SAP Consulting, Process Consulting, International Project Management

Departments Involved:

• Finance, Controlling

Personal Achievement:

• Scope definition
• Process harmonization FI, CO
• Key-user Training
• Testing
• Go Live Preparation

Participants:

• 40 employees on different organizational levels
• Internal consulting company

SAP Modules:

• SAP S4Hana Finance and Controlling implementing new GL with 7 ledgers, FI-AA, CO-OM, CO-PCA, PS,

Methods Applied:

• Workshops

Constrains:

Germany, highly regulated markets

Project Days:

appr. 140 PD

Departments Involved:

• Finance, Controlling

Personal Achievement:

• Upgrade S4Hana from 15.11 to 16.110
• Process Harmonization PP, PM, QM, FI, CO
• Key- and end user Training
• Testing
• Go Live Support
• Rollout of S4Hana Solution to other sides

Participants:

• 60 employees on different organizational levels

SAP Modules:

• SAP S4Hana Production planning, CAD-Interface definition, Support PM and QM process definition, Rollout Finance and Controlling CO-OM, CO-PC, profitability analysis), additionally SAP FI/CO/MM: definition and implementation of correct actual value flow

Methods Applied:

• Workshops

Constrains:

Country version Germany and China

Project Days:

appr. 200 PD

Departments Involved:

• Finance, Controlling, Material Management, Production Planning, Sales and Distribution

Personal Achievement:

• Analysis, Design and build of prototype
• Alignment of localization
• Customizing and Data Migration
• Key and End User Training
• Support of functional and global integration tests,
• Go Live support

Participants:

• 10 employees in Czech Republic and Germany
• Headquarter Switzerland

SAP Modules:

• SAP Basis, SAP FI, SAP CO, SAP MM, SAP PP, SAP SD
• Based on SAP Country version for Czech Republic

Methods Applied:

• Workshops, prototyping

Constrains:

Global Implementation, Language: English/German

Project Days:

40 PD (including go live support till 03/2018)

Departments Involved:

• Finance, Controlling

Personal Achievement:

• User Support in Analysis, Alignment with SAP,
• Documentation, Test and Migration  
• Consulting after first Go Live
• Take over responsibility for SAP FI/CO
• Customizing
• Key- and end user Training
• Testing
• Go Live Support
• Rollout of S4Hana Solution to other sides

Participants:

• 12 financial employees on different organizational levels

SAP Modules:

• SAP S4Hana Finance and Controlling, New GL, parallel ledgers, SAP FI, FI-AA
• SAP CO (Overhead management, Product calculation, Profitability analysis)

Methods Applied:

• Workshops

Constrains:

Germany

Project Days:

appr. 80 PD

New SAP implementation with with definition of FI/CO interface to a new Manufacturing Execution System for a weaving mill company

Definition of the controlling concept, Definition of required SAP-MES interface including adaptation of logistic interfaces to the MES system. Customizing FI/CO, Data migration, Go Live and Support, ongoing improvement process and adaptation to organizational change

• Finance, Controlling

Personal Achievement:

• Requirement analysis, definition of project goals
• Proposal and alignment of the controlling concept (Planning, actual value flow based controlling)
• Alignment with logistics and MIS processes
• Proposal of interface design to MES system
• Customizing, Test support, Date migration concept and Programming
• Go Live Support
• Ongoing improvement process support

Phases:

Blueprint, Prototype, Test, Go live and ongoing support

Participants:

• Average: 20 employees from different companies
• 6 Consultants

SAP Modules:

SAP FI (New GL, Profit Center Accounting, Asset Management), CO (Overhead management, Product costing, Profitability analysis) and support in alignment with logistic processes

Methods Applied:

• Workshops

Constrains:

Location: Switzerland, two sites

Project Days:

400 PD

Re-design, new development and global implementation of SAP Retail SAP AFS COPA Interfaces to parallelize processing and include ECOM  business  (omnichannel).to substitute old file based interface  

• Finance, Controlling

Personal Achievement:

