Overview of the Client

Our client is an American multinational food manufacturing company focused on producing cereal, and other convenience foods, including crackers and toaster pastries. They have their manufacturing units set up in more than 15 countries, with their product being distributed worldwide.

Overview of the Client

Business Challenges and Objectives

  • Our client needed to upgrade their current Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) installation from BPC 7.5 to BPC 10.1.
  • They were not satisfied with the performance of the 7.5 BPC system and looked to TekLink to help them improve performance while implementing the upgrade.
  • Our client needed to ensure the upgrade would provide the desired enhancements to efficiency.
  • This required comparing the performance boost with and without HANA via TekLink’s “Value Added Upgrade”.

The Solution

We leveraged our vast expertise with BPC / BW and HANA and Cloud Technologies to develop our “Value Added Upgrade”. Much more than a simple upgrade, by analyzing the business processes and current BPC configuration, TekLink can determine how to best utilize new features and functions available in the new version. Applying changes to the configuration to take advantage of these features, we develop an optimized system that performs better and provides a better user experience.

Since the client did not have the infrastructure or IT resources needed to perform a proof of concept, TekLink employed the “TekLink Innovation Labs” systems to set up three different landscapes so the client could see how BPC performed in each scenario. This enabled the client to benchmark the performance, review new features, and make an informed decision.

 

 

Key Benefits

  • By leveraging “TekLink’s Innovation Labs” BPC landscape, our client was able to run in-depth tests on their own data to verify performance improvements resulting from both BPC 10.1 and BPC 10.1 on HANA.
  • Using this approach, TekLink was able to upgrade the client’s system to BPC 10.1, deliver a better user experience and significant performance improvements with minimal impact to the client’s business users and IT department.

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