Agricultural Pharmaceutical business SAP implementation in trouble
This Swiss based agri-pharma business found themselves in trouble when the SAP implementation user acceptance testing uncovered substantial shortfalls.

Brief:
• Manage a program of changes to turn round and stabilise their European SAP solution creating a steady state environment ECC6 FICO(new GL), SD and MM
• Manage the program of change requests and incident closures and implemented a governance processes, mobilising resources (a 40 head team of both internal and third party) to enable closure and act as conduit between IT and the business.

Scope:
• SAP – Bank, Foreign exchange, prepaid and accruals, Journals, Fixed Assets, Payroll, Tax, Equity, GL processing, management accounting, reconciliations, clearing.
• BI – reporting and Analytics.
• Hyperion – HFM consolidations.

This exercise required significant close stakeholder management with the business by country call, attending or running user forums, initiating and maintain stakeholder engagement and education.