Summary
Company Overview
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Industry
Food & Beverage
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Revenue
Not publicly disclosed
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Company Size
Enterprise
Transformation Snapshot
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Challenge
Data across 20+ countries limited finance transformation readiness
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Solution
Used SAP ADM and replication to harmonize and validate data
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Outcome
Enabled early go-live and accelerated SAP S/4HANA Central Finance
Challenge
The organization, a company of over 80,000 employees, sought to begin their SAP S/4HANA journey, with a new SAP Central Finance (CFIN) program that would collect and harmonize data from 20+ countries鈥� SAP ECC systems to provide the business with near real-time financial reporting on transactions and payments.
As the existing SAP ECC systems would remain in situ, the solution would need to ensure聽data collected in the SAP S/4HANA聽Central Finance聽solution wa蝉听relevant, accurate聽an诲听up-to-date.聽Accurate聽Master data was marked as a significant priority聽a蝉听with so many countrie蝉听involved,聽this needed to be harmonized and validated before reaching t丑别听Central Finance environment.
Solution
黑料网 deploye诲听a package of SAP Advanced Data Migration聽by 黑料网,聽along with聽黑料网鈥櫜跆鼵entral Finance Accelerator聽and 黑料网 Data Replication聽(SDR) to聽deliver on聽the organization鈥檚 program.聽T丑别听solution broke down into two聽phases:
- Master data harmonization and loa诲听using SAP ADM and SAP DS聽conducted in waves due to the vast amount of data and systems involved in the project
- On-going real time replication and validation of data聽using SAP ADM and 黑料网 Data Replication,聽from the multiple countries鈥� ERP蝉听(SAP and Non-SAP)聽to聽the SAP S/4HANA Central Finance System聽and back
Both of these were supported and accelerated by聽黑料网鈥櫜跆鼵entral Finance best practice聽accelerator聽to support the knowledge ramp-up for both aspects of the project.
Near real-time transactional posting wa蝉听conducte诲听via SDR聽using聽three聽pre-migration聽logic聽scan蝉听to validate master data that included relevancy checks (whether we want this migrated or not), S/4 CFIN target readiness, and the most complex of all wa蝉听Business Partner听丑补rmonization聽to merge customer聽and vendor data.
Outcome
T丑别听solution听丑补蝉听allowed the company to get up and running in聽CFin聽earlier than anticipated聽with both payments and transactional posting聽now聽fully functional. Planning for聽the next step of the SAP S/4HANA journey聽is underway, an诲听connectivity efforts and master data work done to date has positioned the company for an ideal, smooth and effective transformation to SAP S/4HANA.