The client is a leader in the mining and chemical industry, with a turnover of about 65 million euro and 300 employees, with production units in France, Turkey and India.

Their information system was developed and tailored up during the last 20 years and was either no longer able to oversee all the issues arisen from the business areas or to manage the internationalization process the group was encountering. 

FINDINGS

In details major findings were:

• lach of integration among the different business area;
• lach of an effective control on the group activities;
• inability to manage the foreign subsidiaries.

REQUIREMENTS

The client was asking for a system able to:

• define and optimize key processes;
• integrated management of all areas and branch of the corporation;
• stocks and delivery cost optimization;
• correct accounting of product costs and profitability.

THE SOLUTION

With our help, to replace the current system, the client choosed SAP ECC 6 ON HANA, the ERP world leader for manufacturing, used, among others, by the main competitors of our client.

SYSDAT.IT ADD ON

To the base configuration of the ERP SAP have been added two add ons for the specific management of some key processes.

SAP4GDO to manage the GDO (large scale retail) relationships

SAP4 AGE to manage relationships with agents

THE PROJECT

The project carried out with the “drop down” method (preparation, implementation, delivery) required about 8 months. 

The project activities, as the delivery phase and production start, didn’t led to any delay to the normal company activity. 

BEENFITS GAINED

The Client today count on:

•real time and integrated view of logitic/production and economic status of the entire set of plants;

•product cost and profitability full knowledge;

•higher degree of control on delivery costs, beeing them a high incidence on company margins.

•an easy and flexible management of EDI mail and of uninvoiced incentives for GDO clients.