A manufacturing group renewed its RISE with SAP and BTP contract package, re-measured the FUE baseline on a corrected user population, enforced the cloud-cost cap clause, and converted unused credits to roll-over value.
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The manufacturer had been on RISE with SAP Private Cloud Edition for three years on a 9,400 FUE baseline with a BTP services bundle, at an annual run-rate of $13.2M. The renewal cycle opened with a quote of $18.4M, a thirty-nine per cent increase, with the SAP framing positioning the increase as a market-aligned re-baselining of cloud and platform pricing.
The Group CFO and CIO engaged us with a brief to restructure the renewal at a fair-market run-rate, preserve the existing BTP investment, and lock in contract terms that prevent recurrence of the inflation pattern at the next cycle.
The internal procurement team had budgeted for a renewal at $14.8M, a twelve per cent increase reflecting expected market inflation. The SAP opening was $3.6M above the internal budget, with the procurement leadership escalating to the CFO before responding.
We decomposed the $5.2M renewal increase into four components. FUE escalation at $2.1M, framed as a standard-schedule annual uplift. Cloud-cost pass-through at $1.4M, framed as hyperscaler-cost reflection. BTP service inflation at $1.1M, framed as platform expansion alignment. Cloud-credit absorption at $0.6M, where unused mid-term credits were absorbed into the renewal baseline rather than rolled over.
Each line was contractually challengeable. The FUE escalation was applied to a stale 9,400 baseline that had not been re-measured since contract signing; the cloud-cost pass-through had a cap clause that had not been correctly applied; BTP service inflation was being applied to consumption that had grown organically without a renegotiation event; cloud credits were contractually rollable but were being absorbed.
The decomposition reset the conversation from a price negotiation into a four-track contract-mechanics review.
Four tracks ran in parallel across the twenty-six-week renewal engagement. Each closed a documented portion of the opening proposal.
The 9,400 FUE baseline was re-measured against the current user population, which had contracted following a parallel licence-optimisation programme. The new measurement landed at 7,200 FUE. The 2,200 reduction removed $2.1M of the FUE escalation line and reset the renewal baseline.
The original contract cloud-cost cap had been mis-applied at five per cent against an actual market movement of twelve per cent. We invoked the cap clause and reduced the pass-through line by $1.4M.
The BTP service inflation was re-framed against documented consumption patterns and a contract restructure that converted unmetered services into capped commitments. The restructure removed $1.6M of platform-line value.
Unused mid-term cloud credits totalling $1.2M were converted from absorption to roll-over value applicable against future cloud-cost charges. The conversion preserved the credit value and reduced the renewal absorption by $0.6M.
The renewal closed at $10.8M annual run-rate, a forty-one per cent reduction against the opening $18.4M. The three-year contract value reduction was approximately $22.8M against the opening projection.
Contractually, we secured a FUE re-measurement clause exercised every twelve months, a cloud-cost cap reconciliation right with documented reset against market indices, a BTP consumption-cap structure, and a credit roll-over methodology applicable across the contract term.
The internal cloud governance function adopted a continuous FUE monitoring cadence, with a quarterly user-population review feeding the annual cap enforcement. The BTP consumption is now managed against the contractual caps rather than as open-ended platform spend.
The renewal was twenty-eight per cent inflation on top of twelve we had budgeted for. We rebuilt the four cost surfaces and the renewal landed below budget instead.
RISE renewal restructure, FUE re-measurement, cloud-cost cap enforcement, and BTP consumption-cap negotiation.
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