• Analysis, Design and Alignment of global template solution
• Requirements and functional spezification
• Alignment of global development
• Customizing
• Key and End User Training
• Support functional and global integration tests,
• Go Live support (Substitution of previous solution)
• Go Live support (ECOM Business)

Participants:

• Appr. 60 global working employees
• Headquarter Germany

SAP Modules:

• SAP Basis, SAP FI, SAP Retail, SAP CO (COPA),
• Interface to global BI

Methods Applied:

• Work shops, usage of customer specific process development and deployment modell with complex release structure

Constrains:

Global Implementation, Language: English

Project Days:

150 PD

Departments Involved:

• Finance, Controlling

Personal Achievement:

• Alignment of global template with legal, tax and reporting requirements, specifically VAT
• Documentation
• Customizing
• Key- and end user Training
• Steering of European integration test,
• Go Live Support
• Preparation of first month end closing

Participants:

• 8 Customer employees (Europe)
• Headquarter US

SAP Modules:

• SAP FI Simple Finance and New GL, Profit center accounting, parallel ledgers, SAP FI, FI-AA,
• SAP CO (Overhead management, Product calculation, Profitability analysis)
• Interface to BCS

Methods Applied:

• Workshops

Constrains:

4 countries: Germany, Great Britain, France, and Poland

Language:  English, Deutsch

Project Days:

ca. 100 PT

Departments Involved:

• Finance, Controlling

Personal Achievement:

• Detailed requirement analysis with special focus on value flows
• Definition of go live functionality
• Adaptation of Customizing,
• Generating of local managerial report
• Support in Integration testing, during Go-Live and fiirst month end closing in China,
• Remote support for first quarter closing

Participants:

• 12 employees in China
• IT Headquarter Germany

SAP Modules:

• SAP FI (New GL parallel accounting principles, and Asset management),
• SAP CO (Overhead management, customer order controlling, profitability analysis)

Methods Applied:

• Workshops

Constrains:

Project location: China,5 companies, 4 sites, headquarter Germany, Languages: English, Chinese, German

Project Days:

80 PD

Departments Involved:

• Finance, Controlling

Personal Achievement:

• Definition of requirements with special focus on value flow requirements
• Customizing
• Development of management reporting
• Integration testing
• Go-Live Support
• Support first quarterly reporting,

Participants:

• 9 Customer employees
• 2 IT Headquarter Germany employees

SAP Modules:

• SAP EC CS
• SAP FI (New GL, parallel ledgers, asset management),
• SAP CO (Overhead management, profit center accounting, profitability analysis)

Methods Applied:

• Workshops

Constrains:

6 German Companies

Language: German

Project Days:

80 PD

Departments Involved:

• Finance, Controlling and Commercial Risk Management

Personal Achievement:

• Lead Consultant Finance, Controlling and Commercial applications in all project phases
• Pre-assessment including global process analysis
• Definition of Business Blueprint with Supporting team
• Definition of commercial risk management adaptation to SAP
• Steering of Realization (Customizing and Team Support, Definition of Program specifications)
• Alignment and test with off shore development teams (India)
• Concept of Big Bang go live (according to customer requirement)

Participants:

• All Project Phases

SAP Modules:

• 35 Consultants, 150 employees from 5 countries
• In FICO: 8 Consultants, 30 key users, 10 IT employees, Functional Management on different hierarchy levelsl

Methods Applied:

Responsible for SAP FI CO and commercial risk management  solutions

Constrains:

• SAP: Best Practice

Project Days:

• Documentation needed to pass auditors
• IFRS and local law covered with parallel accounting ledgers
• Countries: Switzerland, China, India, Germany Czech Republic
• Languages English and German

Project Days:

450 PD

Rollout of template solution for SAP FI and CO with localization for Singapore, China, Indonesia, Australia

Language: English

• Finance and Controlling

Personal Achievement:

