SAP business suite to boost Maliban Biscuit Manufactories first

From Left: Dakshitha Wijetunga – Finance Manager, Maliban;   Dilum Bellana –Chief Financial Officer, Maliban; Mrs. Kumudika Fernando –Managing Director, Maliban;   Michael Sathasivam - Country Business Head, SAP Sri Lanka and Suresh Silva – Senior IT Manager, Maliban

SAP SE has announced that Sri Lanka’s award-winning biscuit manufacturer Maliban Biscuit Manufactories elected Business Suite 4 SAP HANA(SAP S/4HANA), the next generation business suite from SAP, to improve productivity and streamline business operations in real time. 

With this deployment, Maliban will become Sri Lanka’s first company to implement SAP S/4HANA. 

Maliban, a 60 year old manufacturer of a range of crackers, cookies and wafers, is sold in over 100,000 stores across Sri Lanka. It has a global presence inover 35 countries and intends to expand its business locally and globally by advancing its primary business processes using world-class technology solutions.

To achieve this milestone, Maliban plans to deploy SAP S/4HANAand also benefit from the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) to help streamline input operations and bring innovation through mobility. Maliban will also use SAP Lumira to experience the best of business analytics and data visualization tools for better business decision making.

Mrs. Kumudika Fernando, Managing Director, Malibansaid, “Maliban’s business has reached a critical point where our business needs have grown exponentially. The decision to select SAP and their S/4HANA platform wasn’t a difficult one as it will create a platform for the organization to operate in a dynamic manner with faster information processing for appropriate decision making. It will integrate our business processes seamlessly, enabling us to carry out day-to-day tasks dynamically, improve productivity and manage operations in real time.”

With analytical information becoming a decisive factor for modern businesses,SAP S/4HANA will enable Maliban to equip itself with more in-depth and dynamic analyses of the market and consumer demand trends. This will prepare the organization to face the challenges of the future more effectively and faster.

Michael Sathasivam, Country Business Head for SAP in Sri Lanka said, “I would like to congratulate Maliban Biscuit Manufactories on becoming Sri Lanka’s first SAP S/4HANA customer. Deploying SAP’s latest and state of the art product offering emphasizes their focus on technology as an enabler for their future. In such a context, SAP S/4HANA is targeted to enhance Maliban’s business efficiency as it is scalable, smart and simple to run in business.”

SAP S/4HANA is designed to drive business innovation with simplicity by connecting people, devices and business networks in real time to support the development of new business models. 

It brings unprecedented innovations and simplifications to customers, combined with more than 40 years of experience across industries, in a completely reimagined business suite only possible with SAP HANA. SAP S/4HANA will offer cloud, on-premise and hybrid deployment options to provide maximum choice to customers.