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Background

As a key player in digital security, the Group has almost 150 research, production and support sites to serve the corporate market (security, connectivity, payment systems) and state organizations (identification, public safety). To optimize its industrial and financial performance, the Group needs to have a clear overview of its value chain.

Challenge

Our customer had chosen Anaplan as its Group management solution, allowing for a modular approach, with each theme being deployed simultaneously to 100 local teams. The first components - financial budgeting and payroll management - were designed to respond rapidly (6 months) to the imperatives of the management cycle, and to inspire additional use cases.

Approach

In order to secure the project's trajectory, we adopted the following approach, in close collaboration with Project Management: - A clearly expressed common Core Model strategy, defining for each theme an ambition, a scope, a group of key contributors in charge of defining a target model and limiting exceptions, - Development in semi-agile mode, enabling ongoing validation of principles, calculations and outputs, and maximizing user satisfaction, - Strong involvement of key users for acceptance testing and training, and the IT Department for interfacing with source information systems. The resulting commitment has inspired more targeted applications, such as industrial costing, offer pricing and capex budgeting.

Key results

Benefits

With the implementation of an ever-expanding model, the Group now has the power to simulate a very large volume of data, and a greater ability to control the impact of volatile costs, salaries and commercial negotiations. This approach has also made it possible to vary the angles of collaboration between Group Finance (Budgeting), HR (Payroll Management), BU management control (Costing), sales teams (Pricing) and, more broadly, local entities (Capex).

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