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When facing mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, •• Cut administrative costs and tap the
or internal reorganizations, companies need competitive synergies generated through
innovative business solutions to help align org mergers and acquisitions
anizational structures and processes within
their system landscapes. During a corporate The merger of legal entities can result in the
restructuring, SAP Landscape Transformation need to merge company codes on your sys
software can help you: tem landscape, for example, to meet financial
•• Realize and support integration of newly accounting, tax, or trade law requirements, and
acquired legal entities into existing organi facilitate the management of legally indepen
zational structures and system landscapes dent business units. Changes must be applied
•• Merge several subdivisions within formerly consistently and with as little manual work as
disparate companies or organizational possible in all affected SAP components that
structures are in use in your company.
Deep dive into the company code merge solution Client Client
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Company code Company code Company code Company code Company code Company code Company code
B001 B00n B002 B00m B001 + B00n B002 B00m
Figure: Results of a company code merge using SAP® Landscape Transformation software
Deep dive into the company code merge solution For example, the same general ledger accounts Vaclav Svub, head of the ERP Center at ABB,
in different company codes can only be merged says that with SAP Landscape Transformation,
Results of SAP Landscape Transformation if they are identical with regard to their most “We were able to fulfill business requirements
software important characteristics. The company code very quickly and execute our project smoothly.
merge analysis checks the required setup With coaching from SAP experts, we were able
Smooth data transformation with a project and provides the information with which G/L to run the project using only internal resources.”
road map accounts need to be harmonized beforehand.
Tap into the synergies of mergers and Moreover, the group’s services can be tailored Prof. Dr. Matthias Mehrtens, vice president
acquisitions specifically to meet your individual require at Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG, says, “The
ments, no matter how complex the transfor U.S. company’s merger was implemented very
Partner with the System Landscape mation needs are. To help successfully realize successfully in terms of budget and time. . . .
Optimization group your transformation scenario, our experts Everything went smoothly and stayed under
guide you through every phase of the trans control thanks to the SAP team from the System
formation project – from selecting the best Landscape Optimization group.”
approach, setting up a project plan, and imple
menting a blueprint to helping you design
your system landscape in a structured way.
Summary Solution
Business-driven changes to corporate struc •• Merge company codes to align organizational
tures such as mergers, acquisitions, and reorga structures and processes at system level
nizations require adaptation of your existing •• Combine transformation scenarios, such as
SAP® system landscapes. Your company must controlling area merge and company code
harmonize its data and optimize processes merge, with one system downtime
for accurate, reliable data, and consolidate •• Use predefined analyses to enable technical
disparate IT solutions and centralize system feasibility for transformation projects
landscapes to cut costs. SAP Landscape •• Apply the project road map to help ensure
Transformation software helps you reach guided execution
these objectives without disrupting business.
Benefits
Objectives •• Undisrupted business operations due to
•• Integrate and tap synergies of acquired standardized methodologies
companies •• Greater ability to meet legal and
•• Adapt system landscape to meet changing business-driven requirements
business and legal requirements •• Fast, flexible solutions using proven
•• Transform data in affected SAP components technologies to accelerate transformation
quickly and consistently and reduce costs
•• Realize complex reorganization scenarios
without impacting business operations Learn more
To find out more, call your SAP representative
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