This document summarizes a presentation about driving efficiency in manufacturing planning and performance management. It discusses research on challenges manufacturers face, opportunities like smart components and 3D printing, and how SAP BPC software can enable smarter business planning. A customer case study highlights how Megger used SAP BPC to streamline financial planning, reduce budgeting time, and provide a single source of truth across its global operations.

1. Manufacturing Success
Driving efficiency in planning
and performance management

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Agenda
Introduction
2014 Manufacturing Research
Smarter Planning with SAP BPC
Customer Spotlight -Megger
Q&A
Next steps
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Ciber
6,500+ employees
Global Solution Centers around the world
~1 billion
Annual revenue
70Offices 14Countries
Ciber UK Centre of Excellence for SAP
NYSE: CBR, Headquartered in Denver

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Ciber UK -Centre of Excellence for SAP
•SAP Business Planning & Consolidation
•SAP Business All-in-One Solutions
•SAP Analytics
•SAP CRM / SAP Cloud for Customer
•SAP HANA
•SAP GRC
•SAP Managed Services
•SAP Mobility & User Experience (SAP UX)
•Bringing together Social Media, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud with SAP complementary technologies
SAP Expertise
Ciber is a global IT consulting company and full SAP Service Provider offering a services portfolio encompassing all of the services required to implement, support and operate SAP in a truly collaborative and innovative manner.

5. 2014 Manufacturing Research
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Suzy Timms, Head of Research

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Research overview
£100 million to £249 million33%
£250 million to £499 million38%
£500 million to £1 billion25%
Over £1 billion4%
209 senior business decision makers in UK manufacturing companies took part in study during May 2014
9%
6%
6%
8%
8%
8%
9%
10%
11%
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15%
Other
Primary metals
Fabricated metal products
Building materials
Aerospace
Mining
Chemicals
Oil and gas
Automotive
Industrial machinery…
High tech
Company turnover
Manufacturing sector

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People
Businesses
Things
2014: Year of the connected manufacturer
Manage multi-generations
Improve industry image
Focus on the customer
Build supply chain resilience
Embrace 3D printing
Get smart
Finance and planning
Success in manufacturing will be defined by quality of interconnectedness between people, businesses and things

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Customer centricity
Biggest expected shifts in customers -demand for added-value services (67%), involvement in product development (49%), demand for customised products (45%) and demand for supply chain transparency (45%)
say they could be more customer-centric
think the lines between manufacturing and service economies are blurring
58%
80%
We make products
We deliver services

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Supply chain resilience
say that supply chain issues have negatively impacted company revenue or profitability in the last 12 months
60%
74%
say they could have better visibility into disruptions across supply chain
The top disruptions are:
•IT security events (39%)
•Unplanned telecoms / IT outage (38%)
•Volatile currency exchange rates (32%)
•Extreme weather conditions (31%)
Manufacturers are improving supply chain resilience by:
•Identifying / eliminating supply chain bottlenecks (49%)
•Improved visibility, alert and warning systems (46%)
•Better forecasting to try and predict demand volatility (44%)
•Improved information sharing across the supply chain (40%)

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Manufacturing disruption
94% see 3D printing as an opportunity
Impacts include quicker time to market (48%), cost savings (45%) and greater flexibility to build a wider range of products (41%) –1 in 10 think more Government regulation is needed
By the end of 2015…
89% think the inclusion of smart components in products
89% think predictive analytics
87% think the development of mobile applications
78% think additive manufacturing / 3D printing
…will transform / disrupt manufacturing business processes in their organisations

11. Smarter Planning with Ciber and SAP BPC
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Jeremy Preston-Hoar, Ciber UK

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Analysis of financial planning responses
42% identify cost control as a key business objective
27% are seeking ways to grow faster than competitors
54% of manufacturers are only able to effectively plan up to a year ahead (2013: 40%)
61% have difficulty balancing robust, long term planning with the flexibility to respond quickly to changing market conditions
85% see finance & planning as important for enabling growth
The need for Smarter Business Planning

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Streamline planning, budgeting and forecasting and rapid turnaround of business plans
Flexible modelling platform
Using web-based cockpits and the familiar Microsoft Office tools
Works with SAP or other ERP data sources
Utilises the proven Ciber Planning Formula
Smarter Business Planning with SAP BPC
Introducing SAP Business Planning & Consolidation

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Ciber BPC Formula
•Turning the SAP BPC toolkit into application ready software with Ciber
•Values are driven by changes: Inflation / Productivity / Volume
•Product of Ciber’sintellectual property, consultant knowledge, and industry skills
•Pre-built Ciber building blocks: Overhead Planning, Fixed Asset and Capex Planning, Headcount Planning and Sales Planning all built upon the Ciber formula

15. Customer Spotlight: Megger
Alan Goggin, Group IT Manager

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Agenda
About Megger
SAP Landscape Highlights
Why SAP BPC?
Approach To Implementation
Business Benefits

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About Megger
Megger is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of advanced test and measurement equipment for electrical power applications.
Operating on a global scale
•Six manufacturing sites in four countries
•Sales and service divisions operating in twelve countries
•1200+ employees

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SAP Landscape Highlights
SAP Business All-in-One industry solution provides an integrated SAP solution covering Manufacturing, Purchasing, Sales and Financials.
SAP Business Warehouse and Business Objects Reporting Suite covering sales reporting.
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
SAP is implemented throughout global operations

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Why SAP BPC?
Simplify planning and reduce budgeting cycle-time
Overhead planning had been undertaken on a multitude of spreadsheets, all different at each of the sites, and with multiple versions in circulation.
The initial pilot introduced the planning side of SAP BPC with Overhead Planning

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Why SAP BPC?
Megger then implemented Consolidation in SAP BPC in order to meet two real objectives:
•to move away from the current consolidation platform
•to introduce the robust platform as a method of improving control around the consolidation, and provide a more flexible platform for the group.
The planning platform scope was expanded further in 2014 for the 2015 planning round to encompass the planning of trade revenues by country, source manufacturing site.

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Approach to Implementation
SAP BPC was delivered by Ciber in only 20 days
The project implemented Ciber's cost centre based overhead planning model
The accelerated implementation was due to the capability to deploy and adapt Ciber's self- contained planning models
Knowledge transfer and support

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Business Benefits
An integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation solution
A single version of truth
Improved process turnaround and simplify business processes in generating the annual budget sheets
Supporting the growth of the business
Ease of reporting
•the group accounting team can now roll-out online reporting of the group reports to the individual sites
•help them to understand the impact of their individual domains on the group result.

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Thank you

24. Q&A

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