Most companies don’t have a data problem. They have an access problem.
How Saint-Gobain Mobility Turned Locked SAP Data Into Faster Pricing, Forecasting, and Front-Line Execution.
A Neptune Talks episode on SAP data access, low-code app development, and what changes when the people closest to the work can finally use the system that runs everything.
In this episode of Neptune Talks, we look at how Saint-Gobain Mobility bridged the gap between SAP data and real business execution, without replacing the core.
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When 95% of the business runs on SAP, why is pricing still in Excel?
On paper, 95% of the business running on SAP should mean seamless operations. In practice, it often means the opposite. Critical processes like pricing and forecasting end up stuck in spreadsheets, email chains, and manual workarounds, running next to the system rather than inside it.
At Saint-Gobain Mobility, updating prices across 150,000 products used to take two weeks. Forecasting cycles stretched over months. The data was there. The path from data to decision was not.
A SAP-native low-code approach changed that. Instead of adding another system, the team built user-friendly applications directly on top of their SAP core, giving the people closest to the work a way to actually use the data that already existed.
What You Will Hear
- Why SAP data so often stays locked away from the front line
- How Saint-Gobain Mobility cut pricing updates from two weeks to two days
- How forecasting cycles moved from months to days
- Why user adoption worked without any formal training
- How new applications improved data quality directly inside SAP
- Where AI and automation are starting to accelerate enterprise app development even further
- What a SAP-native approach looks like in practice, compared to building outside the core
The results
- Pricing updates: from two weeks to two days
- Forecasting cycles: from months to days
- User adoption: high, without formal training
- Data quality: improved inside SAP, not alongside it
