SAP and Seidor have announced that the Spanish biotech Kimitec has relied on the SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud solution to improve its data structure and drive decision making to reinforce its leadership position in the field of agri-food biotechnology. The deployment of the SAP solution has been carried out by the technology consultancy Seidor.
A unique business model
Kimitec is a company born in Spain whose vision is to change the way food is produced and achieve a sustainable agri-food system, by transforming a food production system based on synthetic chemistry into a natural one.
Specifically, this company develops biostimulants, biopesticides, and probiotics for agriculture and researches substitutes for artificial antibiotics in aquaculture and livestock production, as well as artificial preservatives, flavorings, and flavorings. The objective is, therefore, the elaboration of healthy and quality food, putting the productivity and profitability of producers at the center, the circular economy and the sustainability of food systems. With a business model based on R+D+i, Kimitec has created the MAAVi Innovation Center, which is the largest biotechnological innovation hub applied to the research of natural compounds and molecules in Europe.
Always with people and talent at the center of the business and in order to improve data organization and decision-making, Kimitec has chosen SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud for its strength and ease of integration with other solutions and systems, as well as because it offers the possibility of having centralized and unique data for all business areas.
In this way, the SAP solution allows you to increase the guarantees of the decision-making process and have access to the best practices in the SAP market. In addition, as it is a cloud solution, it ensures the scalability of the solutions in line with the growth of the organization.
Kimitec is a pioneer in its sector having designed and integrated an Artificial Intelligence platform, LINNA, in its research center that allows it to accelerate its research process of natural molecules and compounds for the transition from chemical to natural. This was another of the factors that influenced the company in choosing the SAP business management solution, by allowing the integration of Machine Learning solutions in the cloud, which work with data from the different business departments and facilitate decision-making. more precise and informed, which expedite advances in R+D+i.
Among the benefits the company has realized are reduced IT and SG&A costs, as well as reduced unplanned downtime and unused solutions or licenses. The company has been able to establish greater management control thanks to the traceability of processes, it has quality data and has increased productivity per user.
