Customer Use Case
Consolidations and planning on one platform, deployed internationally.
A $1.9 billion chemical manufacturer running management consolidations, profitability analysis and SAP EPM sales planning on SAP Analytics Cloud. It went live in six months, across international entities.
- Headquartered
- Northfield, IL
- Industry
- Chemical
- Employees
- 2,100
- Revenue
- $1.9 billion
- Market cap
- $1.7 billion
- Live
- Six months
What was built
SAP EPM sales planning, consolidations and profitability in one place
- ConsolidationsManagement consolidations across international entities
- ProfitabilityAllocations and profitability analysis
- PlanningSales and margin planning, intercompany and production planning
- ReportingExpense planning, bridge and price volume mix reporting
In their words
What finance said about the first cycle
“[We are] way ahead of schedule on our budgeting process as compared to past years. The department is running smooth.”
Stepan CompanyOn the 2018 budget cycle, the first run on the new platform.
In their own words
Stepan on stage at SAPinsider
Stepan’s FP&A director talked through the planning build in an interview recorded at the SAPinsider studio.
Customer Testimonials
S&C can now meet all legal entity and business unit consolidation and planning requirements.
Our team could not be more satisfied with your service...we look forward to working your team to deliver our next phase of BPC Mgmt reporting and all future phases of BPC.
I am very pleased with the results of the SAP Analytics Cloud project. It's nice to be able to dynamically view real time key business transformation in an easy to read format. The consultants from SimpleFi did an outstanding job on this project. Thanks to all!
I am very pleased with how the project went overall … our first consolidation has gone very smoothly. SimpleFi's accounting background and expertise were the perfect fit to help us implement significant process improvements and we are already seeing benefits from the automation of intercompany elimination processes.
Planning and coordination time down 25 to 35 percent, with production and financial planning in one repository.
Retail operations across 14 states, running integrated business, workforce and liquidity planning.
From Excel to SAP Analytics Cloud for monthly financial consolidations, reporting and data management.
[SimpleFi] delivered consolidations on time and under budget.
What stood out to us about SimpleFi was the continuity of the team. The people who learned our business and vision during the sales process were the same people we worked with through design, testing, and go-live.
Kathleen KingSVP Finance & CFO
[We are] way ahead of schedule on our budgeting process as compared to past years... the department is running smooth.
