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31 August 2021

AMAG - Billing management

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AMAG Austria Metall AG, AMAG for short, located in Ranshofen, a district of Braunau am Inn (Upper Austria), is the largest Austrian aluminium group. It is a supplier of primary aluminium and semi-finished aluminium products.

According to SAP's plans, the changeover to SAP S/4HANA should be completed by the end of 2027 - and support for the current SAP ERP will be offered until 2030 for an additional charge. AMAG recognised early on how complex the internal "SAP S/4HANA transformation project" is and therefore already initiated this process this year with the conversion of bonus accounting in SD.

Discussions with AMAG about the changeover to SAP S/4HANA and the preliminary project "bonus settlement" in the SAP SD module took place in the summer of 2019. In the months that followed, both sides did a lot of research and preparation. In May of this year, the project around the consortium SAP, SettMEx and INFORMATICS started.

Collaboration - Together we create more

The role allocation and cooperation with the professionals and the customer AMAG went like clockwork. In addition to the implementation in the customer's system, the project also benefited from the close relationship and long-standing partnership between the customer and INFORMATICS.

Long-term goal SAP S/4HANA - the clock is ticking

With the implementation of several preliminary projects, AMAG is taking on a pioneering role on the path to S/4HANA. In addition to the conversion of settlement management, the next steps will be to make three other processes compatible with S/4HANA: bonus settlement and commission settlement in SAP SD and commission settlement in SAP MM. With these conversions, current (Z) solutions in settlement management, which are based on Excel, among other things, will become obsolete.

Advantage: AMAG

In the new, fully automated SD rebate settlement, all customer-specific condition contracts (the central element in settlement management) are clearly documented. With just a few clicks, sales can now be included or excluded or conditions or settlement periods can be changed and then settlement documents can be issued and cancellations taken into account. Processing effort, operating costs and sources of error are thus reduced to a minimum.

Subtle go-live

The project took about 30 man-days and was realised 100 per cent remotely due to the current circumstances; thanks to regular coordination via web tools, the project ran smoothly. The go-live of the bonus accounting - from test to productive system - is planned for the end of the year. The changeover will be smooth because the new solution can run parallel to the current solution. In the background, test runs, the creation of contracts and simulations are possible; only when real bonuses are settled do things get serious. The next step is the conversion of commission settlement in SAP SD.