• Analysis of template version
• Documentation of local requirements
• Requirements alignment with Corporate rules
• Definition of functional specifications
• Definition of data migration
• Definition of test scenarios
• Test support

Phases:

Blueprint, Prototyping

Participants:

• On average 20 employees over all countries
• 25 Consultants from different companies
• 2 permanent Auditors

SAP Modules:

SAP FI, CO

Methods Applied:

• Workshops, customer specific methodology
• Tested from module and process owners
• Reviewed by auditors

Constrains:

Project location in Singapore  Binding Corporate Rules, Legal country requirements

Project Days:

120 PD

Departments Involved:

• Finance, Controlling

Personal Achievement:

• Alignment of requirements
• Development and documentation of different reports
• Test Support

Phases:

• Support after Going Live

Participants:

• 5 functional accounting employees

SAP Modules:

SAP FI, CO

Methods Applied:

• Customer own developed methodology

Constrains:

• Documentation rules
• IFRS
• Parallel ledger

Project Days:

35 PD

Team lead Material Management, MRP, QM. Build of Prototype to become a global template

Project language: English

• Material management
• Quality management
• Strategic sourcing

Personal Achievement:

• All goals were achieved and in time delivered
• Approved  blueprints and concepts
• Tested and approved prototype

• Stuffing and de-stuffing
• Analysis of existing processes, determination of to be processes
• Inter and Intra Team coordination of processes
• Alignment with foreign subsidiaries
• Concepts for Co-existence phase
• Preparation of data migration decisions
• Presentation of prototype and test support

Phases:

Blueprint, Prototype, Approval

Participants:

Purchasing/ QM und Strategic Sourcing

• Main project management 30 customer employees on 3 hierarchical levels from IT and operative departments

• 4 Consultants from different Consulting Companies
• Presentations to groups of 30 – 60 decision makers on different hierarchical levels

SAP Modules:

MM/ PP/ QM / AFS

Alignment of processes with Sales, Retail and Accounting

Methods Applied:

• Blueprint and Prototype, followed by Template and Rollout
• Project management software MS Project
• Reviews, concept checks from external auditors

Constrains:

Within changing organizational structures a prototype had to be created using best practice approaches .

Project Days:

Approximately 150 PDs

Departments Involved:

• Finance, Controlling, Asset Management, System Basis
• Holding, Management of subsidiaries

Personal Achievement:

• Customizing FI, FI-AA, Documentation
• Intercompany Alignment and Reconciliation
• Development of Reports
• Concept and development of programs to verify user authorization
• Migration of Data
• Merger of Companies
• Training in FI/ FI-AA/ SD und MM
• Going Live Support in FI-AA departments

Project Phases:

Management Alignment, Realization, Going live, Support

Participants:

• Management group members of the German companies and of the international holding (ca. 15 Participants)
• CEO Germany, Head of finance department, Head of controlling department, head of asset accounting department
• 15 Consultants, 20 employees of the finance department, 16 employees of the asset accounting department, 4 employees of the controlling department
• 8 employees of the logistic department,
• 12 employees of the international IT-department

SAP Modules:

FI, FI-AA, CO, SD, MM, Basis

Constrains:

International Coordination, simultaneous going life with more than 200 companies

Project Days:

ca.140 PDs

PS enhancement in Logistics, Finance and Controlling

Concept, realization and going life of new PS-Components: SAP- PP, SAP-CO

• Production planning and Controlling
• Logistic management, Plant controlling, Finance, IT

Personal Achievement:

• Process alignment for all plants involved, definition of necessary enhancements
• Alignment between production planning and controlling
• Customizing
• Concept and development of programs for project analysis documentation
• Training of employees
• Going Live Support

Project Phases:

Alignment with management, concept, realization, Training, Going live, Support, Reporting enhancements, Interfacing to Financial reporting systems

Participants:

• Plant management production
• Controlling
• 3 employees from logistics and 3 employees of IT

SAP Modules:

PS, PP, FI, CO, CIP2SAP

Constrains:

International Alignment

Project Days:

ca. 100 PDs