At a glance
- Client
- A global manufacturing groupName withheld for confidentiality
- Focus area
- ERP Program
- Service
- Consulting
- Scope
- ERP strategy, process harmonisation and implementation oversight
The challenge
The group ran seven different ERP systems across twelve countries, inherited through growth and acquisitions. Consolidating financials took weeks, and every country handled orders and inventory differently.
Local tax, invoicing and statutory reporting rules meant a single global template had to stay flexible where the law required it.
Our approach
Agree a global template
We worked with process owners to define one standard way of working for core processes.
Separate global from local
Country-specific legal requirements were captured as controlled local variations.
Plan the rollout
Countries were grouped into deployment waves based on readiness and risk.
Oversee delivery
We acted as the client's advisor across the systems integrator, data migration and testing.
The solution
The group now runs a single global SAP instance with harmonised processes, while each country keeps the local compliance it needs. Financial consolidation, which used to take weeks, comes from one system.
Leadership has one view of orders, inventory and margins across every region.
Results
- Standard global processes with controlled local variations
- Faster, simpler financial consolidation
- One view of inventory and margins worldwide
- Independent oversight of the integrator's delivery
Technology used
- SAP S/4HANA
- Process harmonisation
- Data migration
- Programme governance
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