Wilson Sons aumenta a produtividade operacional em 35%

While they expertly deliver innovation and quality to their customers, Callaway Golf’s previous planning and reporting tool wasn’t making the cut. To evolve their enterprise, the sports giant decided to replace their outdated planning software with SAP Analytics Cloud for planning.

Together with Avvale, Callaway Golf successfully implemented SAP Analytics Cloud across their global enterprise in just 6 months. Now, Callaway Golf has a single, consolidated planning solution that has enabled streamlined expense and asset plans so they can focus on what they do best– revolutionizing the sporting world with cutting edge equipment.

A Wilson Sons é a maior operadora integrada de logística portuária e marítima do mercado brasileiro, com mais de 180 anos de experiência. A empresa tem cobertura nacional e oferece soluções completas para mais de 5.000 clientes, incluindo armadores, importadores e exportadores, indústria de óleo e gás, projetos de energia renovável, setor de agronegócios e outros participantes de diversos segmentos da economia.

O Desafio

A Wilson Sons é uma empresa que está sempre investindo em seu desenvolvimento, portanto, era natural que atualizasse seu sistema de Enterprise Performance Management (EPM).

Enquanto usava o Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), a empresa aproveitou a oportunidade para adicionar uma camada de infraestrutura modernizada a essa solução. Isso os motivou a atualizar a versão da ferramenta e migrar para servidores virtuais.

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O Impacto

Houve um impacto positivo nas operações da Wilson Sons após a atualização do sistema. Com a nova versão do Oracle EPM, a empresa teve maior desempenho na execução dos cálculos, aumento de produtividade de cerca de 35% e suporte contínuo da Oracle para a nova versão do sistema.

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The Challenge

Before integrating SAP Analytics Cloud, Callaway Golf's planning landscape centered around SAP's legacy planning solution, Business Planning and Simulation (BPS). While BPS met Callaway Golf's planning needs for many years, the enterprise began to experience limitations with their old solution:

  • Disconnected plans across the board: As Callaway Golf expanded and acquired new brands, planning processes greatly differed across the enterprise with some business units using Excel spreadsheets and others using legacy solutions for planning.
  • Outdated planning functionalities: The existing legacy planning solution lacked many modern functionalities. Among them, salary calculations and asset depreciation automation needed improvement. As a result, it became difficult to create detailed and accurate forecasts across the globe.
  • Significant IT support: The legacy solution required continuous management from IT to maintain runtime. IT had to carve out a full day every week to manually maintain the solution.
  • No single source of truth: Various departments and brands used different data sources, which led to data silos across the organization, making it difficult to gain a clear picture of the enterprise's planned expenses.
  • Rigid user interface: Legacy forecasting system was difficult to navigate and lacked working functions and calculations across the board, such as planning on depreciation and existing assets, adding vendors or members on the fly, and breaking down their cost center expense planning forecasts.

The Approach

With Avvale experts on their side, Callaway Golf laid out the following goals for their new planning landscape with SAP Analytics Cloud:

  • Crowdsource and consolidate plans across the enterprise to gain a global overview of their planned expenses and expand the input capabilities to each responsible owner.
  • Leverage elevated planning functionalities to create faster and more accurate forecast cost center expense and asset reports. The ability to customize calculations enhances and automates the reporting metrics.
  • Harness the power of self-service analytics to alleviate IT from the burden of simple maintenance and data entry requests, so they can focus on high-ROI tasks.
  • Maximize user-driven admin capabilities to control the management of calculations and forms.
  • Create new KPls driven by the business needs.

When SEM-BPS was the center of Callaway Golf's planning landscape, flexibility was a huge factor that was missing. SAP Analytics Cloud contains powerful scenario planning capabilities that help organizations quickly uncover actionable insights to make data-driven decisions. For Callaway Golf, SAP Analytics Cloud's modern planning functionalities provided users with the ability to:

  • Add members on the fly
  • Plan on existing as well as planned assets and automatically calculate the depreciation of values
  • Test "what-if" scenarios for deeper analysis by creating private versions of plans
  • Customize the solution based on their current business process
  • Perform driver-based calculations
  • Empower users to execute end-to-end planning scenarios, without the help of IT

O Futuro

Com a garantia de suporte da Oracle por mais alguns anos, a Wilson Sons já pode planejar a migração da plataforma on-premises para a versão em nuvem do Oracle SaaS. Com essa atualização, a migração do Oracle HFM para o Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close (FCC) ocorrerá de maneira oportuna e estruturada.

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