Maliban implements Sri Lanka’s first SAP S4 HANA Solution with JKH’s SGIT

From left: Maliban CFO Dilum Bellana, Managing Director A.G. Kumudika Fernando,  Chairman A.G. Ratnapala Samaraweera and John Keells Holdings President Krishan Balendra

Maliban Biscuit Manufactories Ltd., one of Sri Lanka’s leading biscuit producers, has partnered with the country’s leading SAP (Systems, Applications & Products) Service provider John Keells Holdings’ Strategic Group Information Technology (SGIT) team to implement SAPs’ latest release. 

SAP S4 HANA is the latest release of the SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution which offers an innovation cycle through simplification along with SAP Fiori User Experience (UX), to enhance end-user experience on platforms ranging from mobile phones to desktops.

Speaking at the project kickoff event Maliban Group CEO Sales and Marketing Ravi Jayawardena said, “The journey that we are starting today, I am pretty confident, will help Maliban and John Keells to conquer the business world in Sri Lanka. That is primarily because everybody will be observing how well we will be performing with the new technology and this will help facilitate the business to grow even further.”  

SAP S/4 HANA helps boost productivity and saves time by making it possible to be engaged in work from wherever you are. With this deployment, Maliban will become Sri Lanka’s first company to implement SAP S/4HANA. By moving to SAP S4 HANA, Maliban as an organisation would be keeping itself up-to-date with the latest technology aiming at higher growth and improving its organisation’s standards.

SGIT, the IT arm of John Keells Holdings PLC, being a SAP Authorised Services Partner and a Gold Licensing Partner in Sri-Lanka has over 10 years of experience in providing SAP solutions and support. SGIT has successfully catered to many leading organisations in the country across multiple industry verticals ranging from Manufacturing, Construction to Hospitality.

John Keells Holdings President of Food and Beverage-Retail Krishan Balendra said, “We have been living SAP for more than 10 years, so we are not coming in just as consultants, but as a team that has lived and breathed in the SAP environment and learned many lessons that we can share with Maliban.”

The ‘S’ in S4 HANA stands for ‘Simple’. The idea of ‘Simple’ in business and technology has been at the forefront of innovation for centuries. Businesses have always courted simplicity in the hopes of delivering user-friendly products and solutions as well as optimised business engines for growth and profitability. SAP India Regional Director Sajith Simon said, “Signing up Maliban has been very special to us. Maliban is the first S4 HANA customer in Sri Lanka and among the first few nett-new customers to embark on this journey. SAP together with SAP Consulting will be behind this project, working together as a team to ensure that this project will be delivered successfully through our partner SGIT. With this partnership we will help Maliban run better and run simple on SAP.”