cbs launches RISE with FAST VALUE at the DSAG Annual Congress, thereby integrating the innovative SAP portfolio into its own consulting approach. cbs enables the best possible adoption and use of RISE with SAP solution options in the interest of the customer and in the context of the company’s individual business transformation.
Go-live at the Salzgitter AG steel production divisions: With the comprehensive SAP S/4HANA transformation program, the group is laying an important foundation for implementing innovation and sustainable development towards low-carbon steel production.
cbs expands the NEXT-ONE portfolio and integrates the consulting firm EPSFLOW. The successful company is considered a specialist in product lifecycle management (PLM) and, as a process consultant, is the trusted partner of numerous well-known industrial customers.
cbs establishes a global AI team and is spearheading innovation.
The cbs E-Invoice World Cloud is rebranded as e-world.cloud. This move underscores the versatility of the popular all-in-one solution, which has long offered not only classic e-invoicing but also e-payment, e-delivery, e-reporting, and EDI features.
The first cbs trainee cohort celebrates its 25th anniversary – and with it, the trainee program. More than 450 consultants have launched successful careers through the cbs trainee program.
2023
cbs acquires the consultancy projekt0708 GmbH. This successful company transforms, digitizes, and integrates HR processes using pioneering HR/IT strategies.
New subsidiaries are established in India, China, Australia, Croatia, and Turkey.
The company is growing faster than the market and has increased its revenue by around 22 percent compared to the previous year. This means that cbs generated revenues of 231 million euros. More than 1,300 people are employed by the group.
A quantum leap into the digital future: Finnish chemicals group Kemira migrates with cbs to a global SAP S/4HANA platform in a private cloud. The company establishes a complete global process and system landscape based on SAP’s intelligent enterprise architecture.
cbs expanded its management level and strengthened its consulting offering in the area of business consulting. Jürgen Lange, a long-standing partner and most recently Business Consulting Leader Germany at Ernst & Young, has been part of the management team ever since.
Dr Carl Winter joins cbs as Consulting Director. He acts as a link between the ERP and Transformation business units and the Technology/Digital Architecture unit.
2022
The cbs portfolio 2022 is characterised by NEXT ONE: the answer to the changing challenges of modern industrial companies. NEXT ONE combines global end-2-end solutions, innovative technologies, consulting for strategy, architecture and process design with unique transformation services to create a market-leading overall offering for industrial clients.
Michael Hertel returns to cbs after five years at Rohde & Schwarz in Munich and becomes a member of the Executive Board. He is responsible for the Supply Chain Management division.
The Munich location, founded in 1996, is catching up on its 25th birthday celebrations, which had to be postponed in 2021. In addition, cbs locations open in Berlin and Leipzig.
cbs makes the largest acquisition in the company’s history with the takeover of consultancy firm Trebing & Himstedt Prozessautomation GmbH & Co. The successful company specialises in the digital transformation of smart factories and smart products.
2021
At the beginning of the year, the first cbs location in Scandinavia opens in Espoo, near the Finnish capital Helsinki. cbs Americas continues to develop and now also advises local customers instead of exclusively carrying out rollouts for European customers as before.
With Bürkert, a specialist in control and regulation systems for liquids and gases, another global market leader is benefiting from the selective approach to switching to the new SAP world. Real added business value is created for the customer in a very short space of time, particularly in the area of finance.
cbs enters into a strategic partnership with the consulting firm Deloitte. The aim of the partnership is to enable large existing SAP customers worldwide to quickly switch to the S/4HANA future technology by using the cbs ET transformation software.
A highlight of the year will be the Summer Summit in Heidelberg’s Halle 02 with guest of honour Christian Klein, Spokesman of the Executive Board of SAP.
There is a change in the cbs management team: Company founder Harald Sulovsky is stepping down and handing over his role as CEO to Rainer Wittwen, with Holger Scheel and Stefan Risse as the other managing directors. In the 25 years that the cbs founder has led the company, cbs has undergone enormous development.
2020
cbs America expands US HQ in Devon, PA
25 years of cbs
Opening of cbs Freiburg
Opening of cbs Austria office in Vienna
cbs E-invoice Cloud used to process more than 2,000,000 documents
cbs Web relaunch
2019
J. Remmert joins the Executive Board
Lorenz Praefcke becomes CEO of cbs Americas
Revenue > € 90 million, employees > 500
cbs completes world’s largest SAP S/4HANA transformation project for Viessmann
cbs America officially moves US HQ to Devon, PA
cbs hosts 20×30 booth at SAPPHIRENOW
cbs America attains Partner Edge status
cbs s.m.a.r.t. Portfolio
SAP & cbs: Selective Data Transition to S/4HANA
Launch of ET Software License Program
Salesforce connection available as a product / cbsCX ISV Package
2018
Relocation to new headquarters in Bahnstadt Heidelberg. Opening of cbs Rhein-Main.
First SAP Community Conference cbs ONE.CON. The event is held at the Print Media Academy Heidelberg
Opening of US outposts in Denver & Detroit
cbs hosts first ever booth at SAPPHIRENOW in Orlando, FL
Foundation of cbs CX – Salesforce consulting
2017
Launch of cbs MDV Master Data Validation
Oliver Dorsner & Markus Geib join the cbs Executive Board
Revenue exceeds € 80 million and employees surpass the 300 mark. Record revenue growth
Internationalization:
Foundation of cbs Americas (HQ: Philadelphia)
Opening of Technology Center in Malaysia (KL)
Establishment of the Digital Solution Center in Barcelona
Opening of cbs Bautzen
World’s first standard software for SAP S/4HANA Transformation
Enterprise Transformation 4.0 with comprehensive solution cbs ET for SAP S/4HANA®
2016
cbs adds Salesforce to its consulting portfolio
SMA SmartFuture – global SAP CRM is replaced by Salesforce
Revenue exceeds € 50 million.
