CO-PA Reporting Turbo

In order to continue to grow sustainably and profitably in the future, the Management Klingele Papierwerke is making many adjustments. IT-supported, transparent and efficient business processes are relevant to competition. Klingele has been relying on the application's integrated functions for years SAP ERPThe monthly profit and market segment statement (CO-PA) is the central instrument for managing the company. The profitability analyses provide the Management a view of the economic situation, segmented according to criteria such as product, product category, Customersales territory or material.

CO-PA billing almost in real time

The faster the corresponding evaluations are available, the sooner it is possible to react to market changes - a factor that is absolutely critical to business. "In terms of performance and flexibility, CO-PA reporting in SAP ERP was no longer able to meet our increased requirements satisfactorily," says Oliver Schiessl, Head of IT at Klingele.

That's why Klingele has developed its CO-PAProcesses and -Analyses The company has ignited the turbo - with the in-memory solution Hana CO-PA Accelerator and the business intelligence (BI) software SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Edition for Microsoft Office.

With the introduction of the two solutions, the Management Klingele can recognize market changes earlier and react immediately. The Controlling has more room for core tasks. No more waiting for reports, queries are now carried out according to the BI self-service concept and internal IT is relieved. Klingele, an internationally active family business, is one of the leading manufacturers of corrugated base paper and corrugated cardboard packaging solutions.

The products are developed on the basis of the requirements of the Customers made to measure. The company covers the entire process chain, from the development and production of packaging solutions to advice on automation concepts and micrologistics, through to logistics processing and just-in-time delivery. On request, Klingele can also take care of picking and shipping the packaging solutions.

This has resulted in a modern, high-performance platform that can be used to carry out cost allocations as part of profit and loss and market segment accounting at lightning speed and to Analyses down to the line item level. The necessary Data from SAP ERP are converted into "Real-time" replicated in the in-memory solution that the ERP-application in the sidecar model, so that the evaluations are immediately available.

Reports within seconds

"Through the use of Hana has drastically accelerated computing operations and reduced query response times by a factor of 50. Whereas it used to take around ten minutes to receive the required reports, it now takes around ten to 15 seconds. There is practically no waiting time"

As the Controlling several of these per day Analyses This leaves him more room for core tasks, for error analysis or the interpretation of key figures, for example, which the Management for its decisions. With the intuitive BI tool SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, which replaces the technically outdated SAP report generators and "rigid" Abap reporting, reports on profitability and profitability analyses can be created much more easily and conveniently than before.

The KPIs are presented to the business user as reports according to the queries defined in the SAP BEx Query Designer in the familiar Microsoft-Excel environment, where the user can Data can then be processed further without any problems or used for secondary calculations.

Controlling creates queries itself

The specialist users in the Controlling receive with their Analyses unprecedented flexibility, because they can now create ad-hoc queries independently and then use them almost instantly. Real-time carry out. Since the Controlling By procuring the required information independently in the form of a BI self-service, it is also less dependent on the IT department, which also benefits from this and can use the programming capacities freed up in this way for other tasks.

During the implementation of Hana CO-PA Accelerator and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, those responsible relied on the Process- and consulting expertise of Orbis from Saarbrücken. The new solutions were introduced in just two months. They went live at the beginning of 2016. This was also possible because only SAP standard tools are used; only the reports are individually designed and implemented, explains Schiessl.

With Hana a lot in the future

The next steps are already on the horizon: in the foreseeable future Hana CO-PA Accelerator and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, which are currently only available from the Controlling The new processes used at the corrugated cardboard plant at the headquarters in Remshalden will be rolled out to all other corrugated cardboard plants. The introduction of special management cockpits is also planned.