Kick-off for Schenker Argentina and Chile

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Schenker in Chile and Argentina have started their rollout preparations in parallel during a meeting in Santiago de Chile, but will be split later on due to the local differences. For both countries, the operational systems will also need to be enhanced to support the local functionality that SAP offers, making these rollouts challenging in different disciplines. This is also one of the reasons why the preparations are expected to take at least a year before the projects can go live.

The project team members of Schenker in Argentina and Chile

Schenker do Brasil starts successfully with SAP as first country in LATAM

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After a year of intensive preparations and parallel projects that become part of the new system landscape, Schenker in Brazil went live with SAP on 1st January 2010 as the first country in the LATAM region. All operational data now feeds into a local system that handles all complex and frequently changing legal (tax) requirements, and this local system then forwards all accounting data to SAP for further processing. This has optimised a number of key business processes significantly and also prepares the organisation for further future improvements.

The SAP users of the São Paulo office of Schenker in Brazil.

Successful start with SAP for Schenker-Seino in Japan

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Early May, the SAP implementation project was signed off after a successful start on 1st April 2008. The local team had perfectly prepared themselves in between the end-user training and the go-live phases, which was one of the major contributions to the smooth migration. With the completion of this project, the last HAI system in the Asia Pacific region has been replaced.

The accounting and controlling department of Schenker-Seino in Japan with their certificates!

Successful start with SAP for Schenker in Australia and New Zealand

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From June 2006 to April 2007, the parallel projects for implementing SAP in Australia and New Zealand were ongoing, resulting in a successful go-live as per 1st May 2007 onwards. René Coppens had the responsibility as project manager supported initially by Foo Joo Liang from the regional office in Singapore, followed by his successor Chin Kee Seng. The local CFO experienced the parallel acquisition of BAX as an additional risk towards achieving the project objectives but stated that ‘proper project management and excellent documentation’ has helped to keep the project progress under control.

The local teams involved 8 members of the organisation in Australia and 3 of New Zealand. In total, some 40 end-users were trained in using SAP in both countries.

Successful start with SAP for Schenker in Malaysia

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Schenker Malaysia has started with SAP after half a year of intensive preparations. The local project team involved 5 staff members where each one had his/her individual responsibility within the finance and administration department, with René Coppens as project manager supported by Foo Joo Liang from the regional office in Singapore. The other 15 accounting colleagues were dedicated to gain sufficient experience in the final project phase, which was one of the reasons for a smooth production start up.

Schenker Malaysia with the traditional SAP certificate in Kuala Lumpur.

Project sign-off for Railion Nederland NV

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Gerben Dokter, manager control, announced that the SAP R/3 project has been successfully completed now that the final interface to the HR system has also been completed. René Coppens had been asked to manage the project phases 1 and 2 (preparation and blueprint) and then handed over the deliverables to another team for the remainder of the project.

A toast on the successful implementation start of SAP. Left to right: Thessa Schneijdenberg, Jan-Hendrik van den Berg, Frans Lagas and Gerben Dokter. (Source: Rondom Railion May 2004)