Consultancy Overview

1. SAP Capabilities

1.1 Core SAP modules

The core SAP modules will be required for all SAP implementations. This is where the organisational units, fiscal year, number ranges and document types and are created. We are experts in this area and can guarantee to implement best practice based on experience. Individually our lead consultants have over ten years experience each being involved with up to ten different SAP installations.

Financial Accounting (FI)

1. 1. General Ledger,
2. 2. Accounts Payable,
3. 3. Accounts Receivable,
4. 4. Asset Accounting,
5. 5. Bank Accounting,
6. 6. Special Ledger,
7. 7. Budgeting

8. These are the core modules of SAP with inbuilt functionality to support any country or company specific requirements. Implemented properly they provide world class support to the underlying business. Implemented poorly and they can provide competitive disadvantage.

Controlling (CO)

1. 1. Profit Centre Accounting,
2. 2. Cost Centre Accounting,
3. 3. Internal Order Accounting,
4. 4. Activity Based Costing,
5. 5. Profitability Analysis,
6. 6. Planning

7. These are the management accounting modules of SAP and are completely integrated with the rest of the system and are updated in real time. Most accountants use spreadsheets so SAP provided integration with excel for downloading reports and uploading budgets.

Project Systems (PS)

1. 1. Project Accounting
2. 2. Assets Under Construction
3. 3. Project Budgeting
4. 4. Project Planning

5. Project reporting is important to managing capital expenditure and SAP has intregrated its project modules directly with asset accounting and production planning. Revenue and expense project types are among the other project types available.

1.2 Other SAP modules

While we specialise in the financial modules of SAP we can easily put together a team of experts to implement or manage any other SAP modules required by the client. All our consultants have extensive integration experience critical for success in large cross functional projects. The client gains from our general experience with large intregrated projects and our ability to source and motivate the people with the right skills to make the project a success.

Sales and Distribution (SD)

Sales and distribution covers the optimisation of all the tasks and activities carried out in sales, delivery and billing. Key elements are: pricing, presales support, inquiry processing, quotation processing, sales order processing, delivery processing and billing. Incorporated into this modeule is a complete sales information system.

Materials Management (MM)

Materials Management supports the procurement and inventory functions occurring in day-to-day business operations such as purchasing, inventory management, and warehouse management. Inventory management deals with recording of goods and services while warehouse management deals with the physical movement and location. They cover both the goods receipt and goods issue processes. It is possible to implement the latest warehousing technologies including RFID, bar coding and rolling stock counting.

Inventory Management / Warehouse Management (IM / WM)

These modules deal with the recording (IM) and physical movement (WM) of goods and services. They cover both the goods receipt and goods issue processes. It is possible to implement the latest warehousing technologies including RFID, bar coding and rolling stock counting.

Human Resources (HR)

Human Resources is a complete integrated system for supporting the planning and control of personnel activities incorporating all country specific requirements. Custom or market leading payroll applications are seamlessly integrate into this module.

Production Planning (PP)

Production planning is used to plan and control the manufacturing activities of a company. This module includes; bills of material, routings, work centers, sales and operations planning, master production scheduling, material requirements planning, shop floor control, production orders and product costing. Work breakdown structures are available to manage and report on each stage of a process or project.

Treasury (TR)

Full treasury functionality is available to manage all the different types of instrument. Front office and back office functions are supported with direct integration with the payment systems and the payment gateways.

2. Additional Functionality

In addition to the standard package we recommend additional functionality is implemented at the same time to maximise the benefits of the new system. We have experience working with a variety of vendors providing best of breed systems which may be better or cheaper than the standard SAP solution.

We describe examples of essential additional functionality below with more details to be found on our SAP Additions page:

• Data Warehouse:
•  An integrated data warehouse to provide reporting flexibility.

• Workflow:
•  An integrated workflow solution supporting email and fax capabilities.

• Scanning:
•  An integrated scanning solution to support a paperless office.

• Payment Gateways:
•  Integrated payment gateways automating incoming and outgoing payments.