HIGHLIGHTS
EFFICIENCY GAINS
With Allevo, CarlisleIT was able
to reduce their planning cycle
time by 60 – 65%.
IMPROVED DATA QUALITY
Allevo allowed easy integra-
tion between SAP and multiple
other systems, leading to vastly
improved data quality and
timeliness in reporting.
PROCESS INTEGRITY
Critical business processes
have become more consistent,
efficient, and easier to manage.
CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY
CarlisleIT
Carlisle Companies Incorporated is a $3.6 billion globally diversified company that designs, manufactures and markets a wide
range of products. One of its largest divisions, CarlisleIT operates at 12 locations worldwide, manufacturing high performance
interconnect solutions for the commercial aerospace, military and defense electronics, industrial, test & measurement and
medical industries. While most of their plants run SAP, two are still on Hyperion.
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
CarlisleIT’s monthly rolling forecast as well as quarterly/annual planning required
more time than feasible due to poor data integration across disparate systems.
The need to aggregate data from multiple systems (SAP and Hyperion primarily),
align it structurally, improve data quality, standardize worksheets, create unified,
consistent processes, and the desire to output consistent planning and reporting
documents that share common templates and format provided further impetus.
Corporate Controlling owned the project, which involved over 20 stakeholder
participants. The solution went live in November 2015, after about 8 weeks.
SOLUTION DELIVERED
The Allevo team, together with CarlisleIT business stakeholders, implemented
Allevo for Detailed Cost Planning, Asset Planning, Personnel Planning as well as
global P+L Rolling Forecasting and Web Dashboard Reporting.
After all planning worksheets were standard-
ized across locations, Allevo integrates all
business decision relevant data in the SAP
architecture, with consistent workflows to
accompany them.
This allowed business processes to be optimized around them and all planning
and reporting procedures to be managed within the Allevo Cockpit and Dashboard.
Executives and Analysts can now access all planning/forecast-relevant data in
real-time as needed at any time, from any place, via any desktop or mobile device.
RESULTS/BENEFITS ACHIEVED
“With Allevo we were able to align and integrate ten manufacturing plants – some using different ERP systems – and cut
our planning cycle by 60 - 65%, delivering significant savings and greatly improved planning and reporting quality.”
– John Rendo, Controller at CarlisleIT
The most obvious result was the reduction in planning cycle time by 60 - 65%. This resulted in the CarlisleIT finance team
becoming far more productive. Time previously spent on tedious data extraction, transformation, loading and reconciliation,
was now available for more value-added analysis and optimization work.
Moreover, better data quality and timeliness has improved reporting, allowing for better analysis and insight, which both
should ultimately boost overall business performance. We can only manage what we measure, after all.
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