COGNITUS

INTRODUCTION
SAP SAPPHIRE 2023

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 KEY INDUSTRIES

OUR DIFFERENTIATORS

Fixed scope – we are dedicated to

helping businesses achieve their full
SAP S/4HANA Greenfield, Brownfield, Bluefield
potential on time, in scope, and in budget.
Transformation Experts.

Our team of 1000+ skilled consultants and tech Aerospace & Defense Professional Services Manufacturing End-to-end support – Cognitus
leaders bring a wealth of experience across various manages all stages of your technology
industries and functions, empowering our clients with initiatives. This bolsters data security and
tailored solutions that drive growth, maximize value, VALUE DRIVERS eliminates redundant activity.
and improve their bottom line.

As a trusted SAP partner, we are committed to Industry best practices – we have

End-to-end Excellent Hybrid delivery
excellence and work closely with SAP to ensure our SAP partner track record model, global coverage, extensive cross-industry experience to
clients have access to the latest innovations and to build, sell, of on-time and and around-the-clock get you up and running as quickly as
best practices. service, support in-budget delivery support possible.

OUR SOLUTIONS ECC TO S/4HANA MIGRATION A FEW OF OUR CLIENTS

RISE with SAP

FAST FACTS
GROW with SAP
SAP Co-innovation Partner ​
Intelligent Spend & Business Networks
SAP QPPS – Gallop - Rapid and Cost-effective
Digital Supply Chain
Deployment Models for SAP S/4HANA, GROW
with SAP Pricing Intelligence
SuccessFactors
CX
SAC
10+ 13+ 90+ BTP
Industry Offices Worldwide​ Happy
Leading With 1000+ SAP​ Customers
Solutions Focused Employees
COGNITUS – SAP 360 GOLD PARTNER
SAP Recognized Expertise
SERVICES in 10+ Industry
Verticals
PARTNER

Fixed Scope VALUE ADDED Gallop Deployment Toolset

Fixed Effort RESELLER SAP BUILD Gallop CIS-AD
Fixed Cost & GALLOP PARTNER Hamilton IFRS15 & IFRS 16
Timeline PACKAGES
Pricing Industry Cloud

SAP SAP PCOE

SAP S/4HANA Operations
SUPPORT SAP AMS
PARTNER SAP Hosting

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OUR GLOBAL PRESENCE

Ontario, Canada
North America, Delivery & Toulouse, France
Sales Office
Europe, GDSC

Dallas, Texas
North America, Company
Headquarters

Miami, Florida
North America, Regional Office

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

México City, Mexico North America GDSC

Latin America, Regional Office

Panama City, Panama Manila, Philippines

APAC, GDSC
Latin America, GDSC Hyderabad,
Tangiers,
Morocco India
Bogotá, Colombia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Africa, GDSC APAC, GDSC
South America, GDSC
APAC, GDSC

Buenos Aires, Argentina

South America, Sales &
Marketing office

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OUR CUSTOMER BASE

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 OUR
SOLUTIONS

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OUR SOLUTIONS & INDUSTIRES

INDUSTRIES WE SERVE

OUR
SOLUTIONS Professional Services Aerospace & Defense Wholesale & Distribution Life Sciences
RISE with SAP
GROW with SAP
Intelligent Spend &
Business Networks
E-Commerce Manufacturing Oil & Gas Utilities
Digital Supply Chain
Pricing Intelligence
SuccessFactors
Customer Experience
Consumer Products Automotive Food Retail
Analytics
BTP OUR PARTNERS

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 KEY REFERENCES

SAP S/4HANA FINANCE & SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA

Implementation AMS Implementation Implementation
Reduce contract to billing Leverage new SAP End to end visibility from One of the shortest
cycle functionality for statutory when a customer places an
reporting order to when they receive it implementations in the
Contract flow down history of RISE with SAP
capabilities increased Complete statutory reporting One source of truth for S/4HANA
government visibility and from data directly from SAP analyzing rapidly changing
reduced time loss cost using standard SAP and complex data Implementation of SAP
functionality
GTS compliance and Improved user experience S/4HANA with CIS-A&D
integrations into EWM Reduce reconciliation time through Fiori enhanced the core
improved auditing time and and increase time spent on
customer tracking analytics One source of truth for data capabilities of SAP S/4HANA
and integrations into 3rd with least number of
Controlled repository for party systems customizations
statutory data and
adjustments that are auditable Able to onboard new
companies much quicker Well defined business
Timely and accurate reporting than before requirements, teamwork, IP
and industry cloud solutions
made this implementation a
great success

