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http://tinyurl.com/nkhasge :Improve the speed of your business planning and budgeting processes by accessing the processing power of in-memory technology. Hear how Colgate is using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, now powered by SAP HANA, to create dramatic improvements in planning and budgeting.TRANSCRIPT
Upgrading to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10, version for SAP NetWeaver – powered by SAP HANA
Lin Cong, Colgate-Palmolive
May 2013
Agenda
• Company background
• Applications in Colgate
• Upgrade highlights
• Challenges
• Benefits
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ORAL CARE PERSONAL CARE
HOME CARE PET NUTRITION
SAP Strategy at Colgate
Mobile Solutions (SAP Sybase)
SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search
SAP HANA
BI Reporting & Analytics (SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence suite)
SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management
SAP NetWeaver
Identity Management (To SAP & non-SAP systems)
SAP Solution Manager
Change Manager
PPM
SAP solutions for governance, risk,
and compliance (GRC)
CBP/TPM
Trade
Promotion
Management
eSales
Customer
Service &
Sales
SAP CRM
Focus on
the
Profession
SAP PLM
New
Product
Development
eBuy
(EBP)
Procure
To Pay
BPC
Financial
Consolidation
HCM
Human
Resources
Systems
Integrated Business Information: SAP ECC 6.0
SAP software landscape
Access & Optimization
SAP SCM
Supply Chain
Management
BI Planning
Financial &
Commercial
Planning
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Applications • Consolidation
– Technical upgrade from current system of SAP Business Planning
and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver from release 7.5 to
release 10.0
– Continue to support Colgate finance users
- Quarterly management reporting
- Three estimates a year (May, Sep Latest Estimate and Budget)
- Monthly rolling estimates
- SEC 10K
- Global savings opportunities
• Capital Management
– Replaced an application developed over 10 years ago
• Budget Deck
– mix of BI Analysis Office and BPC, pilot went live in Oct 2012
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Upgrade Highlights
• Green field upgrade
• Sizing of SAP HANA was done by Colgate
• SAP delivered transaction to move app set of release 7.5 to current
release (10)
• Technical migration (2 steps) to release 10 & release 10 on
SAP HANA was a smooth process
• Legacy release 7.5 functions working as is with release 10
• All data manager packages working as is
• Parallel testing strategy, day in the life testing
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Implementation Teams
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Business Team
IT Project Team SAP Team
5 Application Owners 1 Project Manager /
Technical Lead
1 from SAP Customer
Solution Adoption Team
1 Key Business
Partner (Macro)
3 Part Time team member
including an ABAP
programmer
4 from SAP AGS and SAP
MaxAttention for Volume
Testing for 1 week
6 Key Corporate
Business Testers
1 Part Time DBA Resource
SAP AGS
1 Full Time SAP Consultant
and 1 Technical Consultant
for 3 weeks
Release 10.0 Challenges
• Custom programs are difficult to adjust
– Technical name changes after transport
– Sign reversal issue
• Single sign-on
• Frequent updates of release 10 for both server and client
• “Journal” functionality is moved to web UI instead of excel
• Security model
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Release 10.0 Benefits • Usability
– Administration is easier and more logical than previous release
– Reporting
– New web based standard “comment” reports
– Has better report writing functionality, using drag and drop
– Provides Book Publishing functionality
– Performance
• New consolidation functionality including out of the box business
rules
• Reduced TCO – Removal of Microsoft .NET tier for more simplified infrastructure
– Transport capabilities are improved in release 10. Object by object.
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Performance Improvement
• Reporting
• Improved Journal Posting
• Calculations – Improved scalability
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