Corrugated paper manufacturer optimizing mills and supply chain across Europe
Progroup AG operates three paper mills and seven converting plants across Western and Central Europe, competing among the region's top five corrugated-board producers. The tech stack is heavily SAP-dependent (S/4HANA, FI/CO, MM, Analytics Cloud) with industrial controls (PLC, PROFINET, Profibus, WinCC) — a mature manufacturing footprint. Active hiring across manufacturing, engineering, and operations, combined with projects around automation, machine performance, and digital-tool rollout, indicates mid-stage operational modernization; inventory optimization and logistics stability appear as persistent pain points.
Progroup AG manufactures corrugated base papers and corrugated sheet boards from three company-owned mills, serving Western and Central European markets. The business operates a vertically integrated model: mills feed seven in-house sheet feeder converting plants, supported by service subsidiaries and a supply-chain network spanning Germany, Poland, Czechia, Italy, France, and the UK. Founded in 1991 and now publicly traded, the company employs 1,001–5,000 people. The operational core runs on SAP (S/4HANA for ERP, FI/CO for finance, MM for materials, Analytics Cloud for reporting) integrated with industrial-grade control systems (PLC, PROFINET, Profibus, WinCC) across mill floors, complemented by Office, Power BI, and project-management tools (Microsoft Project, PlanView, Coupa).
SAP S/4HANA, with SAP modules for finance (FI/CO), materials management (MM), and analytics (SAP Analytics Cloud). Legacy SAP R/3 remains in the stack.
Six countries: Germany (headquarters in Landau in der Pfalz), United Kingdom, Italy, Czechia, Poland, and France. Hiring is active across all six.
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