Tenova: Shaping new competitive advantage with an AI-enabled digital foundation in the cloud
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Industry
Industrial manufacturing—engineering and technology
Region
Castellanza, Italy
Company Size
>2,500 employees
Transformation through integrated cloud innovation
Tenova, a leading provider of sustainable solutions for the metals and mining sectors, is transforming its business operations in the cloud through the RISE with SAP journey. The company is in the process of implementing an SAP Cloud ERP Private solution and SAP Signavio solutions to leverage AI features, reshape processes, and gain competitive advantage.
"The migration using RISE with SAP is not an end point, but the beginning of a journey. It is the strong foundation on which we want to build the Tenova of the future, with modern applications fully supported by AI."
-Federico Astigiano, Chief Information Officer, Tenova S.p.A.
Moving beyond a legacy system to embrace strategic innovation
Tenova S.p.A. is a leading provider of sustainable solutions that help metals and mining companies reduce costs, save energy, limit environmental impact, and improve working conditions for their employees. With a global presence across 18 countries, the company has run its operations on an SAP system for many years.
While the legacy landscape was stable, the approaching end of mainstream maintenance made modernization a strategic imperative. The leadership team saw this not only as a mandatory upgrade but also as a strategic opportunity to transform. The core challenge was to evolve from a system focused on transactions to a business foundation that could drive competitive advantage.
In a global market with competitors moving in the same direction, simply keeping pace was not enough. Tenova needed to be faster and smarter. The goal was to simplify its complex infrastructure, and more critically, build a new foundation that could leverage AI. This would help the company optimize processes, improve decision-making, and secure its position as an industry innovator for the next decade.
"We had to move from our legacy system, but this was more than an upgrade. We believe AI will allow us to be more efficient and improve our decision-making. To gain an advantage, we knew we had to be faster than our competitors in adopting these new technologies."
-Federico Astigiano, Chief Information Officer, Tenova S.p.A.
Creating a unified, intelligent foundation for process excellence
Tenova’s transformation is centered on a suite of integrated SAP solutions. With SAP Cloud ERP Private through RISE with SAP, the company is moving its new digital architecture to a managed cloud environment, simplifying infrastructure management and freeing the IT team to focus on business value.
A key element of this strategy is the adoption of process transformation capabilities from SAP Signavio solutions. Tenova is using these features to analyze, map, and fundamentally redesign its business processes. This allows the company to identify opportunities to embed AI agents directly into workflows.
This new digital foundation is connected to a suite of other SAP solutions. Tenova manages its people with SAP SuccessFactors solutions and its travel expenses with SAP Concur solutions. For custom needs and extensions as well as future development, it has access to services running on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), including its e-invoicing solution in India.
This integrated approach, built on a brownfield migration to preserve valuable customizations, creates a holistic and connected foundation poised for innovation.
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