The Rane Group Drives New Growth and Achieves 100% Availability for Critical Workloads with SAP S/4HANA on AWS

The Rane Group is a leading manufacturer of safety-critical auto components. The organization has modern manufacturing sites in 26 locations across India and the US, and is a preferred supplier to major automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier-1s in over 30 countries. 

Over the past several years, the Rane Group has expanded its footprint in response to business growth. In fiscal year 2022, the group’s revenue grew by 31 percent, and the company sought to respond to this increasing demand by boosting production of automotive parts. Supporting this growth meant scaling its IT environment, and the Rane Group wanted to expand its SAP software implementation by moving from an SAP ECC enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to the SAP S/4HANA ERP solution across its 10 companies.  

“Our SAP solution is a mission-critical system used across the company, so we needed to ensure consistent performance and high availability. In a physical data center, there is always the possibility of instability and downtime,” says Varadharajan S, executive vice president— information systems at the Rane Group. “We knew the path forward was moving to the cloud.”

To successfully migrate to the cloud, the Rane Group engaged InfraBeat, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner specializing in IT, consulting, and business process services. “We evaluated different cloud technology providers, but AWS always responded the fastest to our questions, which was key in our selection of AWS,” says Varadharajan S. “In addition, we knew we would need assistance moving 4 TB of SAP data to AWS, and we trusted InfraBeat to help us.” 

Working with InfraBeat, the Rane Group implemented SAP S/4HANA on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) memory-optimized X1 instances in a highly available architecture spanning two Availability Zones. The company also began using AWS Direct Connect to establish a private connection to AWS, giving Rane employees seamless access to SAP systems. Additionally, the Rane Group uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for data backups, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage users and authorizations, and AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA as an SAP-certified solution for faster backups of SAP S/4HANA workloads to Amazon S3.