A thirty business unit Salesforce estate across DACH, North America, and Asia Pacific. Three years of unmanaged SELA growth. A structured restructure that recovered EUR 4M and unified the usage model.
A German industrial manufacturing group ran a global Salesforce Enterprise License Agreement (SELA) across thirty business units. Three years into the term, license counts had grown to thirty four thousand and the renewal forecast pointed to an additional EUR 6M over the next three years.
Redress ran a structured restructure. The SELA was unbundled, shelf licenses were retired, and the global usage model was unified. Net savings landed at EUR 4M over the next three year term.
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The customer is a privately held German industrial manufacturing group with annual revenue above EUR 6B. The Salesforce estate carries CRM, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and a recent Agentforce attach.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Revenue | EUR 6B plus |
| Business units | 30 |
| Salesforce regions | DACH, North America, Asia Pacific |
| Licenses at engagement start | 34,000 |
| Annual Salesforce spend | EUR 9.8M |
| SELA term remaining | 9 months |
| Engagement length | 11 months |
The opening SELA had been signed three years earlier as a region by region rollout. Each business unit selected its own edition mix. Renewal modeling pointed to an additional EUR 6M over the next three years on the same trajectory.
Redress ran a structured discovery across six weeks. The findings landed in five buckets.
| Finding | Annual run rate | Restructure target | Saving range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelf licenses | EUR 1.9M | Retire 5,500 licenses | EUR 1.4M to 1.7M |
| Edition downshift | EUR 1.1M | Move 1,200 to Enterprise | EUR 600K to 800K |
| Sandbox sprawl | EUR 320K | Cut to 8 sandboxes | EUR 220K to 280K |
| Marketing Cloud | EUR 880K | Reduce contact tier | EUR 380K to 450K |
| Agentforce baseline | EUR 600K | Set consumption cap | EUR 200K to 350K |
Across the last twelve Salesforce engagements Redress has run, shelf and edition mismatch together represented sixty to seventy five percent of the recoverable spend. Marketing Cloud contact tiers and sandbox sprawl typically follow at a smaller scale.
Redress and the customer designed a six month restructure. The plan worked back from the renewal date in nine months.
The restructure closed nine days before the SELA expiry. The new three year term landed at EUR 5.8M annually, down from EUR 9.8M, against a Salesforce projection of EUR 12M on the prior trajectory.
| Metric | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual Salesforce spend | EUR 9.8M | EUR 5.8M | Minus EUR 4M |
| Total licenses | 34,000 | 27,500 | Minus 6,500 |
| Sandboxes | 22 | 8 | Minus 14 |
| Marketing Cloud contacts | 800,000 | 400,000 | Minus 50 percent |
| True up cadence | Twice yearly | Annual | Improved |
Three years of unmanaged Salesforce growth across thirty business units. A structured eleven month restructure. EUR 4M of recovered spend and a unified global usage model that holds for the next three years.
The engagement ran eleven months. Six months of discovery, license rationalization, and Marketing Cloud right sizing. Five months of SELA renegotiation, Agentforce baseline build, and side letter drafting. The customer signed the new SELA nine days before the prior agreement expired.
Salesforce account teams initially pushed back on the license retirement scope and the edition downshift volume. The shift came once Redress and the customer ran a structured renewal model showing the EUR 12M trajectory against the EUR 5.8M target. The conversation moved from a headline price discussion to a commercial structure discussion.
Yes. The Agentforce contract was attached early in year three with no consumption baseline. Redress ran a six week metering program during discovery to build a consumption pattern and used that pattern to negotiate a per conversation rate and a three year price hold. The cap landed at thirty percent below the opening Salesforce position.
The sandbox lifecycle policy named eight environments by purpose, development, test, training, partner, and four release wave sandboxes. Each environment carried an owner and a retention rule. The remaining fourteen sandboxes retired across a six week cleanup window with a structured backup and archive process.
End users saw two changes. Twelve hundred users moved from Unlimited to Enterprise, which removed advanced configuration access for a small minority of administrators. Around five thousand inactive users were deprovisioned with a structured restore path. No customer facing functionality changed in CRM, Service Cloud, or Marketing Cloud journeys.
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