When Angelika Schwartz joined American Air Filter Europe as head of IT in October 2018, the company had already committed to SAP S/4HANA to replace a sprawling set of ERP systems across a growing international portfolio.
Responsibility for IT operations previously lay with AAFE’s vice president of finance, controlling, and IT, working with an external interim IT manager, but with the company’s expansion and the scale of the migration in store that was no longer tenable so it tapped Schwartz, who had experience rolling out SAP as a veteran of the insurance and industrial chemicals industries.