Tenneco globally rolls out an advanced

spend analytics solution

Inge Pinnoy
Tenneco
Koen van Dijck
Flexso

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Agenda
Tenneco
Flexso
Spend Analytics Project
Project Methodology
HANA Enterprise Cloud – Modeling Approach
Lessons Learned

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Tenneco
A global market leader for the
production of shock absorbers and
exhaust systems
Tenneco Sint-Truiden develops,
produces and distributes shock
absorbers and components globally
$7.4 billion company
Listed in the fortune 500

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 Approximately 31.000 Employees serving customers globally from 91
manufacturing facilities and 15 engineering and technical centers.

Headquarters
Clean Air Manufacturing
Ride Performance Manufacturing
Clean Air Engineering
Ride Performance Engineering

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Agenda
Tenneco
Flexso
Spend Analytics Project
Project Methodology
HANA Enterprise Cloud – Modeling Approach
Lessons Learned

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Flexso
200 consultants
32 million euro
20% growth per year
5% attrition
120 active customers
Top in Belgium
25 countries
4500 Cronos consultants

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Agenda
Tenneco
Flexso
Spend Analytics Project
Project Methodology
HEC – Modeling Approach
Lessons Learned

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Hystorical set-up: local reporting
Lack of visibility Global
Spend
PTA TA2

Data Quality: incomplete

and inconsistent

Significant effort to
generate Ad-Hoc Reports

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Project - Motivation
Buyers and managers create spend report manually using Excel
files
• Contact regions to obtain spend data and analysis
• Performance issues when extracting large data volumes
• No communication between Tenneco systems
Opportunities missed due to lack of visibility
Significant purchasing spend
• Purchasing net cost must go down

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Project - Goals
Provide a single repository for all vendor/spend data
Improves ability for immediate and accurate reporting
Standardizes global reporting and dashboards
Enables users with self-service reporting capabilities
High-volume Reporting at a high speed

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New set-up: global reporting using HEC
Single Repository for all
vendor / spend data
PT TA
A 2
Quality and Integrity of
master data

Standardized Global
Reporting

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Agenda
Tenneco
Flexso
Spend Analytics Project
Project Methodology
HANA Enterprise Cloud – Modeling Approach
Lessons Learned

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Spend Analysis – Project Methodology

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Spend Analysis – Project Methodology

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Agenda
Tenneco
Flexso
Spend Analytics Project
Project Methodology
HANA Enterprise Cloud – Modeling Approach
Lessons Learned

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HEC – Modeling Approach – LSA
From ETL to Reporting

Reporting

Reporting Views
Dimension Views and Basic Cube Views

Inbound Layer (HANA tables)

TA2
PTA

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Tenneco
Flexso
Spend Analytics Project
Project Methodology
HEC – Modeling Approach
Lessons Learned

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Lessons Learned (1/2)
HANA Enterprise Cloud
• No heavy investments in hardware and maintenance.
• Monitoring, backups, patching, etc. is performed by SAP

Agile project approach – business customer

• the business customer closely involved with the project team
• gets a better insight on the complexity behind the IT solution.
• Helps to better understand impact and complexity behind certain change
requests

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Lessons Learned (2/2)
Performance
• Model HANA views using the best practices on one side
• Push certain calculations into the BODS layer

Reporting Strategy and toolsets

• SAP Lumira to enable users with self-service reporting capabilities
• Webi for standard reports
• SAP Design Studio to create managed dashboards

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Thank you!

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