Success Story – Co-Packing Center
The story of successful SAP implementation. Consumer goods “The realization of this project was extremely important for our company in order to increase its manufacturing effectivity and to provide the competitive advantage”. General Director V.E.Yankovskiy SHORT REVIEW Company name “Co-Packing Center” Location Russia, Moscow, Moscow region Industry Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Products/Services Co-packing and co-manufacturing services Web Site www.co-pack.ru IT landscape before the project 1C Accounting Project goals To create a unified integrated data base system to manage the enterprise To create a control system of the enterprise operational activity. To receive the operative information on the actual cost value of products for flexible control of the production process. Changing to the corporate system, which is also used by key customers. Implementation partner ALPE consulting Used solutions and services SAP All-in-One Baseline PP – enterprise management model ALPE Consulting services – installation, implementation and postproductive support Why SAP is preferable SAP All-in-One is a preset, easily expanded solution, which is implemented in a fixed period of time, on a fixed price and meets current and possible needs of an enterprise. Implementation peculiarities Due to the usage of SAP Best Practices and ASAP Focus methodology the implementation of the solution is done on very short terms – 4 months (usually it takes not less than 9 months). Close collaboration of ALPE Consulting and Co-Packing Center during the period of the project. Highly-qualified team from both sides. Results Processes – standardized and organized on a high level in accordance with the latest demands. Unification of control and consolidated reporting on four legal person of the holding. Clear understanding of production cost, price formation and the product profitability. Fullness of the operative information on manufacturing and the state of warehouses. Assisting with business-processes organization and taking of strategic decisions due to the full and fast-received information. Hardware-software means Oracle database Hardware: Server 1.CPU# (4 cores), RAM 10GB, 6õ140õ10RPM SAS Operating system: Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition x86-64 Number of users: 20 CO-PACKING CENTER ALPE consulting uses SAP Best Practices and ASAP Focus methodology for the faster implementation of SAP solution. Earlier or later average enterprises face the fact that for successful activity they need a clear perspective, modern solutions and a strong scalable base of electronic business management. By means of implementation of SAP Business All-in-One expanded solution “Co-Packing Center” intended to integrate business processes and to acquire an effective informational base for the company growing. Using a combination of SAP Best Practices and ASAP Focus methodology, ALPE Consulting team completed the implementation in four months. Customer “Co-Packing Center” is a dynamically developing production company in the field of co-packing and co-manufacturing. Current situation As any enterprise in the period of its active growing “Co-Packing Center” realized the importance of information component in business management and the necessity of its development. The importance of solution of the above problem has also been confirmed by such objective factors as: the absence of the unified organizational structure, the complexity of organizing and conducting of managing control, the impossibility of completing of exact calculating and analysis of cost value of the company products, as well as the absence of production planning instruments. It is clear, that creating a unified corporate information system became one of conditions, necessary to provide further growing of the country, as well as allowing to retain its competitive advantages. Solution choice “Co-Packing Center” administration has chosen SAP Business All-in-One. The project implementation was to be done by SAP partner – “ALPE Consulting”. The implementation of SAP Business All-in-One solution was supposed to unite all company subdivisions into one information space, to create opportunities of control and correction of key business processes and to provide with some extra instruments for analysis of the company activity. In order to retain the competitive advantage it was necessary to optimize the processes of manufacturing planning and control at the enterprise. The main factor that has affected the choice was the fact, that the solution, offered by “ALPE Consulting” is implemented on fixed terms, has a fixed price and meets current and possible future needs of the enterprise. Implementation (process) The project implementation was carried out in accordance with the methodology of SAP solutions implementation for average and small business. The project consisted of the following steps: - analysis of demands for additional settings and creating a list of deficiencies;
- installations and setting of the system;
- training for users, based on the real information;
- solution testing;
- data migration;
- commercial operation of the solution.
Due to the usage of SAP Best Practices and ASAP Focus methodology the implementation of the solution is done on very short terms – 4 months (usually it takes not less than 9 months). Results A total number of 20 users, such as those involved into the productive process, accounting, purchase and sales, planning departments, warehouses staff were trained and started working with the system. The following factors have contributed to the success of the project: - fast decisions;
- changing business processes in accordance with better practice, reflected in SAP standards;
- the loyal attitude of staff towards the implementation of the new system.
All the above-mentioned has allowed “Co-Packing Center” to reach the following results from the realization of the project: - accuracy, consistency and timeliness of the information, necessary to take managerial decisions;
- increase of financial transparency of the company;
- optimization of manufacture planning and control processes;
- increase of users’ discipline and responsibility in economic activities control and warehousing control;
- new opportunities for accurate calculation analysis of products cost value.
Perspectives and plans Integration with SAP systems of customers, implementation of HR, WMS and TOPO, as well as BW.
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