Business Goals
- Business Growth – Needed to define common planning and reporting processes to eliminate region silos and thereby optimize global sales, pricing, transfer pricing, and operations
- Business Efficiencies – Replace legacy system comprised of SAP BPS / IP, Excel, and Hyperion Enterprise
- Business Effectiveness – Implement a solution to identify the underlying causes of a significant spike in operating (non-production) expenses
Implementation Highlights
- Define a Common Process – Across the organization, including representatives from 20+ countries, speaking 7 languages in our initial Blueprint sessions
- SAP Integrated ERP, BI and EPM functionality
- Utilization of the Product Costing Module–in their planning solution
- Integrated sales plan – With expense plans, operations plan, materials and inventory, as well as balance sheet and cash flow
Business Benefits From SAP BPC On HANA
- Delivered on the promise of a common global planning process
- Created first set of regional and line of business cash flow reporting capabilities
- Identifying troubling transfer pricing processes that were then addressed via a business process transformation initiative
- Incorporated strategic planning around initiatives for A) new product lines, and B) green / sustainability
