Innovation with Purpose: Fast-Tracking Spirit Energy's S/4HANA Transformation

Spirit Energy faced operational pressure as its legacy third-party data centre neared the end of life, setting a firm deadline for modernisation. Its SAP landscape had grown complex, with fragmented applications, multiple reporting environments, inconsistent data access, and rising infrastructure costs. Spirit Energy needed to modernise its ERP environment without disrupting operations, while establishing a scalable platform to support future innovation, automation, analytics, and energy transition initiatives.

AG served as the strategic delivery partner, leading the programme from planning to execution. AG implemented brownfield migration to RISE with SAP S/4HANA, Private Edition on AWS. We conducted technical readiness assessments, simplification analysis, governance planning, testing, and managed a controlled cutover to ensure a secure, low-risk migration.

The team migrated a multi-terabyte SAP landscape in four months, preserving historical data, system integrity, integrations, and business processes without operational disruption.

The transformation delivered a future-ready digital core, reducing infrastructure risk, improving operational agility, and lowering total cost of ownership. Spirit Energy now benefits from a scalable cloud ERP platform that delivers greater reliability, enhanced operational visibility, and greater readiness for innovation.

Spirit Energy’s existing SAP landscape was hosted in a legacy third-party data centre approaching the end of its life. The organisation faced increasing operational pressure due to:

Fixed infrastructure retirement deadlines
Fragmented applications and reporting environments
Limited data accessibility and inconsistent reporting
Rising maintenance and infrastructure costs
Growing complexity across systems and integrations
The need to modernise without disrupting critical operations

At the same time, the organisation wanted to establish a scalable digital platform capable of supporting future innovation, analytics, automation, and energy transition initiatives. The challenge was not only technical, but it also required executing a large-scale migration within strict timelines while maintaining stability for users, interfaces, and business processes.

AG partnered with Spirit Energy and SAP to implement a pragmatic, technical-first migration strategy emphasising speed, governance, and architectural discipline.

Rather than immediately launching a large-scale transformation, Spirit Energy adopted an innovation-first approach, first stabilising the ERP core to enable ongoing transformation.

The organisation leveraged RISE with SAP as a strategic innovation accelerator, not just a cloud migration tool. By prioritising architectural discipline, clean core principles, and cloud scalability, Spirit Energy built a resilient digital platform that supports future AI, automation, analytics, and operational optimisation without business disruption.

This phased approach reduced migration risk and created a scalable foundation for long-term technological advancement.

1.Mitigated critical infrastructure end-of-life risk by completing migration ahead of the fixed deadline.
2.Reduced infrastructure total cost of ownership by 30%, enhancing long-term financial predictability.
3.Enhanced innovation readiness with a modern, scalable digital core aligned to SAP clean core principles
4.Established a repeatable, low-risk cloud adoption framework for complex enterprise environments.
5.Enabled the organisation to pursue automation, advanced analytics, and process optimisation at its own pace.

1.Migrated the full landscape, including Dev, Test, and Production environments (approximately 2TB each), with over 20 interfaces and 650 users, within four months and without business disruption.
2.Executed a controlled brownfield migration to RISE with SAP S/4HANA, Private Edition, hosted on Amazon Web Services.
3.Preserved historical data, system integrity, and all existing business processes throughout the transition
4.Implemented structured governance, rigorous testing, and cutover planning, led by AG in close collaboration with SAP ECS teams.
5.Deployed SAP BTP services, including SAP Build, Integration Suite, Extension Suite, and Analytics Cloud.

From the outset, SAP proved to be the right partner to support our immediate needs and future ambitions. However, it was the expertise and dedication of AG Consultancy & Apps that ensured a rapid and seamless transition in just four months. This move to RISE with SAP provides the modern cloud landscape essential for achieving our long-term strategic objectives, particularly in our carbon capture transition.

Andy Williams, IT Director, Spirit Energy

AG is a global SAP consulting and digital transformation partner that helps enterprises modernise, innovate, and maximise value from SAP technologies. With expertise in SAP S/4HANA, RISE with SAP, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), cloud transformation, AI, analytics, and intelligent automation, AG enables organisations to build scalable, future-ready digital enterprises.

AG specialises in complex SAP transformation programmes, focusing on business outcomes, innovation, and operational excellence. From SAP migration and ERP modernisation to clean core strategy, application development, integration, analytics, and managed services, AG combines technical expertise with strategic advisory to help organisations accelerate transformation while reducing risk and complexity.

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