Digital Transformation

Successful digital transformation requires more than new technologies – it requires willingness to change. Transformation projects only create sustainable value when they are aligned with the organization’s strategic goals and business model. Choosing the right transformation pathway is essential - digitalization should never be pursued merely to follow a trend. Every company has its own needs, processes, and potential — and its digital transformation must reflect that.

With Helbling, you gain a partner who brings deep expertise in digitization, process design, and technology‑driven organizational development across diverse industries. Whether you operate in regulated environments, precision metal industries, or sales and service organizations, Helbling provides the specialist support needed to realize a value‑generating digital future. Our holistic approach ensures that digital transformation becomes a measurable success – from strategic conception to implementation and continuous improvement.

We accompany you throughout the entire transformation journey:

• Organizational analysis & assessment
• Design of a digital target operating model
• Implementation of software and processes
• System testing and validation
• Training, enablement, and change management
• Process optimization and standardization
• Program and project management

A clear digital strategy defines how technology supports your business goals and creates measurable value. It provides direction for investments, prioritizes initiatives, and establishes a common understanding of where the organization is heading. A well-defined digital Target Operating Model (dTOM) translates this strategy into a structured process- and IT-landscape, enabling efficient execution and sustainable change across the organization.

Helbing supports companies in developing and implementing digital strategies that are firmly grounded in business reality. Strategic objectives, current capabilities, and constraints are analyzed and translated into a coherent target picture. From defining the dTOM to planning the transformation roadmap, the focus remains on feasibility, alignment, and long-term impact.

We offer end-to-end support across digital strategy development, target operating model design, transformation planning, and implementation support. The emphasis is on pragmatic, scalable solutions that strengthen digital capabilities and evolve with organizational needs.

Closed Loop Manufacturing (CLM) creates a seamless connection between processes, departments, systems, and data across the entire product and production lifecycle. By integrating key systems such as PLM, ERP, and MES, product and process definitions, production data, quality results, and field‑service insights remain consistently connected end-to-end. This foundation enables full traceability, supports automation, and drives continuous improvement.

Helbing supports the design and implementation of CLM by aligning processes, systems, and responsibilities. Existing application landscapes are analyzed and optimized to establish reliable data flows, clear ownership, and effective feedback loops.

We provide CLM concept definition in alignment with your digital target operating model, complemented by detailed process design, system integration, and rollout support. The result is a practical, scalable, and sustainable solution that closes the loop between engineering and manufacturing.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enables you to manage your products and manufacturing processes by structuring information and processes from the first idea to the end of use. It increases transparency, improves collaboration across departments, and ensures that everyone works with consistent, up-to-date data. The results are data‑driven decisions, shorter development cycles, and more predictable product quality.

Helbling provides comprehensive end-to-end PLM consulting, from strategy and system selection to implementation, integration, and continuous improvement. The emphasis is on clear, scalable solutions tailored to your organization and evolving with your business.

We support PLM implementations by aligning technology with business needs. Process analysis, requirement definition, and solution design are translated into a practical PLM solution. From implementation and data migration to rollout and user enablement, our focus remains on sustainable adoption and measurable results.

Does your organization have a clear and consistent digital controlling concept — supported by modern tools and technologies that allow you to steer the business in real time?

Gain a clear and accurate picture about the current and future financial flows in the company. Digital Finance connects your controlling and financial planning with the ERP system, allowing for both transparency and efficiency.

Integrating your finance processes seamlessly into your company ERP system enables increased cost transparency and enhances financial planning and analysis. The use of systems such as SAP FI/CO helps to transform your finance department from a traditional function to a provider of new insights and forecasts that accelerate decision making across all business functions.

Helbling supports finance departments in designing and integrating a robust financial structure – across day‑to‑day operations, finance projects, and management reporting. We help you digitize and optimize your finance and controlling landscapes and transform your finance organization into a best‑in‑class business partner.

Transform your production with end-to-end digital manufacturing. By connecting data, systems and shopfloor operations, you reduce throughput time, enable compliance and transparency and support fast decision making. The implementation of a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) plays a key role - but true operational excellence emerges when ERP, PLM and MES seamlessly work together in an integrated solution. With digital processes such as integrated production planning, machine data collection, workflow‑supported process execution, and traceability of input and output materials, manufacturing operations become more reliable, efficient, and scalable.

Helbling supports you in integrating an MES solution with your ERP and PLM systems for maximum efficiency and full transparency across your production operations. This allows you to reduce planning complexity, improve process reliability, and strengthen quality reporting, especially in regulated industries.

We are happy to support you with:

• Assessment of your MES maturity
• Optimization / standardization of your manufacturing processes
• MES system tendering, selection and contractual support
• Implementation of an integrated MES solution
• Development of use cases around IIoT applications

Digitally supported process design enables the systematic optimization of value‑creating activities across the entire industrial value chain. Through standardization, integration, and the targeted use of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, processes can be executed with higher stability, increased efficiency, and significant cost reductions. These improvements generate measurable opportunities for growth, strengthen competitiveness, and unlock strategic advantages in dynamic market environments.

Based on our extensive industry experience, we apply established best‑practice process management methods and maintain a comprehensive process library that covers both, core and support processes from an integrated business process management perspective. This enables us to assess your process maturity systematically, identify optimization potential, and redesign your process landscape in alignment with your digital strategy and target operating model - including the required digital tools. We also support the implementation of new or improved processes with a clear focus on your objectives.

Our experience in system implementation covers SAP S4/HANA modules such as SAP EWM, SAP PP, SAP EAM, SAP QM, SAP SD/MM and PLM systems such as Siemens Teamcenter. This includes integrated Polarion for requirements management as well as MES systems such as Siemens Opcenter with integration into an Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) module.

SAP S/4HANA is an intelligent, fully integrated ERP system that supports and optimizes your business operations end-to-end. Its modular architecture enables seamless integration across all core processes and serves as a key enabler for digital business models.

By leveraging SAP’s advanced modules, organizations can automate the entire value chain – from procurement to payment, financial processes, maintenance planning, all the way to material and production planning. SAP S/4HANA also allows effortless integration of third‑party tools and automation technologies – enabling use cases such as fully automated warehouses or achieving the transparency and traceability required in regulated industries.

With Helbling as your partner, you benefit from extensive experience in designing and delivering end‑to‑end S/4HANA solutions. Whether you are already using SAP and considering a migration, or planning a greenfield implementation, we provide structured and reliable guidance throughout your entire transformation journey. Together, we analyze your current processes, identify new opportunities enabled by SAP S/4HANA, optimize your workflows, and map them into the system.

• SAP S/4HANA preliminary study based on the proven Helbling framework
• Development of the implementation approach (brownfield, greenfield, or hybrid scenarios)
• Process definition and optimization, incorporating SAP standards and industry best practices
• Implementation of SAP S/4HANA
• Migration to SAP S/4HANA
• Integration management across modules and systems to embed S/4HANA into your end‑to‑end digital landscape
• Implementation, project, and program management