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RISE WITH SAP S/4HANA –
INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS
IBP
SAP ARIBA SNAP,
Success
Analytics SLP & SCC,
Fieldglass, Factors
Cloud
Concur
EWM/TM
RPA,
AI/ML
Digital
Bots

Digital Core +
Gallop Industry Business Technology Platform
Cloud Solutions
Extend | Integrate | Build | Experience

N E X T G E N E R AT I O N B U S I N E S S P R O C E S S E S
Embedded Intelligence / Harmonized Experience / Unified Integration/ Flexible Extension
EFFICIENCY SPEED OF INNOVATION AGILITY

D ATA
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 COGNITUS QUALIFIED PACKAGES​

SAP S/4HANA Intelligent SAP S/4HANA Industry

Packages Enterprise Packages​ Add-ons​ Packages

Gallop Pilot Project Lifecycle Hamilton For IFRS15 / CIS-A&D

Management ​ ASC 606 Revenue CIS-GovCon
Gallop Deployment Compliance​
Talent Intelligence CIS-PS
GROW with Gallop powered by Livehire Hamilton IFRS 16 /
ASC842 Lease
Price Intelligence, Accounting Compliance​
Rebates & Channel
Management​ Hamilton IFRS 17 for
Insurance Companies​
Gallop ISBN 360
(Intelligent Spend Gallop Defense
Management – Ariba, Contract Lifecycle
SAP Customer Icertis, Fieldglass, Management (DCLM)​
Experience Packages Concur)​
Gallop Data Validation
Toolset ​
Gallop for Intelligent Management (DCLM)​
Sales Cloud Deployment
Gallop Data Validation
Toolset​

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COGNITUS RECOGNIZED EXPERTISE​

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GALLOP RISE TRANSFORMATION​

Gallop Transformation - Pilot and Deployment

S/4HANA –Greenfield, Brownfield, or Bluefield
implementations​.

It is a unique combination of factory approach, tools,

and templates to facilitate deployment in the fastest
and economical manner possible.​

Gallop Deployment enables your organization to

realize the benefits upgrading to SAP S/4HANA
while minimizing the impact to your business and
time investment from your team.​

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 GROW WITH
By combing the power of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and our proven implementation methodology,​
GROW with Gallop lets you push your business forward with industry best practices, build BENEFITS
your​ own breakthroughs, grow without limits, and go live quickly with confidence.

Differentiators
Run with Industry best practices
by applying preconfigured processes that are
ready to go.
Increased predictability Fast and simplified cloud
of costs and operations ERP adoption
Go live Build your own
with confidence breakthroughs
Complete package of solutions, Accessible and scalable by using proven by reshaping business
adoption acceleration services, options for small and guidance to deliver models and redefining
community, and learning midsize businesses speed and predictability. work on the fly.

Grow without limits

by adding customers, markets, and products
Run with industry best without increasing complexity.
practices

What’s Included

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Industry best Proven implementation Community and SAP Business Technology
1 a ready-to-run cloud ERP solution 2 practices 3 methodology for industry success 4 learning resources 5 Platform

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COGNITUS INDUSTRY SOLUTION FOR A&D (CIS-AD)​

GOVERNMENT
CONTRACTS & BILLING
GTS
WORKFORCE AUTOMATION
(GLBOAL TRADE)
(Time Capture & ALC)

CLOSEOUT
IFRS 15 AND CONTRACT FLOW
COMPIFRS16LIANCE DOWN
CHANGE BID
MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT

LEASE
ACCOUNTING INCURRED COST
IFRS 16/ ASC 842 REPORTING
COMPLIANCE
EXECUTION
AND INITIATION
CONTROL
GOVERNMENT &
CUSTOMER PROPERTY

