Unilever Supports Global Business Transformation

Unilever names its long-standing partner SAP as the global premium IT solution provider to enable and support its global business transformation strategy. Unilever signed a Global Enterprise Agreement with SAP in December 2006 to aid its global business transformation project, thus enabling broad access to licensed SAP solutions. "This agreement enables us not only to accelerate business transformation, but also drive significant IT simplification as we move toward our destination IT architecture," says Neil Cameron, chief information officer, Unilever. "Critically, as we move to fewer, more strategic IT partners it also gives us the influence over the SAP portfolio planning process and enhances our ability to work side-by-side with SAP on state-of-the-art industry solutions that we need from them to enable and further strengthen our global market presence." In addition to collaboration on enhancements and recommendations for SAP's product portfolio, teams at SAP and Unilever will collaborate regionally and globally to identify best practices within the current SAP implementation and leverage these for Unilever's wider global organization. //