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The information contained in this document is confidential and proprietary to TATA Consultancy Services. This information may not be disclosed, duplicated or used for any other purposes. The information contained in this document may not be released in whole or in part outside TCS for any purpose without the express written permission of TATA Consultancy Services.
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Contents
CONTEXT .................................................................................................................................................... 4 ABOUT TCS ................................................................................................................................................. 4 ABOUT THE CUSTOMER ........................................................................................................................ 5 BACKGROUND OF PROJECT................................................................................................................. 5 GUIDELINES ................................................................................................................................................ 5 LANDSCAPE................................................................................................................................................ 6 CHALLENGES/CONSTRAINTS .............................................................................................................. 7 ANALYSIS / APPROACHES ..................................................................................................................... 7 RECOMMENDATIONS AND BEST FIT SOLUTION ........................................................................... 7 ASSUMPTIONS FOR BW IMPLEMENTATION ................................................................................... 8 BW CONFIGURATION DIVESTITURE PROJECT........................................................................... 9 TECHNICAL ASSUMPTIONS ......................................................................................................................... 9 DEVELOPMENT STEPS ................................................................................................................................. 9 MAJOR TECHNICAL CONCERNS................................................................................................................. 10 RESULTS AND BENEFITS ..................................................................................................................... 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ....................................................................................................................... 10 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................................... 10
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Context
Globally all Business Scenarios are increasing their focus on ones own Core Business and Divest from Non Core businesses, there by improving Company market position in their Core Business. The whole process of Divesting-Disposition requires very intensive effort on all parties those who sell and those who buy. Both needs to focus on ensuring the smooth flow of their business, proper control on it, its data privacy and finally ensuring a smooth separation of business. A major aspect which needs to be taken care is the IT Integration specific with SAP which is mostly involved in all businesses. SAP R/3 is mostly implemented by all Businesses for their ERP automation. Along with SAP R/3, many companies are moving forward to look into advanced modules for which Business Warehousing plays a vital role. Here is an example of the Divestiture project executed by TCS for a large global Automotive Company for its Divesting plants running in SAP for most of the R/3 Modules and implementing Business Warehousing for Divestiture units.
About TCS
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Limited is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model (GNDM), recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group, Indias largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 89,000 of the worlds best trained IT consultants in 47 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $4.3 billion for the fiscal year ended 31 March 2007 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.
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Background of Project
This project is to develop the Customer business and IT strategies to allow seamless transition of a particular division (one which is being divested) within integrated business operation as independent business entity until it develops its own IT Integration. A Transition Services Agreement (TSA) has been established by the Customer to assist the new companys business operations until a complete business transaction could be completed. The project is supporting this transition for all ERP that is SAP-FI, CO, SD, MM, HR, Employee benefits and Payroll processes. Another major task is the SAP BW.
Guidelines
TCS being the implementation partner has provided the following guidelines for executing the SAP BW implementation for the Divested Company. To provide the SAP BW access to the Divestiture Company maintaining the existing functionality and Interfaces within the current Customer Landscape. To separate Customer Data from the Divested Company. To provide the BW accessibility to the Divested company in areas of its usage in BW. To develop the BW configuration in such a way that Customer should not access the Divested Company Data and vice versa. To accommodate all these Divestitures by maintaining Data accessibility to its respective Customers. To provide BW access by the HR Power Users of the Customer. Divested Company will not have BW access for the HR related data and will be provided by the HR Power Users of the Customer. TCS Confidential 5
Landscape
Customer shares the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) infrastructure with its Divested Company for the TSA Period.