PLANNING
REVENUE RCOGNITION AND SET UP
IFRS 15/ ASC 606
LOGISTICS EXECUTION
COMPLIANCE

PROCUREMENT ACCELERATOR SAP PMMO WITH

& CPSR COMPLIANCE ADVANCED REPORTING
ARIBA SHIELD

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CIS-A&D COVERS END TO END FUNCTIONALITY

Government Contracts Project Accounting &

Earned Value Reporting
and Billing Incurred Cost Reporting

Design, Build Project-

Maintenance Time and
Support, and Procurement Driven
Operations Expense
Management Manufacturing

Management of Maintenance
Contracts and Contract
Contract Flow
Invoice Billing
of Contract
Billing Creation Creation Details
Down Changes

Project Creation Project

and Execution Accounting

Program
Management

Earned Value Earned Value Payroll

Management Reporting Reconciliation

Accounts
Financial and Payable,
Applied
Incurred Cost
Payroll Financial Close Indirect
Accounting Accounts
Costs
Reporting
Receivable

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 COGNITUS INDUSTRY SOLUTION FOR PROSERV (CIS-PS)​
Industry specialization:
Gallop Implementation
accelerators
(Enhanced Best Practices + User Guides)

Industry solution app: Industry solution app:

WIP Manager Engagement
(Arrange & edit WIP centrally) Management
*Coming Q4-2023 (Quote to Close)

Industry solution integration: Industry solution app:

Front & Back-office integration with The Simple Timesheet
SAP S/4HANA <> MS Teams/Sharepoint (Matrix-based time capture)

Select Customers of Cognitus

ProServ Solutions & Accelerators:

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 PRICEFX

Price Intelligently and Drive More Revenue and Higher Margins

The key to consistently profitable pricing is choosing the right

tools. With our industry-specific, pre-packaged solution, you
can react to the market in real time and keep your prices
competitive—and profitable. You’ll receive real-time insights
that are applicable to every sales cycle, from initial quote
through contracts and renewals.

Leverage the power of AI-driven pricing insights and start

pricing at the speed of the market and maximizing your profits.

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 CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE (CX)
Future-proof your business with next-generation sales experience.

E-COMMERCE

MARKETING CUSTOMER
SAP CUSTOMER DATA
EXPERIENCE

SERVICE SALES

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 HAMILTON ENGINE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE​

Inception Projection of Financial Statements

Modification

Starting Point Future

SAP Premium Certified Add-On for IFRS 15 and IFRS 16

(and more)​
Simplicity & User-Friendly​
IFRS 16 Accounting Automation with Predictive Accounting Engine​
Adaptable to Future Requirements (configurable Use-
Case Driven solution)​
Powerful Reporting out of the box​
IFRS 15
Handles large volumes much better than any competitor ​
Hamilton grows with you (like SAP)​
IFRS 9 Non-Disruptive Approach (Not Impacting existing business
process)​
Expert System – Machine Learning

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 HUMMINGBIRD iAMS
Connect People, Functions, & Systems to Drive Innovation,
Increase Business Agility, and Unlock Productivity

RPA WEB CONVERSATIONAL AI (CHATBOTS)

GREAT EXPERIENCES
SAP CAI
Delivered to customers
OUR UNIQUE DIFFERENTIATION

HELP DESK FUNCTIONAL & BUSINESS

SYSTEM APPLICATION
TECHNICAL MONITORING OPTIMIZATION
SUPPORT ADMINISTRATION HOSTING
SUPPORT & INNOVATION

TRUE.
WORKFLOWS AND EXECUTION KNOWLEDGE BASE, MACHINE LEARNING, DEVELOPER TOOLS,
DIGITAL. INTEGRATIONS MANAGEMENT SERVICE CATALOG ARTIFICIAL USER EXPERIENCE
SYSTEM INTELLIGENCE,
TRANSCENDING YOUR BUSINESS AMS. ANALYTICS

INFRASTRUCTURE CUSTOMER SERVICE PROCESS MINING PROCESS ERP & FINANCE CHANGE MANAGEMENT AUTOMATED
MONITORING DATA
MANAGEMENT

SYSTEMS OF RECORD
Integrate and communicate
across any systems or infrastructure

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CONTRACT AI

Contract AI – Artificial Intelligence Powered

Federal Contract Automation

Contract AI uses AI (Large Language Model) to extract key

data within seconds, offering side-by-side PDF comparison
and integration with SAP and AI driven data validation.

