Part of the preparations for a global rollout of an AP automation solution was the design of all data exchanges to and from SAP. Activities included:
While Schenker was recruiting a new head of Global Accounting Systems, René Coppens was asked to occupy that position on an interim basis during Q4-2019. Both the in-house consultants as well as the offshore team in India were managed during that period, in which two month-end closing, and one year-end closing cycles took place.
With only a year to prepare, Schenker has managed to switch to parallel accounting according to IFRS GAAP regulations. Every country world-wide can now report according to local GAAP as well as IFRS GAAP. At the same time, the opportunity was taken to develop an interface between local accounting systems and the central consolidation system, which makes manual reporting of the monthly statement redundant. René Coppens has designed the concept for parallel accounting specifically for the HAI system, and has also developed the interface to extract all data for the consolidation system.
