Regional BI General Cable

SAP Analytics Implementation April/May 2016

Agenda

A. About General Cable

B. Challenges

C. Solution Description

D. Methodology

E. Benefits

F. Demo

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Regional BI General Cable / SAP Analytics An Innovator’s Heritage

General Cable has been an innovator for more than 165 years.

With wire and cable products that are a critical part of the fabric of

the world, we have always been dedicated to connecting and

powering people’s lives.

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13,000

Regional BI General Cable / SAP Analytics Company Profile

PLANTS located in

core markets 38 BILLION NET SALES

$6 SALES

& DISTRIBUTION

PUBLICLY TRADED

ASSOCIATES

No. 443

WORLDWIDE

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Northampton, England

Horsens, Denmark

Aberdeen, Scotland

Lille, France

La Ferté-Macé, France Frankfurt, Germany

Milano, Italy

Grenoble, France Vitoria, Spain

Porto, Portugal

Morelena, Portugal

Seville, Spain Valencia, Spain

Madrid, Spain Barcelona, Spain

Bilbao, Spain Bucharest, Romania

Moscow, Russia

Abrera, Spain

Montcada, Spain Manlleu, Spain

Montereau, France

Nordenham, Germany

Langhus, Norway

Regional BI General Cable / SAP Analytics

Our Europe and Mediterranean Locations

Distribution

Manufacturing

Sales Offices

Technology Center

Headquarters

Regional BI General Cable / SAP Analytics Challenges

Due to continuous growth and diversified environment General Cable for Europe looked to expand its BI capabilities and fulfill and resolve the increasing reporting needs. The following functional areas were identified as key for BI growth:

Sales & Marketing

Finance

Supply Chain

Product Management

Budget and Forecast Accuracy

On these areas the following challenges were identified:

o Different toolsets on each region

o No single version of the truth

o Highly diversified data environment across regions. No harmonization on hierarchies, customers, products, locations, etc.

o Non-standard definitions for business critical indicators

o Impossible to track down details from corporate reporting to local reporting automatically

o Loss of time with highly manual report-producing tasks relying mainly on Excel processing

Regional BI General Cable / SAP Analytics Solution / Architecture

The main objective of the project was to provide General Cable with a global Business Analytics solution that allows to manage the decisional business information in an agile, flexible and easy-to-use form, facilitating the process of decision making and achieving goals much more clearly and effectively

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General Cable chose to partner with Stratesys, an SAP partner with known SAP Analytics expertise.

The solution designed by Stratesys included the best in market BI Analytics tools such as:

– SAP Business Intelligence

– SAP Data Services and Data Quality

– SAP Sybase IQ

This environment allowed General Cable to design a simple but robust end-to-end solution

Architecture

Regional BI General Cable / SAP Analytics Solution / Phases

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The Regional BI project implementation was divided in phases in order to achieve gradual results and obtain the initial benefits as soon as possible.

The different BI functional areas were implemented sequentially so that there will be several go lives that will allow to have early results before the final go live (Agile Methodology). This also facilitates involvement from the end user and IT team .

Analysis Sales & Marketing

Other

Business Blue Print presentation. Finance

Supply Chain

Analysis & Design

Analysis & Design

Design

Multiple go lives to get results earlier

o 3 different projects one after the other to minimize the risk and get results faster

o Not all budget is compromised form the very beginning. o Next phases can be cancelled or postponed, scope can be reviewed at any time during

the project o Focus in a lower number of key users; which is easier to manage. o Key users are more involved as they can see the results earlier.

PHASE 2 PHASE 3 PHASE 1 Kick Off

Regional BI General Cable / SAP Analytics Methodology

o Incremental development.

o The requirements are unclear, they may change or require a lot of flexibility.

o Work done through collaboration of small self-organized and multidisciplinary teams, who must make decisions in the short term.

o Overlapping phases instead of one after another. Each development or sprint includes all phases (planning, analysis, design, construction, go-live, documentation and support).

o Each iteration or sprint ends deliverable or product that works, that is potentially usable.

Regional BI General Cable / SAP Analytics Benefits

Standard

Simple Agile

Automatic

The Regional BI project is an ongoing project but it has already provided General Cable with tangible benefits as well as a clear path for future BI developments

The main benefits achieved can be summarized in the following:

o Standardizing common corporate hierarchies, metrics and reporting requirements across units

o Simplifying consolidation process of reports as well as everyday reporting tasks on each region

oProviding agile and meaningful analysis to management with driver based goals

oReducing manual Excel time-consuming data manipulation to invest employee time in more strategic analysis

Regional BI Reporting

Organization

Technology

Methodology

Definition

Regional BI General Cable / SAP Analytics Benefits

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•Experts in all functional areas •Experts on operational systems such as SAP ERP •Experts on SAP BI Analytics implmentations

•Using Best Practices in Design and Construction of SAP BI solutions •Specific methodology for Business Analytics •Accelerators and benchmarks: documentation templates, pre-defined KPIs catalogs, etc ...

•Unique and complete BI platform. •Complete Suite of BI that provides coverage for all business needs •Positioning of the solution and roadmap

•Ensure future scalability and autonomy •Training and collaborative construction approach •Training "on the job" before and after implementation

Demo

Thank You