Evergreen Solar's experience with SAP was part of the innovation behind YASH's development of ManufacturingOne. This innovative client was influential in formulating the uniqueness of this solution for the high-tech manufacturing market. ManufacturingOne is a qualified SAP All-in-One partner solution that is based on pre-configured business processes and out-of-the-box functionality, tailored for the high-tech manufacturing industry.

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SAP® Business All-in-One Success Story @ YASH
ManufacturingOne Supports Global Expansion
and Eases Regulatory Compliance for Evergreen Solar
Industry The Client
High-tech manufacturing Evergreen Solar, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets STRING RIBBON™ solar
power products using its proprietary, low-cost wafer technology. The company's
patented wafer manufacturing technology uses significantly less polysilicon than
Geography conventional processes. Evergreen Solar's products provide reliable and
environmentally clean electric power for residential and commercial applications
USA globally.
Legacy Systems Hindered Evergreen Solar's Rapid Growth Rate
Interest in renewable energy in recent years produced tremendous growth opportunities for the
solar industry. As a result, Evergreen Solar was rapidly expanding and wanted to increase its
production capacity in order to sustain their competitive advantage. Their existing legacy
“ManufacturingOne systems used for accounting purposes made it difficult to gather, manage, and report on data.
provides the level of
control required to ensure As the company prepared for its global expansion, it was in need of a solution that could provide
we are in compliance and basic support for multiple languages, multiple plants and multiple business areas including
allows us to focus on finance and sales. They also required a solution to be able to scale with them as they grew and
building better business provide the functionality needed to run their business as efficiently as possible. Most
practices.” importantly, Evergreen Solar only had 12 weeks to allow for implementation time, in order to
meet its Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance requirements.
–Bill Ryan,
After evaluating several companies, Evergreen Solar selected YASH Technologies as their
IT Manager
strategic partner for this initiative. Evergreen Solar's manufacturing is a hybrid of discrete
manufacturing and process manufacturing, and YASH had vast experience with such an
environment and advanced expertise in deploying SAP industry solutions built upon SAP Best
Practices for high-tech manufacturing.

2. YASH Integrated an Enterprise-Wide Solution in Less Than 12 Weeks
Evergreen Solar was in need of an enterprise-wide solution that could be implemented quickly under stringent timelines, and could be
tailored for their specific business processes. YASH proposed the mySAP Business suite of applications to serve as the basic building block
that could accommodate Evergreen Solar's global growth, as it was built upon SAP Best Practices for the high-tech industry. SAP Best
Practices provided predefined business processes, industry best practices and a tool to help configure the software that allowed YASH to
streamline the implementation process and ensure Evergreen Solar met its tight deadline. In addition, YASH provided its own set of
controls, testing, and documentation to successfully finish the integration ahead of schedule, and to finish the overall implementation to
meet the 12-week deadline.
Improved Business Processes and Operations Empowered Employees
With the implementation complete, Evergreen Solar realized immediate benefits. They were able to conduct business processes more
efficiently, and its employees could focus on more strategic aspects of their positions. Employees who once had to extract and fix data in
the legacy system could now spend more time interpreting data to support strategic decisions for the company.
Evergreen Solar eliminated time-consuming manual processes with the use of automated processes to manage activities, such as built-in
security features and system process controls. The company can now automatically match when it received goods, when it was invoiced for
those goods, and when it paid for them. They can utilize the necessary visibility into financials, production, and inventory data globally.
This allowed the company to report accurately in a timely manner, and to ensure compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley.
Integration with the company's manufacturing execution system (MES) made it possible to collect inventory data that it uses to update the
inventory system at 15-minute intervals. With a single, integrated system, Evergreen Solar can now prioritize orders, ensure that inventory
levels are accurate and maintained appropriately, and provide its suppliers and customers with timely information. This has resulted in a
significant reduction of cycle time across all aspects of its business, including inventory management, monthly financial closings, and order
processing. Evergreen Solar has been able to realize a 50% decrease in monthly closing time and anticipates further improvements.
Providing a Strong Foundation for Future Enhancements
In the future, Evergreen Solar plans to bring other factories online and will plug them into its SAP software landscape by providing them
with a template for configuring their business processes and SAP applications. Other examples of functionality that would enhance the
efficiency of managing their warehouse operations would be plant maintenance, radio frequency identification (RFID) and bar-code
scanning, as well as a self-service portal to allow partners to view orders, shipping and tracking information, and invoices.
ManufacturingOne Offering Founded on Innovation
Evergreen Solar's experience with SAP was part of the innovation behind YASH's development of ManufacturingOne. This innovative client
was influential in formulating the uniqueness of this solution for the high-tech manufacturing market.
ManufacturingOne is a qualified SAP All-in-One partner solution that is based on pre-configured business processes and out-of-the-box
functionality, tailored for the high-tech manufacturing industry.
About YASH Technologies
YASH Technologies focuses on customer success. As a leading technology services and outsourcing partner for medium and large global customers,
we leverage technology and our flexible delivery models to drive performance and business value throughout a customer’s enterprise. YASH’s
comprehensive service approach incorporates a holistic view of our customers that extends beyond delivery. This approach integrates enterprise
solutions and services, proprietary best practice offerings, strategic application and maintenance outsourcing, as well as consulting and integration
services. YASH is a SEI CMMI (Level 3) and an ISO 9001:2008 certified company with U.S. and India headquarters and regional sales and development
offices spread across three continents. YASH is also part of a select group of companies that are SAP-certified global providers of application
management services.
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