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Globalizing Your Financial SystemsJon Given, Director – Oracle Financial Applications, Emtec Inc..
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Agenda
• Functional Considerations
• Implementation Approaches
• Best Practices
• Case Study
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Functional Considerations
• Corporate versus local requirements
– Global framework
– What’s statutory versus always done it that way
• Configuration / Metadata – shared across globe or country specific
–COA
–Items
–Vendors
–Customers
–Bank setup
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Functional Considerations
• Language requirements
–Canadian French, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese,
Spanish are fully supported and translated
–Reporting and source systems
–Enabling Multi-language
–Translating existing values
• ChartField descriptions
• Product Descriptions
• Item Descriptions
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Functional Considerations
• Integration of PeopleSoft solution with other systems
– Identify other systems
– Clear boundaries for business processes and hand-offs
– Retirements plan for legacy systems
• Reporting
–Corporate and Management
–Local / Statutory
–Existing queries would need to be updated to include new Business Units
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Functional Considerations
• Banking
–Payment Methods
–Check Formats
–Language differences
• Multi-currency
–Rate Maintenance
–Local Rate requirements
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Functional Considerations
• Statutory Ledger requirements (Local GAAP)
• Indirect Taxes
–Sales / Use Tax
–VAT
–Withholding
• Ongoing support requirements
– Security
– Changes
– Ownership
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Functional Considerations
• Assets
–Multi-book to handle varying local depreciation methods
• General Ledger
–Multi-GAAP
• Evaluate current configuration. Implement Book Code if possible
• Sometimes multi-ledger solution is less invasive.
–Translation / Revaluation
–Statutory reporting considerations
–Common reporting considerations – consistent reporting from corporate
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Functional Considerations
• Purchasing
–Document Formats
–Vendor Maintenance (One setid vs multiple)
–Workflow – common corporate model
–Indirect Taxes
–Users Fully Trained Prior To Testing
–Local SME’s Conduct Test Phase and Trouble Shoot
• Payables
–Banking / Payment
–Indirect Taxes
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Global Insights / Considerations
• Managing the global team will be challenging
–Up-front focused and facilitated requirements/design sessions with frequent design checkpoints later
in the process.
• Not all locations will have clearly defined processes and applications
–Making them understand the value of the global process
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Implementation Approaches
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Implementation Options
• Single Phase rollout
–Global rollout to all the regions at the same time
• Geographic (Regional) rollout
–Rollout a region at a time
• Facility (Site by Site) rollout
–Rollout a site at a time
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Implementation Considerations
• Different systems and their retirement schedule
• Integration requirements – temporary or permanent
• Consistency of existing business process/systems
• Culture/experience of your organization
• Timeline
• Pros/Cons review and analysis
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Implementation Options – Single Phase
• Pros
–Global requirement/design eliminates the risk inherent with incremental design
–Consistent business process in all regions
• Cons
–Too much change in the organization all at once
–Hard to implement and deploy
–Organizational readiness to consistent processes (Cultural)
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• Single Phase – Global rollout to all regions simultaneously
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Implementation Options – Geographic Rollout
• Pros
–Flexibility in adopting different business processes in different regions.
–Ease of implementation management (chunking by region)
• Cons
–Potential for design conflict.
–Support is difficult if design is drastically different between regions
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• Geographic rollout - Requirement/design and deploy one region at a time
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Implementation Options – Facility Rollout
• Pros
–Flexibility in adopting different business processes in different facilities
–Ease of implementation management (chunking by facility)
–Supports a phased system retirement schedule
• Cons
–Potential for design conflict
–Will require a long timeline
–Support is difficult if design is drastically different between facilities
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• Facility Rollout - Requirement/design and deploy one facility at a time
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Global Rollout Strategy
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Develop Global Processes and Requirements
Gather global requirements
Develop global processes
Configure global template
Create global testing strategy
Training plans by process
Define data migration standards
Global deployment plan
Address Local Processes and Requirements
Implement global processes
Gather location specific requirements
Adapt and harmonize processes to local req.
