Hübner | Manufacturing Industry SAP Success Story Machinery & Industrial Manufacturing

Hübner is the world’s largest manufacturer of gangway and articulation systems for trains, headquartered in Kassel, Germany. As a global technology pioneer and system supplier for train compartment passages and bus articulation devices, Hübner holds nearly 100% market share in Shanghai rail transit articulation systems, approximately 70% in China’s high-speed rail articulation systems, and about 30% in large vehicle articulation and steering canopy systems in China. Hübner (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. serves as the Asia-Pacific sales and market center of the German Hübner Group, providing high-quality gangways, through-passages, and articulation systems for railways, high-speed EMUs, maglev trains, metro trains, and articulated buses, with annual output value growing at more than 20%.

Challenges

• Need to coordinate local processes with global core processes

• Implement a zero-downtime cutover solution

• Improve execution efficiency of daily critical large-data reports

• Implement FI/CO, SD, MM, PP, and QM modules for the Shanghai entity

Solution

BOS Cloud provided comprehensive implementation services for Hübner (Shanghai), covering blueprint design, sales management, procurement management, inventory management, and financial management. The project included system implementation, training, testing, go-live support, and enhancement development, successfully addressing the coordination between local and global processes as well as zero-downtime cutover requirements.

Key Results

• Successfully implemented FI/CO, SD, MM, PP, and QM modules

• Achieved alignment between local operations and global core processes

• Enabled zero-downtime system cutover

• Significantly improved the efficiency of critical large-data reports

• Strengthened the digital foundation supporting Hübner’s leading position in rail transit articulation systems in China and the Asia-Pacific region