WPP London
WPP implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX at its headquarters, which serves as a shared services center, with the implementation covering full accounting, invoicing, and consolidated financial statements for 50 subsidiaries.
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Project Description
WPP needed an ERP system capable of supporting the finance processes of its headquarters, which operates as a shared services centre for the entire group, with users spread across the globe, multiple languages, and dozens of subsidiaries requiring a consolidated balance sheet. The scale and complexity of the environment demanded particular attention to system architecture and performance.
ANEGIS implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX, covering all of the headquarters’ key business processes: full financial accounting with budgeting, invoicing with automatic delivery of invoices to customers and suppliers, electronic payment transfers, a consolidated balance sheet for 50 subsidiaries, multi-company support, procurement, workflow, and advanced controlling. The implementation was carried out in a distributed, multilingual environment.
The project also included a thorough optimisation and modernisation of the codebase: correcting faulty custom code, improving stability and performance, unifying code across all servers, and introducing a new software deployment methodology compliant with Deloitte standards.
Challenge
- Supporting the finance processes of a headquarters acting as a shared services centre for a group of more than 200,000 employees
- Consolidating the balance sheet for 50 subsidiaries in a single system
- Implementing the solution in a distributed, multilingual environment with a large number of users worldwide
- Custom code in Dynamics AX requiring correction, stabilisation and unification across all servers
- A lack of reports meeting the requirements of annual financial audits and IT/security audits
- Manual invoicing and payment processes requiring automation
- No way to track the progress of documents sent to customers by email
Solution
- Implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX at WPP London headquarters as the finance system of the group’s shared services centre.
- Full financial accounting, including budgeting and advanced controlling.
- Automated invoicing: delivery of invoices to customers and suppliers and electronic payment transfers, including invoice processing outside working hours.
- A consolidated balance sheet covering 50 subsidiaries, with multi-company support in a single system.
- Optimisation of key monthly processes in Dynamics AX, resulting in a significant boost in performance and time savings.
- Unification of code across all servers and introduction of a software deployment methodology compliant with Deloitte standards, covering documentation, user testing, acceptance testing and deployment.
- New reports for annual financial audits and IT/security audits, with full review of user access.
- Email activity logging functionality, enabling tracking of the progress of documents sent to customers.
Benefit
- WPP’s shared services centre runs on a single, integrated finance system supporting 50 subsidiaries.
- Automated invoicing and electronic payment transfers eliminate manual work and speed up document flow.
- Key monthly finance processes are significantly faster thanks to Dynamics AX code optimisation.
- Audit reports that meet the requirements of external auditors, both financial and IT/security, are available directly from the system.
- Full visibility of the progress of documents sent to customers through email activity logging.
- A stable, unified platform ready for further development and subsequent rollouts across the group.
included in a consolidated balance sheet within a single system
employees in the client organisation
ANEGIS provided excellent support for the installation of the Dynamics AX finance module at our parent company. Their consultants are top-tier, highly effective specialists.
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