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Case Study: Lessons from Animal Health International's SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP HANA Migration Project. Tim Hays Dr. Berg Animal Health International, Inc . Comerit Inc. What We’ll Cover …. Introduction to Animal Health International
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Case Study: Lessons from Animal Health International's SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP HANA Migration Project Tim Hays Dr. Berg Animal Health International, Inc. Comerit Inc.
What We’ll Cover … • Introduction to Animal Health International • Animal Health International goes to HANA • Animal Health International’s vision for Customer and Inventory Stratification on HANA • Defining KPIs • Identifying Data • Designing the Solution • Wrap-Up
Animal Health International • Animal Health International, headquartered in Greeley, Colorado, is the premier animal health company and a leading distributor of production and companion animal health products • 85 locations; Over 500 sales representatives
Animal Health International • 80,000 Customers • Large and Small Animal Veterinarians, Producers and Retailers • Companion Animal, Equine, Beef, Dairy, Poultry and Swine • 85,000 SKUs sourced from over 2,000 Manufacturers • Pharmaceuticals, vaccines, diagnostics, equipment, software, pet foods, devices and other animal health supplies • Call Centers, Distribution Centers, Retail Stores, Mobile Stores (Trucks), B2B E-Commerce
What We’ll Cover … • Introduction to Animal Health International • Animal Health International goes to HANA • Animal Health International’s vision for Customer and Inventory Stratification on HANA • Defining KPIs • Identifying Data • Designing the Solution • Wrap-Up
2013 Infrastructure before HANA • 2013 Landscape before SAP HANA • SAP ERP 6.0 EhP6 • SAP BW 7.3 • Virtualized on HP-UX, DB2 v9.7
Installation of SAP Hana • June 2013 – Go-Life with BW 7.30 on Hana Actual migration of environment took 5 weeks Prepping the BW on DB2 system took 3 month Rolled out SAP HANA Studio and Data services
Reducing the layers and complexity Application Services UI Development tools Planning Predictive/Statistical Batch ETL/ELT Real-time Replication SAP HANA Row/Column store Unstructured Structured OLAP OLTP
What We’ll Cover … • Introduction to Animal Health International • Animal Health International goes to HANA • Animal Health International’s vision for Customer and Inventory Stratification on HANA • Defining KPIs • Identifying Data • Designing the Solution • Wrap-Up
AHI’s Stratification Vision Customer Stratification: Method of stratifying customers into key groups to improve process and relationships. Example: Silver, Gold, Platinum customer status (hotel, airline industry)
AHI’s Stratification Vision Common Practice No defined customer stratification Customer groups based on market type or product line Top customers based on revenue or gross profit
AHI’s Stratification Vision (cont.) Good Practice Based on more than one factor Volume [sales $] based Gross margin Business potential Includes lagging and leading indicators
AHI’s Stratification Vision (cont.) Best Practice Based on many factors Business potential Profitability Customer loyalty Cost to serve
AHI’s Stratification Vision (cont.) The vision is defined by the questions being asked CEO How can I increase Profit Company wide ? Sales rep. Which Customer should I pursue? Sales manager Which Customers are most profitable? Plant manager How much should I purchase? When? Marketing manager How can I increase brand loyalty?
AHI’s Stratification Vision on HANA Why Hana ? The first time we are able to analyze the necessary data volume needed for stratification (e.g. 700.000 records daily for stock data married up with Copa data) Gives us the flexibility to have near real-time reporting if necessary Reduced reporting response time by over 30 % allowing us to include larger user community
What We’ll Cover … • Introduction to Animal Health International • Animal Health International goes to HANA • Animal Health International’s vision for Customer and Inventory Stratification on HANA • Defining KPIs • Identifying Data • Designing the Solution • Wrap-Up
Lagging and Leading Indicators Important indicators You decide which ones are most important to you and concentrate on those Buying Power Customer Rebates Customer Loyalty Profitability Cost to Serve
Customer Ranking define your ranking criteria
What We’ll Cover … • Introduction to Animal Health International • Animal Health International goes to HANA • Animal Health International’s vision for Customer and Inventory Stratification on HANA • Defining KPIs • Identifying Data • Designing the Solution • Wrap-Up
SAP Data Sources • Initiate a data reconnaissance effort • Data you have in ERP but not yet available in Data Warehouse • Data ready to report on in Data warehouse (might need some remodeling) • Data coming from entirely external data sources (in our case governmental websites containing Agriculture statistics)
Opportunity Data find data relevant to you
Data Challenges • Multiple sources of Internal data • More than one ERP system • More than one CRM platform • Data is not collected congruently • Rebates, chargebacks, net-downs impact sales revenue and profitability calculations • 3rd party data is hard to correlate • No common key between internal and external data • Dataset is too large to process with available tools • 85,000 products * 80,000 customers * 400 plants
Data It Starts with the Data Analytics Stratification Views
Stratification Views • Inventory, Copa and external statistics data are the building blocks of AHI’s Stratification solution • Based on this data we have Customer ranking reports, Inventory ranking reports, Sales Penetration reports and Profitability reports
What We’ll Cover … • Introduction to Animal Health International • Animal Health International goes to HANA • Animal Health International’s vision for Customer and Inventory Stratification on HANA • Defining KPIs • Identifying Data • Designing the Solution • Wrap-Up
Example: AHI’s Inventory Stratification Inventory Stratification: Method of stratifying inventory (items/SKUs) into high and low performing groups. Example: A B C D
Inventory Stratification Average Inventory ____________________________________ Gross Margin Count of Order Lines Sales as % of Total Sales
Inventory Ranking define your ranking criteria
Inventory Stratification Stage Inventory snapshot data for amount and value on hand per plant
Inventory Stratification (cont.) COPA data staged
Inventory Stratification Reporting Level Inventory Stratification (cont.) Combine Inventory Snap Shot with COPA data COPA Invoice level Inventory Snapshot
Customer Stratification Apply algorithms to basic data and populate Stratification staging DSO
Inventory Stratification • Inventory Stratification Demo Using HANA
Business Adoption • Education • Sessions for Business and IT • Executive sponsorship • This cannot be an IT or Marketing project, it must have high-level support • Create a cross-functional project team • Marketing • IT • Sales • Tie to incentive programs • Make it a game
Customer Stratification Predictive Analytics HANA R – K Means HANA R – Decision Trees
What We’ll Cover … • Introduction to Animal Health International • Animal Health International goes to HANA • Animal Health International’s vision for Customer and Inventory Stratification on HANA • Defining KPIs • Identifying Data • Designing the Solution • Wrap-Up
7 Key Points to Take Home • Stratification is critical to understanding customer and inventory performance over time • Customer and inventory stratification methodology will require business adoption to be useful • Available data will determine starting point for ranking criteria • Acquiring quality data can be a challenge • Ranking customers and inventory with limited data set is better than no ranking at all • Stratification can be a big data problem requiring tools like HANA • Business adoption will require education and an implementation plan
Where to Find More Information • www.naw.org/publications/pubs_item_view.php?pubs_itemid=145 • Customer Stratification Overview • http://id.tamu.edu/intensive-customer-stratification-program • Texas A&M University Education • http://events.sap.com/sapphirenow/en/session/2371 • Gray Bar utilizing HANA for Customer Stratification • www.sap.com/asset/index.epx?id=aaff7f67-7400-490e-a800-ad08f4f1eb09 • SAP Customer Value Intelligence Overview
Your Turn! How to contact us: Tim Hays Tim.Hays@AnimalHealthInternational.com Dr. Berg bberg@comerit.com
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