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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