B. Braun Melsungen AG
B. Braun supplies the global health market with products for anesthesia, intensive-care medicine, cardiology, extracorporeal blood treatment and surgery as well as services to clinics, physicians in private practice and the homecare sector.
Dialogue with those using B. Braun products on a daily basis consistently provides new insight, which has an impact on product engineering. This enables B. Braun to develop innovative products and services worldwide and thus to help optimize processes in clinics and practices and to increase safety and reliability for patients, physicians and nursing staff.
B. Braun and its 54,000 employees in 61 countries most recently generated sales worth €5.4 billion.
Projects:
Introduction of a second banking area with cross-bank postings
Release upgrade from CFM 2.0 to ERP 2005
Presentation of finance transactions
Implementation of withholding-tax functionality
SEPA conversion
Solution:
Introduction of SAP In-House Cash with the processes:
- internal payment
- external payment
- central funds receipt
- customer-specific enhancements
Project manager Rainer Stirn (Director Cash Management):
„After SAP In-House Cash was implemented in the release CFM 2.0, Fluctim GmbH consultants supported us with diverse enhancement projects. This also covered installation of a second bank area, a release upgrade to ERP 2005 and most recently SEPA conversion. The advisors commanded detailed expert know-how and lots of experience.
The chosen coaching approach assured that efficient know-how transfer was available at all times. This enabled B. Braun to autonomously maintain ongoing operations of the payment factory. In addition, cost budgets were positively influenced by the coaching approach.
We have had nothing but positive experiences with Fluctim consultants.“
Deutsche Telekom AG
Deutsche Telekom with approximately 144 million mobile telephony customers, 32 million fixed phone lines and more than 17 million broadband connections ranks among the world's leading integrated telecommunications providers.
The range of products provided by Deutsche Telekom encompasses services in the fields of fixed lines/broadband, mobile telephony, Internet and Internet-TV for private subscribers as well as information and communication technology solutions for key accounts and corporate customers.
Deutsche Telekom has a headcount of approximately 230,000 persons in approximately 50 countries all over the world. In business year 2014, turnover was at €62.7 billion.
Project:
Implementation of an in-house bank and payment factory
Solution:
Introduction of SAP In-House Cash with the processes
- internal payment
- external payment
- central funds receipt
- diverse customer-specific enhancements
Project manager David Hoeren (Director Cash Management):
„In 2005, Telekom introduced a payment factory based upon SAP In-House Cash, and we've been consistently expanding this solution into a group-wide payment transaction platform with diverse customer-specific sophistications. In context with internal restructuring programs, two IHC centers were merged to one, and a new main ledger was installed under the One.Finance Program. In the past years, our focus in addition to international roll-out was also on integration with SAP Cash Management and optimization of liquidity planning. Telekom's payment factory has developed into one of the most extensive implementations of its kind anywhere in the world.
Consultants with today's Fluctim GmbH have given advice and support to Telekom right from the very beginning. Their business consulting provided essential impulses for the design of the topical solutions. Many of our current solution components have been developed by Fluctim consultants, who were distinguished by their high degree of professional and technical know-how. The connection between design and realization by Fluctim consultants proved to be very efficient as projects advanced.
Deutsche Telekom and Fluctim look back to many years of successful and reliable cooperation."
SGL Carbon SE
Project:
Implementation of an in-house bank and payment factory
Solution:
Introduction of SAP In-House Cash with the processes
- internal payment
- handling internal treasury transactions
- replacement of prior netting solution
- external payment
- central funds receipt
IT project manager Marcus Köster:
„SAP In-House Cash was installed at SGL in two phases. In the first phase, focus was on implementation of an in-house bank in particular for processing payments from internal foreign-exchange transactions and as a replacement for the installed netting procedure.
In the second implementation phase, the existing solution was enhanced into a payment factory, with the process of external payments initially being installed for German group companies.
A Fluctim GmbH advisor gave us all required support throughout all project phases. This expert impressed us with his outstanding technical know-how and remarkable professional competency in the domain of payment transactions, which enabled us to complete the project within the set timeframe and in line with budget restrictions.“
ZF Friedrichshafen AG
ZF is one of the world's leading automotive suppliers in the domain of drive and chassis technology with 121 production companies in 26 countries. The corporate group with more than 70,000 employees in 2014 generated a turnover of 18.4 billion euros. ZF ranks among the world's Top 10 automotive supplying enterprises.
Project:
Implementation of an in-house bank and payment factory
Solution:
Introduction of SAP In-House Cash with the processes:
- internal payment
- external payment
- central funds receipt
IT project manager Markus Höflinger (Director FC Corporate Solutions):
„By installing a payment factory based on SAP In-House Cash, ZF was able to reduce the volume of foreign fund transactions and to process all internal payments through our SAP In-House Bank. Payment by checks has been almost entirely omitted, and the degree of automation in processing bank account statements and payment notices has been considerably increased. Owing to inclusion of more than 130 ZF affiliates to our In-House Bank system, we've been able to significantly reduce bank fees by grouping payments and doing without external transfers in the intercompany domain.
We came to value Fluctim GmbH as an implementation partner displaying a high degree of technical competency and willingness to achieve. They were instrumental in supporting us with realizing our ambitious project plans.“