With merger and acquisitions being a common occurrence in today's business world, enterprises worldwide are going through restructuring in their business to be better aligned and to reduce the cost of ownership. This has resulted in a need to consolidate their diverse SAP landscapes and harmonize their processes implemented across multiple SAP instances. Any SAP consolidation project is a technically challenging assignment forcing enterprises to ponder whether it’s the right thing to do. In this session, IBM will share their experience of handling consolidation for their global clients and realizing the value for them.

The sections that follow deal with sub-applications as they relate to consolidation, from a
business administration point of view.
Consolidation of companies (legal consolidation)
Consolidation of business units within a company
Consolidation of business areas
Consolidation of profit centers
Consolidation of product group - profitability analyses

A typical problem for Consolidation is that the data needed is not managed in a single, centralized system.Instead it must be aggregated from multiple computers or databases. The section “Distribution Scenarios” deals with this problem. When applications are not centralized, local key structures are usually developed independently. A crucial goal for consolidated reporting is to progress towards a key structure common to the entire corporate group. The section ‘Key Structures’ goes into more detail concerning assignment options and the consequences thereof. Fast and dependable data transfer is a primary concern in a consolidation.

Matrix Technology has worked on multiple consolidation projects and understand how to find and resolve data collisions and configuration conflicts. We have Consultants who have more then 12 years of Experience. We can re-engineer business processes, implement complete solutions, and manage your entire consolidation project - leaving you free to focus on running the most critical parts of your business.