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Patni Web-enables financial processes of a mid-size software services firm within time and budget, using PeopleSoft FSCM 8.4 |
Patni's vast experience in PeopleSoft implementation helped to remove show-stoppers and accelerated time to go-live, ensuring streamlining of core financial processes, better manageability and organizational effectiveness.
The Client
A mid-sized US based Software Services company, with about 4000 employees and sizeable operations in India, besides its many locations worldwide.
The Challenge
The client wanted to streamline its financial business processes across geographies and have an integrated organization-wide uniformity of processes, procedures, consolidation and reporting. The end objective also included Web-based connectivity for employees enabling anywhere, anytime use of the financial system from across the globe.
The client thus initiated a world-wide implementation of the PeopleSoft Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) 8.4. The implementation was soon plagued by a number of show-stoppers:
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Lack of clarity on the expectations from the PeopleSoft implementation |
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Inadequate preparation, hurried business analysis and requirement gathering, inadequate training, low end-user involvement, lack of fulltime resource availability, |
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Inadequate documentation and absence of critical customization documents |
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Lack of expertise in ERP implementation. |
The client's senior management in disillusionment turned to Patni which has had a huge success in implementing Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) 8.4 for its own internal business processes across the globe within time and budget.
The Solution
Patni made a quick assessment using standard templates on the health of the implementation and quickly diagnosed that the entire exercise of the implementation was to be redone and PeopleSoft FSCM 8.4 to be re-implemented.
Adopting the methodology: streamline, integrate, architect, configure, and customize, Patni's key responsibilities on the project involved:
The Technology
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Software: PeopleSoft Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) 8.4: 50 Concurrent Users |
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Hardware: Dell Server Class Machines: P4 with Windows 2000 Operating System |
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Database: MS/SQL sever 2000 |
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The Benefits
Patni's vast experience in PeopleSoft implementation, standard quality and SDLC processes, helped in reducing the postimplementation show stoppers and time to go-live.
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Standard SDLC and documentation processes changed the scenario from being 'person dependent' to being 'process dependent'. This made the entire knowledge impersonal, thereby eliminating dependence on transient personnel. |
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Operational efficiency and competency building for PeopleSoft achieved through network, database, business processes, resources, allocation of tasks being synchronized and tuned for maximum performance. |
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Proactive identifying of bugs and defects at the time of development, enabled through Introduction of better testing processes. |
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Improvement in business processes and minimizing of customizations in the PeopleSoft deployment, through consulting in the areas of functional expertise. |
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Closing of books moved up from yearly closing to monthly closing. |
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Moving from the existing manual procedures to institutionalized allocation, consolidation and reevaluation using PeopleSoft. |
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