L’Oreal New Zealand streamlines operations with new global SAP business platform
L’Oréal New Zealand selected Oxygen as its local implementation partner to deliver a major SAP system implementation program aimed at providing the company with a contemporary IT platform for integrated real-time business systems and improved decision-making. Oxygen was tasked with implementing the same global L’Oréal SAP ECC5 template it installed for L’Oréal Australia in 2008 – customising where appropriate to suit New Zealand conditions.
Oxygen’s project manager for the L’Oréal New Zealand roll-out, Eric Lester, says L’Oréal is moving off obsolete technology and aligning all its global operations under the same SAP ERP platform in order to maintain its lead in the highly competitive cosmetics market.
“L’Oréal New Zealand wanted to improve performance across all business areas. Its existing warehouse and accounting systems were inadequate and the company had many manual stock control processes which were open to error.”
After a successful SAP roll-out completed on time and within budget, L’Oréal now has a robust, integrated IT platform that can accommodate future growth.
L’Oréal's SAP ‘Centre de Competency’ Project Manager for the New Zealand implementation, Faustina Requena, says the project was very successful thanks to a strong and motivated Oxygen implementation team.
“The Oxygen business analysts worked seamlessly with L’Oreal’s analysts in Australia to take on board the key learnings necessary for a smooth copy and paste of the existing Australian system. A strong partnership between Oxygen and L’Oréal team members and good collaboration with our project sponsors and L’Oréal’s SAP ‘Centre de Competency’ in Paris assured the implementation was managed and monitored to the highest standards.”
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