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HP Reference: CONAGRAImproving Financial Business Process Performance with HANA
CompanyConAgra Foods Inc.
HeadquartersOmaha, Nebraska
IndustryConsumer products
Products and ServicesConsumer and commercialfoods
Employees26,100
RevenueUS$13.3 billion
Web Sitewww.conagrafoods.com
PartnersHewlett-Packard and SAP®Consulting
The company’s top objectives Improve and accelerate end-to-end financial closing and forecasting Enhance knowledge transfer capabilities using the SAP HANA® platform
The resolution Implemented the SAP ERP rapid-deployment solution for profitability
analysis with SAP HANA in four weeks Implemented the SAP ERP rapid-deployment solution for accelerated
finance and controlling with SAP HANA in eight weeks Implemented SAP HANA as a secondary database with instant replication
using SAP Landscape Transformation software
The key benefits Low-risk implementations Shorter monthly material ledger close process Faster data access and transactions using existing or slightly enhanced
SAP ERP functionality with minimal disruption to end users Faster data transfer from the material ledger to the SAP NetWeaver®
Business Warehouse component
“With SAP HANA, we have better insight into our data, and our financial processes run faster than ever before. With the rapid-deployment solutions, we were up and running in less than three months.”
James Aesoph, Senior Director IT, Forecasting Analytics and Data Warehouse, ConAgra Foods Inc.
4 and 8 weekImplementations of profitabilityanalysis and finance and controllingsolutions (respectively)
92.9%Faster transfer of material ledger data (7 hours to 30 minutes)
Price Inflation Model for SAP HANA Retail Solution
HP Reference: Kingfisher plc
Challenges / Objectives Approach Results• Kingfisher plc, based in London, is the
third-largest home improvement retailer world.
• Kingfisher had identified the following issues in terms of missing business information:• No visibility to sales and margins across
operating segments and geographies
• No measurement of inflation on sales and cost prices
• Inability to tie cost price inflation with supplier product and transportation costs
• Inability to understand impact of external factors like weather and demographic information to sales and margins
• This information was simply not available in real-tim due to technological limitations.
• Kingfisher, SAP and HP jointly invested in creating a solution based on the new real-time business platform SAP HANA.
• The solution for Kingfisher and the Retail market …• enables clear visibility of inflationary
effects historically on sales and margin
• provides unique input to merchandise range planning processes
• provides buyers a tool to monitor, track and negotiate pricing for commodities with key suppliers based on cost price inflation
• co-relates impact of external factors like weather and demographic information to sales and gross margins
• Kingfisher is now able to obtain real-time information …• on sales and cost price inflation by
operating company codes, product hierarchy and supplier
• on the net inflation cost impact
• The system carries out Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) match rate for like-for-like products
• It is the creates foundation level KPIs like sales, cost of goods sold and gross margins
• Overall, the solution enables commercial retail executives to under-stand historical trends and improve forecasting of revenue and margin based on more accurate ‘modeled’ analysis - on a daily basis!
Develop new Opportunities for CustomersAutomotive Resources International (ARI)
Objective Approach Results• ARI delivers solutions that improve its
fleet customer’s business and bottom line. Founded in 1948 by the Holman Automotive Group, it is the largest privately held vehicle fleet management services company in the world, managing more than 2 million vehicles worldwide.
• Provide a better solution to help create key differentiation in the market by leveraging increasing amounts of data to create better products and services for its fast-growing business
• Worked with SAP to deploy a proof of concept of SAP HANA systems running on HP servers to replace its custom ETL solution
• Perform deeper data analysis to help develop new opportunities and find additional savings for customers
• Allow for flexibility and growth as ARI adds new products and services
• Increased overall efficiency in call centers by 5% by providing agents with better information
• Improve first-time call resolution by a minimum of 5% resulting in better customer satisfaction
• Increase the number of customer-service calls without adding staff
“During the implementation, HP handled a lot of the complexities of integrating with our core systems in advance. That gave us a lot of confidence.”