In general, there are several problems faced by Indonesia companies, such as operational costs, manual business processes, outdated IT systems, that hinder the company management from getting timely and accurate information to make the right business decisions.
On 15 January 2020, Lion Super Indo, a subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize has embarked a new journey of digital transformation by implementing SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business system for the FiCO (Finance & Controlling) modules. The company carries brand with a variety of reliable, complete, low cost but high quality daily necessities for the community, Lion Super Indo certainly requires an integrated and sophisticated system to manage all their business processes, especially in the finance area.
WCS was chosen as the partner of Lion Super Indo for the SAP implementation. WCS has more than 12 years of IT experience and were awarded "The Best SAP Services Partner" and "Fastest Growing Partner" by SAP Indonesia in 2019, an affirmation of WCS capability to provide comprehensive, effective and efficient IT solutions.
During the "Lion Super Indo SAP Finance Go-Live" launch event that was held at the Menara Bidakara office, it was attended by several key representatives of Lion Super Indo, namely Johan Boeijenga the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Lany S Budianto the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Ken Wibowo the IT VP, Glen William the Business Process PM, Jimmy Jonathan Heryanto the IT PM and Felix Martinus the Sr. GM of Financial Planning Analysis.
Representatives from WCS also attended the event as SAP Partners, namely, Andy Halim and Johnson Senarico said that currently, the implementation of S4 / HANA FICO is the best choice for companies in carrying out digitization and preparation towards industry 4.0. SAP does a lot of updates on the SAP S / 4HANA version, one of which is to use real-time applications with real-time analytics to one platform called HANA.
After striking the gong to officiate the event by CEO Johan Boeijenga, Lion Super Indo is optimistic that it can have an integrated business management system that can synchronize business processes and provide real time business information for sourcing and procurement, production planning and execution, inventory management, sales and distribution, cash flow analysis and consumer demand forecast going forward.