Central State University

To solve grants-specific problems at Central State University (CSU), BearingPoint took over the daily financial operations, audited the grants program, changed procedures, and wrote guidelines for moving forward with new grants.

Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma

BearingPoint helped Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, a Mexican beverage exporter, develop a global ERP implementation strategy to sharpen its business system efficiencies.

City of Indianapolis

BearingPoint implemented its activity-based costing (ABC) methodology to provide the Indianapolis city administration with information to change the way it did business. We defined the city’s activities, developed cost drivers, and established activity-based cost pools.

City of New York Board Board of Education

In 1995, The New York City school board asked BearingPoint to develop a school-based budget reporting system (SBRS) that could produce a full accounting of the school system’s spending. In just seven months, we completed the SBRS and its database. Then we migrated the SBRS from a mainframe environment to a Windows NT/Oracle environment.

Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)

Defending Budgets with Activity-Based Costing and Management
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) directs all Department of Defense (DoD) security cooperation programs, including the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program - the sale of military hardware and services to allied and friendly foreign governments - and International Military Education and Training (IMET) programs - the training of foreign forces by U.S. military personnel. DSCA needed to develop improved cost measures that would enable heightened visibility into the costs of its core functions across all military departments. The agency hired BearingPoint to implement enterprisewide costing tools grounded in activity-based costing and management (ABC/M) methodologies. Our work empowered DSCA to identify current and projected costs more accurately, justify its budgets to federal regulatory agencies, and identify areas for cost savings and process improvement.

Duke University Health Care

Shortly after creating its centralized health system, Duke University realized the need to develop a single, automated business system across the entire organization. BearingPoint’s implementation of SAP R/3 improved standardization of supplies, enabled enterprise-based purchasing of maintenance and other services, improved inventory control, consolidated accounts payable functions, and provided instant access to data.

Duke University Health System Finance Department

Duke engaged BearingPoint to design and develop a finance organization that would equal the reputation of Duke’s medical system. BearingPoint and KPMG LLP worked together to create a solution tailored to Duke’s needs.

Health Care System

While reviewing a major health system’s business processes, BearingPoint learned that the organization’s existing information systems were outdated and at capacity, its legacy system did not allow for real-time access to information, and its administrative processes needed to be more efficient. We assembled a team of professionals experienced in health care operations, business process change, and technology to review the health system’s business requirements, current processes, and technological infrastructure.

Independent Member of a National Insurer Organization

This BearingPoint client recognized it needed to create organizational efficiencies and specifically reduce administration expenses. Since they had experienced prior lengthy implementation schedules and cost overruns when using outside firms for software and hardware implementations, they were skeptical of professional services firms. This client engaged BearingPoint on its ERP implementation for two primary reasons: our experience with ERP implementations; and the 9,100 professionals that we employ worldwide.

International Pharmaceutical Company

When two large pharmaceutical companies merged to form an international biosciences company, the new company inherited multiple operating models, incompatible processes, and legacy systems. BearingPoint created a finance infrastructure capable of supporting the company’s business needs accurately and efficiently.

Leading Physician Management Practice

In the increasingly competitive practice management services arena-success can hinge on the quality of patient financial services. One of our clients, a leading U.S.-based practice management company, such challenges were significantly impacting its central billing function. With a growing accounts receivable backlog, the organization recognized it needed to streamline its internal processes. This client engaged BearingPoint to reengineer business processes, boost efficiencies, eliminate redundancies, and implement best practices.

Medtronic

To help realize their Web-based initiatives, Medtronic engaged BearingPoint to implement Workforce and Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) Solutions, including an online eProcurement system. Medtronic's Workforce capabilities significantly reduces costs and improves employee efficiencies.

MetLife

With more than 46,000 employees and over $32 billion in operating revenue, MetLife is the largest life insurer, with over $2 trillion in life insurance. MetLife stands behind its mission to build financial freedom for everyone by offering a variety of products and services. In this case study, read how BearingPoint helped this global leader deliver on its mission by bringing new services to market faster than before and dramatically decreasing product cycle times.

N24

N24 reports around the clock on current developments in Germany, Europe and worldwide. In order to keep the viewers up to date the editorial staff has to procure material and services on short notice. N24 needed a system to allow for the busy daily life in the editorial department and to guarantee an accurate processing of accounting. With BearingPoint’s expertise, N24 implemented SAP R/3.

Online Start-Up Bank

BearingPoint helped build an online bank with minimal involvement from the parent bank after their initial direction and input.

Radio Shack

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

San Diego Health and Human Services Agency

BearingPoint restructured the various health and human services agencies in California’s San Diego County to form an integrated Health and Human Services Agency. We upgraded the agency’s systems to intranet technology.

State of Georgia - Department of Revenue

In 1996, Georgia’s Department of Revenue recognized that technology and operational deficiencies were threatening its ability to administer Georgia’s tax laws. BearingPoint did a modernization study and made recommendations for project implementation.

State of Idaho - Department of Health and Welfare

In 1994, The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare received funding for a new Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). BearingPoint helped manage the MMIS project, tracked and reviewed deliverables, and resolved vendor issues.

Toni & Guy USA

BearingPoint delivers rapid deployment and benefit for Toni & Guy USA during an Oracle Applications eBusiness Suite implementation. To combat the challenges of rapid growth and existing fragmented systems with limited features, our industry-focused team applied R²i Rapid Return on Investment^SM and R²i Express methodology to the implementation and upgrade and completed the project in less than five months with minimal disruption on the business environment in terms of time, cost, and risk.

Top U.S. Bank

For five weeks, BearingPoint conducted an eCommerce vision and strategy workshop for 45 of this bank’s senior employees that produced an Internet business mission statement.

University Hospitals Health Systems

Delivering world-class health care service is only part of staying competitive. Managing revenue operations is tricky, even for leading providers of health care services like University Hospitals Health System (UHHS). Facing complex billing requirements and decreased reimbursement levels, UHHS's billing office needed to redesign its revenue cycle operations. UHHS engaged BearingPoint to help reduce its revenue cycles and debt, boost its competitive standing, and centralize business functions.

University of Missouri

When the University of Missouri purchased PeopleSoft client/server software to replace and integrate its student information, human resources, and financial systems, BearingPoint was chosen to implement the new system.

U.S. Army National Guard

The chief of the National Guard Bureau asked BearingPoint to recommend and implement changes related to a major restructuring of the Reserve Component Automation System (RCAS). We implemented an integrated approach to project management, and we continue to support aspects of RCAS. Our recommended changes reduced project costs by approximately $1 billion.

U.S. Marine Corps

When the Department of Defense directed all branches of military service to divest activities that private commercial suppliers can provide more economically, BearingPoint prepared the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Center for the competitive sourcing process. We used our activity-based costing (ABC) methodology and rapid prototype process to model the 18 functional areas of operating support at the Center.

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.

Yale University

BearingPoint worked with Yale and the Oracle team to produce functional specifications for Yale’s relational database management system. We helped Yale meet its objectives with test planning, documentation, scenarios, test execution, and results reporting.