About The Customer :
Our Consultant have worked with one of the world’s leading suppliers of cement and aggregates (crushed stone, sand and gravel) founded in Switzerland in 1912. It also supplies ready-mix concrete and asphalt, and provide related services.
- Multiple tools in use with different departments
- Inadequate integration between these tools and data generated out of these tools.
Implemented Planning and BI Solution using IBM Cognos TM1 10.2 and IBM Cognos BI 10.2
- Well managed, readily-available detailed analysis, available to the users with dynamic content
- Better integration with SAP BW
- Supports Rapid What-If Analysis using in-memory technology
- Easier to customize and manage by users without involving experts
- Faster and accurate reporting process
- Iterative methods in budget process can follow top down /bottom up approaches as per business requirements
- Mail alerts, exception reports are available
- Integration with SAP
- Common platform for better data analysis
- Shortened cycle time and cost. The solution provides 30 percent effort in terms of time and cost
- Lower Deployment cost
- Reduced training cost, high user acceptance
- Reduced IT Support cost due to increased end user ownership of budget and forecasts processes without the need for technical input
- Increased reliability of planning and forecasting figures
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About The Customer :
Our Consultant has worked for one of the largest cement manufacturer of India and has an annual capacity of 52 million tonnes, making it among the top 10 producers of cement globally. It has 11 integrated plants, 15 grinding units, five bulk terminals and 92 RMC plants and is also India’s largest exporter of clinker
- Lack of standard booking practices between different manufacturing plants
- Erroneous and missing data in SAP R3
- Implemented Planning, ODS and BI Solution using IBM Cognos TM1 10.2, IBM Cognos BI 10.2, Informatica
- Eliminate tedious excel based budgeting exercise
- Maintain several versions of budget
- Enable actual versus budget data comparison
- Establish standard reporting practice across all the manufacturing plants
- Make available centralized system
- Built a KPI driven Planning and budgeting model in Cognos TM1 and Cognos BI to enable business users to plan the cost of manufacturing and marketing cement
- Enabled users to maintain several versions of budget and transfer data from version to another at the click of a button
- Built allocation logics to arrive at line wise costing
- Empowered users to perform what – if analysis at the click of mouse
- Cost effective planning
- Standardization in budgeting practice across all the manufacturing plants of Ultratech
- Entire budget cycle gets completed in 1/3rd time span as compared to primitive method of planning and budgeting
- Currently engaged in AMS & ADS for TM1, ETL & Cognos BI
- Team size: 7 TM1 Consultants, 4 BI Consultants, 4 ETL Consultant, 1 Solution Architect & 1 Project Manager
- Support Scope: Manufacturing ,Marketing & Finance Domain