About DSM Twilmij

DSM Twilmij B.V. is a Dutch company specializing in the production of premixes and milk replacers for the animal feed industry. These high-quality feed additives are tailored to the specific needs and development phases of animals and contribute to improved performance in terms of growth, health and productivity.

The Initial Situation 

The complex production and delivery of its products required DSM Twilmij to standardize its IT environment to meet dsm-firmenich standards and integrate with its existing SAP software infrastructure.

The production and delivery of animal feed premixes is a complex puzzle involving 20 to 60 different raw materials. 

The exact composition not only changes per season, but it’s also tailored to the customer. DSM Twilmij also strives to deliver within a maximum of five days. This allows compound feed companies to keep their stocks and, therefore, their required operational costs and storage capacity low. In this way, DSM Twilmij is an important strategic partner for the compound feed industry.

Making this complex production and delivery process manageable requires a robust IT environment – one that streamlines end-to-end processes and simplifies complicated costing. In addition, the new environment had to be able to integrate with the SAP Central Finance Master Data Replication application by insightsoftware for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, which DSM Twilmij implemented in parallel with this IT standardization initiative.

The Project 

DSM Twilmij opted for standardization in the cloud, with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition as the brains of the new IT environment. Production orders from SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition are sent to the manufacturing execution systems (MESs), which control physical production. SAP Integration Suite functions as the comprehensive integration platform and provides real-time communication between these environments.

During the implementation by SAP partner Scheer Nederland BV, the parties aimed for a robust and standardized IT environment and accurate coordination with best practices within the sector. The unique needs of DSM Twilmij were also taken into account. Only in some cases, specific requirements couldn’t be fully met within the standard SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition software environment. 

Alongside the partner Scheer Nederland, the company leveraged SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and the SAP Event Mesh capability to develop an event-based side-by-side extension. This allowed DSM Twilmij to keep the core of the system “clean” while meeting the need for real-time data and processes.