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We present you a base of guides and case studies prepared by professionals – BCC employees, customers and partners:

Advice on how to plan implementations and how to carry them out in order to avoid errors
Tips on how to develop the SAP environment and IT infrastructure
BCC customers’ experience – from challenges to benefits

Mercury Engineering: Project, construction site, system

SAP solutions for construction engineering include handling specific processes in connection with construction projects delivery. A lot of the processes take place where the system’s logistic functions, finance handling and timesheet processing meet. During the rollout of a corporate solution at Mercury Engineering, experience of a Polish implementation partner, who knows Polish business and legal circumstances, was used.

CASE STUDY | Author: Mirosława Huk (BCC) | Rating: 1 | Hits: 1611

The SAP template for the corporation: made in Poland

Castorama Poland is not only a market leader in the category of DIY retailers in our country, but also a leading company of the Kingfisher Group in terms of financial results and the number of newly opened stores. No wonder that the corporation decided that the SAP system template would be created in the country on the Vistula River. This will enable the company to use its business experience and potential.

CASE STUDY | Authors: Jakub Bartkowiak (BCC), Krzysztof Cimoch (BCC) | Rating: 3 | Hits: 1195

Grupa Żywiec (Heineken Group): Zestful performance

Almost 223,000 incoming invoices and 4 million A/R invoices a year. Dealing with 55 thousand customers and the 6 companies of the Group – the 140 employees of the Financial Accounting Center of the Grupa Żywiec are really busy people. Increasing the work quality, efficiency and the drive for a precise calculation of the service unit costs as the basis for internal settlements between companies – these are the basic challenges for the solution responsible for the performance monitoring and calculation of premiums for the FAC employees.

CASE STUDY | Author: Marcin Adamczyk (BCC) | Rating: 5 | Hits: 2594

SAP HR in PZL Mielec a Sikorsky Company

Since January 2011, the personnel administration and payroll for nearly 2,000 employees of Aviation Works Mielec has been run in SAP HR. The system, implemented for the Polish company, has been integrated with the SAP ERP solution of the UTC corporation, which entailed the necessity of introducing a restrictive IT security into the project and changing the management rules that are in force in UTC. The compliance of the new system with the requirements of the SOX Act was also a very important necessity.

CASE STUDY | Authors: Dariusz Nykiel (PZL Mielec), Wojciech Maćkowiak (BCC) | Rating: 0 | Hits: 1492

Sokołów: Appetite for SAP

Ham on an Easter table, sandwiches to work, sausages on a barbecue or tinned meat in a rucksack - the Sokołów brand accompanies us every day. Proven recipes, the highest quality raw materials, modern production lines and employee commitment make up the reasons for the company's success. The Sokołów Group is leading the way also in the IT area: since May 2010 - as the first large company in the meat industry in Poland - it has been using a wide range of functionalities of the SAP ERP system. The complex structure of the company - which includes seven production plants and subsidiaries of various profiles such as agricultural and livestock farms, as well as an entity dealing with export - was one of the greatest challenges in the SAP implementation. It also divided the project into stages. Currently, the SAP solution is being rolled out to the distribution centres. An equally important challenge was to cover industry-specific processes with the system. The handling of livestock purchases, returnable packaging distribution and accounting, as well as transportation planning and accounting required innovative tools to be built in SAP.

CASE STUDY | Author: Mirosława Huk (BCC) | Rating: 4 | Hits: 747

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Fit & Gap analysis in SAP rollout projects

How to avoid problems during the implementation resulting from not identifying the local needs? How to find and properly identify the differences between the SAP template system for the corporation and local legal and business needs? The Fit & Gap analysis may be helpful – a standard element of BCC Go Forward methodology for projects of rollout type.

GUIDE | Author: Beata Niemiec-Siwek (BCC) | Rating: 0 | Hits: 93

Strategic data warehouse

Many large corporations struggle with creating an efficient and reliable reporting environment. It is not an easy task to gather, what is often non-standardized data, that originates in different locations, departments and plethora of IT systems. A Business Intelligence strategy that allows for the use of locally collected data in centralized decision-making processes should underlie any analytical system’s architecture.

GUIDE | Author: Aneta Suchanecka (BCC) | Rating: 4 | Hits: 790

Mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs in SAP systems

Mergers and acquisitions of companies or a spin-off of a part of a company’s business are frequent ways to gain particular financial benefits and to increase the company’s goodwill on the market and for shareholders. Business reorganization is a huge legal and organizational undertaking. The IT area also requires a detailed analysis of changes and adaptation needs both with regard to the law and the SAP technical infrastructure and application layer.

