Scandinavian Tobacco Group

A Scalable SAP Testing Approach Supports Reliable Delivery Throughout the Multi-Year ERP Consolidation

Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) is in the midst of one of the most ambitious technology transformations in its history: a multi-year program to replace 12 inherited ERP systems with a single global SAP S/4HANA platform. As STG expanded through acquisitions, each acquired company brought its own systems, processes, and ways of working.

The company

Copenhagen-based STG is a multinational producer of cigars, pipe tobacco, and fine-cut tobacco products, serving consumers in more than 100 markets. With 10,000 employees and operations spanning Europe, Asia, and the Americas, STG manages a portfolio of roughly 200 brands.

Challenges

STG’s rapid growth — including eight major acquisitions in just six years — left the company operating several ERP systems, each with its own processes and data structures. This fragmentation made it difficult to standardize operations, leading STG to launch ONEProcess: an initiative to replace
its legacy ERPs with a single unified SAP S/4HANA platform.

As ONEProcess moved into execution, the testing workload increased dramatically. Each deployment wave introduced changes across finance, production, supply chain, and commercial operations — and every update required multiple rounds of system integration testing and user acceptance testing.

Solution

STG implemented Worksoft’s Connective Automation Platform to build a repeatable, enterprise-wide testing framework. Automating more than 200 end-to-end scenarios and achieving 70% regression automation, testing has become faster and more predictable — enabling successful S/4HANA go- lives across Europe, the UK, and Asia as ONEProcess continues to advance.