ALFA
Supply Chain Management (eProcurement and Strategic Sourcing)

By teaming with (BearingPoint), with its extensive Ariba and SAP integration skills, we were able to rapidly deploy a system that has helped us reduce costs, streamline operations, and enhance our ability to compete globally. We were highly satisfied with the results.
—Manuel Gutierrez, Vice President of e-Business, ALFA

Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma

BearingPoint helped Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, a Mexican beverage exporter, develop a global ERP implementation strategy to sharpen its business system efficiencies. Using benchmarks, supply chain management, and world-class financial tools, we helped Cervecería identify improvement opportunities, information technology requirements, and best fit software.

Celanese Mexicana

During preparation for Year 2000, Celanese Mexico discovered that its legacy systems were Y2K incompatible. They turned to BearingPoint for our workforce experience, resources, proven delivery speed, local presence and market knowledge, and alliance partners.

Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional

BearingPoint Teams with Brazilian Steel Manufacturer to Leverage the Power of the Internet.

Degussa

In keeping with its goal of being at the forefront of market and technical leadership, Degussa Construction Chemical, a recognized global leader in the industry, envisioned a new eCommerce channel that would seamlessly integrate its suppliers and customer throughout the demand chain. Buy building a new eCommerce channel, dubbed "BuyChem^TM," BearingPoint helped Degussa sharpen its customer focus and create an innovative twist on traditional customer service.

Eficentrum

How did Proveedora Inbursa, leverage the power of the Internet to expand its services? They hired BearingPoint to develop a business strategy to create a digital marketplace oriented toward e-procurement. Witness the birth of Eficentrum (www.eficentrum.com), which promises its trading partners significant savings over traditional systems by reducing costs and cycle times.

Honda

BearingPoint helped American Honda’s Accounts Payable department become more customer focused.

Kennametal®

Kennametal® is the market leader in North America in metal cutting tools and is second in Europe and worldwide. Kennametal® prides itself on its go-to-market strategies of maximizing availability of custom and standard products and providing exceptional customer service. These processes needed improvement. Teaming up with BearingPoint, Kennametal® improved inventory cycle turns for finished goods by one complete turn, reducing inventory investment by approximately $17 million.

KIEKERT AG

Based in Heiligenhaus, Germany, Kiekert AG is the global leader for automotive locking systems. The company, founded in 1857, employs over 4,000 people worldwide. Read about our successful partnership with Kiekert to introduce R/3 System and integrate existing and new production sites.

Meridian Energy

Meridian Energy Gains Better Control by Letting More Go
When New Zealand's largest electricity generator, Meridian Energy, was established from the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand in April 1999, the organization made the decision to look for the right partner to help manage their financial management functions. The challenge for Meridian was to identify a way to best manage these functions, while retaining control of the important financial processes and required service levels. BearingPoint was chosen as the right partner and enabled Meridian to complete this groundbreaking approach to outsourcing financial management functions and processes that had not previously been done in New Zealand and was seen by many at the time as out of the ordinary for the industry.

Multinational Consumer Packaged Goods Company

A Bold, New Approach to Trade Promotions in Consumer packaged goods
This multinational consumer packaged goods company was in the process of consolidating 10 divisions into one. The existing divisions employed 10 different approaches to trade management promotion. The absence of a uniform approach throughout its divisions and retail and food service organizations was costing the company time, money and, occasionally, customer goodwill. It wanted to leverage a common application across its re-organized enterprise that would track its trade management activity and sales policies and procedures while enhancing customer service. BearingPoint implemented a trade promotion management system to collaboratively align multiple divisions from sales and customer service to external brokers, trade marketing and finance teams, while tightly managing trade spending and providing spending reports.

Philips Advance Transformer Enterprise Planning

BearingPoint and a dedicated team from Philips Advance Transformer applies a Big Bang approach towards SAP Implementation that gets the client off to meeting goals and targets quickly and effectively.

Radio Shack

BearingPoint helped RadioShack upgrade to PeopleSoft 8 and achieve rapid business results.

Wind River Systems, Inc.

To achieve its strategic vision of becoming a $1 billion company, Wind River’s management felt that the organization needed more consistent product release and distribution processes, better-integrated information systems and a more uniform product coding system. Management also felt that it was time to offer stronger support to its sales force with better product bundling and richer customer data. BearingPoint’s experienced professionals helped Wind River devise new strategies, business processes and information technology to shorten product release and distribution cycles and to dramatically improve pre- and post-sales support of customers and business partners.

YORK International Corporation

Responding Faster to Customer Needs and Improving Margins with Field Service Solutions
YORK International Corporation is a full-line, global manufacturer of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) products. Working with BearingPoint, YORK embarked on and ambitious customer relationship management strategy to consolidate call centers, replace legacy systems, implement sales force automation software, and improve field service functionality with handheld wireless devices.

AltaVista

In preparation for its spin-off from Compaq Computer, AltaVista had to build a world-class business information infrastructure based on SAP Financials in just nine weeks. BearingPoint worked with AltaVista to help implement an SAP system under tight deadlines.

Apple Americas

BearingPoint helped Apple implement an SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for finance, sales, distribution, and manufacturing. In 12 months, the team replaced 16 legacy applications and Apple’s core legacy hardware platform. The solution included an electronic data interchange, linking 80 interfaces to Apple’s new SAP system.

Ingram Micro

BearingPoint assisted Ingram Micro with two website launches in less than 100 days. Our team conducted research, identified revenue and cost reduction opportunities, built a rapid prototype, and implemented Java-based technology that streamlined the online ordering process. Ingram Micro’s eCommerce site now supports over 70 million transactions a day.

Netaid

Acting as a key sponsor, BearingPoint developed one of the largest websites ever created—capable of handling 60 million hits per hour and up to 1,000 eCommerce transactions per second‹in an unprecedented 90 days.

Western Digital Corporation

Working with BearingPoint, Western Digital developed their Quality Information System (QIS), the first data warehousing application of its kind. QIS combines eCommerce, customer relationship management, data warehousing, and integrated data from a dozen disparate systems. The system provides web-enabled online analytic processing.

Worldwide Leader in the Oil and Gas Industry

Helping to set direction and efficiently carry out systems integration and global deployment, we used our AnyShore(sm) approach for an overall coordination of SAP and FileNet solutions. This approach enabled the client to focus on issues of data quality and data migration while BearingPoint delivered an efficient fixed-price solution that was well below market rates.

Xircom Inc.

The three-phase digital transformation developed for Xircom by BearingPoint integrated Xircom’s demand and supply chain, product development, and customer relationship management and fulfillment processes into one web-based marketplace.