Project Overview: Consumer goods industry
Consumer goods industry
The Challenge
Development and rollout of a template. The aim was to standardize the supply chain processes and centralize them in a central, globally operating unit. At the same time, the production and sales processes of the national companies were split into independent operating companies.
Application
SAP®-Module: SAP®-CO (PC; CCA, OPA, PA, PCA), SAP®-FS-FSCM, SAP®-BI, SAP®-CS, SAP®-RRICB and integration to SAP®-PP-PI, SAP®-SD, SAP®-MM, SAP®-APO
Solution
Process and organizational consulting
- Comprehensive process and integration consulting
- Planning, preparation and implementation of analysis and design workshops
- Organization and management of training and acceptance tests by end users, go-live, and hypercare for the various rollout projects.
- Coordination and validation of country requirements and local change requests.
- Coordination of cross-process and cross-organizational requirements between the management of the national companies, the central supply chain organization, the template team and the central finance and tax department.
- Coordination and documentation of cross-stream and cross-divisional E2E processes
- Development and set up of a cross-process knowledge database.
- Template development
- Checking and evaluation of local requirements in FI and CO due to deviating legal or tax requirements or country-specific company processes (e.g. labeling, co-packing, payroll processing)
- Coordination of process requirements with stakeholders; coordination and design of coordinated decision templates
- Creation of technical and functional specifications for implementation.
- Creation of customized specifications in coordination with all process participants
- Abstimmung von länderspezifischen Prozessanpassungen und Template-Entwicklungen mit den Bereichen Logistik, Finanzen und Steuern
- Coordination of country-specific process adaptations and template developments with the logistics, finance and tax departments
- Coordination and management of the preparation and implementation of user training sessions
- Coordination and management of cut-over and go-live activities
- Management and technical support in the hypercare phase
Customer benefits
On-time completion and successful implementation of 2 template phases in 23 countries to the agreed-upon quality and scope.