Dehn SE | Restructuring and transformation in the financial sector
DEHN SE is a leading, internationally active family-owned electrical engineering company with around 2,000 employees worldwide and offers innovative products and solutions as well as comprehensive services for surge, lightning and occupational safety.
DEHN's activities focus on the protection of plant and building technology, transportation and telecommunications systems, the process industry and photovoltaic and wind power plants, as well as many other areas of application. In addition to over 100 years of experience, the company's steady growth is based above all on the highest quality standards and a consistent global customer and market orientation.
PROJECT ORIENTATION AND MODULES INVOLVED
The functional scope of this project was to support the splitting of a company code into several legally independent units by defining and setting up financial and controlling structures in order to enable general ledger accounting (FI-GL), accounts payable and accounts receivable (FI-AP/AR) and asset accounting in the FI area – and overhead management with cost center accounting and internal order processing in Controlling.
In addition, the integration of finance and logistics modules, in particular Materials Management (MM) for the PtP process (Inbound Process / Purchase to Pay) and Sales and Distribution (SD) for the OtC process (Outbound Process / Order to Cash), was designed and implemented.
Challenge
- Reorganization of the corporate structure to improve the division of ownership and to separate individual business areas
- Design and implementation of the structure and procedure approved in advance with the authorities
- Splitting the corporate structure according to assets and processes, enabling intercompany processes
Project Goals
- Recording the business requirements for the restructuring and their IT transformation and implementation in SAP ECC
- Implementation of three new company codes with their respective business processes in an existing controlling area, including process design, implementation, testing, cut-over, go-live and hypercare
Main Benefit for Dehn
- Project implementation In-Time, In-Budget and Quality
- Optimized organizational structure with clear separation of responsibilities
- Empowerment of intercompany processes
