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Upgrading to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10, version for SAP NetWeaver – powered by SAP HANA
Lin Cong, Colgate-Palmolive
May 2013
Agenda
• Company background
• Applications in Colgate
• Upgrade highlights
• Challenges
• Benefits
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ORAL CARE PERSONAL CARE
HOME CARE PET NUTRITION
SAP Strategy at Colgate
Mobile Solutions (SAP Sybase)
SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search
SAP HANA
BI Reporting & Analytics (SAP BusinessObjects
Business Intelligence suite)
SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management
SAP NetWeaver
Identity Management (To SAP & non-SAP systems)
SAP Solution Manager
Change Manager
PPM
SAP solutions for governance, risk,
and compliance (GRC)
CBP/TPM
Trade
Promotion
Management
eSales
Customer
Service &
Sales
SAP CRM
Focus on
the
Profession
SAP PLM
New
Product
Development
eBuy
(EBP)
Procure
To Pay
BPC
Financial
Consolidation
HCM
Human
Resources
Systems
Integrated Business Information: SAP ECC 6.0
SAP software landscape
Access & Optimization
SAP SCM
Supply Chain
Management
BI Planning
Financial &
Commercial
Planning
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Applications • Consolidation
– Technical upgrade from current system of SAP Business Planning
and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver from release 7.5 to
release 10.0
– Continue to support Colgate finance users
- Quarterly management reporting
- Three estimates a year (May, Sep Latest Estimate and Budget)
- Monthly rolling estimates
- SEC 10K
- Global savings opportunities
• Capital Management
– Replaced an application developed over 10 years ago
• Budget Deck
– mix of BI Analysis Office and BPC, pilot went live in Oct 2012
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Upgrade Highlights
• Green field upgrade
• Sizing of SAP HANA was done by Colgate
• SAP delivered transaction to move app set of release 7.5 to current
release (10)
• Technical migration (2 steps) to release 10 & release 10 on
SAP HANA was a smooth process
• Legacy release 7.5 functions working as is with release 10
• All data manager packages working as is
• Parallel testing strategy, day in the life testing
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Implementation Teams
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Business Team
IT Project Team SAP Team
5 Application Owners 1 Project Manager /
Technical Lead
1 from SAP Customer
Solution Adoption Team
1 Key Business
Partner (Macro)
3 Part Time team member
including an ABAP
programmer
4 from SAP AGS and SAP
MaxAttention for Volume
Testing for 1 week
6 Key Corporate
Business Testers
1 Part Time DBA Resource
SAP AGS
1 Full Time SAP Consultant
and 1 Technical Consultant
for 3 weeks
Release 10.0 Challenges
• Custom programs are difficult to adjust
– Technical name changes after transport
– Sign reversal issue
• Single sign-on
• Frequent updates of release 10 for both server and client
• “Journal” functionality is moved to web UI instead of excel
• Security model
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Release 10.0 Benefits • Usability
– Administration is easier and more logical than previous release
– Reporting
– New web based standard “comment” reports
– Has better report writing functionality, using drag and drop
– Provides Book Publishing functionality
– Performance
• New consolidation functionality including out of the box business
rules
• Reduced TCO – Removal of Microsoft .NET tier for more simplified infrastructure
– Transport capabilities are improved in release 10. Object by object.
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Performance Improvement
• Reporting
• Improved Journal Posting
• Calculations – Improved scalability
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