PZ Cussons Software Purchases and Digital Transformation Initiatives

Discover the latest software purchases and digital transformation initiatives being undertaken by PZ Cussons and its business and technology executives. Each quarter our research team identifies on-prem and cloud applications that are being used by the 4500 PZ Cussons employees from the public (Press Releases, Customer References, Testimonials, Case Studies and Success Stories) and proprietary sources.

During our research, we have identified that PZ Cussons has purchased the following applications: SAP S/4 HANA Finance for ERP Financial in 2017, SAP Ariba for Procurement in 2016, SAP ERP ECC 6.0 for ERP Financial in 2015 and the related IT decision-makers and key stakeholders.

Our database provides customer insight and contextual information on which enterprise applications and software systems PZ Cussons is running and its propensity to invest more and deepen its relationship with SAP or identify new suppliers as part of their overall Digital and IT transformation projects to stay competitive, fend off threats from disruptive forces, or comply with internal mandates to improve overall enterprise efficiency.

We have been analyzing PZ Cussons revenues, which have grown to $793.0 millions in 2019, plus its IT budget and roadmap, cloud software purchases, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions for PZ Cussons intention to invest in emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Blockchain, Autonomous Database or in cloud-based ERP, HCM, CRM, EPM, Procurement or Treasury applications.

About the Customer

PZ Cussons is a British manufacturer of personal healthcare products and consumer goods. It operates worldwide, especially in Africa and Commonwealth nations.

Scope and Challenges

The Group began its digital transformation with the implementation of SAP as its new Global ERP system in 2015 and the rollout of SAP to all of the Group’s operating units which was substantially complete as of May 2017.

The continued rollout of SAP gives rise to a heightened risk over financial reporting as a result of the increased complexity of the system, changes in business and accounting process and the need to ensure stringent access and segregation of duties controls. The risk identified was in respect of the following areas:

• the risk that data is not accurately migrated between the legacy system and SAP, resulting in incorrect opening financial information; and

• the risk that access rights and segregation of duties are not appropriately controlled such that changes to data could be made inaccurately or in error.

These areas of risk could result in the inaccurate reporting of financial information.

Outcome and Implications

During 2017, PZ Cussons operating units in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya transitioned to SAP, while the Group’s operating units in Indonesia, Thailand, and MESA transitioned in the prior year.