As the global economic landscape undergoes profound restructuring, businesses expanding overseas has become an irreversible trend. However, data shows that over 60% of companies face obstacles in their internationalization process, facing numerous market, political, and cultural challenges. It is crucial for companies to effectively leverage their resources and advantages to achieve low-risk and low-cost global expansion.
 

The enterprise featured in this case is an industrial automation equipment company, specializing in providing professional equipment and tools for industries such as the automotive industry, household appliances, energy, construction, aviation and shipbuilding. Its business covers 160 countries and regions.
 

Implementation Scope

Organization Scope

• The implementing organizations for this project are 2 countries (China, Japan), 3 legal entities, and 4 regions

Implementation Modules

• Material Management (MM), Production Planning and Control (PP), Sales and Distribution (SD), Financial Accounting (FI), Cost Control (CO), Project Management (PS)

 

Project Challenges

• Organizational structure and authority reorganization: During the company's planning and project period, all organizational structures and departmental authorities of the group will be reorganized and defined;
• Business and financial information silos: The company uses a custom-developed ERP program, while the finance department uses Kingdee K3, which cannot achieve data interoperability, resulting in information silos and inconsistent business and financial data;
• Business non-standardization: The project progress management is not standardized, the master data is not unified, historical data has not been cleared, management is difficult, and it relies heavily on manual intervention;
• IPO compliance and risk avoidance: While conducting business analysis, it is necessary to consider the requirements of IPO and internal control management.

 

Project Goal

• Integrate the financial system and the logistics system to achieve the integration of business and finance;
• Reorganize the internal processes of the enterprise, establish an effective management mechanism, and reduce management costs;
• Build a unified information platform to achieve information data sharing and improve management efficiency;
• Carry out detailed internal enterprise management to control and organize costs; Strengthen the management of projects, including project planning, project costs, and project control.

 

Project Benefits

   

 

• The transaction links between affiliated companies can be configured, the transaction prices can be flexibly selected, the documents can be directly and automatically associated, virtual documents can be automatically posted, and the inbound inventory POD management is also provided.
• A configurable solution (VC BOM) is adopted to achieve the configuration management of the corresponding production BOM and the entire process from sales, production to procurement.
• The overseas sales company fully uses the SAP system to meet the requirements of group and local reporting management, while simplifying the financial work, avoiding the operation of two sets of accounts, and providing more accurate and timely data analysis.Analyze product, order, and salesperson profitability.

 

Decision Global Service Capabilities

Although the road to going overseas is full of challenges, as long as you find the right partner, choose the best overseas model, and master the overseas response strategy, you can effectively avoid potential risks, reasonably avoid pitfalls, and achieve high-quality overseas.

 

As a global leader in digital professional services, Decision always adheres to high industry standards and supports Chinese companies in achieving global operations based on business capabilities, operational capabilities, digital transformation capabilities, and governance capabilities:

• Experienced global operations delivery capabilities

Currently, Decision's global operations delivery has covered more than 40 countries and regions in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, etc., with more than 1,000 successful cases, enabling global companies to go global with high quality.

• Global solution packages focusing on industries

Global solution packages covering all walks of life support the implementation of Chinese companies' global operations from strategic design, business operations, financial and tax management, compliance control, brand marketing, talent management, sustainable development and other aspects.

• Enterprise global operations capability model

Decision has independently developed an enterprise global operations capability model, providing a one-stop service of "strategy - operation - business support", helping companies accelerate global development by evaluating and clarifying their future goals and planning corresponding routes accordingly.

In the future, Decision will provide more and better solutions and services for going global, helping Chinese companies to stand on the international competition stage and truly achieve global operations.
 

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