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Dear Sir or Madam,
Welcome to our first newsletter of 2005. Once more, you can look forward to current topics relating to our consulting projects and information on new j&m customers. We have chosen to open the newsletter with two representative examples from our current projects – the reengineering of an SAP APO implementation at OMV in Austria and the successful realisation of mobile data collection at ACR Logistics in the UK. Beyond Budgeting - the j&m Special on the topic of integrated corporate planning with SAP BW-BPS focuses on rapid and efficient implementation and coordination of logistical and financial aspects of corporate planning. Flexible and rapid planning processes are rapidly becoming one of the most important instruments when it comes to adjusting quickly and effectively in response to changes in the market and the competition. We hope the articles arouse your interest and are happy to answer any questions you may have. Best Regards, Dr. Andreas Müller Member of the management board, responsible for Marketing/PR |
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OMV Refining & Marketing GmbH signs deal with j&m Management Consulting AG With a group turnover of 7.64 billion euros and 6,137 employees in 2003 together with a current market capitalisation of approximately 6 billion euros, the OMV corporation is the largest industrial company listed on the stock exchange in Austria. As the leading crude oil and natural gas company in Eastern Europe, the OMV group is active in 13 countries in the area of refineries and marketing (R&M). Whilst creating an integrated supply chain intelligence system, OMV would like to use a redesign project to optimise the already productive demand planning application on the basis of the experience which has already been gained, with the aim of creating a closed flow of information and workflow for all planning processes using the “Supply & Demand Manager”. j&m Management Consulting was able to gain the upper hand over reputable competition during the tender for the redesign project. The project, which commenced in late December, covers the following:
 We will keep you up to date on all the new developments in this project. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nicola Birken, Corporate Communications, j&m Management Consulting AG by telephone on +49 (0) 621 12 47 69 - 0 or by email at n.birken@jnm.de. _________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Advanced Material Handling at ACR Logistics in the UK
The logistics specialist ACR Logistics – has 17,500 staff in eleven European locations. j&m provided support for the conversion to SAP R/3 at a multi-client warehouse complex in London which predominantly offers solutions for the automotive branch. As part of the project, handling unit management was introduced and j&m developed additional transactions for the mobile radio frequency solution “SAP Radio Frequency“ (RF). Adjusted to suit local requirements, warehouse staff can now commission transactions electronically and picking is done following optimised routes. Potential errors can be avoided in advance thanks to scanning and online alarm signals as the staff work directly in real time in the SAP system via their mobile RF equipment, without using any additional middleware. j&m also provided assistance in connecting automatic high-rack warehouse vehicles and a pallet shrink wrapping unit to SAP. Physical stocking procedures can now be controlled using RF transactions developed by j&m. Internal movements within the warehouse are synchronised automatically, allowing complete transparency of stocks at all times. The process chain ends in an RF loading check, by means of which the exact position of the pallets in the lorry are saved in the SAP system and communicated to the client electronically or in the delivery documents. The go-live in London in September 2004 follows on directly from the project completed successfully in April at a location in the Netherlands. This project for one of ACR Logistics’ clients in the health care sector focussed on introducing an optimised, RF-supported order picking system in which replenishments are controlled automatically.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nicola Birken, Corporate Communications, j&m Management Consulting AG by telephone on +49 (0) 621 12 47 69 - 0 or by email at n.birken@jnm.de. _________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Siemens Medical Solutions chooses j&m as implementation partner
The Medical Solutions division of Siemens AG chose j&m Management Consulting AG as their implementation partner for the migration of the Life-Programs & Installed Base and Collaboration Management solutions to components of the SAP NetWeaver platform. Life–Programs & Installed Base (Life PIB) is a key application for administering combined marketing and sales programmes as well as clinical services in the area of customer care. The basis for this is the equipment installed worldwide. Collaboration Management (CM) supports the administration of contractual agreements with cooperation partners. Siemens expects future-proof, easy maintenance and easily extendible applications for the migration to the NetWeaver platform (SAP Web Application Server and SAP Business Information Warehouse). These will be incorporated into the global architecture of the Siemens MED Global Data Warehouse, which allows synergies relating to existing data to be exploited. One of the major benefits of the migration is the central use of master data and availability of data stored in Life PIB and CM for cross-project reporting. 
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nicola Birken, Corporate Communications, j&m Management Consulting AG by telephone on +49 (0) 621 12 47 69 - 0 or by email at n.birken@jnm.de. _________________________________________________________________________________ |
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j&m assists Grammer AG in successfully implementing IFRS accounting
Working together with j&m, Grammer AG was able to successfully introduce parallel accounting worldwide in compliance with IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) with effect from 1st January 2005. 
The project ran for a total of five months and covered the following topics:
“The cooperation with j&m Management Consulting AG turned out to be very efficient for Grammer. The discussion of the topics to be covered and the design of the solution met with our utmost satisfaction, as did the timescale for the realization of the IFRS project. Special emphasis ought to be put on the high standards of the expertise and communication skills of the j&m consultants involved in the project, which made the optimum realisation of the concepts and highly effective cooperation with our employees possible.” IFRS will be the main method used across the company for consolidated accounts with effect from the beginning of the new financial year. The main method for valuation used in the individual accounts will remain local GAAP. IFRS accounts will be drawn up at the end of each month. Accounts balanced using IFRS show the income statement and follow the cost of sales accounting method. IFRS segmented according to business divisions and cost of sale accounting shown according to functional areas have been depicted in the existing SAP R/3 system using the FI-SL module. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nicola Birken, Corporate Communications, j&m Management Consulting AG by telephone on +49 (0) 621 12 47 69 - 0 or by email at n.birken@jnm.de. _________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Special: Integrated corporate planning on the basis of BW-BPS – Implementation of Beyond Budgeting Conventional financial and budgeting planning is focused on fixed annual targets and is therefore relatively static when you consider that the situation on the market can change during the course of the year and the strategic approach can be adjusted accordingly. The concept behind beyond budgeting goes beyond fixing annual targets and is based on a rolling forecast which takes the current expectations for each quarter into consideration. This leads to a closer correlation between strategic and operational planning or, respectively, between quantity and value stream planning. Changes in the logistical KPI’s are incorporated into financial planning in real time. At the same time, this forms the basis for the introduction of a balanced scorecard applicable throughout the company.  SAP AG’s solution to the implementation of integrated corporate planning is the BW-BPS module (Business Planning and Simulation). The main advantages of SAP BW-BPS are
j&m Management Consulting AG can advise you on the design and implementation of integrated corporate planning and, in our capacity as a Special Expertise Partner of SAP AG, the introduction of SAP BW-BPS. The actual services we offer are as follows:
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