Aunt Millie’s Bakeries is a family-owned company founded in 1901 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, specializing in high-quality breads and baked goods. After 13 years running a heavily customized SAP ECC6 environment, Aunt Millie’s recognized that aging infrastructure, an approaching end of vendor support, and disconnected systems were limiting their ability to operate efficiently and grow.
Impact
- Modernized enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform migrating from a 13-year-old SAP ECC system to SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud
- Clean core architecture leveraging SAP BTP to manage customizations and preserve future upgrade flexibility
- Phased migration path allowing continued use of legacy tools while transitioning to the modern SAP Fiori interface
- Integrated platform supporting direct store delivery and frozen distribution across sales, purchasing, manufacturing, and finance
- Foundation for future phases to consolidate disconnected fixed asset and plant maintenance systems
Why SAP and Answerthink®
Aunt Millie’s Bakeries selected SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud and Answerthink® to replace their aging ECC system with a modern, secure, and scalable ERP platform aligned with industry best practices.
- Best practices expertise: Answerthink® helped Aunt Millie’s move away from years of heavy customization toward standardized SAP best practices, reducing long-term complexity and total cost of ownership.
- Migration guidance: Answerthink’s migration specialists evaluated all available options and identified the approach that best fit Aunt Millie’s data footprint, timeline, and need for business continuity.
- Private cloud flexibility: SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud enables Aunt Millie’s to use SAP BTP for necessary extensions while maintaining a clean core, and allows a phased transition to Fiori without disrupting existing user workflows.
Implementation highlights
Answerthink® delivered a phased SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud migration built to minimize disruption and reduce cloud contract costs through advance data management:
- Pre-migration data archiving and SAP housekeeping reduced the system footprint from 6.8TB to a significantly leaner state, lowering migration complexity and ongoing hosting costs
- Brownfield migration approach to preserve existing data, configurations and business continuity while modernizing the underlying platform
- Full technical and functional data management scope, including SAP Office content migration
- Functional coverage spanning:
- Sales and distribution supporting direct store delivery and frozen distribution
- Purchasing and materials management
- Manufacturing execution
- Financial accounting
- Future phase roadmap to address fixed assets and plant maintenance currently managed in disconnected, standalone systems
Outcomes
Following the transformation, Aunt Millie’s Bakeries achieved:
- A modern, fully supported ERP platform replacing an aging system facing end of vendor maintenance
- Meaningfully reduced system footprint and cloud costs driven by advance data management
- Improved security, data integrity and operational visibility across core business functions
- A clean core foundation using SAP BTP for extensions, preserving long-term upgrade flexibility
- A clear phased roadmap to eliminate duplicate data entry and consolidate remaining disconnected systems
