Application Development & AutomationDigital Transformation & Cloud ERPS4HANA CoreCase Study

Customer Case Study: Is Your SAP Team Structured to Keep Pace with Change?

Thu, 19 Nov 2026 · 2:55 PM – 3:35 PMLevel 5 - Room 5.7
Lee-Ann Barns-Lawton

Lee-Ann Barns-Lawton

Head of Technology Product and Delivery · Lion

Lee-Ann Barns-Lawton is Head of Technology Product and Delivery at Lion, where she has worked for nearly 17 years. With extensive experience in technology and product leadership within the food and beverage industry, she has led work across customer experience, CRM, sales operations, retail and major project and program delivery. Lee-Ann combines a strong understanding of the business with practical technology expertise, helping teams turn organisational priorities into products and solutions that create measurable value. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business.

The session

About this session

SAP and agile walk into a bar…

Traditionally, SAP and waterfall have gone hand in hand. But Lion, like to do things a little differently.

Lion runs an award-winning SAP landscape, spanning a broad technology stack, with a surprisingly lean team. This is all while operating in an organisation that embraces agile ways of working. So how do you keep the lights on, deliver what the business needs today and keep pace with SAP’s relentless stream of upgrades, innovations and shiny new capabilities?

Lee-Ann takes you behind the scenes of Lion’s SAP journey - the good, the bad and, yes, the ugly. This isn’t a story about having all the answers. It’s a candid look at what’s worked, what hasn’t, what Lion might do differently if we had our time again, and how functional specialists, developers and agile delivery squads can work together without descending into chaos.

Expect practical lessons, a few battle scars and plenty of food for thought for anyone wondering whether their SAP team is really structured for what comes next.

What You'll Learn

  • What Lion’s experience has taught the team about balancing immediate business demand with ongoing improvement
  • Why team structure, ownership and capability matter when trying to keep pace with SAP change
Application Development & AutomationDigital Transformation & Cloud ERPS/4HANA Core

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