CLIENT CASE STUDY
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SAP-Enabled Excellence in Finance
Sap-Enabled
Excellence
In Finance
Improving operational performance
and financial reporting for a
forest products company
and financial reporting for a
forest products company
01
Overview
A large forest industry company sought to establish a finance shared service center but was challenged with separate systems for each of its five businesses.
Accenture worked closely with the company to provide SAP consulting and technology services to design, build and test a financial services platform as well as deploy and support it. The platform now serves as the foundation for a high-performing finance service center, which provides accurate and transparent financial reporting across the enterprise.
02
How We
Helped
With deep SAP knowledge as well as extensive experience integrating finance transactions from numerous, separate systems to one platform, Accenture worked closely with the company to design, build, test, deploy and provide support for a financial services platform built on SAP ECC 6.0.
Accenture Drew Upon Its Proprietary Accenture Delivery Methods, Providing A Strong Project Methodology To:
Establish scopeand budget
Develop a migrationvalidation tool
Maintain the integrityof the master data
Minimize complexity andcosts, and reduce the overall
cutover time of the roll-outs
03
Results
The company now has a financial services platform with:
HarmonizedMaster Data
Improvedcompliance and
controls
Better supportfor consolidation
and internal
reconciliation
Enhanced possibilitiesfor job rotation within
the finance function
The solution is providing more cost effective and better quality financial services across the organization. And, as a result of the savings generated from this project, the total investment could be paid back within two years. Furthermore, the company also expects decreased system maintenance costs.