Seamlessly augments extracted data with SAP fields ​

Automatically translates government contracts into SAP
Sales Cloud​
Operational contracts, pricing conditions, FAR clauses and
flow down fields are automatically loaded into SAP ​
Reduces contract entry time in SAP from 3 days to just
minutes with 95% accuracy ​
Answers questions about your contract with a language
based interface (similar to ChatGPT) ​

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 ALCHEMY DATA CONVERSION​

Intelligent ETL Key Features

01 02 03 04
Purpose built LLM integration FEDRAMP & NIST Approval workflow
for SAP for data 800-171 compliant for authorized
S/4HANA insights migrations

Alchemy is an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool designed for

05 06 07
Advanced security Built for business 24/7 expert
migrating data from legacy systems to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The features & users with guidance provided
tool leverages advanced pre-built data models to intelligently encryption minimal technical by Cognitus
knowledge
extract and transform data from various sources such as flat files,
databases, and ERP systems with maximum security.

Unparalleled Security: Alchemy provides advanced security

With seamless integration to SAP S/4HANA Migration features including data encryption and AES 256-bit encryption
Cockpit, Alchemy accurately loads the transformed data into in transit. The platform sits on a highly secure and scalable
your SAP S/4HANA environment, allowing you to complete cloud infrastructure.
the migration process with ease and confidence.​

AI Powered: Alchemy integrates with LLMs to provide powerful AI

SAY GOODBYE TO MANUAL DATA MIGRATIONS AND HELLO assisted processing of unstructured data to gain valuable
TO STREAMLINED, SECURE AND EFFICIENT DATA insights. It automatically generates pre-load and post-load
TRANSFERS WITH ALCHEMY. validation reports along with guided transformations.

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FUSION PRO

PS

Fusion Pro – Connect SAP to Microsoft Project

Click a button to create PS projects. WBSs (multi-levels),

schedules, baseline work and costs, retrieve actual work
and costs and synchronize master data (like resources,
cost elements, activity types, profit centers, etc.). Ability to
push EV related data (like scheduled variance, actual
variance, budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP) to an
external EVWM system directly from MS Project.

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 DATASPHERE

Transform your business into an intelligent

enterprise with our deep knowledge and
expertise of extending your SAP
investment through AI, Big Data Analytics,
Bots, Cloud Migration, and modern cloud
and data architectures.

DELIVER MEANINGFUL DATA TO EVERY DATA PROFESSIONAL

Access authoritative data: Enrich all data projects: Simplify the data
Accelerate your time-to- Harmonize data into a landscape:
value by automatically business semantic model Access all your data across
reusing the semantical of your diverse data hybrid and cloud
definitions and associations landscape. environments no matter
from SAP applications. where it resides.

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GALLOP INTELLIGENT SPEND & BUSINESS NETWORKS​

Gallop ISBN Covers End-to-End Functionality of Ariba,

Spend Management and Analysis​

Worker Profile Supplier Lifecycle

Management Performance

Service
Procurement CONCUR Sourcing

Contingent Workforce Contract

Management Management
FIELDGLASS ARIBA

Supply Chain Supplier

Collaboration Risk
CENTRAL
SAC PROCUREMENT
Digital Supplier
Network Buying &
Invoicing
Spend Ariba
Analysis Snap

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 SAP ARIBA

Supplier Spend Collaborative Contract Procurement Order Invoice

Management Visibility Sourcing Management Execution
Registration and On- Spend Supplier Discovery Award to Contract Material and Mobile Ordering PO Flip
boarding Classification Services
Strategic Sourcing Workflow Conformations Invoice Automation
Diversity and Green Category Catalogs
Reverse Auctions Authoring Advanced Ship Intelligent Invoicing
Certs Management
Spot Buy Notice
Knowledge Repository Service Entry
Risk Management Enrichment
Repository Robust Approval Goods Receiving Sheets
Services Lifecycle
Surveys Workflows
Optimization Notifications Rate Card ERS
Market Intelligence
Scorecards Guided Buying Management
Article Pricing Redlining Tax Service
D&B Insights
Performance Workbench Returns
Lead Time E-Signatures
Spend Analytics
Request Quotes

