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An International Steel Trading Company (Confidential)

Supported steel-trading operations with digital management on SAP

Real customer case (shown anonymously at the client's request)

Chinese name: 某国际钢铁贸易企业
Location: China (a Japanese sogo shosha's China business)
Industry: Steel trading
Products & Services: Steel and related products
Partner: MTC
Solution: SAP

Client name and identifying details withheld to protect privacy

Project Summary

As an international steel-trading business run in China by a Japanese general trading house (sogo shosha), unifies the closing policy and system architecture across multiple implementing entities, bringing local rules and master data into line

Supports multi-currency accounting, improving settlement precision and control for cross-region, cross-currency business

① Client Background

Company Profile

To protect the client's privacy, this case withholds the name and identifying details; only industry and solution are shared.

This is an international steel-trading company formed by merging the steel division of a general trading group. While keeping its expertise in steel distribution, it draws on the group's global information network to act as an integrated service provider in steel distribution and create added value, with offices across several provinces.

Steel-distribution companies often operate across regions and currencies, and when several implementing entities coexist, management rules, master data and settlement standards in each location tend to go their own way, raising settlement precision and control challenges. Using SAP, MTC helps such companies unify their settlement-management policy and system architecture, run multi-currency management, and bring management rules and master data across locations into line, while embedding credit control into day-to-day business with suppliers and customers through custom development.

② Business and Management Requirements

Business and Management Requirements

Management Requirements Before Implementation

Multiple implementing entities coexisted, so the client's settlement-management policy and system architecture needed unifying
With cross-regional operations, management rules and master data differed across locations, affecting management precision
Under multi-currency business, settlement-management precision needed to improve
There was no systematic credit control over suppliers and customers

Implementation Goals

Unify the settlement-management policy and system architecture, support multi-currency management and improve settlement precision
Bring management rules and master data across locations into line to improve management precision
Make reporting systematic and improve management efficiency
Embed credit control into day-to-day business with suppliers and customers

③ Implemented Solution

Systems and Applications in Scope

SAP

Implementation partner: MTC

④ Project Outcomes

Implementation Outcomes

Embeds credit control into day-to-day dealings with suppliers and customers through custom development, with business and finance integrated
Systematizes reporting and meets China local tax and fiscal compliance, with a unified, comparable basis across regions
Settlement precision improved, and cross-regional, cross-currency business became more standardized
Custom development delivered credit control over suppliers and customers

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