Configure localization
Localize training
Localize test scripts
Implement by Region
Apply global template
Apply local template
Load Data
Interface
Regression test
Train
Deliver
Support
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Global Rollout Execution
• Continuous Change Management
• Template Rollout Plan
• Training
–Train-The-Trainer, Local SME’s fully allocated to the project
–Deploy Regional Training Hubs
• Testing
–Comprehensive Location based testing
–User Testing In Each Location/Site In The Region
–Users Fully Trained Prior To Testing
–Local SME’s Conduct Test Phase and Trouble Shoot
• Support
–Develop Call Center
–Implement Localized Support Via SME’s
–Develop Escalation Procedures
–Utilize a Common Support Database
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Best Practices
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Best Practices
• Requires buy-in and support from Corporate and Local Leadership
• Managing Perception
–Global locations should perceive this as an improvement to their process and system. Not as North
America dictating change.
• Requirements and Design has to be global
–Tendency to skew towards Phase I deliverable.
–Leverage Global steering committee
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• Local language requirements
- Translate test scripts and training materials
- Leverage outside translation services
- Confirm with local SMEs / or multi-language core team members
• Perform Training as close to UAT as possible
- Look to incorporate aspects of UAT in your training exercises
• Utilize regional testing and training hubs
‾ Avoid travel to every regional site
‾ Fosters inter-office communication within the region
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• Team Composition
- Identify the subject matter experts early in project
- Management support for SME engagement
- Group the SME’s based on consistency of processes
- Organize regional teams to support global project structure
- Local language support
• Team Communication
- Leverage phone, e-mail, IM, WebEx, face to face
- Adjust meeting times to support work and resources across multiple time zones
- Centralized project document repository
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Best Practices
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• Requirements – gather, document, and sign-off
• Design the new system and solicit input into the process
• Testing to ensure system meets requirements and integrates
• Training to teach people how to use and maintain system
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Case Study
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Business Challenges
• Significant Organizational growth outside of US
• Numerous disparate systems
• No visibility into the region
• Inconsistent business processes
• Lack of controls and audit of legacy applications
• Many manual processes and / or duplicate entry across multiple systems
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Scope
• Perform Global Design and implement PeopleSoft Financials for all International locations
in a phased deployment for a financial services company
• Solution also includes OBIA – Financial Analytics
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Scope – Business Processes
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• Asset Management
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable
• Billing
• Commissions
• General Ledger
• Project Costing
• Purchasing
• Order Management (Enterprise Pricer)
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Scope – Critical Success Factors
• Having buy-in from senior leadership at the home office.
• Identifying Global Business Process owners, who have the authority to make decisions
quickly, champion the system, know who the subject matter experts are, and communicate
decisions to the rest of the client’s Organization.
• Designing a future state system that builds upon the North American business processes
and also meets the regulatory requirements in Latin America.
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Requirements Gathering
• Questionnaires to help accelerate the communication
• Incorporated questionnaire from previous projects
• Distributed to Latin America North leader and South leader
• Client clarifications
• Emtec clarifications
• Consolidated responses into a single repository per business process
• Volume counts
• Sample documents (forms, reports)
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Fit-Gap
• Extracted the requirements from questionnaire into spreadsheet
• Grouped similar processes together
• Assigned requirement id’s and linked to source for traceability
• Analyzed how the requirement could be met by PeopleSoft:
–Fit is works with delivered PeopleSoft
–Gap requires development work
• Must Have
–Resolution – brief description of how to meet requirement
–Decision if In or Out of Scope
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Results
• Launched International Wave 1 in October 2013
• Minimal issues within the region
• Retired multiple legacy applications and automated many existing processes
• Better reporting, visibility and consistent across regions
• Provided onsite support in regional hub during first month-end close
• Currently working on Wave 2
–Remainder of Latin America (Financials and Order to Cash)
–Canada (Order to Cash)
–OBIA – Financial Analytics
• Expected go-live in August 2014
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Lessons Learned
• What was successful:
–Leadership in Latin America took an active role
–Daily one hour meetings to review questionnaires
–Comprehensive list of requirements
–Leveraged core team resources with local language skills throughout project lifecycle (Both client and
Emtec team members)
• What needs improvement
–Plan for additional time to gather requirements due to resource constraints at smaller regional offices
–Stakeholder involvement was not complete until later in the project
–Planning for connectivity issues in certain regional offices
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