BENEFITS
System-driven process efficiencies across all spend categories
Capture more savings by increasing spend under management on one solution
Achieve contract compliance and stop contract leakage through ERP integration
Source and contract faster by integrating master data across systems
Better manage complex bills of materials with PLM integration Completeness of Comprehensive Strategic
Vision E-Commerce Partner
Improve supplier selection to minimize supply risks
Gain greater pricing and forecasting visibility

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 COGNITUS & ICERTIS

&

25+ Practitioners Icertis & ISBN

Cognitus Team Members Technical integration between
In Icertis Practice Globally 14+ Certified Functional
Consultants Icertis + SAP Ariba or S/4HANA
Technical Upsell from SAP Ariba CLM
11+ Consultants

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 GALLOP DSC

Transportation FIORI EWM

IBP EWM Management Templates

DSC COVERS
END-TO-END
FUNCTIONALITY OF SCC Light
MES SAC Product
Integrations Insights Lifecycle
SUPPLY CHAIN
INCLUDING:

Modification Pre-delivered
Single Planning IoT 4.0
tracking Security

Forecast
Sharing

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COGNITUS INNOVATION LABS
INTELLIGENT ERP AUTOMATION WITH CHATBOTS

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 CUSTOMER
SUCCESS STORIES

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Challenges
Boom Supersonic needed a new ERP system that complied with SOX regulations to handle their
growing business needs and facilitate commercialization. Due to limited resources, they required a
quick implementation of the new system.
Solutions Implemented
Core Finance including Project Systems,
Fixed Assets, Lease Accounting
SAP Analytics for Cloud for Planning and
Reporting.
Purchasing functionality including Ariba
DSN, Concur
Business Impact / Benefits Obtained
Why SAP and Cognitus?
Customer Quote
Boom benefits from SAP and Cognitus'
expertise, as well as NS2's RISE offering,
because it allows them to comply with
government contracting requirements and
reduce IT infrastructure maintenance costs.
Furthermore, SAP's S4HANA offers seamless
integration of various cross-functional
modules, including Finance, Purchasing, and
Production, while also providing scalability for
the solution.
SOX Compliant streamlined business processes
Integrated cross functional reporting
Digital approvals mechanism for Purchase
requisitions, Orders and Invoices
Planning, Budget and Reporting capabilities
Faster month end close
Scalability to future business growth needs
“Several months ago, we partnered with Cognitus
as our solutions integrator. Shared our 3 months
goal and set out on a trek to migrate to SAP
S/4HANA, Cognitus assigned the best people I
have worked with on an ERP migration, bar none.
They helped us understand what was necessary to
find success and coached us along the way. We
established quick confidence and early trust in
communications in the first day of the project and
things only got better from there.”
Chief Information Officer
BOOM

Challenges
MHI Compressor International (MCO-I) needed
a platform to support their rapid growth and the
ability to dynamically expand their ERP
capabilities with robust business process and
best-in-class user experience.
MCO-I was looking for a partner to migrate
from MHI managed SAP ECC solution to the
state-of-the-art SAP S4 HANA solution and
bring solutions faster to their end users.
Instead of an accounting system that needs to
integrate with other systems, MCO-I needed a
system that supports manufacturing growth at
the same time satisfying the accounting
demands.
Why SAP and Cognitus?
SAP possesses robust business process
automation and has the platform that can
scale up with the business at the same time
delivering a unique user-experience with the
S/4HANA Fiori platform.
Solutions Implemented
SAP S/4HANA and a custom
interface to Siemen’s Teamcenter for
Engineering Data integration.
Specific partner expertise to
achieve success
Track record for successful
implementation of SAP S/4HANA
Certified resources in respective modules
with deep knowledge in E2E processes
Prebuilt assets on project plans, timelines
and best practices.
Strong functional team with the right mix
of onsite, onshore and offshore with deep
knowledge in specific modules.
Robust Internal systems with prebuilt
solutions for live Demo’s during
requirement gathering sessions
Business Impact / Benefits Obtained
Ability to support manufacturing operations in SAP
with shop routers, confirmations and integrating
seamlessly into accounting postings.
Ability to integrate with other systems such as
SharePoint, Teamcenter, etc.
Faster turnaround time with enhancements and issue
resolution.
A cost-effective AMS support
Customer Quote
“Now, with S/4HANA we are able to
support our growth. Cognitus is a trusted
partner and guided us through a successful
implementation. We needed a rapid
implementation and Cognitus allowed us to
deliver that.”
IT Manager
MHI Compressor Intl.

