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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.
| Vendor | Old Product | New Product | Function | Market | Users | VAR/SI | When | Live |
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| SAP | Legacy Applications | SAP ERP ECC 6.0 | Enterprise Resource Planning | ERP Financial Management | n/a | Inviqa | 2015 | 2017 |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe | Enterprise Resource Planning | ERP Financial Management | Subscribe | Subscribe | 2017 | 2H 2018 |
| First Name | Last Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Group Commercial Finance Director | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Head of Financial Planning & Reporting | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Digital Marketing Executive | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | CFO | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Group HR Director | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Global Head of Reward | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Head of Talent and Learning | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Group Treasurer | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Head of Global Talent Development | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Head of IT Shared Service Centre - Europe | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | CIO | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Head of Finance, PZUK | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | HR Business Partner | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Global Supply Chain Director and Managing Director Procurement | Subscribe | Subscribe |