Business services
Internal service portal
Replace informal request channels with a single point of entry, approval workflows and traceability that can actually be used.
- Digital Workflows
- Service portal
- Automation
Distribution & logistics
ERP transformation across a multi-entity organisation
Centralise data and harmonise finance and operations processes across several entities on a shared ERP foundation.
- ERP transformation
- Data migration
- System integration
- Quality assurance
Context
An organisation operating through several legal entities and several sites. Each entity had built its own practices and its own tooling: divergent charts of accounts, duplicated item and third-party reference data, and financial consolidation rebuilt by hand at every close.
The challenge
To put a shared application foundation in place without denying local constraints: harmonise the finance, purchasing and sales processes, make the reference data dependable, and make steering possible on comparable figures — all while the business kept running through the transformation.
What AXENEO did
The work we carried out
- 01
Scoping and core model
- Analysis of the existing processes entity by entity, and identification of the real gaps
- Definition of a shared core model and of the local variants that could be accepted
- Assessment of every departure from the standard: need, alternative, cost of maintenance
- Requirements repository and acceptance criteria for each process
- 02
Rollout and data
- Rollout steered in waves, carrying learning from one entity to the next
- Data migration workstream: perimeter, transformation rules, test sets
- Consistency checks and reconciliation before every switchover
- Interfaces with the applications kept in place, and a map of the flows
- 03
Quality and go-live
- Test strategy and acceptance scripts organised by business process
- Non-regression campaigns before every move into production
- Defect management: qualification, prioritisation, tracking through to closure
- Support at go-live, then continuous improvement
Results
What the set-up changed
Results are described qualitatively. We do not publish figures we would not be able to document.
A single repository for master data, with management rules shared across entities.
Finance, purchasing and sales processes harmonised on a shared core model.
Financial consolidation produced from the system, with no manual rework.
Documented and monitored interfaces, with rejects handled explicitly.
An acceptance-testing set-up reusable for the deployment waves that follow.
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Information system interoperability programme
Secure the requirements, the functional governance and the quality of deliverables on an interoperability programme.
- Interoperability
- Governance
- Requirements
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Certification programme
Turn a certification standard into verifiable obligations, assemble the body of evidence and take the organisation through to audit.
- Certification
- Gap analysis
- Evidence
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