Challenges
Danbury Mission Technologies was looking for
a solution to support their divestiture
DMT struggled with tracking their government
contract billing and flow down needs
The data models and multiple systems
containing data needed to be consolidated
Why SAP and Cognitus?
With SAP and DCLM, this allows Danbury to
manage their data efficiently, gives visibility
into their production process and provides
automation within their billing process.
Business Impact / Benefits Obtained
Solutions Implemented
Reduce contract to billing cycle
SAP S/4HANA, DCLM, SAC, Contract flow down capabilities increased
EWM, Ariba, GTS government visibility and reduced time loss cost
GTS compliance and integrations into EWM
improved auditing time and customer tracking
Specific partner expertise to
achieve success
DCLM industry cloud solution
Certified resources in respective modules
with deep knowledge in E2E processes Customer Quote
Prebuilt assets on project plans,
timelines, test scripts and best practices “We needed industry specific solutions
along with a short timeline. Cognitus
Proven expertise in implementing A&D
industry enabled us to accomplish both and they
are guiding us through our future as well.
Co-innovation with SAP to improve the
DCLM solution and provide customer
roadmaps
Chief Information Officer
DMT

Challenges
AGC exists in many countries with
disconnected systems
Localization in LATAM countries
The data models and multiple systems
containing data needed to be consolidated
Why SAP and Cognitus?
SAP allows a uniform platform where multiple
countries can operate together and
consolidate information.
Business Impact / Benefits Obtained
Solutions Implemented
Consolidated accounting information reduced month
end processing time by 30%
SAP S/4HANA, SAC
Reporting through SAC reduced manual reporting
throughout multiple teams
One source of truth reduced inconsistent data across
the globe
Specific partner expertise to
achieve success
Global rollout experience
SAP S/4HANA Gallop Migrations
Customer Quote
Automotive specialization and best
practice experience
“Our global structure was a concern because
Certified resources in respective modules we had multiple systems supporting this.
with deep knowledge in E2E processes
Cognitus helped us consolidate into one
Prebuilt assets on project plans, timelines system and their global knowledge was
, test scripts and best practices. paramount in our success.”
Enterprise Applications
AGC

Challenges
SBHPP is a business unit of Sumitomo Bakelite
Co.,Ltd and is a global leader in the high-
performance plastics solutions and support.
SBHPP was looking for a solution to digitize
their procurement and start collaborating real-
time with their suppliers on PO cycle, as well as
benefit from invoice automation
They lacked the real time visibility on the
Purchase orders, shipments and Invoices
They were facing difficulty in onboarding new
suppliers
Their SAP ECC solution didn’t allow them to
react quickly on the changes from Supplier or
Buyer
Solutions Implemented
SAP Ariba Digital Supplier Network
(DSN) integrated to SAP ECC 6.0 EHP4
via Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG)
Why SAP and Cognitus?
With SAP Ariba Digital Supplier Network
solution (DSN), they would be able to digitize,
integrate, and simplify supplier collaboration,
get advanced shipping notices and help
ensure reliable delivery dates, increase
transparency into supplier performance,
automate invoice entry process by having
suppliers submit invoices over the Network
Specific partner expertise to
achieve success
Deep knowledge of Integration using CIG
and strong SAP Basis experts to be able
to connect AN and SAP ECC
Strong Supplier Enablement team who
was able to put an efficient Supplier
onboarding plan together and execute it.
Strong functional expertise in both SAP
Procurement processes and Ariba
Network functionalities
Business Impact / Benefits Obtained
Purchase Order to Invoice automation: The supplier
gets full transparency of the order cycle – goods
receipt status, invoice processing status and payment
status.
Global Digital Supplier Network - Eliminated the
heavy maintenance and costs of custom-built portals
and EDI connections
Global e-invoicing Compliance - Met country-specific
requirements for invoice content, format, integrity,
authenticity, legibility, and archiving.
Supplier Mobility- Suppliers can collaborate with your
organization from any location, from any device.
Customer Quote
“In about 8 weeks, Cognitus team were able to help
us transition our procurement and AP processes to
Ariba Network with DSN solution, and they were able
to onboard our key suppliers, meet our digital
transformation and integrate with our SAP ECC
system on time and on budget”
IT Manager
Sumitomo Bakelite North America, Inc.

