Skelta in FMCG
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CUSTOMER PROFILE The Customer is a Multinational FMCG Company in the Food & Beverages segment with operations in several countries and India. The Indian operations of are driven through multiple companies and each company is responsible for one or more business units. Every business unit also has marketing units and other subordinate units. THE CHALLENGE As a part of its organization strategy, the Customer adopts centralized budget management with integrated budgets for capital acquisitions for all business units. The Customer had implemented a custom built application for Capital Acquisition Requests (CAR). A centralized Intranet application, this system was used to manage approvals of all capital acquisition requests within each Business Unit (BU). CAR approvals were routed based on an authority matrix for spend type, amount, and whether the expenses was planned or unplanned. The Customers application had inbuilt inflexibilities – it could not support changes in CAR policies for approval limits, new spend types, changes in process and changes in hierarchy. Retrieval of prior approvals and storage of documents were not simple. The application did not provide for easy tracking of CAR requests through the approval process. The system did not provide for visibility and transparency in the approval process. The system was also not easily scalable – new business units and marketing units could not be added without reprogramming. The biggest drawback of the current system was the inability to quickly define and implement new processes or changes in existing processes for CAR. For example, any modifications to the authority matrix for authority limits or approver roles could not be implemented without new coding. Because of these disadvantages, the system had not been implemented across all business units in India – a factor that led to delays in approval of capital expenditure in these units. CASE STUDY A Multinational FMCG Company LOCATION: INDIA INDUSTRY: Food & Beverages PRODUCT: Skelta BPM.NET THE SOLUTION The Customer decided to replace its current application with a new CAR Online Approval system built on Skelta SharePoint Accelerator and hosted on the Customers SharePoint Portal Server deployed on a small server farm. The Skelta CAR Online Approval system was designed with these performance characteristics: Number of Users: Support for up to 25,000 users Process 37 requests per second (including 5 searches per second) SharePoint Portal Server extended document management characteristics to the CAR system with the ability to: Index 5 documents per second Store up to 100,000 documents Index up to 1 million documents Host up to 10,000 team and personal sites Host up to 5 portal sites (using shared services)
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A multinational FMCG Organization in the food & beverages segment uses Skelta BPM to build a CAR (Capital Acquisition Request) online approval system.
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CUSTOMER PROFILE
The Customer is a Multinational FMCG Company in the Food & Beverages segment with operations in several countries and India. The Indian operations of are driven through multiple companies and each company is responsible for one or more business units. Every business unit also has marketing units and other subordinate units.
THE CHALLENGE
As a part of its organization strategy, the Customer adopts centralized budget management with integrated budgets for capital acquisitions for all business units. The Customer had implemented a custom built application for Capital Acquisition Requests (CAR). A centralized Intranet application, this system was used to manage approvals of all capital acquisition requests within each Business Unit (BU). CAR approvals were routed based on an authority matrix for spend type, amount, and whether the expenses was planned or unplanned.
The Customers application had inbuilt inflexibilities – it could not support changes in CAR policies for approval limits, new spend types, changes in process and changes in hierarchy. Retrieval of prior approvals and storage of documents were not simple. The application did not provide for easy tracking of CAR requests through the approval process. The system did not provide for visibility and transparency in the approval process.
The system was also not easily scalable – new business units and marketing units could not be added without reprogramming.
The biggest drawback of the current system was the inability to quickly define and implement new processes or changes in existing processes for CAR. For example, any modifications to the authority matrix for authority limits or approver roles could not be implemented without new coding.
Because of these disadvantages, the system had not been implemented across all business units in India – a factor that led to delays in approval of capital expenditure in these units.
CASE STUDY
A Multinational FMCG CompanyLOCATION: INDIA
INDUSTRY: Food & Beverages
PRODUCT: Skelta BPM.NET
THE SOLUTION
The Customer decided to replace its current application with a new CAR Online Approval system built on Skelta SharePoint Accelerator and hosted on the Customers SharePoint Portal Server deployed on a small server farm.
The Skelta CAR Online Approval system was designed with these performance characteristics:
Number of Users: Support for up to 25,000 users Process 37 requests per second (including 5 searches per second)
SharePoint Portal Server extended document management characteristics to the CAR system with the ability to:
Index 5 documents per second Store up to 100,000 documents Index up to 1 million documents Host up to 10,000 team and personal sites Host up to 5 portal sites (using shared services)
Skelta's powerful process designer enabled the Customer to easily model and deploy its processes for CAR approvals. Any changes in the authority matrix could be applied by business users in the process designer.
The system provided a transparency and visibility to capital acquisition requests as users were now able to view the exact status of their requests at any time. As the system was 100% web-based, users could fill out approval requests online. Requests are routed to the appropriate authority levels for the business unit and are delivered by email and on an activity list of the approvers. The approver could either approve or return the request for clarifications. Approvals were no longer held up because the approver was not available – the approver now had the ability to delegate or reassign approvals for absence periods.
The new system also enabled the Customer to introduce collaborative approvals for unplanned expenditure.
Centralized approval system for all business units: The Skelta CAR Online Approval system enables the customer to implement the system in all business units. The system allows the customer to easily define individualized processes for different business units and market units. The system's load balancing and clustering features enabled the customer to scale it out. The customer has thus been able to reduce approval times in business units that had manual approval processes.
Transparent and visible approval processes: The CAR approval process enables the heads of different business units as well as the requestor to track online the status of the request, reasons for rejection, and additional information requests. Business Unit Heads can also track the status of budget utilization for sanctioned items. The system also provides a clear audit trail and simplifies internal audit processes.
Centralized Document Management: Skelta CAR Online Approval system integrates seamlessly with SharePoint Portal Server. The supporting documents for budget requests are stored in the specified SharePoint library and allow for easy retrieval.
Faster approvals align investments to business need: Skelta's features for escalations, re-assigning and delegation ensure that CAR approvals are no longer bottlenecked due to non-availability of approvers. Faster approvals have enabled the customer to align capital investments to match the immediacy of business needs.
BENEFITS
Innovation Center:
2nd Floor, Salarpuria Touchstone
Sarjapur Outer Ring Road,
Bangalore - 560087, India
Tel: +91 (80) 4060 2600
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.skelta.com
US Office:
Skelta Software, Inc.,1050 Winter Street, Suite 1000Waltham, MA 02451, U.S.A.Tel: 617 963 8312
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