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Four acquisitions integrated onto a standard ERP and shared services

A multi-year finance transformation that simplified the application landscape, brought acquisitions onto the standard ERP stack and restructured shared services around global process ownership.

20+applications retired across 52 entities
Client
Global travel technology company
Sector
Technology & travel
Service
Finance Transformation: Opportunity to Adoption

The challenge

Growth and acquisitions had left finance running on a patchwork of applications and local processes across 52 business entities. Each acquisition added more systems, more manual work and more cost.

Simplifying the application landscape
Global template
24applications and local processes (20+)1standard ERP and shared services

Illustrative. More than 20 applications and their infrastructure were retired across 52 entities.

Our approach

Transformation across people, process, technology and control:

  • Technology: led the Oracle EBS portfolio across Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay and consolidation, including seven end-to-end deployments. Retired more than 20 applications and their infrastructure.
  • Process: moved four acquired businesses onto the standard ERP stack and migrated their operations into the shared services centre.
  • People: restructured shared services around global process ownership, reducing process overheads across geographies.
  • Control: standardised processes and controls on a single template, simplifying audit and reporting.
  • 52entities on one finance model
  • 7end-to-end ERP deployments
  • 4acquisitions integrated
  • 20+applications retired

The outcome

  • 20+ applications and their infrastructure retired
  • Four acquisitions integrated onto the standard ERP and shared services, realising around 1.6 million in savings
  • A simpler, standardised finance operating model with clear global process ownership

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