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Airbus speeds up Financial Closing
with SAP HANA
Parag Shrungarkar
Principal Technology Architect, Infosys
SAPPHIRE NOW
2015
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AIRBUS - a pioneering spirit with
innovation and quality at the heart of everything
Net Orders
1,456 aircrafts
Backlog of 6,386 aircrafts
~ 9 years of full production
Total historic orders
> 15,000 aircrafts
Market Share
> 50%
Source:
Airbus results, July 2014
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Company growth = Number of transactions
Lengthy, manual closing process
Many systems = complex for changes
Motivation
May 2015
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Airbus Vision & Strategy for Future Finance
May 2015
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+ World class usability
1 Platform
for
finance
10..1000x Faster reports
+ Faster data
availability
All in 1 Actuals and
forecasts,
Beyond Airbus
Integrated Fast Simple
20..30 % Accelerated
project
delivery
Agile
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IFRP
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1. Design & setup the IFRP platform, based on in-memory
computing from SAP
2. Migration of all finance reporting content and data
3. Decommissioning of all current finance reporting platforms
3 year transformation
program
6 batches of
applications
Pilot phase successful
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SOLUTION
INSIGHTS
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SAP source systems (SAP ECC 6 or SAP R/3 4.6c)
SLT
SAP SAP SAP SAP Non-SAP
SAP BW 7.4 on SAP HANA | SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 unified
Unified Strategic and Operational Reporting and Planning
SAP IQ SAP HANA
SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4 (SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office; SAP
BusinessObjects Design Studio; SAP Lumira)
Unified Access (SAP Fiori)
real-time replication BW extraction
Platform Architecture
May 2015
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SAP HANA Live
7
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Hybrid SAP BW on SAP HANA Architecture – Best of both worlds
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SAP HANA DB
SAP IQ
SLT
Tables
Views
DSO
Composite Provider
Queries
PSA
Replication:
Transactional Data
BW Extraction:
Master Data
SAP HANA Models SAP BW on SAP HANA
SAP
ERP
SAP
ERP
SAP
ERP
Via ODP
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BENEFITS
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Turning Challenges into Competitive Advantages
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Fragmented landscapes
Various local solutions
Inefficient nightly, weekly
data loads
Complicated, outdated tools
One platform
One harmonized process
Real-time data availability
Intuitive, self-service BI tools
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Finance Today
May 2015
Question requiring detailed investigation
Publish transport costs report
Closing preparation
Identify required data
Send request to controllers
Analyse received files
Analyse data 10 days Consolidate files
Extract data from ERPs
Reformat data
Upload data in DB
Key in data in excel report 2 days Analyse
data Publish report
Extract data from ERPs
Transform data
Upload data in
local BW
Extract data from local BW and send it
to corporate
Analyse data
Upload data in
corp. BW
1
2
3
Release monthly
Non-value added Core process
on
demand
instant
continuous
Future Finance
11
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LEARNINGS
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Key Learnings from the Pilot
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Replication = data freshness
SAP HANA = very stable
Performance is great inside SAP HANA views & SAP BW
on SAP HANA
Faster development, quick learning curve
Reduced memory foot print using IQ
Wows
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Key Learnings from the Pilot
May 2015
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Replication with SLT is key
Materialization of data necessary in SAP BW for very large
data volumes
Partnership with SAP HANA CoE & Partner before design time
Start small, expect to be overwhelmed by demand after first
success
Watch-outs
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Airbus speeds up Financial Closing using
Harmonized processes
Integrated platform
Hybrid SAP BW on SAP HANA architecture
Real-time data replication
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May 2015
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