BPX expands SAP Signavio practice with manufacturing wins

Business Process Xperts says industrial manufacturing is now its largest SAP Signavio practice, built on four end-to-end projects spanning chemicals, automotive, building materials and beverages. The company is pitching the approach as manufacturers race to rework processes before SAP ECC support ends in 2027.

Why it matters: - SAP is ending mainstream maintenance for ECC on Dec. 31, 2027, which will stop standard security patches and legal updates. - BPX is positioning process redesign, mining and automation as a way for manufacturers to avoid a simple lift-and-shift during the S/4HANA transition. - The pitch lands as only about 39% of ECC customers had bought S/4HANA transition licenses by the end of 2024, leaving roughly 17,000 holdouts projected by 2027. - BPX also cites a broader industry problem: around 70% of large-scale transformation programs fall short of their goals.

What happened: - Business Process Xperts, a Mind-A-Mend Group company, said industrial manufacturing has become its largest SAP Signavio practice. - The practice is built on four end-to-end engagements across specialty chemicals, automotive, building materials, and tea and beverages. - BPX said the projects span a specialty chemicals manufacturer with more than 2,500 employees in Germany, an automotive OEM with 22,000+ employees in India, a building materials manufacturer with 5,000 employees in the U.S. and a tea and beverages manufacturer in the U.K. - The company said it owns the transformation process from process discovery through mining, redesign and automation. - BPX shared a contact link for more information: Get insights from BPX.

The details: - BPX said it documented more than 540 processes across the four implementations. - The company said the work covered core order-to-cash, procure-to-pay and record-to-report processes. - BPX said those processes were captured in executable BPMN to give each company a single source of truth. - The company said process mining identified repeatable and rule-based steps that could be handed to automation. - BPX said the programs delivered 15% to 25% automation in order-to-cash, procure-to-pay and record-to-report. - The company said mining and remediation reduced process risks by 90%. - BPX said the work analyzed more than 90,000 process cases based on event-log evidence from live transactions. - The company said its model removes handoffs between the tool provider, systems integrator and shop floor. - BPX said it assigns one accountable owner per program.

Between the lines: - The announcement reframes SAP migration as an operating model change, not just a software upgrade. - BPX is arguing that manufacturers will get more value when one partner owns discovery, redesign, mining and automation end to end. - The message also reflects pressure on industrial companies to clean up processes before the ECC deadline creates more urgency.

What's next: - BPX is likely to keep using manufacturing reference wins to win more SAP Signavio and transformation-management work. - Manufacturers still on ECC have a narrowing window to decide whether they want a technical migration or a broader process reset. - BPX said its broader consulting footprint spans SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX, WalkMe and SAP BTP across five continents.