Sainsbury's has become the third top-ten retailer in the UK to join the SAP program to lift legacy applications to the cloud and migrate them to its latest ERP system S/4HANA.
Introduction to RISE with SAP
Britain's second-biggest retailer – with around £29 billion ($38 billion) in revenue – has signed a deal with SAP, cloud provider AWS, and systems integration and consulting firm Accenture to "revolutionize its commercial systems and help drive next-level Sainsbury's ambitions." "
The retailer said in a statement that by "consolidating its legacy systems" it would increase "agility through cloud-based solutions, as well as a simplified and cost-optimized technology area."
Sainsbury's joins fellow UK retailers Co-op and Asda on the RISE with SAP programme, launched in early 2021 amid investor concerns that the German software giant was failing to move customers from its sprawling legacy systems to cloud infrastructure and software-as- one-service fast enough.
