XEPTUM Success Story At a glance The customer SPA SystemPartner GmbH & Co. KG Benzstraße 1 76185 Karlsruhe          Wholesale company in the car accessories sector Product groups: car care, car accessories, replacement parts and parts subject to wear and tear, engine oil, air fresheners Services ranging from purchasing, marketing to logistics Development and manufacture of innovative products and services Marketing of leading brands, licensed brands and own brands Head office: Karlsruhe Warehouse: Malsch Sales offices: Anröchte, Osnabrück Companies abroad: Korneuburg (Austria), Otelfingen (Switzerland), Prague (Czech Republic), Hong Kong (China) The project  Mapping of billing processes in the petrol station sector with integrated settlement of commission SPA SystemPartner GmbH & Co. KG Mapping of agency billing processes in SAP Standard The company SPA SystemPartner has been using SAPERP in its Purchasing, Logistics, Sales, Finance and Controlling Divisions since 2013. When it moved to a new business model, namely agency business in the petrol station sector, there were additional requirements for SPA SystemPartner to map the new business processes in the system within a short space of time. In practice this involves drawing-up the agency statements and the calculation and settlement of any commission payments for the new business model. A particular challenge of the project was the short time between clarifying the requirements and the targeted deployment of the solution. After an initial presentation of the new business model, workshops on recording the target processes started within a few days. The latter recognised the SAP agency business (LO-AB) as the most suitable component to implement the processes. After drawing-up an outline concept, a start was made immediately on implementing the processes, with great value placed on a high level of interaction between the specialist divisions and the IT Department of SPA SystemPartner and the XEPTUM staff as the implementation partners. The pragmatic approach and the high level of expertise of all those involved in the project enabled the processes to be successfully implemented and rolled out within only seven weeks. In practical terms this included: • • • • • • • implementing an inbound interface drawing-up the agency settlement documents and transferring them into financial accounting the calculation and posting of the commission to be paid compiling a collective settlement and offsetting commission that had already been paid CO-PA link issuing messages (Adobe Interactive Forms, CSV files) linking to the existing archiving system The next step now consists of implementing various complaints processes. More information … SPA SystemPartner GmbH & Co. KG Benzstrasse 1 76185 Karlsruhe +49 721 62528-0 +49 721 625 28-33 IT@spa-automotive.com www.spa-automotive.de XEPTUM Consulting AG Robert-Mayer-Strasse 10 74172 Neckarsulm +49 7132 1566-60 +49 7132 1566-69 info@xeptum.com www.xeptum.com