CASE STUDY A GLOBAL RUBBER & MANUFACTURING

ORGANISATION

A GLOBAL RUBBER &

MANUFACTURING. , Selects
Value Consulting for
Advantaged Supply Chain Project

The Solution

Client
A GLOBAL RUBBER & MANUFACTURING is one of the

world's largest tire companies, with operations in most

regions of the world. the founding of The A GLOBAL

RUBBER & MANUFACTURING Company in 1898 seems

especially remarkable, for the beginning was anything but
auspicious.

A GLOBAL RUBBER & MANUFACTURING has

implement SAP ECC 6.0 Currently working on the

"Advantaged Supply Chain Project", one of most crucial and

successful .SCM initiatives taken up this Tire manufacturing
Giant by Value Consulting

Company Profile

Company Name - A GLOBAL RUBBER &

MANUFACTURING
Industry - World's largest Tire companies
Employees Location USA
Turnover Application SAP ECC 6.0/ "Advantaged Supply
Chain Project",
Value Consulting Achievements : Launched and
executed various System Performance
Improvement measures undertaken

Business Challenge

"Advantaged Supply Chain Project", one of most

crucial Challenge for this Tire manufacturing
Giant

Configured most appropriate Disaggregation logic for various Key

figures to support the Business requirements and improve the mix
values for various forecast and history Key figures at detailed levels
Provided Solutions to the gaps identified by business in using Life
Cycle Planning and addressedthese issues by modeling the solution to
based on the requirements
Worked on Unit and Integration Test scripts for several DP scenarios
Configured several macros based on requirements like : Macros using
complex fixing logics,Macros to calculate Blue line charts using trend
and slope functions
Addressed several DP issues related Notes Creation and
Management,LivecacheInconsistencies, Live cache anchor problems,
decimals in DP, Planning Area copy, Aggregates and so on.
Interacted with SAP support from Brazil, Germany, India to solve
several Very High Priority OSS Messages
Proposed workarounds to Stop generating Forecast for Dead
Proposed an alternate Design Solution for using Allocation factors to
retain Location based Forecasts in DP in Lieu of Location Split table
Proposed and configured Multiple Planning areas to support various
Business requirements like Reporting activities for S&OP
Recommended appropriate Forecasting strategies that fit best to a
particular business division/product line
Designed robust solution to facilitate Complex Realignment
requirements in both Demand Planning and BI based on clients
Business processes, handled Complex and critical Realignment issues
in DP/BI , executed realignment surgically in DP for 1000s of
product lines and other characteristics, Implemented several
performance improvement measures specifically for Realignment jobs
Identified and Rectified and made possible the working of Forecast
disaggregation using Location
Allocation Factor Key figures by using the right mix of KFs,
disaggregation logic and Macros functions
Lead several critical implementation and Go Live prep activities like
building the Test and
Consolidation environments during Testing phase and Production
System during cutover
Developed Process chains for various standard DP activities and
effectively used Process chains for daily DP loads and few ad hoc
loads and thus provided greater control to the IT team over the Batch

CASE STUDY A GLOBAL RUBBER & MANUFACTURING

ORGANISATION

Blueprint to suit SAP Best practices for Demand

Planning
Demand Planning Business Processes for A
GLOBAL RUBBER & MANUFACTURING
New features of DP like Key Figure Specific
Locking, Macros with Fixing/Unfixing capability,
DP integration with Excel, carried out maintenance
of a Live Planning Area (without deactivation
Creation of exhaustive and quality Training
material for Super User Training and End User
training on diverse DP functionalities like Basic
Navigation, Master Data Maintenance, Forecasting
Analysis, Product Lifecycle Management,
Consumer OE, Commercial OE & Race PBU
Scenarios and Release to SNP.
Support for all these Training Sessions in
classroom.

Results
Addressed bottlenecks in Performance by
launching initiatives on several areas of DP
like Employing Aggregates in DP after
thorough analysis of suitable candidates for
Aggregates,
Improved the read access in Planning Books
by 200%

Configured Parallel processing profiles for
time consuming DP Batch processes and
derived benefits from its application,
Reduced the processing times by 70%

Created, Streamlined and optimized the
Batch processes like Forecast Runs, Macro
job runs, all the DP processes. Improved
Batch performance by 80 - 100%.
Received compliments from Client on being
able to complete critical work within
deadlines, effective communication and for
the high quality of training content produced
for several Business users training classes

processes and facilitate the multiple TILT meetings during the S&OP
monthly cycles
Hand held the Marketing Category & Sales Channels Business users
and the mid level managers to walk through the essential steps in
S&OP process within APO

About Value Consulting

Value Consulting is a software products & IT services provider
serving enterprise customers in the Asia, Europe and. We provide services
to industry segments, including Banking and
Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, Public Sector,
Retail and Telecommunications. With a reputation for high quality and
reliability Value Consulting provides a range of IT
services, from Software Application Development and Strategic IT
Consulting to Recruitment Process Outsourcing, and
Implementation of Third Party Enterprise-wide products, including SAP

Development Centers
Value Consulting offers Data Centers, Quality Assurance & Testing
Labs, Technology Innovation and Research and Development Labs.
Our facilities are located at:

In India

Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi

Globally

USA, UK, Canada etc