Challenge

A leading PCB manufacturing company located in India with a turnover of Rs.1000 million and 250 employees wanted to upgrade its SAP R/3 from 4.0B to 4.6C. In addition, customer also wanted to implement critical functionality to standardize its process with its Parent company located in Europe.

Solution

bigtec was brought in to upgrade the SAP R/3 System from 4.0B to 4.6C. This also included the upgrade of Country India version (CIN) from 2.2A to 4.0A. In addition,

• For standardization, critical functionality was added in some of the core modules.
• New SIS structures were added to standardize reporting across the company.
• EWT functionality was provided

Benefits

• bigtec upgraded SAP R/3 and CIN successfully before time and as per budget.
• Standardization of critical functionality was achieved, resulting in better coordination with the Parent company.
• Standardization of reporting using SIS (Sales Information System) was achieved resulting in a common reporting structure.

Challenge

The Customer is an ISO 9001 & TS 16949 Company, Incorporated in 1973, located in Karnataka, India. They manufacture and market a wide range of nylon bias ply tyres and butyl tubes for two and three wheelers, passenger cars, jeep, light commercial vehicles and farm vehicles, for the domestic and overseas markets. They have around 1500 employees. The legacy system was designed to map the present business processes and scenarios in payroll. The payroll administration function was centralized.

Solution

bigtec with its dedicated consultants, proven experience and expertise in definition of effective business process strategy and the commitment to deliver the project seamlessly was chosen to implement SAP INDIA PAYROLL along with other Modules like SD, MM, PP, FI, CO etc.

bigtec with knowledge of Clients legacy system, a deep knowledge of the SAP application suite and the methodology required to integrate diverse configurations implemented SAP INDIA PAYROLL.

The implementation created win-win situation for both users of sap system and the top management whose reporting needs were fulfilled in time.

Benefits

• Seamless payroll operations
• Streamlining of procedures & practices led to reduction in time taken for executing.
• Accurate payroll results.
• Generation of all statutory reports.
• Less paper work for core users.
• Income tax system was regularized with SAP India payroll integrated package.
• All employees brought under one umbrella there by control on payroll function.
• Integration with FI & CO module helped other modules requirements thereby creating win-win situation in organization.
• Employee history was possible by creating Actions.
• Data security was ensured by defining the authorizations.

Challenge

A leading Pharmaceutical Company located in India was using SAP R/3 version 4.0B with all core modules FI/CO, SD, MM, PP and QM. It was observed that the Inventory level of Packing materials and Raw materials required for the Export orders of the Formulations division had gone up substantially. The Export Order Division was using the Made to Order (MTO) strategy of SAP. The bigtec team of Consultants was called in to provide a solution by which the Inventory of Packing material as well as the Raw materials could be controlled.

Solution

The bigtec team spent some time at the Client site and observed the reasons for this huge Inventory build up. Based on their observations, bigtec proposed some amendments to the MTO strategy that was in place. Some of the key changes included: Conversion of MRP generated Planned Order to Subcontracting Purchase Requisitions

• Conversion of these Purchase Requisitions to Subcontracting Purchase Orders
• Elimination of unnecessary Goods movements that existed in the earlier process
• Better management of Inventory levels

Benefits

• No additional PR's were generated and this helped reduction of excess Inventory
• At the time of Goods Receipt from subcontractor, stock was automatically assigned to "Sales order stock"
• Tracking of the materials became much simpler.

Challenge

A leading Pharmaceutical Company located in India was using SAP R/3 version 4.0B with all core modules FI/CO, SD, MM, PP and QM. Due to the large number of SAP users and non-availability of adequate SAP skills within the Company, the internal SAP Support team was unable to provide effective support to the Users. In addition, due to high costs and rapid turnover of SAP resources, the cost of maintaining an effective Support team was ever increasing and retention of the Support team was becoming increasingly difficult.

Solution

bigtec with its experience in SAP R/3 and the availability of appropriate skill-sets, coupled with well defined processes for providing SAP support was brought in to support their SAP R/3 system in all the modules. This included providing of both On-site support and Remote support on a need basis.

Benefits

• Resolution time of Help desk issues came down drastically
• There was significant reduction in the cost of SAP Support
• bigtec's constant and valuable inputs during the Support phase helped in enhancing the effective use of SAP R/3 functionality

Challenge

The client is a global retail company with bases in UK & Ireland using SAP IS – Retail & BW (for business intelligence). The challenge was to stabilize the existing BW operations and to provide new development & major enhancements

Solution

bigtec with its rich experience in SAP's R/3 & BW established an onsite / offshore model to address the client's requirement.

The following services were provided to the client:

i) BW Operations (Mostly Offshore services)

• Proactive monitoring of scheduled runs
• Incident / call Management
• First Level Fixing
• Performance Tuning

ii) Application Maintenance:

• Problem Analysis
• Problem Resolution

iii) Application Enhancement

• Enhancement of existing features
• Build of new functionality

Benefits

• Stabilized the BW operations
• Daily Reports & Analysis on BW's performance
• Enhancements and new developments were implemented
• Better-informed decisions with faster corrective actions.
• Better business performance as a result of strategy-guided actions
• Faster innovation.
• Faster response to changing business conditions
• Increased competitive advantage

bigtec implemented the APO SNDP and DP modules for a large multinational FMCG company. The company had over 7 manufacturing locations, 15 subcontractors, 43 depots and 2300 retailers.

