A Global Port Machinery & Heavy Equipment Group (North America, Confidential)某全球化港口机械与重型装备企业（北美）
Unified management across multiple North American branches on SAP: simpler project management and significant time and labor savings
- Headquarters
- China / United States
- Industry
- Heavy equipment manufacturing
- Products & Services
- Port machinery and heavy equipment
- Partner
- MTC USA
- Solution
- SAP Business One on HANA
Client name and identifying details withheld at the client's request
Who They Are
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This is a globally renowned manufacturer of port machinery and heavy equipment, operating at home and abroad with multiple offices in the United States: an East Coast subsidiary, a West Coast subsidiary, and a North America Procurement & Logistics Center responsible for the sales, installation and maintenance of port cranes across North America. Centered on large-scale projects, the company works closely with local terminals and labor unions. To manage its North American operations flexibly and efficiently, it chose SAP to automate and refine every aspect of project management, from services and procurement to budgets, approvals and finance. This simplified workflows and significantly reduced labor costs.
Products Deployed
Implementation partner: MTC USA
What the Client Says
MTC and SAP helped us build a management platform for our North American operations. Through automated, integrated system management, we have streamlined project management processes and saved significant labor and time.
What This Upgrade Delivered
- Unified multi-branch financial controls across the North American (US) subsidiaries with SAP, satisfying both group compliance requirements and local US regulations, tax laws and fiscal compliance.
- Automated consolidated financial reporting, saving significant labor and time while displaying multi-branch data in a single report for clear at-a-glance visibility.
- Enabled project-centric, multi-level granular management covering services, procurement, approvals, budgets, and finance, with automated labor-hour calculations for outsourced personnel.
- Deployed an enterprise mobile approval function on SAP supporting multi-level and multi-person approvals with real-time content visibility. This simplified project workflows and significantly improved efficiency.
- Reduced the entire monthly financial closing cycle from 10 days to 3 days, with accurate and timely operational analytics, and project operating efficiency up about 30% to support business operations.
- Cut procurement approval times through multi-level, multi-person approval workflows, simplifying project management end to end.
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