CASE STUDY EPTA
Epta turns scale into strength
One platform, standardized operations, and real-time decisions across 40+ sites worldwide
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For global refrigeration manufacturers, growth has become harder not because demand is slowing, but because internal complexity can begin to outpace the organization’s ability to scale.
Global refrigeration leader Epta, operating across more than 40 sites in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, reached this point as two key factors converged. With its international footprint continuing to expand across Europe, the Americas, and Asia, the company was also evolving into a more globally structured organization, strengthening leadership and governance to support its next phase of growth.
Epta had a clear decision to make: continue operating through locally developed processes shaped by years of expansion or move to a platform-led model capable of unifying how the company runs, decides, and grows.
Leadership chose the “one platform” path — seeing an opportunity to scale growth more consistently by aligning the business around shared data, governance, and ways of working. To turn this ambition into action, Epta worked with Accenture to shape a platform led approach that could unify operations, data, and decision making across the group.
IMPACT
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Financial reports reduced to just 35 institutional ones
One Operating Model
Choosing a unified platform was only the starting point. Epta quickly saw that capturing its full value meant evolving how teams worked together across countries — shifting from effective local execution to coordinated global operations built on shared data and standards.
Epta and Accenture set a clear goal: finance, logistics, and reporting would run from a shared, real‑time data foundation, built on SAP as the enterprise platform, capable of supporting consistent decision‑making across the group.
Built to Scale Everywhere
Epta also established a global operating template to guide how new countries are onboarded. Markets across the US, Europe, and Asia now balance local requirements with shared processes, allowing the platform to scale without reintroducing fragmentation.
Operations impact
All gains driven by better task orchestration, modernized devices, and more reliable tracking at Epta's central distribution hub.
One platform, standardized operations, and real-time decisions across 40+ sites worldwide
Today, Epta runs as one integrated company, supported by a unified SAP platform that delivers real‑time financial visibility and standardized operations across its footprint. Most importantly, the business now has a proven way to integrate new countries and future acquisitions — bringing them onto shared processes and data far more quickly than before. As Epta continues evolving its platform capabilities and explores new data‑driven innovations, the company is setting a new benchmark for how global refrigeration businesses build, run, and scale platform‑led models in the decade ahead.