The technical services group TÜV Süd has over 600 locations worldwide - and is more than just a testing institution. The experts advise their customers, test systems and products, certify and train. Around 16,000 employees with extensive industry knowledge ensure the optimisation of technology, systems and know-how in Europe, Asia and America.

Transparent unit

Global presence and competence in many specialised areas also require a transparent reporting system with up-to-date and uniform key figures worldwide - with a central reporting, planning and consolidation tool to which all companies are connected. In addition, the group controlling department of TÜV wanted as few interfaces as possible and intuitive user interfaces so that users could quickly familiarise themselves with the system. The standard software from SAP alone was therefore not enough. Together with the two add-on solutions AGIMENDO.edit and AGIMENDO.process developed by implementation partner IBsolution, the financial planning of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse fulfilled all wishes: "IBsolution supported our ideas from the very beginning. The developing IT experts adapted the new solution for us in such a way that we now have a powerful planning application," sums up Peter Chrobok, responsible for consolidation systems. The implementation pleased not only TÜV Süd, but also SAP AG: some functions of the new add-ons are to be integrated as standard in SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse in the future.

Quickly calculated

TÜV Süd AG not only carries out all reporting, consolidation and controlling processes with the SAP solution, but also has integrated financial planning. All data are interlinked, the financial experts create an annual projection for around 150 companies in no time at all, plan the balance sheet for the next three years and then carry out the group consolidation - all without in-depth IT knowledge. Whereas master data used to have to be transferred manually into several systems, today a single entry is sufficient. This reduces the error rate and increases speed. Time-consuming data migrations from the legacy system to SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse are no longer necessary - and the employees in the specialist department can concentrate on their core competences.

Maintained master data

IBsolution's add-on software AGIMENDO ensured simple processes, transparent interfaces and a short project runtime: The solution developed by IBsolution is standardised and pre-configured and can be quickly integrated into the existing corporate solution SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse. This saves time and costs.

With AGIMENDO.process, controllers have a full overview of the planning processes at all times: These now run centrally for all parts of the group, media breaks are avoided. When the planning round starts, each subsidiary worldwide is automatically informed by email and can thus directly enter their planning - the head office can see missing data at a glance and can ask for it accordingly. Tight reporting deadlines are no longer a challenge.

AGIMENDO.edit allows authorised employees from the specialist departments to maintain the master data they need for the process control of integrated financial planning. This is the basis for meaningful reporting. "Corporate planning and reporting are now the responsibility of our specialist department - and we have it much easier," sums up Josef Bichler, Head of Corporate Controlling. "We now do planning, reporting and consolidation in one system, without losing time due to interfaces."

In a nutshell: The advantages for the customer

• Decreasing costs by replacing the old system
• Continuous processes without time-consuming reconciliations
• Automated processes reduce errors in data transfer and entry
• Higher data quality through multi-stage data cleansing