When Angelika Schwartz joined American Air Filter Europe as head of IT in October 2018, the company had already committed to SAP S/4HANA to replace a sprawling set of ERP systems across a growing international portfolio.Responsibility for IT operations previously lay with AAFE's vice president of finance, controlling, and IT, working with an external interim IT manager, but with the company's expansion and the scale of the migration in store that was no longer tenable so it tapped Schwartz, who had experience rolling out SAP as a veteran of the insurance and industrial chemicals industries. [ Comparison shopping? See "The best ERP systems:10 enterprise resource planning systems compared," with evaluations and user reviews. | Learn why companies are increasingly moving to cloud ERP and how to spot the 10 early warning signs of ERP disaster. | Get weekly insights by signing up for our CIO Leader newsletter. ]To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
AAF is a Kentucky-based company that designs, manufactures and distributes air filtration and HVAC equipment for residential, commercial and industrial sectors.