GUIDE | Author: Maciej Gerke (BCC) | Rating: 3 | Hits: 1590

Talent management in SAP HR

Extensive employee training programmes, incentive systems, employee assessment, recruitment and employment strategies – the goal of these activities is to develop competences and to find and maintain the most valuable employees. Talent Management tools in SAP HR facilitate more consistent and effective talent management in the organization – from the level of the employee up to the support of a company’s business goal execution.

GUIDE | Author: Wojciech Maćkowiak (BCC) | Rating: 4 | Hits: 1547

Time for e-shop in SAP

E-shops are becoming increasingly popular as an effective, safe and convenient sales channel. Encouraged by successful “retail” shops, also the stores operating in the B2B model are growing more and more dynamically. SAP E-Commerce is a tool dedicated for companies that already use SAP ERP or SAP CRM and want to develop own relations with business customers through the trade in the network.

GUIDE | Author: Paweł Jędrasiewicz (BCC) | Rating: 4.86 | Hits: 1107

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MBO in Makro (Metro Group): company’s objective identified with the one of its’ employees

Introduction of management by objectives makes the employees’ effort concentrate on the objectives of the company. New motivation mode in Makro, based on MBO, was supported with complex SAP solutions.

CASE STUDY | Author: Łukasz Dynos (BCC) | Rating: 3 | Hits: 4147

Sitech: Automotive – logistics is the key

Extremely demanding technological parameters, short delivery times and stringent quality checks are just examples of the challenges facing the automotive sector companies every day. While implementing the SAP system expansion project, the car seat manufacturer from Polkowice focused on the development of the logistic modules of the system, crucial to the effectiveness of the company operations.

CASE STUDY | Authors: Sebastian Lotz (Sitech), Tomasz Horak (BCC) | Rating: 5 | Hits: 3037

Kompania Piwowarska (SABMiller Group): Managing Marketing Campaigns

It is commonly believed that only 50% of marketing expenditures are effective. Unfortunately, it is hard to tell which 50% and when. A system solution has been launched in Kompania Piwowarska to facilitate the identification of the right half.

CASE STUDY | Authors: Agnieszka Kreis (Kompania Piwowarska), Witold Drożdżyński (BCC) | Rating: 4 | Hits: 2980

Nestlé: SAP SEM-BSC (Balanced Scorecard)

Can an IT system support company management with the use of a balanced scorecard? The example of the Polish Nestlé unit proves it can.

CASE STUDY | Author: Krzysztof Siwiec (BCC) | Rating: 3.5 | Hits: 2831

Grupa Żywiec (Heineken Group): Zestful performance

CASE STUDY | Author: Marcin Adamczyk (BCC) | Rating: 5 | Hits: 2594

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Grupa Żywiec (Heineken Group): Zestful performance

CASE STUDY | Author: Marcin Adamczyk (BCC) | Rating: 5 | Hits: 2580

SAP migration in ICN Polfa Rzeszów (Valeant Group)

Contrary to the dominant trend towards ERP systems centralization, Valeant decided to extract SAP systems of Polfa Rzeszów. The results range from a possibility of independent SAP development for ICN Polfa's needs to a considerably increased system efficiency.

CASE STUDY | Authors: Marek Bieniasz (ICN Polfa Rzeszów), Mirosław Malach (BCC) | Rating: 5 | Hits: 1372

Antalis: SAP in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Lithuania

The SAP project at Antalis was the largest international SAP implementation so far carried out by a Polish implementation company. The enterprise, which lasted over 20 months, resulted in including 4 units of Antalis into the corporate IT system, thanks to which they can take advantage of best practices and, consequently, the synergy effect.

CASE STUDY | Author: Grzegorz Grupiński (BCC) | Rating: 5 | Hits: 2002

BCC customers’ experience from upgrades to SAP ECC 6.0

The newest recommended version of SAP ERP is ECC 6.0 (Enterprise Central Component), with Enhancement Package 4. In order to avail of the recent version of the system, first you need to upgrade the system. Anyone who has upgraded their system or application package on their home computer knows that it is very labor-intensive and that there are so many things you need to remember. No wonder an upgrade of the most important business application in a company takes a form of an individual project which is scheduled, assigned a team, a manager and methodology, and allocated a budget.

CASE STUDY | Author: Mirosława Huk (BCC) | Rating: 5 | Hits: 634

PKN Orlen: MBO should be implemented complexly

Experience of the biggest Polish company shows that making implementation of MBO concept effective requires treating it with complexity. You have to remember about supporting the motivation system with complete and reliable information from different areas. Moreover, you have to provide tools dealing with processing and accessing data connected with MBO.

CASE STUDY | Authors: Marcin Kraska (BCC), Ewa Ignaszewska (BCC) | Rating: 5 | Hits: 2302