Financial Management Case Studies

Aerospace & Defense industry

Leverage real-time intelligence to accelerate financial decisions using Oracle

A global aerospace & defense company deployed Oracle ERP Cloud, which significantly increased financial information visibility.Challenges

Asset optimization across the global supply chain

CAPEX budget overruns

Global governance and policy enforcement

Global digital security across country, LOB, and currency boundaries

Solution

Deployed Oracle ERP Cloud to consolidate multiple, disparate ERP systems

Cloud solution enabled retirement of multiple, on-premise ERP systems

Results

9% YoY accounts payable productivity improvement

9% reduction on indirect spend

3% reduction in CAPEX for capital buildouts

Large teaching hospital in the UKI region

Accelerating digital healthcare through financial transformation using Oracle

A large teaching hospital in the UKI region selected DXC to provide implementation and management services for their financial and procurement systems used to provide services to some 3.7 million people living in the region.Challenges

Lack of integration between financials and procurement

Lack of procurement spend control

High administration costs

Lack of visibility into procurement and financial spen

Solution

Oracle ERP Cloud

Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud

DXC Service Management

Results

3 million-plus savings in infrastructure, applications, and reporting costs over the subscription contract term

Automated system upgrades, patches, and functionality enhancements

Reduced 24-hour data transfer cycle

Building a solid financial core to enable exciting healthcare digital innovations in the future

Greenskies

Moving seamlessly from legacy ERP system to SAP S/4HANA

Greenskies Renewable Energy, a solar integrator based in Connecticut, USA, specializes in solar financing, system design, and project implementation. The company’s vision was to adopt SAP S/4HANA as the company’s core computing platform.Challenges

Build a solid technology platform that enables Greenskies to scale as it grows

Enable predictive analytics with real-time business insights

Harness the power of SAP HANA to process huge amounts of data

Solution

SAP’s latest offerings in S/4HANA, Fiori, and best practices-based solutions

Rapid, phased implementation in just 14 weeks

Leveraging SAP’s Activate Methodology and Agile approaches

Distributed delivery model

Results

Lower total cost of ownership with migration from Sage ERP system

Foundation laid for future expansion of

SAP footprint

Real-time granular reporting for efficient and effective decision making

Ability to innovate business processes and enable mobile access for business users

Flow International

Creating business efficiency to get the most value from acquisitions using Microsoft Dynamics

Flow International Corporation is a leading manufacturer of ultrahigh-pressure water jet technologies used in a host of industrial applications.The company wanted to drive process efficiency by establishing a uniform financial management system and redefining business processes across of its all operating divisions.Challenges

Rapid growth through acquisitions has left many divisions running disparate account systems that are incompatible with Flow’s ERP system

The existing ERP system was highly customized, making it problematic to upgrade and ill-equipped to handle growth

Due to homegrown workarounds to the ERP system, some 200 different applications were being used to run the different business units creating multiple silos of information

Solution

Wholesale replacement of the company’s ERP system

Develop a global template for the multisite operation focused on about 100 of the company’s most critical business processes

Results

Simplified and streamlined business processes, allowing the company to truly operate as a single company with one uniform financial reporting process

All business units are now on the same ERP system, with a simplified data structure creating one global account master, down from 10

Increased visibility into the business allowing for a reduction in the number of departments from 160 to 50

Reduced costs through less duplicate entry of data

75% reduction in the time to process month-end financial statements

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Major U.S. bank

Transforming legacy systems using ServiceNow expertise, best practices

A major U.S. bank partnered with DXC Fruition to ensure a successful,
rapid ServiceNow implementation.Challenges

Replace an older system that was inadequate and not well-integrated with ServiceNow

Quickly automate a range of service management areas

Ensure a successful, well-integrated implementation

Solution

Initial workshop to gather specific project requirements

Close work with the bank to implement Incident/Configuration Manager and CMDB data loading

Integration of CMDB with SCCM and Solarwinds

Orchestration of Integration APIs for ActiveDirectory, Powershell

Results

Maximization of bank’s investment in ServiceNow

Branding of ServiceNow instances; customized branding of ESS

User-friendly CMS pages fully integrated in services portal

Creation of Service Catalog/Request workflows

The bank is now an Application Managed Services Virtual Admin customer

Successful implementation leads to Virtual Administration

DXC Enterprise & Cloud Applications: Enabling technology partners

In summary: DXC’s financial solutions

Helping you prepare for the emerging paradigm shift in finance

► Consolidate and simplify your ERP systems for a single, global source of truth

► Leapfrog your competitors using the power of blockchain

► Harness AI, analytics, and big data to eliminate routine tasks, make better decisions, understand your financial operations better

► Free up funds for digital transformation by simplifying financial operations, reducing capital expenses

► Leverage adaptive intelligent applications for new business insights