The Arco Educação, Brazil’s largest private basic education company in Latin America, took a decisive step in its digital transformation journey by adopting SAP Cloud ERP Private and SAP Integration Suite. The project, led by Numen, aimed to unify processes, strengthen governance, and build a solid technological foundation to support the company’s accelerated growth.
Operating from Early Childhood Education through High School, Arco Educação serves more than 3 million students and partners with approximately 9,000 schools across Brazil. This growth, driven by acquisitions over the years, brought a common challenge for large groups: multiple legacy systems, decentralized processes, and low operational standardization.
The challenge: from “company of companies” to an integrated operation
Before the implementation, each brand within the group operated on distinct platforms, making activities such as accounting close, financial reconciliation, and corporate visibility extremely complex and often manual. The lack of integration directly impacted operational efficiency, information reliability, and the ability to scale the business with governance.
According to Raquel Ferreira, Technology Director at Arco Educação, the goal was clear: to transform a fragmented structure into an integrated organization, with unified processes from tax to logistics, ensuring greater control, visibility, and operational maturity.
The solution: SAP Cloud ERP Private and SAP Integration Suite
The choice of SAP Cloud ERP Private allowed Arco Educação to adopt a robust, flexible ERP aligned with market best practices, while SAP Integration Suite enabled integration between the group’s systems and brands, creating a single management platform.
As this was the company’s first major experience with the SAP ecosystem, Numen’s consultative role was decisive. The partnership involved not only technical implementation, but also governance support, knowledge transfer, and the maturation of the internal team.
Concrete results in efficiency and governance
The benefits were felt quickly after go-live. In just one month, the environment was already stabilized. Among the key results achieved:
- Cost closing time reduced from up to 6 hours to just 15 minutes
- B2B2C reconciliation reduced from 8 hours to 20 minutes
- Greater reliability and robustness of corporate information
- Significant improvement in process governance
- Early preparation for Brazil’s Tax Reform, months before go-live
In addition, Arco Educação began the gradual decommissioning of legacy systems, reducing technological complexity and maintenance costs. Numen continues to support the company through AMS (Application Management Services), ensuring continuity and operational evolution.
Technology as the foundation for the future of education
More than a systems change, the transformation experienced by Arco Educação represents a cultural shift. The adoption of SAP solutions brought greater operational discipline, early risk identification, and a new way of seeing technology as a strategic business enabler.
This project marks only the beginning of a long-term rollout plan that will continue integrating new brands, optimizing processes, and expanding the use of the platform to sustain Arco Educação’s continued growth with excellence, scale, and innovation.
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