Business Goals
- Business Growth – expansion of manufacturing sites required enhanced planning, and potential acquisitions would require confidence in consolidation and reporting
- Business Efficiencies – need for increased financial compliance delivered through a standard process that would not disrupt the higher value activities of the financial team
- Business Effectiveness – through control of information on a central platform, the company desired insights extracted out of their data in order to drive accountability
Implementation Highlights
- Decrease Business Risk – Update the fragile reporting system that wasn’t sustainable or repeatable
- Consolidated and Centralized Models – Update previous personalized planning models requiring high degree of communication and chance for error (plus risk of attrition)
- Sales & Operations – Broaden limited insight into plant Sales and Operations
- Better Decision Making – By updating into robust reporting controls that enable nimble decision making
- Speed Up Feedback – Real time reflection in business changes
Business Benefits From SAP BPC On HANA
- Shifted financial efforts from data gathering and validation to value-added analysis
- Created a common, consistent, efficient and repeatable process
- Leveraged the investment made in SAP and HANA
- Confidence in the numbers improved planning through enhanced accountability
- A financial platform that is enterprise focused and business owned
