Project Overview: Pharmaceutical industry
Pharmaceutical industry
The Challenge
Template development and global rollout for the company-wide standardization and worldwide provision of business services for sales, production, procurement and internal and external accounting. Development of shared service centers for accounting, controlling and purchasing.
Application
SAP®-Module: SAP®-PP-PI; SAP®-CO (PC; CCA, OPA, PA; ML), SAP®-FI (GL, New GL, AP, AR, AA, TR), SAP® EC-CS, SAP®-SD, SAP®-SRM, SAP®-BI, SAP®-MM, SAP®-APO, SAP®-PM, SAP®-QM, MDM, PI
Solution
Process- and SAP®-consulting for the development and worldwide rollout of standardized processes and a standardized reporting system for the group's production companies:
- Analysis of requirements and improvement potential for business processes, as well as reporting and KPI's for the management of production companies. Consulting and design of SAP®-based solutions to support and automate processes.
- Advice on the design and coordination of E2E processes from customer order processing, purchasing, production planning and control to shipping and invoicing.
- Design and coordination of standardized template processes
- Organizational consulting regarding the split of activities and responsibilities between the shared service center , the local organizations, the global process owner organization and the central group accounting department.
- Defintion and coordination of measures with auditors and group accounting for risk assessment, control and management for the developed template processes.
- Provision of decision templates for the development and implementation of GAPs and change requests during the various template releases.
- Creation of technical specifications for the implementation of business requirements in SAP®.
- Provision of test plans and test reports, execution of process tests of the template prototype
- Creation of process documentation, test plans, test reports and training documents.
- Evaluation and approval of additional requirements and change requests.
Customer benefits
Increased quality and efficiency of business processes and transparency resulting from centralized standardized processes. IT cost savings in ongoing operations caused by the merger of all companies into one centralized system. Creation of transparency and comparability through a standardized reporting system. Savings through a globally standardized and managed enterprise architecture. Successful development of 5 template releases and rollout in 5 countries within the agreed time and budget frame and at the expected level of quality.