Me-We employer branding campaign
Groundbreaking ceremony for Heidelberg headquarters
Foundation of the HANA & UX business unit
2015
20 years of cbs – the company celebrates its anniversary with 200 employees on Majorca.
Official launch of the E-invoice world cloud (at the time still NFe-as-a-service or Latam Cloud)
Development of SAP-based cloud solutions (cbs E-Invoice World Cloud, cbs GTS Cloud)
Launch cbs S/4HANA Transition Program
First big US project – ONE Finance
SAP certified Provider of Application Management Services
Participation in initiative SAP Platform Development Accelerator for SAP HANA Cloud Platform with the cbs E/A Enterprise Analyzer
2014
Stefan Risse joins the cbs Executive Board
cbs employee numbers surpass 200 for the first time.
cbs becomes a member of the International Association for SAP Partners e.V. (IA4SP)
Market launch of SAP S/4HANA: cbs as a pioneer in conception, test, and customer projects
Acquisition of leogistics GmbH
The Hamburg-based SAP partner and specialist in logistics and supply chain management (SCM) further expands cbs’ SAP solution offering.
2013
Foundation of cbs Singapore
Official market launch of ET for S/4HANA
Launch of the GTS Academy
cbs welcomed into SAP Validated Expertise program for Landscape Transformation
cbs uses SAP in a cloud environment for the first time
Participation in SAPPHIRE USA with partner Abeam Consulting
2012
cbs Enterprise Transformer – launch at the annual DSAG conference 2012
M-cbs extended with Enterprise Transformations
Opening of cbs Stuttgart.
Establishment of the GTS business unit
2011
Revenue exceeds € 20 million.
SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS)
cbs establishes the SLT (System Landscape Transformation) business unit.
2010
Rainer Wittwen joins the Executive Board at cbs.
First international BI project
Launch of the cbs PI adapter for AS2 and EDIFACT under Open Source license (OPI2) on Sourceforge
World first go-live of SAP GTS 8.0: global export compliance platform as standardized corporate solution
2009
Holger Scheel joins the Executive Board
Central integration platform: Successful rollout of SAP NetWeaver PI for a global energy and petroleum company
Support is added to the cbs portfolio as a permanent consulting service
Establishment of international partner management
2008
Branch office opened in Hamburg
Foundation of cbs Switzerland
cbs4DI Excellence solutions: SAP Best Practice for the manufacturing industry
First major complete GTS project in the Netherlands.
This customer project is used as the technical basis for the subsequently launched cbs E-Invoice World Cloud
2007
cbs becomes SAP Special Expertise Partner for SAP GTS, Manufacturing & High Tech, SAP NetWeaver PI, PLM, SCE
cbs awarded contract for global rollout program (new global process template, international rollout) at a market-leading industrial company
2006
100 employees.
The product DMF (Data Migration Framework) and SHC (Standardization, Harmonization, Consolidation) tool is published
cbs provides SAP user companies with a proprietary EDI solution based on the SAP NetWeaver exchange infrastructure.
M-cbs template published for template rollouts
2005
Merger with Materna GmbH.
As an internationally positioned management consultancy, cbs now also represents the consulting and SAP expertise of the Materna group.
Opening of the Dortmund branch office, under the management of Stefan Risse
Relocation to new offices in Heidelberg. The company now operates two data centers.
cbs celebrates its 10-year anniversary with all employees on Majorca.
SAP Special Expertise Partnership SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure
2004
cbs Fit for Future event on SAP NetWeaver
cbs becomes a member of DSAG e.V. (the German-speaking SAP User Group)
2003
Development of the M-cbs project methodology
Complete implementation of the SAP Business Suite (all components) for a major Mexican oil company in cooperation with SAP
2002
Revenue exceeds € 10 million for the first time.
Establishment of the Basis business unit.
First customer event: cbs Fit for Future
2001
Workforce grows to 50 employees over two locations
Portfolio expansion and establishment of the business units BI, CRM, SCM, and BIT
ERP template development for major pharmaceutical company’s European rollout. APAC and Americas follow in the subsequent years. The system becomes the industry standard.
2000
R/2-R/3 migration, development of an integrated process architecture for 5 business areas and companies of the world’s biggest automotive supplier.
1999
Holger Scheel becomes Head of Corporate Sales & Marketing and develops the cbs logo that is still used today.
cbs welcomes graduates onto its first trainee program. Many of these graduates are now in top management positions at cbs.
The biggest R2-R3 migration in the mechanical engineering industry!
1998
Training adopted as a key pillar of cbs. First ever cbs Consultants’ Day with 18 consultants
cbs enters a team of employees into the Heidelberg marathon for the first time
Development and implementation of a global, distributed R/3 system architecture. To facilitate this, cbs sets up a global architecture team for corporate customers.
1997
microsap is rebranded cbs Corporate Business Solutions.
The name Corporate Business Solutions reflects the cbs’ unique and continued focus on enterprise-wide business solutions
The new logo represents the five phases of M-cbs project methodology; a methodology that remains central to all cbs projects today.
Launch of the first cbs website.
Revenue exceeds € 1 million for the first time.
Establishment of the SAP Basis business unit.
First SLT projects in the form of R/2-R/3 migrations
1996
First move to Heidelberg offices (Tullastrasse). Branch office opened in Munich.
1995
In 1995, former SAP consultants, Harald Sulovsky and Tarek Kramer, establish the company microSAP as an independent SAP corporate consultancy for international industrial companies.
First office in Rauenberg.
The company’s focus is global digital business process solutions and complete SAP R/3 implementations
First global ONE system/ONE client solution in manufacturing industry with rollout to 24 countries
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