Customer Production R/3 Client SAP Production BW Divested Production R/3 Client HR Specific Production Server
Production Environment
Customer Quality R/3 Client -1 SAP Quality BW Customer Quality R/3 Client -2 Customer Quality R/3 Client -3 Divested Quality R/3 Client
Quality Environment
Customer DEV Golden R/3 Client SAP DEVELOPMENT BW Customer Unit Test R/3 Client -1 Divested DEV R/3 Client
Development Environment Current SAP BW supports the data storage for FI, CO, MM, SD, IM, PCA, CCA, HR modules. The Customer data is available in the Business content and, in Customized Infocubes and Infoobjects. The HR data for the customer is available in the HR Specific Production Client and the same is extracted into the SAP Production BW. Divested Company data is also accommodated in the same HR Specific Production Client with specific Personnel Areas and Company Codes. The same data is loaded into the SAP Production BW since there is no data accessibility to the Divested Company. All the other functional data of the Divested Client is available in the Divested Production R/3 Client. This is created as a copy of the existing Customer Production R/3 Client. Divested Company data is extracted into the SAP Production BW for Smooth Business flow of the Customer and the Divested Company.
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Challenges/Constraints
The following are the challenges or constraints: To provide an ideal approach with this Divestiture that is., to have a new instance. However, this was not possible since the lead time to procure the hardware was very high and was an expensive option for the Customer. The project Go-live was planning for its execution in lean months of November and December where SME involvement was a major challenge. TCS was working along with many other third parties, some of whom are competitors to TCS in this project. As the SAP Integration of the project was critical, TCS had to work closely with all other third parties and ensure that business schedules match with SAP Planning and execution.
Analysis / Approaches
The following are the three approaches that were designed for the smooth execution of this project: 1. Creating New BW objects that can accommodate the Divested Company Data available in the SAP Divested R/3 Client. 2. Allowing the New Divested Client data to be available in the existing BW Objects. 3. Creating a New SAP BW Server separately for the Divested Company. Among all the above mentioned approaches, Approach 1 will be the best and will be advantageous to follow with. This makes accurate Data Accessibility for the Customer and its Divested Company. Approach 2 requires the entire restructuring of the Customer Authorizations. The existing system does not have any identify field in BW objects that separates the Data from both the Customer R/3 Client and the Divested R/3 Client. This makes data separation impossible. Approach 3 is a better approach as this makes the Data Separation and Accessibility easy, but this increases the Customer Investments.
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Development Steps
1. Create Custom Infoobjects for accommodating the Divested Company Master Data with 0LOGSYS as a Compounding attribute. 2. Create Identified BW Infocubes for the Divested Company as a copy of the existing Customer Infocubes along with the 0LOGSYS that distinguishes the Divested Client data. This makes the Customer provide the BW integration for the upcoming Divestitures. 3. Reconcile the Data Sources in Divested R/3 Client that are used for the creation of the Divested Infocubes. As the Divested R/3 Client is copied from the Customer R/3 Client, it is easy with the BW job in R/3 side. 4. Create all Direct Update configurations for the Master Data Infoobjects. 5. Create all Info sources and Update Rules for the Divestiture Infocubes. 6. Make Authorization relevant Specific Master Data Infoobjects that makes the data accessibility controllable for various Divestitures. 7. Create Authorization Objects for Infoobjects 0LOGSYS, NCOMPCODE, NPLANT that are authorization relevant. 8. Create all Reports on Divestiture Infocubes similar to that of existing reports with the Source system as a mandatory Filter object that is filled by Roles of the User. 9. Create Roles for all the Divestiture Infocubes that are created and also for the specific Authorized Infoobjects that is, 0LOGSYS, NCOMPCODE, NPLANT. 10. Create Test ID for all the Infocubes and test with respect to the Data Accessibility based on roles.
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Acknowledgements
Author would like to thank all in the project for supporting her in Planning and Execution phase especially: 1. Sridhar Akalankam, Development Manger, TCS, sridhar.akalankam@tcs.com 2. Natarajan Ravichandran, Technical Manager, TCS, 3. Ignatius Thomas, Account Manager, TCS, il.thomas@tcs.com 4. Suresh Tangella, Relationship Manager, TCS suresh.tangella@tcs.com 5. Suresh Upparapalli , Project Manager, TCS 6. Sarath Chandra, Purushotham Amilineni , Achunal Shreya, BW Team , TCS 7. All the other team members in the Divestitures Project.
References
[1] (2007), Seven reasons divestitures are harder than you think, Chief Executive.
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