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Consignia enterprise system – strategic decision support

At the end of 1999 Consignia initiated the Enterprise System Programme (ESP) to bring together
all finance and HR systems into a single common platform of operation. The vision of the ESP is
‘to manage Consignia from a single enterprise-wide system, accessible to all, using the latest
web-based technology, which exceeds all current demands and provides flexibility for the
future’.
Consignia selected mySAP.com as the ideal solution for ESP because it offered a single instance
of R/3 ERP and would ensure that all finance related systems would be Euro compliant before
2002. Deloitte Consulting was selected because of its ability to provide a team of consultants able
to form a joint project team with Consignia.
The strategic objectives of the project are:
• To deploy innovative solutions in support of a holistic approach to
strategic enterprise management which are consistent with
Consignia’s data management principles
• To provide senior decision makers with the information, policies,
processes and know how to make better informed, faster and more
commercially minded decisions which add value to Consignia
• To deliver the required statutory financial information and much
of the financial information demanded by Postcomm
• To provide a central repository of tactical and strategic data which
is widely accessible and enables uniform but flexible decisions.
The SEM project started in April 2001 and is being carried out by a team of around 30 project
team members (15 from Deloitte Consulting) with the balance from the client
located in London.
The Activity Based Cost Management strand is concerned with implementing a series of
strategic and tactical ABC models utilising SEM-BPS functionality along with the bridge to
ABC Technologies Oros ABC tool.

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The Business Planning and Simulation (SEM-BPS) strand is concerned with developing an
integrated planning solution to enable rapid submission and consolidation of business
unit plans.
The Business Consolidation (SEM-BCS) strand’s aim is to develop a solution for legal and
management consolidation. Through integration with SEM-BPS the consolidated budget
and five year rolling forecast will also be produced.
The Business Warehouse (BW) strand is concerned with delivering the data mart to support
the SEM applications and provide an analytical reporting engine for the R/3 users.
The major benefit of the project is improved organisational decision making, particularly in
the use of planning, costing and revenue information. This includes the ability to manage
regulatory compliance and provide improved performance. The data will be available to all
decision makers, will be highly transparent and of consistent quality.
The project will enable the centralisation and standardisation of business standards across
business units leading to operating cost reductions and upper quartile performance. System
decommissioning savings will also be substantial

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