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Before

Merging two companies is not just changing logos on employees’ business cards, such endeavor creates plenty of business and legal hurdles. It requires a great deal of back-and-forth from both companies. When it comes to SAP infrastructure it may mean either a brand new SAP implementation or data migration of a carved-in entity.

But what happens when one of the companies runs mature SAP system and due to ongoing incorporation its live chart of accounts needs to be aligned to a new structure, general ledger account length has to be stretched out?

After

Our experts worked together with SAP Walldorf conducting a custom service of Chart of Account Conversion. Three test cycles of database conversion were scheduled and accomplished; both customizing and transactional data underwent alteration. To keep track of migration steps a pre-installed add-on conversion cockpit served as a mission control center for selected project members.

The 100% accuracy of the live database conversion was achieved due to accurate and realistic planning and team’s effort of joint accounting and consultants.

Before

Here is example of the expert project supporting a company selling its entire business line to the global market leader. Heterogeneous business processes, master data and transactional data of diverse SAP systems had to be migrated into one live SAP client. Worldwide exposure of the transaction made the whole exercise loaded with extraordinary tasks. One of them was global coordination of data cleansing activities.

After

Our experts delivered selected concepts and tools that allowed to streamline years’ long data cleansing process executed simultaneously in several countries. The work was sliced in phases and business processes. Each country’s business units was instructed and coached to work in the same structured manner, using common tools and benchmarks. All in order to achieve satisfactory data quality at extraction. Not only technical SAP fluency contributed to a smooth data extraction but also consultants’ cross-field process know-how played a leading role in arriving at expected results. The job success was measured with minimal number of post-processing at migration stage.

Before

The design and implementation of SAP-based global template which is planned to be rolled out worldwide creates entire spectrum of issues from perspective of future maintenance of the product. Although, the SAP system is pretty sophisticated it is does not fully support multilevel development environment.

Typically IT departments of global corporations produce applications utilising various enhancement techniques of SAP workbench which eventually need to be integrated before delivered to the business in countries. As merging of a source code manually for such global templates can be accepted as one time exercise it becomes a nightmare over years of continuous updates and upgrades.

After

Our experts designed and implemented a concept of framework for utilization of SAP enhancements. The innovative – at the time – technology of Business Add-Ins was used which allowed technical separation of functionality provided from company’s various development parties. The coding of branch solutions, global template and local enhancements was isolated in respective layers of technical components with clearly defined ownership for maintenance.

Such defined structure of developments allowed smooth distribution of application updates and upgrades  guaranteeing its almost effortless implementation to date.

Before

The roll-out of corporate SAP template is appealing concept with prospect of always appreciated cost cutting on application maintenance. However, if the company designated for application center of the region runs live instance of SAP system with partial components of the template; one can come up with the idea of merging new template into it instead of setting up new system and going through the complete gap analysis, implementation and data migration.

After

Our experts defined the scope and run comprehensive comparison of thousands of custom developments between source and target systems. They eliminated vast majority of them being different only by technical attributes of no importance like generation timestamp. The next step comprised of separation of objects being just outdated versions in a target system. The last part consisted of meticulous analysis of local enhancements in a target system that resulted in definition of concepts for merging of global template on top of local enhancements.

The ‘blitz’ and trouble-free implementation proved the idea was worth the gamble.

Before

Non-integrated applications used in a company led to typical data processing issues and process showstoppers. The information was not available at the push of a button, managers and board members were not informed on time about important KPI. At the same time, employees struggled spending hours on collecting necessary data from company’s departments and geographicallyspread out sales representatives were not able to report on time.

After

We integrated SAP ERP with WEB application that allows to access crucial information from any locationthrough any device connected to Internet. Thanks to our solution, sales representatives are able to deliver their sales data on time, furthermore they also can maintain master data, monitor sales performance and report actual sales figures. The company’s document flow became integrated, works efficiently and lightning fast. What the customer is most happy about are savings occurred as a result of the implementation, which can be easily measured in time and monetary units.