The objective of the APO SNDP module was that the right material reached that the right retailer at the right time.

This was accomplished by rolling out the SNDP module in India to ensure effective distribution of the material across the country. The resulting match of supply and demand lead to reduced inventory levels and increased demand accuracy, in- stock positions, inventory turns, profitability and productivity.

Bigtec also implemented the forecasting module of the DP module. State of the art forecasting algorithms were first used to anticipate demand for products first at the region level and then aggregated to the country level. This reduced the requirement to use detailed scheduling in production planning.

Challenge

The client is a multinational giant in the field of consumer electronics having presence all around the world. Having implemented SAP R/3 couple of years back, they decided to move to SAP BW to address their Reporting needs. The challenge was to generate Critical Reports which help the Management in decision making and move Reporting out of SAP R/3 thereby reducing the System resources to improve performance.

Solution

bigtec with its established and experienced team in SAP's R/3 & BW executed the Implementation in an onsite / offshore model . The entire Project was completed in a lean time frame of 4 months. The major highlights were as follows:-

• Generate Reports for all Logistics and Finance Business Processes in SAP R/3
• Reports from Planning System
• Reports from Secondary Sales System

After Go-Live bigtec established a Support Team to address the following:

• Proactive monitoring of scheduled runs
• Performance Tuning
• Problem Analysis & Error Resolution
• Enhancement of existing features
• Build of new functionality

Benefits

• Implemented BW and Designed Reports for Daily use
• Monitored BW System’s performance
• Enhancements and new developments were implemented
• Better-informed decisions with faster corrective actions.
• Better business performance as a result of strategy-guided actions
• Faster response to changing business conditions
• Increased competitive advantage

Challenge

The project was SAP implementation of the “Plant Maintenance” module at the Aircrafts maintenance facility of the client. This was carried out in an On-Site/ Off Shore model.

The main activities in this phase were -

· Adding new business scenarios and fine-tuning of existing business cases for the Plant Maintenance related activities.

· Developing SAP Programs and writing ABAP “Developments” for the newly created business scenarios and customizations.

· Enhancing MIS reporting capabilities of standard SAP by providing more reporting options, thereby increasing the capabilities and comfort level of end users.

Solution

bigtec were chosen to be the offshore implementation partner and our consultants were involved in the following stages

· Understand business requirements by translating the Functional and Technical specifications onto English from Spanish. This was done On-Site.

· Optimize the specifications, wherever possible, to make it more efficient.

· Develop the SAP-objects as per the business logic given in the specifications and within the stipulated time

· Testing the developments and reports as per the test cases

· Support the Primary Implementation Partner during UAT for any enhancements and changes.

Benefits

· bigtec helped in implementing 45 development and reports using the cutting edge technologies in SAP.

· This project done on On-Site / offshore model proved to be an effective, cost and time saving option.

· bigtec successfully proved that the project of such magnitude, in terms of communication, can be executed effectively using an Onsite-offshore model.

Challenge

The client is a Pioneer in manufacturing Electrical Equipments with operations across the globe, with its head quarters in US. The challenge was to incorporate all the business processes pertaining to Indian operations in their Global rollout model.

Solution

bigtec with its rich experience in SAP's R/3 established an onsite / offshore model to address the client's requirement

The following services were provided to the client:

1) R/3 Implementation & Country India Localization.(Mostly On-site services)

• Customization & Country India Localization configurations for all core modules FICO, S&D and MM.

• Unit testing of all the business scenarios.

• Documentation of test results & Prepared detailed customizing manual.

• Successfully mapped Country India Localization to Global Business scenarios practiced by the client.

• Conducted training programs for power users & end users.

• Complete functional integration done & documented.

2) Application Enhancement

• Enhancement of existing features

• Build of new functionality

Benefits

• Streamlined Indian Business processes.

• Incorporated all Business processes related to India in their global business perspective of the client.

• Enhancements and new developments were implemented

• Adherence to all Government statutory norms.

• Better business performance as a result of strategy-guided actions

• Customization flexible for changing business conditions

• Increased competitive advantage

BW Migration Project

The Client: The Client is the Worlds Largest Oil Producer with its HQ in Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The flag ship business lines are Oil/Gas/Refining/Terminal with several other horizontal service businesses. The Client also has the largest number of SAP Users in the World.

Project Objectives: The Objective was to extract 20 yrs of Historical Training Data originating from Mainframes and moved temporarily to Oracle Database, onto the BW System for Historical Reporting. These Reports were then integrated with current data coming out of SAP for a Past vs. Current Comparison.

Team: bigtec with its experienced and Certified BW Team took up the assignment of migrating the data from Oracle to BW. The entire Project was executed On-Site in a lean time frame of  4 months.    

Challenges Faced

• During the Blueprinting Phase our Team found that the data in Oracle had lot of Junk, Invalids and Inconsistencies. Our biggest Challenge was to convert these Inconsistencies into a format compatible with the BW System. For this we decided to make all the data conversions on the Oracle side itself. This helped us to keep the Oracle to BW Extraction clean.
• This was our first Project for extracting data from non-SAP Systems. In this Project we made use of DB Connect which is used to extract data
• Reporting was done using Crystal Enterprise a third Part Tool which was a first for the Team.

Value Delivered

• Historical Training data from last 20 yrs available for Reporting
• Integration between historical and Current Training Data in BW
• Reports generated for Past vs. Current Training
• Organization to be able to conduct ad-hoc analysis  about its Training Requirements