MANUFACTURING (Upgrade)

  • Company Cintas
  • Industry Services
  • Global Scale $4.3 billion Revenue

The Challenge

  • Upgrading SAP BPC to the HANA platform: Cintas run SAP ERP on HANA and needed to upgrade their SAP BPC 7.5 for financial consolidation and reporting from Microsoft SQL Server to the SAP HANA platform

The Opportunity

  • Review and Migrate Financial Management processes to HANA: By upgrading the SAP BPC application to HANA, the corporate IT standard, Cintas can utilize the capacity and capabilities of the HANA platform

The Solution

  • VantagePoint: Cintaschose us to work with us on the BPC migration, because we
    • Are a Trusted SAP Partner
    • Are passionate about developing a long term relationship with our customers as a trusted partner
    • Have extensive experience to recommend best practices for IT and Finance
    • Work with their IT and Finance teams to ensure knowledge transfer for ongoing maintenance in-house
  • The project resulted in resolution of:
    • Concurrent users running reports
    • Critical month end close tasks being able to be completed four times faster than in the past – providing more time to analysts to review financials
    • Administrator tasks being reduced from hours to minutes
    • Extensive rationalization of reports and leveraging BPC 10.x report writer functionality

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Our Work

Sucess Stories

PROCESS MANUFACTURING (Planning & Consolidation)
Business Growth – Needed to define common planning and reporting processes to eliminate region silos and thereby optimize global sales, pricing, transfer pricing, and operations
CONSUMER PRODUCTS GOODS (Planning & Consolidation)
Business Growth – Needed to define a centralized process for planning that incorporated the sales plan with production capabilities to better manage margin.
RETAIL (Planning & Consolidation)
Known for their trend setting ballet flats and forward thinking designs, this retailer is a fashion industry success story. Experiencing incredible success on the runway and in global markets, this company turned to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) on HANA to provide a scalable financial planning, consolidation and reporting solution.
MANUFACTURING (Upgrade)
Upgrading SAP BPC to the HANA platform: Cintas run SAP ERP on HANA and needed to upgrade their SAP BPC 7.5 for financial consolidation and reporting from Microsoft SQL Server to the SAP HANA platform
ENERGY (Business Modeling)
Merger and Acquisition: ETP needed to manage multiple cultures, process, systems, and general ledgers from a series of merges and acquisitions, and generate meaningful budgets and forecast for company reports
MANUFACTURING (Planning on HANA)
Business Growth – expansion of manufacturing sites required enhanced planning, and potential acquisitions would require confidence in consolidation and reporting