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Siemens Colgate Success Story Final

Colgate-Palmolive (Pakistan) Limited implemented an SAP system to integrate their business processes, enable data-driven decision making, and support growth objectives. The implementation was completed on time and on budget using internal IT staff and provided benefits like increased efficiency, cost reductions, and scalability. Key challenges included facilitating rapid growth while reducing costs and streamlining procurement, inventory, and sales visibility processes.

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Siemens Colgate Success Story Final

Colgate-Palmolive (Pakistan) Limited implemented an SAP system to integrate their business processes, enable data-driven decision making, and support growth objectives. The implementation was completed on time and on budget using internal IT staff and provided benefits like increased efficiency, cost reductions, and scalability. Key challenges included facilitating rapid growth while reducing costs and streamlining procurement, inventory, and sales visibility processes.

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SAP in Colgate is not just a system, for us it is transformation of people, processes and information in the whole organization.

It is a complete business change and a platform for us to adopt the best business practices recommended by SAP and followed by Colgate Worldwide to better optimize our resources and make critical business decisions
Zulfiqar Ali Lakhani Managing Director Colgate-Palmolive (Pakistan) Limited

Colgate-Palmolive (Pakistan) Limited Success Story


AT A GLANCE Location: Karachi, Pakistan Industry: Consumer Goods Products and Services: Oral Care, Personal Care, Surface Care, Fabric Care Website: http://www.colgate.com.pk/ Implementation Partner: Siemens Pakistan Engineering. Co. Ltd. Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan Limited was initially incorporated as National Detergents Limited in 1977. In 1990, Colgate-Palmolive acquired equity in the company and the name was changed to Colgate-Palmolive (Pakistan) Limited. Colgate People, working around the world, share a commitment to their three core corporate values: Caring, Global Teamwork and Continuous Improvement. These values are reflected not only in the quality of their products and the reputation of their Company but also in their dedication to where they do business. As a leading consumer products company, they are also deeply committed to advancing technology which can address changing consumer needs throughout the world. In fact, their goal is to use technology to create products that will continue to improve the quality of life for our consumers wherever they live.
Benefits Provides advanced flexibility and adaptability in business process execution Provides complete and integrated suite of ERP applications compatible with future expansion and integration Consolidated platform for forecasting, planning and more concise reporting Enhanced analysis and planning with integrated financial and sales information Enhanced employee and customer service satisfaction in all aspects of your business Greater scalability to extend brand portfolio Minimized total cost of ownership by making existing process transparent Increased operational efficiency in supply chain Visibility into inventory Better reporting and ability to manage cost Eliminated discrepancies and improved data integrity

Objectives Implement single centralized , integrated change control process for all application support Enable business strategy to enhance decisionmaking, improve forecasting accuracy and planning capabilities, enable best business processes and enable market expansion and diversification. Deliver tangible benefits to improve employee productivity and access to information, enable inventory reduction while maintaining or increasing service level, identify increase sales opportunities and reduce charge back through powerful allocation and pricing. Mitigate risk with integrated solution to manage all aspects of the business. Increase profitability Scalability to keep up with business growth Create an enterprise application backbone that could support the strategic plan

Challenges and Opportunities Facilitating rapid growth while keeping cost down Enable visibility into sales & production processes Streamline procurement and inventory processes Reduce capital and inventory costs of associated with decreasing product life cycle Mapping complex consumer industry business processes Avoid disruptions to order-to-cash processes and ensure timely revenue recognition Eliminate information synchronization issues Enhance business-to-business processes

Project Highlights Asset Revaluation Implementation of Product Hierarchy to four levels Automatic Batch Determination Process & Repetitive Manufacturing Processes to increase efficiency & reduce maintenance costs Sales Reports developed in ABAP on the criteria of tonnage & product hierarchy Solution Manager Implementation Clustered System / Oracle Dataguard implementation

Implementation Highlights The project was completed on-time and on budget, with an internal IT staff. Strong management commitment and guidance Approached as a business project, not an IT project Dedicated SAP project team and solution experts Business-led initiatives with clearly defined value and success criteria Smooth, well- orchestrated, problem-free implementation with no interruptions during go-live

Solution and Services SAP ECC 6.0 SAP Solution Manager Modules: FI, CO, MM, SD, PP, PM, ABAP, BASIS ASAP Implementation Phases Duration: 7 months implementation + 1 month support No. of users: 130 Database: Oracle Operating System : AIX

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