How a global consumer goods maker ran intercompany finance 4x faster
A global food, pet care, and confectionery manufacturer replaced batch-based finance processing with an event-driven integration architecture on SAP BTP and SAP Advanced Event Mesh. Over 12 months, a team of 50+ delivered 100+ integrations linking intercompany billing, reconciliation, and receivables platforms, achieving 4x faster financial processing.
- Organization
- A global food, pet care, and confectionery manufacturer (140,000+ employees, US)
- Industry
- Consumer goods manufacturing
- Size
- 140,000+ employees
- Region
- US South
- Project type
- Event-Driven Integration, Integration Strategy and Architecture, S/4HANA Integration
- SAP technology
- SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP Advanced Event Mesh
- Other technology
- Account reconciliation platform, Accounts receivable automation platform, Azure Integration Services, Intercompany billing systems
The challenge
The company ran a complex global integration landscape across multiple business units, with finance processing that depended heavily on batch jobs and integration platforms split across cloud and enterprise systems. Intercompany billing and reconciliation lacked real-time integration, creating a need for one unified global integration architecture.
Results
- 100+
- Integrations across global enterprise and finance systems
- 4x
- Faster financial processing across intercompany
- 50+
- Team members under a global integration lead
Questions
Why did the company move finance integration from batch to event-driven?
Batch-based processing delayed intercompany billing and reconciliation and offered no real-time view across business units. An event-driven design using SAP Advanced Event Mesh let finance systems exchange data as transactions occurred, reducing latency across global systems.
How were SAP and non-SAP finance platforms connected?
A hybrid integration layer combined SAP BTP with Azure Integration Services. It connected SAP S/4HANA with the reconciliation platform, the receivables automation platform, and intercompany billing systems under one governed architecture.
What results did the program deliver?
The program delivered 100+ integrations and 4x faster financial processing across intercompany flows. It also improved reconciliation and billing efficiency and gave the enterprise a scalable, standardized integration architecture.
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