Slovakia | Manufacturing

Knauf Insulation

SAP Application Management

Knauf Insulation as part of the family-owned Knauf Group is the fastest growing insulation manufacturer in the world, offering a wide range of insulation materials to meet the growing demand for energy efficiency and acoustic performance in homes, commercial buildings and industrial applications. The company employs 5000 employees in more than 50 countries around the world with 30 manufacturing sites for the production of glass wool, stone wool, wood wool, extruded polystyrene (XPS) and expanded polystyrene (EPS). Knauf Insulation is present in Slovakia since 2006 after the take-over of the stone mineral wool plant in Nova Bana. In Hungary in the plant in Zalaegerszeg are produced wood wool insulation materials and a central office in Budapest has been established in 2008 to cover commercial activities in the country.

The challenge

S&T has designed and implemented SAP Asset Management (AM) Module for Knauf Insulation – one of the largest insulation manufacturers in the world. The project was commissioned and coordinated by Knauf Insulation Slovakia and was successfully realized by both S&T Slovakia and S&T Hungary for the Hungarian Knauf Insulation subsidiary in Zalaegerszeg.

S&T Slovakia helped the company to implement financial modules (legal aspects, user training) back in 2007 and, in 2008, S&T was awarded SAP service contract by Knauf Insulation in Nová Baňa. In addition, in 2008 new contract was signed for the implementation of an SAP Asset Management Module in Hungary, which was to be completed by the end of 2008.

The project

In addition to system consolidation, the aim of the implementation project was to reduce costs and minimize maintenance and administration effort.

The experts from S&T Slovakia and S&T Hungary first carried out a requirements analysis and then drew up the system design. Once the SAP system had been prepared, user training was provided, user documentation was created and the final task consisted of migrating the old system to SAP, which included the final integration tests. Furthermore Knauf now has an ERP system that permits the flexible implementation of regulatory changes and facilitates a greater degree of precision in asset records and accounting depreciations, as well as allowing centralized asset records at a group level.

Benefit for the customer


  • flexible and future-oriented system
  • reliable maintenance service for reasonable fee
  • reduced operational costs
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