Automotive Navigator: International Road

SAP system rollout, or moving SAP system to daughter companies or newly created production plants

SAP rollout, or implementation of SAP system in subsidiaries, is done to unify the operation of the whole company, standardize business processes, facilitate planning and effective management of operations between all plants. The main feature of rollout projects is that companies receive systems prepared on the basis of a template implemented in the head office. There are, however, exceptions to this rule:

• sometimes it happens that local legal conditions, especially in the finance area (related e.g. to reporting, invoicing), require preparation of individual solutions for a given country, which is called local adjustment of SAP system,
• sometimes, during the rollout projects, consultants find that in a daughter company, there is a solution that operates much more efficiently than a standard template solution – in such a scenario, it is possible to include it in the template as a standard, implement it in the head office and apply it in companies in which it does not operate yet.

User support in daughter company

In international companies, a business model in which a team responsible for SAP system support and development is located in the head office and processes all tickets from daughter companies is very common. Sometimes it happens that such a model is not very effective because of e.g. a large number of tickets or previously mentioned need for local adjustments. In order to maintain coherence between systems implemented in daughter companies, their decision-making power regarding changes in SAP system is limited. At Hicron, we cooperate with similar Clients, offer them regular user support in SAP system operation and implement changes that facilitate the operation processes. Providing maintenance services for such Clients, we are valued for our cooperation with the head office while determining the type and scale of the introduced changes, expert knowledge in the niche area of SAP solutions for Automotive and SAP certifications that confirm our competences.
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Reporting detailed results to the head office

Daughter companies are often obliged to prepare regular, detailed reports of their financial data. For one of our Clients – a German Automotive company – we have prepared and implemented a report system based on SAP PaPM, which has greatly simplified the preparation of such reports. Large files, saturated with complex formulas, collecting and calculating data copied manually from several internal systems, were replaced by automatically generated reports that convert data at lightning speed in real time, thus giving a picture of the company’s profitability on the level of the whole group of products as well as the batch, and even a specific product.
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