Case Study: SAP S/4 HANA Functional Enhancement & Implementation
We are glad to have played a key enabling role in helping customer to build a pricing functionality within SAP S/4 to move away from excel/manual pricing process for accurate and real-time business reporting.
About the client
The company is part of the Fuel Oil & LP Gas Dealers Industry based out of Philippines. It has established itself as one of the fast growing oil company in the country, growing its oil retail network nationwide.
Business challenges
- SAP IS-Oil functional expertise to understand Filoil specific pricing process and map the business process in S/4
- Complex and labour intensive manual pricing process
- Tentative pricing during the month restricts in having real-time visibility
- Non-System driven approach resulting in high chances of errors and repetitive work
- Auditing & Security constraints
Solution
Helped customer to build a pricing functionality within SAP S/4 to move away from excel/manual pricing process for accurate and real-time business reporting
Our approach
Assessment
Design
Development
Testing
Deployment & Support
01. Assessment
- User workshop for requirement Gathering
- Understand current landscape/ setup
- Prepare assessment report
02. Design
- Perform fit gap analysis
- Prepare development plan
- Customer Design walk through
03. Development
- Creating a custom ‘pricing’ table
- Create a custom program to compute/recompute the Moving Average Price (MAP)
- Customize the posting to update product MAP
- Create a custom program to post, appropriately the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) adjustments at month-end
- Create a custom report on Fuel “Gains and Losses”
04. Testing
- Develop test script
- Develop and perform integration testing
- Perform functional unit testing
- Perform UAT on QAS
05. Deployment & Support
- Prepare cut-over plan
- Deployment to production
- Review and validate deployment
- Post deployment support of 14 days
Outcomes
End-to-End Business process mapping in S/4
S/4 system driven approach
S/4 real-time & accurate report for planning and forecasting
Automated, Auditable & Accessible only to authorized persons
Looking forward
We are glad to have played a key enabling role in helping customer to build a pricing functionality within SAP S/4 Hana to move away from excel/manual pricing process for accurate and real-time business reporting. We see this as the start of a fruitful partnership and we look forward to serve them more with our cloud services in the near future for a smooth cloud adoption and support their future business development.
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