The KHS Group from Dortmund is one of the leading manufacturers of filling and packaging systems in the beverage and liquid food sectors. Digital helpers in the form of applications are required for production
Nothing works without digitalization – this naturally also applies to KHS GmbH as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of innovative filling and packaging systems in the beverage and liquid food sectors. The Dortmund-based systems supplier has already achieved a great deal in this field.
For example, KHS has been practicing virtual commissioning of systems in the beverage industry for years, which further reduces throughput times and lowers error costs.
However, applications and mobile apps are important for advancing any digitization efforts. In future, KHS will use low-code technology from Simplifier to create these apps – especially in terms of the front end.
Torben Brill, Project Manager, KHS“Simplifier’s strong SAP expertise was the decisive factor here, as KHS is very SAP-centric. We urgently needed a provider who is at home in the SAP world,” says Torben Brill.
Sustainable success
The issue of sustainability is also important to KHS. After all, resources are also limited when it comes to software development and must be used efficiently. KHS wants to avoid grown, heterogeneous system landscapes, shadow IT and isolated solutions wherever possible.
This is possible with the use of Simplifier, as the software development process is made particularly sustainable thanks to its independence from end devices and operating systems, the uniform code quality and the coverage of the entire application lifecycle management. “Simplifier offers us the opportunity not only to create apps ourselves, but also to adapt them as required,” explains Brill.
Here’s to good cooperation
Simplifier is delighted with KHS’ decision to use the low-code platform of the same name as the central development environment for future SAP and non-SAP-centric applications: “KHS has over 5,000 employees worldwide and recorded sales of over €1.2 billion in 2019. Being able to support such a customer in implementing the digitization roadmap by using the appropriate low-code technology fills us with joy and proves that every company has a need for drivers for digitization,” says Simplifier CEO Reza Etemadian.
