Global Sportswear Company
Retail Industry SAP BPC
Quick Facts
- European Headquarters: Hoofddorp, Netherlands
- Industry: Retail
- Products and Services: Manufacturer and sales of running shoes and other athletic equipment
- Employees: 9,000 (worldwide, 2020)
- Improves Financial Consolidations, Reporting, Planning, and Analysis with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
- Version 7.0
Specifications
Challenges and Opportunities
- Eliminate spreadsheet consolidations
- Simplify and standardize collection of data processes
- Simplify data collection
- Improve audit capabilities
Objectives
- Increase data quality and reliability
- Improve audit capabilities
- Shorten planning cycle time
- Reduce number of manual adjustments
Implementation Highlights
- Automatic profit eliminations on IC sales
- Integration annual, budget and forecast processes into one system
- Integration of different reporting information system
Why SAP
- Complete audit trail
- Implementation of business rules
- Requires minimal IT support
- Minimal training requirements
- User friendly Excel based interface
- Seamless integration of Planning and Reporting
Benefits
- Integration of management information for distribution centers, sales and retail organization
- Increased forecast accuracy and reduced time for budget and financial close processes
- Improved reliability and efficiency of reporting
- One integrated system with all the information available