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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