How SAP Cloud ERP enabled Western Sugar’s move to AI-driven automation

Presented by SAPTen years ago, Western Sugar made a decision that would prove prescient: move from on-premise SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. At the time, artificial intelligence wasn't a priority on most roadmaps. The company was simply trying to escape what Director of Corporate Controlling, Richard Caluori, calls "a trainwreck:” a heavily customized ERP system so laden with custom ABAP code that it had become unupgradable.Today, that early cloud adoption is proving to be the foundation for Western Sugar's AI transformation. As SAP accelerates its rollout of business AI capabilities across finance, supply chain, HR, and more, Western Sugar finds itself uniquely positioned to take advantage of the technology."We didn't move to the cloud thinking about AI," Caluori says. "But