Inside ANASAC's multi-country SAP transformation

Some of the most ambitious enterprise digital transformations happening today aren't in Silicon Valley, New York, London, or Paris; they're undertaken by companies like ANASAC, a multinational Chilean agroindustrial leader operating across 19 markets in Latin America and worldwide.

ANASAC sits at the intersection of 2 challenges that make digital transformation especially complex: a global footprint with country-by-country regulatory and operational differences, and a sector where operational data is critical to everything from supply planning to customer service. 

As the company embarked on a major ERP consolidation onto SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition via RISE, it took on a challenge that very few enterprises of its size have attempted in the region.

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Your ERP data can’t stay in walled gardens

ANASAC's ERP environment was fragmented across multiple countries, a common pattern for global enterprises that have grown through expansion and acquisition. Each market had its own systems, data, and operating norms. That fragmentation made it harder to see the business as a whole and run analytics that crossed regional boundaries.

The decision to consolidate onto SAP S/4HANA RISE was about more than technology. It was a bet on a unified operating model, one where every country could run on the same ERP backbone and where the company could make decisions with a clearer view of the full business.

But unifying ERP is only half the picture. The other half is ensuring the data in that ERP powers the rest of the business: analytics, reporting, planning, and the long-term modernization roadmap.

In practice, API restrictions, proprietary formats, provider policies, and other technical and contractual barriers can lock data where it’s created. This effectively creates walled gardens that limit the analytical and operational potential of data by restricting an organization’s ability to combine it with data from other sources to build comprehensive context, or to connect it to systems beyond the vendor’s ecosystem. The need to move data out of walled gardens has only grown more urgent as AI agents that operate continuously, pull data from multiple sources, run multi-step workflows, and act in real time proliferate.

Fivetran helps you move ERP data out of walled gardens

For ANASAC, the need to use SAP data to empower the full range of analytical and operational use cases meant moving it into Snowflake, where it could be combined with other sources and used more broadly. For many companies moving to SAP S/4HANA RISE, one of the biggest open questions is whether they can continue to access and replicate SAP data reliably — and whether they can do it in a way that's accepted within the SAP environment. RISE is a managed offering, and the rules around extraction can be ambiguous.

ANASAC needed a replication approach that would avoid introducing additional risk or uncertainty during a major ERP transformation. Evolve Decision Science, a leading LATAM analytics & AI consulting company, acted as a strategic partner to ANASAC by identifying Fivetran as the right platform to support its unified data strategy and by helping drive the implementation. Together, Evolve and Fivetran enabled the extraction of critical data from SAP S/4HANA and its delivery into Snowflake, creating a scalable foundation for centralized analytics, governance, and future data initiatives.

Fivetran's data integration uses indirect static reads through the NetWeaver application layer over RFC, a commonly known mechanism within SAP. ANASAC reported no contractual issues and no SAP performance impact resulting from the deployment.

After implementation, ANASAC's internal team managed the platform independently, adjusting tables, refining sync frequency, and handling schema changes with minimal external support. For a lean team running inside a complex multi-country RISE program, that autonomy was a major advantage.

Building a foundation that scales across markets

As the rollout of Fivetran expanded and instances in more countries came online, the team refined what data to bring across and how often to sync it — giving them tighter control over the environment and keeping the architecture flexible as the business evolved.

By landing SAP S/4HANA RISE data with Fivetran in Snowflake, ANASAC built a more flexible foundation for analytics across the business. Instead of leaving critical ERP data locked inside a more walled garden, the company made it available in the cloud, where it can be modeled, combined with other sources, and used by teams across the 19 countries it operates in.

"As we moved to SAP S/4HANA RISE, it was essential to have a data integration approach we could trust," said Gonzalo Ubilla, Subdirector of Corporate Technology at ANASAC. "Fivetran gave us a reliable way to replicate SAP data into Snowflake using a method we understood and felt confident moving forward with. That helped us support the rollout while building a stronger analytics and AI-ready foundation for the business."

What ANASAC's story says about enterprise transformation

ANASAC illustrates an ongoing trend in Latin America: enterprises that have built complex, multi-country operations are investing seriously in ERP modernization and data infrastructure to match. The operational complexity (and ambition) not only easily compares with, but often exceeds, the prevailing norm in leading North American or European tech hubs.

For multinational enterprises evaluating SAP RISE, ANASAC's experience is a useful proof point: it's possible to take on a multi-country RISE program while keeping your data strategy intact, your team in control, and your analytics foundation moving forward at the same pace as the ERP transformation itself.

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