systems, DAP help Mind The Value’s Customers to centralize and simplify the onboarding, users training and document digitalization processes.

Accelerated creation of training materials for onboarding new hires and user training during project implementation minimizes time and effort. Moreover, It promotes the direct involvement of company leaders to drive team process execution, enabling the harnessing and sharing of internal knowledge and experience. So, due to its easy, free, and flexible access on demand, it clearly facilitates knowledge and best practices sharing as well as stimulates the proactivity of resources in the development of new skills.

Consequently, these cost-effective solutions offer easily created and maintained user guides that are readily accessible.

Mind The Value's range of tools also includes the process mining application (PMA) combined with SAP and other ERP systems. Businesses use PMA to unlock their full potential by gaining insights into their processes and identifying inefficiencies, critical activities, and resource allocation within workflows. This intuitive tool empowers users to optimize, streamline, and automate their business processes.

PMA also offers a user-friendly graphical interface, making process analysis effective across all business procedures. By visually mapping out process workflows, users can identify critical paths and compare them to predefined target models.

In addition, PMA excels in information acquisition by seamlessly extracting organizational processes and data from various systems and ensuring integration with major EPM, ERP, and common tools like PLM, CRMs, and MES. The acquired data is processed and translated into correlations and cause-effect relationships, automatically generating comprehensive process maps.

Conformance checking enables organizations to compare their process performance with a business reference model. By identifying the root causes of deviations, businesses can standardize processes and perform an analysis to drive continuous improvement.

PMA also supports Robotic Process Automation (RPA), allowing businesses to automate repetitive tasks through RPA bots, optimizing process flows.