Associated Weavers (AW), established in 1969, is now one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of tufted wall-to-wall carpet. It is also making inroads in the luxury vinyl flooring market. With 630 employees, AW produces 26 million m² of carpet each year on average, achieving a turnover of around €172 million. AW has its headquarters in Belgium. It exports to over 55 countries and has built strong and lasting relationships with its partners worldwide.

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Seeking a solution to refresh SAP test data

Associated Weavers had been using system copies to refresh the data in their non-production environments. They could only justify performing this time-consuming and labour-intensive data refresh once a year. The AW team was looking for a better solution:


to carry out more frequent refreshes of SAP® test data	to improve their data quality	to be more flexible in their processes	to reduce the data footprint in the non-production landscape	to make use of time slicing or enterprise slicing.

Data Sync Manager succeeds across the board

By using DSM, Associated Weavers has made significant time savings and reduced its data footprint:

The SAP ECC production environment was previously about 1.4TB, but has been reduced to less than 300GB within 18 months, with an almost 80% reduction in the data footprint.
A system refresh originally took around a week, but with Client Sync, a full refresh takes less than 12 hours.


More frequent refreshes and improved data quality in non-production	Starting every project fresh and consistent data	Improved data for projects leads to more successful projects.	Freeing up more time for other activities	Reduced data footprint, saving on storage costs and improving sustainability