Challenges
Kaleido Biosciences is a fast-growing Biotech
company who needed to implement a strong
contracts management and digital procurement
solution.
Manual maintenance of contracts & order details
were maintained in tools with limited abilities
Reporting was a major challenge
Integrating Ariba cloud solutions with Oracle
which is also a cloud solution
Why SAP and Cognitus?
Ariba solution is quite a match for the client
requirements where they are looking for all
indirect purchases using Catalog purchases
for all users with a robust workflow process, at
the same time using paperless digital
contracts in Ariba.
Solutions Implemented
SAP Ariba Buying & Invoicing, SAP
Ariba Contracts Management,
Integration with Oracle Netsuite
Specific partner expertise to
achieve success
Track record for successful implementation
various Ariba solutions with SAP & Non-SAP
Solutions
Handful certified resources in respective
modules with deep knowledge in E2E
processes
Prebuilt assets on project plans, timelines,
potential developments, test scripts.
Proven expertise in implementing E2E Ariba
solutions
Robust Internal systems with prebuilt
solutions for live Demo’s during requirement
gathering sessions
Business Impact / Benefits Obtained
User experience & detailed training documents for
users to create requisitions
Digital contract repository and contracts compliance
with
Non-SAP ERP Integration with Ariba
Prepackaged reports & Analytical reports were
configured and used.
Customer Quote
“Cognitus Consulting helped us not only with Digital
Transformation through SAP Ariba implementation,
but they helped us set up a whole new Procurement
organization in a very fast-growing company like
Kaleido. Their business acumen and strong technical
expertise was key to this project’s success”
Michael Tomich,
Head of Procurement,
Kaleido Biosciences
 Business Impact / Benefits Obtained
Why SAP and Cognitus?
Challenges
Key factors for evaluation included extensive Fully integrated and scalable ERP
Data extraction out of a 30+ year ERP functionality for the discrete industry, Empowered users to access reports and dashboards
Smaller, limited project team with the complexity implementation partner with trusted expertise, and in real-time that drove adoption
of implementing an ERP reasonable subscription and implementation costs.
One source of truth that equated to proficiency and
Deployment of change management best time savings
practices Specific partner expertise to Combined RISE for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private
Implementation timeline achieve success edition and NS2 for the first time

Siloed system landscape Following best practices reduced technical debt for
Cognitus is one of the first partners to
future innovations
participate in the SAP RISE Cloud Architect
and Advisor (CAA) program SAP and Cognitus’ Industry Solution for Aerospace
and Defense (CIS-A&D) supported the culture and
Solutions Implemented Project management team standards and
business process changes
industry experience
RISE with SAP S/4HANA Extensive discrete manufacturing Customer Quote
experience with robust add-on solution to
SAP Customer Experience complement RISE with SAP S/4HANA on
NS2 “Cognitus Consulting helped us not only with Digital
Transformation through SAP Ariba implementation,
SAP SuccessFactors Throughout the project, Cognitus and NS2
but they helped us set up a whole new Procurement
developed operational standards and
procedures for future customer due to our organization in a very fast-growing company like
SAP Analytics Cloud
architecture expertise Kaleido. Their business acumen and strong technical
expertise was key to this project’s success”
BTP

IT Director,
VACCO Industries
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