SAP harmonization opens up new opportunities

Global transparency for global players

Companies today are increasingly international and decentralized. In order to ensure process and cost efficiency, the key performance indicators must be transparent and comparable.

SAP in particular could make a decisive contribution here - provided that the system landscape has been configured with these premises in mind.

However, the reality is often different:

• System landscapes are fragmented,
• there is a proliferation of charts of accounts,
• there is no uniform cost center and profit center structure or
• Companies use different reporting characteristics.

All this, however, makes a key figure-oriented and efficient management of a company considerably more difficult.

SAP Harmonization - the basis for improved process efficiency and control competence

Our conversion programs are able to make changes to SAP data that cannot be made by setting parameters in the SAP system.

Classical applications for such conversions are:

• Chart of accounts harmonizations
• Introduction of parallel and/or group currencies
• Reorganization or harmonization of profit center structures
• Reorganization or harmonization of segments for balance sheet reporting purposes
• Merging previously separate controlling areas
• Merging of previously separate profit areas
• Harmonization of characteristics and value fields
• Harmonization of document and material types
• Harmonisation of product hierarchies

Depending on the initial situation, several requests can be carried out simultaneously.

SAP Master Data Harmonization

Above all, sensibly defined and maintained master data are a basic requirement for transparency, process efficiency, comparability and controllability of business processes.

For many companies, the quality of this master data does not meet the requirements, so that the above-mentioned goals hardly or only with complex mapping programs and additional evaluations have to be merged laboriously, error-prone and certainly not the compliance requirements sufficiently.

GAMBIT has experienced consultants and proven tools and methods to ensure a fast and efficient cleansing of master data.

SAP master data: harmonizations and conversions

GAMBIT uses SAP-certified tools of the SAP component SAP Landscape Transformation 2.0 for a multitude of master data.

Popular harmonization applications are for example

• Material master data harmonization
• Vendor Master Data Harmonization
• Customer Master Data Harmonization.

Complete data cleansing

If these scenarios are used, duplicates can be cleaned up completely, including historical document data. In addition to these "classics", there are numerous other master data objects that can be part of a master data harmonization program.

These often include:

• chart of accounts
• Characteristics and value fields
• Product groups and hierarchies
• Merchandise categories and hierarchies
• Material and document types

SAP-based conversion options and corresponding mapping architectures exist for almost all common data objects.

SAP harmonization done - and then?

Harmonized SAP structures and data enable a multitude of new, previously unused possibilities.

Examples of this are:

• Increased efficiency through the use of integrated intercompany processes
• Improved real-time order and backorder tracking
• Real-time comparability of all locations, branches and plants
• Use of dashboards for a condensed presentation of key performance and risk indicators
• Flexible, time and cost efficient SAP roll-outs to connect additional companies or locations
• Simplified introduction of shared services