Implement and Grow: How to Evolve Your SAP Ariba Solution to Match Business Needs
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The document outlines strategies for evolving SAP Ariba solutions to meet the changing business needs of Caesars Entertainment Corporation, detailing the company's history, operational goals, and implementation steps for effective procurement and spend management. It emphasizes the importance of system functions, managing capital requests, improving operational efficiency, and leveraging data for enhanced decision-making. The content highlights the company's commitment to sustainability and technological leadership while aiming to achieve cost savings and better category management.
Implement and Grow: How to Evolve Your SAP Ariba Solution to Match Business Needs
- 1. Implement and Grow: How to Evolve Your SAP Ariba Solution to Match Business Needs Stephen Sinnott, Purchasing Operations Manager, Caesars Entertainment Corporation Tina Jerzyk, Senior Consultant, Ariba Change Management / March 16, 2016 Public
- 2. © 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 10Public Welcome BACK to Las Vegas and The Cosmopolitan Hotel!
- 3. © 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 11Public Welcome – Caesars Entertainment Corporation Caesars Entertainment Corporation is the world's most geographically diversified casino-entertainment company. Since its beginning in Reno, Nevada, more than 75 years ago, Caesars has grown through development of new resorts, expansions and acquisitions, and now operates casinos on three continents. The company's resorts operate primarily under the Harrah's®, Caesars® and Horseshoe® brand names. Caesars also owns the London Clubs International family of casinos. Caesars Entertainment is focused on building loyalty and value with its guests through a unique combination of great service, excellent products, unsurpassed distribution, operational excellence and technology leadership. Caesars is committed to environmental sustainability and energy conservation and recognizes the importance of being a responsible steward of the environment. For more information, please visit www.caesars.com.
- 4. © 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 12Public • Set Critical IT Infrastructure • Develop Training Content • Align Rollout & Procurement Resources • On-Board Key Vendors • Rollout Purchasing Capability • Track Operational KPIs • Centralize Purchasing Org. • Increase Spend Automation • Implement CapEx Allocation & Cost Tracking • Implement Contract Request • Offshore Low Value Activates • Monitor Spend Compliance • Grow Sourcing Purview • Increase Velocity / Efficiency • Improve Category Management Implementation is complete...now what? 2013 Configure System Organizational Alignment 2014 - $100M Savings Rollout Base Functionality Purchasing Org Optimization 2015 – 73% Spend On PO Rollout Advance Functionality Monitor Compliance 2016 – Holistic ROI Go Lean Scale Scope of Service Laying a Foundation for Success Strong Foundation = Leverage To Drive Change Single Platform To Engage •I Need Funding For… Capital Request •I Need To Buy… Purchase Request •I Need To Contract… Contract Request Access To Category Experts & Category Strategies System Managed No Touch Offshore Team Low Cost Domestic Team Junior Category Expertise Sourcing Category Expert Balanced Service Delivery Model
- 5. © 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 13Public Evolving better serve the enterprise =
- 6. © 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 14Public System functions driving strategic initiatives Capital Expense Request ~$102M Additional Spend Engaged Contract Request ~$515M Additional Spend Engaged Spend Automation/Offshoring 70% Reduction Cost Per Transaction Highly Manual Process for Requesting Capital Fund Limited insight into status or Budget Lifecycle Contracting Process Takes Too Long & Is Confusing High Level of Non-Compliance Increased demand for Sourcing oversight with same level of resources • Ariba eForm Manages CER Process • Single, Online Platform for Request intake, approval, Tracking • Automated Engagement • System Controls prevents overspending • Simplifies Sourcing & End User Experience • Single Point of Entry for Sourcing & Legal • Users Provide information online • System manages request routing • Provide transparency into statusing • Track and Segment Cycle Time to drive process improvement • Reduce Low Value Add Touches • Simplify the Process • Drive Category Strategy Compliance • Increase No-Touch Transactions, Improve Customer Experience Strategic Sourcing saves 8% (2.8% EBITDA) of every dollar engaged Increase Spend Engaged Cost to Manage Spend
- 7. © 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 15Public Leveraging action-driven data to improve performance Monitor Responsiveness & Capacity Utilization Procurement Operations Performance Provide Retime Visibility Into Full Budget Lifecycle • Budget Owners gain real-time insight into full budget lifecycle • Enables Department and Project managers to proactively prevent overspending • Drilldown capability allows manager to access transactional data through rollup reporting Budget Management Reports • Action-Driven Data • Tracks KPIs at various hierarchical levels • Allows managers to identify & react to under/over utilized resources • Proactive insights prevent process failures
- 8. © 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 16Public SAP Ariba Customer Success Day events Learn from your peers. Share with your peers. Grow with your peers. Learn more at: www.ariba.com/lp/customer-success-day
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