About the Client:
A leading leader in biscuits, chocolate, gum, candy and powdered beverages.
Challenges:
- Current analytical capabilities for generating spend insights do not allow for a quick turnaround
- Current systems not integrated for end-to-end visibility on global spend data making it difficult to keep spend under control
- Costly maintenance of existing infrastructure
- Error prone manual data feeds
- Existing analytics limited with data volumes growing
- Poor performance of existing analytics on global spend
The Solution:
TekLink project team partnered with our client to deliver the following:
- Commercialized solution for a user base of over 500 members
- Created a blueprint, design and development of optimal data lake with SAP Business Warehouse (BW) on HANA as a platform using mixed scenarios and provided browser-based interface to maintain mapping files
- Delivered SAP HANA views, BW reports and Tableau dashboards in addition to self-servicing capability using Tableau Desktop
- Provided an architectural road-map for Agile Self-Servicing Global Procurement Analytics with SAP HANA as a platform for data lake augmented by Sybase-IQ NLS
Outcome and Benefits:
- Aligned global spend areas to be managed and supported by local regional teams
- Better management of cash flow opportunities resulting into a savings of $90 million
- Created a single source of truth for all global and regional stakeholders
- Eliminated multiple legacy systems and data blending tools making it possible to have a quick turnaround for reporting
- Eliminated offline data processing by downloading the line item level data
- Enabled 550 users to have direct secured assess to data
- Enabled client’s procurement organization to undergo a transformation program which moved them to a globally driven organization
- Guided client to work and collaborate on global initiatives
- Provided an architectural road map for Agile Self-Servicing Global Procurement Analytics with SAP HANA as a platform for data lake
- Provided better security around the data and application
- 100% of global end-to-end spend procurement managed

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